WEDNESDAY MEDLEY

Hello, friends.  Happy Wednesday.  Today I decided to join in with Terri from "Your Friend From Florida" and give you a Wednesday medley.  Hope you enjoy.

Today is National Siblings Day.  Let's celebrate.

1.  Stealing the questions from the National Day Calendar:  How many siblings do you have? I have nine siblings:  Six brothers and three sisters.  Are you rivals or do you support each other in all you do?  We are certainly not rivals in any way.  We are all different and all support each other in our interests.

2.  Have you heard of the Birth Order Book?  Yes, I have.  What are your thoughts on the premise that your birth order affects everything you do in life? I don't think it affects everything you do, but I think it certainly has an impact on your outlook on things.

3.  Is there something that you still do that drives your siblings crazy?  Not that I know of.  Maybe I should ask them.

4.  Are you closer to your siblings now than you were when you were younger?  Not really.  When we were little and all together we were in each other's lives.  Now we are scattered across the country and living our own lives.

5.  Would you dare to tell us an embarrassing story about a sibling?  Actually, I can't think of any.  Not that I would tell it anyway!  😉

6.  Tell us something random about your week.

This is a really busy week but not as busy as next week!  Monday Joe preached at the Nursing Home since Pastor wasn't available.

Yesterday was Ladies Bible Study.  Only three of us showed up, but it was really good and the others missed out.  (I'm really enjoying teaching Second Thessalonians.  There's so much in it!)

Today I have an appointment with a dermatologist to see about the growth on my back.  Mole?  Skin cancer?  My oncologist isn't sure so I'm checking it out.

Tomorrow I take Joe to his eye doctor in the morning and me to the dentist in the afternoon.  I've had a tooth ache for about a week now and need to check it out.

Friday I actually have a day to myself.  I need to work in the yard, clean the house, bake, do wash, etc.

Saturday morning is the Men's Breakfast at church.  Then in the afternoon is our Second Saturday Matinee.  We are watching the movie "The Case for Christ" this month.

And then it starts over with Palm Sunday.

Hope you all have a great day today.  Thank you, Terri, for these great questions.

Kathy

WEDNESDAY MEDLEY - NATIONAL DO NOTHING DAY

Hello, friends!  Welcome to a bitterly cold morning here in Philly.  I woke up and can't go back to sleep so thought I would do the Wednesday Medley this week.  Thanks to Terri from Your Friend in Florida for these questions.

Wednesday, January 16th, is National Do Nothing Day!!  National Do Nothing Day was proposed in 1972 by columnist Harold Pullman Coffin.  This day has been observed annually since 1973.  Of course, the way to celebrate is to do nothing!

1.  To commemorate Do Nothing Day in SOME way, tell us something about your life (or the life of someone close to you) in 1973!!
I had graduated from high school two years before.  Right after graduation my grandparents became ill so instead of working, I took care of them and the house.  My sister was graduating from high school that year and my grandfather passed away the summer after her graduation.  It wasn't the greatest year for me, but I was with the ones I loved and wanted to take care of.  I learned a lot about taking care of a house and cooking too.

2.  Now that we are thinking back, please tell us what your favorite pastime was as a child.
There were so many things I liked to do as a child.  I loved all kinds of crafts.  I loved playing in the huge yard we had.  I loved playing dolls with my sister.  But I think what I loved most was reading.  (And I still love books!)

3.  What is the best way to cheer you up on a bad day?
The best way is to leave me alone.  I rarely have "bad days" but when I do just plop me down in front of the TV and let me chill.  I usually am OK in an hour or two at most.

4.  How old were you when you first started dating?  Do you remember your first date?
I was 19 years old.  My first date was a walk in the woods at the Schuylkill Valley Nature Center with my boyfriend and his two kids (ages 4 and 3).  Our favorite thing to do through our entire relationship was to hike.  Often we had his kids along.

5.  Today is also National Fig Newton Day.  Do you like figs/Fig Newtons?
I have never had a fig.  Hard to believe isn't it.  It is for me too.  However, I love Fig Newtons.  The other day in Shoprite there was a woman giving out samples of fig and orange jam.  I loved that too.  So I guess I like figs!

6.  Tell us something random about your week.
Wednesday is always the busiest day of my week and today is no exception.  This morning I have to get Joe to the doctor's office for a fasting blood test.  This afternoon I help lead our Youth Group at church.  Then it's hurry home to eat and get back in two hours for Bible Study.  Thank goodness not every day is a Wednesday.  The rest of the week looks pretty calm!

Thank you, Terri, for putting together these great questions.  Please check out her blog to link up with the others who are answering the Wednesday Medley questions today.

Hope you all have a great Wednesday -- one a little less hectic than mine!

