Wow, has another week flown by already? The days are zooming by! Wednesday means it’s time for another Hodgepodge, so here I am checking into blog land. Thanks so much to our hostess, Joyce, for keeping The Hodgepodge going, thus making sure I blog at least once a week. These days, I need all the help I can get! Here are today’s questions:
1. Growing up, were you close to your grandparents? Tell us one or two specific things you remember about them.
There were a couple of times, growing up, when I lived with my maternal grandparents for several months. You can’t get much closer than that! I loved my grandma very much, and wanted to be just like her. My granddaddy passed away when I was fourteen.
Grandma on her 77th birthday in 1980
The things I most remember about grandma were: (1) She never had idle hands. While sitting, if she wasn’t sewing or crocheting (which she loved to do), she’d usually have a tissue in her hands, folding or playing with it. (I tend to do this, as well) (2) Grandma also liked to dip snuff. (I chose not do that!)
2. What’s an item you were attached to as a child? What happened to it?
I think my Barbie and Skipper dolls were my favorite toys. I was already ten or eleven when I got them, but I still spent many happy hours playing with them. As for what happened to those dolls? Why, I still have them, of course, along with lots of their friends that I’ve collected since becoming an adult! (I collected those dolls I’d always wanted as a child, plus a few more)
3. When you look out your window, do you see the forest or the trees (literally and figuratively)? Explain.
Looking out of my window, I can see the forest and the trees… I see the large sycamore tree that’s growing in my daughter’s backyard–the yard that used to be my backyard, until 10 years ago when we moved next door–and I remember how Ed fussed when I bought that sycamore tree… I also see the tiny mimosa tree Ed recently dug up and planted in our current yard, even though he hates mimosa trees. I also see the large magnolia tree that’s planted between our house and our daughter’s house, and I remember what a little twig it was when we planted it almost 40 years ago. Beyond all of that, I can see the “woods” (southern slang for forest) that surround our property on two sides. Lots and lots of pine trees!
4. Do you like sour candies? I used to like sour stuff, but I don’t care much for sour candies anymore. It’s funny how your taste can change.
Which of the ‘sour’ foods listed below would you say is your favorite?
(grapefruit, Greek yogurt, tart cherries, lemons, limes, sauerkraut, buttermilk, or kumquats)
Lemons are about the only thing I like that’s on the list.
5. July 1st marked the mid point of 2017. In fifteen words or less, tell us how it’s going so far.
Our July has been filled with lots of rain, gnats, and mosquitoes, as usual.
Random:
Our youngest son, Brad, celebrated his 32nd birthday, on Tuesday of last week. How can this be? Time slow down!
Anyway, our family all got together to celebrate with him, last Friday. Here’s one of my favorite photos of the evening:
father and son~sharing a moment together
It’s the little things in life that mean the most, like the father/son moment captured in this picture. One day, when Brad’s son, Evan, turns 32, he’ll look back at this picture and wonder where the years went, too.