Monday Monday and the Tuesday 4~What Do You Call It?

Here it is the Monday after the 4th of July...the 250th Anniversary of our nation...and I am sure many people are still trying to get back to "normal" from the holiday weekend.  

This was the sunset on July 4th.  It will have to suffice for my photo challenge picture for July 5th of grass. You can see the green grass where the pond is supposed to be. LOL.  

The challenge for today is "white".  These pictures below will have to be the "white" photos...even though you will also see a Black Cat in the pictures, namely, "King Blackie".  This morning he decided to lay on my computer keyboard, which caused my computer to start doing some strange things...

And pretty soon I saw this message appear on my screen from Google...

It says, "How can we help you?"  I wanted to type on the search bar, "How do you keep a cat from laying on your keyboard?"  The little rascal just wanted to play and wouldn't let me pick him up and remove him, so I had to move away from the desk and finally he decided it wasn't any fun anymore to be there so he moved. What a stinker he can be!! LOL.

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend...I've seen a few posts already and am trying to get around to visit. Our weekend was actually rather quiet.  We did end up on Saturday night with our "kids" here for some home made pizza. I added an update to my Saturday post HERE to show some pictures of that. Rose brought all the ingredients and we had a good time making the pizzas. I had also baked a strawberry cake for dessert.  We didn't end up going to see the fireworks, however, as hubby and I were both pretty tired and decided to just go to bed and listened to the booms all around us. LOL.  

Sunday morning I woke up with a headache and some tummy issues, and decided not to go to church and actually went back to bed for an extra morning nap. However, we knew our son Scott was coming down to do his laundry and stay for lunch, and also Benton was coming over after church because Rose had to go to work. I had some country style ribs that I put in the crock pot early in the morning when I first woke up at 5:30 a.m. to feed the cat...(Yes, much like having a new baby...no matter how bad you feel, you still gotta get up and feed them!) and I made some scalloped potatoes (the boxed kind, which are pretty good), some canned green beans and a tossed salad, oh and some deviled eggs. (I had already boiled the eggs on Saturday). So we ended up with a nice lunch, and by then I was feeling a bit better. I didn't take any new pictures, however, which is too bad because it all looked so good! But we had a nice visit with the boys and I sent them home with some "doggy bags" of leftovers. 

So that's about it for us for the weekend. Now, let's move on to the Tuesday 4, shall we?

What Do You Call It?

Welcome to Tuesday 4 which was started by our friend Toni Taddeo and kept up in memory of her.   (Thanks to our friend Annie, who is the hostess with the mostest!)

Different sections of the USA have different words and customs they use. Let's talk about them.

1. In New Jersey you put your groceries in a paper bag or plastic bag. In Athens, Ohio where I went to university, you put them in a paper sack. Is it bag , sack or something else where you live?

Here in Florida we put our groceries in a plastic bag, although in some places they still ask you if you want "paper or plastic?"  I prefer plastic because it doesn't tear so easily and cold or wet things don't soak through. I reuse the plastic bags for trash bags in my bathrooms and also to bag up some other items before I put them in the larger garbage bag for the trash. They are also used for many other things as needed. I do not waste them!

2. Though no one seems to wear them anymore, NJ says Stockings.
Athens, Ohio used to call them "hose" and in Britain they are tights.
What about where you live?

Although they are getting harder and harder to find to purchase, I still like to wear panty hose with dresses for church or other dress up occasions.  I prefer control top panty hose. So I basically call them panty hose, but I also may say "I need to put my stockings on first" when I am getting dressed up.  I also wear knee highs with slacks, mainly because they feel better with my shoes and they just look better than bare ankles. My mother was a stickler for proper dress, including wearing "stockings", and when I am tempted about going hose-less with a Sunday dress, I can hear my mother's voice inside my head telling me to always dress like a lady. LOL.  However, if it is a casual summer dress and I have sandals to wear with it, I will go without hose.  

3.Soda, Pop, Coke?  

Here in the south most all soft drinks are called "Coke", regardless of what flavor you really want.  We'd say after school, "Let's go to the drug store and get a coke!"  But in reality, we would get a Root Beer, or a Pepsi, or an Orange or Grape Nehi drink, or a Coke, depending upon what brand they carried. Our small town drug store also made things like a Vanilla Coke or a Cherry Coke if you wanted it.  (And they only cost 5 cents back in the day when I was a teenager. That tells you how old I am).   Oh, and that "very accurate map of what America calls a cola" is not necessarily true for Florida.  I rarely ever hear anyone say "soda" here. However,  because Florida is such a melting pot of people from all over the country, a lot of our southern idioms are getting changed. There are very few true southerners or Florida natives here anymore, except maybe in the real rural parts of the state. 

Hero, sub, grinder, hoagie?  Usually they are called a Sub around these parts, but there is a place not far from us that is called the "Hometown Heros Sub Shop".  We haven't been there yet, but I hear it's good.

4. Shopping cart or trolley. buggy? What do you call it?  To me it's usually a buggy, but sometimes I do say cart. 

So I guess that's it for now.  I  hope you are having a wonderful week.  It's mighty hot here in our part of the country, but I hear it's hot just about every where. So please stay cool and hydrated and out of "harm's way" as much as possible.  God bless you all, and God bless America! "The Land of the free, and the Home of the Brave!"  Praise God!