Summertime in Small Town America.

It's Saturday morning and I am sitting out on my front porch feeling the cool breeze that is blowing and listening to my wind chimes that I picked up at Dollar General last week. Living in a small town is the only place to live. I was raised in Denver, Colorado, I was use to big city living. When I first came here to Nebraska I did not think I would like small town life. There is where I was wrong! I had lived in smaller towns than Denver, like Laramie, WY, even there they have big named stores and stop lights. Here in Friend, NE they don't have any stoplights and no big name stores. Our grocery store has all of 4 isles in it. We have to travel 18 miles to go to Wal Mart. I have had to learn to do my "big shopping" at the beginning of the month and smaller things at our store here in town.

Here I feel safe to do things that in Denver or even Laramie you would never consider doing; like leaving my house unlocked and letting my kids wonder all around town. That girls really seem to like it as well. I will never move back to a big city, I don't ever want to leave here.