A Halloween Wednesday Medley...

Happy Wednesday and Happy Halloween!  If you would like to join in on today's Medley, just copy the questions to your blog and link up below so we can visit you!!

It is all about Halloween!


1. You’re in a horror movie. Are you the final person left, the first to die, the comic relief, the skeptic, the smart one, or the killer?  I would like to believe that I would be the smart one! 


2. While watching scary movies, are you the person who yells at the characters, the person with their eyes covered the whole time or the person who falls asleep?  I yell at the characters. Just ask Joe. It doesn't have to be a scary movie, just one that has a character who is stupid! LOL


3. If you were dared to spend the night in a “haunted house”, would you do it?  Yep. No problem.


4. Favorite horror monster or villain?  I have always felt bad for Frankenstein's monster.  None of it was his fault. 


5. Favorite horror or Halloween-themed song?  Monster Mash, of course!!

6. Tell us something random about your week.  I had lunch with my friend Shirley yesterday and in the afternoon we met with our insurance agent about next year's Medicare plans. Always fun. (not)  How has your week been?

Last week's linky didn't work for us, but I hope this one does!

Thanks for your visit today!!  

Peace & hugs!  God bless!!

Halloween Wednesday Medley Questions...

Here is a medley of questions you may choose to answer on your Wednesday blog.  There aren't any rules and there is no obligation. Link up if you want to.   I'm doing this to fill my Wednesday (since we lost the Hodgepodge) and if you are interested, then join in!!  It might be fun!!  

It is all about Halloween!


1. You’re in a horror movie. Are you the final person left, the first to die, the comic relief, the skeptic, the smart one, or the killer?


2. While watching scary movies, are you the person who yells at the characters, the person with their eyes covered the whole time or the person who falls asleep?


3. If you were dared to spend the night in a “haunted house”, would you do it?


4. Favorite horror monster or villain?


5. Favorite horror or Halloween-themed song?


6. Tell us something random about your week.

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I have another Linky to try tomorrow. Hopefully, this one will work for us!!

Peace & Hugs!! God Bless!!

Weekend Recap on Monday...

Well, I am backing all the way to Tuesday to just mention our trip to Mazzaro's Italian Market with our across-the-street neighbors. We had so much fun!!

Wednesday was our farm day (Joe's client) and I took a photo of one of their goats, a Sandhill Crane family, and (of course) one of the cows that watched as we drove by on the lane.

Anglo-Nubian Goat (a British breed) with long floppy ears.

On Thursday, we went on a tour of Circle B Bar Reserve with a group from Mas Verde.  It was informative and rather dull because there weren't many birds or animals to see, but I absolutely love our live oak trees and the Spanish moss that hangs from the branches. The blue sky peeking between the branches is always beautiful to me... and a little spooky!!

On Friday, I took Helen to her hair appointment, we had lunch (my treat) at Honeybaked Ham, and then she came home with me for a visit before we had to leave for her doctor's appointment. I dropped her off at home afterward.  Friday evening, Joe and I went to the Clubhouse to play Nickels. We had two tables! Lots of our northern residents are back now. It is fun seeing them again!

Saturday was a sleep-in day! Felt good to be lazy.  When I got moving, I got the laundry started and then baked some pumpkin bread (mom's recipe).

Yesterday we also slept later, got up and had a lazy breakfast with coffee and the Sunday newspaper. We had a gift card and a $10.00 off coupon for Bone Fish Grill so we went there for a late lunch/early supper at 3:00.  That's a good time to get in to eat here in Lakeland. The after-church crowd is done and the dinner crowds haven't arrived yet.

We always love the Bang Bang Shrimp appetizer but the last few times we went there, we have not been happy with our entrees.  I think we will give BFG a rest.  As an aside... do you remember when restaurants started serving bread with olive oil and herbs instead of butter?  I used to think it was awful, but now I just love it.  Your thoughts?

