Hectic Heaven

100 things about me

1. I am 45
2. I live on a small hobby farm in southern Oregon
3. I have been married now for 3 years to my buddy
4. I have a daughter 23
5. I have a stepson 18 who wants to move in with us
6. I enjoy critters
7. I have 3 dogs
8. I have 7 goats
9. I have 9 chickens
10. I have a garden that is a jungle, it just like Christmas when we find stuff
11. I like quiet time to myself
12. I love to cook
13. I am exploring different aspects of weaving
14. I just finished a card woven strap
15. I enjoy shooting my muzzleloader
16. I built my muzzleloader
17. I am not a very good shot lol but I have fun
18. We are members of a muzzleloading gun club and do several rendezvous a year
19. I entered stuff in the fair for the first time since I was in 4-H this year and it was fun
20. I am currently milking one doe and bottle feeding one baby
21. I love the sound of the milk swooshing in the bucket
22. I don’t care for the smell or taste of warm milk
23. I love bottle feeding babies
24. I am not very good at housekeeping
25. I don’t like housework
26. I make and sell goats milk soap
27. I need to make another batch or two or three
28. I love shrimp
29. I love crawling into freshly washed, lined dried sheets at the end of a long day
30. I love the feeling of laying down and stretching out
31. I love that first stretch in the morning
32. I get tickled hearing Hubby talk in his sleep
33. I like to hear the house sleeping… DH and dog both snoring lol
34. I don’t like to be woke up to daughter breaking up ice at 4 am
35. I am not much of a TV watcher
36. I love my computer
37. I like to make cheese
38. My hobby seems to be learning new things
39. My car is still broke down , but it sure has been fun driving my dads big truck lol
40. I have 4 canaries
41. I like rock n roll music and so do they
42. I enjoy garage sailing with DH
43. A good share of my child hood was spent on the Oregon Coast dad followed construction
44. I would like to move back to the coast.
45. I like to watch the seals
46. I like to go crabbing
47. I like to close my eyes and hear the waves hitting the beaches…
48. My dream homestead would be the ocean to the front and fields and forest out the back door
49. I like dutch oven cooking
50. Our family often has dutch oven cook outs..
51. I am the oldest of 4
52. I have 1 sis and 2 brothers
53. I have a rebellious streak
54. I am somewhat stubborn
55. I have a good sense of humor, well it sure tickles me anyway lol
56. I would like to go back to school
57. I don’t know what I want to do when I grow up though
58. I am not aging gracefully Im fighting it every step of the way
59. I don’t want to wear glasses, but I like to read so allowances have to be made, I guess and my arms are not long enough anymore!
60. I don’t like gray hair, even though I am sure I earned every cotton pickin one, and there are many
61. I have an awesome Mom and Dad, although I didn’t always think so
62. I have long hair because someone once told me that older women shouldn’t have long hair:>
63. I like watching little people explore the world
64. I like watching the goats big and little play
65. I love to sit out at dusk with DH and watch the barn owls come and go
66. I love to see shooting stars
67. I like to visit with DH
68. I like to aggravate DH giggle especially when he is trying to go to sleep
69. I like to watch the chickens
70. I am thrilled when I see deer and fawns around our Place
71. I could shut the gate and never leave home quite happily for a very long period of time
72. Sometimes I laugh so hard it makes me cry
73. I enjoy hearing the kids playing in the school yard across the creek
74. I am not very organized at home, just look at this list
75. I am , however, very organized at work
76. I don’t care for hot weather
77. I don’t like thunderstorms
78. I am scared of heights
79. I would like to live in one of those towers during the summer and firewatch… now does that make sense or what?
80. I crave a simple life
81. Sometimes I think I was born in the wrong century
82. I want to start a business
83. Some day’s I am very hormonal,
84. I think I am pretty layed back for the most part
85. I am looking forward to going to a nationals primitive rendezvous next June for a whole week
86. I need to make several more costumes before it gets here
87. I love slipping back into the 18^th century and re enacting the fur trade era
88. I hope Pam (goat) doesn’t jump the fence again this year
89. I like to work alone
90. People that abuse children and animals make me very angry
91. I work as a substitute custodian
92. I love making home made bread
93. I love to eat the heel of homemade bread slathered with butter, real butter
94. I don’t care for clocks
95. I don’t wear a watch
96. I love to sit/lay by the fire and read on rainy days
97. I love the smell of the first rains or any rains during the summer
98. I love fresh corn on the cob
99. I love fresh tomatoes
100. This has been harder then I thought it would be

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10:06, 2006-Aug-24 .. Posted by thatday

I just read thru you list - love learning about others.
I lived most of my life in Medford and worked for 30 years at Harry & David. Just retired and moved to Pendleton to be near family - daughter, her husband, a grandson - soon to turn 18 and 3 granddaughters (13, 8 and 5).
I did see where said you mentioned living on a tower in the forest. In the late 50's my husband & I spent 2 summers at a Forest Service lookout in central Oregon (Huckleberry Mt just north of Oakridge) and it was absolutely wonderful. The trail in was 3.5 miles (they took our supplies in on mules) - and brought us groceries once a month. Our oldest we 6 weeks old the first summer when we went up and the second summer she learned to walk on the trails.
Have such warm memories of our time there.
Barb

You sound a lot like me!

09:34, 2006-Aug-27 .. Posted by Rain

I loved your list!!!

You want to start a business? GIRL, you Have a business!!! Oh, you mean you want to make money. Now I understand!

I don't like shrimp and I don't shoot a muzzleloader (well, don't yet anyway, LOL!). I'm a monkey and not afraid of heights. Other than that, I could have written the list, except family position is different.

You're my kind of solitary soul.... I think everyone is lonely... I'm most lonely in a crowd.

I wish you good fortune in moving to the coast and getting the perfect Ocean view/Forest view Homestead you want!!!!

I got 3 baby (well, not small though; 3 months or so) pygmy goats. Thought I'd try it out, learn some things and then go full boer.... LOL!

Sounds like you're busy, TOO busy, as usual.

Good luck with the stepson. I hope he doesn't end up coming to live with you. Or at least, if he does, I hope he will assimilate, instead of trying to well, be a typical stepkid. I also have an 18 yr old stepson. All I can say is, Good Luck!!!

Miss you, dearest.

Your babies sure are cute. Growing like weeds!!!

Glad you got a bottle baby, just because it's so cute to watch them suck. (Sorry it turned out that way tho, because it's hard to get it all done, what, with work, soap, cheese, cooking, cleaning, rendezvousing, 4Hing and oh, LIVING....)

Hang in there and let me hear from you if you ever get a breather!!!