Sweetheart HodgePodge

Welcome to this week's edition of The Wednesday Hodgepodge! Linking up with Joyce and everyone over at From This Side of the Pond as usual!

1. April 22nd is Earth Day...what's the most 'out of this world' place on earth you've ever visited? Tell us something about it.

 I live in Michigan - and Hell is only about a 90-minute drive from me!  I've been there many times.  It's actually a cute little place - and they have an ice cream shop with the toppings in a real coffin!

I have a couple posts from my other blog.  Goin' To Hell    Hell's Hearsefest

I've also been to Hell that's in Grand Cayman, too.  I would have to dig thru a box to find those pics, tho - I had a film camera then! 

2. A favorite quote, verse, or song lyric with the word earth in it?

It's not really my "favorite" per se - but it's a good song and in my favorite genre of 80s hair metal. 

Little Fighter by White Lion

"You were a fighter for peace on this earth"

3. What's the most trivial thing about which you have a strong opinion?

When to use an apostrophe.   Definitely grammar & spelling.  

People who think the speed limit signs in the US are in kilometers (aka driving excessively slow for no reason!!)!  

4. What's your most commonly used kitchen utensil or tool? What's the last thing you made using that tool?

This is the main non-spatula tool that gets used the most. 

For spaghetti, of course!

5. Marilyn (Memphis Bridges) gave me a great book of 3000 questions, and I'm going to try to use one in our Hodgepodge every week. Here is today's - What is your greatest extravagance?

I feel like almost anytime I buy something for myself is an extravagance, even tho it's not really.  The Spouse & I both have "play money" accounts that a portion of our paychecks go into so we don't dip into the joint accounts.  I use mine for Halloween stuff and don't feel guilty about it.  Storage is getting to be the problem, tho.

This is funny - the one thing I can buy without worrying about it being on sale or anything is toilet paper!  The Spouse grew up in rural Arkansas and didn't know about good TP!  So when he moved to Michigan for work, he found he liked Quilted Northern (in the purple package) and now that's all we get.  Somewhere I have a picture of him dancing with his QN in the Walmart parking lot during Covid because we were able to score some!

6. Insert your own random thought here.

~crickets~

Too many things floating around in there!

Back in 1994, a post member from my VFW passed away and left a lot of $$ to the post, so they created an annual $1000 scholarship in his name.  So, we had the drawing for this year's winner and since I'm the scholarship chairman for the post, I get to contact said winner and possibly ending up presenting it at the student's awards ceremony at their school.  BLARGH!  I don't do well with public speaking.    

Another lesson learned - when someone asks if you "want to do stuff with kids"- find out what it is before agreeing!  I'll probably be this chairman for as long as I am a member of this post. 

I started this post yesterday - and oh boy - guess what I saw today?  An ad for Hell in Grand Cayman!