Just beachy Hodgepodge

 

July is three-quarters over!  How is that even possible?  But it's time for the Wednesday Hodgepodge at From This Side of the Pond, where Joyce writes the questions and bloggers provide the answers!  Here we go ...

1. When does time pass slowly for you? When does time past quickly for you? 

I find that it often seems God expands my time when I have a lot to do.  Seems surprising, but it's happened often enough that I recognize it by now.  Time passes quickly for me when I'm doing something absorbing like needlework or writing.

2. Do you have a favorite beach? What's your favorite 'beach' activity? Tell us what we'd find in your beach bag.

I do have a favorite lake beach.   It's a state park on Newfound Lake in our state and I've been going there since I was a child. 

 

 

My favorite ocean beach is probably the one at Cabot Provincial Park on Prince Edward Island.  Popham Beach State Park and Reid State Park in Maine are also nice.  We enjoy several beaches in York, Maine, but only in the off season.  They are just too crowded in summer.

Reid State Park

 

Reid State Park

My favorite beach activity would depend on the beach.  In PEI or at Popham Beach, looking for sand dollars or sea glass.  At one of the York beaches, just walking.  At the lake, either reading, needlework, or picnicking.

In my beach bag -- a book and a needlework project.  Occasionally some type of snack.

Not sure on this one.  Maybe Long Sands in York.

3. Your favorite book or movie with a beach setting? 

It has to be both book and movie series -- Anne of Green Cables, with its lovely Prince Edward Island setting. 

4. What's a food you love, but find it's a pain to eat? Is it worth it? 

The lobster/clambake in progress

Lobster.   I might only eat it every few years and usually at the Cabbage Island clambake.  Thankfully we usually go with friends who are helpful in tutoring us in the method of eating.  We tend to forget from year to year.  It's delicious though and worth it for that day.

5.  Do you like roller coasters? What's the best (or worst) roller coaster you've been on? 

No, I don't.  Back in the day I went on a couple of the large, rickety old wooden type.  Can't handle any roller coasters now and just have no interest.

6. Insert your own random thought here. 

Have you visited Christmas in July over at my Christmas blog?  When July began I had literally no idea what I would post about.  Bit by bit the calendar has begun to fill in!

And that is the Hodgepodge for this week, friends!