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Hodgepodge Questions-Volume 287

Welcome to another week of Hodgepodging. I'm sure no one has anything else going on-ha! I'm still unpacking my house and have twelve people coming for Thanksgiving dinner, but other than that it's pretty quiet here. Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday, and even though we're still settling in I'm glad we'll have a full house on Thursday. 

Okay, you know the drill...answer on your own blog then waddle back here to share answers with the universe. 

1. What's something you might say runs in your family?  Arthritis, cancer, obesity, hard headedness, much love, plenty of laughter and so much to be thankful for!

2. I read here a list of ten things you should do before 2017 arrives (in less than six weeks!)...which tasks on the list might you do? What would you add to your own 'before the year ends' list?

visit your Dr. or dentist, deep clean your home, donate unwanted items to charity, look someone in the eye and tell them you love them, write an honest letter to yourself, clean up your inbox-desktop-photos, travel to a place you haven't been, compliment a stranger, watch the sunrise, think ahead to your goals/plans for the new year

I have done quite a few of those already.  I won't be writing myself a letter, and though my photos need to be organized, that won't happen before the end of the year. Travel is out.  My plans for the new year include retirement!! There's that word again!! Ha!

3. What's something other generations (not your own) misunderstand about your generation?  I just read a day or so ago that the millennials blame the baby-boomers for all of the woes in the world.  What they don't know is that we have wide and strong shoulders. Go ahead and blame us, but we are the ones who created vaccines against polio, smallpox, measles, mumps and whooping cough; we invented mobile phones; we brought about the end of communism; how about the internet, Spielberg, the Beatles, Bob Dylan, the Beach Boys, the Bee Gees, the Rolling Stones.  Before baby boomers, if you lived past age 60 you were really old and very lucky - longevity. We still salute the flag and consider ourselves Patriots. Just to name a few things.....

4. Sweet potato casserole, mashed potatoes and gravy, cornbread dressing-which would you miss the most if it weren't on the holiday dinner menu?  Sweet potatoes, I think. They 'say' Thanksgiving to me - with marshmallows on top, of course!

5. What are you over thinking right now?  Maybe what to put on my Christmas list for a few of the more difficult-to-buy-for folks, even though I know they appreciate whatever they get.

6. Your favorite slang word lately?  Can't think of a thing.  How about 'brain fog'!!?

7. Write an acrostic for the word grateful.  

God

Really cares

And gathers us

Together on Thanksgiving to

Eat and share until we are

Full in spirit as well as in body

Ultimately sharing His

Love for us with all who gather in His name.

8.  Insert your own random thought here.  I know that I won't be blogging tomorrow and most likely y'all won't either so I want to wish you (my USA friends) a very happy, safe and blessed Thanksgiving holiday!  I have a feeling we'll be sharing lots of photos on Friday Foto Friends!!   

Sending love, peace & hugs!!  Safe travels if you are out and about!  Be blessed!