Hodgepodging September

Ditch flowers along Fifth Avenue

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1. The Hodgepodge lands on the second day of a brand new month. Tell us one thing you're looking forward to in September.

 

I'm looking forward to the closing on our farmhouse. After all, we're all moved into the Wausau house and our farmhouse buyers are all moved into the Dallas farmhouse. By Friday, just a couple days from now, it should be all set. It might give us more of a feeling of being settled here in our new location. Living in the city is nice, but I will miss looking out the window at acres of cropland.

 

But I'm sure I'll get used to it.

And if not, I can always drive a few miles to visit

the cows near Wausau - like these. Aren't they pretty!

2. Do you enjoy browsing second-hand shops? Last thing you bought or 'inherited' second hand?

 

I do like browsing second-hand shops, especially Goodwill or St. Vincent's. It's always fun, and won't break the bank when you find something. However, with the project of downsizing I was on for the past two years, I try not to add anything. So, I'd say that the backyard of the Wausau house, shown above, is what we've 'inherited' recently. It is a beautiful place, and makes the transition to the city much more tolerable.

One of the grandsons at his birthday party.

He had fractured a bone in his foot.

He really was happy about the party,

but I can tell that the whole crutches thing was not fun.

3. Something you had second thoughts about after committing to, purchasing, or posting/commenting  online?

 

Well, right now I'm not commenting or 'liking' anything on Instagram because I've been blocked. I've tried all the usual steps to be reinstated, to no avail. But I rarely regret comments or posts. I tend to think better with a keyboard (or even my phone) under my fingers, because it sort of acts like a filter (well, in my brain anyway). I do sometimes regret speaking, however, and am pretty hard on myself afterwards. It takes several times of telling myself to get over myself (pride?!!) and move on.

This has nothing to do with anything, but these stuffed peppers were delicious.

 

 

 

4. What's a product or service you use that you'd rate as second to none

 

I guess I can't think of any product that I find second to none unless it's Stax potato chips, but the electrical grid would be greatly missed.

 

Look! I managed to downsize books once again, enough so that I could get rid of the tall bookshelf and move the piano against the wall, rather than having it stick out into the archway.

 

 

5. Something you do so often or that comes so naturally to you it's second nature ?

 

That's easy - falling asleep during a movie. :-))  I even fell asleep during Endeavour, probably my favorite, and had to rewind it later. I'm an early riser, and probably shouldn't try to watch anything after 9:30 in the evening. Especially if I eat ice cream. Zzzzzzz.

6. Insert your own random thought here.

 

Chesterton, one of my favorites!

 

 

I am sad to report that the deer have found several of my 

beautiful red dragonwing begonias, but somehow missed this one. 

Next year I will have to make cages for them

(the begonias, not the deer).

 

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Judy