Wordless Wednesday Ask Me Anything
Today’s suggested topic is Ask Me Anything. It can be about my life, my blogs, maybe my recipes or decluttering but please no politics. Go for it and I’ll try to answer it plus I may even turn your question into a blog!
But it’s also Wordless Wednesday so I can’t go without posting a photo or two and a few words also! So enjoy your day and on this Wordless Wednesday ask me anything!
These are two of my favorite thinking photos. The first one was a few months after I meet Rich on a blind day, Christmas day 1965. I loved his look, like he was looking right through me, maybe wondering “should I run now or stay?” LOL A few days later, on my birthday in March 1966 he proposed to me.
The next photo was on our last anniversary together in July 2023. We rented a cabin in Cherokee and every morning Rich would go stand by the stream and gaze out. One morning he came back inside and said, “This place is so beautiful and we can almost touch heaven.” We went back on March 23, 2024 to look at purchasing a cabin but Rich left Easter morning on March 31, 2024 before we could finalize anything. The memories we had in the mountains will stay with me forever until we met at Heaven’s gate.
So do you have a question for me? I’ll do my best to come up with an answer!
What a great idea…. You have had your blog for quite some time. What has been one of your most memorable experiences and why?
Hi Kim, yes I started blogging 2014 mostly when I did product reviews then in 2016 I started my life style blog and found the UBC. I would say the most memorable experience was when my great granddaughter Lia joined in blogging when she was about a year old. Of course she couldn’t write a blog but when I had products that were kid related, she would check them out since she was inquisitive from day one. As she got older we started writing stories about her gardening, crafting, sewing and cooking. It was so much fun and people enjoyed her blogs. Then I decided to give her a special day and that’s how Friday Story Time by Lia was born when she was maybe 3 or 4. I’m saving all her blogs so when she get’s older, she can look back at all the memories she made blogging. Thanks for the question!
I love how Rich didn’t waste any time and proposed early in your relationship. And look how long you were happily married. I have no question, or wait: When can you come to my house to clean up my kitchen cabinets? 😉 Will make you Swiss dinner!
Of course not Tamara, Rich is Italian they they work fast. LOL We both fell in love right away, the stars were in our favor for sure. This Christmas would have been our 60th year together and yes I’m still counting and keeping all our memories close to my heart. I’d love to come help you organize, I was mentioning to one of my friends from NY that maybe I should start a mobile reorganizing tour and go to homes to help them get neat and tide all for the price of a bed when I’m there and breakfast or lunch! LOL
Love all the photos, Martha. As for questions, what is sticking out of young Rich’s pocket? Looks like a black cord.
Hi Lily thanks for the question. That is his sunglasses, he always put them in his pocket but had one of the bows sticking out! You are very observant!
Here you go… ask me anything question…
What are some songs that, if you heard them, would make you instantly jump up and dance?
HMMM, that’s a good question Alice! I think I’d have to say anything from the 50’s and 60’s. Both Rich and I love Dion and the Belmonts and Richie Valens and his gang. The songs way back were songs we could actually understand them, not like some of the artists today.
– Martha, hugs! (I am covered in porcelain dust from the tile cutting, so I’m brief today.)
– You must keep going to Cherokee and experiencing the blues butterflies.
–My questions: Who set up the blind date on which you and Rich met? Where were you living before Wren’s Crossing? And why did you relocate? <3
I definitely will keep going up especially in July for our anniversary and Rich’s birthday (they are 2 days apart) and then again sometime around Christmas. We always went up the week before to celebrate when we met. As for how we met, a school friend who was a year old then me was going out with Rich’s brother. She told me about him just returned from the Army after serving in Vietnam. I really didn’t have any interest since boys were the farthest thing from my mind at that time. I decided to have him call me and we talked a few times in November then he asked if I wanted to go to the movies with him on Christmas. The rest was history, got engaged 3 months later but had to wait until I graduated high school in 1967. So many wonderful memories of a young couple, 16 and 19 who fell in love at first sight. I lived in upstate NY in a small country town of Charlton. It’s between Albany and Saratoga, after we got married my parents retired and we bought the house that I grew up in. My parents retired to Myrtle Beach and mom had Alzheimer’s in her older years so Rich and I moved here in 1994 to help dad take care of her. That is when we opened our first storefront and we never looked back. This sounds like a good question to write a blog on! Thanks Kebba.