Wednesday Hodge Podge

Hosted by Joyce.

1. What's something you wish you'd figured out sooner?  I wish I had figured out the road to peace and satisfaction  sooner.  I  spent an awful lot of time in my life worrying about stuff   that  really was out of my control   Now I know to give it all to God and  things will work out because of His love and mercy!

2. Something from childhood you still enjoy today?   I always loved an open fire pit.   We used to enjoy lying on blankets around a summer  fire pit  while the adults talked, we kids  played or just spent our time  watching the fire,    studying  it! .. its warmth and artfulness. I even remember one time   as I lay before the fire I would stare into it and as the embers and  burned out  logs  and twigs  crumbled and revealed new areas  back into the embers,  it almost looked like  a underworld mansion with rooms that kept  opening up to other rooms.    That was my  crazy  8 year kid mind anyway,  but that has stuck with me and even now when we  light our fire pit, I  think of that and  wonder where are the rooms   that  will eventually  appear!    I, also, thought,  the those little  imps seen on cartoons back in our day  Silly Symphonies or  something, must live in those rooms! 

3. Are you a fidgeter? What's the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the word fidget?   No, not really.  To fidget means to bite your fingernails down to the quick  or  make  noises  without realizing you're doing it!

4.   Your favorite fall vegetable? How do you like it prepared?

It is a toss up between sweet potatoes and butternut squash.  I love both related the same was.. roasted ,actually, together with some quarter red onion,  a bit of garlic,  a bit of olive oil, salt and pepper!

5. What's something you find mildly annoying, but not annoying enough to actually do anything about? Might you now?  I  cannot stand  it when it is all quiet in the bedroom  Im probably reading and someone starts to pick their toenails ...  click click click  . My roommate in college did it....  our daughter did  .. and some  times Hubs does.  I guess I'm just doomed to be   annoyed by clicking  toenails.

6. Insert your own random thought here.   I really   cannot stand  Halloween anymore.  Ever since the adults got into it ...   I don't know  maybe back in the 80's  when you'd see bank tellers all dressed up.  etc..  it seems like the  devil has  taken notice and really ramped up the evil  into the holiday.  It was so much  different  when we were kids.  The only thing bad about it was  your yard might get rolled or   your  windows soaped.   Not me, of course, .  but I did hear about it.  But   now  witchcraft  is active...  I mean real people who practice witchcraft have taken halloween over and I  wouldn't even feel safe walking down my street after dark on halloween.   Well though, I live more like on a boulevard where people from all over town drive by  all hours of the day and night.   I mean I didn't really like it when  our  teen age Amanda  took a run around the neighborhood for exercise in the 2000's  …  she was in high school, and a very attractive young lady.  I would give her  an exact time to be back home and    actually sat outside  until she came home.  We do not promote halloween  here anymore  and actually we never have kids anyway..    our neighborhood is not   like a subdivision at all…  houses  are  dark,    lots of shrubbery and wide  side yards..  so   in that regard  I am happy  because   I am sorry for the kids  of today who   have such a wicked  holiday.  I think  it has been besmirched by parents who have taken  it too far. .. too grisly  and   evil and it actually opens a portal   to the underworld.