Alabama Football, featuring superhero Jonathan Allen.

Roll Tide!!!!!!

Hmmmmmmm.....Bison vs. 'Bama.....

We'd lose (maybe....;-)), but I'd LOOOOOOVVVE to see it!

Faron

I love the natural beauty that surrounds me where I live.

I loved a moment yesterday, visiting my folks for my mom's 75th birthday. Discussing Neil Young for some reason. Brought up "Comes a Time" on the phone, mom says "I love that one" and my extremely non-expressive family sheepishly murmurs the lyrics together for the entire song.

I love Chickadees.

I love pot roast with carrots. Just made some for dinner and the carrots-oh they were sooo good. I love, love, love cooked carrots.

I love my grocery store that not only bags my groceries but loads them into my car, and when I forget to pick them up until I get home (see "things we hate" thread), they have already put the frozen stuff into a freezer so it's still frozen by the time I turn around and go back. They also deliver my parents' groceries to them weekly, and often include a treat, a new product, or a card signed by the employees and managers.

I love ringing with my bell choir. In fact, I love my church, where we sing all the verses of the hymns, and much of the liturgy as well.

I love how our cat loves our DS, and how our other cat thinks he is DH's dog.

I love DH's and my morning walks. Kind of drives me crazy that he works at home now, but our walks are a treat!

Bpathome, do you shop at Sunset?

I love being able to visit my *bestest* friend of 55+ years, here in IL, right now. I leave tomorrow and it will be another year before I'll see her again. At the same time, I also love that i'll be returning to my children and grandchildren, and to the home I love in Texas. It's a bittersweet time.

I love that a complete stranger turned in my purse to the front desk at Nordstrom Rack after I foolishly left it hanging on a rack while trying on a jacket two days ago.

I love that her kindness overcame greed in that moment, and prevented me from a very stressful downward week. Most of us carry a lifeline in our purses, so I think you understand what her kindness prevented me from going through.

I hugged the store employee hard...and so wish I could hug the kind person who returned my purse. I will, and always do, pay that forward.

I love my cat. He is one of our 4 pets. I love that when I am reading he sits behind me on the back of the chair and gently rests one paw on my shoulder. I love that he demands love time. I love that when I retire for the evening I have to carry his sleeping form up with me and place him on my son's bed or he will wake the household with his yowling at 2am when he realizes he is cut off from his boy.

Westsider, indeed I do. You?

I love the little things like the neighbors bringing up the recycle and trash bins when my husband was recuperating from his heart operation. I did the same for them during their recouperating times. We don't ask, we just do.

I love meeting locals when we travel to far off lands. Love long walks through their towns and countryside much better than going to the tourist attractions.

I love that the weather has cooled a tic for outdoor activities. My favorite thing in life is being outside on a beautiful day.

I love that my legs are sore today from my yesterday bike ride because it means I'm on my way to conditioning for next summers walking vacation in Wales and Ireland.

I love the area I live.

I thought about doing this same topic this morning!

I love listening to and watching the leaves fall which I was doing about ten minutes ago. We have a lot of full grown Oaks and we never rake, which is why our soil went from clay to darn near perfect.

Jakabedy beat me to it, but I love the Alabama Crimson Tide and their (so far) perfect season which was unexpected by some. Thanks to their tremendous defense and a freshman quarterback who has been so calm through it all. Roll Tide!!

Waking up on a crisp fall morning, snuggled up to my hubby with a pup snuggled in against my feet.

Lazy Sunday afternoons.

Planning our Thanksgiving feast.

All my family under the same roof!

Going through a rough time personally and professionally right now, my puppy is adding +2 to my mental health every day. She was chasing leaves all over the field the other day and making the other dog owners laugh.

My nephew is learning how to smile and coo. I love that he's close by and I can visit him several times a week.

My godchildren are so wonderful, smart, polite and amazing. I am a very proud fairly oddmother and I love seeing them.

I love it when my youngest (18 months) falls asleep on me. He is so warm and cuddly. Also love that when I leave to go home all of the grands (4) are lined up in the picture window waving goodby and blowing kisses.

I love my porch, it's my sanctuary

I love anytime the sun is shining. I don't care if it is 5F outside, if the sun is shining and I can sit in it by the window, I am content.

The problem is that our winters here are mostly overcast.

If the day is warm, sunny and breezy, I am even happier.

And, I love a good crisp, juicy, sweet-tart apple. Of the few that the deer left me of my first crop (varieties I had never had before), I have been very pleased and am looking forward to more next year!

Robo I'm glad to see those blessings in your pictures and I know they are helping you with your tough time. I don't think anything melts my heart as much as a baby smiling and making those first coos and goos.

I love walking. I love hiking. I love just getting up and out the door and going, and love the fact that it's by the power of my own body that I'm moving. To me, that remains a wonderful blessing.

I love listening to my parakeet talk. He doesn't make sense, but it always makes me smile. I love it when I take on a house project and am actually happy with the results, everything comes out just right. (Because usually I find some way to mess it up!)

