I decided to join up with Joyce this week for the Hodge Podge, a feature I like to do but haven’t done in a long time.
- What do you love most about March?
March has never really stood out to me as a month I like for any reason other than I know it will lead us out of winter and toward Spring. I have to be careful saying that, though, because there have been some months of March over the years where we have gotten nailed by a snowstorm — sometimes at the end of the month even! One year we got a couple of feet of snow on March 30th!
What I do like about March is that usually we start to see flowers like Daffodils blooming and we celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with food they don’t actually eat in Ireland, but we like anyhow. Ha!
2. Hey! Did you know March is National Celery Month? Do you like celery? What’s something you make (or like to order out) that calls for celery?
I did not know that March is National Celery Month. I do like celery. I don’t like that it is sometimes stringy and gets stuck in my throat. I love it with peanut butter.
My mom used to make an amazing chicken salad for chicken salad sandwiches and it required celery. I mean REQUIRED. It had to be in there. It just tasted so much better with it. For a long time, we didn’t make this chicken salad because I couldn’t find a mayonnaise I could eat because of my allergy to corn (don’t ask. It’s a long story.) and because my mom simply stopped making it.
I have discovered that I can eat Duke’s Mayonnaise now so I can make chicken salad again! With celery! I should get on that! Also, if you are going to eat chicken salad, I highly recommend eating it on potato bread. So good. We ate chicken salad on potato bread all the way to North Carolina one year while we traveled to my grandparents.
3. _______________ is the soundtrack to my life right now. is the soundtrack to my life right now.
Victorian Farm and all the other historical British farm shows (Edwardian Farm, Tudor Farm, Tales from the Green Valley) is the soundtrack to my life right now. I swear I always have an episode running in the background to distract my racing brain, even when I am writing blog posts. I found Tales From The Green Valley on YouTube and started watching it today.
4. Share a favorite motivational quote for overcoming challenges.
“I have learned to kiss the waves that throw me up against the Rock of Ages”
― Charles H. Spurgeon
(I have not actually learned this lesson, but I really do like the quote)
5. The Hodgepodge lands on Ash Wednesday this year. Do you participate in Lent in some way? If so tell us more.
I don’t really participate in Lent other than to recognize that we are getting closer to Easter. I absolutely love the idea of Lent and giving up something for it, though, and in the past I have participate by giving up sugar, social media, news, or similar things.
6. Insert your own random thought here.
My cats are inside/outside cats. They absolutely love being outside and exploring, but at night they usually come in to eat, sleep, and get their pets in. In the winter they aren’t very interested in going outside at all and this winter they have definitely not been interested because it has been so bitter cold. I thought our younger cat, Scout, would venture out despite the cold but even she has preferred laying near the woodstove or curled up on a blanket to exploring and hunting outside.
Our older cat, Pixel, loves to be outside during the warmer months but doesn’t hunt as much as the younger one anymore. She mainly sits on the back porch and looks out over the backyard, watching what I am not sure.
She and the younger cat don’t really get along. She slaps Scout whenever Scout walks near her. At the end of this past summer, though, I started to notice that Pixel wanted to stay outside if Scout was still outside. She would sit on the porch, looking out into the darkness, as if waiting for Scout to come home.
My parents have a pair of cats and the female cat does wait for the male cat to come before she will eat. They are not siblings either. Sometimes, the female cat will even call for the male cat.
Pixel doesn’t call for Scout, as far as I have ever heard, but she does seem to wait for her. I always think they will bump noses and rub against each other when Scout does come, but instead, Pixel just slaps her again as if she’s angry at her. Maybe she’s scolding her for being out late since Scout has been known to stay out all night at times, leaving me inside, awake in the middle of the night hoping a fox didn’t get her.
I can just imagine Pixel saying to her, “What are you doing? Worrying Mom like that? She loves you! And you’re out there gallivanting around like a stupid little kitten.”
That’s my Hodge Podge for this week. How would you answer some of these questions?
