A Racing Hodgepodge #184!!

Happy Hump Day and thanks to Joyce, From This Side of the Pond, for another great Hodgepodge!

Hodgepodge Questions-Volume 184

Here are the questions to this week's Hodgepodge...answer on your own blog, then hop back here tomorrow to link up with the world wide webbers.  See you there!

1. "Summer is like childhood. It's full of warm memories and gone too soon."~Kellie Elmore  Agree or disagree? Share something you loved about the summers of your childhood.  Ah, the freedom of my younger years, for sure. Barefoot and outside playing all day. I had a platform-like tree house in the big maple tree, in our backyard. I would climb up there with a book and be happy for hours. During high school, I worked in the summers, but the jobs weren't that bad and I still had time for the beach and boating with friends. Songs on the jukebox, first loves.....

2. Are you a fan of auto racing-NASCAR, Indy, Stock, Grand Prix, etc? Ever been to a race in person? Any desire to do this?  Do you know a lot about cars? Do you notice particular makes and models when you're out and about?  I am not a NASCAR or racing fan and have never been to a race in person. I do have an uncle who is crazy about it, though. I can change a tire, check the oil, put in washer fluid and know what different sounds mean. My dad made me learn a lot of that before I could take the family car out on my own - bless him.  I notice Land Rovers because I want one (when I win the lottery!). I notice classic cars, and also want a 1956 turquoise t-bird - when I win that lottery! Cars today all look the same. My Kia Sportage is almost a twin to my friend's Lexus SUV. Seriously. How can you tell the difference, unless you know the logo/symbols, and are close enough to see those little things?

3. What's something you think is too serious to be joked about? Or do you think anything and everything is fair game? Jokes about politics are fine - especially when it's not about my party affiliation. Jokes about me are okay, but jokes about other people are usually not funny and border on bullying. I don't like jokes about my religious beliefs (or others' beliefs). I DO like a funny joke, though. Jay Leno-style. No bad words and all in good fun. People who think bad language makes for a funnier joke have it all wrong.

4. July 29th is National Lasagna Day. Are you a fan? Do you have a great recipe, and if so where did it come from? If given a choice would you choose a plate of lasagna or a plate of spaghetti?  I LOVE lasagna and anything Italian. It's the sauce that makes the pasta, and Joe's mom taught me to make good sauce (gravy, at our house). There isn't a recipe - you just have to watch and taste. Given a choice, I would probably take spaghetti. I like to twirl it against a spoon. It just seems more "Italian" to eat spaghetti.

5. What's a simple pleasure you'd miss if it were not a regular part of your life?  Coffee. Ice Cream.

6. If you could be the CEO of any company, which would you choose?  Being the CFO is enough for me. CEO's have way too much responsibility. If you make me choose, it would be a non-profit, not a big for-profit company. I would want to do good in a community by providing a needed service.

7. August is just around the bend...bid farewell to July in exactly seven words.  I'll not miss your heat and humidity. (...but August will be just as bad)


8. Insert your own random thought here. Just having trouble wrapping my head around the fact that it is almost August. That, and our youngest grandson will be a senior in high school this year.  We really need to enjoy life each day, because the days soon turn into years, seemingly over night, and we wonder where the time has gone. Weeks go by, with us waiting on Friday and the weekend, then complaining about Monday mornings....cherish those Mondays!! (Remind me, when I post about dreading Mondays!!) Precious, precious time. 

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