Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Summer Survey with Friends: Yours Truly

Painting: Edward Hopper Second Storey Sunlight (1960)

I announce the summer of 2012 survey of friends and loved ones. As per usual, I will use myself as guinea pig first in line. Please stay tuned for my line-up of distinguished guests. 


1.     The best use for peanut butter: thai peanut sauce, peanut butter and chocolate ice cream, plain and natural.
2.     A great gift you would like to receive but no one has ever given you: a Volkswagen.
3.     Fiction or non-fiction (and favorite title): fiction and non if it is well written (most celebrities should not publish books), anything by M.F.K. Fisher or The Sun Also Rises or An American Childhood.
4.     A food everyone loves to eat but you think is overrated: cake pops.
5.     Ideal temperature for sleeping: cool night air.
6.     One thing you love about camping: cooking and eating charred goodness.
7.     One reason you do not camp more often: i am not comfortable with tent nylon.
8.     Favorite thing about nighttime: sleeping, quiet, bugs making noise.
9.     Ideal music for a summer evening: Van Morrison.
10.  Your thoughts on s’mores: i love them. they are a staple of summer. i need to eat them at least once more this summer. i like a quality graham cracker.
11.  Would you ever live in the South? yes, i would like to live in a verdant town and eat local peanuts in a sleeping porch and sip from a glistening pitcher of lemonade.
12.  If you stole an art piece, which one would it be? probably a pen and ink that i could frame.

2 comments:

Brian said...

This is quite funny.

So many things I have never heard of. A very cute answer for #12, 7, and 2!

cindamarie said...

Is it too late to respond to the survey? I know it is not summer, but it is still hot (in the 90s) where I live! If it is not too late, here are my answers:
1. The best use for peanut butter: In a peanut butter and Blackberry preserves sandwich.
2. A great gift you would like to receive but no one has ever given you: A day at a spa with the works.
3. Fiction or non-fiction (and favorite title): Fiction: Imagining Argentina, by Lawrence Thornton, Non-fiction: The Devil In the White City by Larson. (I'll probably think of better answers later, but these are the two that came to my mind right now)
4. A food everyone loves to eat but you think is overrated: mayonnaise - cannot stand it!!
5. Ideal temperature for sleeping: I agree with you - cool night air
6. One thing you love about camping: Snuggling in our cot with my husband with tons of quilts over and under us to keep us warm inside the tent....it feels so intimate inside a tent. (And our tent is canvas)
7. One reason you do not camp more often: time.
8. Favorite thing about nighttime: sleep
9. Ideal music for a summer evening: it depends on the evening, really.
10. Your thoughts on S'mores: HELLO??? Is there anyone who doesn't adore them??
11. Would you ever live in the south? Absolutely! My husband's family is from Alabama. We went all over the south in the summer of 2005 and I LOVED it. Sadly, the weather is the pits, as it is here, but I love the people and the food and the gorgeous greenery and flowers everywhere.
12. If you stole an art piece, which one would it be? "The Burghers of Calais" by Rodin. I love it and the story behind it. Fabulous!