Saturday 9

Welcome to Saturday: 9.

Hosted by Samantha.

Sultans of Swing (1978)

Unfamiliar with this week's song. Hear it here. 

1) The song begins by mentioning how it feels to shiver on a rainy night. As you answer these questions, is it chilly ... or rainy ... or dark?
I am answering on Friday  afternoon  so   it is chilly and  getting darker as the clouds are moving in bringing rain in tonight!!

2) The lyrics describe a bar at closing time, when the owner announces, "Goodnight, now, it's time to go home." Can you recall a time when you lingered until you closed the joint?
Not any time in the near past that I can remember, but yes,  Hubs and I  way back in the good ole days  of dating and  early marriage!  That would  have been   50 years ago!

3) This song was written years before it was recorded, back in the days before Dire Straits was a success. Composer/lead singer/lead guitarist Mark Knopfler recalls that, when he was working on "Sultans of Swing," he was worried about paying his gas bill. Is anything troubling you this Saturday?
I suppose it would have to be the state of the world,  fires, quakes,   governmental corruption, unrest in the Middle East..  Lots of prayers have been going up!!!

4) When this song was popular, Sam often played it on the jukebox because, well, who doesn't like Dire Straits? 40 years later, both that jukebox and the bar it was in are gone. Have you recently been in a restaurant or bar that has a jukebox?
There is a cool diner in Moosic, Pennsylvania

We've eaten there a few times on our way to see the kids...   they have a great jukebox!

5) In 1978, the year "Sultans of Swing" topped the charts, Garfield first appeared in newspapers all around the United States. Over the years, it was revealed that the cartoon cat loved lasagna and hated raisins. What's a food you love? What's one that you hate?
I love a really great beef stew

that simmered all day  with tons of carrots, onions, and tators!
I  despise Okra~

Slimy!

6) One of People magazine's top-selling issues of 1978 featured Carrie Fisher and Darth Vader on the cover. The article celebrated the theatrical re-release of Star Wars and announced that the cast was on board for a sequel. How many Star Wars movies have you seen?
I think I saw all of the first three.   By the mid 80's we started being very picky about movies we actually  went to.  

7) The most popular movie of 1978 was Grease. What's your favorite song from the Grease soundtrack?

8) In 1978, Yves St. Laurent made fashion news by putting his female runway models in menswear-inspired suits, complete with neckties and pocket squares. Do you know how to tie a Windsor knot? Can you fold a handkerchief into a pocket square?

Who can't..  I watched the video.. super easy! But my hubby doesn't do them..  he thinks they are  a bit much for his taste!

9) Random question: You're visiting a friend. He graciously offers you the use of his super-expensive, brand-new luxury sedan for the duration of your stay. Do you take him up on it? Or do you rent a car instead?
I would rent a car..  I would be much too nervous to drive his car!

A Study in White Skywatch Friday

  Visit  our host at Skyley.

We had our first and possibly only snowfall of the year,  (our temps have been so mild this season..)this week.. it came  and left in the same day.. but while it was here it was lovely!

Let's Have Coffee

Let's Have Coffee with  Susan Donaldson.

I just discovered this Thursday meme this afternoon, (Wednesday)

Susan's blog Welcome  Hearts  is a  blessed  site that  encourages us to be more open to others and   share with other women!  It is a site that honors hospitality and  encourages  women to step out and  involve yourself with others..  to the glory of God ... I love this!

 In today's post she encourages  having our neighbors in for coffee. I, like probably many,  do not know my neighbors well..and honestly I have tried to  be a good neighbor. I have taken baked items to one neighbor .. she is much younger  with    children and  she is a busy homemaker  and journalist, so I am daunted by her busy-ness.. My other neighbor on the other side-  we have reached out  and had them for supper,  for dessert,  but  it just doesn't seem to click... He is retired,  but she still works and gets home late every day. I am daunted by  their lack of interest. 

Then there are two neighbors behind us.  One family has two very active teens and they are always on the go.  I haven't  done anything  about them except wave, and hubs has spoken to him about yard/grass issues.  Not much  interest there..The other  back neighbor is a single man  of middle age,  who keeps to himself  quite a bit. So  it is easy  to just  say to yourself,  it just doesn't work for us to be hospitable to our neighbors,  but  that is a cop out.. and I know it!  And mainly because we see very little evidence that  any of these folks have a relationship with  the Lord..  I know it is  hard to make that judgment,  but  based on appearances we just do not see  them going to church, etc.   So what would Jesus do!  

He would love them enough to do something, even if it was wrong.  Of course, he wouldn't be wrong, but I need to have that mind set! 

First of all, I need to love them..  I need to pray  to the Lord to strengthen my resolve to be bold in loving people more,  and to forgive me if I harbor any   foul spirit in me that keeps me from  loving others!

Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. I Jn 4:8

Even as I am creating this post 

I feel the Spirit urging me to  do something I thought of   when I received a Christmas card last month. A good friend told me in her card   "We look forward to  the New Year   even though I have a couple of concerns".. My Spirit told  me then, 'Oh my,  take her to   coffee and  ask her if there was anything I could pray for her or her family." I mean that comment sounded like a  plea for  me to  at least ask her about it.  So  I  am purposing in my life to  do just that..  Call my friend and invite  her out for  coffee  at our new coffee house nearby..  just to chat and show her that I love her in Christ!  I feel better already just in  pledging within my self to do this!

Tuesday 4

Around the House

1. Do you have pets ? What kind of pets do you have? Photos?
I have always been a cat person..  I had  a beautiful white kitten as  a little girl, named Snowball,  then my first boyfriend gave me  another  beautiful male  white cat  which together we named Sean Connery,  and then of Amanda we had  a gorgeous male Tabby with white socks..

2. Do you have a weekly menu you plan out? Would you share it with us, or perhaps a short list of meals you make often? It gives other people ideas !

My short list would included:

1)Roasted pork loin, rice and peas (Amanda's favorite)

2)Chef salad with fried chicken strips on top, bleu cheese dressing

3)Braised boneless pork strips  then  broiled with  BBQ sauce to  sort of blacken them up, Boiled Yukon gold  potatoes with  peas,  tossed salad

4) Boiled  Gulf shrimp   from the grocer refrigerated, cocktail sauce, cole slaw, french fries

5) Deconstructed taco salad using  nacho chips, cheese,  meat,  and  shredded  lettuce, tomato, 

3.Where do you do your grocery shopping? Do you like that store or do you go to others to fill in the gaps?

Our regular store is Kroger


But  we also shop 
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4.  What kind of house do you live in or is it an apartment. Describe it. What changes would you make to it if you could?
We live in what is called an English Tudor,  but  it  doesn't have all the English bells and whistles..  but does have an English mantel and beautiful  huge  wide plank  front door.

Imagine stucco and timber effect on the yellow  and your get  an idea of how it ought to look,  but the  thickly stuccoed  inside walls  are  very  English and my anglophile temperament loves  our little English home.  But the older I get  the stairs become more and more difficult.  We have a friend who is a realtor and we are  speaking to him to be on the look out for us  for a nice patio home!
Hosted by Annie in honor of  of our dear friend, Toni!

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