Wednesday Hodgepodge - Is Ignorance Bliss?

1. What motivates you to work hard? A deadline.

2. It's been said "Ignorance is bliss"...is it? Probably not...although, sometimes I really prefer not knowing.  But mostly if I try to ignore things, when I finally find out about them, I realize it probably would have been better to have known sooner.

3.Would you rather be stuck on a broken elevator or a broken ski lift? Explain. Have you ever actually been stuck on either? Of the common fears listed here what's your #1- heights-enclosed spaces-snakes-public speaking-the dark-flying I don't think I've ever been stuck for very long in an elevator.  Although, on our last trip to Myrtle Beach one of the elevators kept sending me to the wrong floor.  Rather disconcerting.  Of the items listed in the 2nd half of this question, I'd probably say snakes.

4. What's something you like about the town or city where you live? I think our town is beautiful.  I've lived within 20 minutes or so from my town all my life and I really have no desire to move anywhere else.  However, I think I would really like to move into town close to the downtown area...so I could walk there every day. Here are some of those places I would like to be able to walk to.

5. Life is too short to be angry at someone.  Just forgive (for your own well-being) and get on with life. 

6. Insert your own random thought here. I love both of these murals painted on the outside of a couple of buildings in nearby towns.

Thanks for visiting and I hope you have a great day.

Cathy

Thankful Thursday

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 On Tuesday, Jennifer at Overflowing With Thankfulness wrote a post about the Library in her town and I so loved it, as I am a big fan of Libraries. You  can see her post here. So, today for my Thankful Thursday post, I'd like to show you a couple pictures from my local Library as I am so thankful for it.  I love to read and have loved to read since I was a little girl.  I remember getting to go to this Library when I was little and I remember one in a nearby town that we used to live in and mom taking us kids in the summer.  I would get all these Junior Biographies of historical characters such as:  Molly Pitcher, Clara Barton, Abraham Lincoln, etc.  I just loved reading.  Also, of course, the Little House Books and Trixie Beldon, just so many.  

I believe my mom instilled the love of reading for me and also some teachers who read to us out loud in class and then I'd get the books and read them myself.  And still today, I love to read good, clean fiction and some biographies, too.  Once in awhile I'll even read a mystery, but usually I get to antsy and can hardly wait until the end. I haven't been inside recently due to the you know what, but I'm always getting ebooks from there for my Kindle and also through the Libby app which is connected to my Library card.  I also get audio books to download to my computer and listen to while I'm working.

I went to the Library's website and checked on the history.  In 1903 Andrew Carnegie offered $10,000.00 to Lebanon for a public Library.  And the rest is history that you can read right here.  

I got this picture from the internet at LebanonLibrary.org

So here are a few of my pictures from my library.  

The Library Gazebo Park (this picture and the next 2 also)

This is the fiction section where I spend most of my time (next picture also)

Front entrance (and the next picture)

I am so thankful God gave me a mom who passed on to me her love of reading. 

So what are you thankful for today.

Thanks for visiting and I hope you have a great day.

Cathy