This Week's Hodgepodge.....

Thanks to our hostess, Joyce, for posting this week's Hodgepodge!  There won't be one next week because she and her hubs are finally moving into their new home!!  Awesome and exciting! For this week, though, we can carry on with the Q&A and Hodgepodger link up.

Hodgepodge Questions-Volume 285

1. Besides your very own house, describe a place where you feel most 'at home'?  Since my folks are long gone now, I guess my office at work, where I have spent many, many hours over these past almost 20 years.

2. When did you last 'hit a home run' with something? Explain.   Since my annual audit was just presented to the Board of Trustees for approval, I guess I can say this week. The audit went smoothly back in August and they only found one adjustment that needed to be made (and that was actually from last year).  It was passed and there weren't any questions.  Home run!

3. Tell us about something you love in your house or kitchen that is 'homemade'.  A very precious treasure is a plant stand that my dad made when he was a teenager, out of a table leg from an old family table that was being tossed.  It is warped now, and has to have a shim to keep it level, but I wouldn't get rid of it for anything!  It is in our guest bedroom right now.

4. 'A man's home is his castle'...which of the world's ten most captivating castles (according to The Travel Channel) would you most like to visit and why-

Mont Saint-Michel (France), Edinburgh Castle (Scotland), Neuschwanstein Castle (Germany), Glamis Castle (Scotland), Windsor Castle (England), Chateau de Chambord (France), Hampton Court Palace (England), Prague Castle (Prague), St. Michael's Mount (England), Leeds Castle (England), and Swallow's Nest (Ukraine)

Oh my. Visiting an honest-to-goodness castle has always been on my "bucket list".  I've visited some mansions that were almost like castles, but never a REAL castle.  So sign me up for any and all of those listed (especially those in Scotland and Germany).

5. What's a recent or upcoming plan or project that's required you do a little homework before getting started? Did the homework cause you to abandon your plan or adjust it in some way?  I won't be abandoning our move to a smaller home because it is a necessity for us while I am preparing to retire.  I've been doing 'homework' online and we have been visiting 55+ communities here in Lakeland. We are getting closer to contacting a Realtor....

6. In your opinion, is homework an unnecessary evil or a valuable practice?  It was never cumbersome or hard for me.  I think it is valuable in that it teaches discipline.  Should schools be done with homework?  No...  Why or why not?  ...because it teaches discipline.  I think some teachers go overboard with it, though, from what I see going on with some of my co-workers' kids.  It shouldn't take five or six hours to complete.  Family time is too important and there is little enough of that these days. 

7. Share a favorite memory of your childhood hometown.  Oh my goodness, there are too many to even start listing.  Summers were the best in a small Ohio town when your best friend lived across the street.  We had woods to explore, neighborhood ballgames to play, swimming in the lake, boating on the lake, sleeping outside in homemade tents and eating an entire batch of no-bake chocolate cookies, climbing into the treehouse (platform) to read the next Nancy Drew book..... (I know I was blessed.)

8. Insert your own random thought here.  It sure does feel like time if flying faster and faster these days!  Do you feel it?

Thanks (always) for your visit today!  Happy Hump Day!  Peace & hugs.