Our Canadian neighbors have arrived!!  They were there when we got back from Bone Fish and a quick trip to Publix. So good to see them!  We took some pumpkin bread over to them and welcomed them back.  We got hugs and smiles and will get a longer visit soon. They have to get the house back in order, which takes a couple of days.  We are so blessed!!

There is nothing on the calendar for today (so far).  It is so nice to not set an alarm clock!!

Thanks for stopping by!! Wishing you a good week ahead!

Peace & hugs!! God bless!!

Sleepy Rambles Sunday Stealing...

Sleepy Rambles

Hi! I'm your host Bev Sykes of the blog "Funny the World". . Welcome to Sunday Stealing. This feature originated and published on WTIT: The Blog. Here we will steal all types of questions from every corner of the blogosphere. Our promise to you is that we will work hard to find the most interesting and intelligent questions. (Past hosts include: Our first - Judd Corizan, Mr. L, Kwizgiver and Bud)  Cheers to all of us thieves!

This is stolen from Sleepy Rambles.

  

1. What is on your mind right now?  That it finally feels rather fall-like here!
 
2. Do you know anyone who has attended Harvard University?  No.

3. How many books are in the room you’re in?  There are a dozen or so "art books" on the shelf under one of the end tables here in the living room.  Several dozen more on the bookshelf in the front guest bedroom.
 
4. Do you save at least 15 percent of your income?  No.  We are retired.  If you are young... do this, for sure!
 
5. When was the last time you had a rainy day spent at home?  We don't usually get rainy days.  We get rain in the afternoons during the summer that lasts 20 minutes or so and then is gone.  But I did not leave the house today, other than to go get the mail.

6. When was the last time you stayed home from school/work?  Every day!! Smiling! Retirement is great!

7. Do you write “yes” or “no” answers to surveys or do you explain more?  I typically don't answer surveys. 

8. Is there any type of medicine you can’t take?  No.  For what reason? N/A

9. Do you have a favorite pair of pajamas?  Yes.  What do they look like?  Black sleep shorts and a gray t-shirt with cats on the front.
 
10. Would you rather have potato or chicken noodle soup if you had to?  I like them both equally.

11. Do you believe that when a person appears in your dreams, that person wants to see you?  I've never given it any thought since I rarely remember my dreams.

12. When’s the last time you saw your mom?  December 1995.  She died of cancer at age 65.  I still miss her!
 
13. What is one food you could eat for a month, straight, and not get sick of?  Pasta!

14. Have you ever spray painted something about your love somewhere?  No.
 
15. Do you live in a town where basically everyone knows everyone else?  No, not really, but we rarely go out for long without running into someone we know here in the south end of town.  We have lived here for nearly 30 years.  The town I grew up in is a different story. Everyone knew/knows everyone else. There are less than 1,200 people living in my hometown.

Thanks to Bev Sykes for today's questions!  Join in HERE!

Thanks for checking in today!  Wishing you a blessed Sunday!!

Peace & hugs!  God bless!!

Alfred Hitchcock Saturday 9...

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Welcome to Saturday: 9. What we've committed to our readers is that we will post 9 questions every Saturday. Sometimes the post will have a theme, and at other times the questions will be totally unrelated. Those weeks we do "random questions," so-to-speak. We encourage you to visit other participants posts and leave a comment. Because we don't have any rules, it is your choice. We hate rules. We love memes, however, and here is today's meme!

Saturday 9: "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" Theme

This week's song was chosen because this is the last Saturday 9 before Halloween. Are you unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it here.


1) The Master of Suspense, Alfred Hitchcock, was born in England. Name another pop culture contribution England has made.  So many! How about The Beatles.

2) This week's song is recognized as the theme to Hitchcock's long-running TV show, but "Funeral March for a Marionette" is a classic piece written for piano in the late 1870s by Charles Gounod. Do you often listen to classical music?  No, rarely now though I did listen to it at my desk at work when things were getting stressful.  It can be calming.

