2024 Share Your World – Gfpacificbee’s Insights & photography

2024 SYW: December 30

Here are this week’s questions:

1. Would you consider 2024 to have been a good year?

I would consider 2024 to be a mixture of good and bad. We had some hard trying times with difficulties, but with perseverance we made it through with the Lord’s strength and guidance.

2. What has been the highlight of 2024 for you?

I am not sure what I would consider the highlight of 2024 to be, however, the best of times I experienced throughout 2024 were the many hiking adventures I had with my grandson, Coleman.

3. Did you keep any New Year resolutions if you made any in January?

I gave up making New Year’s Resolutions a long long time ago. I’ve tried setting goals, but even those are sometimes not met. I did make my reading goal though.

4. Are you looking forward to 2025?

I am actually, for once, looking forward to experiencing new adventures with Coleman and possibly with my daughter on occasion. Hopefully, we can make the trip we’ve been wanting to take since June of 2018. The trip would be to go out to Boulder City (just southwest of Las Vegas), Nevada to pay our respects at burial site of my husband and my children’s father. And hopefully as down to San Diego, California to visit with his only living brother.

Gratitude:

“Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy.”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.

2024 SYW: 09.30 —

Remembering Past Home,

Relatives, the 60’s.

Here are this week’s questions:

1. Did your parental home have a ‘parlour’ or front room reserved only for when you had visitors?

The home I live in beginning in junior high did have a front room, however, visitors were always welcomed into the family room for visits. The front room was just a passageway to the dining room or family room.

2. Did you ever go to stay with relatives during the school holidays?

I often stayed with my maternal grandparents when school was out. I would ride the city bus with my grandmother to go to church or shopping. Sometimes when we were at the house we would snap beans getting them ready to cook. Times with my maternal grandmother were good times I’ll always remember and treasure.

3. Did relatives (cousins, grandparents) come to stay with your family in the holidays?

Relatives never stayed at our house growing up. We usually always gathered at my maternal grandparents home for Sunday dinners, Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners and for extended family gatherings.

4. What do you remember from the 1960s.

What I remember from the sixties is the carefree life, the playing outside till the street lights came on, the skateboards we made ourselves using old shoe skates, riding my bicycle all over the neighbourhood without a helmet (never knew we needed one back then) and the ease of walking the streets never being afraid of anything or anyone.

I remember the music, the cabinet television (only one in the home) with having to go to it to change a channel, its signing off at midnight (they didn’t use to plays shows all night long).

I remember a lot about the sixties, it was a great time to be a kid. The joys we found in the simplest things. Things are so simple anymore, life changes and we adapt.

Gratitude:

“Life is one big, continuous circle of giving and receiving energy. Be thankful for who and what’s in your life, instead of complaining about what you don’t have. If you focus on gratitude, you’ll start to attract prosperity and abundance.”
consciousreminder.com

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God Bless. Thank you for sharing in my world. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.

2024 SYW: Week of 05.06

Here are this week’s questions:

1. Have you ever roller skated?

I have roller skated, but not for a very long time. The last time I roller skated in a skating rink was when my children were little and I injured my wrist. When I was growing up we used to skate on our sidewalk with “shoe-skates” which you fastened onto your shoes. The metal sidewalk roller skates strapped onto your shoes needed a skate key to adjust them to fit your feet.

In the 1950’s and 1960’s, roller skates typically had a design that included metal wheels and a boot made of leather or canvas. The wheels were attached to the boot with a metal frame. The skate keys were used to adjust and secure the skates to the wearer’s shoes.

The skate keys were typically T-shaped tools with a small socket or prong at the end. The skate keys were used to adjust the tightness of the skates by turning screws or bolts located on the skate frame. These screws or bolts were often located at the front and back of the skate frame.

To adjust the skates, the skate key would be inserted into the appropriate hole on the skate frame, and then turned clockwise or counterclockwise to tighten or loosen the screws or bolts. This allowed the wearer to customize the fit of the skates to their feet.

In addition to adjusting the tightness of the skates, the skate key was also used to remove or replace the wheels on the skates. By inserting the skate key into the wheel axle and turning it, the wearer could remove the wheels for maintenance or replacement.

2. Have you ever ridden a horse (or donkey)?

I have ridden a horse, but not since we lived in Arkansas in the early 1990’s. Coleman, my grandson has ridden a horse when he was three. It’s about time to arrange for him to ride a horse again.

