Wednesday Hodgepodge

I was wracking my brain trying to figure out what to blog about. It's been a quiet week and I feel like a lot of my "regular" blog linkups happen at the end and beginning of the month. Then I remembered the Wednesday Hodgepodge with Joyce at From This Side of the Pond. You can find Joyce here. I've never linked up with the Hodgepodge before but some of the blogs I regularly read do so I thought I'd join in the fun today.

1. What's a lesson you've learned from a mistake?

Generally speaking I've learned to say "I'm sorry and please forgive me." I've also learned to hold on to our car doors when it's really windy because one time, about ten years ago, the wind whipped one of car doors open as we were getting out and it dented the door and scratched the window and it was hard to open the window after that (it made a horrible scraping sound). Now, whenever it's windy, I always say, "HOLD ONTO YOUR DOOR."

2. Do you salt food while you're cooking or let diners add their own?  What's a food you think must be salted? Do you like pepper?

Quite a few years ago, my mom told me she never adds salt when she's cooking so I stopped adding salt to my cooking. I let everyone add their own. The only thing I add salt to when cooking is when I'm making oven baked fries or oven roasted veggies. I don't like French Fries without salt. I never used to be a pepper person but in the past year I enjoy it more and more. I add it to our vegetable lasagna and my favourite kale salad.

In my opinion, popcorn always needs salt!!!

3. What was the last gathering you attended and what did you do there?

How do you define "gathering"? I attended Rachel's dance performance on Sunday. I attended church on Sunday. We attended synagogue last Saturday. Do any of those count as "gatherings"? If you mean a "specific group of people invited somewhere for a specific purpose" I would say it was my friend's dad's funeral which was by invitation only, in mid-March. The last "gathering" I attended for fun was probably my friend's Half Life Party in February. She was celebrating having lived half her life in the US and half her life in Canada. That was a super fun gathering!

4. Your favourite shade of purple? What's your favourite purple flower?

I am not a huge purple person. I've never really loved the colour purple and so don't have a favourite shade. It does make me laugh that one of my favourite summer skirts is actually a purple and black one which I bought when Rachel was two months old. In terms of purple flowers, my absolute favourite purple one is lilacs but I also really loved all the purple foxglove we saw on our Scotland hike last summer.

5. Share a favourite spring travel memory.

 

One of my favourite spring travel memories is our New York City trip in March 2022. It was our first trip out of the country since Covid started in March 2020 and we were just so happy to be going somewhere! We had so much fun on that trip!!!

We also went to see The Lion King and walked The High Line. 

6. Insert your own random thought here.

 

WHY IS IT SO COLD?!?!?!? I'm more than ready for spring and our weather is not cooperating. Yesterday we had a windchill of -16C (3F) when I was walking to work. That is way too cold for early April. By Monday it's supposed to be a high of 16C (61F) which is much better for spring.

So this was fun for a Wednesday. I'm off to read some of the other blogs in this link up and hope for a warmer spring day today.