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 me - I came up with the last two statements!
This week’s statements:
1. When I am on the phone I have to ____
2. I have a ____
3. I started blogging to ________
4. My worst habit is _______

My Answers:
1. When I am on the phone I have to walk around while talking if possible.
2. I have a serious addiction to coffee.
3. I started blogging to be able to keep in touch with son and dil when they moved to England.
4. My worst habit is wearing pajama pants at all times when at home.

Please add the Follow Friday button to your post, or your blog.
Please follow Hilary. Since Google Friend connect is gone, please follow through networked blogs, Facebook fan page or by email….If there is a co-host, please follow them as well. Leave a comment! I will follow back!
Please link your Follow Friday Four Fill-In Fun post to the linky below. PLEASE grab the linky and post on your blog…
If you tweet, please use #F5-bloghop so she can find you…

Pondering With a Purpose

It's Thursday! One of my favorite days. 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:  Words with double meanings - Race

The first thing that comes to mind when I think of race is ethnicity and discrimination - which by the way - is so TOTALLY wrong. I have a hard time understanding why race is still an issue for some. Come on people, it's 2013. I would like to think that we could get past all that and just take people for what they are and what they believe in instead of how they look. We are a melting pot of people from everywhere. I myself have a heritage of Scot, Irish, and Cherokee and who knows what else. What race am I? I'm an American, that's what. Why does everything have to be about race? I hear that racism is more prominent in this country now than it has been in the recent past and I think - Is it racism or is it just politics? I do not like the current politics in this country but it has nothing to do with race. I don't care about your race. I do care about the country going down the tubes.

Sorry about the rant this morning - just had to.

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. Chinese New Year will be celebrated on February 10th, and 2013 is the year of the snake. When did you last see a snake?  Are you okay around snakes or do they give you the shivers? When I lived in the country I saw snakes all the time. I'm ok as long as I see them before I step on them - and having a hoe in my hand when I see them is a plus.

2. The color red in Chinese culture usually means good luck.  Do you believe in luck? Somewhat - I've been lucky in some things in my life but I don't believe in it enough to buy lottery tickets - unless the jackpot gets really big!

3. sledding-ice skating-building a snowman...if given a choice, which activity would you choose?  Which of the three have you done most recently?  Building a snowman - that's my kind of fun and the one I've done the most recently, but I do like ice skating and sledding too.

4.  Ralph Waldo Emerson is credited as saying, "The years teach much which the days never knew."  Where have you seen this quote played out in your own life?  I think this works in everyone lives. There is no teacher like experience.

5. When was the last time you ate a cupcake?  Probably at a carry-in at work.

6. What's something you can't say no to?  Coffee!

7.  Are you a doodler?  Only when REALLY bored!

8.  Insert your own random thought here.  I decided right after Christmas that I wanted to make new crocheted Christmas stockings for everyone in the family this year - each from a unique pattern. I started them in January and just finished #8 out of 12(that covers my kids and grandkids along with Biz's kids and grands).  So far the hardest part has been altering the patterns to make them all close to the same size. I have a total of 21 different patterns and am having trouble figuring out which ones to use. Somehow I think I'm going to make them all - there will hopefully more grands to come. I think I'll try to come up with some sort of "game" at Thanksgiving to have everyone choose their stocking. I'm also making Biz build me a "stocking post" to display them next year. Am I nuts to be working on Christmas in January and February?

 

Chats on the Farmhouse Porch

It's time to head over to Patrice's porch for the weekly chat. Welcome to the new participants in the chat!

Questions

1. What is your favorite time of day to read? If you don't enjoy reading, then what is your favorite time to watch TV/movies? I like to read at night before I go to sleep.
2. Did you watch the Super Bowl? If so, what was your favorite commercial? If you didn't watch it, what did you do Sunday night? No - not a sports fan. But I do like the Budweiser commercial.
3. Have you been watching Downton Abbey?Who's your favorite character? If not, have you seen any interesting TV or movies series lately? Never heard of it?
4. Do you enjoy home parties for selling items? (like Pampered Chef, Southern Living, Mary Kay) NO!
5. Please finish this sentence. If I work very hard, I can make my life better.

Coffee Chat

Time for the Coffee Chat! If you'd like to join, head over to Leslie's at Time out for Mom.

The topic is: "What would be your Last Song?"
This is a hard one for me. To tell you the truth, the only thing I can think of is The William Tell Overture. I love it - I listen to it when I'm having a bad day or trying to do something that isn't working the way I want it to. I hear it and it makes me think of triumph - don't ask me why. 

But as far as my LAST song - that would probably be one that goes back to my roots. Will the Circle be Unbroken (and that just came to me). Guess it's true that you can take the girl out of the country but you just can't take the country out of the girl.