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Tree Fort View November 24, 2008

I’ve been tagged November 24, 2008

Whatever that means!  It guess it is like playing tag, and since I’ve been tagged that makes me IT. Only the game I’ve been tagged in is a bit different.  I was tagged by 3 Ring Binder.

Here are the rules:

1. Link to the person who tagged you.
2. Post the rules on your blog.
3. Write 6 random things about yourself.
4. Tag 6-ish people at the end of your post.
5. Let each person know he/she has been tagged.
6. Let the tagger know when your entry is up.

Now for the 6 random things about myself:

1. I am currently an econ junkie.

2. When I was growing up. I was incredibly envious of the liberties given to boys that I didn’t seem to be allowed to participate in. I spent so much effort trying to break those barriers, that it wasn’t until in my thirties that I got around to enjoying to my femininity.  When I finally did, I started out by buying all my climbing gear in hot pink.

3. My husband hates my chickens because he gets poo stuck in his shoes when he walks around in our back yard.  I don’t mind –partly because the soles of my shoes are flat, and mostly because I love those ridiculously silly, beautiful birdbrains.

4. There are only a few things in life that I enjoy more than a really good, really long, foot massage.

5. Raising children is one of the most challenging, rewarding, wonderfully aggravating, time-consuming, soul-stretching, heart-wrenching, personal-growth journeys I have ever attempted. And I wouldn’t trade away a second of it. 

6. My high school boyfriend and I used to write each other notes using Tolkien’s Runes.

So who to tag? For now, I’ll tag Lisa and Sue.  I will have to come up with some others later.

Off to notify, and that’s it!

My Backyard Ladies November 8, 2008

Back to lighter subjects.

We have had chickens for the past 10 years. Several different flocks, unfortunately, as we worked to be smarter than the racoons and weasels. They actually were the kids’ first pets. When in 4-H, Ben and Eva were in charge of their care, but now they are pretty much all mine, and I love them. I think of them as living lawn ornaments. So silly and dumb, and yet exotic and beautiful.

This is the first set that hasn’t been named. I guess we’ll have to work on that!

Zero and the Devil Doll November 2, 2008