On the Kirkland waterfront at Carillon Point for dinner on Friday night the 17th of May.
Another Wednesday has rolled around and Joyce has a new set of questions for Hodgepodge.
1. What are you currently juggling in your life?
I’m juggling exercise, eating, yard care, trip planning, garage sale preparations and understanding apps and catching up with events on my blog now that I have a way to post photos again.
2. How often do you buy new clothes?
When I see something that I know will work on my current body size and is a reasonably priced item I purchase it.
What was the last piece of clothing you purchased?
This past weekend was all about shoes! We were visiting our kids on the Westside of the mountains. There is a Brooks Shoe outlet that is convenient to where our kids live. I like a particular Brooks brand that works well on my feet. I bought a pair, Dear bought a pair, and a pair was purchased for each of our Colville kids. They gave Laura their sizes and pictures were sent back and forth and purchases made. I found a pair of Merrill waterproof shoes in my size at REI on the clearance table so those were purchased, too. Dear found a pair of dressier/casual Clark shoes at Nordstrom Rack. We had lots of shoe boxes to juggle! 🙂
I’m defaulting to shoes as a form of clothing. 🙂
3. What food festival would you most like to attend? If you need help here are links to some of the bigger and more popular food events around the world-
For many reasons food festivals do not call out to me.
4. May is the 5th month of the year. Tell us something you remember about your 5th grade year.
Oh boy…fifth grade was a can of worms for me. There are only two teachers in my schooling experience that I had reasons to believe did not like me. One of those was my Junior High Geometry teacher (he’s the one that gave me a D even though my tests, etc. were a solid C) When I questioned him and tried to show him my test results, etc., he blew up in front of the whole class and said quote, “Are you calling me a liar?”. Then he sent me to the girls vice principal. She was sympathetic but I still received the D.
My fifth grade teacher, Mrs. Helm, was the other teacher that gave me the impression that she did not like me. I was an avid reader in my elementary years and beyond and a quote that came into my head one day in her class when she told me to sit down was, “I might be sitting down on the outside but I’m standing up on the inside.”
In 5th grade running out to the playground the girl right in front of me stopped and bent down to tie her shoe abruptly. I fell over her and ended up chipping a bone in my wrist. The office called my mother and they had to order a cab to take us to our doctor who x-rayed and put my wrist in a cast. Our mother never learned to drive. Our father was unreachable when he worked on different sites around the Los Angeles area.
The good thing I remember about 5th grade is that a girl from Scotland moved to our school and came to our class later in the year. I was fascinated by her and struck a friendship with her and enjoyed her friendship.
5. What are your favorite five words right now?
Jesus ~ Truth ~ Lovingkindness ~ Rescued ~ Maranatha
6. Insert your own random thought here.
We enjoyed a long weekend on the Westside of the mountains with our ‘Coast Kids’. I’ll be posting about that and the other events I couldn’t add photos for in the month of May. Blog catch-up including this event…
The Happy Wonderer ~ ellen b. 
…I try to forget fifth grade.
Hello,
I have very few memories from my childhood. Great photo of the family!
Take care, enjoy your day!
Nice pic of the lights; we never did see them here, though people did. I somehow missed them!
Great picture of your family! I don’t feel like I am juggling very much in life right now. I think that will be changing soon…
I don’t really care for food festivals either… for one thing I’m not a big food junky… LOL!
Glad you are able to post pictures again. That must have been frustrating.
Hope you have a wonderful Memorial Weekend!
Beautiful picture!
I love Brooks. I was thinking this morning it’s proably time to get a new pair. I’ll have to see if I can find an outlet around here.
Your view of the Northern Lights is spectacular!! Your family photos always make me smile. Y’all all look so happy!!
So glad that you were able to solve your blog photo issue! Shoe shopping has not gone well for me lately. I have had to return a few pairs and the pair that I kept . . . well, I’m still not sure about them. Gone are the days of just buying the cute shoes off the rack!
That picture is AMAZING!
Nice to see all those happy smilies. 🙂
Lovely photo of the Northern lights! I feel like I am always juggling eating and exercise.
Love the photo of the family and also the Northern lights. I used to buy a lot of shoes, but not so much any more. But if I found a sale of the shoes that I really like, you can bet I would buy more.
Ye, Maranatha! I went to Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa for a time and love the Maranatha music.
Looks like you got a lot of great shoes! I had a Miss Helm for my 4th grade teacher, and she was the best! She gave me confidence in myself, and I learned the joy of reading from her. We saw the northern lights while on a cruise in Alaska.
That’s a lot of juggling you have going on. I haven’t been in a store in buy clothes in a long time. Have bought some things online. Sorry to hear about the feelings you got from those teachers. Glad you had that friendship with that girl from Scotland. Love your five words. No way on your random, you saw that???
Yes, Debby, it was amazing! thank you for you kind comment.
Beautiful Aurora Borealis sky!
I like to order online from a ‘woman’s clothes store where I know from past experience that their sizes will fit well. I scan their “clearance” section often as they have good sales.
Shoe outlets are great!
I remember that President Kennedy was assassinated when I was in 5th grade. We were sent home early from school after praying for him in church. Sad day!
Yes, that was a very sad day. I was in Science class in Junior high (8th grade) and I’m pretty sure we were sent home, too.
You have a lot of memories from 5th grade; sadly, I have none. I like Brooks shoes and could use a new pair. Good luck with your garage sale preparations!
That’s a terrific photo! Shoes definitely count : ) I like Merrells too. Also, some people should not be teachers. Just sayin’
That’s quite the mixed bag of memories from fifth grade! Shoes count as clothing, I think. I have really changed my ways with buying shoes as I’ve gotten older – I have to be careful to get shoes that are a bit more supportive so I don’t buy often as I have to spend more to get the quality I want. Hope you have a great weekend!
I enjoyed your hodgepodge answers this week, Ellen. Glad you had opportunity to do some shoe buying while you were visiting your family. Good shoes are so important.
Great hodgepodge and I loved the photos, especially the one of you with your family. Though I have to say that last one is quite a show. Must be amazing to see.
I’m late to commenting. I enjoyed your answers, adn that photo at the end is stunning!
Lovely!