Monday, September 17, 2007

What She Liked and What She Didn't Like

I'm going to come back to this ... I hope ... and add things as I remember them.

She Liked:
Butterflies
Children
Rabbits
Home
Spooky
Me (!)
MASH on TV
As Time Goes By on TV
Tom Brokaw
Pink
Old time Swing music: Tommy Dorsey, etc
Veterans
The American Legion
Tea
Earl Grey Tea
Coffee - black, no sugar, no cream
Sitting and looking out the back glass door at the yard
Birds
Settin' a Spell with me on the front driveway
Beautiful Skies
Her shoes
Sweets - especially chocolate
Beans
Lima beans
Navy beans
Rice
"Skillet dishes"
Pancakes
Log Cabin syrup
Sorghum molasses
Music
Choir music
Her family, going way back into the mists of time
"Foot rubbydowns" (foot massages)
"Back rubbydowns" (back massages)
"Coos" (kisses by family)
Puppy dogs of all kinds and shapes and sizes; but especially smaller dogs
Travel
Flowers. Especially roses, red roses. But all kinds of flowers. One of the notes she wrote in a note in a photo album dating to a vacation to Netherlands says “flowers everywhere lovely flowers”
Sunsets
The Sea ... especially The Mediterranean
The Sun
The feeling of the sun on her skin
Italian food
Chinese food
Mary Poppins
The Sound of Music
Dick Van Dyke
Star Trek
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Mr Spock
Data
Little fishies with yellow sweaters
Little (*small*) octopus that would scoot this way & that way in the shallows of the Med
Shopping
Christmas
Easter
Little animals of all kinds


She Didn't Like:
"Holes in the ground" - tunnels, dark places, cellars
Feeling like someone was intruding & getting into her business
Snakes
Spiders

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