3. What's a word you struggle to spell on a regular basis, and sometimes need to double check before writing it down? Use the word in a sentence that tells us something about your April calendar.
Responsibilities. I have to check the spelling for this word nearly every time. It just seems so long. On my April calendar, days are filling up with my volunteer responsibilities at a Christian camp. I will be cooking breakfast, lunch, and dinner for small work teams two weeks in a row. So far. And there will likely be more responsibilities as well. But that's April in my world. And it's good.
5. This week's Hodgepodge lands on the first day of April, which happens to be National Poetry Month. Do you like poetry? Share a favorite line or two from one of your favorite poems. What makes this one a favorite?
I do like poetry. I know I've shared this poetry month post before but if you've not read it you might enjoy Poems and a post for the last day of April.
The lines that always come to my mind this time of year are from Robert Frost's poem Two Tramps in Mud Time:
You know how it is with an April day
When the sun is out and the wind is still,
You're one month on in the middle of May.
But if you so much as dare to speak,
A cloud comes over the sunlit arch,
A wind comes off a frozen peak,
And you're two months back in the middle of March."
And hey, I will add a random thought: This week, we also had the first ice cream date of spring:
Yes, outdoors, in New Hampshire. You can see by my hubby's flannel shirt that it wasn't terribly warm ... but it was a nice mud-season day. This is homemade peanut butter cup ice cream on the bottom and chocolate on the top. Scrumptious!
That's the abbreviated Hodgepodge for this week!
There are an awful lot of letters in Responsibilities and I struggle to spell it too. I am still waiting to have my first ice cream of the season.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed your answers. I'm trying to remember if I knew you lived in New Hampshire. We loved visiting the NE states a few years ago. In fact in one New Hampshire town, there was a coffee shop/bookstore for sale and we said "it would be kind of fun to buy this"...of course we'd be too far away from our kids and we know we wouldn't talk them into moving to such a small place in NH.
ReplyDeleteThat ice cream looks good! I love the poem and don't think I've heard it before. Happy Easter!
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed your answers! Yes, Responsibilities is a big word, with a big definition. Sounds like you have a lot of them! And I love that you've already been out for ice cream even though the weather is still not sure what season it's in! I do remember mud season in NH and Maine. Not a pretty time at all, but the real spring will soon be there and the mud will hopefully dry up and the grass will grow over it! Have a blessed Easter weekend.
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