Hodgepodge - To Ham or not to Ham

 

Thank you to Joyce for providing once again, another thought-provoking Hodgepodge; which I find myself looking forward to completing.   If you want to join in - go to her blog From This Side of the Pond. 

1. What would you say is the most difficult task when it comes to spring cleaning? Have you completed that task this year? Any plans to get it done?

Okay so don't throw a shoe at me or gag on a spoon - but I enjoy spring cleaning all year and I enjoy it. We are either the dirtiest people or the cleanest! 

The most difficult task would be cleaning the vaulted ceilings we have in our living/dining and kitchen area. So I've given up - that's why I made my peace with spiders. We have an agreement - they can eat the mosquitos and flies as long as they don't jump on me or my guests. In fact, I may even dedicate our home to a spider sanctuary. I have to admit, I don't have an issue with them. They are pretty much sight unseen and they leave me such pretty delicate webs. 

Halloween is especially nice at our house when all the webs are out on full display. We do draw the line with poisonous spiders because you just can't trust them to follow the rules. 

2. Your favorite pastel color? Favorite thing you own in a pastel shade? 

Lavender is my favorite color period. I also like the seafoam greens, and robins' egg blue. 

3. Do you like ham? Do you fix ham year round or is it mostly just a 'holiday food'? Baked ham-ham and eggs-ham and cheese sandwich-scalloped potatoes and ham-Hawaiian pizza....what's your pleasure? 

I'm okay with ham. I fix a ham during the holidays and occasionally outside of a holiday. I like a nice thinly sliced lean ham on a Hawaiian roll with some honey mustard. I don't like ham in my scalloped potatoes. After the main meal, we will have ham and eggs and perhaps I will do a US Senate Bean soup with ham. I don't buy a big ham because I don't care for leftovers that last more than the day after. 

4. Do you celebrate Easter? What did Easter look like when you were a kid? What are your plans for Easter this year? 

As I mentioned earlier, my family was not religious - so Mom would dress us up and have this Easter photo shoot complete with an Easter Basket (That I still have) Then I'd get into more comfy clothes and play with all my other heathen friends in the neighborhood.  I really did not know what I was missing. 

Once when I was in high school, a Catholic friend of mine invited me to her house on Good Friday. She said they pray. I thought, "Cool." Her mom closed all the curtains in the house, and we all spent 3 hours in quiet contemplation. Oh occasionally she would glance over at me, make a face and we'd giggle. It made an impression on me. I came home asking my Mom all sorts of questions. 

Sunday, I will be a greeter - and then my husband's daughter, Char, and Foodie will join us for dinner and YES, we'll have ham. 

5. Something that makes you feel hopeful amidst all the chaos and confusion this world brings? 

I believe in God's truth - so when I feel squeezed by the world I just read my bible. I also pray - it takes my eyes off of the circumstances and onto what I believe is eternal truth. I do not put my hope in people, places, or things. 

6. Insert your own random thought here. 

Let me ask you...  Do you or have you ever known a person like this?  Would Mother Thersa fall under this? Maybe not because it says, they don't even realize it themselves. What if we are, and we just don't know it? Is that even possible? 

Okay, I'm done here - more like a deep random thought...

Take Care,

Debby