2025 Share Your World (SYW): 31 March

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Di from pensitivity101 hosts Share Your World. Each week she challenges us to answer unique questions about ourselves/ our lives. This week’s questions are about our “firsts” of various objects. Can you remember your “Firsts?”

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Here are this week’s questions:

  1.  Can you remember your first camera? The first camera I ever used was one of my dad’s older cameras, an Argus 40 Box Camera. Later on I used a Kodak Instamatic X-15 126 cartridge camera. In high school I bought my first 35 mm camera, a Minolta XG-7 (which I still own). I have been using a Canon EOS Rebel T3i DSLR camera since 2014.
  2.  Can you remember when you had your first mobile phone? I didn’t own a mobile phone until, I think, around 2002/3. I believe it was a Motorola similar to the MOTOROLA MC2-41h11 talkabout.
  3.  Can you remember your first car. If you don’t drive, can you remember your parent’s car? Before I mention the first car I ever drove/owned let me tell you the first car I remember my dad ever driving. It was a 1949 Ford Tudor 2-door Sedan. [My dad had a model 1949 Tudor Sedan he painted to look exactly like the one he owned at one time.] The first cars I ever drove was a 1962 Ford Galaxie (manual steering) and a 1967 Ford Galaxie 500 Select-a-Shift (all 2-doors). The 1967 Ford Galaxie 500 later became my first car.
  4.  What was your first job as an adult? The first job I had after high school was as a nurses aide at Alvarado Convalescent Hospital. ( I took nurse aide training my senior high of high school, however, I didn’t manage too well with the science courses so never became a nurse.)

Gratitude:

“Everyone enjoys being acknowledged and appreciated. Sometimes even the simplest act of gratitude can change someone’s entire day. Take the time to recognize and value the people around you and appreciate those who make a difference in your lives.”

~ Roy T. Bennett

Di’s Share Your World-31 March

God Bless. I’m thankful for each and every one of y’all here on WordPress. I’m thankful for the friendships, interactions, and support. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.

Examples of my firsts:

All images free from Google search with copyright attachments in image captions.

2025 SYW: January 27

Share Your World is hosted by pensitivity101; she is some thought provoking questions for us to answer in this week’s challenge. I personally have not thought very much about these types of questions, but maybe I should be thinking about them and considering a plan in writing of my desired wishes.

Here are the questions for this week’s Share Your World Challenge:

  • Do you have a bucket list?

At the present time, I do not have a bucket list. There are still some things I dream of doing, however, I do not think I have the means to accomplish some of them. One of my top goals is to visit the Southern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Boulder City, Nevada. I want to visit my former spouse’s (and the father of my grown children) grave to pay my respects. If we make it there, Coleman would be seeing where his Pawpaw is buried. Another dream is take my grandson, Coleman, to California to meet his Pawpaw’s only living brother with a side trip to the Pacific Ocean.

  • Cremation or burial?

My choice would be Cremation. The cost of burial is extremely expensive and, to me, an unnecessary burden. My parents were both cremated and their ashes were buried in the same burial plot. As to the ashes, I’m not sure if my children would prefer to scatter them or have them interred in a crypt.

  • Recognised service/celebration of life, or private gathering?

It would definitely be a private gathering. I don’t believe many would gather except for a handful.

  • Flowers or donations?

Flowers are pretty, but I would not be able to enjoy them if I were no longer present on this earth. Therefore, I would recommend, if desired, for people to make donations to the American Cancer Society or an agency like the Wounded Warrior Project.

Gratitude:

Dankbare Menschen sind wie fruchtbare Felder, sie geben das Empfangene zehnfach zurück.

Grateful people are like

fertile fields, they give back
what they receive tenfold.

August von Kotzebue
Germany

Share Your World -January 27

God Bless. Life is Short. Be Grateful Always. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.