Wednesday Hodgepodge - Volume 522

 

I'm joining Joyce over at From This Side of the Pond for the Wednesday Hodgepodge.  Click on the photo above for the link.

1. What's something that scares you?

I am most scared that something will happen to someone I love.  I've been through it three times - the phone calls that came to say my mother, then my father, then my sister has died.  I am a worrier and I worry every day about my husband and daughter and pray for their safety.  There are just too many incidents of school and college shootings, workplace violence, road rage, and even mall violence that makes me want to cushion them from harm.  Impossible, I know, so I try not to think about it but as a wife and mother, how is that possible?

2. Do you care where the food you eat comes from? To what degree? 

I saw this on Facebook yesterday - a photo of a Best Foods mayonnaise jar:

My first thought was that someone had Photoshopped the label as an alarmist tactic but when I looked on the mayonnaise jar in my fridge, it's the same.  You hear these terms often these days - bioengineered or genetically modified - is it a bad thing or a good thing?  I don't have a chemistry background so I don't know the science behind it.  The website that's shown on the label - www.learnaboutmyfood.com - states - "At a basic level, these terms refer to crops, like corn, canola, or soybeans that have been altered using modern biotechnology to give it more desirable traits."  Again, is that a good thing or a bad thing?

For a potentially less controversial answer, yes, I care where my food comes from.  I prefer to buy local, and I buy organic whenever possible if I doesn't involve taking out a second mortgage to pay my grocery bill!  I try to use these as a guideline.

3. What's something you wish you'd spent more time doing when you were younger?

Being active.  I think that if I had established a more active lifestyle when I was younger, I wouldn't look on it as such a chore now that I'm older.  I was always one for an indoor activity rather than an outdoor one.

4. Let's play autumn this or that....pumpkin spice or apple cider? Corn maze or haunted house? Horror film or Hallmark movie? Blanket or sweatshirt? Watch football or watch the World Series? Foliage-red, yellow or orange? 

Pumpkin spice, corn maze, Hallmark movie, sweatshirt, football, and orange foliage.  I took this when we were in Maine one year.

5. This time last year where were you and what were you doing? 

This time last year, Vic and I were together again after a three year separation courtesy of COVID and the U.S. Navy and we were in the end stages of our kitchen remodel.  The countertop was being installed, as were the appliances, and the dining room cabinets installation was being completed.  We were both working so these installation appointments meant time off work, thank goodness my employer was accommodating with a telework schedule when needed since Vic was new to his job and it was tough for him to take time off.

6. Insert your own random thought here. 

Can we talk about link party etiquette?  Is there such a thing?  I've been joining in link parties regularly to visit new bloggers and hopefully, have them visit me.  It's not working out as I had hoped.  There are several bloggers that I communicate with regularly, I read and comment on their posts and they read and comment on mine, but there have been many, many others who just drop a link and run, as covered in Grammy's Grid post, Link Party Etiquette.  I get it, people are busy, but isn't there an obligation as a host to comment on the posts of those who leave a link?  That being said, our lovely Joyce here at the Hodgepodge is a faithful commenter and I am very thankful that she hosts such a great link party and is so considerate.

That being said, I am so happy to be blogging again and I do it because I love to write.  I think of it as a journal of sorts, a place to record what we're doing, what I enjoy, things that interest me.  I'm not about to take the Debbie Downer "Why don't I have more commenters?" because if that's the way it is going to be, that's fine.  I do this for myself, and for those visitors who enjoy my posts, not to monetize my blog or keep metrics of visits and comments.

Thoughts?