Things we will miss…….

As we wind down our time here in Tupelo, we are appreciating the things that we will miss.

First on the list is the police report from the local newspaper…..an odd thing to miss but one that has brought us much amusement and bemusement since our arrival here. Here are a couple of items from the last couple weeks……ones that either made us scratch our heads or laugh out loud! “A man said he has had two vehicles, a 1967 Buick Electra and a 1970 Chevy C-10 at a south Gloster repair shop for more than five years waiting for the owner to work on them. About a month ago, he took his 1964 Chevy Impala to the shop because it needed work on the heads. In February, he learned that the owner had closed the business and sold all the cars there. The man said the titles to each of his cars was in the glove box of each and had antique tags in his name”….Seriously, he had 2 cars there for more than 5 years waiting for repairs so he takes them yet another vehicle for repair…..that’s a scratch your head with bemusement for sure!

The next item ” A Lily Jean Drive Tupelo woman returned home and found her front door standing open. A deputy arrived. The doorknob was unlocked and the dead bolt was not fully extended to properly secure the door. There was no one inside. Since the residence was in a state of disarray, he asked the woman to check and see if anything was missing. She looked around and said everything was just like she left it.” ok….sorry…thats funny…hence amusement!

So down the list….things we will miss….early spring, mild winter, friendly people, “Bless your heart”, we will miss our house with the brand new bathrooms and all the fixin’up we did, we will miss having grocery and retail stores so close, we will miss our favorite restaurants, like Chicken Salad Chick, Harveys and Bull Dog Burgers. We will miss all the pretty birds that visited our feeder, the Cardinals and Red headed Woodpeckers especially. We will miss our good neighbor, Miss Rosalind.

Of course, there are some things we won’t miss! The ding dong rooster that another neighbor owns. That thing crows constantly! We won’t miss the hot humid summer heat. And we won’t miss being so far from family and friends! Patti would say that she won’t miss getting stopped by a train constantly, but I will miss the train whistles! We probably won’t miss the helicopters overhead either, that was the down side of being close to a major hospital. They do a lot of air ambulance here and many times we have thought they were going to land on our roof ! I’m sure there are more things we will miss or not that don’t come to mind right now.

We are now planning on a closing date of April 30. Which means we will be on the road as soon as we sign the papers! Hoping everything goes smoothly from here on out. We look forward to seeing everyone! Think happy thoughts for us and safe travels!