3. What was your favourite ride at a fun fair?

I actually do not remember riding any rides at a fair. We usually looked at all the exhibits and listened to the musical performances.

4. Choice of fun fair prizes:
coconut, cuddly toy, £10/$10 cash prize.

No games, no prizes.

Gratitude:

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God Bless. Thank you for sharing your world. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.

2024 SYW: Week of 04.15

1. Regardless of whether you had them or not, can you remember three popular toys from when you were a child?

Three popular toys from my childhood were:

1. Barbies
2. Skateboards
3. Zippy, the Howdy Doody Monkey

Other popular toys from my childhood were:

• Hula Hoop
• Slinky
• Mr. Potato Head
• Lincoln Logs
• Lionel Toy Trains
• Duncan Yo Yo
• Sting Ray Bicycle

2. Did you ever want something specific as a child, but never had it?

I had bicycles growing up, but the type I really wanted was a Schwinn Sting-Ray. No other bicycle compared to the Sting-Ray even though other companies like Huffy tried to compete and were more affordable.

3. Do you still have any toys or games from your childhood?

The only toy I still have is Zippy, the Howdy Doody Monkey.

***Coleman***
***holding my***
***Zippy Monkey***

4. I think I’ve asked this before, but what was your favourite toy as a child?

I am not sure if I had a favourite toy as a child. Growing up I had Barbie dolls, loved playing marbles, baseball, freeze tag, riding my homemade skateboard ( steel roller skate wheels attached to a piece of wood), card and board games. This being said I do not recall favouring one particular toy over any other toys.

Gratitude:

Share Your World-April 15

God Bless. Thank you for sharing in my world and sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.

2024 SYW: Week of March 4

Here are this week’s questions:

1. What to you is the first sign of Spring?

The first sign of Spring is seeing the new buds on plants and especially the blossoms blooming on the magnificent cherry trees. However, it was the Flowering Dogwood when I lived in Lancaster, South Carolina. The whole street was/is lined with the Dogwood trees. When they started blossoming, one knew Spring was just around the corner.

2. Do you have a favourite flower at this time of year?

My favourite flower anytime of the year are roses. Growing up we always had roses and carnations in our garden. Seasonally, I do not have a particular preference.

3. Does your country exercise the hour change?

My state exercises daylight savings time. There are, however, two states along with five U. S. Territories which do not observe daylight savings time.

The states and territories which do not observe Daylight Saving time are:

Arizona
Hawaii
American Samoa
Guam
Northern Mariana Islands
Puerto Rico
U.S. Virgin Islands

Personally, I wish all states would do away with daylight savings time. It is hard on the mind and body to have to adjust to the time changes.

4. Do you spring clean your home throughout, change furniture around or keep to a normal routine?

Spring clean, yes. Change furniture around, no. Thorough cleaning is done every few months or so, but purging the old and unused is not done often enough. Otherwise, I keep to a basically normal routine.

Gratitude:

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
~ Charles Dickens

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God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.

2024 SYW: Week of January 8

Here are this week’s questions:

1. When you look out of your kitchen window, what do you see?

When I look out the kitchen window I see a vast expanse of overcast skies verging into partly cloudy with the sun trying to peek through and not succeeding lately. Overlooking the first impressions on the horizon I trees the trees across the road stirring to and fro giving strength to the winds crossing through our area.

2. When was the last time you used public transport?

The last time I used public transportation was the day before Thanksgiving. Since then it has been raining and cold most days and Coleman and I haven’t featured out to the bus stop. Having just ( more or less) gotten over a bacterial virus I haven’t wanted to stand out in the cold or rain to wait for a bus.

3. Do you prefer cut flowers or a potted plant?

I prefer plants I can plant in the ground around the house and garden to potted or cut flowers, but I would not turn down cut flowers if they were given out of love.

4. Do you believe in Karma?

Yes, I believe in Karma. There is always a cause and effect to everything we say and do. It is wise to think before saying or doing anything. Think about how what I do today would affect future aspects of my life.

“⁷Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. ⁸Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction;whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life. ⁹Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
Galatians 6:7-9 NIV
)New International Version)

We reap what we sow. If we sow love, kindness, and compassion we in turn we receive the same in return. If we sow hate, gossip, bitterness, or any negative energy they will also be shown to us.

Gratitude:

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