1. Have you ever spent time on a farm? Yes. Tell us a little bit about it. Well, it probably wasn't what you're thinking of as a farm. My dad worked for the Pennsylvania Game Commission as the assistant manager of a pheasant farm. The Game Commission used to have farms to raise pheasants, ducks, grouse, and a few others in order to stock state game lands for hunting. I think there are only a couple left due to budget cuts. Have you ever grown your own pumpkin? Sure have. Been on a hayride? Several. Driven a tractor? Just our little John Deere. Milked a cow? Not that I remember.
2. What's something younger you would like about you now? Younger me was a much different person than I am now. I don't know that she'd be all that impressed with how we turned out. She'd probably like the tattoo, though.
4. What's on your nachos? Cheese, beef, maybe some diced tomatoes and peppers. No olives, hot chilies, or beans, please.
5. What's the most random thing in your purse or wallet? A highlighter. Does it need to stay there? Yeah, you never know when you might want to highlight something you're reading. (Sorry...I don't really have much junk in my purse.)
6. Insert your own random thought here.
Tell the people you love that you do. Often. Better yet, show them.
Seize the day. Seriously, use all the gifts, talents and opportunities God gives you. Don't talk yourself out of it or let fear stop you. You never know when it could all go away.
This was all driven home this week because of Las Vegas and because a senior at the high school I drive for was killed in an accident on his way to school yesterday. It was his 17th birthday and he was less than two miles from home, driving too fast, when he either hit a deer and lost control or swerved around one that had already been hit and lost control.
Tomorrow is not promised so make the most of today.
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Your (no so) random thought just brought tears to my eyes. Sad that it often takes tragedies such as these to make us pause in our footsteps.
ReplyDelete... But I just re-read your nachos' fixings and my taste buds are smiling.
Isn't it though? And kids...they never think it can happen to them. I can't even imagine the parents' pain. The boy's younger brother was with him and was hurt pretty bad, had surgery today.
DeleteA highlighter is an essential thing as far as I'm concerned - so useful. Totally agree with your random thought but so sad that it takes tragedies to make people remember that none of us are getting out of this life alive, so make the most of every day.
ReplyDeleteI usually have at least one highlighter, but don't know many others who do. Yes, tragedies sure are a wake up call and doubly so, I think, when it's a young person.
DeleteOh so sad. My daughter teaches in a nearby town and her teaching assistant's son was killed last week in a single car accident, no seatbelt unfortunately. Only 24 years old. You are so right in that we know we're not promised tomorrow, but we don't really live as if we believe it.
ReplyDeleteI think it's so much harder to accept when it's a younger person who should have had their whole life in front of them.
DeleteI love your random thought! Sometimes all we have to remember is to live in the moment. be ourselves and trust God with the rest. I hope you have a blessed rest of the week!
ReplyDeleteWe do need to remember that, but in our busy world it seems to get pushed aside all too often.
DeleteI'm so sorry to read your random and my heart goes out to that young man's family. Two deer ran in front of us while on our trip to Ohio. It is SO scary when that happens. We were lucky that the deer was fast and didn't stop to look at us coming at him/her. I've been driving for 50 years. That young man only had a year of experience in controlling a vehicle. So sad.
ReplyDeleteI nipped the back leg of a deer once in my car, so that wasn't so bad, but a couple of years ago on a dark, foggy morning I killed one with the bus...squished it and heard the bones crunch. Ugh! Between the dark, the fog, and the glare of oncoming headlights I never saw the thing till it's head looked up over the hood in panic. I felt sooooo bad.
DeleteYou are so right about telling those you love that you do. We just never know if we'll see them again. So sorry to hear about that young man.
ReplyDeleteHave a blessed rest of the week.
For real! I grew up in an emotionally distant family and swore I wouldn't be like them and I don't know how my kids would rate me, but I do a lot better than my parents did. My kids and grandkids get lots of hugs and kisses and I always tell them I love them when we part.
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