Pondering With a Purpose

Thursday is here again and it's time to do a little "pondering" with Brenda from Fiction With a Purpose.

Her rules are really easy:

1. Grab the Pondering with a Purpose Badge (in her sidebar)
2. Look at the week's prompt
3. Post something on your blog that relates to the prompt - it can be a story, a poem, a picture -- anything you want it to be.
4. Go back here and add the URL from your post to the linky list on Brenda's.
5. Go check out the other bloggers who have added their links to the list.
6. AND most of all.... Have fun!

This Week's prompt is: Is there a TV Show you just can't live without?

In answer to this week's prompt - I have to say no. Now I do watch TV and go to sleep with the timer turned on every night - it's usually on the Food Network or HGTV. I like Bones, some of the Law and Orders, NCIS, and House but can I live without them - definitely. Most often the thing is turned on just for the "noise factor" and I am doing something else - crocheting, reading or going about the normal household tasks. At times I'll walk through the living room and pause for a few minutes in front of the TV but it doesn't hold my interest for very long. I can't remember the last show I watched where I was glued to the set.  Even the shows I do enjoy - like the Celebrity Cookoff that just finished was something that I'd catch a few minutes of while doing other things. 

I've been tagged - Again

This is my second tagging in as many weeks. Brenda from Fiction with a Purpose has tagged me and I have to pass it on. So here goes:

The Rules:

• You must post these rules.
• Each person must post 11 things about herself on their blog.
• Answer the questions the “tagger” listed for you in her post, and create 11 new questions for the people you tag to answer.
• Choose 11 people to tag and link to them in the post.
• Let each blogger know that you have tagged them.

11 things about myself:

1. I'm old
2. I come from the hills of TN/VA
3. I lost one sister to a bad car accident she was 16 and I was 12
4. 12 years later I lost my other sister - she was 26 and I was 24
5. 12 years more and I was 36 - didn't think I would make it through that year but I did.
6. I have 2 wonderful kids,1 wonderful sil and 1 wonderful dil.
7. I am about to become a grandmother for the first time.
   
8. I work at a state university
9. Pizza is my favorite food
10. I love to can my own vegetables in the summertime
11. Green is my favorite color.

Here are the questions I was asked: (with my answers)

1.  Wine or beer? I can drink a beer in the summer when it's really hot but have never really acquired a taste for it. I do enjoy a glass of wine now and then.
2.  Hot or cold? - hot
3.  Black or white?- black - makes you look thinner
4.  Spring or Fall? - spring - love when nature starts to come back to life
5.  AC or windows? - I much prefer windows.
6.  Heater or fire? - Fire - I soooo miss my woodstove!
7.  Carpet or hard-wood floors? Hard-wood - it's the first thing that I noticed about this house.
8.  Roses or Tulips? - Tulips (see #4)
9.  Dog or cat? - Hard one - I love dogs and have one but I also have 2 cats. I actually didn't like cats until I let my kids have a kitten and it of course became mine - I've had cats ever since.
10. Curtains or shades? - I like curtains but I have to say that I prefer shades - I like to let the light in.
11. Shoes or barefoot?  - Barefoot!

So here is whom I am tagging......

Connie at  The Life of an Ordinary Hausfrau
Donna at My Life, One Story at a Time
Karen at 21 Wits, by Karen
Kerry at It's the Little Things
Whispering Writer at Airing My Dirty Laundry one Sock at a Time
The Family at Once Upon a Family
Brenda at It's all Good
Leigh at Poonapalooza
Cathy at Cathy Kennedy's Blog
Julie at Taking the Fat out of Skinny
Empty Nester at One Flew Over the Empty Nest

and Here are your questions:

1.  City or country?
2.  Laptop or desktop?
3.  Grass yard or concrete?
4.  Potatoes or rice?
5.  Meat or vegetables?
6.  Upstairs bedroom or downstairs bedroom?
7.  Garage or carport?
8.  Drive or fly?
9.  Talk or text?
10. Shower or bath?
11. Ford or Chevy?

Have fun!

Chats on the Farmhouse Porch

It is once again time to head over to Patrice's from Everday Ruralty for our weekly chat.

 This week's Questions:

1. Did you do anything special for Valentine's Day?
2. What was the last craft item that you made?
3. Are you planning a garden? Are you swamped with seed catalogs?
4. What cosmetics do you have in your purse?
5. When there is a room to be painted in your home, who does the painting?

My answers:

1.  Nope, not a thing.

2.  Does crochet count as crafting? If so, it would be a baby blanket.

3.  Yes, and I'm so ready to get out there and do it! Lots of seed catalogs.

4.  Ummm........none.

5.  I've done a lot of painting since I bought my little house and have discovered that I'm not real good with a roller - no upper body strength at all - so I do all the trim work while Biz does the walls and ceilings. Two more rooms to go and it'll be done.

Wednesday Hodgepodge Vol 60

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. George Washington-Abraham Lincoln-Thomas Jefferson...who would you most like to meet and why?


I suppose Washington, because he was our first president and was a part of the Revolutionary War.

2. What's your favorite chain restaurant?


The Outback - love that place.

3.Joyce spied this question on the Bears at Home blog last week and was given permission to
steal
borrow it-When you look back on your life, do you imagine you'll think about the goals you failed to meet with regret? Or will you look at what you accomplished and say: it was good?

Probably both. Some things that I should have accomplished but others that couldn't have been better.

4. Grapefruit-take 'em or leave 'em? Given the choice between an orange and a grapefruit which would you choose? Would you prefer it served as is or squeezed into juice? 

Leave the grapefruit - too sour for me - give me the oranges - to just peal and eat.

5. When was the last time you cleaned out a closet? Is there a closet in your home that currently needs cleaning? What are you waiting for? 

Monday, while I was home (had Lincoln's birthday off and spent the day cleaning and working on upgrading both computers)! Wow, you couldn't have picked a better week to ask that question.

6. You get to have lunch with three famous people...who would you like to see round your table? 

Sam Elliott, Tom Selleck, and Pierce Brosnan in that order - and does anybody need to ask why?

7. On a scale of 1-10 how would you rate your ability to parallel park? 

Probably about a 5 - I avoid it when at all possible - but I can do it - not nearly as well as I remember my dad doing it though.

8. Insert your own random thought here. 

Grandbaby due Febuary 29th but after talking to dil this weekend, I think it might be sooner. She is having trouble getting out of bed and off of the couch - a sure sign to me! I've been taking the phone to bed with me (I've always left it downstairs before)!

 

My First Coffee Chat

 

For my very first post on the Coffee Chat, I'm going to keep it really simple-because it's almost time to start my workday. If you'd like to join, head over to Rory's at Time out for Mom. The topic is:

What is Real Beauty, or rather What Really Is Beautiful?

Beauty, for me at least, is in the eye of the beholder - what we as individuals see when we look at something - and everyone sees things differently.  So my definition of "beauty" would be: a quality that brings pleasure to ones mind or senses.