A BIRDSEYE VIEW...spoonbills, white pelicans & herons on the bay...

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HODGEPODGE

1. In your opinion what's the most important job in the world? Oh, and parenting is a given so besides parenting, what's the most important job in the world? I would have to say teacher. But not necessarily, in general, one who conducts their skills in a classroom filled with students...the student must show interest in what is being taught. Oftentimes teachers, or professors, teach one certain subject and not what is needed in life/living - by that, that I just typed, I mean, the teacher's viewpoint on some subjects is NOT always the right way/thought/teaching. A teacher could be considered one who teaches a co-worker, or trains someone to take over a certain position, a drill instructor in the military teaching survival skills, a teacher could be anyone who has knowledge that will help expand on living, or a counselor who assists you in ways of life. A preacher or a priest or a philosopher could also be considered one who teaches, my Catechism comes to mind...

2. Share a favorite or not so favorite memory from a childhood birthday. Birthdays, when I was a youngster, was not much more than a birthday cake and ice cream. But it was always a special, homemade cake, of our choice. I remember one year, I asked for a peppermint candy cake...and it was delicious. All pink and swirled with marbleized peppermint flavored/vanilla flavored batter; light-as-air cake!!! And it was topped with pink peppermint flavored icing, drizzled with thin vanilla icing so it would 'ooze' over the top and down the sides of the cake then topped with crushed peppermint candies!!

3. Peanut butter-crunchy or smooth? I guess it'd have to be smooth.  Well, wait....another peanut butter concept is  COOKIES!!  Warm right out of the oven home-made peanut butter cookies.  If it were this, cookies, I could use either crunchy OR smooth.

4. William Butler Yeats is credited as saying, "Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing." Your thoughts? Yes, what I interpret this as meaning...if your life is stagnant, you're bored and at a standstill without much happiness.

5. What's something that makes you cringe? War photos for one. Liars, mistreatment and cruelty to animals, wasted food....so many things.

6. Name a song that always puts you in a good mood? The difference in a 'good mood' could be elation, happy thoughts, patriotic... The National Anthem and hearing it while I watch Old Glory dancing in the breeze...Old Time Rock and Roll gets my adrenaline coursing through my viens and I want to kick up my heels...Welcome to My World was a song Bud and I chose as "our song" long ago and still to this day warms my heart...too many songs put me in a good mood, I could go on and on.

7. The answer is yes. What's the question? LOL....this is kinda a fun, different question, I like it!! Okay, my first thought was "Are you Anni"...kinda like the first question of a lie detector test. rofl

8. Insert your own random thought here. Well, since the very first question was read today, my mind went back to the 'teachers' in my early life ---as a student in a classroom environment, before I went out into the world to make my own way.... Mr. Williams, English Grammar teacher...he made grafting sentences fun and for my entire life, I still know the difference between a noun, an adjective, adverb, and a verb and that to speak properly...don't end a sentence with a preposition --for instance, "Where are you going to?" In proper English ... it should be "To where are you going?" Or "Him and me went to the store"...it should in all correctness be "He and I went to the store". And it's a simple rule for which pronoun to use ---Just use ONE pronoun and you'll know you're right...i.e./ HE went to the store...I went to the store...NOT Him went, or Me went!!! Mr. Webb...a Biology teacher...he made the mammal, a bat, one of the most adored, interesting creatures around. Did you know that their wings are like kid glove leather? So soft!!! [He took a few of us on a spelunking expedition in the summer once and we all learned about the bat at that time...one of the most memorable times associated with science]. Then, there was Mrs. Sanderson...she taught High School Literature. She made learning Shakespeare a worthy subject. Mrs. Green...I remember her from long ago, toiling over me in my 3rd Grade class....trying to have me improve my 'cursive' skills. Today, I have digressed back to my sloppy handwriting, but I recall once I caught on to what she wanted me to do, she always used my cursive papers as a "this is the way your writing should look students, like Anni's". Miss Beale gave me the opportunity to show interest in 'acting skills' by giving me parts in school plays year after year. Then, there are Mr. Lopez...Spanish, Mr. Kasparek...French...Mr. Smith, Chemistry, Mr. Stovall...arts and not to leave out Mr. So and So...I can still picture his face but can't recall his name at this given moment...without him, I would not be TYPING this random thought. [He also taught me Shorthand which I can still do]. Oh ya, and as stated above, parents are teachers....if it weren't for my mom, I'd not know diddly squat about housekeeping, cooking, crocheting, being a wife and mother....and my dad...he taught me driving skills [even manual transmissions]...and gardening, nature interests living in the foothills of the Colorado Rockies, different birds, and that hunting for sport is wrong....yep, and I know how to change spark plugs and drain oil...change a tire ...all thanks to his teachings.  Of course when it all boils down to one idea of learning...LIFE is the best teacher.

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