3) Janet Leigh's shower scene in  Hitchcock's Psycho is considered one of the scariest sequences ever filmed. What's the most frightening movie you've ever seen?  Psycho is a good one, that's for sure!

4) Hitchcock admitted that he "never trusted birds," and he took that fear and turned it into the movie, The Birds. Is there a member of the animal kingdom that just gives you "the creeps?"  I haven't met an animal yet that gave me the creeps. 

5) Halloween will soon be upon us. Will you carve a jack o'lantern this year?  Nope.

6) What candy will trick or treaters get at your house?  Zip, zilch, nada...

7)  When you went trick or treating, did you prefer fantasy costumes (like a storybook character) or scary ones (like a monster)?  You know, I don't even remember a costume I wore when I was little and there aren't any pictures.

8)  Which candy was your favorite?  Anything chocolate and I loved Bit o' Honey too.   Which one were you disappointed to find in your trick or treat bag?  I didn't like getting bubble gum or plain apples.  Candy apples were okay and popcorn balls were yummy too. Back then (like 100 years ago) people didn't try to poison or hurt little kids.

9) Which do you find scarier -- cemeteries or haunted houses?  Haunted houses, I guess.  I don't find either very scary.

 

Thanks to Crazy Sam for this week's Saturday 9!!  

You can join in HERE!

Thanks for stopping by today!  Peace & hugs!  God bless!

Friday Foto Friends Link-up...

Debbie, at Breathing In Grace, hosts Friday Foto Friends so we can share photos from our week with others who do the same.  You can find Deb HERE!!  (Can you tell she might like owls?)

Yesterday, Joe and I went on a tour with a tram full of folks from our community here at Mas Verde.  We met at Circle B Bar Preserve at 9:15 and climbed aboard for a tram tour of the 1300 acres of nature preserve!

They have four paid positions and over 190 volunteers.  Our driver and tour guide were both volunteers who love nature and did a great job for us!  Unfortunately, this is really the wrong time of year to see much wildlife activity.  The birds we saw are ones we see everywhere here in Florida. The migrating birds haven't arrived yet. The alligators are not active right now, though we did see a small one in one of the swampy areas.  We saw four wild hogs but they were too fast to get a photo.  Anyway, it was a nice couple of hours and it did make me want to return after the first of the year when things might be more interesting.  I wish my knees worked better so I could walk a couple of the trails, which would be the best way to see it.

Here are a few of the photos I took along the way...

The woman was our driver and the man was our tour guide.

A selfie and looking at the trail behind us.

The trails were marked clearly.

We did see an Eagle's nest in the trees. Our guide told us

that it is estimated to weigh 800 pounds! Wow!

I took a picture, but you can't see the nest. It was too far away for my camera.

It was a beautiful day, and not too hot. There were about 20 of us.

Butterflies!

There were so many oak trees with Spanish moss hanging and blue sky 

showing between the limbs.

Joe was lulled to sleep for much of the journey.

It was not very exciting! LOL (Yes, I showed him the photo.)

The sign at the entrance/exit.  Here is the website, if you are interested.

Circle B Bar Reserve

I am driving Helen to her hair appointment this morning, and then to a doctor's appointment this afternoon.  We will play Nickels tonight with our friends at the Clubhouse.  So far, the weekend will be quiet, though our Canadian neighbors, Jill and Murray, are due back Saturday or Sunday!  We are so blessed with such good neighbors!

Thanks for stopping by today!  Have a great Friday and weekend ahead!

Peace & hugs!!  God bless!!

Thankful Thursday with Rebecca Jo...

I am linking up with Rebecca Jo at Knit By God's Hand for her Thankful Thursday link-up.  You can find her HERE to join in!  Thanks, Rebecca Jo!!

** We are so blessed and thankful to have such good neighbors here in our community!  We had a great time on Tuesday with Anne & Paul at Mazzaro's Italian Market! Paul drove so we treated for lunch. Win-win!!  (They live across the street from us!)

