Giving Thanks

I went to bed last night thinking about what to use for my thankfulness post today. I curled up on my side with my "body pillow" and was watching TV through the mirror on the wall. Miss Pandora, the Queen of the house, jumped up and laid halfway on the pillow and halfway across me. For some reason she HAS to sleep across me in one way or another, be it across a leg, arm, chest, or even my head; sometimes I think that she thinks it's her job to hold me down - I could just levitate up off of the bed you know. About 5 minutes passed and Macy also came to bed. She chose to lay in the crook of my legs, with her feet on top of me. I was lying there with 20 some pounds of cats on me which is nothing unusual but can be somewhat annoying. I was just about to try to rearrange things when they both, simultaneously started purring. OK, I do love my cats. They're my girls and they obviously love me too. So today, I'm thankful for Pandora the Queen and Macy the Princess.

Giving Thanks

Today I am thankful for my eyesight which isn't perfect - I have to admit that I have reading glasses all over the house, in the car, and at work. Can't even see to read the computer screen without them - but my distance vision is almost perfect. A friend is having surgery today for a detached retina. Within the past 2 years they have had lasik surgery, cataracts removed, and now this. Pretty scary - we only have 2 eyes you know. I am thankful mine work as well as they do.

Chats on the Farmhouse Porch #17

Now I'll head over to Patrice's at Everday Ruralty for a Chat on the Porch. It's pretty cold here this morning so we'd all better bundle up and bring a mocha latte with us. 

Questions

1. Where would you take the blogger group for a chat, if they came to your house?    Why to my kitchen of course - with coffee, cocoa, maybe a coffeecake straight from the oven.
2. How do you handle "toxic people"? They're the ones  that are very difficult to be around and generally don't bring out the best in us. I try to avoid them like the plague.If I absolutely have to be around them, I simply try to grit my teeth and bear it.
3. In high school, were you the athlete, the cheerleader (actual or just your personality), the geek, the social butterfly, or lost? Pretty much a mixture of the geek and lost. It's hard to spend your high school years in a wheelchair or on crutches - but it probably made me a stronger person.
4. What's your favorite thing made from apples? My apple butter! It is quite good if I do say so myself!
5. Do you do most of your shopping in stores or online? An equal mixture of both I think. I'll pick up things I just happen to see in a store but if I'm searching for something in particular I usually go online.

Wednesday Hodgepodge Volume 53

Time once again to join Joyce over at From This Side of the Pond for Wednesday Hodgepodge.

Here are the questions for this week's Hodgepodge...answer them on your own blog or facebook page and then hop back over to add your link and share answers with the rest of the world.

1. What song reminds you of a specific time in your life and what is it about that song that makes you remember? 

Stairway to Heaven and high school - junior prom as a matter of fact - I can still hear that song playing.

2. What's something you've given up on?

I never give up.

3. What's something you'll never give up on? 

I repeat - I never give up - on anything. (Remember the little train that could - I think I can, I think I can, I think I can)

4. If you had to cook something from scratch in the next hour what would it be?

Biscuits and gravy? Pretty easy to do - and good too!

5. Have you started Christmas shopping? Decorating? Listening to Christmas music?

Shopping yes - that's a necessity, budget wise. Decorating or listening to Christmas music - NO - it's not even Thanksgiving yet!

6. What do you know about your parent's wedding?
I know they got married at a Justice of the Peace and spent their "honeymoon" in a rented cabin in Tazwell, TN.

7. I can't believe I ___________________.  

I can't believe that I am as old as I am. What happened? Where did it go? Why aren't my kids just babies?

8. Insert your own random thought here.
Back to #7 - honestly - does anyone else feel like they are still 20 years old - or should be? I don't think my attitude has changed, I know my body has changed but I still think like I used to - ok, maybe a little smarter (or a lot smarter) but basically I simply don't FEEL old.

Giving Thanks

Today I am thankful that my dog did not leave the yard when the fence blew down. Some background - my dog is a husky mix and grew up in the country - never caged or chained. She was a neighborhood dog who spent time in the woods with the neighbor's dogs chasing deer, raccoons....whatever. When I moved to town she was confined to the fenced in back yard. I felt really sorry for her cause I knew she didn't understand. Last weekend on Sunday I noticed that one 8-ft section of the privacy fence had blown down. I have no idea how long it was down. Freedom - right there - all she had to do was walk out of the hole. And I live right on the highway - she could have been easily hit. But she didn't leave. She stayed right there in the back yard. She's a good dog. I'm thankful for that.