Welcome Kittens & Dawgs! I’m joining Joyce with the rest of the Wednesday Hodgepodge crew in today’s Q&A. This is an excellent way to get to know your fellow blogger and you’re invited to play alone.
1. The last place you visited/patronized where you felt like you were given ‘the royal treatment’? No place comes to mind. It’s been awhile since we’ve been anywhere that fits the bill.
2. The last task you completed that was a ‘royal pain’? Three weeks ago, we did yard work. It was a struggle to get it mowed because where we hadn’t cut the grass in a long time. We pushed this job off because things were so difficult last year with DH’s eye surgery but then we found this and that going wrong with lawn equipment toward the end of the season. It was difficult for him to make the repairs and then get the yard tackled. We did what we could which wasn’t much so it was a huge job but we got it done.
3. How have your strengths helped you succeed? How have your faults hindered you? It’s hard to see my successes or to recognize my strengths. That seems like a question better for someone who sees them through me. However, I do see my faults. I often feel like I have little to contribute and do not see any value in it. This way of thinking keeps me from pushing myself to go the extra mile to write or illustrate my own children’s story. It’s going to take me just giving myself a good ole shove to get out of this way of thinking and do something to make it happen but I’m not ready to do it…yet.
4. If you found a remote that could rewind, fast forward, stop and start time, what would you do with it? I think I would hit rewind. I’d like to go back in time to try to head of some of the problems I now see. I’m not sure if doing anything different would change the outcome but at least I’d have a chance at setting things on a better course.
5. Any special plans for the Memorial Day weekend? Will you in some way honor or recognize the meaning of this day (remembering people who died in service to their country)? Have you ever been to Arlington National Cemetery? Does your town do anything special to mark the day? At the moment, we don’t have any big plans for Memorial Day weekend. We have not visited Arlington National Cemetery. I’d imagine that’s a very moving place to see, though. We did visit the National D-Day Memorial in Bedford, Virginia in 2016 and that was an amazing place to see. We’re so grateful for the men and women who fought in that battle which turned the tides of WWII. There were many lives lost that day on those distance beaches in France and since that time, many other servicemen/women have perish protecting our freedom. So, we do recognize and honor the fallen on Memorial Day. I wasn’t sure if Knoxville is hosting a parade so I asked Google I found these events lined up for the weekend.
6. Insert your own random thought here. In last month’s April A to Z blogfest, Linda Virginia Vista suggested that I sketch a swan. She’s a fabulous bird photographer. This is a skill I lack, capturing birds in flight or stationary I stink at it. Anyhow, I accepted the challenge. Here’s my illustration of Moonlight Swans.
What I had not anticipated when I sketched my Moonlight Swans did I think I’d actually get a photo-op of a swan but luck was on my side. At the end of last month, we were in Blowing Rock, North Carolina when we happened upon this very noble bird. He didn’t seem to mind our presence too much until we needed to walk past him. That’s when he stretched his neck up looking straight at us making a sound that meant kept your distance or else. I didn’t need the warning as I planned to stay away from the critter that was almost as tall as me.
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Have a good day and please join me for some laughs with Friday Sillies!
X💋X💋,
Cathy