….thanks to XingFu Mama for hosting Pull Up a Seat https://xingfumama.blog/2021/03/12/pull-up-a-seat-photo-challenge-2021-week-11/
Park benches are mostly empty these days but in the last week the weather has warmed up considerably so slowly people are starting to use the benches again.
…thanks to Khurt for hosting and to Amy for reminding me of the 52 Week Smartphone Challenge
This week the challenge is to find subjects that fill the frame of your photograph.
….thanks to Cee for hosting Share Your World
How many siblings do you have? What’s your birth order?
I have two younger sisters. I am the oldest child in the family.
The three Winkler sisters.
In a car would you rather drive or be a passenger?
I like to drive but I also like being a passenger. I guess it depends largely on who the other driver is. If I’m with my father I prefer to drive and if I’m in an unfamiliar city than my host can drive.
When you lose electricity in a storm, do you light the candles or turn on the flashlight? How many of each do you own?
We are well prepared for a blackout. We don’t have electricity at the cottage so we are well versed when it comes to using candles, oil lanterns, kerosene lamps and battery operated lights. We have flashlights that we use initially to light the candles. I couldn’t tell you how many candles we have, probably dozens because I buy the big packages of tea lights. At home we have two oil lamps and at the cottage we have at least twelve.
List at least five of your favorite types of animals? (any animal to domestic to wild to marine life)
My favourite animals are:
dogs
chipmunks
elephants
rabbits
panda bears
Our Prime Minister with the Panda cubs at the Toronto Zoo
photo courtesy of: http://www.flynewsonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/667.jpg
Bonus question: What are you grateful for from last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up?
I’m grateful that my cold didn’t last very long. Lots of vitamin C, liquids and cold medicine and one day off work seemed to help. I’m also grateful for the week off, March Break, and being able to spend more time with my family. I’ve seen my granddaughter twice since Friday and all my daughters were over on Sunday.
My father had another fall last week and he didn’t tell me about it until Saturday. Luckily nothing is broken and he’s just bruised and sore. At least this time he seems to be in a much better mood and isn’t depressed like he was two years ago when he fell down a ravine. He turns 90 this year and is in remarkable good health. For that I am grateful as well.
This week I’m looking forward to lots of rest and relaxation. I’m hoping to visit my father and try to meet my oldest daughter for lunch one day this week. Last week was not a good walking week, partially due to my cold, so I’m aiming to get back to my daily goal of 10 000 steps. If the weather cooperates I’m hoping to get some good photographs on my walks.
……thank you Cee for some easy and some thought provoking questions this week
List 2 things you have to be happy about?
I’m happy to be on vacation. I have time to get a few things done around the house, time to spend with family and friends, time to read and time to make art. I’m also happy for reasons that I cannot share but will in the near future.
Do you prefer ketchup or mustard or mayonnaise?
I like mustard on my hotdogs and sausages, ketchup on my burgers and fries and mayonnaise on my BLTs, turkey sandwiches and sometimes with fries (something I picked up when we were in the Netherlands).
If you were to paint a picture of your childhood, what colors would you use?
I would choose happy and calming colours like blues, greens and yellows with just a dash of red for excitement.
Do you prefer a bath or shower?
I always prefer a shower. Long hot ones in the winter and cooler showers on hot summer days. I have a hard time with a bath because I find that the water cools too quickly and the thought of sitting in dirty water isn’t my idea of relaxing. I guess that’s why the Japanese wash before they get into the tub.
If I wanted a bath it would be in a nice deep tub like this one.
Bonus question: What are you grateful for from last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up?
I’m grateful for the warmer weather and that all the snow has melted away. I’m also happy that the last week of school finally came to an end and I’m looking forward to a week of rest and relaxation.
…..for a recent art assignment I had to use these eyes any way that I saw fit
Week 11
For more odd ball photos check out Cee’s Odd Ball Photo Challenge – week 11.
….what ice-cream would I be?
If you were an ice cream cone how many scoops and flavors would you be and why?
This is tough. I love ice-cream and I love having a variety of flavours. I think I would go for two scoops (in a cup, not a cone) and hopefully my partner in crime would have two different scoops so that I could sample some of his. The one flavour that comes to mind immediately is coffee or mocha. My second scoop would be cinnamon (a specialty flavour at Greg’s) or a rich French vanilla ice-cream with a swirl of chocolate, nuts and cherries. Yum!
Are you left or right handed?
I am left handed. My mother was worried about that because as a girl she was forced to write with her right hand and would get her knuckles rapped if she tried to use her left hand. Luckily that archaic practice had ceased to exist when I started school. I’m actually quite ambidextrous and I bowl, bat and knit right handed. Years ago I taught a knitting class at the community school and my mother owned a wool store. One of her customers took my class and she went to my mom to ask for some advice. I use the European method of knitting and since all my students were right handed I instructed them to follow my mirror image. Little did I know at the time that I knit right handed and I was forcing my students to knit with their left hands.
Before making a phone call, do you ever rehearse what you are going to say?
It depends on whom I’m calling. I never rehearse social calls but when I used to do demonstrations at home parties and I had to cold call people to book parties I definitely rehearsed what I would say. I hated cold calling.
How many rings before you answer the phone?
I usually let the phone ring three times or until the call display comes up. If the number is a 1-800 number I often let it go or I’ll say ‘hello’ twice quickly and then hang up if no one answers back after the second hello.
Bonus question: What are you grateful for from last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up?
I am grateful for four days with my sisters in Calgary and for the beautiful weather we had last week. Who knew travelling west would be almost as good as going south. This week I’m looking forward to another concert put on by the Women’s Musical Club of Toronto, featuring Yegor Dyachkov on cello and Jean Saulnier on piano.
I’m also taking an on-line art course for the next two weeks and learning about abstraction and how to paint an abstract. I’m finishing my first assignment and will be posting it shortly.
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Mama Cormier 