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Awesome Stuff From This Weekend

  • Thursday night Matthew West concert at the Iowa State Fair
  • Friday spent with my son & soon-to-be daughter in law
  • Delicious Thai food for lunch
  • Bonfire with excellent friends
  • Lunch with the group
  • Lagomarcino’s caramels (2 of which are still in my freezer to enjoy)
  • Pool/Sun time
  • Good church service
  • Sunday afternoon nap
  • A visit from Kara

 

Eating Establishments I Frequent In Sycamore, Illinois

  • Tommy O’s
  • Subway
  • Sweet Dreams Desserts & Catering
  • Los Rancheros
  • Taxco
  • Hy-Vee Deli
  • Sycamore Parkway Restaurant
  • Cabana Charley’s
  • Tom & Jerry’s
  • Rosati’s Pizza

Twenty One Things To Be Thankful For On The Twentyfirst, In No Particular Order

  1. Emerald green corn taller than me, growing outside my front door
  2. Sunshine
  3. Perfect puffy clouds on a bright blue day
  4. The pool at my apartment complex
  5. The new novel I’m working on which is a lot of fun and a great challenge
  6. My laptop
  7. Sprint’s truly Unlimited Data plan
  8. My family and friends who mean more than I could ever say
  9. The Amazon gift card sitting next to me this moment
  10. Books to read
  11. Libraries to get those books for free
  12. Book stores to take those books home and keep
  13. Meaningful work
  14. Everyone who supports Wendy’s Butterfly Garden at the Quad City Botanical Center
  15. Oranges
  16. Hawaii
  17. Beaches
  18. Enough money to pay bills
  19. Caramel covered anything
  20. God’s mercies poured upon me
  21. My twenty one year old son who is the Best Kid Ever (Except for Jesus)

Terrific Tuesday

  • Two of a kind
  • Terrible twos
  • Two by four
  • One if by land, two if by sea
  • Tea for two
  • Bicycle built for two
  • Table for two
  • Two’s company
  • Two faced
  • Two heads are better than one
  • Two peas in a pod
  • It takes two to tango
  • Two wrongs don’t make a right
Two Faced cover art
Two Faced ~ Album by Caleb Webster

 

Songs From My Playlists That **I** Love But There’s a Good Possibility You’ve Never Heard

  1. Lullaby, by Pedro the Lion             / Playlist:  All
  2. I Will Follow You Into the Dark, by Death Cab for Cutie   / Playlist: Road Trip
  3. Pieces, by Sum 41     / Road Trip
  4. Crash Here Tonight, by Toby Keith   / Road Trip
  5. A Few More Days, by Matthew West   /  All
  6. Great Affection, by Everybody Duck   / Christian
  7. It’s Not Me, It’s You,  by Skillet    / Road Trip
  8. Entwined, by Jason Reeves   /  Quiet Time
  9. Helicopter, by Pedro the Lion   /  All
  10. Monster, by Skillet    / Road Trip
  11. Rapture, by David Bazan  (NSFW!)   / Road Trip
  12. Crown Royal, by Jill Scott  (SUPER NSFW)   / Road Trip
  13. Albatross’s Brother, by Caleb Webster  (which I will link to if I can find it online)  / All
  14. Dandelions, by Five Iron Frenzy  /  Christian
  15. I Can’t Be Your Friend Anymore, by Tim Rushlow   / Road Trip
  16. Let Me Take You There, by Plain White Tees  / Road Trip
  17. What Might Have Been, by Blackhawk   /  Road Trip
  18. Stand in the Rain, by Superchik   / Road Trip
  19. Home, by Jack Johnson  / Road Trip
  20. Radiation, by Gavin DeGraw   / Road Trip
  21. If You Listen, by Elizabeth Mitchell   / Quiet Time
  22. Jesus, King of Angels, by Fernando Ortega   / Quiet Time
  23. Lego House, by Ed Sheeran   /  Road Trip
  24. Sunday in the South, by Shenandoah  /  Quiet Time
  25. In This Life, by Colin Ray  / All

Album “Control” by Pedro the Lion/ David Bazan