"There is No Place Like Nebraska"

There is no place like Nebraska
Dear old Nebraska U
Where the girls are the fairest
The boys are the squarest
Of any old place that I knew

There is no place like Nebraska
Where they're all true blue
We'll all stick together
In all kinds of weather
For dear old Nebraska U.

--- going to Barneston on Saturday nights to watch a free -- outdoor still -- movie with a one-cent package of life-savers in my shirt pocket,

--- going to Finks Park west of Wymore to swim on Sunday afternoon,

--- getting together with the gang (neighborhood farm families) for a pot-luck supper on Friday evenings,

--- delivering May baskets in the neighborhood on May 1st and hoping that Allie Dillow didn't catch me and kiss me on the mouth (I'm poisoned!),

--- going to Christian Endeavor on Sunday evenings at Liberty Congregational Church,

--- playing touch-football on Sunday -- afternoons with Brother Bob and Bill and Earl Price,

--- going to Grandma (Hiles) and Grandpa Mouser's house in Blue Springs after church for Sunday dinner and eating some of Grandma's famous roast beef and brown gravy,

--- cutting sunflowers and cockleburs in August,

--- cutting wood or shucking corn in the winter months when school was out on Saturdays,

--- snowball fights in the winter,

--- going to the bluffs to swim ala nude,

--- New Hope elementary school,

--- and riding bikes to High School uphill both ways,

--- forever going out to the pasture to round-up the cows for milking,

--- harnessing the work horses -- Dick and Diamond, Fannie and Major,

--- playing with Sport the dog,

--- watching the cows playing "Doctor" with one of the cows (maybe a bull) riding on the cows back to the "hospital" (wink),

--- having homemade ice cream with the gang,

--- scraps with Brother Bob and teasing sister Joy Ann,

--- Saturday night beans (Bang-Bang),

--- and of course a Saturday night bath, whether you needed it or not,

--- going off to Peru to college,

--- then military service for 41 months,

--- and back to University of Nebraska, Lincoln

--- where did the time go!