Home: September 12

Some recent home related posts:

At The Happy Wonderer: H Is for the Home at Peace

I started a list of phrases and cliches that have the word “home” in them. I could still use your help adding to the list!

Every Tuesday and Friday for the rest of September, I’ll be collecting posts on the topic of home. Do you have a post I should include? Leave the link in the comments here or email it to me. Poems, photos, lists, stories, you-name-it—it’s all welcome.

Update on Friday, September 12, 2008 at 6:34PM by rebecca

Two new additions:

• At Hiraeth, Kim show us a beautiful (and homey) calligraphy project,
  
• and at Field Stone Cottage, Dorothy is playing some cowboy music. (Quick! Before you click, can you guess the song?)
  

My Desktop Photo 24: Klondike Highway North

Photo by Andrew Stark (click for larger view)

Last weekend, I drove to Skagway, Alaska for my semi-annual Wheaties run. (One of my big regrets in this life is moving to a place where I can’t buy Wheaties for my children.) Around every curve in the highway there was more magnificent autumn scenery. Unfortunately, the camera was in Kimberly, BC for a wedding, so I have no photos of that trip, but I do have photos of the fall colours on the Klondike Highway North.

By imagining a huge mountain lake running through the center of the photo, all against a backdrop of snow-capped mountains and clear blue sky, you’ll have a pretty good image of what I saw last Saturday.

Nothing to Write Home About

Here are a few cliches or sayings with the word “home” in them.

• Home is where the heart is.
• There’s no place like home.
• Bring home the bacon.
• A man’s home is his castle.
• You can never go home again.
• Updates: Kim adds “homey”. As she explains, a homey is “a person who lives and works and stays close to home. I grew up in a college town and the homeys were kids who stayed in town for college and lived at home.”
• Also from Kim: home boy
• From Rosemary: Jiggity, jiggity, all the way home. Or as we used to say it, “Home again, home again, jigitty, jig!”
• Ellen B adds “home body.”
• Rosemary again: “Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home.”
• I’m adding to my own list with “Make yourself at home.”
  
• Kim again: Mi casa, su casa 
• Home, sweet home,
• Hearth and home, and 
• Keep the home fires burning. 
• From Janna: Eaten out of house and home.  
• Tanya adds: Home is where you hang your hat.
• Me again: Home free.
  
• And a slew of them from threegirldad: Homeward bound
• Till the cows come home.
• The chickens have come home to roost.
• The lights are on, but nobody’s home.
• And his personal favorite (naturally): Just wait till your father gets home!

Can you think of others?