Wednesday Hodgepodge

Well, there's been a longer-than-intended hiatus here...after my grandmother's passing at the beginning of the month, we lost my father-in-law about a week and a half ago in a terrible car wreck.  Between the two, we celebrated my son's birthday (he's TEN, y'all!) and the had his Blue and Gold Banquet, cookie booth sales for Girl Scouts, went full-tilt into a landscaping project, and I think occasionally there was time for a nap, but I'm not sure.

But around here, the goal is to find the silver linings, and while I'm not necessarily doing it out loud, I am definitely counting my blessings this week.

To the Hodgepodge!

1. What are two or three expectations you have of yourself?
My expectations of myself are pretty low...I expect myself to get my chores done, does that count for anything?  My goal for tomorrow is to vacuum out the sofa...

2. In what way does your outdoor space need sprucing up this spring?
Oh, goodness.  Remember the re-landscaping project I mentioned?  It's actually nearly done.  We had this huge old rock garden with some weird...birdbath or fountain or whatever in the middle of it.  It's gone now, replaced with rhododendrons and some things I can't identify, but they're pretty.  And the ornamental grass in the backyard with the fluffy stalks of doom that set off my allergies are either gone or getting ready to be gone.

3. According to this site (Roadtrippers), six of North America's most wondrous waterfalls are-Webster's Falls in Ontario, Upper Whitewater Falls in North Carolina,Havasu Falls in the Grand Canyon, Multnomah Falls in Oregon, The Lower Yellowstone Falls, and Niagara. Have you seen any on the list? Which one on the list would you most like to visit? Prettiest waterfall not on the list that you've seen in person?
The only one I've seen is Niagara.  Tahquamenon Falls is very nice, though, and I recommend that one.  Of the ones on the list, though, I guess I'd like to see the Lower Yellowstone Falls.  I just don't want to drive that far.

4. Looking back, what's something you wish you'd done as a teenager?
hm.  There's an answer to this question, but it's backed by a long, ugly story.  Suffice it to say, I would have ended up spending more time with my besties.

5. Ham...yes please or no thank you? If you said yes please which of the following do you like best-baked ham with all the trimmings, a ham and cheese sandwich, prosciutto with melon, a ham biscuit, a bowl of split pea and ham soup, or a slice of pizza topped with ham and pineapple?
Love ham.  Had it for dinner tonight, even.  Of the ones listed, I guess I'd say a ham biscuit.

6. Are you typical of your generation? How so?
I have NO idea.  I doubt it. 

7. April rolls in at the end of the week, and in keeping with that theme...'act the fool', 'nobody's fool', 'a fool's errand', 'could have fooled me'...which foolish idiom most recently applies to you? Explain.
Nobody's fool.  I don't trust easily, and treat most things I'm told with an unhealthy amount of cynicism.

8.  Insert your own random thought here.
The past month has been a hard one for my family.  If it's okay with everyone else, I'd like the next middle-of-the-night phone call I get to be about a baby being born, okay?