MEME: Saturday Six - Episode 114

This edition of the "Saturday Six" returns to the more normal, random questions you've come to know and love.

But first, for the second week in a row, Carly of "Ellipsis...Suddenly Carly was first to play! Congratulations again, Carly!

Here are this week's "Saturday Six" questions. Either answer the questions in a comment here, or put the answers in an entry on your journal...but either way, leave a link to your journal so that everyone else can visit! To be counted as "first to play," you must be the first player to either answer the questions in a comment or to provide a complete link to the specific entry in your journal in which you answer the questions. A link to your journal in general cannot count. Enjoy!

1. What vegetable can you not get enough of? What vegetable that you've actually tried cooking do you hate, no matter what is done to it?
I adore sweet corn on the cob. Can't get enough of it. Such a short season here in Maine, too.

Hate is a pretty strong word. Vegetables, while living, are classified as inanimate in my lexicon and therefore are incapable of being hated, as they can not hate back. So, while there are some I won't go out of my way to prepare, I don't actually hate rutabagas, for instance. I'm just not fond of them...
2. Have you ever given your father one of those tacky flashing ties as a Father's Day gift? What's the "worst" gift you've ever given your dad?
My father passed from this mortal coil never having experienced the joy of flashing ties. Possibly the worst gift I ever gave him was a “glass froster.” It consisted of a cardboard tube, closed at one end, covered in an obviously fake alligator hide print vinyl with a brass grommeted hole in the top of the cover, which allowed the nozzle of a can of compressed freon gas to protrude therefrom. You took a glass you wanted to frost and inverted it over the cardboard tube, pushing down until the grommet had depressed the nozzle sufficiently to engage the valve. Freon gas filled the cup, chilling the glass. The chilled glass surface temperature was sufficiently lower than the dew point of the ambient air, resulting in condensation which then froze onto the surface of the glass. Voila! Frosted glass. At least until you actually poured a liquid into the glass, undoing all of your previous hard work...
3. When is the last time you donated clothes to a charity drive? If you had to guess, what percentage of the clothes in your closet right now no longer fit?

Last year, if memory serves. I'd guess about 30%, but they are all things I'll hold onto just “in case” I ever lose enough weight to wear them again (leather vests, suits, Scottish Herringbone tweed wool sport coats from the Outer Hebrides, Irish Fisherman's sweater (from Ireland), etc.
4. Take the quiz: Where should you spend your summer vacation?

You Should Spend Your Summer in the Mountains

You're quiet, introspective, and a great thinker. You need a summer vacation that gets you away from the crowds and the heat. So retreat to the mountains, where you can clear your head.

Where Should You Spend Your Summer?

5. If you could spend one week anywhere in the world or two weeks at home relaxing, which would you choose?
I'd take a cruise up the Inside Passage from Vancouver, BC to Ketchikan, Alaska.
6. Do you tend to be more of a morning person or a night owl? If you could, would you become the opposite?I'm a night owl. I tried for almost 20 years to squeeze my square peg ass into the ridiculous sphincter of the business world. I failed, utterly. But I miss having an income. Boy, do I miss that...