Linking Up to Hodgepodge 410

Hodgepodge Questions-Volume 410 Here are the questions to this week's Wednesday Hodgepodge. Answer on your own blog, then hop back here to add your link to the party. See you there! From this Side of the Pond 

1. Is March coming in like a lion where you live? Aslan, Simba, Elsa, The Cowardly Lion...your favorite 'famous' lion? 

For our area March is coming in rather lion like, but it could be worse. Yesterday was very cold and windy with a little snow, today is a little warmer but still quite windy. I guess I would say Aslan as that wind can get pretty powerful at times and definitely goes right through you. 

2. In what way do you 'march to the beat of your own drum'? 

Well I play an instrument that doesn't seem to be widely accepted these days. I was recently told no one can relate to the organ anymore and so even though I feel playing the organ is a calling, I should ignore that and just play the piano. I refused to give in, change who I am, do something I'm not comfortable in doing just to cater to someone else's agenda. 

3. What item that you don't have already, would you most like to own? Any chance of that happening soon? 

A quality organ for home practice use. No, I don't think that will happen soon, if ever. 

4. March is National Flour Month...are you a baker? Cookies-cakes-or pies...your favorite sweet treat to bake? What's the last non-sweet thing you made that called for flour? 

I am not much of a cook or baker, I don't care much for being in the kitchen. I bake cookies for my husband once in a while, but not very often, poor guy. I do make bread in the bread machine once a week. I can't eat it much anymore, but husband eats it daily and he doesn't like store bought bread anymore. 

5. There are 31 days in the month of March...where were you and what were you doing when you were 31? If you haven't hit that milestone yet, then tell us where you were and what you were doing 31 months ago? (if math is not your thing, that would be August 3, 2018) 

Wow, I had to think about that one. We had been living in this small town for 3 years. I had a 3 year old daughter and a 6 year old son and I was trying to be a good parent to them while trying to help my husband run a small printing business. I had my hands full! 

6. Insert your own random thought here. 

Today was a special day. I was asked to help a couple at church celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary by playing the organ for their vow renewal service. It was so precious watching them hold hands and renew the vows they said to each other before God 50 years ago. She told me she didn't get to walk an aisle when they married the first time, no wedding dress, nothing special, just a simple ceremony in front of the justice of the peace. I was honored to send her down the aisle with trumpets and fanfare.