I had been seeing the “5 things you didn’t know about me” tag game going on for a few weeks lately and I was actually happy I had not been “Tagged” yet as I’m already a pretty open person and it would be pretty hard for me to think of 5 things I wanted to talk about. But leave it to Weon to get me just when I thought I was safe in my little hidey hole. If you are a close friend of mine, you will know some of this, but this should be news for others.
1. I want to be a pilot. Now I don’t want to fly airplanes for a living, but yes, i want to get at least my private pilot’s license. About 10 years ago I took my first lesson in beautiful Monterey, CA. If anyone has ever been to Monterey, you know just how gorgeous it is. And to have that be what I see from the air, not just looking out of a little porthole, but looking out the window of a cockpit. It was just incredible and I knew it was something I needed to do. I have always loved to fly period. I am the person with the mile-wide grin on her face during takeoff and landing. I always get a window seat and if the flight doesn’t have a window seat, I would probably book with someone else.
2. I used to have dread locks.
3. I have no political affiliation and never will. I usually don’t talk politics much with people just because it usually turns into them trying to convince me i’m wrong. My values are core to me and are based on my own personal experience. I am very much a to each his own kind of person, I have some conservative beliefs, and some liberal. Like my heritage, I’m also a mutt with my political beliefs.
4. I’m a pretty good snow boarder although I haven’t done it in a few years. That is about to change in a couple of weeks though.
5. I would make an excellent lumberjack! About 5 years ago we lived in the Seattle area and we had a big old house (about 2500 sq feet) that had crap for insulation. This house didn’t have heat wired in it either. It was a neat looking house but it just wasn’t built well, but it was dirt cheap and we were poor so we rented it. The only way it was heated was by a wood-burning stove. One stove for 2500 sq feet meant it took a while for the house to heat up. Around November, Drew was about to be sent away for a couple of months so we took our chainsaw, went to the woods (with a permit of course) and cut down some trees. Yep, i needed help getting the trees down unless they were pretty skinny. But after drew left, splitting the wood was left to me. So it was december in Washington state and cold as hell. Drew was gone, my son was 6 months old. I had to get up at 5 every morning to get the fire going. If Ian woke up, I had to put him in his car seat and set him next to the fire so he could be warm. I was in school at the time so I had to take Ian to daycare. But when we got home i would try to get the fire started and I would set him next to the stove and go outside and split enough wood to last through the night. I became a wood-splitting mad-woman.
I get to relive that experience now that a tree fell down in our front yard during a wind storm a couple of weeks ago. This picture really doesn’t do it justice but the tree that fell down was as large as the one left standing. It has just been chopped up a little bit already.
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