Wednesday Hodge Podge

Hosted by Joyce!

1. "Hope springs eternal"...discuss. For me, the idiom,  refers to the hope I have for heaven which includes eternal life, first in paradise. And then in our eternal home in the new earth  for   eternity.  How is this  hope born?  It is the gift  we are given after our  repentancce and acceptance of Christ    as our Savior!.  He bought it   for us by His blood  shed at His  death on the cross , which paid for the  past, present and future sins of  those who believe, and accept the grace filled gift of redemption! 

2. Last time you needed to 'spring into action' or 'spring to someone's defense'...explain.   I am one of 4 on our church Mission's Committee.. Recently, we  realized we needed to    reorganize our   manner of operation.  We collect items for    both of the inner city missions we  serve.  We also  collect items for  the Guatemala  church we serve and   Christmas  Child boxes   in December.   We had one area in our church  that  was  not being used except for  storage for various and sundry items that no one  in the church claimed.  It  was the  stage area  behind the curtain that was  actually placed about halfway  back on the stage.  We  then had to "spring into action" to get  the  preparation done... We donated some items,  sold some on martketplace, and  threw out some..  then  cleaned the area well. It actully  needs a good painting,  but  we  have to  impose on the property committe for that.  We purchased 4 very nice  storage shelving units  and  actually them put together today.  Now as things come in we have a place to organize and   store  each month until time to  take items to the various ministry sites.  This way we can take advantage of sales and  coupons to  buy  as  we can instead of having to wait until the items  are actually needed on their monthly schedule.

3. Tulips or daffodils? baby birds or baby bunnies? The cherry tree or the dogwood tree? Jelly beans or peeps? March madness or spring training? Peas or carrots?   My preferences:  Tulips,  baby bunnies, dogwood trees, jelly beans, March Madness, and peas!!

4. I read an article here on the South's best cities on the rise. They are-Baton Rouge Louisiana, Fayetteville Arkansas, Greenville South Carolina, Huntsville Alabama, Lexington Kentucky, Norfolk Virginia, Tulsa Oklahoma, Waco Texas, Wilmington North Carolina, and Winston-Salem North Carolina. Of the cities listed how many have you seen in person? Which one on the list would you most like to see? Have you spent much time in the southern states (USA)? Any spring road trips on your calendar?  We've been to Greenville, SC, Huntsville, Al, Lexington, Ky,  Norfolk, Va, Wilmington, NC, and Winston- Salem, NC.  I'd like to see Waco, Texas, just because of the Gaines' . Well, I live  on the edge of the southern states.  I have family on Winston, and Greenville,  have visited Wilmington and Norfolf a few times,   and  only  spent one night in Huntsville when on vacation back in the 70's.    We actully do have a southern road trip planned this spring..  More about that later!

5. Tell us how your outdoor space needs sprucing up this spring? Which do you enjoy more (or hate the least-ha!) yard work or house work?   I  am at  the age where I  do as little as possible to get it done! But I do like to  plant flowers in the spring, in fact I hope to do a bit of  flower shopping tomorrow!

6. Insert your own random thought here.  

I took a few photos this week  :  These are the flowers you see  right at our back door.  I want to buy pansies to fill in  

   

Hyacinths, dont they smell awesome!

Bloodroot,  I transplanted form the woods behind my grandmother's home over 40 years ago.  I, first of all, transplanted them at our other house then moved them here.

Just one  site of   daffodils, ... we have many other sites around the yard!

This  is the only remaining forsythia we have. The others  were so  unshapely and  yucky, hubs  cut them out!  He is trying to get this one to grow naturally!