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.




Six words can't begin to describe

how I feel about this shooting

How can anyone kill twenty children?

What is happening to this world?

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 Ali from the daughter-in-law diaries – 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 usually don't watch TV while I'm awake  but never can go to sleep without it.
2. I was named Tami because of the movie "Tammy's in Love.
3. I would never change much about my body, but I would change lots about my face.
4. The last time I said “I Love You” was to to my daughter.

Pondering With a Purpose

Thursday again! Time to do a little "pondering" with Brenda from Ponderings of an Author.

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:                Memories

I think that I am lucky to have actually lived the old way. I remember the coal stove in my granny's living room. I remember the outhouse. I remember making apple butter in a huge kettle outside over a fire. I remember the old wringer washing mashing. I remember the crank telephone that hung on granny's wall. I remember our first black and white TV. I remember two local channels. I remember cars with crank up windows and sitting in front of a fan, trying to cool off.Then there are the newer things - landlines, record players, the first Nintendo - better yet the Atari! Cable TV, air conditioning.........the list goes on.
I remember getting my first computer and then getting the internet at home. Thought we hit the big time then didn't we? Our cars now have built in navigation and heated seats. 
Wow, the things that I have seen in my lifetime!

But are there personal memories? Of course there are although I'm not sure they would make for very exciting reading material. 


 

A request

Ryan grew up across the street. He and his sister were friends with my two and were at my house as much as they were at theirs. Ryan was the best man at my son's wedding. My son was best man at his.

Please vote for Ryan and Nikie here!

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! 

This week's questions: 


 1. So, when did you last take a walk in the woods? A stroll along the beach? A drive going nowhere in particular in the car? The last time I walked in the woods was when I lived in the country - about three years ago.

2.  Are you sending Christmas cards this year?  About how many do you send?  Photo card or something more traditional?  How do you display the cards you receive? No cards from me - I do sit out the few that I get - usually on the counter of the built in cabinet.

3. What's a word you've heard too much of in the past week? Finals.

4. December 13th is National Cocoa Day-are you a fan?  Plain or flavored?  Marshmallows or no marshmallows? Yes - plain and no marshmallows for me! I do sometimes mix my cocoa with my coffee - imagine that!

5. What is something you do to help alleviate the hectic pace of the Christmas season? This year I did most of my shopping online and avoided the stores whenever possible.

6. Besides jewelry, what's a favorite sparkly-glittery item in your home or closet? I'm not much of a glitter fan. I really can't thing of anything I own that is glittery.

7. Share a favorite line or two from any Christmas carol. Come they told me, pa rum pa pa pum!

8.  Insert your own random thought here.As I said, I did a lot of shopping online this year. I got a package tonight that was minus 4 things - so now I have to come up with some more "finishers" for daughter and sil. Bummer!