Hodgepodge Wednesday.....

Hodgepodge Questions-Volume 169

Here are the questions to this week's Hodgepodge. Answer on your own blog, then hop back HERE tomorrow to share answers. Joyce has given us some great things to think about, yet again! Thank you, Joyce!

1. Since these questions are posting on the first day of April it seems only right to ask-when was the last time you did something foolish? If you can't answer that one, try this one-when was the last time someone fooled you?  I probably do something foolish every day of my life!  I'm also sure that I get fooled often, and usually don't even know it. Sorry that nothing specific comes to mind.

2. What's the last biography or non-fiction book you've read? Was it any good?  Probably the Dr. Ben Carson story - Gifted Hands.  I don't really care for biographies or non-fiction. When I read, I want to get lost in the fantasy of a great story and non-fiction is not usually interesting enough for me to get lost in it.

3. Garlic-friend or foe? What's your favorite dish made with garlic?  Best friend!! I use garlic on lots of things, since I cook Italian dishes frequently. I love pasta, with just garlic & butter; I use it in spaghetti sauce and on pizza; I put it in mashed potatoes; and I love toasted garlic bread with lots of butter!! Garlic also has medicinal properties, and is very good for you!

4. Several Spring flower festivals happen in the US during the month of April. Of those listed, which would you most like to see in person...The Skagit Tulip Festival in Skagit Washington, The Dogwood Arts Festival in Knoxville Tennessee, The North Carolina Azalea Festival in Wilmington North Carolina or the Daffodil Festival Weekend on Nantucket Island, Massachussets?  Well, sorry, but I wouldn't travel very far to see a flower show. I'm just not a flower person. I think they are lovely and I enjoy them in beautiful yards and in hanging baskets, but I have no desire to take care of them in my yard or house, and am not interested enough to travel anywhere for a flower show. Having lived in the D.C. area for 12 years, I always enjoyed driving by the cherry blossoms when they bloomed around the Jefferson Memorial - but that was on my way to work. Just not a flower person - and I don't enjoy receiving flowers for any occasion either...I think it's a waste of money (gasp!). Part of my problem is that heavily scented flowers give me terrible headaches. I can't be close to gardenias or lilies, or honeysuckle, for example. Horrid headache.  I just don't get along well with flowers.


5. How do you choose which blogs to read?  What is something that will make you stop and read every time? Something that makes you say, 'eh, think I'll skip this one and move on to the next'?  I look for bloggers with similar beliefs and values. I don't understand how some, with hundreds of followers, can keep up. I want a quality blogging experience, not just someone who flies by and moves on. I view my connections here as true friendships - especially those who I have been connected with for several years. I stop following when a blogger isn't genuine (not sincere) or starts to not interest me anymore. Just recently, I noticed two people dropped off my followers list, and since I didn't really miss them or "know" them anyway, that's okay. I do the same thing, and understand.  I so enjoy meeting my blogging friends in person (see the tab at the top of my page), and base my friendships here on whether I think we would be good friends in person, too.  I have not been disappointed yet!!

6. April is National Mathematics Education Month so tell us, when did you last use math?  I am an accountant, but I laughingly tell people all the time that accounting is arithmetic (adding and subtracting), not math...but I do have to use math most every day to figure percentages and make projections, for instance. I am not good at advanced math, however, and marvel at those who are. Please don't ask me to figure out when the train and the car will meet in Arizona if one is going 60 miles per hour and leaves California at 4:30 a.m., and the other is going 100 mph, and leaves Ohio at 6:30 a.m.....who cares anyway?!!

7. In honor of the A-Z challenge kicking off on April 1...choose one word beginning with the letter A to describe your yesterday.  Anticipatory.


8. Insert your own random thought here.  I am off from work today, to spend time with our friends, Karen and Lee!!  I will have to play catch-up again, since we will be out and about, hopefully on an airboat ride with another company, since our usual place had to cancel on us. I will have photos to share!!

Thanks for stopping by my Hodgepodge today! I appreciate our connection and friendship here! Peace, love & hugs.