Daughters drawing saved by my mother for so many years that it’s probably a priceless work of art by now. BTW, everyone would look better with a neck moustache and arms growing out of their ears.
SHARE YOUR WORLD – 2016 WEEK 3
What is your favorite piece of art? (it doesn’t have to be famous)
Well that’s like trying to pick your favourite blade of grass on the lawn. Impossible for me to choose even a category. I do have a great love for children’s art though, especially when they explain it all to you, or even when they can’t explain any of it. Maybe my favourite piece of art will eventually be on that big old canvas that’s been sitting here staring at me blankly for several days. There’s not much art I don’t like, unless it is a depiction of something gruesome.
What made you smile today?
Being put through a check out by a purple haired cashier. I suspect she coloured her hair herself (or had a friend do it) because random bits of her ears and neck were also purple. What can you do, except show up for work anyway and carry on. Purple ears won’t last forever, right? She reminded me of my granddaughters who also do startling things with their hair. It makes me smile to see them experimenting with who they are or who they wish to be. All of them are bold and beautiful.
Which place do you recommend as a Must-See? Please state which country, state or province.
Really I haven’t been to enough places myself to do that with any kind of credibility. I do think people miss out on seeing their own country from a tourists point of view when they prefer to rush off across the ocean or the equator in search of something better. I’ve seen all three of Canada’s oceans – Pacific, Arctic and Atlantic! Notice how far inland I am living from every one of them. Travel destinations are a personal thing. I loved the rolling green hills in Scotland but suspect some people might find them boring. Imagine that. Weirdos.
Complete this sentence: When I was younger I used to….
…..love it when cousins came to visit us on the farm, mainly because we got out of all kinds of work so we could entertain them. I was always surprised by their avid interest in such things as tractors and cows. And barn cats and pond frogs. These were ordinary every day things to me but new and interesting to them. It gave me a whole new perspective, seeing things I took for granted through someone else’s eyes.
Bonus question: What are you grateful for from last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up?
In my ongoing seemingly never-ending pursuit of something suitably warm to put on my freezing feet I think I’ve finally made a breakthrough. Men’s thermal socks. If your feet are cold in those things you are probably dead. Now I just have to be careful I don’t slide across the kitchen floor in them and break my neck.
That canvas is STILL hanging around and still blank. I am looking forward to getting all artsy with it this week. Anybody want a painting of my thermal socks? Alrighty then! I will try to come up with something better.
Breathing Space 
I’m with you on listening to kids explain their art work. Or listening to them play when they don’t know they have an audience. It’s like entering another world through their imagination. With you too on the thermal socks. And, of course, on those Scottish hills. Some folk are just weird, right enough. Good luck with that blank canvas. A Picassoesque one might fit the bill a la your daughter’s drawing. 🙂
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Now there’s an idea. I think what’s putting me off is the size of it, I’ve never done one this big. I would fill it up with green Scottish hills if I thought I could do them justice. 😊
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Socks work for me! Love the artwork, Lin. 😀
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Yep, it’s a keeper. 😊
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Scotland is beautiful, one of my favourite places after here. I’m a sucker for mountains and expanses of water.
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Mountains, yes – great bodies of water, not so much. I had the strangest feeling at Glencoe like I had been there before. No idea where that came from, but it felt like going home. And I call other people weird. Lol
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I really like saved children’s art or stories. Their imagination is limitless, while we pit ego, worry and limits on ourselves. (Well, most people not bloggers, so much. . . 🙂 )
I would like to go to England, Scotland, Germany and Sweden. All places of family “roots.” I recommend my favorites of Mexico, the Pyramids of the Sun and Moon. I enjoyed my Spanish Club trip to Spain and I remember loving Valencia and Mallorca. In my family, we feel going North to Lake Erie is a vacation. 🙂
Hope you have a lovely, creative rest of the week! Smiles, Robin
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It was fun reading your responses today. Thanks so much for sharing.
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My first thought…don’t they make thermal socks for women? And what about kids? The checkout gal with purple ears sounds like Johnny Depp’s double, no wonder you smiled!
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I suppose they do make thermal socks for women, but didn’t have any where I was looking. My feet are size eight but the women’s slippers feel too small. These socks may be many things, but small is not one of them.
If I ever see a cashier who looks like Jonny Depp I will be taking pictures. lol
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Fun post as always. You made me rethink my response to my granddaughters doing strange things to their hair that make me sad, because they are so much more beautiful naturally. Experimenting with how you can look and who you can be are probably related and healthy. Thanks.
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I completely agree that natural looks better, but who listens to grandma? And then there’s the partial head shaving….I have to remind myself with a sigh that it’s only hair. It will grow back. They will grow up. Life will go on. 😊
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enjoyed reading your responses. I suffer from cold feet and have tried many sock with no happy end. I’m probably dead aren’t I?
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LOL! I hope not! Have to say these big old thermal socks are working great. Not much of a fashion statement though 😄
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We lived in southern England for a year, Oxfordshire. Part of our heritage is Scottish, on my male parent’s side. My parents would not drive us to Scotland, a trip half the distance of the one to our grandmother’s house each summer (New York to Chicago).
I think my feet froze permanently after living in England. One BF bought me hunter’s socks with warming wires and little battery packs. Toasty!
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All the Midsomer Murder episodes make me want to go back to England. Not for the murders….we didn’t see many of the smaller villages, except to zip by them on the bus.
I would be afraid of electrocuting myself with battery operated socks. Had a bad experience with an electric blanket throwing sparks once. Sworn off those things nags for life 😄
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You SHOULD be afraid of electric blankets:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/14561670/
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Aw, I loved my electric blanket, but never slept with it at night.
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Research is mixed, but there was enough at the time that some companies printed a warning on their blankets for a while to only turn on the blanket to heat up the bed before you got into it, and turn it off once you were under the covers.
The latest discovery on how the brain uses a weak electrical field to do an important part of its work makes all this business more intriguing, to me, about possible harm from even weak magnetic fields (caused by electric blankets, cellphones, etc.).
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That does sound intriguing!
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