Six Word Saturday

To participate all you need to do is describe your life (or something) in a phrase using just six words. For more information, go to Show My Face. and Cate will explain it. Add an image, a video, a song, nothing.



Scraping paint from around the windowsills.
Have to re-caulk them all too.
Going to paint said windowsills tomorrow.
Bigger job than I thought - whew!
Biz always wants it done right.
I thought I would just paint.
No, no, no, got to  scrape.
Then have to redo the caulk.
Then he'll let me paint them!
Good thing he's here to demonstrate!

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 Janice from Janice’s Footsteps (she came up with the last two statements). Hilary really needs co-hosts, so please email me some statements! She 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 can only take so much "meeting crap" in a day
2. I don’t like  cabbage but I love  brussel sprouts.
3. When I watch kids play I ­­­­ smile.
4. I have  a cross and a poem, "I Carry a Cross in My Pocket" in my wallet.

Pondering With a Purpose

Thursday again! 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:   Life or Living?

Well, I'd have to say that I am living my life the best that I know how. Sure, it's not perfect and there have been lots of obsticles to overcome along the way, but it could definitely be a lot worse - it HAS been a lot worse at times.

As far as the "Master Plan" and what to do when that doesn't work out...... I've always been a huge believer in having multiple plans! Plan A, Plan B......... The road always throws unexpected curves in our way but you just have to keep on trudging down that road!

I raised my kids pretty much on my own, with very little help from their father. Although, I do have to give him the credit that he did see the kids a couple times a month and when times were really bad, I would tell him that he was going to HAVE TO help me pay for something and he usually came through so although I never got much child support, I can't honestly say he did nothing. 

I got through that, got both kids through high school, one through college, and one through tech school. Those were lean years but they are over and things are better now. I have a house that belongs to me. It's not the fanciest house in the world but it's mine and for the past two years, I've been working on making it the way I want it. It will probably take me the rest of my life but I'm doing it a little at a time as I can afford to. 

I have a job that enables me to pay the bills and I'm not hungry. I even have a little extra sometimes - sometimes not. But all in all, it's good. So I'd say that I'm definitely "living life" and not the other way around. 

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. I included this quote (attributed to William H. Danforth) in my blog post yesterday... "The best cure for a sluggish mind is to disturb it's routine." When was the last time you 'disturbed your routine' and how'd you do it? I guess I disturbed my routine last weekend when for some reason I decided to do some deep cleaning around the house. I ended up getting a lot done and felt great about it (although I also felt very tired).

2. What's your favorite fried food indulgence? Fried green tomatoes!

3. Did you have an allowance as a kid? What did you do with it? Do you give your own kids an allowance? No and I didn't really give my kids an allowance either. I did give them a portion of my income taxes every year for them to spend on whatever they wanted.

4. What's something you wish you knew more about? Lots of things! If I had to pick one it would be the Vietnam war - I've been looking into taking a class on it here at the university but the class requires 19 books! Not sure I can afford that - but I think it would be very interesting.

5. Is there anything you feel too old to do anymore? If so, what? I'm not sure if it's because I'm old or if it's because of an old injury, but I can't walk distances anymore without limping before I'm done.

6. What's a song you think has a great first line? Country Roads - Almost Heaven West Virginia, Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River......

7. Who are you writing to/for when you create a blog post? In other words...as you write, who is the audience in your head? Friends - that is what you guys have become to me.

8. Insert your own random thought here. My hair grows really fast. Every couple of years I cut it all off - short - but I've always loved long hair. Right now mine is about two inches from my waist. I kind of want to cut it - but then I don't. How old is too old for long hair? I just turned 53 yesterday. Cut it or keep it?

Today was my birthday!

 Another year older! Many thanks to my kids and to Biz for the awesome gifts!

Heather got me a new ornament! Awesome - I think this ties into the fact that she is wanting to learn to can.

She also got me a gift card so I could order my new Kindle cover - don't have a picture of that yet.

 Son and DIL sent me these! A purse that says Grandma!

 A lunch bag with my name on it - and notice the theme - they know how I am about my coffee!

 This is my favorite gift of all!

And Biz got me my new flagpole light!


I think I made out like a bandit!