Hodgepodge Questions-Volume 343
Joyce has given us a Hodgepodge of questions to answer today and then hosts a link-up on her blog From This Side of the Pond. Visit Joyce and all the other Hodgepodgers HERE! Thank you, Joyce!
1. Are you currently operating at 100% capacity? If not, what % are you? What's keeping you there? I am operating at 100% retirement capacity! LOL! What keeps me there is all the fun we are having, oh, and not having to rise at 5:00 a.m.
2. Have you done your taxes? Joe did them. Planned/booked a summer holiday? Planned and booked a long weekend at the beach with family. Thought about or started your 'spring cleaning'? Nope. Besides what's listed here, tell us one task that needs doing before spring rolls around. I need to purge my closet of work clothes I won’t wear anymore. Soon.
3. What's a favorite food from your part of the country? Fresh seafood.
4. This isn't a leap year, but let's run with it anyway...look before you leap, a leap of faith, grow by leaps and bounds, leap to conclusions, leap at the opportunity...which phrase might best be applied to your life currently (or recently)? Gosh, none of those really applies. I’ll pick ‘leap at the opportunity’. Explain. We are always ready for a new adventure or get-together with friends and neighbors.
5. As the month draws to a close list five fun and/or fabulous things (large or small) you noticed or experienced in February.
1) A visit from my BFF Karen and her hubby Lee!!
2) The EAGLES won the Super Bowl!!
3) We had a fun trip to Mazzaro’s Italian Market with neighbors!
4) We celebrated our first anniversary in our new home!
5) We got to meet blogging friend Barb and her Beloved!! Lovely, genuine, dear people, and again it felt like we had known each other for years (and we have!!)! Visit Barb at Sweet Tea & Sandals – click HERE!
6. Insert your own random thought here. Just another word or two about our blogging circle here. I feel so blessed to have met so many of you in person and hope to continue meeting more of you!! It really does feel like we have known each other for years. This platform allows us to share our lives (ups and downs), our faith and our prayer concerns so that when we do meet in person, the friendship is already solid. It’s hard to describe until it happens. Blogger provides a real community for us. It really is a blessing!
Thanks for your visit! Thanks to Joyce for this week’s questions. Next week we will be on our own on Wednesday, but she will be back just before St. Paddy’s Day. Peace & hugs!
Random thoughts:
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I bought a book online entitled “How to get your own back on your neighbor”. Unfortunately I was out when it was delivered and the postman left the book next door.
I always plant my herbs in alphabetical order. People ask me where I find the thyme. It’s there next to the sage.
Once when I was travelling it took me ages to get out of my hotel room. I had put the “DO NOT DISTURB” notice on the wrong side of the door by mistake.
I haven’t heard from my friend since he became a mime artist.
God bless.
Good giggles this morning, Victor!
DeleteI agree Terri, we do all feel as if we know each other personally. It is a blessing.
ReplyDeletePraying for your swift healing, Arlene.
DeleteWonderful post! It was interesting to meet face-to-face yesterday for the first time when we already knew each other so well! I guess that's a new dynamic of social media! I am so glad we are friends!
ReplyDeleteI feel so blessed, Barb! Loved meeting you both. Joe enjoyed it too!
DeleteIs it seriously a year since you've moved? I feel like that was a few weeks ago!!!
ReplyDeleteCrazy how fast the time goes!
DeleteGirl you are having way tooooooo much fun in retirement. 100% active and ready to go. Got your taxes done. It has been a year since you moved and retired? I enjoyed your answers. Love, sandie
ReplyDeleteSandie, I am so happy that you are back on Blogger!! It's great seeing your here again! Love you too!
DeleteYou and Joe are such wonderful, sociable, friendly and happy people! And I know that God is at the center there, which accounts for much of that. I am so happy that you are STILL so happy with retirement. It's just fun to read about it. xo
ReplyDeleteWe feel so blessed!!
DeleteI've had the privilege to meet one of my blogging friends in person - such a joy! Maybe we, too, will meet at some point, Terri.
ReplyDeleteBlessings!
That would be GREAT!!
DeleteWas a great month for us, too, especially because of our meeting up with our you guys, our dear and good friends. Mwah
ReplyDeleteMwah, mwah, mwah back to you (and more!)!!
