Happy Birthday America and it is the Hodgepodge

 

Three Cheers for the Red, White and Blue!

It is Wednesday, that means it is time for the Hodgepodge.

Joyce asks the questions.

We answer the questions.

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 1. What do you love most about your country? 

I live in the USA.  I love the spirit American's have to go help. No matter the situation, you will find everyday American's go help.

An example:

Steve Svendsen is a local pastor. He was stuck in Haiti when the country collapsed in 2024. He was rescued by regular citizens. Below is a snip-it of  an article written by Ruth Erickson a local journalist. 

 

The Rev. Steven Svendsen, a local pastor who spent Feb. 26-March 10 teaching at the Haiti Bible Institute in Haiti, only to find no way out of the country when hoping to depart a week ago due to an uprising of gang violence, arrived back on American soil on Sunday.

"Thanks for all the praying and encouragement, friends," Svendsen posted about 5:30 p.m. Sunday. "Thank you Mercury One and Congressman Cory Mills for a heroic rescue. I'm back in the USA. I have been in three countries today. There is no place like home. We have it really good here."

 

2. Your favorite patriotic song? 

The Star-Spangled Banner 

 

 3. Red, white, or blue? Stars or stripes? Something you own besides a US flag with some combination of those colors or decorations as part of its design? 

I am a big fan of blue. I have a lot of blue decorations. Our home has blue trim. 

My husband and I have T-shirts for the big 250th birthday that are red, white and blue. And has stars. 

 

 

 4. What's one thing you want more of this summer: fun, rest, adventure, connection, quiet, or confidence? Elaborate. 

 

We are planning on having more adventures.  

We will have our annual family gathering in August, we spend several days together at the farm. We have the opportunity to have fun, rest, find adventure, connect with each other after not seeing each other for a long while. 

 

5. What was your ultimate, go-to summer activity when you were a kid? Do you still do any version of that today? If you answered yes, does participating in this activity as an adult make you feel like a kid?  

 

I loved swimming. We would head to the lake and go swimming weekly, sometimes daily. If we did not make it to the lake, we would go down to the river to swim.

I no longer swim as much as I use to do. Mostly, because I have to travel. When I was a kid, the river was in the backyard.

 6. Insert your own random thought here. 
 

 

Heading North

 

Episode #17 

We went to our favorite place on earth for our day date #17, Lake Superior.

We enjoyed doing a lot of stuff this day, it was a full day.

We visited Tetzner's Dairy.

Visited Houghton Falls.

Stopped at Siskiwit Falls.

Enjoyed dinner with my parents. We met up for a smelt fry.

I pressed spring flowers along the way.

It was a fun, full day up North. 

We purchased fresh smoked fish. Fresh from the waters of Lake Superior.

 

Siskiwit Falls 

 

Visiting Tetzner's Dairy

We came home with fresh ice cream!

We enjoyed a homemade ice cream sandwich.

I was picking spring flowers and pressing them as we traveled.

Thank you for coming along with me on our day date #17.

How do you like the added art work to this sign? I am finding a lot of additional touches to the signs on our adventures.

 

#15 & #16

 Hi Friends,

For those of you following along with our 52 Day Dates, I am going to do some catch up here the next few weeks. You will notice my photos are of spring, not the full summer that we are currently in. Hang in there with me, hopefully I will get caught up here.

Episode #15

Honey Help and Cook Together 

 

I was busy cleaning gardens. I had my climbing plants to clean off the tip top of our obelisks. Our Day Date became an afternoon of Honey Do. We worked together on the projects that I am not able to do without some help.

 

 

 We made dinner together. 

 

 

 We made one of our favorite one pan meals, Cajun Shrimp. We had sweet corn on the side. It was great to get a few projects done and make a delicious meal.

 

Episode #16 

Spring Walk

We went for a beautiful spring walk at Veteran's Park.

The frogs started to sing, spring, spring, spring. We saw turtles sunbathing. The loons were back on the lake for the summer. It was a fun hike seeing everything wake up from a winter's sleep. And those who migrate back for the summer, loons, ducks and geese.

 

To be continued...