Hodgepodge Time!!

Wednesdays are always fun when we have Hodgepodge link-ups!  Joyce gives us the questions, we give our answers and link up over on her blog with all the other Hodgepodgers!!  Join the fun by simply clicking HERE!!

Hodgepodge Questions-volume 261

1. What are two or three expectations you have of yourself?  I have very few (if any) expectations for myself any more.  I expect to be retiring by this time next year!! :)

2. In what way does your outdoor space need sprucing up this spring?  If you could see our pathetic yard!! I loathe outside work. I am not a garden/flower person AT ALL.  Right now we have a yard full of live oak leaves and pollen droppings. We don't rake. Sometimes we take the blower out and blow the leaves around, but within an hour the leaves are everywhere.  Live Oak trees drop leaves in the fall and spring (all year long, actually, but twice it is really heavy). The old leaves fall as the new leaves push them off. The trees are never bare. They are dirty too. In the fall, the acorns fall and in the spring it's the wormy pollen strings. SO-our yard looks terrible most of the time.  Joe can't do it anymore and I refuse.  We have a lawn service to mow and trim. The leaves just have to mulch in. They never stop.

3. According to this site (Roadtrippers), six of North America's most wondrous waterfalls are-Webster's Falls in Ontario, Upper Whitewater Falls in North Carolina,Havasu Falls in the Grand Canyon, Multnomah Falls in Oregon, The Lower Yellowstone Falls, and Niagara. Have you seen any on the list?  Niagara.  Which one on the list would you most like to visit?  Don't care.  Prettiest waterfall not on the list that you've seen in person?  I am not a hiker.  The only one I've seen in person (five times, on the way to Canada) is Niagara.  I think waterfalls are lovely, but I don't seek them out.

4. Looking back, what's something you wish you'd done as a teenager?  Can't think of a thing.

5. Ham...yes please or no thank you? Yes please.   If you said yes please which of the following do you like best-baked ham with all the trimmings, a ham and cheese sandwich, prosciutto with melon, a ham biscuit, a bowl of split pea and ham soup, or a slice of pizza topped with ham and pineapple?  All but the pizza topped with ham and pineapple.  Have had all the others and love everything but that.  

6. Are you typical of your generation?  Probably not.  How so?  I grew up in the 60s but didn't do drugs or smoke cigarettes or drink alcohol and kept my virginity intact!  LOL  Not typical of the decade but typical of being a first-born who followed the rules and took "setting an example" seriously (too seriously, perhaps!!).

7. April rolls in at the end of the week, and in keeping with that theme...'act the fool', 'nobody's fool', 'a fool's errand', 'could have fooled me'...which foolish idiom most recently applies to you?  Probably nobody's fool.  Explain.  I've been fooled before, but not often; I've been on a fool's errand a few times, but again not often; I rarely act the fool;  that leaves nobody's fool...I misread people and/or situations now and then but not so often anymore.  

8.  Insert your own random thought here.  Never random, but... Melanie (Lanie) posted yesterday, on Facebook, that she came through the brain surgery okay. I haven't heard more than that, but take it as a good sign that she got online!!  Prayers continue because this is just the first step to get her cancer-free.   No word from Joe's doctor yet, other than waiting on the insurance company.  Maybe we'll hear something this week.  Thankfully, he is doing okay with his BP and heart rate.

Thanks for your visit today!  Thanks to Joyce for another fun Hodgepodge!  Peace & hugs.