Sharing my World – Gfpacificbee’s Insights & photography

2025 SYW — September 23


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As always an optional gratitude section is included at the end.

Here are this week’s questions:

1. Do you like having your photograph taken?

No, I do not like to have my photograph taken. Nowadays, I prefer to be behind the camera and not in front of it.

2. Did you have a school photograph taken every year?

When I was growing up school pictures were taken every year. My dad saved them all in a photo album which I now possess.

3. Do you take photographs using a phone or stand alone camera?

On quick or last minute trips, I use my phone to take photos. If the outing is planned in advance, I prefer to use my Canon camera even though I tend to use both on Coleman and my hiking adventures.

4. Are you any good at taking photographs?

I wouldn’t say I am really good, but then again I wouldn’t say I am really bad either. I will say I am an amateur photographer who happens to get lucky and have some amazing photos at times.

Gratitude:

Di’s Share Your World-Photography_2025.22.09

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

2025 SYW: 19 May (on 23.05)

Here are my answers this week:

1. Do you exercise regularly?
Coleman and I go hiking/ walking two (2) yo three (3) times per week weather permitting. Hiking/ Walking is the extent of my exercise routine.

2. Have you ever belonged to/visited a gym?
I belonged to a gym a long time ago. The only membership I currently have is with our local YMCA curtesy of my medical plan.

3. When it comes to diet, what is your greatest weakness?
When it comes to diet my greatest weakness would be eating too late at night.

4. Do you know your waist size?
I do not know my current waist size and have not taken my measurements in like forever.

Gratitude:

“Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise – then you will discover the fullness of your life.”
~ David Steindl–Rast

Share Your World-19th May

God Bless. Be Grateful. You are Blessed and Loved. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time, world, and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.

2025 SYW: Week of 28 April

Season??

Di from Pensitivity101 hosts the Share Your World Challenge , this week she is asking us about what Season we are experiencing in our part of the World.

There are two ways in which you can participate:
Leave your answers to this week’s questions in the comments box below or create your own post and link back to this one.
Ping-backs are activated, but don’t always work properly, so to play safe, leave a link in a comment or if you prefer, leave just the link so that I can see it.
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To make it easy for others to check out your post, title or tag your blog post “Share Your World”.

Here are my answers this week:

1. What season are you in where you live, and what time is it?

Spring is in the air in my neck of the woods (area). The days are warming, the flowers are blossoming, Spring sports ⚾️ are active and Coleman is ready for sleeping past 5:30 am.

2. What is your favourite season of the year?

I like Spring, Summer, and Autumn. Do not care for the cold winter weather season. Spring is the season of warming and flowering. Summer leads to hotter weather, water fun, and the opportunity to be on a time-free schedule (or lack of a time consuming schedule). Autumn is the season of cooling weather, beautiful foliage colouring the landscapes. I maybe odd, but I actually prefer the Summer Season except for when the heatwaves rise towards extreme temperatures.

3. Can you ski or ice skate?

Ski? I have never Snow skied ⛷️and do not have excellent balance for ice skating⛸️ . I have Waterskied 🚤 and enjoyed it tremendously in my youth.

4. When was the last time you built a snowman?

I’m not sure if I’ve built I snowman ☃️. I have made an igloo though in the early nineteen nineties with the Boy Scouts of America.

Gratitude:

“Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise – then you will discover the fullness of your life.”
– David Steindl–Rast

Di’s Share Your World-28 April

God Bless. Enjoy life. Experience the wonders of your Season. Thank you for visiting and sharing in my world. I appreciate y’all very much.

2025 Share Your World (SYW): 31 March

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?”

