Let's get this over with!

Lilla from Rhymes with Vanilla gave me this cute blog award. Like her, I have absolutely no idea what it means. I don't want this to sound ungrateful because I do love that people think this blog is worth an award; but after five or six times of being asked to list interesting things that no one knows about you...you run out of stuff! I'll give it my best shot though and as usual, I'm going to break the rules and not pass this one on to anyone specific. In my mind, everyone out there with a blog deserves the 'Honest Scrap' award! So take it and run with it if you have a desire to.

So here goes, ten interesting things no one, at least on the internet in general, knows about me.

1. I was my mother's last child, born in Fort Worth, Texas at Carswell Air Force Base and the only one of her children born with my father present. His commanding officer ordered him to go to the hospital when my mother went into labor.

2. I was conceived in Alaska while my father worked on the DEW (Distant Early Warning) Line. My siblings told me they would have liked me better if I had been born in Alaska because it was the biggest state

3. Since I left home at 18, I have never been without at least one large dog.

4. The first horse that I bought for myself (for $100) was an 18 year old Tennessee Walker who had been trained as a jumper. His name was Carrigan's Fancy and he was an even bigger butthead that Griton.

5. I used to own a house in Geronimo, Texas and it was the only house in town with a palm tree in the front yard. Of course, 'town' was stretching things back then.

6. I didn't learn to drive a car until I was 19. How did I get around? Those were the days when it was relatively safe to hitchhike. I went to college in a small town in the mountains in northern California and used to catch a ride to campus with the snowplows.

7. Willie is our 6th greyhound and last night while I was doing the dishes, he stole an uncooked t-bone steak off of the counter that was waiting to go on the grill. I rescued it, washed and dried it, cut off the chewed on part and had it for dinner. Willie was severely chastised. Things like that don't bother me at all and in fact, our childhood motto was 'a germ a day keeps the doctor away' which might explain why I have such a good immune system.

8. When I was a senior in high school I worked part time as a sales clerk for .75 an hour. That job gave me enough money to leave home and put myself into college.

9. I went to college with George Strait and knew him personally back in the early days of 'George Strait and the Ace in the Hole Band'. That was when they played at Cheatum Street Warehouse in San Marcos every Wednesday which was Ladies Night. He was always a good husband and father and a very shy kind of guy who never fooled around.

10. I am one of the only people I know who stayed on the same career path from the time I was able to answer the question of what I wanted to be when I grew up...a cowgirl and an artist.

Okay! I'm done! Please don't ask me for any more interesting facts because it just took me an hour of sitting and staring into space to come up with these. I've got another post I'm working on which will go up later today.