**  Today, Joe and I are on a tour with more friends from Mas Verde. I'll have lots of pictures to share, I'm sure! Thankful for opportunities for fellowship!

**  I am thankful that we are able to continue helping Cheryl and Helen. We brought them over for dinner with us last night. Helen loves ham and bean soup, so that's what I made, with cornbread, a salad, and store-bought pie and ice cream for dessert.  Cheryl will be allowed to drive November 1st and will go back to work the week after Thanksgiving. We have one more week to help them get around.  She has recovered so well! Your prayers have been much appreciated!

**  Have I mentioned Joe in my Thankful Thursday posts lately?  I am so blessed and thankful to have this man in my life!!

**  I am so happy that Thanksgiving is coming!! I LOVE cooking Thanksgiving dinner. They have a big celebration up at our Clubhouse, but I just can't miss roasting a big turkey and preparing all the traditional fixin's.  Not sure how many folks we will have around the table.  Missing our son Joe and DIL Darlene.  Hoping Darlene can come down anyway (hint, Darlene!).  Would love that!  (Joey is in Kuwait until March.)

(Last year's spread.)

What are you thankful for today?  Thanks for checking in!! 

Peace & hugs!!

Wednesday Medley...

On this day theme...


1.  On this day in 1908, Billy Murray hits the charts with his “Take Me Out to The Ball Game”.  Did you watch the MLB playoffs, and are you watching the World Series?

The playoffs were on, but I can't say that I watched much. Yes, "we" are also watching the World Series.  I think Joe wants the Red Sox to win. They have two players from Lakeland, including the pitcher, Chris Sale.

2.  On this day in 1962, “The Manchurian Candidate”, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Frank Sinatra and Laurence Harvey, was released.  What is your favorite Frank Sinatra song? 

I like most Frank Sinatra songs and we even listen to the Frank Sinatra station on Sirius Radio.  How about this one...

3.  On this day in 1968, Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithful were busted for pot and released on £50 bail.  Has your state approved the sale of medical marijuana?  In a nutshell, what are your thoughts on the subject?

Florida has approved the sale of medical marijuana and the first stores are due to open in Lakeland soon.  I think medical marijuana is okay. It's been around a long time without too much hoopla.  It is not hallucinogenic or addictive (so I've heard/read).  I have no experience with it and don't know anyone who has been prescribed yet.  If it helps with pain and is monitored by your doctor, why not?

4.  On this day in 1979, the Guinness Book of Records presented Paul McCartney with a rhodium disc as the all-time best-selling singer-songwriter. What is your favorite song by Paul McCartney?

I've never been a Beatles fan but do like Sir Paul.  John Lennon was my favorite (but not Yoko).  A favorite McCartney song would be...

5.  On this day in 2017, Albert Einstein’s “Theory of Happiness” written on a note as a tip for a bellboy in 1922, sold for $1.6 million.  His Theory of Happiness is: “A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness.”   Was Einstein right?

Sure wish I was in possession of that scrap of paper!! Wow!  I think I agree that a calm and modest life brings more happiness than a life spent pursuing something that makes you constantly anxious and restless.

6.  Tell us something random about your week so far...

This week has been busier so far than last week.  I took Cheryl to a doctor's appointment on Monday and on Tuesday our across-the-street neighbors wanted us to go over to Mazzaro's Italian Market with them. Always lots of fun! Of course, we are at the farm (Joe's client) this morning.  How is your week going so far?

I hope the linky below works for us!!  Thanks for checking in!  Peace & hugs!!

The Wednesday Medley Questions for 10/24/18...

Here is a medley of questions to answer on your Wednesday blog.  There aren't any rules and there is no obligation. I'm doing this to fill my Wednesday and if you are interested, then join in!!  It might be fun!!  A few people asked, so I am trying a new linky that will show in my post tomorrow.  

On this day theme...


