Roll Out the Barrel ~ Hodgepodge

Welcome to the Hodgepodge.

Joyce asks the questions.

We answer.

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1. Besides left over Easter goodies, what's something currently kept in a basket at your house?

I love baskets. So I have books in baskets. I have hats and mittens in baskets. I have a knitting project in a basket....I could go on and on. 

2. 'The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.' ~Michelangelo Buonarroti 

So which one are you...the one who aims too high, or the one who aims too low? Have you ever seen The Sistine Chapel? Did you know Michelangelo's surname prior to answering this question? 

 I aim high. I always want to do my best or better. At times it has gotten me in a situation that I know I took on too much for myself. I keep on and try to reach the goal.

I have not seen The Sistine Chapel.

Yes, I did know Michelangelo's surname prior to answering this question.

3. April 7th is National Beer Day. Hmmm...wonder how that's celebrated? Do you like beer? Have a favorite? If you're not a beer drinker do you have any recipes you enjoy cooking that call for beer?

Ha! My son's birthday is April 7th! I will have to let him know that it is National Beer Day!

I live in a beer drinking state...Wisconsin!

And we have a special song to celebrate!

 Since the 1970s, it (usually the Frankie Yankovic version) has been played during the seventh inning stretch at Milwaukee Brewers baseball games, as well as becoming one of the state of Wisconsin's unofficial state songs as it is also played at numerous University of Wisconsin sporting events, as well as Green Bay Packers home games, and Milwaukee Panthers basketball games, including after every home win.

I do not drink beer. I do have a favorite beer,  Leinenkugel. I like the story of how it got started. My husband shared with me about the Indian Princess on the Leinenkugel logo. 

I like to soak brats and hot dogs in beer before grilling.

I also enjoy using beer to grill chicken.

4. When did you last travel somewhere new? Tell us where? How'd it go?

For my birthday, my sister treated me to a weekend to Chicago, Illinois. It was the first time to Chicago for me and my sister. We enjoyed a great adventure.

Up on top of Willis Tower

5. The value of _________________________is greatly overrated.

The value of STUFF is greatly overrated.

 

 6. What's a pet peeve of yours when it comes to restaurant dining?

Only 1 napkin. I am a napkin person and usually need 2 or 3.

 7. It's Poetry Month...share a favorite poem, either the title, a few lines you find meaningful, or the whole kit and caboodle.

Robert Frost is one of my favorites.

The Road Not Taken

By Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

 

 

 

 8. Insert your own random thought here. 

Wood Tick season is upon us in Wisconsin.

I hate Wood Ticks!!