I love my new house! :) and just staring out the window down the mountain. Of course this weekend it was 40-50 turkeys in the front, owls and hawks in the air and pack (?) of deer out the side. I thought I lived in the sticks before!

Today I love that DS #1 spent some one-on-one time with me. He is now a mature thoughtful caring husband and father - ten years ago we despaired that he would ever amount to anything. I asked his advice about a tiny home repair project I was going to do, and he did it and several others for me. I am now praising the Lord for this boy-turned-man.

I love watching my two grown sons sit and talk to each other, these two who did nothing but battle as kids. I love the sound of a can of soda cracking open, I love the smell of coffee being ground, and vanilla extract. I love napping on my porch. I love the foam mattress topper on my bed and the heated floor in my bathroom. I love when my gas tank is full. It's the little things!

I love that I've been married nearly 30 years to a terrific guy, and to his family too. I truly, sincerely love my in-law family. I have two extra sisters and an extra brother, along with all the assorted spouses and kidlings. There are no personality clashes, no divas, no drama queens. Just a warm, loving bunch of people. I love that my nieces and nephews are turning into delightful, caring, loving young adults.

My own parents are gone, most of my family is scattered, and I don't have much contact with my sister. The whole in-law family lives within 15 minutes of each other, and are there in a heartbeat if one needs help or just to chat. I am so lucky. :)

Love my Keurig.

I love the Fall season, especially in my sweet little spot on earth - my home and yard. Also whatever dogs are part of my life at any time, and cuddling with them in bed on cooler fall nights. It's not that comfy, but I love it when my biggest dog jumps into my office chair and snuggles against my back as I work. Next month will mark 30 years that I have lived here, and I hope I always will.

I love being alive and able to enjoy my family on a daily basis. Mostly I love little kids, they are my favorite people.

I love my first and only cup of coffee every morning. I love that I can open up and get fresh air in my condo just about everyday of the year where I live :-)

I'm an early riser (4 a.m.) and love the luxury of several hours of silence, cats cuddled on my lap, great cup of coffee, watching the sunrise. It is restorative and sets the tone for the day.

I love the beautiful, wonderful University of Oklahoma and the equally beautiful town of Norman that wraps right around it. Just got back last night from a 4 -day weekend there visiting DD. As always, we loved our time there and, as always, it was hard to leave. Fall at OU is drop-dead gorgeous.

I love mornings. I am definitely a Morning Person and I treasure every one of them. Especially with a nice cup of tea.

I love the Obama/Biden memes making their way around the Internet. Here's a good collection of them. (Warning: some foul language.)

I love that I can now easily walk up the steep hill near my house without resting, when as recently as May I couldn't do it without multiple stops to rest.

I love those Obama/Biden memes, especially the Etch a Sketch. :-)

The etch a sketch one is my favorite. The one with the milk shakes starts with Obama saying "check pl...", which Chicagoans will recognize from the local restaurant review show "Check Please". Obama appeared in an episode when he was brand new to legislature, but the episode didn't air; his segment was finally shown in a special episode, around the time he became President.

Love me some Bingo.

Today! I love every single new today, because we never know if we are going to have another one to greet. And home grown veggies, I love growing, sharing, and eating those!!

Purring cats, our unusually mild autumn.

I love when my cat Callieco cuddles with me at night, and when she starts bathing she makes this sweet smacking noise.

Reminds me when we had Parakeets and they made the sweetest noise when they ate. Anyone know what I'm talking about?

I love living in a small town because they delivered our late mail on Sunday morning!

I love living in the country with fresh air, no noise or light pollution, having our kids and grandkids out to enjoy the open spaces and woods, friendly neighbors, my gardens, and wildlife to entertain us.

I love the rain. I love traveling to new places. I love spending a day on the couch reading. I love my house when it's clean. I love the early morning when the house is quiet. I love my family. I love when everything is calm and peaceful and I have nothing to fix or problems to solve.

I love libraries and library systems and inter library loans and libraries subscribing to online services. Oh, the treasures to be found within and beyond my own library's walls!

Bpathome, I too love libraries! So much so that I got married in our local historic library! I gave always believed libraries to be my churches.

I love my heated throw, and my little dog does, too.

I love chilly mornings: my programmable thermostat that lets me sleep in cool air under a warm blanket, but comes on around 5 to warm up the house by the time I rise. Rinsing my face with cold water to wake up, drying with the towel warm from its bar over the heat vent. The first glass of water in the morning. Coffee already on, courtesy of early-riser DH.

Sounds I love: the furnace coming on at 5 am!

Snow shovels on the sidewalk and plows on the street while I consider getting up.

School buses.

Birds chirping in the morning, and at roosting time.

Bullfrogs.

Leaves crunching.

17-year cicadas (only, what, 9 years till our next cycle).

Purring cats.

The early-morning "thump" of feet on the floor, pitter-patter down the hall, "flush"--the sounds of progress in potty-training a toddler!

"I'm home!" My favorite sound of all, from the guys I love.

bp, yes I do, neighbor. I love that store.