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Friday, February 6, 2026

Youg at Heart


Saturday is the crown jewel of the week. As the 7th day of the week, it marks a completion.... the Creator rested from all the work he had done.  I rest too, so my Saturday posts are written on Friday morning or early afternoon and this Friday afternoon is a bit gray but we are having a heat wave of 34F!  I am still iced in with a 3 foot wall of ice blocking my house. Nothing in, nothing out.  And as I am typing, a high wind warning appears on my screen.

Its time for Saturday 9.... here we go

"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: You Make Me Feel So Young (1956)
 
Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it here.  

1) This morning, do you feel younger or older than your years?
 I always feel younger than my hears by decades really.  My body is a mess, I am 95% disabled at last evaluation but, inside I feel like a little kid.

2) In this song, Frank Sinatra tells us that every time he sees his lover's grin, he's happy. What's something you can reliably count on to lift your spirits?
 I like cute animal memes and the new AI series of little cartoon girls singing.

3) The lyrics mention hide-and-seek. What games did you play when you were young? 
Candy Land, Old Maid Chutes and Ladders.

4) Frank Sinatra was a fan of Campbell's chicken and rice soup, believing it helped his throat feel better after an evening of performing. Is Campbell's soup in your kitchen right now?
Nope

5) Frank's favorite dessert was a slice of lemon ricotta torte. He believed every meal should include "a final flourish." Do you more often indulge in or skip dessert?
Usually skip but only because I have to.  If I didn't I would eat dessert all day long !

6) At Sinatra's home in Palm Springs, CA, you'd find a less sophisticated dessert. He always kept Entenmann's Crumb Cake on hand for his young granddaughters. Share a memory of your grandparents. 
I lived with my paternal grandparents for the first bit of my life and my grandmother made me tea after school and my grandpa took me to watch the trains. Later I shared a bedroom with my maternal grandmother until I was 15.
 
7) In 1956, when this song was popular, Frank was tooling around Southern California in a blue Continental Mark II. That model was known for its interior of hand-stitched imported Scottish leather. 70 years later, Scottish leather is still used in luxury cars because it's both soft and durable and the production methods minimize environmental impact. If you could splurge on something right now, what would it be? A luxury 
car, jewelry, travel, clothes, something else? (No responsible answers allowed!)
A whole new kitchen and all new flooring through the house.

8) Also in 1956, The Invasion of the Body Snatchers and Forbidden Planet were popular at the box office. Do you have a favorite sci-fi movie?  
Forbidden Planet is a favorite .

9) Random question: What were you doing three hours ago?
Reading.



Wednesday, February 4, 2026

HodgePodge


Wednesday and another snowy countdown is starting. Will it or won't it? I am iced in and could use a couple of days above freezing to melt that pile of ice.  We missed the last round of snow as it stalled out in North Carolina just a hop, skip and a jump south of us.     They were welcome to it.  

Here is this week's Wednesday HodgePodge... go on over and join in!!


 1. The Winter Olympics kick off on Friday, February 6th...on a scale of 1-10 how excited are you? (1= eh and 10=watching every event all day every day).
I am really not excited at all.   
What's your favorite Winter Olympic sporting event? 
It used to be women's figure skating.    I don't bother with the Olympics anymore though.


2. In other sporting news, the Superbowl (American football's championship game) will be played on Sunday, February 8th. So tell us...what's your superpower?
I guess my superpower is being stoic. At least my orthopedic surgeon tells me I am but I don't know. I think I would like the superpower of being invisible and indestructable whenever I want.

3. Are you romantic?   Yes, very much but I've always been alone in my romances.

4. Blue cheese, yay or nay? How about feta? If you said yes to one or both, what's a dish you like that calls for one of these?
I like all of these cheeses.   A Greek salad calls for feta and so does spinach pie. Blue cheese is wonderful anywhere and I like it on salad and as a dip.  Feta is good on soup too.

5. What's more important doing what you love or loving what you do?   I think they go together.

6.Insert your own random thought here.  Here in New Jersey the bays and parts of the ocean are frozen solid and people down in Cape May area are skating on the frozen ocean.  Here by the bay, they have the ice boats out as well and they are busy speeding all over the place!

Here are some photos stolen off FB all taken here this week  near my home on the bay/ocean.
Look at the frozen waves!  I don;t know who to credit for them but they are nice shots.




Keep warm, be happy, enjoy life as much as you can...