DeleteWow, you had an exciting February! Now, that's the way to enjoy retirement :)
ReplyDeleteSo glad you got to meet another blogging buddy. Don't give up on me. We'll be visiting St. Simon's Island, off and on, every summer, for as long as we're able to get there :)
Kathy (Reflections)
We will do it this summer! Top priority!
DeleteI forgot all about mentioning the Super Bowl! Actually February was pretty nice all the way around, which is not always the case with that particular month. March can go either way, depending on the weather. So glad you're loving retirement!
ReplyDeleteFebruary can certainly be a dull month, but not this one!
DeleteTeri, your February was much more exciting than mine. You are certainly squeezing all the goodness out of your retirement. So happy for you.
ReplyDeleteIt has been busy! Hoping for a less hectic March!! LOL
DeleteTaxes! How much longer do we have??
ReplyDeleteFebruary 28...ok, ok...whew! :-)
You can always file an extension!! LOL
Deleteloved your answers! wow can't believe that I forgot the super bowl
ReplyDeletethankfully the only taxes right now that have to be paid are property taxes as I am unemployed at this time
We DVRd the game and watched it again, twice, before Joe finally deleted it! LOL
DeleteI totally agree with your random thought! I never thought friendships would be a part of blogging but it is and it's turned out to be the best part. :) So glad you and Joe are having such a wonderful time!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Pam! I am so happy we got to meet in person and I hope we can revisit one of these days!! I would love to meet those little ones in person too!! :)
DeleteIt's wonderful to be retired and enjoying all that life has to offer! I love my life and I'm still learning new things along the way too. Aren't we having the BEST weather? Enjoy your evening!
ReplyDeleteIndeed we are!! We need to plan an in-person meet one of these day!
DeleteBetty, over three different blogging platforms, I have been blogging since 2007 and have had the same experience of friends dropping out of blogging but are still connected on Facebook. Thanks for visiting me today. I will hop over and visit your post!!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the reminder, I need to get my taxes done!!! you've had a busy month, but it sounds very happy! I love that you are enjoying your retirement so much! I also love that you initiate meeting your blogging friends...I feel so honored to be on that happy list of people! I do hope we can get together again. Just not sure when it will be. Retirement has a way of filling up the days really fast!! Blessings to you dear friend. You make me smile.
ReplyDeletePam, we will get together again for sure! Perhaps with Barb and Tom at a place easy for us all to find! How fun would that be!?
DeleteHonestly, I'm concerned (once I retire) I won't be able to sleep much past 4. Old habits!
ReplyDeleteLoving your 'random thought'! So very true! If anyone had suggested friendships I hold most dear -- but haven't met -- well, I'd probably think they were nuts. (Should have written "haven't met ... yet"!) I've no personal experience, but I think this probably applies to on-line dating, as well.
Myra, my internal clock kept 'going off' at 5:00 for a few weeks, but I was able to hush it and go back to sleep. Now my clock seems to have reset for 7:30ish. Much better! LOL Looking forward to meeting you in person one of these days!! :)
DeleteOur blogging friends are really such a blessing! I'm glad you've been able to meet so many.
ReplyDeleteI think you are going at 150% in retirement - you and Joe stay very busy!
We have been too busy these past few days. Looking forward to a few coming up with nothing scheduled actually!
DeleteI had to laugh at your comment about purging your closet of work clothes you'll never wear. When I quit teaching music to become Austin's nanny, I had so many "concert" dresses I just couldn't bear to get rid of. But as the years go by they are easier and easier to part with. I've kept a few. One in particular I wear every Christmas, and this past year it was ten years old and still looked great.
ReplyDeleteI so agree that Blogger has brought me amazingly close friendships. It really is wonderful.
I'd be lost without the blogging community. Yes those work clothes need to go! lol
ReplyDeleteThe blogging community is filled with many remarkable people. I have been richly blessed by my interaction with citizens of the blogosphere. I am so happy that you are enjoying your retirement. Thanks for your list to my site. See you in two weeks.
ReplyDeleteEnjoyed your answers. I'm trying so very hard to be a more consistent blogger so I can enjoy that sense of community you spoke of.
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