2nd post for today: HodgePodge

 

Rain and thunder and darkness today.
It has been a very stormy summer here by the Jersey seaside. Everything is green and lush as a result. Though, compared to the brown landscape of the western US.


Here is this week's hodgepodge. 

1. August 12th is National Middle Child Day...are you a middle child? If not, where in your family do you fall in terms of birth order? Do you hold true to the typical characteristics of oldest-middle-youngest-only child?  Elaborate.

I am the first born of my parents, but not an only child. I am my father's youngest by decades and my mother's only child.
I don't believe in categories or locking people into classifications. It is very ugly.  Personality types, religious types, any other types.     Nope, Not having it.
Annie don't play that. Life is not that simple and people are never simple, never the same. Each person is as different as snowflakes. No two are the same ever.  This effort to lock people into categories is very new, very disturbing and very wrong.

2. Tell us about a time you felt like (or you actually were) in the middle of nowhere.

Uintas Mountains, Utah

Everywhere is somewhere. If you were no where you would not exist. See?  I've been in places where humans rarely go in the High Unitas of Utah though.

3. What's something you're smack in the middle of currently?
Fixing the house up as I am able. I can't fix my roof. I just have no money for it so I am rearranging inside to make myself feel better about a hopeless situation.

4. What's a food you love to eat that has something delicious in the middle?
I used to love Snickers but I no longer eat sugar of any kind really, so oh, I know, how about Manicotti! Now that's pretty delicious in the middle!


 5. Share a memory from your middle school days, or junior high if that's what your school dubbed kids somewhere between grades 6-8.
We studied aviation in 7th  grade. Our science teacher Mr. Seitz taught us about aviation. We each built our own design from balsa wood. A great year and a wonderful experience.
It was still called Junior High and was 7th and 8th grades.
  
 6. Insert your own random thought here.

With Politicians.  Everyone of them is a crook. Right/left.. all the same bunch of losers.