Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Wednesday Hodgepodge


Once again it’s Wednesday – Hump Day!  And once again Joyce has come up with 8 unique and interesting questions for this week’s HodgePodge.  If you’d like to play along or just see how everyone else answered the questions, just click on the button below.

 
1. Summer's here-whoohoo! What's your favorite sight, sound, AND smell associated with summer?
My favorite sight of summer would be red, ripe tomatoes on the vine; sound would be kids laughing while splashing in the pool; smell would be meat (chicken or pork particularly) cooking on the grill.
 
2. Fireflies or lightning bugs...what are they called in your neck of the woods?
Lightning bugs.  I remember staying outside until dusk and collecting lightning bugs, putting them in an old glass jar (with holes poked in the lid), and keeping the jar in my bedroom. 

 
3. What is something from the past week that reminded you of your childhood?
I have to be honest and admit that there wasn’t much of anything this week that reminded me of my childhood.   
 
4. Define 'the good life'.
My life … although I suppose that it could be just a wee bit better if we were living on the beach, with DD & her family no more than a couple of blocks away.   
 
5. Tell us what we'd see if you took a snapshot of your desk/work space?
Since I’m only back at work temporarily, my work space (cubicle) is sparse … a computer in the center, a phone and an inbox to the left, an adding machine to the right.  At home, I don’t have a desk … I have a laptop, and it’s usually on the kitchen island.
 
6. Peaches or watermelon...yes, you have to choose.
I LOVE both, but I guess I’d choose watermelon, the quintessential summer fruit IMHO. 

 
7. Ever been skinny dippin'? Is that too much for the Wednesday Hodgepodge? Rest assured we won't need details...unless of course you feel you must but remember, this is a family friendly blog so keep it G rated.
Nope.
 
8. Insert your own random thought here.
Two MV 22 Osprey flew over our house late yesterday afternoon.  I heard what sounded like a HUGE helicopter … it got my curiosity up, so I went out the door to take a look.  Turns out, it was no helicopter … but it wasn’t a plane either … I’d never seen anything like it before!  When DH turned on the ballgame, we learned that there was a flyover by two MV 22 Osprey at Busch Stadium prior to the start of the ball game to commemorate Marine Week in St. Louis … and these were the planes that flew over our house … evidently they were making their way to St. Louis for the pregame flyover, prior to performing the flyover at the ballpark.  It was certainly a spectacular sight to see them fly over our house!
     

21 comments:

  1. Love tomatoes-especially ripe yellow tomatoes (which we rarely have around here). One of my favorite summertime meals-cornbread and ripe tomatoes!!

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  2. Tomatoes are one of my favorite things about summer too, especially when they get so ripe you can eat them like an apple with a little bit of salt.

    Love the flyover-very cool!

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  3. Hope your having a good week. I love the fly-over - how neat is that?

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  4. Wow that was neat to have a cool fly over.. I love watermelon also. Love your number 4.. Have a great day..

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  5. I love your fav summer sight, sound, and smell--they truly describe summer!

    How neat to get to see those "things" flying over your house!

    Have a great day :) and thanks for the encouragement...I think I can, I think I can,... survive this wedding :)

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  6. Love the look, smell, and taste of watermelon. Unfortunately, my love is unrequited--I get sick every time I try to eat it these days. Darn this getting old!

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  7. what a site with the Osprey flying over your house! That noise would have attracted by attention to see what was going on! I liked your sound and smell of summer; always good ones! It is hard to decide between watermelon and peaches, both are good and different in their taste but are great summer fruits! I had barbecued peaches the other day! Delicious!!!

    have a good day!

    betty

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  8. Cool aircraft! Neat that they were flying to be part of the pregame activities!

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  9. I love tomatos too and meat grilling. Love that picture of the Osprey. I love any kind of airplane, helicopter, etc. I bet that was so awesome to see.

    Have a great day.

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  10. I guess we always know what we would need to make our life better, eh? Me too. But I¨m trying to be satisfied with what we have now.

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  11. I grew up living very near Bergstrom A.F.B. in Austin - every now and then they would have some special aircraft there and we would all go out to see it land / take off. I remember one time seeing a C130 take off at night. It's a HUGE plane - so big that it just doesn't look possible for it to fly - at night with its lights on - it was an amazing sight.

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  12. we had similar sights and sound favs for summer. Red ripe tomatoes would be a very close second for me!!!

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  13. Oooo...my baby would have LOVED seeing that fly over!!! I'll show him your picture...he'll like that too!!

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  14. Not many of us ever went skinny dipping - I wonder what that says about us? Hubby loves tomatoes and will eat them even before they are ready.

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  15. You know...I keep telling myself that one of these years I am going to get some tomato plants...and I never do. I love slicing up fresh tomatoes, adding a wee bit of salt, and going for it. Summer time is the best!

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  16. The plane story is cool!

    I have to laugh everytime I take our puppy out for a bathroom break and a plane/helicopter flies over. She pays full attention to the sound in the sky until it is out of sight, then she's ready to do her business.

    BBQ pic made my mouth water. That's my fave food. :)

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  17. Oooo...my baby would have LOVED seeing that fly over!!! I'll show him your picture...he'll like that too!!

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  18. The plane story is cool!

    I have to laugh everytime I take our puppy out for a bathroom break and a plane/helicopter flies over. She pays full attention to the sound in the sky until it is out of sight, then she's ready to do her business.

    BBQ pic made my mouth water. That's my fave food. :)

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  19. You know...I keep telling myself that one of these years I am going to get some tomato plants...and I never do. I love slicing up fresh tomatoes, adding a wee bit of salt, and going for it. Summer time is the best!

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  20. I guess we always know what we would need to make our life better, eh? Me too. But I¨m trying to be satisfied with what we have now.

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  21. Cool aircraft! Neat that they were flying to be part of the pregame activities!

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