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 Beth Ann from Its Just Life – she came up with the last two statements!

This week’s statements:
1. My favorite advice to give is to keep going no matter what, if one path has a roadblock, make another.
2. A few years ago I stopped worrying so much about what other people thought.
3. The weather around me always tends to lend itself to ruining any outdoor plans I may have.
4. 2013 is both exciting and challenging.

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…
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Pondering - Those pesky bills!

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:  Bill

The first thing that came to mind this morning when I saw the topic was a name. Maybe that's because the "b" was capitalized. I've known quite a few Bills in my life!

The second thing that comes to mind is another I am very familiar with - those pesky bills I have to pay every week.

Then there's the "bill" on a ball cap.

And a program bill - an advertisement.

And the Bill of Rights.

And a bill to propose new legislation.

And paper money - those are called bills.

And then there's those bills on the face of some birds - I picture the "Aflac duck" with his broken bill!

Les asked for a picture so I went looking on google! 

So there's lots of meanings of this week's word!    

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. What are your plans for Easter? Are you cooking a big lunch or dinner?  Dyeing eggs? Attending a sun rise service?  Eating too much chocolate? Cooking - yes, a ham for daughter; dyeing eggs - no but the VFW Easter Egg Hunt is Saturday morning - hoping the snow is gone by then; Sunrise service - I wish there was one here but there isn't; chocolate - no - swearing off (clothes getting a little too tight).

2.  What is something you feel too young to do? Too young? Going to have to go with AARP - I really need them to lose my name and quit sending me stuff.

3.  "Love is patient, love is kind.  It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud...it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs..."  

Of the characteristics mentioned in the biblical definition of love which do you find most difficult to live out and why? It always trusts - I have a really hard time trusting men and that comes from my experiences. I used to trust - no more.

4. What's a springtime flower you associate with your childhood? Going to go with daffodils - I love them and have always looked forward to seeing them pop up in the Spring, sometimes right through the snow.

5.  Ever sung karaoke? If so, what's your go-to song? If not and you're given the opportunity, would you? Never, and I never will!

6. What is something you keep in a basket? Crochet projects.

7.  When was the last time you felt foolish? Yesterday - giving presentation and the "smartboard" wouldn't work - maybe it was smarter than me? Could very well have been operator error.

8.  Insert your own random thought here.  I wish I could spend Easter with my two favorite guys.
Grandson #1 - isn't he a cutie










Grandson #2 - doesn't look like a preemie anymore!

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: If you don't have anything nice to say......come sit by me.

Oh - let me get my coffee first before I start on this one. OK, I'm back. To begin with let me say that I HATE GOSSIPING PEOPLE! They make me really mad. Why? Probably because I have heard so much of it in my lifetime. My mother lives to talk about others. She will call me (and I live 700 miles away) to tell me what her neighbors are doing, or what someone in the church is doing, or what somebody's sisters cousins niece by her first marriage is doing! It doesn't matter that I don't know these people and I don't care what they are doing. She just HAS to gossip. I walk around with the phone at my ear for 15 to 20 minutes while she just rants away. And she is almost "fanatically" religious! To me, gossiping is not a very Christian thing to do.

Why, you ask, do I not just tell her that ? I've been telling her that for 53 years. It doesn't work.  It just makes her mad and she hangs up so she can call someone else to talk about me for the next 15 to 20 minutes!

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! The questions today are from some of us "porch gatherers."

Questions

1. Melanie asks "What kinds of seafood have you tried and liked? What is the most unique seafood you've eaten? I like shrimp and lobster, some crab is ok - I did not like the calamari - that would be the most unique kind that I have eaten.
2. Anne says, "An unforgettable holiday moment is That would be Spring break back in 1978 - there were five of us that went together and we had a blast. (She's on the other side of that BIG pond. I believe a holiday is a vacation on this side. )
3. Arlene wants to know, "When was the last time you tried something new?" Not sure - I guess I'm trying something new right now with this new job.
4. Becky asks, "Who or what inspires you?" My children inspire me.
5. Madonna wants to know," How did you chose the names of your children. Wendell adds,"If you don't have kids, how do you choose pet names?" Daughter's name came from a book I read as a teenager. I had never heard the name before and I loved it. Son was named after his father.