Wednesday again (how does that happen?) ... and that means it's time for the Wednesday Hodgepodge at From This Side of the Pond. Joyce writes the questions, bloggers provide the answers! Here we go ...
1. What does adventure mean to you?
Adventure means trying something new, be it a flavor or an experience, something off the beaten path. I'm not an adventurous person in many ways. I'm fairly adventurous about food, and moderately adventurous about travel, but nothing extreme.
I've picnicked in places with this signage. Some would call that adventurous.
Some folks are terrified of heights or riding in a tram car like this. I quite enjoy it.
2. What are your thoughts on tipping? What businesses or service providers do you regularly tip? Do you resent being asked if you'd like to add a tip? What about when a suggested amount is presented?
I will nearly always leave a tip. Mostly we only regularly tip in restaurants or occasionally put something in a tip jar at an ice-cream place. (We don't frequent hair salons or other places where a tip might be expected.) When we traveled West by Amtrak, we did tip service personnel.
We usually tip 20% but if the service was great it might be more. If it was not very good service the tip will reflect that. I don't care for it when people ask for tips or suggest an amount.
3. I scream you scream we all scream for ice cream...do we? Is ice cream a favorite treat at your house? What's your favorite flavor? Regular, soft serve, gelato, sherbet, or some sort of non-dairy version of ice cream...what's your pleasure?
Oh, ice cream is a huge favorite at my house. However, with a special diet for my hubby's psoriasis we are avoiding both sugar and dairy, so we aren't currently eating it. Regular ice cream is our favorite, especially homemade (and we have a lot of homemade ice cream places in our state). Favorite flavor is a difficult choice. One place makes a sweet cream flavor that's really good. And I love one that features malted milk ice cream with bits of Milky Way in it.
If only this were true!
4. What's your 'back in my day, we____________________ ' story or saying?
"... girls had to wear skirts to school every day." This was in public school no less.
5. Somehow this is our last Hodgepodge in the month of June. Next week's Hodgepodge lands in July. Wow. Sum up your June using three adjectives.
Challenging, friend-filled, busy.
6. Insert your own random thought here.
Our peonies are blooming. Such beautiful flowers. I wish they lasted longer.
That's the Hodgepodge for today!
I had to wear skirts and dresses to school as well. I also mentioned that today. And when we got home from school, we immediately out of our school clothes into play clothes. There was a definite difference in the two. Your flowers are beautiful. I think those are my favorite flowers just now...would love a bush in my yard!
ReplyDeleteYour peonies are beautiful! And I love the color! I think we love them more because we know their bloom time is brief. Sweet cream ice cream sounds like a flavor I'd enjoy. Have a great rest of the week!
ReplyDeleteI love your answer to the adventure question!
ReplyDeleteOH, I LOVE peonies! I wish they grew here in Florida! They are so gorgeous! And yes, we had to wear dresses/skirts to school when I was in school also. The only time pants were permitted was under a skirt when the temperatures dropped to freezing (here in Florida). We love ice cream too, especially home made, and normally we make home made ice cream for the 4th of July if we have family gathered. I don't know just what we are doing yet or if ice cream will be a part of it. It's more fun if there is a larger group than just our immediate family. We'll see what happens. I know NH takes its ice cream seriously...Maine too. I guess because it's more of a summertime treat there and the ice cream places are only open in the summer months, so it is a big deal! We used to take a ride to "The Stow Corner Store" in Stow, Maine, for ice-cream. We had a friend from there who moved down to Florida about the same time we did. When he would be asking directions for someplace here in Florida and people would say to him, "Do you know where the "such and such place" is...", our friend would always answer with , "No, but do you know where the Stow Corner Store is?" Usually the other people didn't understand his humor, but we did, and it was always a fun joke. I enjoyed your answers today, and I'll ask you, "Do you know where the Stow Corner Store is?" LOL. I don't even know if it still exists, but they had good ice cream! Have a great day.
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