1. Pokemon Go...your
thoughts? Are you playing? Do you even know what it is?
Yes, I do
know that Pokemon Go is . . .no, I’m not playing BUT the park in front of our
house was a stop (maybe still is?). I looked out the front door the other night and there sat a car in the pouring rain . . .with their phones out . . .trying to capture him/it/her.
2. What was something you collected as a child? Do you still have that collection? If you're a parent what's something your own children collected? Have you ever camped out, stood in a crazy long queue, or paid a ridiculous sum for a 'collectible'?
2. What was something you collected as a child? Do you still have that collection? If you're a parent what's something your own children collected? Have you ever camped out, stood in a crazy long queue, or paid a ridiculous sum for a 'collectible'?
I collected
thimbles – why? I have no earthly
idea! I had a little wooden box that
hung on the wall with little tiny slots for thimbles. I do not have the collection and I have no
earthly idea whatever happened to those thimbles. Both of our kids collected Beanie Babies and
YES . . .we stood in line when the Hallmark store got a new shipment. We were going to be rich some day from those
collectibles. Of course, they played
with them so they weren’t really collectibles.
When they went off to college, we bagged them up into those vacuum bags
where you “suck the air out” . . .they stayed in the closet for several more
years and then we finally donated them to the church to be used as prizes in a
carnival! Laura also had a few Madame
Alexander dolls and she had a million Barbies and she had a nice collection of American Girl accoutrements.
Glenn collected baseball cards and maybe a few Pokemon cards. For a while, he also collected state quarters.
3. "Collect moments, not things"...tell us about a moment you've added to your collection this summer.
I feel like
we’ve added so many moments this summer.
Having a new grandbaby is so special!!
Mark has been going to her daycare every day instead of eating lunch . .
.he rocks her and gives her a bottle.
That is a memory . . .a moment in time!
4. What's
something collecting dust in your home right now? Any plans to do something
about it?
I have way
too many things collecting dust right now.
I have a wonderful craft room filled with awesome scrapbooking supplies
but I do not have time to scrapbook!! I
don’t like a lot of tchotchkes (this is the correct spelling!) sitting around
so I don’t have too many of those collecting dust.
Speaking of
dust . . .I’m highly allergic to dust . . .so I’m not supposed to dust . .
.which means I get to keep a maid (hopefully for a few more years . . .Mark
keeps telling me the things we have to “give up” when we both retire . . .thank
goodness I still have at least
8 more years before retirement . . .if I don’t get fired for laughing too
much!!)
5. A favorite
song relating to time?
When I read
this question, I immediately thought of “Time In a Bottle” by Jim Croce . .
.but I don’t really like that song. How
about “Does Anybody Know What Time It Is? by Chicago? Another oldie!! I really loved Time by Hootie and the
Blowfish . . .
6. What’s been your most frightening or your most interesting encounter with wildlife?
Years ago, a
chipmunk got into our house. Mark was
out of town and the kids and I were trying to capture it with a laundry basket
and a shoe box . . .and a broom! I
remember running like a crazy woman through the house and I’m pretty sure we
were all three screaming!!
There was
another time (Mark was again out of town!) and before he left, he had put a “have
a heart” trap in the backyard. We caught
a huge raccoon. Glenn was a teenager and
he and I had to go outside and figure out how to let it go because we didn’t
want it to die . . .and Mark wasn’t home.
That thing hissed at us! We
finally got the “gate” open and we ran off and so did he (or she?)!!
7. On July 20,
1969 Apollo 11 Commander Neil Armstrong set his foot down on the moon. If you
could travel to the moon would you go? Why or why not?
We went to
see The Martian last year (I know you said moon!) and after watching that movie,
I think I could go to the moon BUT I think I would have to take a lot of Dramamine and a lot of Ativan. I assume that at some point, there will be
excursions to the moon. How weird . .
.it might get crowded like the beach!
8. Insert your
own random thought here.
I have no
random thought today. Let’s see . . .We
are having VBS at our church this week –
Cave Quest – and we’ve had 450 or so kids from ages 3K through rising 3rd graders in the building. Those kids are amazing. Our church staff is so talented and makes learning about Jesus interesting and they make the stories from the Bible come alive! My sister attends a MUCH smaller church in Texas (I thought everything was bigger in Texas??) and they are also having VBS this week and they had a LIVE camel named Humphrey (get it – hump??) come to visit. I want a live camel at our VBS!!
Cave Quest – and we’ve had 450 or so kids from ages 3K through rising 3rd graders in the building. Those kids are amazing. Our church staff is so talented and makes learning about Jesus interesting and they make the stories from the Bible come alive! My sister attends a MUCH smaller church in Texas (I thought everything was bigger in Texas??) and they are also having VBS this week and they had a LIVE camel named Humphrey (get it – hump??) come to visit. I want a live camel at our VBS!!
