Wednesday Hodgepodge - Doubled Up

A hodgepodge is a jumble or assortment of things that might not appear to belong together. Joyce at From This Side of the Pond hosts a weekly link-up called Wednesday Hodgepodge that is a little collection of questions for bloggers to answer just for fun and to get to know each other. I always look forward to chatting with friends over coffee, so pour a cup of your favorite and let's visit for a few minutes!

Here are this week's questions - and my answers - for this week's Wednesday Hodgepodge.

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

 

I've made so many mistakes, you'd think I would have learned a lot from them, but I'm having a hard time being specific! I accidentally locked my keys in my car a long, long time ago and it was so embarrassing having to call my husband to drive across town to bring the spare keys. That really stuck with me, and when we started driving cars with key fob locks, I made it my personal rule to always lock the car with the fob after getting out, never with the little lock button on the door. Because that way I know that I know that I know that the keys are in my hand. 

 

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?

I add salt while cooking, but with a light touch. I think diners can add their own salt if they want more. I tend to use other herbs to add flavor, and use salt just to enhance. (My husband usually thinks I should have added more!) I almost never add salt to my own food at the table, or very little. Eggs are the food that MUST have salt! I do like pepper, but I use it as I'm cooking and rarely add it to my food at the table. 

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

 Just last week, I was with some of my family and I suppose it could be considered a partial family gathering. I went to visit two of my aunts who live in an assisted living apartment. My parents, my brother and sister-in-law and niece, and another aunt and uncle were also there. Mostly we sat around and visited, though the aunties also got me to play their keyboard and we sang some gospel songs and hymns together.

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

 I guess a royal purple? Somewhere around the center of the spectrum between blue and red. I never used to like purple to wear, but now I have two or three t-shirts in purple and I love them. Not sure how I'd choose a favorite purple flower . . . I like too many and I'm lousy and choosing favorites. Pansies, crocuses, and lilacs are the ones that come to mind. Daisy-shaped flowers of all kinds and tulips are my favorite flowers, and they come in shades of purple too

 

5.  Share a favorite spring travel memory.

 

 We haven't often travelled in spring as a family, since it's a very busy time at my husband's work, so he doesn't take vacation time in spring. In 2023 we travelled back to Maryland in May for our daughter's graduation from university, which also happened to be right before Mother's Day, so that was a really special trip.

 

6. Insert your own random thought here.

Since I skipped last week's Hodgepodge while I was on vacation, I am answering a couple of questions in this week's random thought section. One fun thing on my April calendar is that a cousin of mine I haven't seen in a couple of decades will be in our area so we are getting together. 

The last thing I wasted money on . . . I bought a bunch of Canadian snack foods to bring back on my recent trip, which I guess was sort of a waste.

I do enjoy lamb, and wish we could have it more often. My favorite dish is lamb kebabs and that has become our traditional Resurrection Sunday meal. I usually buy a boneless leg of lamb and cut it up to put in a pomegranate molasses marinade and then we grill the kebabs. So good!! 

Do I fit a stereotype in some way? I thought of some of the stereotypes that I associate with grandmas - sewing and quilting and being rather old-fashioned in preferences - and I don't fit those. However, I do love birdwatching, which I often jokingly call my "old lady hobby" and as I've gotten older I've realized that there is a compulsion of older moms and grandmas to want to make sure their people are fed, and I think that's a stereotype I could fit. I don't go by the title "Grandma" because that brings to mind a stereotype that I don't think I'd fit, but as "Nonny" I suppose I fit a lot of stereotypes anyway!

How would you answer some of these questions? Leave a comment and let me know!

I'm sharing in this week's Wednesday Hodgepodge at From This Side of the Pond.

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