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 wish I had ___ to ___
2. I stopped wearing ____
3. My favorite song right now is_________because________.
4. I always sing while________.

1. I wish I had enough money to go to England.
2. I stopped wearing jewelery a long time ago - except for a cross necklace that I have worn since the day I found out I was pregnant with my daughter - who just turned 29.
3. My favorite song right now is (drawing a blank here - going to say  Take Me Home, Country Roads cause I'm getting ready to make a trip down home.)
4. I always sing while driving in the mountains - and it's always "Take Me Home, Country Roads."

 

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:   Getting Away?
For me getting away always means the mountains of VA/TN. There is no other place like it. I love to get up early in the mornings and watch the mist rise up off the mountains. There's lots of words I could use to describe it: peaceful, tranquil, awesome, beautiful,  inspiring,  magnificent, calming, serene, soothing........ the list goes on. But for me the one word that really describes it is "home." I haven't lived there in decades but it has always been and will always be home to me. Daughter and I are going at the end of this month. I'll take lots of pictures.

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. In your opinion what's the most important job in the world? Oh, and parenting is a given so besides parenting, what's the most important job in the world? If not parenting, I would have to go with teachers, especially Elementary School - the formation years - not that all teachers/professors are not important but I think the foundation needs to be built early if at all possible.
2. Share a favorite or not so favorite memory from a childhood birthday. Birthday's were not a big deal in my family. Presents were not given, if fact it wasn't often that you even got a cake.
3. Peanut butter-crunchy or smooth?The crunchier the better!

4. William Butler Yeats is credited as saying, "Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing." Your thoughts? I've never really thought about it, but I'm not sure that we do. I think all experiences make us grow, not just the "happy" ones. I've grown a lot over the years and I think the saddest/hardest times are those that made me grow the most - so I guess I disagree.
5. What's something that makes you cringe? I've said this often, but the way that college students write makes me cringe.

6. Name a song that always puts you in a good mood? Country Roads - John Denver.

7. The answer is yes. What's the question? Wouldn't you like to know!(In other words - there are just TOO many possibilities for that one.)
8. Insert your own random thought here.I haven't posted a picture of my grandson lately so I'm going to take this opportunity to do it. Here he is sitting on a wine barrel in Venice. I think it is just awesome that son and dil get to travel the way they do!

Chats on the Farmhouse Porch

It's time to head over to Patrice's porch for the weekly chat.Wendell is with us today! Don't know about anybody else but I've kind of missed him.

Questions

1. What's your favorite kind of sandwich? I like a plain old turky and swiss.
2. Do you have more photos or artwork on the walls of your home? I'm not much into artwork so it would definitely be pictures.
3. Do you switch your wardrobe(clothing) when the seasons change? Of course!
4. How do you keep your recipes: books, cards, computer? I have a big binder full of recipes.
5. What are you looking forward to the most in the month of September? Daughter and I are taking a trip at the end of this month. I'm looking forward to that.

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.




I'm selling poppies for VFW today.
Then working for VFW reunion dinner.
Tomorrow going to Labor Day celebration.
Lots of flea markets to browse.
Hoping to find an old canner.
Daughter wants to learn to can.
Would rather her have old one.
Think they are heavier than new.
Don't make stuff really good anymore.
Mine is probably 60 years old.
I've had it 30 at least.
It came from my granny's house.
It still works like a trooper.
I call it my "old faithful."

How's that for Six Word Saturday!