Hodgepodging Gilligan's Island

January 15.
Back in the days when the sun shone.
A house in central Wisconsin


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1. "The cure for anything is salt water-tears, sweat, or the sea." (Isak Dinesan) Would you agree? Of the three, which has 'cured' you most recently? 

I don't agree, because I think the cure for so many things is forgiveness. But I suppose if I have to choose one, I'd say that 'sweat' would probably be the most recent cure for...the winter blues that really hit me hard this year. I don't remember getting so sick of winter as fast as I have this year. I am ready for sunshine and warm weather and 

GREEN. 

 Remembering my favorite month: 

On our hill in May of last year

BUT -  Having a nearly impossible project (downsizing, cleaning out 27 years worth of accumulated stuff) is making all the gray days somewhat more tolerable. And, of course, any day that I'm able to actually get outdoors and walk on dry blacktop roads is so encouraging. Walking indoors in a mall is incredibly boring, whereas walking in the neighborhood in the brisk air is so refreshing - and just what I need.

 A favorite thing - walking outdoors

Photo from November.

Photo taken from the bottom of our driveway, last week.

2. What's something you can't eat without salt? Do you normally salt your food a lot, a little, or not at all? 

I salt my food 'a little.' I could probably eat almost everything without salt, because I'm not a salt lover. 

3. Sands of time, bury your head in the sand, built on sand, or draw a line in the sand...which sandy phrase could best be applied to something in your life right now? 

Definitely not a 'bury your head in the sand' kind of person, I like reason behind what I think and do, so not 'built on sand,' and I don't enjoy confrontation, so not 'draw a line in the sand.' That leaves 'the sands of time,' and since I've lived a very long time, that one would most likely apply.

4. A favorite book, movie, or song with an island setting or theme? 

I loved the movie Island at War about the German occupation of one of the Channel Islands and the book The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, but my first thought when I hear 'island' is Gilligan's Island (a three hour tour a three hour tour). I still remember the theme song and almost all the theme songs from the late 1950's and early 1960's Saturday morning cartoons. 

'The biggest show in town is Huckleberry Hound, for all you guys and gals...'

'Yogi Bear is smarter than the average bear, Yogi is always in the ranger's hair...'

See?  Any many more in my repertoire, but I'll spare you.

5. Yesterday-did you run your day or did it run you? How so?

Unlike many days lately, yesterday was very productive, so I'd say that I ran the day. I got lots done, and that is such a good feeling. Both pantries and the dishes cupboards are clean and organized (with lots of extra stuff either ready to go to GoodWill or pitched). I know that the key now is to get it OUT of the house, not let it sit on the library table until I think I really might need it again...sometime...in the next 25 years.

A good friend reminded me of that, btw.  And here we are together at coffee: (and no, neither of us is nearly 6' tall.)

Friends for over 40 years

Deb (l), me (r)

6. You're on an island holiday. Will I most likely find you parked in a beach chair, shopping in town, on the back of a jet ski, or snorkeling off the back of a catamaran?

I would be parked on a beach chair with my Kindle, cell phone, a notebook and pen, a large bottle of water, and one of Carla's lemon bars. :-)

7. What do you think we humans most take for granted?

Especially in the United States, I think we take life for granted.

 "For it was you who formed my inward parts;
    you knit me together in my mother’s womb. 

 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
    Wonderful are your works;
that I know very well.

    My frame was not hidden from you,
when I was being made in secret,
    intricately woven in the depths of the earth. 

 Your eyes beheld my unformed substance.
In your book were written
    all the days that were formed for me,
    when none of them as yet existed. 

 How weighty to me are your thoughts, O God!
    How vast is the sum of them! 

 I try to count them—they are more than the sand;
    I come to the end—I am still with you."

from Psalm 139

8. Insert your own random thought here.

At last: The perfect use for a laundry basket!

Tommy & Smokey
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