Falling Into the Hodgepodge

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.  Fall arrives this week in the northern hemisphere. Does it look/feel like fall where you live? What's something you love to do this time of year that makes you feel it's officially fall?

 

I do think it started to feel very much like fall over the last several days, because it's been cooling off at night just enough so that you almost feel like you want a jacket. You don't really need it, but you kind of want one all the same. And it's been foggy a couple of mornings and that makes it feel and look like fall. There's just the start of the leaves turning too. Something I love to do . . . I guess just looking at fall colors. Fall is the best time for walks in the woods. 

2. What's a small daily task or chore that always seems to fall through the cracks when your schedule get busy?

Goodness, most of my chores fall through the cracks when I get even a little bit busy! Putting laundry away is the first thing to go, and that's been happening a lot lately. It gets washed and dried and brought upstairs but if we've got a busy schedule, it sits in the basket or in folded piles and doesn't get put away. That is exactly the current situation this week, in fact.

3. What's something you're falling for lately?

 I totally fell for the new Peanuts collab stuff from Starbucks and got myself a new mug. I'd been doing so well on not buying new mugs too. I hadn't acquired any new ones since Christmas!

4.  Pumpkin is a popular flavor this time of year. Are you a fan? What's your favorite pumpkin flavored food or beverage?

 Okay, first let me ask this . . . are all the pumpkin spice drinks actually pumpkin flavored, or are they flavored with the spices we associate with pumpkin pie? Because I don't detect that much pumpkin flavor. Anyway. All that aside, I like both pumpkin and pumpkin spice flavors but I'm honestly just kind of 'meh' about the pumpkin spice seasonal drinks at Starbucks and all the other coffee shops. I love pumpkin pie and pumpkin bread. A good pumpkin roll with cream cheese icing is my favorite, I think. I do like the pumpkin spice chai latte from Starbucks though. That is really good, especially with the cold foam. 

 

5.  What's something you wish would never change? Explain.

 High standards. If 90% is the grade required to earn an A and 70% is the grade required to pass the class, that shouldn't change for anybody. If you have to be able to lift a certain number of pounds and run a mile under a certain time in order to pass the fitness qualification to be a firefighter, that's the standard for everyone. Those kinds of standards need to apply regardless of skin color, sex, ethnicity, or any other factor. I also wish that standards for evaluating policy outcomes would remain the same no matter which political party we're talking about, and that journalists would report using the same standard regardless of political party. It is shameful the amount of blatant bias in most media outlets, because it's misleading often to the point of being almost falsehood. 

6. Insert your own random thought here.

Related to Question #1 - We're hoping for a nice fall day on Saturday, as we are finally going up to Cuyahoga Valley National Park! It's a bit early for full fall colors, but I think we'll get to see some leaves that have already turned. 

Related to Question #5 - I'm in the middle of switching over to Linky Tools from InLinkz, following my random thoughts from last week. I kind of wish InLinkz hadn't changed their product because it put me in a position of having to change, but I think I'm actually getting a better deal with Linky Tools anyway which is how the free market works. 

What are you falling for this week? 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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