W is for

Weather-Weather is the state of the atmosphere, to the degree that it is hot or cold, wet or dry, calm or stormy, clear or cloudy.Is anyone besides me worried about what the summer has in store for us? This was such a mild winter it makes me wonder. Then it did not rain on Easter Sunday here. It ALWAYS rains on Easter Sunday. I'm afraid it's going to get really hot and dry - I'm also afraid the bugs are going to be really bad since it didn't get cold enough to kill them off this winter.

Wednesday 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. Shakespeare's birthday is celebrated on April 23rd...when did you last read Shakespeare? What's your favorite Shakespeare play?

 I have to pick Romeo and Juliet.

2. What food(s) would you recommend a foreign visitor try when they visit your home country?

 I 'm from the south - I'd say Southern fried chicken, gravy, mashed potatoes and a berry cobbler!

3. What's a lie you often tell yourself?

 I'll start dieting again next week.

4. What's something you're good at that might surprise us? Remember this is a family friendly blog!

 I 'm a great poker player. My dad taught me when I was little.

5. Who is your favorite animal character from a book?

 Horton!

6. April showers bring May flowers...do you have a green thumb?

 I do! Love to garden -mostly vegetables though, I'm not so great with flowers.

7. Speaking of rainy days, which one of the following activities would you most want to spend time doing on a rainy day-

sort photos and create albums

bake cookies

read a good book

hold an all-day movie marathon

clean and organize closets, cupboards, or bookshelves

try a new recipe

fix something that needs fixing

 I  would be in the kitchen all day!

8. Insert your own random thought here.

Just picked up a new TV last night. I'm probably one of the last holdouts - have had a 27" inch for years, probably cause I don't watch it that much.  A 50" flatscreen is going to take some getting used to.

Chats on the Farmhouse Porch

It's time to head over to Patrice's porch for the weekly chat. Here are this week's questions:

1. Do you prefer wallpaper or paint?
2. What qualities make a good friend?
3. Are you planning a summer vacation?
4. Do you have a garage, carport, park on the street or park in your driveway?
5. Tell me something interesting about your week. (oops- please)

My answers:

1. I prefer paint - patterned wallpaper gets old after a while - doesn't seem to matter how much you love it when you first put it up.
2. Loyalty, honesty, and the ability to listen. Also, the ability to give advice, even when it may not be what the friend wants to hear.
3. Nope
4. I have a two car garage but have never parked in it. One stall houses Biz's corvette and the other is full of a variety of stuff - lawnmowers, tools......
5. I have been interviewing for different positions here at the university this week. Don't know that I really want to leave my office but have to at least do the interviews since they involve a promotion. We'll see what happens.

V is for

Value – monetary worth, full recovered worth, worth or importance, meaning, numerical quantity, length of a note, shade of a color, sound represented

The things I value the most (not including my kids/grandchild which are of course, the most important things to me) do not necessarily have monetary worth. I value a lot of little things – like all my snowmen, my crochet hooks, a horse whisky bottle my dad gave me when I was five, the “apple butter kettle” my mother-in-law gave me, and the coffee mugs that my kids get me whenever they go somewhere mean so much to me but are not actually worth much to anybody but me.

Coffee Chat

 

 I'm joining the coffee chat again this morning! If you'd like to join, head over to Rory's at Time out for Mom. The topic is: If you had to be trapped in a TV show for a month, which one would you choose?

I think I'd choose "Bones" - probably because it's one of very few shows I try to watch regularly. I do like House but don't want to be trapped in a hospital for a month. I could also choose NCIS but I have no desire to be shot at either. But Bones - I could do that. Way back, right out of high school I studied to be a Medical Technologist and I still find the lab setting to be interesting.