Mama O Knits Too Much tagged me! (and i’ve been running around so much i’m *very* late in posting it…)
The Rules:Once tagged, you must link to the person who tagged you. Then post the rules before your list, and list 8 random things about yourself. At the end of the post, you must tag and link to 8 other people, visit their sites, and leave a comment letting them know they’ve been tagged.
1.) my great grandfather was married twice and had 4 children with each wife. both of them were named Pearl. needless to say, the genealogy work on that branch is a bit of a mess. now who was it when they lived ____? oh, right, Pearl!*sigh*
2.) i love to wrap chunks of melon (especially honeydew) in thinly sliced hard salami. it’s really good. my grandmother used to make it for us as summer snacks. i don’t know anyone else who does this… and everyone else looks at me funny when i mention it… but it really is good! i’ve converted Paul to it too.
3.)when i was a teenager living on my grandparent’s dairy farm in upstate NY, there were miles of lilac bushes lining the road for about 30 feet in. there were bushes of every color and variety of lilacs you can imagine… white, blue, purple, pink. and the bushes were so old that they had grown up over 10 feet high. underneath, because the light couldn’t reach there, the bushes had died back and created a network of tunnels and caves.. some tall enough to walk upright in and a large cavern big enough to camp out in. i loved to explore under there and would sit and read and write teenage angst poetry in that dim sheltered world of flowers. it is still one of the most special places in the world to me. i wish i could go back there again, but the land was sold and houses were built.
4.)my sewing machine hates me.i want to sew. i love to sew. my mother used to work at a fabric store and sew store samples. my sewing machine eats my fabric at a whim and jams for the fun of it. ugh.
5.)my “normal” temp isn’t 98.6… it’s 96.8 it’s not uncommon for different people to have different normal temps… but it’s just a bit weird that my normal temp is the same kind of transposition as my normal dyslexic typos.
6.)i’ve been going grey since i was a teen. i’ve got some serious inroads on my grey “wings” now… but back when i was fifteen, it was just a few here and there. my grandmother used to stand over me and pluck them out chuckling about how “for every one you pull out, 3 more grow back!” for some reason, when i was a teen having grey hair already felt like a cool quirk. now i just wish it would hurry up and fill in. grey is pretty. in between patchy grey is annoying.
7.) i love making cornbread muffins or banana bread for various functions with Honey Butter on the side. invariably, someone asks me for the recipe for the honey butter. um, it’s honey and butter… to taste. usually the conversation goes back and forth many times before the person asking really believes me that it’s just honey and butter. why is that so hard to believe? lol. Paul just stands there and chuckles every time.
8.)speaking of random, i once had someone in a rubber stamping class i was teaching ask me for a template for the random stamping on a background. seriously, she wasn’t happy until i came up with a pattern for her to do for random. (ok, how about trying to make triangles by stamping 3 times at the imaginary points… and just keep repeating that…)
and the next 8… let’s see: Royal Empress, Sue, carriepenny, Juliet, Lisa, Heather, Frieda, Patty
