Wednesday Hodegpodge ~ No. 70

1. St. Patrick's Day will be celebrated this coming Saturday...what's a favorite article of clothing you own that contains a touch o' the green? Sage Green Sweatshirt

2. What's a favorite 'green space' in the town, state, or province where you live? Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library; Longwood is actually my favorite but it is not in my state. We have a year's membership at Winterthur and love to walk there... especially in March for the flowers on the March Bank and in the spring to see all the flowers. I am so sad that our membership is up the end of this month. We have no money to renew the membership. We do have a few passes that we never used for friends, we can use them to go as a family once or twice. I need to check and see how many passes we have. We will make at least 2 trips to Winterthur before our membership ends. We may even go on the very last day... just.one.more.time.  :-(

3. Do you wish you were taller, shorter, or think you're just about right in the height department? Just about right, 5'2".

4. What's the surest way for someone to pick a fight with you? Unfortunately, these days, with the stress of no income and no idea how we will pay our bills, little things may set me off, sometimes to crying and sometimes to yelling, but more crying though.

5. Broccoli-Spinach-String Beans-Peas...of the four, your favorite green veg? (Or the one you dislike the least if that first option's too hard. I just know there's some veggie haters out there.) Favorite - Broccoli

6. March is National Women's History Month...besides friends, neighbors and the women you're related to, who's a woman in history you admire and why? Laura Ingalls Wilder, I love her story, she went through so much, and I love that time period too. I have a lot of books about Laura and the whole t.v. series as well.

7. Keep Calm and _________ on.

You fill in the blank.

Keep Calm and PRESS on.

8. Insert your own random thought here. I love Longwood Gardens  as I said before and my hubby took me there on a date. Last year we bought a year's membership. This is our way of having family times since we can't afford vacations. The fountain shows in the summer were awesome. The Christmas display was wonderful and the orchid/lily display in the conservatory we just saw was beautiful. I will just share two pictures, though I took 255 photos. Our Longwood membership does not end until June, I think.

 I chose a Lily

and 

an Orchid,

since they were the main flowers in the displays.

Oh, the smell in the conservatory, it was glorious.

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Blast From The Past ~ Civil War Ball, March 25, 2000

We were privileged to go to three Civil War Balls in 2000, 2001, and 2002.
The first ball we went to was just Court and Rachel and I.
Rachel was part of the homeschool Civil War reenactment group which was called Bonnets and Bayonets.
Bonnets and Bayonets put on the Civil War Ball.
2000 was the very first Ball they did.
I will post the other year's balls in the next few weeks.
They still have the Civil War Ball every year in our area.
It is run by homeschool graduates now.
I wish we could go to the Civil War Ball again. It was such fun.
But we don't have the money for the tickets and we don't have the money to make outfits. None of us girls fit in our ball gowns and the boys never have gotten to go.

I hope you enjoy the photos.
I have enjoyed the look back.

Me (I have no idea what my son Nathan is doing, lol)

 Our Hair

 Rachel and I
(Rachel is 14 yrs. old)

 Rachel, Court and I

 A close up of the last photo

 Ready to leave for the Ball.

My hubby took photos of each family group at the Ball.

 The Group Shot
Rachel is sitting on the floor between 2 friends on the right side of the photo
I am standing in the front row 2nd from the right of the photo
(Court took this also)

Rachel Dancing

We did not get to many photos of us dancing because we were busy dancing.
It was a great night.

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