Thirteen Things - 1

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Thirteen Things – 1


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Today’s group on Flickr Group Roulette asks us to list "thirteen things about you." I made up a list of 27, intending to pick the top 13. After running the list past a few people, they urged me to reveal all 27. So be it!

This is the first list. The second will come after I freeze my butt on my new (to me) bike.

1. I have never lived alone

2. I grew up in Battle Creek, Michigan. (Yes, my dad worked at Kellogg’s)

3. I went to Michigan State University, the best college in Michigan. I only applied to it and the Coast Guard Academy (where I was also accepted).

4. I lived for five years in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C.

5. I now live in Houston, Texas

6. I have two kids, a boy and a girl. They are both in high school and live with their mother.

7. I used to sail dinghies until I went to college. I held the sailing club’s Sun Fish trophy one year, and the Laser trophy the next. My partner and I sailed in the World Rhodes Bantum International Championship and won the youth division.

8. My favorite thing to do as a kid was work on my uncle’s farm. I liked bailing hay and slopping the pig barns most of all. Actually, I liked driving the dune buggy best.

9. I learned to drive on a tractor. I could put a 3-pt hitch within a quarter inch.

10. I have discovered that drinking an IPA is one of the finest pleasures in life.

11. My favorite authors are W.E.B. Griffin and Lilian Jackson Braun. Tom Clancy is pretty good too.

12. My favorite campground is Dog Canyon, in the Guadalupe National Park. That’s in Texas, but you can only get there by car via New Mexico. The attraction for me is the absolute darkness and quiet.

13. I don’t have any tattoos… yet.

Hope you enjoyed this list. The next may or may not be more revealing.

creepy mannequin


Image by suttonhoo
When I was in Denver between Christmas and New Year's my brother was keen to check out the Forney Museum of Transportation. We had been a few times when we were kids and it was housed downtown in what is now the REI flagship store. The big brick warehouse, to my recollection, was the best part of that visit — the way the sun spilled through the high windows and lit up the dust that lived everywhere in that place.

The exhibits, as I remembered them, were cool but stale: A lot of big machines. Cars. Trains. Other mechanical stuff. Cool to a point when you're a girl with a penchant for these things. Unbelievably cool when you're a boy.

Which is why, I think, my brother was keen to get back there.

So we did. With his four kids in tow. And they didn't even start saying "can we go now?" until we'd been there an hour at least.

Me? I missed the high windows. The brick. But the electric cars were pretty cool. As were the trains. And I took an especial liking to all the creepy mannequins.

flowers in the window


Image by suttonhoo
When I was in Denver between Christmas and New Year's my brother was keen to check out the Forney Museum of Transportation. We had been a few times when we were kids and it was housed downtown in what is now the REI flagship store. The big brick warehouse, to my recollection, was the best part of that visit — the way the sun spilled through the high windows and lit up the dust that lived everywhere in that place.

The exhibits, as I remembered them, were cool but stale: A lot of big machines. Cars. Trains. Other mechanical stuff. Cool to a point when you're a girl with a penchant for these things. Unbelievably cool when you're a boy.

Which is why, I think, my brother was keen to get back there.

So we did. With his four kids in tow. And they didn't even start saying "can we go now?" until we'd been there an hour at least.

Me? I missed the high windows. The brick. But the electric cars were pretty cool. As were the trains. And I took an especial liking to all the creepy mannequins.

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