Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Lucky You! It's the Hodgepodge!

It's your lucky day! You've landed on the Wednesday Hodgepodge! If you've answered this week's questions, add your link at the end of my post. And go say hi to the neighbors, or at least the one who linked before you. 


1. Share a favorite song, book, or movie title containing the word green.

My favorite book in the world has the word green in its title-Anne of Green Gables.  I also loved How Green Was My Valley. A favorite 'green' film would be 'Fried Green Tomatoes', which is one of those movies I'll stop and watch if I see it playing on TV. 

And I might as well choose a song too. I'm not sure I have a favorite, but I do really like the song Evergreen by Barbara Streisand. She sings it beautifully and the lyrics are timeless. 

2. Ralph Waldo Emerson is quoted as saying, 'Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.' Would you agree? Are you a believer in luck?

Sometimes true. I'm sure there are some strong people out there who do believe in luck...they just don't rely on it. When you look around and see people who are deemed 'lucky' there's usually hard work and careful planning behind that luck. 

3. Spring water, Hot Springs, handspring, spring fling, spring break, spring fever, offspring...which 'spring' word best applies to something in your day, week, or life right now?

After a weekend away filled with fabulous weather I've now got a serious case of spring fever. And we have a snowflake  in our Friday forecast. WHAAAAAA!

4. What's something you do to make yourself look or feel more confident?

Wear heels. With a great pair of heels I feel like I could rule the world. 

5. It's National Celery Month...are you a fan? If so, what's a snack or dish you enjoy that calls for celery?

I do like celery. Hubs also likes celery, but doesn't like the smell so I try to do the chopping when he's not in the room. My favorite recipe that calls for celery is without a doubt my mama's cornbread stuffing. Gotta have celery in my cornbread stuffing. I also like celery diced up in tuna salad and fix that about once a week. 

6. What's one thing you wish you'd learned sooner?

That growth occurs most often during times of transition or when I'm outside my comfort zone. How to embrace that notion instead of fearing it. 

7.  Would you like to own a second home? If so, where would you want that home to be?

My first thought is no, and hubs and I are completely on the same page here. We've discussed this many times. The idea of a second home is appealing on some level, but in reality what we both really want is a home on the water. 

We love to travel and there are so many places in the world I want to see. I'd rather have my dream house (or something close to it) on the water somewhere, and then go out and see the world when I need a change of scenery. If I owned a second home I'd feel pressure to use it on a regular basis, and that's not really us. Too much wanderlust. 

Unless my second home could be an apartment in London. Or Paris. Or on Lago Maggiore. If I could swing that then yes, I'd probably go for it. 

8.  Insert your own random thought here.

Every spring a mama fox readies her 'nest' on our side hill and has her babies. The nesting site is in the woods, but right at the edge, so we often see her coming and going this time of year. Some years the mama looks a little rough, but she has a big furry tail this year, so evidently winter has agreed with her. 


When the kits are born we love to watch them play. They don't hang around for very long, but are super cute when they're tiny, and they're really playful. Last year two of them found a ski glove someone had dropped and they'd bat it back and forth between them which was hilarious to watch. 


We can sit in our sunroom and the kits don't pay us any attention, but their mama keeps a close eye. The other day we spied her running along the front of the house, on her way out to the road.  


We usually see babies around Eastertime, so hopefully soon. And as hard as it is to believe those trees will be leafy green and provide a lot more camoflauge than she's got now. The creativity on display in nature is really amazing, isn't it? 





29 comments:

  1. How fun to have a fox den so close! I bet those babies are super cute. Looking forward to seeing pics of them later. :)

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  2. Oh wow! We have a lot of wildlife on our property, including one rarely seen mountain lion (thankfully), but never a fox. We need a fox. So cute.

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  3. My Mother's corn bread dressing needs a lot of celery too, I wonder if they are similar?
    We have had spring like weather around here but I heard a rumor snowflakes are in our future too. INSERT BIG GRUMPY FACE.
    Enjoy your fox watching!

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  4. Love the pictures of the wildlife. I wish I could wear heels but they do not like me. When I attempt to wear them my vertigo kicks in and I am wobbly.

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  5. I will have to Google Lago Maggiore, smiles. Great Hodgepodge, Joyce, thanks. Blessings

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  6. I agree with you about the movie 'Fried Green Tomatoes'. I love it and it never gets old. (our family once visited the place where the movie was filmed, including The Whistle Stop Cafe!)

