A Musical Hodgepodge

1. April is National Jazz Appreciation Month. Are you a fan? No. If so what's a favorite you'd recommend to someone new to jazz listening? No recommendations here. 

2. Mandolin, ukulele, harp, accordion or banjo...which would you be most interested in learning to play?

From this list, it would be the mandolin, ukulele or banjo. I especially enjoy watching a good mandolin or banjo player. Sonya Isaacs is fabulous on the mandolin and Dolly Parton is amazing on the banjo. And I love singing along with my sis-in-law as she plays her ukulele. 
Or do you already play one of the instruments listed? I wish.

3. Do you judge a book by it's cover? Sometimes. Elaborate. You may answer in either/both the literal or figurative sense of the word.
When looking for a good book to read, I do notice the cover, but first of all, I read what the book is about, I notice who endorses the book, and I read the reviews. When it comes to people, I try very hard to not judge a person that way.

4. According to a recent study the ten most nutritious foods are-almonds, cherimoya (supposed to taste like a cross between a pineapple/banana), ocean perch, flatfish (such as flounder and halibut), chia seeds, pumpkin seeds, swiss chard, pork fat (shocking! but I don't think they mean bacon), beet greens, and red snapper. Are any of these foods a regular part of your diet?

I eat a lot of almonds, I like flounder, but don't get to eat it that often, chia seeds are in my favorite dark chocolate with raspberries and I eat some of that every day. Pumpkin seeds are good and so is Swiss chard.
Any you've never ever tasted? I've never heard of cherimoya, let alone taste it.
Which would you be most inclined to add to your diet?The pumpkin seeds and Swiss chard.

Blech to pork fat! Gross!

5. Besides a major holiday what is the most recent thing you've celebrated with your people? We celebrated our daughter-in-law's birthday.
Tell us how.

We had dinner out with her and the kids. It was very low key, but it was fun. This week, I am hopeful to get to celebrate Jack's birthday, since we will be out of town on his birthday. He will be seven!! Oh my goodness!!

What a fine boy you are! I love you.

6. Insert your own random thought here.

I recently did the ancestry.com test. It was something I had wanted to do for quite some time, but didn't take the steps until my brother, sis-in-law and nephew did it. After checking the mail every day for results, they finally came in. No surprises, but I did find it very interesting to see the percentages of my ethnicity, and the migration of my ancestors.  Anybody else done the test!

And in conjunction with that, yesterday was National Siblings Day. I love mine.

Today is National Pet Day!!

I love you too, Annie.