Monday Quiz About Me

Welcome to Monday Quiz About Me - hosted by Acting Balanced and Touristic. They post 5 questions on Sunday evening along with a linky for you to link up your post answers! 

Here are the Questions:

1. Who was the last person you said 'I love you to?' My daughter.

2. What was the last non-kid friendly movie you saw? I don't do much TV and haven't been to a movie theatre in ages so I really don't remember.

3. When was the last time you got angry about something that you felt silly about later? These are hard today - I can't remember that one either.

4. Where is your favorite object at this moment? Object? My espresso machine.

And don't forget to add a 5th Question on your own blog so we can answer as we hop around!

My question - If given the choice which would you rather have - a housekeeper to do your cleaning for you or a big house you have to clean yourself? Yes, I have been working on some "deep cleaning" this weekend. I know it's not spring yet, but I'm ready.My answer - I'd love to have a big house and even though mine is small, I don't think I'd want a housekeeper - don't want anyone else seeing "my dirt." I'll do it myself.

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 Wayne from Touristic – he came up with the last three statements!
This week’s statements:
1. Sometimes I choose paths that end up with roadblocks and that is why my life's path has been so curvy.
2. All I hope for  my life is to do enough.
3. I have two wonderful kids who have become two wonderful adults therefore  I have contributed something to this world.
4. McDonalds’ is my daughter's favorite fast food and  my son worked there when he was in high school.
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!
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Live and let live!

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 -Live

I'd like to think that I could just live for the moment but I've never been able to do that. I've had too many roadblocks throughout my life. I need a plan - how am I going to live if.....plan a, plan b....

I don't require much to live. I need a job, one that enables me to pay the bills and have a little left over. I need a place to live, nothing elaborate. I need my kids. I need them to need me. That just about sums it up.

As far as the other meaning of "live," I guess we are all participating in a live "rehersal" of how we want to live our lives.

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.  This week marks the beginning of Lent...will you be giving something up or adding anything to your life during this season of the year? Baptist here - we don't do Lent.

2. The day before Lent is Shrove Tuesday... tradition states you eat pancakes on this day. In some parts of the world Shrove Tuesday is actually known as 'pancake day'. How do you like your pancakes? Or don't you? Two for two. I don't do pancakes either - bad memories of my mother's pancakes as a child. They were always burnt on the outside and raw in the middle.

3.  I'm sure there are many, but what's one love song you really love? The Rose.

4.  What are some things you do to let others know you love them? I do little things all the time. Picking up little things when I see them and think it's something they'd like, driving over to help daughter clean her house, making a special meal.....

5.  Roses...red, pink, or do you prefer another color? Can you recall the last time someone gave you flowers? Given your choice would you like to open the door and see a dozen red roses, a dozen purple tulips, or a dozen pink peonies? Yellow roses are my favorite but I would rather see them outside where they belong. I HATE getting flowers, why cut something so pretty just to have it die.

6.  President's Day will be celebrated in America next Monday. Does US Presidential history and trivia interest you?  Many Presidential homes are open to the public and offer guided tours...Monticello (Jefferson's home), Mount Vernon (Washington's home), Montpelier (James Madison's home), Hyde Park (FD Roosevelt's home) and The White House (home to the sitting President) to name just a few. Of those listed which would you be most interested in touring?  Why? I've seen Monticello. I've also seen Lincoln's home, both in Springfield and in New Salem. Past presidents do interest me but then all  vintage things interest me.

7.  Are you good at keeping secrets? I'll never tell.

8.  Insert your own random thought here.I had the day off today (Lincoln's birthday). I do not get Washington's birthday or President's Day- which if I remember right - started as a way of combining Washington's and Lincoln's birthdays so that schools only had to give one of them off. Somehow I think that's a little weird. But I did get a lot done today. Floors are all scrubbed, house is clean and I got two Christmas stockings crocheted! Some of you may know I'm making new ones for everyone next year. I actually have 13 done already and I only need 12 - but I have more patterns to go. Last week I found patterns for special "pet stockings." Yep, gonna make those too. I'll post pictures when I get them all done.

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. Are you doing anything special for Valentine's Day? Not a thing.
2. When you attend something that isn't totally casual, are you likely to wear dress pants or a dress? I prefer long skirts - usually paired with boots. I love the look of boots and I think that skirts set them off better than dresses.
3. Do you use a regular toothbrush or one of the battery run kind? I use a regular one. I've tried the battery ones but I always go back to just a plain old toothbrush.
4. Did you have valentines in school when you were a child? We did. We always made "mailboxes" for them. I can remember sorting through the valentines to make sure the right people got the right ones.
5. If you could learn a new craft tomorrow, what would it be? I would love to be able to do the fancy quilts that so many people out there do. I think they're beautiful. Sadly, I don't think I have the patience, the time, or the money to do it. I imagine it could be an expensive hobby.