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 Leslie from Time out for Mom 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 love to swim but I hate to bake in the sun.
2. Coffee makes a day better
3. They Didn’t Think I Could  have my kids naturally, But I Did
4. Warning:  slightly menopausal woman who owns  firearms!

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:   Talented?

Let's see. What talent do I have that my kids do not. Actually, quite a few I think. First off, the ability to write - and I blame the school systems for that. I always had to go over every paper that either of the kids wrote and "fix" it. I don't think the schools teach kids how to write anymore. I was taught that when it comes to papers, there are 3 steps: introduction, body, and the conclusion. I tried to tell them - over and over - that it's really easy. All you have to do is: tell them what you're going to tell them, tell them, and then tell them what you told them. Simple, but I always ended up doing a lot of editing.

I learned how to sew when I was a child but despite my efforts to show my daughter, she struggles and usually ends up at my house with project in hand.

I've crocheted for years and have taught daughter the basics. She has even completed a few projects on her own but I still have to "translate" patterns for her. 

Excel! I love Excel and can do anything you want done in it. Daughter HATES the program. I end up setting up anything she wants done (checkbook registers, budgets, amortization tables....). 

Canning - this is the next thing I am going to try and teach daughter to do. She wants "a canner  and extensive canning lessons" for Christmas. Should be interesting.

As far as the son goes, lets see. He has no interest in canning or sewing so I can't claim that over him. He's also a pretty good cook and he IRONS (I hate ironing). Maybe that comes from being in the service?  He's not very good with Excel and he can't type very fast, that's two. Actually three - he's not good with writing either as I stated in the first paragraph!

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. Americans will celebrate Labor Day this coming weekend. Do you know what we're actually celebrating? (without consulting your friends Google or wikipedia, ahem) What's a project you're currently 'laboring' over? Yes I do! I am currently "laboring" over getting the trim work on my house painted!

2. Labor Day also signals the unofficial end of summer for most of us...what summer food will you miss the most? If you're in the southern hemisphere feel free to substitute winter for summer. Fried green tomatoes! I have actually frozen them in the past. They're good - but not as good as fresh.

3. A well known proverb states, 'It's easier to seek forgiveness than ask permission.' Your thoughts? I've heard that one - it seems to have been a favorite with the men in my life. I do NOT agree.

4. Food critic, film critic, book critic, art critic....which hat would you most like to wear? Definitely not film or art - I do love to read so that could fit but I think I like to eat more!

5. When you were a kid, who (besides your parents) was your favorite adult? My uncle Elwood. He was the "patriarch" of the family and he evidently inherited more of the Cherokee blood than the rest of the family because he could have passed for full blooded Indian. I was in awe of him my entire childhood.

6. The astronaut, Neil Armstrong, passed away last week. He was regarded as a hero by many generations of people all around the world. Do we still have modern day heroes? What makes someone a hero? I can remember sitting in front of the TV and watching that first moon walk. Do we still have modern day heroes? Perhaps, but I can't think of any.

7. I never get tired of  being a mom - and believe it or not, I have actually heard people say that they were tired of being one, too many responsibilities, etc..... - I've never understood how anyone could even think that much less say it!

8. Insert your own random thought here. I'm very tired this morning - had trouble sleeping last night for some reason - therefore, I have no random thoughts today.

Chats on the Farmhouse Porch

It's time to head over to Patrice's porch for the weekly chat.

Questions

1. What's the last thing you baked?  I baked a cake over the weekend - a pound cake that I happened to see on the food network - unfortunately, it wasn't as good as my grandma's pound cake.
2. What's your favorite thing about fall? The colors - especially in the mountains.
3. What's your favorite room in your home? The kitchen - I spend most of my time there.
4. Who handles bill paying in your house? I do.
5. Tell whatever you'd like to share with our chatting friends. I have to work at the VFW this weekend and it is also the big Labor Day celebration - lots of antique booths, tractors, Civil War Re-enactments - it will be a very busy weekend, even though I have an extra day off. Also, I hope to get my painting project done! I've been working on getting the trim work on the house painted and it has been much more work than I expected - lots of scraping, caulking..... Then I went to paint and my "light gray" color that I bought ended up looking purple! I don't want purple trim on my house! So tonight, I'll get some gray (I hope).

Monday Quiz About Me

Based on the original Meet Me on Monday hosted by Java at Never Growing Old, Heather over at Acting Balanced  posts 5 questions on Sunday evening along with a linky for you to link up your post answers! Since Java is back , Heather has changed the name of her hop to "Monday Quiz About Me."

This weeks Questions:
 1.  When was the last time you tried something new? Last night - I tried a new crochet pattern - does that count?

2.  What’s a belief that you hold with which many people disagree? I believe that all those who receive public aid should have to undergo drug testing before they receive it. I'm not against public aid but I hate to see the system abused.

3.  What kind of music do you enjoy listening to? Country - and old country at that - was raised with it and it stuck.

4.  What piece of advice would you give to a beginning blogger? Don't worry about the number of followers - just try to find people you have something in common with.

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

 

My 5th question: We finally got some rain yesterday! Too late for the crops/gardens but it was wonderful to stand at the window and watch it falling. Did you get any rain over the weekend?