Volume 537!

 

... of the Hodgepodge, that is.  Thank you, Joyce!

Something you've waited for recently? 

Off the top of my head .....

Yesterday we were scheduled for an 8:30 telemed visit with Tom's pain management doc.  8:35 came and went ... as did 8:45.  Then 9 o'clock.   I put aside Monday morning Bible study. 

Finally, a human voice:  "We say 8:30, but it can be anytime between then and 4pm, because they make calls in between office appointments."   Whaaaaat?   Finally, the call came in at 11:20.

Is this the new normal?

What's something you loved to do as a child? 

If it looked like a horse, sounded like a horse or smelled like a horse, I was there!   Usually, the horses themselves were little plastic figurines or images on TV.   

Occasionally, however, my mother could be convinced to drive me up to 'Horse Mesa' where my little friend and I would coax a horse to the fence for petting.   And if we were really really lucky I'd climb up and onto it's back.

One summer my Minnesota grandfather borrowed a fellow farmer's horse for a week to keep me entertained.

Something you learned from a grandparent? 

Unfortunately, I never knew my grandparents well enough to form a bond.   Aside from an occasional yearly visit, our living more than 1,200-2,200 miles apart made memory-making improbable.

The most visited cities in the world last year (according to this site) were-Bangkok, Paris, London, Dubai, and Singapore. Have you been to any of the cities mentioned? Which would you most like to see? How do you feel about international travel in general these days? 

A long, long time ago I visited both London and Paris.  

I'd love to revisit the UK once more and perhaps break bread with Victor.

... but being the big chicken I am -- and given the unrest that exists almost everywhere -- right now I'm not eager to travel outside the U.S.

(cluck! cluck!) 

February is the perfect month to ______________________.

.... shower my husband and DIL with love on their birthdays.
There are no plans in place, but I so enjoy making a Big Deal out of these holidays.

Insert your own random thought here. 

'Still reading and savoring Sean's new book, Kinfolk.

Has it really been one year he lit up my life?

(Maybe it was those moon pies -- or all the beads.

Laissez les bons temps rouler!)

Stay sweet, y'all!

I'll be back in a few with updates to our visit at UAB tomorrow.

Hugs, Myra