Wednesday Hodgepodge

1. Have you ever been ‘asked’ to report for jury duty? Were you chosen to serve? If not, were you happy or disappointed?

I’ve been called, but it was right after having eye surgery, and I had an actual medical excuse. I have not been called in many years now. I would go and if I was selected, I would try to do my duty. I fear I would be the one jurror who held out for either freedom or a very harsh sentence. I don’t tend to see much grey in life.

2. On a scale of 1-10 (with 10 being very), how mechanically inclined are you? Give an example to back up your answer.

I am probably a solid 7. I can get into a house and connect all things, like phones, TV’s, surround sounds, and computers. I do not understand cars at all, and I want to learn more about computers.

3. Beets-cabbage-cauliflower-butternut squash….of the four, which is your favorite fall vegetable?

That’s easy…butternut squash! Which is a really good thing as we grew 40 of them this year! 40 big beautiful squash!!!

4. What do you recommend to overcome self-pity?

Seeing the face of a sick child or perhaps a visit to an inner city church. You see at an inner city church, you meet many people who have nothing, but their love of God, their faith. It is worth more than a rich man’s gold! Seeing that always humbles me, and makes me feel guilty for feeling sorry for myself.

5. Do you enjoy classical music?

Some. If it is live music, then absolutely, but I am not sure I could listen to a full symphony on disc. I think I would probably go to sleep.

6. October is National Book Month…what’s on your reading list this month?

Actually I am doing some Bible readings this month. I would like to get to know the psalms a bit better and have a list of the ones I want to study.

7. What is your idea of ‘cute’?

Way back, long ago I had a girlfriend in school, who I thought was so cute. She had curly brunette hair and would blush so easily. She was also very tall and felt uncomfortable about this. But I really liked her as a person, and nicknamed her “Cutes”, which she really hated, but she somehow allowed me to call her. She was just the nicest, sweetest person ever. Sadly, I never really had a chance to tell her that my calling her “Cutes” was my way of letting her know just how much she meant to me. She passed away the year we turned 50. Still, I think of all her smiles and her curls and her pretty face and I can feel cuteness all around me.

8. Insert your own random thought here.

I need to clean my kitchen. Now when we built our kitchen we put in32 solid cherry cabinets. Beautiful, yes, but a pain in the rear-end to clean as well. I need to use a product like “Murphy’s Oil Soap” to wash them, but you need to wash and dry each cabinet or they get sticky. With that many cabinets, and the tops of the upper cabinets.

I know it will take me over a week of doing this project. And…I Am…NOT…Looking…forward…to…it! Alas, I must do it. To encourage myself along, I thought perhaps for every hour I work, I put 10 dollars in my piggy bank. What do you think?