- I was out raking leaves this weekend listening to my iPod with the random shuffle setting going. A song came on and I realized it’s quite likely that I listened to this same song raking leaves fifteen years ago when I was in high school and earning extra dollars raking leaves while listening to my tape Walkman. Now, I’ve got all sorts of stuff on my iPod spanning across many years, lest you think I’m some nostalgic fuddy-duddy who doesn’t listen to anything new anymore (ok, maybe I am just a little nostalgic), but something made me pause. A lot has changed in fifteen years, from skinny, awkward, and hopelessly dateless to married, owning a house, and um, not so skinny, and yet a song can take you back to that moment in an instant.
- Speaking of high school, a new high school opened up down the street from our house. I walked outside to get the mail one day earlier this week and realized I could faintly hear the marching band rehearsing and it made me smile. The varsity football team doesn’t start playing until year, but I could already imagine hearing the band playing and the crowd cheering from the front door of my house. I’ve always wanted to live in a small town where we were walking distance from the high school football stadium and could hear the band from our house and while we may be in the suburbs more than a small town, here it has come true. Adriene has been warned that if we ever move, the next house has to be within earshot of a high school football stadium, so that might give the realtor some extra homework.
- Speaking of high school football….
… and more pictures on my Flickr site from the Harrison vs. Campbell game this past Friday night.
A little fall randomness
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