Hodgepodge: Easy As 1-2-3

Welcome to another edition of the weekly Wednesday Hodgepodge. The April A-Z blog challenge has come to a close, so I should be able to visit everyone playing along this week. I was out of town last week, and that combined with the A-Z didn't leave much room for blog hopping.

Okay, here we go~

1. This week's Hodgepodge is Volume 123. What's something you've done recently that was as easy as 1-2-3?

I ordered a personalized gift online from Lisa Leonard's website. It was super easy and I cannot wait to see the finished product. Have you ordered from her? She has some really lovely pieces...you'll find her website here.    

2. The Wednesday Hodgepodge also happens to fall on the first day of May...what is something you may do this month?

We may spend a long weekend with my sister in law and her family. We haven't seen them since last summer and kids grow up you know. We have to sort out arrangements for the pup, but we're going to try and make it work.

3. The Englishman Horace Walpole is credited as saying, "The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think."  How do you see it?

I guess I'm a feeler and a thinker, because I'd say it's a bit of both. There is much to break our hearts in this world, but also much to make us smile and laugh. 

4. May is National Hamburger Month...how often do you eat a burger?  What are your must-haves when it comes to burgers?  I assume you vegetarians won't be celebrating so tell us what you'd like instead?

I consider hamburgers summer food and I never cook a hamburger in the winter months. Actually I never cook a hamburger indoors, no matter what season we're in. I might order one out someplace on occasion but for the most part I like my burgers grilled and eaten outdoors. My must-haves are lettuce, tomato, mayo, and pickle.  

Now I'm kind of craving a hamburger.  
It's still not 'al fresco' weather around here, but hopefully soon.  

5. Pansies, petunias, geraniums, impatiens...of the four mentioned which is your favorite in a patio pot? Will there be pots on your patio this spring? (Or whenever spring comes to your part of the globe?)  Who does the gardening at your house?

I don't know if I can pick a favorite, maybe pansies...partly because they're so hardy and partly because there is something very sweet about a pot full of pansies with their hopeful little faces turned upward.  

I do love petunias and am always swayed by their wonderful color in the garden center, but petunias need to be 'dead-headed' as my mom would say....that is, they need all the dead heads plucked on a daily basis, otherwise they get too leggy.  For people who travel a lot that's a problem.

We can grow some impatiens...we had the most beautiful bed of impatiens around our front tree when we lived in Maryland, but we have a bit of a 'critter' issue up here so I pretty much have to stick to pots that can be moved if an animal drops by and thinks its breakfast.  

I never used to be a fan of geraniums, but these days you can find some really beautiful varieties so I've been won over. Plus, they're hard to kill which is always a bonus if you're a plant in my care.  At our house hubs manages the yard and I'm in charge of the flowers.  

6. When did you last (literally or figuratively) shout "Mayday, Mayday!"

Mayday comes from a French word which literally means-help me!  

When was the last time I called for help? I honestly can't remember. I'm trying to think of any recent technical disasters where I might have called my girls for assistance, but nothing is springing to mind.  

7. Say farewell to your April in ten words or less.

Thanks A-Z for reminding me why I blog.  

8.  Insert your own random thought here.

I think I already mentioned that last week I was here-  

It's worth mentioning again.

Hubs and I had a quick getaway to Ft. Lauderdale just because, which is my favorite kind of trip. We flew down on Wednesday morning and back home Sunday night.  The weather was perfection and we spent most of our time planted in a lounge chair beside the pool.  

The chairs had little flags attached to the back side, and if you wanted something tropical with a little umbrella in it, or even just lunch or sodas, you popped up your flag, and voila! A waiter appeared.  I thought about bringing my flag home with me, but then I remembered at home I am the waiter.  

I hardly took any pictures, and the ones I did take were with my phone. I was too busy lounging and too lazy to keep up with my big camera. Plus there was sun to seek and naps to chase down. I had what might qualify as the best nap of my life on the very first afternoon we were there. I plopped myself into a lounge chair beside the pool and fell into what can only be described as coma sleep. 

You're interested in my nap, right?  

This ship pulled out one day while we were on the beach.  I reminded hubs again to never let me get talked into a cruise. I know people love them, but it is not for me.  

In a funny twist of events, it turned out two different couples we know, from two different places in life, also happened to be in Ft. Lauderdale last weekend. We ended up having drinks with one couple on Friday night and dinner with the other couple on Saturday night. 

So that was the weekend...swimming, napping, reading and sunning. 

Oh, and raising that little chair flag every now and then.