HUMP DAY HOPS!

FINALLY, it's time for my TWO favoritey fun HUMP DAY HOPS! If you're here for Wednesday Hodge Podge only, then scroll down.

Up first is a HUMP DAY HOP from Patrice at Everyday Ruralty called Chats on the farmhouse porch!

Questions for our chat:

1. If you could bring someone to Patrice's porch to join in on our chat, who would you bring? Well, first I thought I would bring the lovelies but, that's more than one person. So, I am going to be selfish and say NO ONE. That way I get the whole time with Patrice all by myself! 
2. What's your favorite thing to make when fall rolls around? (Can be food, or maybe a craft.) Anything in the crock pot and baked goods--breads and cookies and pies galore! And craftwise, knitting! Partly because it's fall and partly because it takes me that long to knit things for Christmas. 
3. How many times a month do you go to a library or bookstore? I don't go to the library here in town because it sucks and the people who frequent it are snooty. I do go to Barnes & Noble every so often but I try to stay away because I have NEVER, not one single time, come out of that store without spending money!
4. What things make blogs the best? Good writing and humor. But also interesting tales of places I am unfamiliar with and photos.
5. If someone would pay for you to take a class (any class- college-private-online-at a craft store-the sky's the limit here, my friends), what class would you take? (BTW- I wish I could go "poof" with my magic wand and make this happen for each of you!) I would either take a writing class OR a photography class. Probably. But then, I'd like to re-learn Spanish. And I could use a knitting class. Maybe my indecisiveness is the reason I'm not taking any classes.

NEXT is WEDNESDAY HODGE PODGE from Joyce at From This Side of the Pond.  This meme is fun and sometimes even poses a challenge (read: she makes us use our noggins!).   

1. What is one piece of advice you would give a 'just turning' 21- year old adult? Play hard because you are only young once and if you don't enjoy it and take full advantage now, you won't get a second chance!

2. Besides cooler weather (or warmer weather, depending on your hemisphere) what is one thing you are looking forward to this fall? FOOTBALL! HOLIDAYS! The lovelies coming home for visits!  Sorry, can't narrow this one down to one.

3. What sound lulls you to sleep? My fan. I can't go to sleep without it! It reminds me of the window fan I had in my window when I was growing up. I just love that sound. 

4. September is National Preparedness Month...does your family have an emergency 'kit' and/or disaster plan in place? Yes. Living only 5 minutes from the beach means that hurricane season is quite important to us. We keep everything we need at hand (batteries, flashlights, bottled water, canned goods, generator, etc.) and I know where the items are that I will take with us should we need to evacuate.

5. How has your blog changed since you started blogging? Or has it? Not much has changed as far as appearances go but I have gotten more comfortable with blogging. And the writing has improved. I hope. 

6. What's something you've recently learned to do on the computer? Nothing really. If I get lucky and score Photoshop, then I'll have learned something new! 

7. Is a picture worth a thousand words? Elaborate. I suppose it can be- especially if the wrong words are chosen in an explanation. Sometimes words are better, sometimes a picture can tell the story just as well. I always use words. And too many of them. Like in this explanation. ANYWAY, do I really need words to explain the picture of Deanie and Breezy below?

8. Insert your own random here.I am STILL totally digging my new ASICS! I am STILL wondering what the Carolina Panthers were thinking when they hired this new coach and Cam Newton. I am STILL waiting on cooler weather. AND there's another freaking hurricane brewing in the Atlantic. I HATE those things.