10 things

10. I love to be outdoors and grew up on a hobby farm. I could put a chicken to sleep tucking it's head under it's wing and moving it in a large circle. Then laying it on the ground it would sleep until we nudged it with our toe. Seems mean now.... making that chicken too dizzy to move!!.

9. When I was a kid (on said farm) we would play cowboys and Indians in the woods. Mom would call us in for lunch and supper by honking the car horn. It was a wonderful childhood.

8. I met my husband in a bar....I saved him from getting beat up.

7. We were engaged after knowing each other 6 weeks.

6. After 13 years of wedded bliss we FINALLY went on our honeymoon. We went to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) in northern Minnesota. We were away 3 nights. 1 night in Grand Marais - we left all our cheese and lunch meat in the fridge at that motel. 1 night in the BWCAW -lots of work to go for 1 night. 1 night at a campground on the way back home. ( I figure I am still waiting for my honeymoon ....or I am still on it!!!)

5. Our belated honeymoon was the first time we camped by ourselves.

4. We took our kids to every state park in Minnesota starting in 1992. We finished this on July 22nd, 2000. (It took us 8 years to get to every state park but there were several years we didn't go to any new parks.) (And we actually never made it to Franz Jevne SP along the Canadian border. please don't tell anyone they might take away our plaque.) The road was washed out when we got there. The wash out wasn't marked and we got stuck trying to turn around our big purple conversion van pulling a red trailer loaded with camping gear. We got pulled out by a tractor, the drivers window got stuck wide open while we were in this predicament. A boy came by on a four-wheeler to visit his dad who was stuck in the park. His dad been camping when the road washed out and he stayed to fish. The boy first went to get a farmer with the tractor to pull us out and then he took our State Park passport book to the park to get the stamp. So we didn't make it to the park.... but we saw it through the trees across the washed out road :P Oh, and we had to stop in the nearest town to get our window fixed by the time we got out to the campground it was after supper and we were the only ones camping in a park of over 3000 acres.

3. #4 counts for 2 at least

2. I have flown 3 times (there and back counts as 1). Once as a junior in high school with my grandma who threw up the whole way. The second time with my husband just 1 month after 9/11 -that was an experience. And the 3rd time in 2004 to get my stubborn daughter from Australia who was trying to decide if she was ready to come home. She called me the angel of death when I got off the plane.

1. For our 25th wedding anniversary my husband and I went on a sunrise hot air balloon ride. I would do it again.



The real #3 -I am an awesome procrastinator.