Wednesday Hodgepodge

1. The first day of spring is here...do you enjoy working in the yard? Weeding, raking, mowing, planting-your favorite springtime garden chore? How about your least favorite?

I love working outside, and planting flowers is the thing I like best, Least favorite picking up after the dogs, but that is a year round chore.

2. What puts a spring in your step?
Money in the bank a day before payday.


3. Describe a time when you had to spring into action?
As the only action taker in my family, I have been called up many times.  Most recently, when my grandson had his accident, I had to take control and make sure he got to the best hospital, coordinate information with all the family. My Christmas Miracle

4. We're having carrots for dinner...would you prefer yours raw or cooked?
I love them either way--cooked with a hint of brown sugar and cinnamon, raw for a crunchy snack.


5. Do you take the shampoos and other sundries from your hotel room when its time to check out?
Yes.  Any unopened ones, I donate to charitable organizations that help the homeless.

6. What's the most enjoyable team or club you've belonged to and what was it that made it so?
I am not a team person, but I have belonged to several clubs.  My favorite was Small World Miniature Club. We met once a month and worked on scale miniature projects, sponsored several charities, and had a city wide miniature show every spring.  It was fun to work together and not only make nice things for yourselves, but also be able to help others.


7. Is cloning a sign of progress?
I think that it is basically an anomaly.  Some grain crops may benefit and it might help with organ replacement, but when you mess with genetics, you can never be sure of the final outcome. Cloning creates identical genes, thus hampering the diversity in genes. While lessening the diversity in genes, we weaken our ability of adaptation. Cloning is also detrimental to the beauty that lies in diversity.


8. Insert your own random thought here.
This weekend I am getting a new roof for my back patio.  I am so excited.  The one I have now is made of fiberglass panels, and the strong winds have torn several of them off, and it is not pleasant to sit out.  My daughter and son-in-law with my valued comments are doing the work.

The Garage

Since my childhood home was built on the side of a mountain, the logical place for the garage was under the house.  The family car could be parked there in winter to protect it from the cold blasts of weather.  In the back of the garage was our root cellar, and storage for canned goods.  But there was also room for other things–unused furniture, spare parts for various equipment, and a secret stash of magazines–National Geographic.  Shhhh

We would steal away and look at the pictures of exotic birds and wildlife and of course the people from various countries, including the almost naked folk from Africa or some faraway land. We were sure these were forbidden magazines, because of those photographs. We would read the stories of how these people lived, examine the maps and then memorize the exotic names of the countries.  Only later did I find out that Mom had already read them, and thought them just too nice to throw away, and was planning to donate them to the school.

Meet Me on Monday

Heather presents Meet me on Monday

Here are today's Questions:

1. How do you like your eggs?

I usually order scrambled, cause I can't eat one if the white is runny.  Except when I have pancakes, I like to make a sandwich with an easy over egg in the middle.

2. Who is the last person you spoke to on the phone?

My daughter in Prescott, she called to tell me they had 7" of snow on the ground and may have another 7 by morning. This is the view from her kitchen window.

3. Do you have a place you keep 'junk' in your home?

I hate to reveal this but I have a gremlin who follows me around and is always leaving a trail of my things, That has got to be it, since I live alone, and I couldn't be the one who is making the mess.  I go after that little fella and try to put the junk away either in the garbage or more likely in my studio, you just never know when you might need it.

4. What is on your 'spring cleaning' list?

I like to get the windows washed before summer, but pretty much try to keep up with the other big chores through out the year.

5. What blog post have you written recently that you'd like more people to know about? (don't forget to link it up) 

Awhile back I wrote about a mean little boy that went to my country school.  The scene was burned into my mind.  Still after 60 years I can remember it like it happened just yesterday.  In this day where bullying is so commonplace I would like everyone to remember what effect they have on others. Lessons from Yesteryear.

 

Sunday's Meditation--Lesson of the Rocking Chair

I received this farmhouse rocking chair from my mother-in-law.  She said that her father, a farmer with a gift of wood-working, had made it. So it is well over a hundred years old. It is oak, its seat has springs and horse hair stuffing.  I recovered the seat over the original material that was tattered and torn.  The arms have been repaired with screws, but it is sturdy. Many times I rocked my youngest baby in this chair.  This old farmhouse rocker is a valued treasure.
I asked myself, could this rocking chair teach me a lesson and decided that worry is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere. But we love to hold on to it.

Philippians 4:6 Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done. (NLT)

Book of Life

I have often been asked when I started writing.  The answer--probably as soon as I was able to hold a pencil. I loved to read; by fifth grade I had read all the books in our school library, and I think that writing was a natural progression.  I remember that sometimes I was unhappy with the way a story ended. 

One time  I brought a book home from the library. It was the story of romance between a young lady and a cowboy. They had their usual problems, and in the end he rode away. I recall crying and was so unhappy, that I carefully cut the last chapter from the book, and rewrote it with the couple living happily ever after. I glued this better ending in. Then returned it to the library, very pleased with myself.
I enjoy chronicling the world of my youth--sharing the times and problems that we encountered, being careful to not to make a better ending.  


My life is naturally divided into three periods--youth, marriage and children, and retirement years.  Each section is about the equal length of time.  So I see three books in my future.


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