Sunday Stealin' Meme

 Welcome to Sunday Stealing. Here we will steal all types of questions from every corner of the blogosphere. Our promise to you is that we will work hard to find the most interesting and intelligent questions. Cheers to all of us thieves. To play along, head here. 

Random questions from some meme called Thursdays Thunks. NO idea why it's called this but the questions are fun. 

1. Is there anyone whose home you enter without knocking? Does anyone (who doesn't live with you) have permission to enter your home without knocking?

Yes, when both my in-laws were still alive, we would arrive and just walk in but we always gave the doorbell a quick jab so we wouldn't surprise them. We did the same thing with my parents.  

When I was a teen, I would just walk into my friend Cheryl's house. Her parents never locked the door. And vice versa. 

No one can get into my house without knocking as we don't use the front door so it's always locked and deadbolted (I live in a suburb where yes there are crimes at times) and our side door which opens to the kitchen from the garage stays locked if the garage is open. The girls usually text that they're on their way and they each still have a key to that door. My neighbor has been known to just walk onto my deck though in the summer and call out my name.....the sliding glass door is almost always open and the screen unlocked,  but only during the day in nice weather. 

2. Tell us about a school trip you took.

One of the first field trips I remember was when I was in 3rd grade circa 1969. I was 9 years old.   We went to this village (so famous for baseball!) to a place called The Woodland Museum.  I still have the little wall pennant! The village was only about a 35 minute drive from the town I grew up in. The Woodland Museum was founded by Louis Busch Hagar of the Anheuser-Busch family. There was an old stone dairy barn where we watched a woman doing weaving. I can't remember what else was in there. There was a fun playground and a train.  There were little animals...like a mini zoo and I remember seeing a spider monkey for the first time outside of a book. There was  a reconstructed village from the late 1800s or early 1900s,  but it wasn't as vast as the still running Farmer's Museum in the same village. I also remember there were swans and a gift shop.  Because I loved that field trip so much, my parents took me and my 2 younger sisters (Joy and Hope...Jill hadn't been born yet) to it the next summer and then it closed down the year I turned 14.  I'm thankful the Farmers Museum is still up and running...I took my youngest daughter there when she was 10 and my oldest was on a trip with my husband with her junior high youth group. Here is an old photo of the Woodland Museum I happened to find online. 

people waiting for the trail at the Woodland Museum
Cooperstown NY 

3. Name three things within arm's reach right now (but they can't relate to your phone, computer or laptop).

My coffee mug, an historical fiction library book, an empty cereal bowl

4. Weather permitting, do you dry your clothes outdoors on a clothesline?

We don't have clotheslines in this neighborhood, but in the summer months, I often bring out my portable drying rack and set it up on the  deck to air dry my hiking clothes, cotton tee shirts, swimsuits. 

5. If every flower in the world only bloomed in one color, what color would you like to see?

That blue that Cape Cod hydrangeas get.  It's like a sky blue and so peaceful looking. Either that, or the bright orange of daylilies. I'm not  an orange fan meaning I rarely have articles of clothing or home decor that's orange (Other than pumpkins at Harvest time) but there's something about the orange of day lilies that screams "hope".  Peace and hope. something our world truly needs. 

HAPPY SUNDAY!

And if you're a mom, Have a blessed Mother's Day!  I'm off to spend time with my daughters.