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Baloney Sandwiches & Chicken Noodle Soup

July 12th, 2007 at 12:37 pm by Dee O'Neil Andrews

Tom's funny.

How many of you go home for lunch every day or any time?  Anybody out there?

Tom comes home for lunch every day.  He was able to begin doing so when we moved up to Picayune last spring into the apartment to start building our house. 

Before we moved out here two weeks ago he said he would probably have to stop coming home every day for lunch - just come some days - maybe - because of the time and distance involved.  You see, our house is in a little one street subdivision out in the country and it is a 10 mile trip one way from his office to the house to come home for lunch every day.

Plus, it's a curvy drive on three different country roads from his office to get here.  That's the north way.  If you come from the south it's still a winding drive, but only one road from town and not as far from the south end of town.

So, I was expecting to stop seeing him during the day most of the time because I expected him to be eating around town like he did for all of those years we lived in Slidell - 20 miles down the Interstate - and he worked here.

But the reality is that he's been home every day for lunch since we moved.  Every day.  He loves it.

He's not a picky person by any stretch of the imagination when it comes to a lunch menu.  He's perfectly happy with a baloney sandwich and chicken noodle or tomato or vegetable beef soup. 

There's just something about coming home and taking your shoes off and sitting down on the couch for a short while or even lying down and resting in the middle of the stressful day, you know?  Don't you think?

I think so and I'm sure Tom thinks so, although he might be hard pressed to give you some big explanation about why he likes coming home for lunch. 

Yep.  There's just something about a good ol' baloney sandwich and chicken noodle soup at home enjoying the beauty of the woods out the back window to rest the soul.

I hope your's gets some rest today too in the middle of your day.  We are here.  I might even take a nap after lunch.  I got up early this morning and have been busy all morning. 

Yep.  A nap to top off the baloney sandwich and chicken noodle soup.

Hope you get one, too.  Dee

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9 Responses to “Baloney Sandwiches & Chicken Noodle Soup”

  1. on 12 Jul 2007 at 12:59 pm   Greg England

    I’d buy that explanation if, when he stays in town, he orders a bolgna sandwich. My guess is he comes home because food never tastes better than when we are someplace we love to be and with someone we love with all our hearts. That’s my guess. For years, I could walk about 70 feet (which is pushing the limit of my endurance) to our house and eat lunch, but it would be a solo act. I had much better food at the house, but would elect to go to some fast food place to eat with someone I knew … and the past few years, to eat with my bride.

  2. on 12 Jul 2007 at 1:00 pm   Greg England

    P. S. Anyone, though, who will voluntarily eat a bologna sandwich can eat just about anything!

  3. on 12 Jul 2007 at 1:34 pm   janice

    I grew up on bologna sandwich,

    my city gandmother , when I was little would fry up bologna and chesse for me, 2 slices of bologna with the chesse in the middle of it. mumm good,

    oh and Dee, i would say that he comes home to be with his sweet heart! ;)

  4. on 12 Jul 2007 at 2:49 pm   TCS

    maybe he’s Italian and is needs to come home for a daily nap? Of course you know I agree with Greg’s answer about where food tastes best.

  5. on 12 Jul 2007 at 9:45 pm   preacherman

    I go home everyday for lunch and eat a sandwinch with my wife. I love baloney and cheese sandwinches. When I am sick though I eat chicken noodle soup. It always makes you feel better. :-)

  6. on 13 Jul 2007 at 8:43 am   Donna

    I would love to live close enough to go home everyday….the next best thing is having lunch with my babies…

  7. on 13 Jul 2007 at 9:51 am   John Roberts

    I occasionally go out to eat lunch, but I much prefer to go home and eat lunch. My wife is a school teacher so it’s great during the summer to get to go home and be with her for a few minutes. And my favorite lunch is what ever is left over from dinner the night before. (Unless we’re having it again that night, and then I have a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.)

  8. on 13 Jul 2007 at 8:11 pm   cwinwc

    Add some basil to that tomato soup and you’ve got a date.

    Having lunch at home is one of the benefits of being off for the summer.

  9. on 14 Jul 2007 at 10:10 am   ben overby

    Dee,

    Greg’s probably right. The lunch probably has more to do with the “company” than the ingredients. I almost always eat lunch at home.

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