Hodgepodge Time...

It is time to join Joyce and all of her Hodgepodgers for the Wednesday Hodgepodge.  Join in HERE!
Thank you, Joyce, for hosting us!!

Hodgepodge Questions-Volume 377

1. The sweetness of summer...where have you found it recently? If you're in the Southern hemisphere, feel free to tell us about the sweetness you're finding in winter.  I have found sweetness in friendships here in Blogland, and in being able to go to church in person these past four weeks.  We have had hard things to get through and dear friends have helped with cards and prayers and comforting words.  Joe lost his younger brother and I got through knee surgery and physical therapy.  But life is so sweet in spite of sad things and this pandemic. God is so good all the time!!  I find great sweetness in Jesus all year long!

2. Take your sweet time, sweet tooth, home sweet home, short but sweet, the sweet smell of success, sweet talk...choose a sweet idiom and tell us how it fits your life currently?  I will choose a sweet tooth.  I could usually care less about sweets. I am more of a salty and crunchy-aholic but all of Joe's teeth are sweet teeth and I have been eating way too much of the candy he brings into the house.  Not good at all!!

3. Sweet as honey, sweet as sugar, or sweet as pie, which phrase do you use when a sweet phrase is called for? What's the last sweet treat you indulged in?  I don't usually say any of those things but perhaps I have said as sweet as honey once or twice.  I had a mini-snickers bar most recently, compliments of Joe's latest bag of mini candy bars. 

4. The first thing that comes to mind when you hear the word fidget?  Joe!!  Joe is a fidgeter.  He can't sit still for very long, at all.  He has adult attention deficit disorder (diagnosed) and just cannot sit still.  If he has to sit still and can't fidget or move around he will close his eyes and sleep (happens in church!).  I feel so bad for him because his discomfort is real (even when it makes me nuts at times).  Like his doctor told him... it is what it is and there is no medication he can take because of his heart medications.  We just have to cope.

5. Share with us one of your favorite childhood travel memories.  I have written about our summer vacations at the fishing camp in Ontario, Canada but I have not written about our weekend "adventures".  My dad loved to load us in the car and "take a ride" on the weekends.  The rides were always into the country, sometimes on a road that had a little creek flowing over it that made us squeal with delight when he drove through it, and always ended up at Sagar's Dairy for ice cream.  My brother and I loved those rides.  Dad always got black walnut ice cream, Mom always got butter pecan, Randy always got raspberry, and I always got chocolate.  In the summer, we had a pontoon boat (made by my dad in our backyard) on Rocky Fork Lake and spent Saturdays there for picnics and boat rides and fishing.  The aunts and uncles and cousins usually came and we had so much fun.  It really doesn't take much to make lasting memories.

Here is a link to Rocky Fork Lake today.  Of course, we were there 60 years ago!  

Our boat was named "5-Ks" because Tammy wasn't born yet to make us six Ks.

6. Insert your own random thought here.  Thinking about my childhood and my amazing parents just makes me feel so very blessed.  I enjoy "going back" to those days and reflecting on the fact that even though we were not rich and didn't have a magazine-beautiful home, we had love and everything we needed.  Dad worked hard and later Mom worked too to make sure we had food and clothing and a safe place to live.  I wish I could tell them today how much those days meant to me and all of us.  How much I appreciate them and what we had.  We lost them much too soon (dad 63 and mom 65), both to cancer.  They should have had so many more years to enjoy retirement and their grandchildren.  They laid the foundation that made us who we are today and that foundation is strong!! Blessed!!

Thanks for visiting today!  

Peace & hugs!  God bless!!