Kathy

WEDNESDAY MEDLEY QUESTIONS

Good morning everyone!  Hope you are all having an awesome Wednesday.  I am joining Terri D. again today and answering her Wednesday Medley questions.  Click on the link to go to her page.  Hope you enjoy them.

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?

Although I am a baseball fan and have been to many games, for some reason I did not get into it this year.  Too much else going on, I guess.  So I haven't watched the playoffs or plan to watch the World Series.  Well, maybe the World Series if I can find it on TV.  We do not get the sports channels so unless it is on regular broadcast TV, we don't see it.

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 have never been a Sinatra fan.  He was more my mom's generation than mine.  She loved "Franky" as she called him.  He has some good songs like "My Way" and "New York, New York" but I don't think I have a favorite.

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

Yes, Pennsylvania has approved medical marijuana.  My thoughts are that all things can be used for good or evil.  If marijuana is used for a good cause, i.e. helping the sick, then it is OK.  I had a friend who just recently passed away that used it for the intense pain he was in from his disease.  In that case it was a good use.  If it is used for recreational uses -- well, I have a problem with that.  I know of people who were hurt or killed by people who were driving while smoking weed.  And a guy I used to date got onto hard drugs because the marijuana didn't give him a big enough high.  Of course that was years before I ever met him.  He was completely off of everything when I knew him.

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 know lots of Beatles songs but don't know which are his.  I know some Wings songs, but none that I would consider a "favorite."  I have problems with a lot of the lyrics.  As a teenager I didn't mainly because I didn't understand them or what they meant.

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?

I think he was.  What good is pursuing success if you have no peace and happiness within yourself?

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

Time just seems to fly by me.  So much I want (and need) to do doesn't get done.  But I am working hard on it and that counts for something.  Even one table cleaned off or one drawer cleaned out is one less I have to do later.  I need to stop being so hard on myself.

Thanks, Terri!  And I hope you all enjoy these answers.  See you tomorrow.

Kathy

WEDNESDAY MEDLEY QUESTIONS

This is a picture I took at the farm four years ago.  I was amazed there were so many different kinds of pumpkins.  It is the perfect picture for today's Wednesday Medley Questions.  I have not done a post like this before but it sounds like fun so let's go!

1.  The Circleville, Ohio, Pumpkin Festival starts today.  All things pumpkin are everywhere.  What is your one very favorite  pumpkin flavored food or drink?  Do you wish it was available all year or do you only want it in the Fall?

My very favorite pumpkin food is my great-grandmother's pumpkin pie.  My grandmother, mother, sister and I all learned how to do it from her.  My sister and I still make it every year.  The recipe was never written down until my sister got it from my great-grandmother and wrote it out.  I am so glad she did since it would have been lost forever.  I don't know if it is true, but I think my great-grandmother got it from her grandmother who got it from her mother who lived in a log cabin on the outskirts of Philly in the 1700s.  Would I want this year round?  Yes, I would.  But having it just in the fall makes it special.

2.  What product would you seriously stockpile if you found out they weren't going to sell it anymore?

This is a hard question to answer.  I don't know that there is anything I like that much.  Hmm....  Maybe my favorite Chobani Flip Almond Coco Loco yogurt?  But yogurt wouldn't really keep so...

3.  What is the most interesting thing you have seen online this week?

Princess Eugenie's wedding.  I loved looking at all the guests and the beauty of the wedding itself.  Her dress was perfect and she looked so happy.  Well, she and Jack Brooksbank both did.  I hope they will both be very happy.

4.  Is it better to be a "big fish in a small pond" or a "small fish in a big pond"?

Definitely the small fish.  Although you have more of a chance of being eaten, there are also more places to hide.

5.  My Joe has become obsessed with playing chess on the computer.  Do you play chess?  Are you good at it?

First of all, this is not MY Joe but the husband of the one asking the question.  I do play chess.  I learned when I was about 13 or 14 years old.  Am I good? Not really.

6.  Tell us something random about your week.

This has not been the best of weeks for me in some ways and has been very good in others.  Tuesday would have been my mom's 87th birthday.  I miss her terribly especially on the special days.  Today Joe and I are going to the funeral of a man from our church who passed away suddenly on Monday morning.  And I've been having terrible headaches.

On the good side, though, I am getting some serious deep cleaning done and clearing things out of my house.  Like a set of dishes that I haven't used in over 10 years.  Make room for the things I do use.  And I found lots of stuff I forgot that I had.  It's just a small dent in the massive amount I have to go through, but it makes me feel so happy.

Thank you to Terri at the "Your Friend from Florida" blog for these questions.  It was fun and I'm sure I'll be doing more of these.  If you don't know Terri, check out her blog.  The link is on my sidebar.  I think you will enjoy reading it.

Have a wonderful Wednesday!

Kathy