2. Home is where the grands, lifetime friends, many years of memories, some of the children, and our physicians are located. And where we play a waiting game. For doctor appointments, for the kids to find time in the busy schedules to visit with us. 
3. Home is where we grew up, went to elementary and high school and then on to college, where the majority of our memories are located.
4. Home is too hot and humid in July, August and early September. And Indiana is way too cold in December, January and February....maybe even March.
5. Home is gorgeous in the spring. You cannot beat the Dogwood, Red Bud, and the fruit tree blossoms as you drive through the Indiana's roads. We will be returning for our checkups in the spring from now on.
6. Home is where we can drive anyplace without using a GPS. In our case, we use our Verizon Navigator that does the best job of all the GPS systems we have had.
7. Home is where we are greeted by name and enthusiastically at our favorite restaurants and wineries.
8. Home is where we, for some reason, do the majority of our shopping for items that we have desired for the last year.
9. Home is where we spent our working years. We are so thankful those years are behind us!
10. Our Indiana home will probably be only a memory and a place to visit periodically as we do not plan to endure Indiana's weather in either summer or winter months.
Love that header photo!
ReplyDeleteI think all ten can apply to us and Ohio!
Thanks. Obviously, that is NOT Indiana! I can understand why that would also apply to Ohio.
Delete♫ ♪ Back Home Again in Indiana...♪ ♫
ReplyDeleteThat is all I know of that song. I learned to dislike it when Jim Neighbors began singing it prior to the start of the Indy 500.
DeleteWell said, Nan!
ReplyDeleteThanks Carol. It is hard to blog while sitting still in one location for a long time.
DeleteGreat thoughts on "home", Nan. In my life, I have lived too many places to think of anything as home but right here where I have been for the last 12 years. Certainly LA isn't home any more, where I grew up. I know no one any more from my high school of 2200 kids, and with the last person deceased that I knew there, I have no need to go back. LA isn't like Indiana, nothing is the same there, and I barely recognize any of the small towns that all run together where I grew up. It was fun to read about your home feelings about Indiana, and also to totally "get" that you don't want to spend all your time there no matter how much it is home.
ReplyDeleteOur high school class has a reunion every year now since our 50th. Of course they are in September when we are not in town. But a group of friends from school have a monthly luncheon and I was able to attend the July one.
DeleteI have a friend IN Bend that lived in the LA area and feels exactly like you. It must be the hustle bustle and the huge growth.
Cute! Very nice. I think there are many good things. However, it always drags us here when we might have done a little more exploring in other places. What to do? What to do?
ReplyDeleteThere are so many things we say we are going to do when we get "home".....and have yet to do any...except shop.
DeleteI could have written this same post about Virginia except for the grand kids part. That's a great reason to go "home". We stop by Virginia in either spring or fall which are both beautiful. Spring has dogwoods and fabulous wildflowers, fall has the gorgeous leaves in the mountains in which we lived. But I wouldn't consider Dec-March or June-August anymore. Boy are we getting picky in our "old age".
ReplyDeleteOkay, now we have Indiana, Ohio and now Virginia. All with cold winters and hot humid summers. I see a trend there.
DeleteOur "old age" has earned us the prerogative of being picky!
Well, Eastern Montana is "home" for me but once my folks were gone there was nothing left there for me. Jim is from Virginia but he grew up out in the country which is now all big city - DC and suburbs - so he doesn't like to go there. Summers aren't too bad out here in Montana as long as you don't get here too early. So that will be our routine since Jim loves fishing for walleye. I really feel like AZ is becoming more "home" for us.
ReplyDeleteI have a feeling that AZ is going to be our settle down state too. Then we will have home.
DeleteWe have red heads, blondes, dark browns.....we have and love them all.
ReplyDeleteSylvia and I had to move so many times for work, that no place ever really felt like home. Our kids moved away from what could have been called their hometown as we arrived when they were 8 and 10 and they finished school there, so nothing held us there after we retired. Home has really always been where we are now!
ReplyDeleteSince we were self employed much of the time, we did not have to move. My family roots in the Indianapolis area go back generations. John's roots are just 45 minutes south. Deep, deep roots.
DeleteFor us we will not spend the winter months at home but the summer months we have to endure.
ReplyDeleteMarried to Leonard 25 years. Me from NJ, he from Louisiana. He lived in and retired from NJ after living there 21 years. Still when people ask where is 'home' it's Louisiana. I think I understand.
ReplyDeleteI think the photos tell the real story of home :-). And the no-need-for-GPS. With all my moving I remember when a place started to feel like home was when I knew where all the "necessary" places were, and the best way to get there. No desire to return to SoCal this time of year either, we will likely return in the fall and winter for family visits and medical appointments. Another sign of getting older......home is where your doctor is :-(.
ReplyDeleteGreat things to know about coming home. I grew up in upstate New York and rarely return there. We have moved so many times in our lives, that home is where we are now. One of things we do with the RV is visit friends and family wherever they happen to be:)
ReplyDeleteYour header picture of your home doesn't look anything like how I remember Indiana... ;c)
ReplyDeleteyou hit the nail on the head with ALL ten points. . .loved it!
ReplyDeleteOur plan for the next few years anyway, is to be "home" for the holidays. . .then off we go!