Wednesday Hodgepodge 661

I'm linking up, once again, with Joyce at From This Side Of the Pond for the Weekly Hodepodge. Find Joyce here. You'll see more about this below, but I'm looking for blogging topics and Joyce asks interesting questions.

1. What's something you enjoy now that your younger self would never have appreciated?

Being outside. When I was a kid I would do anything to be able to stay inside. I much preferred reading and doing all my family's laundry, rather than doing outside chores like working in the garden. My mom would take the day of her birthday off work to stay home and garden and I never understood that.

 

Now I do. It's Sunday afternoon as I write the bulk of this post and I've been outside for most of today. I tended to my day lilies (and counted the ones in bloom today (over a hundred!!!)!), I've hung laundry, I've read some of my book, and I've planted some more grass. Now I'm blogging outside and later this afternoon I'll go over to have a visit on the porch with my friend and drink some tea.

WHO AM I EVEN!?!??! 

2. What was peaceful about today?

My entire morning was peaceful -- drinking coffee-hot chocolate outside, hanging laundry, deadheading my day lilies, and reading my book. The birds were singing and I had nowhere to be. It was glorious. 

3. It's National Blueberry Day (July 8). Will you celebrate?  You can have one of the following right now-a slice of blueberry pie, a warm blueberry muffin, or a stack of blueberry pancakes...which do you choose?

This or that-blueberries or raspberries? blueberries or strawberries?

I did not grow up with blueberries. I mean, I'm sure they existed at the grocery store but Saskatchewan had Saskatoon berries, which I still think are way tastier than blueberries. My favourite is Saskatoon berry pie. Our house has a Saskatoon berry tree in the front and we pick the berries right off the tree. We took care of our friends' house while they were away for a few days and my friend made us Saskatoon berry muffins as a thank you. I've been eating them for breakfast and they are soooo good!

If I'm doing this or that with blueberries I'll pick raspberries and strawberries over blueberries. I don't dislike them, I just think other berries are better! 

4. Do you need a break? From what?

I needed a break from work, and I'm definitely getting that! I've been on summer break for about a week and a half now and it's been glorious! I also needed a break from our heat last week and this week has been so much better. So no, I don't really need a break right now, but that's because I'm getting one.

5. What has surprised you most about getting older?

How hard it is to sleep! I used to take sleep for granted and now I don't. I've hit the stage of life where I rarely sleep through the night anymore and it's so irritating. Gah.

6. Insert your own random thought here.

As I said above, I'm glad Joyce has these weekly questions for us. As the kids are getting older I'm looking for topics to blog about which don't include them as much. As Sam goes into Grade 12 in September, and Rachel enters Grade 10, I'm also starting to think more about what life will look like as they're around less. Many of my friends are empty nesters and I see those years coming for Dave and I too.

My second random thought has to do with blogging -- I like to try and read, and comment on, every post in link ups I join. However, more and more blogs require a WordPress account and my WordPress account has not been playing nice lately. I have to reset my password every time I want to post a comment and I feel like my comments still disappear. So, if you have a blog which requires WordPress, please know that I'm trying to comment on it -- I'm just not very successful lately.

So those are my answers to the Hodgepodge this week. I'm having tea with another friend this morning and then I'm planning on going to the library to do some blogging so, hopefully, I'll be able to read some of the other posts soon. Happy Wednesday.