Hodgepodge

Welcome back to the Wednesday Hodgepodge! Be sure to add your link to the bottom of Joyce's post and then go visit the neighbors. After all, that's part of the fun! 

 1.  This week marks the beginning of Lent...will you be giving something up or adding anything to your life during this season of the year? Baptist here - we don't do Lent.

2. The day before Lent is Shrove Tuesday... tradition states you eat pancakes on this day. In some parts of the world Shrove Tuesday is actually known as 'pancake day'. How do you like your pancakes? Or don't you? Two for two. I don't do pancakes either - bad memories of my mother's pancakes as a child. They were always burnt on the outside and raw in the middle.

3.  I'm sure there are many, but what's one love song you really love? The Rose.

4.  What are some things you do to let others know you love them? I do little things all the time. Picking up little things when I see them and think it's something they'd like, driving over to help daughter clean her house, making a special meal.....

5.  Roses...red, pink, or do you prefer another color? Can you recall the last time someone gave you flowers? Given your choice would you like to open the door and see a dozen red roses, a dozen purple tulips, or a dozen pink peonies? Yellow roses are my favorite but I would rather see them outside where they belong. I HATE getting flowers, why cut something so pretty just to have it die.

6.  President's Day will be celebrated in America next Monday. Does US Presidential history and trivia interest you?  Many Presidential homes are open to the public and offer guided tours...Monticello (Jefferson's home), Mount Vernon (Washington's home), Montpelier (James Madison's home), Hyde Park (FD Roosevelt's home) and The White House (home to the sitting President) to name just a few. Of those listed which would you be most interested in touring?  Why? I've seen Monticello. I've also seen Lincoln's home, both in Springfield and in New Salem. Past presidents do interest me but then all  vintage things interest me.

7.  Are you good at keeping secrets? I'll never tell.

8.  Insert your own random thought here.I had the day off today (Lincoln's birthday). I do not get Washington's birthday or President's Day- which if I remember right - started as a way of combining Washington's and Lincoln's birthdays so that schools only had to give one of them off. Somehow I think that's a little weird. But I did get a lot done today. Floors are all scrubbed, house is clean and I got two Christmas stockings crocheted! Some of you may know I'm making new ones for everyone next year. I actually have 13 done already and I only need 12 - but I have more patterns to go. Last week I found patterns for special "pet stockings." Yep, gonna make those too. I'll post pictures when I get them all done.