Journal Jar Question {Live Anywhere}

Today's journal jar question is:

If you could live anywhere, where would it be and why?

Most of you know that I'm a country girl at heart. I grew up in a small town called Kerrick that had a population of 56, and most of them were relatives. I lived there for 7 years. After that, mom got married and we moved to a 40 acre hobby farm. Well, it wasn't at first, but Ma turned it into a hobby farm! When I got married I moved to a city with a population of around 100,000. Neighbors. Dogs barking. Sirens all times of the nights. Everything. Gone were the days of listening to the crickets and the frogs out by the pond.

If I could live anywhere I would want to live out in the country somewhere. A nice little house on some acreage. Being able to look out in all directions and not see another neighbor. Trees all around. Fields. Perhaps a pond. Lush green grass. Heck even a gravel/dirt driveway. Oh how I would love that. I miss the quietness of the country. The stillness. Being able to look up and see all sorts of stars. Being able to have people over and crank up the music until the windows on the house shakes and have no one complain.

I crave the country life. Perhaps one day I will be living it again.

Journal Jar Question: {Instrument}

Since I can't think of anything off the top of my head to blog about today, I'm going to use my trusty journal jar and choose a question! Today's question is:

"What instrument do you wish you could play and why?"

I have always wanted to play the piano. I think it sounds so beautiful and that it would be very relaxing to play. Way back in 5th and 6th grade I played the clarinet. I have no idea why I chose that one, but I gave up band. I regret not begging to take piano lessons. A couple of my friends played piano and we would all sing (me very off key!) to the songs. We spent many a lunch hours doing that in the band room.

Maybe now that I'm an adult I will eventually take piano lessons. I think it would be a wonderful hobby to take up. Maybe I should add it onto my bucket list.

Journal Jar {Crush}

I've been trying to blog all morning. Nothing has came to me, and I've tried to get words and form sentences and it just wasn't working. I was complaining about it on Twitter and that solved all my problems. (I <3 Twitter. You all should go join in you aren't members and share your name with me.) Anyway, after I posted the message I rummaged around in my purse (my massive, can just about hold the kitchen sink purse) since I remember I had a journal jar question in there. Not only did I find that, I also found a full size Hershey's Chocolate Bar with Almonds. Score! Now to happily munch on my chocolate and write the blog.

Anyway, let's see about today's question. It reads:

"Describe your first crush. What was the person like?"

My first crush that I actually remember and remember thinking, "Wow, I'm noticing boys" was back in fifth grade. He was in my class. I believe we had Mr. Hogberg as a teacher, I'm not positive though. I will call him "M." M was tall, skinny, and had brown eyes. The best part was that he had a great sense of humor. Plus he was really cute. I don't remember what he looked like back then though. But he would play practical jokes on people and always have something funny to say. Every time he talked to me I would blush like crazy. I was so shy. Nothing ever came of that crush, but I do remember M very well.

Journal Jar Question #1 {Camping}

Did you go camping as a child? Tell about your experiences.

Yup, I went camping as a child! I do believe that I was a baby the very first time I went camping (Ma, correct me if I'm wrong!). Camping was one of my favorite things to do. We went just about every year with Grandma and Grandpa. I remember seeing a quite a few pictures of me camping when I was younger. One of which I'm on a porta potty! Eek! Obviously that one won't make it on my blog!

I remember going up to Hungry Jack Lodge where Grandma was working on re-building or doing construction of some sort. I remember being on the end of the dock and catching sunfish after sunfish there. I must have been 4-6 years old, somewhere in there.

On a trip up north once, I think this was at Hungry Jack again, I was feeding ducks and one of them bit my finger.

I remember camping out in the middle of no where at the end of a long dirt road that ended. There was a lake on side and trees on another. Grandma and Grandpa had the camper there. I was bringing grandpa coffee and spilled it on myself.

Another time we were camping out in the middle of no where. Some state park up north, I remember camping with just about all of my aunts and uncles, grandma and grandpa. It was just an all around good time.

As a teenager we went camping up north once in a State park and it was a blast. I brought my friend Kelsey with me. Down the hill was a lake where we could bathe in. Otherwise we used the sun shower. (Do you still have that Ma?!?!) We had to bring all of the water and everything that we needed. We had campfires at night. One night Uncle Bob was going to chop some wood and he took Ma's new ax and started chopping and said it wasn't very sharp. Ma went over to investigate and he had the clear sheath still on it and he was trying to chop through the rivets!!! We all had a great laugh over that one. It was quite hysterical.

I remember another trip when we went to the family reunion in Alexandria. I remember Kent and Doreen being there and Ma and I, but I don't know about anyone else. But we camped in some farmers field and had to watch out for cow pies. There was a lake there and I went swimming and got leaches. We used Coke (soda pop) to get them off.

As a teenager we mainly stayed out at Kevin and Judy's place on Lake 12. There was an outhouse, lake, and plenty of room for tents and campers. We used to have HUGE bonfires after the adults went to bed. One time the guys had to cut a couple of branches off of a tree because the flames were too close. There were some singed leaves on there though!!! The next day the fire ring was almost full with ashes, which is no small feat since that thing was probably 2 feet tall. The adults were happy though since it was perfect for cooking meals over!!! When camping with the Nelson's you have one meal, clean-up, and then start prepping the next meal, and keep on going. Such delicious food all cooked over the campfire. No grills or anything, just the good old campfire. Yum.

I have such great camping memories. I love camping.

I miss camping. I would love to go on a couple trips this year. So much fun.