    Now about those high heels...I never could master the art of wearing them gracefully :( I feel clumsy and awkward whenever I have to wear them!

    I love your fox! We've had one or two pass through here, from time to time, but since we have poultry farmers,nearby, foxes never last long in our area :(

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  7. I have never been a high-heeled shoe wearer. At 5'9 " flat-footed, too much heel makes me feel like Amazon woman!! lol

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  8. Can't believe I didn't think of Anne of Green Gables!! Love love love the pics and fox story!

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  9. I would love watching the fox and her babies! I hope the new owners of your home don't get spooked by her next year, and do something terrible, like set traps or shoot at her. You should write that into your sales agreement!! Thanks for another fun Hodgepodge, Joyce!

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  10. Snow? Ugh! How awesome to see the mama fox raise her little ones.

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  11. Hi,
    I love your neighbor the fox. I love to watch wildlife as well, so I am sure watching the kits is great fun.
    # 6 - so very true!
    Enjoy your week,
    Carla

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  12. Oh, my, that fox is mighty close but oh, so pretty and know the babies are precious. So, we're both suffering from Spring Fever. Love, love spring! Always enjoy the HP and the various answers the questions always provoke. Hope you get that house on the water. Ours is on a small pond, but nonetheless, it's on water and we are so excited!

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  13. So living by the water might be a hint as to where your new home will be. It is so exciting to think about how one will live retirement, and being able to enjoy traveling is such an important part of that time. I trust the house is being shown and you can be on your way soon.

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  14. Thanks for today's Hodgepodge! Those little foxes are so sweet!

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  15. Cornbread stuffing with celery! Yes and amen!

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  16. Fried Green Tomatoes is a great movie and that is one beautiful song from Barbara Streisand. I was never much into heals but I do believe your right about that when it comes to making you feel confident! She looks like a beautiful fox. Hope you get a chance to see the babies.

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  17. I forgot all about Anne of Green Gables. I like the song Evergreen too. Barbara Streisand has such a beautiful voice.
    It is sunny here today but when I looked out the window this morning there were flecks falling from the sky, I guess they were snow flurries!

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  18. Thanks for sharing your thoughts this morning...I'm always interested in those folks who maintain a second home, and some from here in Texas have them for use only in four months of the year! Sounds like a lot of extra expense to me!

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  19. I agree...maintaining a second home would be quite the undertaking, but I'd try to make the most of it. Ever since we moved from Knoxville (where we were married), I've had a longing to return. Of course, like with you, I'd love a house on the water! I love going boating!

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  20. I would love to watch fox kits play. We have foxes in the woods behind us, but have never seen babies. The awful sound the foxes make really sounds like someone being murdered. One time I woke Paul to say, "Honey, call 911 !! Something really bad is happening outside!"

    I really want to watch Fried Green Tomatoes again. I've only seen it once but it riveted me.

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  21. How lucky you are getting to watch the little foxes. We had one that would come up and eat scraps that I threw out when we lived in the country and we would get so excited. I can't imagine getting to see the babies too! Enjoyed your answers.

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  22. Well you won't be seeing me wearing heels. I'm so clumsy as is. ;o

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  23. By the way.. those foxes are so cute! Do they come over to your backdoor ?

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  24. Oh yes, I love cornbread stuffing too with celery. This question also reminded me of when Caleb and I made little "cars" with celery, peanut butter, and carrot wheels when we were doing a unit on transportation before he went to school.

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  25. The second home would be a maintenance issue that I wouldn't like to take on but an apartment or cottage in Europe for a travel base would be great...Time share was a good thought but I guess the bottom fell out of the market.

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  26. I love those pictures of the fox. I think they are such a beautiful creature.

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  27. I would watch those cute little foxes all day long. I loved Anne of Green Gables and positively adored Fried Green Tomatoes! Must have watched it 20 times! Enjoy your week and hope things are going along smoothly with the house!

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  28. I love watching animals in their natural habitat. Your foxes are beautiful. Thanks for your visit to my blog page and your kind words re: my friend. He really was a good Godly man!

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  29. Cornbread stuffing! I totally forgot about that. I make the same one my grandmother and mother did and I LOVE it! It's one of the few things that I can reproduce from their traditional recipes.

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