1.  On this day in 1908, Billy Murray hits the charts with his “Take Me Out to The Ball Game”.  Did you watch the MLB playoffs, and are you watching the World Series?

2.  On this day in 1962, “The Manchurian Candidate”, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Frank Sinatra and Laurence Harvey, was released.  What is your favorite Frank Sinatra song? 

3.  On this day in 1968, Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithful were busted for pot and released on £50 bail.  Has your state approved the sale of medical marijuana?  In a nutshell, what are your thoughts on the subject?

4.  On this day in 1979, the Guinness Book of Records presented Paul McCartney with a rhodium disc as the all-time best-selling singer-songwriter. What is your favorite song by Paul McCartney?

5.  On this day in 2017, Albert Einstein’s “Theory of Happiness” written on a note as a tip for a bellboy in 1922, sold for $1.6 million.  His Theory of Happiness is: “A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness.”   Was Einstein right?

6.  Tell us something random about your week so far…

My Weekend Recap on Monday...

Another weekend has flown by!  Ours wasn't too busy but it still flew by.

On Thursday, we had Bible study.  A few people were off on a tour so there was only one table of us, but it was still interesting and uplifting.  This week, there is another tour and Joe and I will be touring the Circle B Bar Preserve with a group, so will miss Bible Study.

On Friday, we went to the farm (Joe's client).  They couldn't have us on Wednesday because their house was tented and fumigated for termites.  It was interesting for me because the Ferrier was there to give the horses all a pedicure.  The woman who boards a couple of horses there was helping and so was her daughter.

The Ferrier...

This is Vanna and her baby, Hope. I don't get photos of them very often.

So much energy... running all the horses back and forth

for the Ferrier.

There were cattle on the lane as we traveled to the house.

The guineas were busy blocking my usual parking space. LOL

 More guineas!

My favorite 'boys' got apples and carrots from me!

Friday night, Joe and I went to the Clubhouse to play Nickels and there were two tables of us!! Lots of the northerners are back.  We had a jovial group and had lots of fun!!

Saturday was laundry day.  Helen and Cheryl communicated that they were fine and didn't need us to run any errands for them.  Cheryl's friends have been taking her places, I guess. I take her to a doctor appointment this morning and another friend is taking her to see her surgeon tomorrow.  Hoping he gives her the okay to drive.  Helen's blood pressure has been up and down, but never so high that we feel she needs the ER again.

I took a few photos of our sweet cats...

Lucy... our Diva Lucia Sophia Maria

Our shy Lilly....

 

.... and more of Lilly

And our bad boy Vinny.

Yesterday (Sunday) Joe and I took our time over breakfast and coffee with the Sunday paper.  I put on a pot of chili to eat during the day (and we did).  After his Eagles were defeated we decided to take a little ride downtown. I took some photos to share...

Lake Morton is home to our protected waterfowl and

the First United Methodist Church, where there is a 

pumpkin patch every year at this time.

 

Lake Morton gets lots of traffic and most people

bring food for the birds.

This home faces Lake Morton and is home to a local

attorney and his family.  So pretty.

This is a United Methodist Church in a historic building

and nestled in a charming historic community between

Lakes Morton and Hollingsworth.

Lake Hollingsworth is known as 'the walking lake'.  If you

walk or run all the way around, it is just under three miles

or 5k.  There are walkers and runners around the lake at

all times of each day and even into the nights.

Back at our house, I laughingly tell people we have a 'water view'

from our house.  This was taken out of the kitchen window,

looking toward a very classy community with a fountain and

a "lake" which is really a retention pond.  But it IS our back view! LOL

And this was our view last night from our carport. 

The weather was beautiful. No humidity and low 80s.

There was a soft breeze and Joe and I both enjoyed sitting

out there for an hour or so.  Sharon popped out and visited

with us for awhile and several people walked or rode by with a wave.

Lots of pictures! Thanks for getting this far and for visiting today!! Wishing you a good week ahead!

Peace & hugs!!