Thursday 6 and Thursday Thankfulness...

 Happy Thursday friends!  I just discovered that one of our blogging friends, Syl, from her blog, Sylify, is hosting this "Thursday 6" meme each week. I guess it's been around before, but she is reviving it, so it might be fun to join in if you can.  Here's this week's questions:

Linking to Thursday 6 HERE

Welcome!!

1. When was the last time you were standing on a balcony or balcony like construction? Where was it? What were you doing?
I guess you could say our back porch is a lot like a balcony, as it overlooks our back yard and Still Waters Pond.  I am out there frequently, either to feed our newest family members, the "neighborhood cats" Blackie Sue and Sunshine, 

or to look at the Sand Hill Cranes and their new baby Colts, "Spring" and "Trumpet", 

or also to watch the Canada Geese couple who are currently standing out there on the edge of the pond taking a nap, literally:

Or to shoo away the three Muscovy Ducks, who seem to have decided that our porch and yard are theirs to claim...even to the point of eating the cat's food while the cat lays there and lets them do it...

And then to make a flying leap into the pond from the porch when I come along and tell them to get a move on!

The view from the porch the other morning...one duck and two geese...

2. Share with us one of your favorite recipes.

There are so many, but I was thinking about this one today and bought some blueberries so I can make them soon: Blueberry Bran Muffins -click HERE for blog post with recipe


3. What was the last thing done to your house?

It's been a while since we did anything special to the house.  When we first moved here almost 6 years ago we did a LOT.  But since then it's been mostly just normal maintenance. Click HERE for when we added the back porch roof, which is the same porch I was talking about in question #1.

Oh, after thinking about it, I remember now! The last major thing we did was install new vinyl plank floors in our living room, master bedroom, and my "Room With a View".  HERE is a link to when that was being done.   And HERE is a link to when it was completed, with a surprise visit from another blogger!


4. Did your grandmother give wise lessons? Please share one with us.

I honestly do not remember having a lot of conversations with either of my grandmothers. My maternal grandmother lived too far away, and when we did visit, she was often not well and so there was no real time to sit down and visit with her. My paternal grandmother lived close by and I saw her often, for all holidays especially. Probably the best lessons she gave was that she was a good cook and she shared some recipes with me for some of our favorite foods.  This link leads to one of the pages in my sidebar, "It's Recipe Thyme Again, More Family Favorites", and some of her best recipes that I remember are added there.


5. Do you like going to the hairdresser? Why? or why not?

I don't mind it. As a matter of fact, I just went this morning and got my hair cut. This new hairdresser I have now (at Walmart!) does a great job. I've had some bad experiences with others in the past, and so one thing I do not like is having to find a new hairdresser when one fails or one retired that I liked.


6. Do you plan a vacation far ahead, or are you more of a "last minute" person?

To take a real vacation takes some planning for us.  We are not very spontaneous about traveling/vacations anymore. It takes money too, so we have to plan ahead for that. I am thankful that our kids like to plan some trips that we actually go together and share the expenses. That was what we did this past fall when we went to the mountains.Link HERE to last vacation  Plus, hubby doesn't like to drive long distances anymore, and we really don't like to fly either unless we absolutely have to. So unless the kids go with us, we probably won't be taking anymore vacations.


Well, you know the drill.
Answer the questions on your blog or in the comments.
If on your blog, place there a link to this post.
And place a link of your post in the comments here.

Thank you for participating.

Thank YOU, Syl, for these interesting and fun questions!  I hope others will catch on and join in from now on.

I have to add one more picture...remember yesterday HERE, when I shared a picture of our Kitty Sunshine and also a picture of a sign that said "You are My Sunshine"?  And I said I wished I could figure out how to merge the two pictures together? Well, our friend Sandra over at MadSnapper N Beau, is the queen of figuring out fun stuff with pictures, and she sent me a message with this picture that she created from my two pictures:

Isn't that amazing?  I love it!! Thank you so much, Sandra! I don't know how you did it, but I sure love it!   Oh, and thank you to all of you who commented and enjoyed the pictures yesterday, especially the ones of Sunshine and the "Guard Kitty", as seen above. It was a funny story for sure.

And in closing, this little message from yesterday's devotional calendar says it best:

God does love and care for us, "even to the least evenet and smallest need of life".  That is very comforting to know.  Nothing escapes His knowledge or concern for us, and He is always there, ready to meet our every need. Sometimes we just forget to ask!

Matthew 7:7-8 NKJV

Keep Asking, Seeking, Knocking

7 “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; 

knock, and it will be opened to you. 

8 For everyone who asks receives, 

and he who seeks finds, 

and to him who knocks it will be opened."

Amen!