Here are this week’s questions:

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.
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.
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.
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: 17 March —

Pensitivity101 hosts Share Your World and this week’s question are a variety of subjects from auctions, concerts, plays and feelings. The rules for participating are simple and are listed below:

Here are this week’s questions and my answers:

Have you ever been to an auction? The only auctions I have ever been to were church auctions to raise money for missions.
Were you ever in a school play or concert? I was never in a school plays or concerts but I was in plays and choir at church.
In your working life, were you ever rewarded financially for your services apart from your salary? In my job I was rewarded yearly depending on how the store performed.
How are your feeling today? Today, I am feeling fine. Yesterday I was worried because my grandson’s school bus was delayed due to a minor accident the bus was involved in. With no transportation except by two feet I walked approximately 1.5 miles to meet the bus to pick him up from where the bus was stopped due to the accident.

Gratitude

“The real gift of gratitude is that the more grateful you are, the more present you become.”
– Robert Holden
Routinely Nomadic

Share Your World

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

2025 SYW: 10 March — Pets??

Here are my answers to this week’s questions:

1. Have you ever had a pet that was NOT a dog or a cat?

At one time in my life we had an aquarium with a few different types of fish. I don’t recall which ones though. I think we had a Plecostomus, a type of bottom-dwelling fish that helps keep an aquarium clean and possibly a Corydoras Catfish with possibly a few goldfish. (I’ve never owned a cat).

2. Did you have pets in the household when you were a child?

We had various tipoff dogs throughout the years while I was growing up. I only remember the collie we had when I was in elementary school and the short-haired Chihuahua-Dachshund Mix we had for years.

3. Do/did you find pets therapeutic?

While growing up I never considered pets as therapeutic (or even knew of such a thing). My maternal aunt has two emotional support dogs and my daughter had one until we moved and couldn’t bring him (he was epileptic and tended to have seizures that we couldn’t afford his medication).

4. How old were you when you had your first pet?

I’m not sure how old I was when we got our first dog, a collie. All I remember is we had him before I was in third grade.

Gratitude:

“At the end of the day,
I am thankful that my blessings are bigger than my problems.”
Author unknown

Share Your World

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

2025 SYW: February 3

Sharing my World

on February 5th

Pensitivity101 is the host for Share Your World and is asking us to share about our school days. She welcome all to Share their World. This is a special way we may earn more about each other and connect in a small way.

Here are this week’s questions:

What can you remember about your last day at school/college? My last day of school/college was a long long time ago. It was a day to stand, sit, and wait for the graduation ceremony to end. My High School graduation was held in the Starlight Bowl Balboa Park’s Amphitheater. The highlight of the ceremony some might not consider a highlight, but instead an embarrassment. There were a couple of streakers who ran across the stage.
Were you close enough to walk to school or did you need transport? For my elementary school, I walked a 0.5 miles extremely long blocks to and from school every day which took a minimum of ten (10) minutes depending on traffic lights. For my Junior High School, I walked approximately 14-15 minutes for O.6 miles each way. I walked past the shopping center and a small strip mall and a long block of houses before entering the school grounds. Now for my High School, I did not live close enough to walk. My high school was near my dad’s work, so he drove me to school and dropped me off on the side street. At the end of the school day, I rode the city bus to my neighbourhood and walked the rest of the way home.
Did you have a favourite teacher? I’m not sure that I remember many of my teachers names. My eighth grade history teacher would give me extra credit to improve my grade. I didn’t care much for history back then, but I did enjoy doing research. This teacher allowed me to research a person or historical topic and write a report on the subject. I had a teacher in high school that allowed a few students a pass from being in the classroom. The only condition was you had to attend a Kiwanis luncheon downtown (yes, we got to eat at the luncheon), listen to a guest speaker and then talk about what the speaker spoke about at the next class session with a written report to turn in to him.
Would you like to go back to school? At this present stage of my life I have no desire to go back to school, however, that doesn’t prevent me from reading, researching, writing, or whatsoever is appropriate to keep myself learning new ideas and experiencing new things and having adventures learning in nature with my grandson.

Gratitude:

‘Today I choose to live with gratitude for the love that fills my heart, the peace that rests within my spirit, and the voice of hope that says all things are possible.’
– Anonymous

Share Your World-February 3, 2025

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