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| The view from my deck |
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| The diner and train |
2. The almost-world-famous 24-hour diner. Just a three-block walk from my house, I have enjoyed some very fine conversations with some very special people over some pretty decent meals there. I wish they didn't have a sign that says, "We may refuse service to anyone for any reason" and I wish their coffee was better. They make great chocolate milk shakes, though!
3. I can hear the train from my house. I like a distant train whistle in my world on a semi-regular basis.
4. I have wonderful next-door neighbors. The last three places I've lived, I've been blessed with better-than-good neighbors. That's something that you can't make happen.
5. "Some" people look down on where I live. It's a small town that is considered, by some in these parts, to be not the coolest town around. It was once a very blue collar mining town. It's the kind of place people fancy moving up from. Strangely enough, that makes living here all the more appealing to me.
BONUS: One thing I don't like: The freakin' firehouse sirens! C'mon guys, it's 2010. Put technology to work and ditch the sound pollution.
5 comments:
When I first started college at a campus near the train tracks, I hated the train. But over the years it became a comfort to me. I was thrilled when we bought this house and, as I drifted off to sleep, I discovered I could hear a faint train whistle from the master bedroom.
I love diners and wish we had one in our town. The ability to go at 2am is something I miss. (Now I am not sure I would be awake and able to go at 2 am to a diner...but I want to have the ABILITY to do it if I could)
Nothing better than a one-stop-light town in my book. It's better that I don't live in walking distance of a diner.
We hear the train on our morning walk though it is across the river and in the middle of town.
How I love the sound of a far off train. And you can enjoy mountains too--and a diner within walking distance? It sounds terrific.
Sharon, I taught in South Oak Cliff when I was young. Dallas was just integrating its schools--now you know HOW old I am.
Do you come back to the sunny south? I am sure you know that folks in the north MAKE us Texans if we aren't dyed-in-the-wool before we get there.
I know the beauty in which you live. And I have found that the folks who live in that part of the world tend to be salt of the earth types. But I am sure you can get to Bethlehem better than Bighamton.
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