Wednesday Hodgepodge No. 168

Wisconsin Sunrise, March 25, 2014
Our front yard (which you're probably sick of seeing)

Join us in Joyce's Wednesday Hodgepodge. Click on the button below for instructions.

 1. March is known as the windy month. Which of the following phrases best fits your March so far...'throw caution to the wind', 'three sheets to the wind', 'run like the wind', or 'see which way the wind blows'?

I'm not sure how any of these can describe March, so...I never 'throw caution to the wind,' so that one is out. I don't think I've ever been '3 sheets to the wind' either. Once, many many years ago, I might have been 1 1/2 sheets to the wind. Not sure. 'Run like the wind' hasn't described me for many years and certainly isn't describing this March which is taking forever to bring us spring (not complaining, mind you), and 'see which way the wind blows' does not describe a planner, so that doesn't work either, although I suppose that's what we have to do with March.

 

What would best describe March, in my opinion?...GONE WITH THE WIND.

2. Your favorite green food? Your favorite dish made with your favorite green food?

My favorite green food is broccoli, (take that, Pres. George H.W. Bush!) BUT I can't make guacamole with it and that's my favorite green dish. Well, I'm thinking it can be considered a main dish and potato chips a side? Otherwise, my favorite dish made with broccoli is broccoli/chicken casserole.

3. Ever been locked out of your home-car-office-anywhere? Do tell!

I'm sure there was some event in my early life that was so horrific that I've simply blocked it from my memory. So the only time I can think of was recently, last summer, when I was locked out of the house because our screen door automatically locked after I went out (dumb thing).  So now, when I take the dogs out, and because the house had to be broken into to get back in, I leave the inside door open and the screen/storm door ajar with a stick holding it open (don't tell you-know-who). I refuse to be locked out by a temperamental screen/storm door, especially when it's 9 below zero or something!

4. Yoda, Kermit, Shrek, The Wicked Witch of the West, Oscar the Grouch, The Grinch, or Mike Wasowski (Monsters Inc.)...of the green characters listed, which one's your favorite and why?

I'm still scared to death of her, not to mention her attendant monkeys, but I do kinda like the Wicked Witch of the West. 'Hehehehehehe, I'll get you my pretty, and your little dog too!!' I think I would watch her while peeking through my fingers covering my face. But it's a love/hate thing. AND, I do like Kermit. He is so sweet and cute and I still don't see why he hangs around that obnoxious Miss Piggy!

 Reflections

Lee rides into Cashtown

or into our living room windows

A.P. Hill, looking confused

5. "The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive."~Joe Batten Do you agree? Why or why not?

Agree/Disagree. It depends. If there is truly hope to be had, then yes, a leader should strive to keep hope alive. I think that's what Churchill did during WWII. But the first task of a leader is to lead, to be willing to forge the way, not expecting more of others than he's willing to give him/herself, and to be honest with his people, even if it means he won't be popular because of it. If the leader knows there is no hope for the mission, or if the mission is not clear and he sacrifices his own people because of his pride and foolishness, then he is a tyrant and a liar. And maybe tomorrow I'll think of a better answer. Wow, I could spend a couple days pondering this one.

6. Share a favorite song with an emotion in it's title.

'Feelings, nothing more than feelings'...or as I think of it when I'm at the dentist office, 'fillings, nothing more than fillings' (except during a cleaning when they poke at your teeth with a sharp metal object)  Most of the music I like is instrumental, but I suppose that doesn't let me off the hook, does it, for they also have titles. Death isn't an emotion, otherwise it would be Walton's Death of Falstaff. It's beautiful. Oh, I just thought of one: The Beatles: All You Need is Love. (but it's not my favorite, and I actually believe that love is a commitment, not an emotion.) Is there a song that has 'frustration' in the title? 

Wait! I just thought of one of my favorites, and it does have an emotion in the title:

Joy to the World, the Lord is Come!!! 

7. What's a road trip you'd like to take?

I'd like to take a road trip to Indiana because our daughter is due to deliver a baby girl!!!  After that, I'd like to take a road trip to Texas because our other daughter and SIL live there. Isn't it ridiculous, that we have kids who live so far away we have to take a road trip to see them??!  The other road trip I'd like to take is to eastern Pennsylvania. That is such an interesting drive! So much to look at. And I'd like to take a road trip to Denver and to Great Falls, MT and...and...and...

 

8. Insert your own random thought here. 

It is so wonderful that there is a young family (friends) willing to stay in our house and take care of it and the animals while we're gone to Indiana to see the family (including new baby whose arrival is imminent). It is truly a blessing. Otherwise, with our kids grown and out of the house (therefore no one to take care of the dogs and cat), it would be impossible to take time away. 

 No, it's not the baby

It's a doll that belonged to our daughter

The 3 year old is practicing being kind to it.  

One more random thought: As I was writing that just now, a helicopter flew over our house. Most likely, it is a medivac helicopter, coming to transport someone from Barron to Eau Claire. I can't hear that sound without thinking of the trauma some family is going through, how scared they are, and praying for them. A medivac transported my husband from Barron to Eau Claire after a tree fell on his head in April of  '05 (long story, but not unfamiliar to people cutting down trees). He's fine now, but it was a very scary time for us and made a lasting impression on the kids and me, who saw him lying on the ground, unconscious, with blood running out on the ground behind his head. We praise God that he is alive and well today.


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