Saturday, May 19, 2018

Happy Caturday


After-dinner Grooming
On the Porch

Happy Caturday from Tommy & Smokey


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Wednesday, May 16, 2018

Hodgepodging Life's Challenges

 Bill's Barn and the plum tree
The month is May is my favorite!

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1. What would you say is your biggest day to day challenge?

Finding a day that is sunny and warm and not windy, so that I can get in that much-coveted walk. Also, probably, doing enough actual physical work during the day so that I feel productive, but not so much that I actually accomplish anything.

 Tommy, joining me for breakfast on the porch

2. May 16th is National Biographers Day. What's a biography you really enjoyed reading? Is this a genre you read regularly?

I've been enjoying G. K. Chesterton's autobiography, which begins,
"Bowing down in blind credulity, as is my custom, before mere authority and the tradition of the elders, superstitiously swallowing a story I could not test at the time by experiment of private judgment, I am firmly of opinion that I was born on the 29th of May, 1874, on Campden Hill, Kensington; and baptised according to the formularies of the Church of England in the little church of St. George opposite the large Waterworks Tower that dominated that ridge. I do not allege any significance in the relation of the two buildings; and I indignantly deny that the church was chosen because it needed the whole water-power of West London to turn me into a Christian."
How can anyone not like Chesterton.

Red barn near Wausau, WI

3. How important is keeping a clean house? Do you need to de-clutter your life?

I see those as two separate things. And I would say that my house generally falls into a third category, 'Acceptably Tidy.' It's usually acceptably tidy, for it's not antiseptically clean and certainly, well, let's just skip the whole discussion about de-cluttering if I'm going to stay in a good mood and not become mentally exhausted just thinking about it.

 Green is everywhere!

4. You're the 8th dwarf. What's your name?

Goldie, with a silent 'G.'

 Smokey is always glad when Dad is home.


5. What's surprised you the most about your life or life in general?

To quote the Dowager Countess, 'the on-ness and on-ness of it.'  And actually, a nice surprise: that I don't feel as old as I look. At least I think that's a good thing.

 Church of the Resurrection, Wausau, WI
This is perhaps Mr. C.'s favorite


6. Insert your own random thought here. 
I got a great coupon from Shutterfly for a jigsaw puzzle, so I uploaded my favorite photo of Canterbury Cathedral. I was so pleased that it came in a good, sturdy box and it looks like it turned out great. I'll let you know after I put it together.

 Canterbury Cathedral

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Wednesday, May 9, 2018

Hodgepodging Motherhood

   Our daughter and kids admiring the sunset on the Wisconsin River at Wausau


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1. What are your ingredients for a perfect Saturday?

A warm, sunny day, nice breeze, a picnic beside a beautiful river, grandkids, John Rutter on the Bluetooth speaker, no bugs.

Along the Wisconsin River in Wausau

2. What skill do you wish more people took the time to learn?

How to converse with people other than their own comfortable little circle.


Church of the Resurrection

3. What's something you ate as a child you can't stand now as an adult?

I can't think of a thing, although I don't eat as much sugar now as I did when I was a kid. I loved Slow Poke suckers that I think were invented by dentists to pull your fillings out.


Reading Tub at the 
Marathon Country Public Library

4. Something parenting has taught you? If you're not a parent tell us one important lesson you learned from your own parents.

Just when you think you've got it figured out, the next kid comes along and destroys that theory.






5. Share a favorite quote or saying about mothers or motherhood.


"How can it be a large career to tell other people’s children about the rule of three, and a small career to tell one’s own children about the universe?
"How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone, and narrow to be EVERYTHING to someone?
"No. A woman’s function is laborious but because it is GIGANTIC, not because it is minute.
"I will pity Mrs. Jones for the hugeness of her task; I will never pity her for its smallness.”

(G. K. Chesterton)

Smokey

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Wednesday, May 2, 2018

Hodgepodging Springing Beauties


 Backyard, daffodils and flowering crab
May, 2016

This year, we were still snow covered in mid April, so it will be a while before we see daffodils and the flowering crab in bloom.  As I write this, it's the first of May, the snow is  [finally!!!] gone, and it's in the lower 70s. Once again, we went from winter to summer in about a day. That is not uncommon in NW Wisconsin.

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1. April showers bring May flowers or so the saying goes. Is there a flower you associate with a particular memory? Explain.
From April of 2012


The type of flower shown above is what I think we called 'springing beauties.'  When we were kids, we'd make May baskets out of construction paper on the first day of May, place a few candies, some springing beauties, and maybe a little note, and sneak to the neighbor's house to hang a May basket on their door before running off. It was intended to be a nice surprise. And I think they were supposed to chase us down to kiss us. (Or am I making that up? They'd probably be arrested these days.)

2. Last time you helped someone? Tell us how.

The last time I helped someone was a few minutes ago when I helped my grandson with a math problem.

3. It's National Salsa Month (the food, not the dance) so tell us, do you like salsa? Hot, medium, or mild? Homemade, store bought, or from your favorite restaurant only?
Mr. C's homemade salsa, the very best

I do like salsa, medium hot, but almost every other salsa, compared to Mr. C's, is a disappointment.

4. When I was twelve years old...

When I was 12 years old, my joys in life were my horse Shammar, playing with the neighbor kids at the creek, building forts, and playing football. Life would be so much easier if we could go from 12 to 25 and just skip those years in between.
 via somewhere on the web,
but looks like my horse Shammar

5. It's the first of May so let's run with it-first things first, don't know the first thing about it, first dibs on something, first impression, first rate, first cousin, first string, first come first served, at first light-which phrase can best be applied to something in your life currently or even recently?

Two grandsons are with us this week and last. So I'd say I'll go with: First things first. Let's get our school work done first, then go outdoors to play - unless it's going to rain. In that case, play first and do school work while it's raining.
 Grandpa's famous French toast and sausages breakfast
before starting school

6. Insert your own random thought here. 
So yesterday morning I was sitting in bed, drinking my early morning coffee, when the 8 year old appeared and slid in beside me. To set this up, I'll have to say that he has always been fascinated with the idea of my first and second hip implants.
G: Does your leg hurt?
Me: No, only if someone puts pressure on it.
G: or something falls on it?
Me: Right.
G: If a penny falls on it?
Me: No.
G: If a nickel falls on it?
Me: No.
G: If a dime falls on it?
Me: No.
G: I have a silver dollar. If a silver dollar falls on it?
Me: Maybe.

Games with friends,
after our Full Moon Walk

 April 29, on our Full Moon Walk
with friends (see above)

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