Getting to Know You

 It's 31°F tonight and the heat is on.

Tuesday 4 is available.   We are due for another  nor'easter by Monday.

 Welcome to Sunday Stealing. Here we will steal all types of questions from every corner of the blogosphere. Our promise to you is that we will work hard to find the most interesting and intelligent questions. Cheers to all of us thieves!

Ignore the above paragraph. This week we're going rogue with questions inspired by a website devoted to giving penpals topics for their letters.

Getting to Know You 

1) Describe yourself in three words.

Studious, exhausted, and I have no clue.

2) What's your favorite dish at your favorite restaurant?   

I really don't have a favorite. The 18oz ribeye at Delmonico's in NY is really good.

3) Did you set goals for 2026? If yes, how are you proceeding toward them?

I don't set goals anymore as I can't live up to them because of physical limitations.

4) What's something you have learned the hard way?

That many people are not trustworthy or nice.  That if there is one thing we get wrong over all in life is to weary in well doing and treating others better than we treat ourselves.

5) If you could skip one item on today's to-do list, what would it be?

Not much on the agenda at all today. I need to clean the kitchen up a bit more and I'd rather skip that.

Somewhere Over Laredo

 

Hi friends,   

Another stormy weekend ....

Welcome to Saturday: 9. What we've committed to our readers is that we will post 9 questions every
Saturday. Sometimes the post will have a theme, and at other times the questions will be totally unrelated. Those weeks we do "random questions," so-to-speak. We encourage you to visit other participants posts and leave a comment. Because we don't have any rules, it is your choice. We hate rules. We love memes, however, and here is today's meme!

Saturday 9: Somewhere Over Laredo (2025)

   Unfamiliar with this week's song? Hear it HERE

1) In this song, Laney Wilson namechecks Tito's Vodka. Is there a product you you are very brand loyal to? (It doesn't have to be liquor. Maybe you always reach for Dawn Dishwashing Liquid, even if another soap is on sale.)

I am loyal to Rienzi canned  products from Italy. They are natural and extremely low sodium and healthy.

 

2) The lyrics start with her in a window seat on a flight out of Houston. Do you prefer the window or the aisle?  Aisle seat. I don't want to climb over people and I don't care what's outside.

 

3) She's dreaming of rodeo nights with the guy she loves. If you could spend this evening with anyone at all, anywhere at all, where would you go and who would be with you?

 Out to dinner with my friends and family. 

4) Lainey is from Baskin, LA, population 200. Do you prefer big cities or small towns?

Both have their place.   I live in a small coastal community now but I wouldn't mind living in New  York City at all.

5) There's a Netflix documentary about Lainey called Keepin' Country Cool. What show have you recently streamed?   I haven't streamed anything in a while but I do watch a number of things on YouTube.

 

6) This week's song borrows liberally from "Somewhere Over the Rainbow," so much so that "Rainbow" songwriters Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg receive credit. "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" is the most beloved song from The Wizard of Oz.    Can you name another?

If you mean from the movie it would be the songs  If I Only Had a Brain and Follow the Yellow Brick Road.  Oh.. and  We're Off to See the Wizard.

 

7) In 2025, when this song was popular, more patients took advantage of telehealth than ever before. Have you ever had a virtual doctor visit?

No.

 

8) Also in 2025, smart home technology was integrated into more new home construction. Do you use smart devices to automate your lights, thermostat, or doorbell?

No but I do have a smart device. I use it for time, weather,  information and to make hands free emergency photo calls..  

 

9) Random question – On which day are you happier: a) the day you take off on vacation or b) the day you return home from your trip? 

It's exciting to go and it's a pleasure to return home again.  I think they are about equal.

 

Another Wednesday

Hi friends, I have spent the day looking for some relatives graves in Pennsylvnia and found quite a few  

The weather was very temperate today and nights now are chilly.

The banner I am using is one of the first times I ever put up a finished product... I never really do. They are always half done.  This one has a cheat on it... I used AI to amplify the light from the lighthouse. Otherwide, its my own painting.

Here are some prompts from Wednesday Hodgepodge:

1. Do you think you're driven more by curiosity or comfort? Explain. 

Always curiosity.   I have an insatiable drive to study, learn, find, etc.  When there is a question about something I will immediately research it to find the meaning, etc.  

2. What non-food item is in your refrigerator or freezer? 

I have some cold packs of various sizes in my freezer.

3. Are you comfortable with silence?   Yes. 

If you're home alone, do you like silence or do you need regular background noise? 

 I am not one who needs music and TV on all the time and actually I don't like that very much. I prefer the sounds of the outdoors that leak in through the day: kids, dogs, seagulls and etc.

Today there is a cricket in the office who has come inside. He is singing all day long.

Do you seek out times and places to be silent?

No, I don't actively seek them out, they are just there in the place where I live. 

 What's your favorite place to find silence/be silent? 

My own home and neighborhood are usually quiet. I am in a unique area where nature is very close.

4. Carpentry, electrical, plumbing, landscaping...which skill would you most like to possess and how would you put that skill to use today?

Landscaping.  I would redo my property for sure.  Secondly I would love to be a carpenter to fix up my home.

5. Do you lean more towards being too needy or too independent?

I go between both.

 Which do you find harder to deal with in others? 

Needy.  I am ill equipped anymore to help anyone with that except on a verbal basis and even then not a lot.

6.  Insert your own random thought here.

“I was burning, while you came blaming me for the smell of ashes” Kamryn Tanner from the poem I Burn for You.

This quote fits the view of the poor and disadvantaged, the abused wife,child... so many.  

A similar quote is one about mocking how someone swims while they are drowning.