Dodge, Lodge, Hodge Podge

 Village parking lot

Westby, WI

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1. This is the last Hodgepodge in April. Share something you learned this month. 

A home without a dog is lonely and empty!  (and clean)

(We won't ask Mr. C. his opinion on this subject.)

 Jazzie is currently visiting her Minnesota home.

See those eyes? I know she's missing me! ;-)

2.  It's National Poetry Month, and we all know you can't escape an April Hodgepodge without a little poetry. Keeping the first line as is, change the rest of the wording in this familiar rhyme to make it your own - 'Hickory Dickory Dock...

Hickory Dickory Dock

I'm listening now to Bach.

The clock'll strike one

And I'll be gone

To slither back under my rock.

(Don't blame me. I'm not a poet.)

3. What were one or two rules in the home you grew up in? Growing up, did you feel your parents were strict? Looking back do you still see it that way?

I can't think of any rules in our home, although we were expected to pick up after ourselves, do our chores, be honest, go to church, love Jesus. I don't think that I thought my parents were particularly strict, because they were pretty much like everyone else's parents that I knew. I had good parents. I always knew they loved me.

My parents (left) as teenagers.

4. Tell us about a kitchen or cooking disaster or mishap you've experienced. Do you have many from which to choose?

The cooking disaster was probably when I baked a cake in my 1913 Home Comfort cookstove. The batter took up about a half inch in the pan - before and after.  There's a real skill to actually baking with a wood-burning stove, and I've not yet acquired it, mostly because it's hard to find wood that's reliably dry enough to know how fast it will burn. And no, I really don't have many kitchen disasters. 

Firebox on my cookstove

5. Plant a kiss, plant doubt, plant a tree, plant yourself somewhere...which on the list have you most recently planted?

Probably plant a kiss on a grandchild.

Who could resist those sweet little cheeks!

6. What's your most worn item of clothing this time of year? Are you tired of it?

Soft cotton, long-sleeved t-shirt. I never tire of them. 

This obviously isn't a long-sleeved shirt, nor is it mine, but when I was searching my photo files for 'shirt,' this one came up and I love this photo. :-) One of the grandkids, taken a few years ago. I think he looks like the Campbell's Soup Kid in this photo. 

7. I'm wrapping up the A-Z Blog Challenge this month and our Hodgepodge lands on letter W. What's one word beginning with W that describes you in some way? How about a word to describe your home, also beginning with W?

Me: Wondering;  Home: Wisconsin 

8. Insert your own random thought here.

 This is a photo that I don't think I posted before. It's from late March in the Kickapoo Valley area of Wisconsin. Horses waiting patiently for the [maple] sap wagon to be filled.

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