Follow Friday Four Fill-In Fun

Welcome to the weekly Follow Friday Four Fill-in Fun Blog Hop!

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Each week, Hilary over at Feeling Beachie lists four statements with a blank for you to fill in on your own blogs. This week’s co-host is Jen from Just another day

Hilary would LOVE it if you could please help her spread the word about this hop…. So, please tweet, FaceBook share, and add the linky to your post…

This week’s statements:

1.       I never wear ___ and I don’t know why

2.       In the winter I always___

3.       When I ___, I miss ___

4.       I love the way ___ feels.

My Answers:

1. I never wear earrings and I don't know why. 
2. In the winter I always want to go South.
3. When I can green beans, I miss my best friend. (We used to take vacation days and make a day of it).
4. I love the way having my hair brushed feels.

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:  Pinterest

I do - although I have not really taken the time to do a lot with it yet. It seems like something that could be addictive if you let it. Between classes, work, and the blogging I simply don't have time for it right now.

E is for

Elocution – the art of speaking clearly and well, with correct enunciation.

This sort of goes back back to my post from Wednesday's Chat on the Farmhouse Porch. 
Does it bother anyone besides me that the young people tend to mutter, slur, and basically use slang ALL the time – even when they are presenting in front of a class! Schools used to teach kids how to speak  - when did they stop? Drives me nuts! I find myself wanting to yell at them – Speak up! Make eye contact! Stand up straight! I’m glad I did not become a teacher – don’t think I’d have the patience for it -  but I wouldn’t let my students get away with it either!

D is for

Dinosaur –an extinct, chiefly terrestrial reptile that lived in the Mesozoic Era – a person or thing that is hopelessly out of date or incapable of adapting to change

Does every little boy go through a phase when he just loves dinosaurs? Mine did. I remember one Christmas when he was about 4 and got these dinosaurs that were almost as big as he was. I don’t think the phase lasted very long for him though – he quickly went back to the cars and trucks – basically anything that moved. But he sure loved them for a while – wish I still had those dinosaurs, I bet my grandson would like them if a few years.

Chats on the Farmhouse Porch

It's time to head over to Patrice's porch for the weekly chat and boy am I glad she confessed to be the reason for this cold weather. Here I was thinking it was because I got the garden plowed!

This week's questions:

1. What was the first sign of spring that you saw this year?
2. What was the last package you received in the mail?
3. Do you have any Easter, or spring traditions in your home?
4. Do you hand wash dishes or machine was them?
5. If I had an extra hour each day, I'd ______________.

My answers:

1. I saw flowers poking their heads out of the ground.
2. I been receiving various video cards in the mail for the past few weeks. :(
3. Easter time means celebrating Christ and his Resurrection. Since my kids are grown and gone, Easter baskets are not bought and filled at my house anymore - need that grandson to be close enough so I can start doing all that again!
4. Hand wash, I do plan on getting a dishwasher put in - would love to have one during canning season.
5.  Read, or watch something on TV, or spend another hour outside in the garden......