2. Same goes for Charley Pride and Flip Wilson.
3. I remember sliding down my Grandma Huber's stairs on a number of varied items. From couch cushions to upended ottomans with wicked-looking black metal legs to a beautifully carved and painted (and I'm sure valuable and irreplaceable) round, wooden tray that came from El Salvador. ANYTHING was fair game. As I recall, the tray slid especially well and could carry at least two of us.
4. I love sandwiches.
5. Pretty sure I didn't appreciate any of my grandparents as much as I should have.
6. Especially my Grandma Perkins. She was a kind and gentle soul with a quick wit and I wish I had spent more time with her.
7. My cousin, Kirsten, and I used to dress up in Grandma Huber's scarves and costume jewelry. We also made generous use of her various smell-good creams and pomades in those lovely little pots/jars--don't think they make them any more.
8. I hate when they shoot a "dancing" movie from the waist up. The recent Footloose comes to mind. Give me a long shot when the dancing is going on so I can appreciate the dance moves and, perhaps, steal from those scenes later. :)
9. I LOVE to read. Seriously. Have since I was a very small child.
10. Another pet peeve? I hate when those words that are so popular on walls and plaques these days don't match in tense. Like when it says "dream", "believe", "inspiration" or something like that. I like the word art, but MATCH them please. Shouldn't that be dream, believe, inspire?!? Yes, it should.
11. Love tennis. To watch and to play. I will remember the Isner/Mahout Wimbledon marathon for the rest of my life. Incredible.
12. Rowan laughed at me recently when I told her I am kind of afraid of frogs/toads. Like, when they hop right by me--oogy.
13. Also, in that category? Earthworms. Have to steel myself and try not to gag to walk on the sidewalk after a rainstorm when they have all crawled out to die. Gross.
14. I think it's awesome that Dave and most of my kids like Legos. Me? I don't really get them. Probably because out of these amazing little squares I can make squarish houses/structures and that is all. Pathetic.
15. I have, however, made a couple of things with Gage by following the directions. And that was awesome. It is the free-form play that intimidates me. ha.
16. I think my parents are amazing people.
17. My parents-in-law are pretty amazing too.
18. I still cringe inside a little when one of my kids hands me their still-bloody tooth that has just come out. Have to pretend it's cool because they have that slight look of horror on their faces. I feel you, I feel you. lol.
19. I will never regret growing up in Kanosh, UT.
20. When I was fairly young, I gashed my side open on a corner of a water trough. Grandpa Huber did some of his famous or infamous "frontier surgery" (ha) with iodine, merthiolate, mercurochrome, whatever. He sewed it up while I lay whimpering on the bar/island in their kitchen. Still have the scar.
21. Island of the Blue Dolphins= one of my favorite books EVER. Must have read it 8 times as a kid.
22. Ditto Julie of the Wolves and The Secret Garden.
23. Hmmm, any significance in the similarities of the characters I wonder?
24. My mom introduced me to the book Caddie Woodlawn about a frontier girl. Love it too.
25. I used to get my books from the Bookmobile that came to our little town every two weeks. I have fond memories of the Bookmobile.
I guess that's enough for now.
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Yay! You're blogging again! :) I love all of these! please, please keep posting more!!!! :)
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