Wednesday Hodgepodge

1. Is a picture worth a thousand words? Elaborate.
Look at this sweet face and you tell me!  How can anyone be that sweet and happy first thing in the morning.

2. Have you ever driven any part of the Pacific Coast Highway?   If so what was your favorite stop? If not, is this sort of trip on your bucket list?
Never been there, but would surely like to see it.

3. How do the changing seasons affect you? As the seasons change do you find yourself looking more forward or backward? Which season-season transition bothers you most? Why do you suppose that is? 
I enjoy the changing seasons.  There is something to look forward to in each one.  Probably the one I like the least is winter because I do not like the ice and snow.  Actually I don't mind the snow, unless I have to go out and as long as I keep working I have to go out.  So there you go.

4. It's your birthday and you get to pick the dinner menu. What are we having? Do you ever lie about your age?
Anywhere I don't have to cook and clean-up.  This year it was Red Lobster and I had crab legs.  No, I don't lie about my age, maybe my weight, but not my age.

5. What's a life lesson you've learned recently?
"Not my monkeys, not my circus" is one of my new favorite sayings.  It reminds me not to stick my nose in where it doesn't belong.  Definitely makes for a more peaceful life.

6.  Insert your own random thought here.
Skyping with this guy is getting to be so fun.  He recognizes us now and it's so awesome.

Happy Birthday to his mama today too!!!!

Five Minute Friday and Friday Foto Friends

Five Minute Friday is where we are given a prompt and we write for five minutes with no need to edit and then we link up here and share our post and read and comment on other people's' posts.


The prompt this week is:  Work

Go:

Work - a job or place of employment.  I have had the same employer for the past 41 years.  However, my work has not always been the same. I worked as a dispatcher for many of those years and then a records clerk and now an administrative assistant. At times the work has been stressful (especially as a dispatcher), but it's been a good job and I'm thankful for it.

Stop


“Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters,”
‭‭Colossians‬ ‭3:23‬ ‭NIV‬‬

Linking up with Friday Foto Friends.  Click here to join in.

Statue of Liberty in our neighborhood

Beautiful skies while out walking Thursday evening

Love these in a neighbor's yard

More cool skies

The last of my tomatoes - waiting for them to ripen now

Cathy

Thankful Thursday

Once again, I am very late.  But not only am I late, I am also thankful, so I'm going to link up anyway.  Just finished my evening walk with the puppy.  Now I'm pooped and I hope she is too.  lol
So here are some things I'm thankful for this week:

 - My friend Neide on FB that has challenged us to write down 12 things a day to be thankful for from Sept. 1 to Thanksgiving.  We should have about 1000 by then.  Also she is post on FB each day where we can write down 2-3 things a day to work towards 1000 as a group.

 - I'm listening to A.D.33 by Ted Dekker at work.  Man! it is so good!!  I definitely recommend this book.  Plus I love listening to books.  I've got 2 more to listen to and some others I'm waiting to become available.

 - Skyping with Kerri and Colton.  So much fun.  He's actually recognizing us on Skype since we visited last week.

 - My stainless steel glass.  It keeps my ice all day and my water is so very cold.

 - Lucy woke me up the last two nights wanting to go out.  While I'm not so thrilled to be awakened, the moon has been so bright and beautiful both nights.  So I'm thankful to get to see it.

 - A Sunday afternoon nap.  One of my most favorite things.

That's a few things I'm thankful for this week.  How about you?  Click here to link up.

Cathy

Wednesday Hodgepodge

It's Wednesday so that must mean it's time for the Wednesday Hodgepodge  If you'd like to play along after reading here, just answer the questions on your blog and then click on the button above to go visit Joyce and link up there.  You will love meeting all the nice people that participate in the Hodgepodge.

 1. When you think about your future what do you fear most? Hope for the most?
Will I know when it's the right time to retire.  That we'll have many years to enjoy retirement and have good health during those years

2. September is National Chicken Month. How often is chicken on the menu at your house? What's a favorite dish made with chicken? What's something you're a 'chicken' about doing or trying?
Not often at the house, but quite often when we eat out and I eat it for lunch at work quite often too.  Most favorite is chicken and dumplings.  But I really love chicken fixed most any way.  I'm chicken about speaking in front of people.

3. What are three things you don't own but wish you did?
I'm pretty content with what I have.  But maybe a winter home on the beach.  Can't think of much else.

4. Would you rather be a jack of all trades or a master of one? Elaborate.  If you answered one, which one?
Jack of all trades because I think that would make you a more rounded person.  But if I could master one thing, I would want it to be playing the piano.

5. Ketchup or mustard? On what?
Ketchup - love it on hotdogs and hamburgers

6.  Insert your own random thought here.
I love my grandson so much.
 

Friday Foto Friends

I'm participating in Friday Foto Friends and if you'd like to also, just click here to link up.

Hubby and I visited with our daughter and grandson this week.  If you want to see pictures of them, you can check out yesterday's Thankful Thursday post.  I thought I'd post a few pictures of some things hubby and I enjoyed while we were there.

We saw this old church up near Lake Michigan in Indiana

We got Subway sandwiches and ate lunch by Lake Michigan in one of the National Parks.  It was so beautiful out that day.

 

 

We took a drive over to Illinois and came upon a section of the Historic Route 66 and I grabbed a couple pictures of some of the iconic Route 66 stuff.  Like this Sinclair Gas Station Dinosaur

I loved this guy at the Launching Pad Cafe.  Unfortunately the Cafe is closed down.

President Lincoln

While in Illinois we visited the Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery.  It was absolutely beautiful and so big.

There were section after section of graves for our military and their family.  Such a sobering thing to see.  So sad that so many have given their lives for our freedom.  I am so thankful for each one.