1. August 19th is National Aviation Day. Do you like to fly? Last time you were on an airplane? The date is chosen in honor of the history and development of aviation, and celebrated on the birthday of Orville Wright. Have you ever been to the Kitty Hawk or Dayton,…
Daybook
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A Daybook Entry: August 2026
Happy Monday! And welcome again to my blog. I cannot believe it but, I just checked, and I don’t think I got a daybook entry done for the month of July. I’m so disappointed with myself. I was on a streak with these monthly posts. And I almost had decided…
A Quick Check-in and Birthday Wishes
Welcome to Friday! Another week in the history books. It has been a good week for me, although I have been a bit under the weather since Wednesday evening. I did not feel well yesterday and did not prepare a proper post. However, I wanted to pop on quickly this…
Hodge Podge
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Never Melon-Choly About the Hodge Podge
Welcome to this week’s Hodge Podge. Excuse the title. I just could not help myself. I hope everyone has been enjoying a nice week. Not much chit chat for me. Let’s just jump into the questions. I briefly glanced at the questions and I hope I don’t have too many…
Other
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Ten (on the 10th) Would You Rathers
Happy Monday!! How was the weekend? We had a special day at church yesterday – a church anniversary with our pastor and his wife – with delicious food and enjoyed a very nice day. Saturday was also nice. We did all the Saturday things: farmer’s market, ran a few errands,…
Currently
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Lately: Late Summer Edition
Happy Friday! It has been a good week and I am thankful. We had a crazy storm blow through last night. I had been out with a friend and had only been home about five minutes before the sky went completely black and the thunder started rumblings. Within minutes, it…
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I Learned It On the Hodge Podge
Happy Hodge Podge Day! I hope your week is going well. The heat has returned. Actually, the humidity has returned. I mean, it is August but the break last week was so nice. I will admit, everything is still green outside my windows. It is usually toast by now. I…
Good Monday Morning
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Good Monday Morning 08.03.26
Happy Monday friends! I hope you had a wonderful weekend. Mine was blessed. That is simply an answer to prayer and God’s goodness, and I am grateful. As I mentioned last week, we went away for a couple of days and it was lovely. The weather was perfection. Truly. We…
Other
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Share Four Somethings: July 2027
I can’t believe I almost missed this month’s Share Four Somethings. Truthfully, I did miss it. Jen had the link-up last weekend and, well, I totally was not paying attention. I thought about skipping it but I have not missed one of these posts for years and I didn’t want…
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Eye of the Tiger or a Tiger’s Eye?
Happy Hodge Podge Day! I was looking through Unsplash (the site where I get 95 percent of my pictures…you can, no doubt, easily spot the five percent that I’ve taken myself!) for a tiger photo. There were so many beautiful, and majestic, photos of these powerful cats. They look like…
Good Monday Morning
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Good Monday Morning 07.27.26
Hello friends….happy Monday!! I thought I would have a quick look at the weekend and, well, I missed posting on Friday. Oops. So, I will have to begin with last Thursday. And, I don’t want to skip it because I had such a good time. My friend and I went…
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A Lemon of a Hodge Podge
Happy Hodge Podge Day! I hope your week has been going well. Did you finally get some rain? Were you dealing with the smoke? I hope it has moved on or been cleared up by some rain. We had a storm last night. Finally. The storms have popped up all…