You Like Me - You Really Like Me!

Awwww, sorry to go all "Sally Fields" on you, but I just received the nicest award from Shannon over at MonkeyDog Quilts.   I think Shannon 'gets' my dark sense of humor, and aside from my family and a few good friends that is a pretty rare thing.  Anyway, she's a doll,  she has a crazy dog and she really enjoys sewing.  What's  not to love?

Before I get my tiara I have to follow a few rules and do some stuff.  This will entitle me to bestow this lovely award on others so that I may encourage them the way that Shannon has, thankfully, done for me.  First up - I have to reveal  seven things.   This could be interesting.

1. I have a tool box that I hide from my husband. Inside are my needle nose pliers, an assortment of screwdrivers, blue painter's tape (also used to tape off quilting patterns), graduated paint rollers, a stash of Allen wrenches and my very precious collection of paintbrushes.  I have to hide them because my husband would use an expensive cutting brush to sweep dead leaf gunk out of a gutter and not break a sweat.  If you turned me loose in a hardware store with $500 to spend  I'd blow it all in the paint department.


2. I consider the following one of the finest culinary recipes for comfort food: hot chicken soup, a box of Chicken in a Biscuit crackers and Skippy chunky peanut butter.  Apply chunky peanut butter to CIB crackers and float them on top of a steaming bowl of chicken soup.  It is a thing of beauty and it is delicious.  (Hey, I make my own soup.)


3. I started sewing in junior high school and have made garments all my life.  I consider myself a pretty good quilter but I can't for the life of me install a simple  zipper.


4. I sing while I brush my teeth.


5. I have struggled with shyness my entire life.


6. I have a pair of mentors who live on my CPU and I talk to them a lot.  Helen (the chicken) and Commander Bob (the green army guy) are fine sources of wisdom.  I can't use the language they use here  so let's just say they have a very low tolerance for BS and keep me on track about a lot of things.


7. I adore rhubarb.

There - let the festivities begin.  Bloggers everywhere should rejoice that while we may be separated by time, distance, opinion or subject,  we all support each other.  It is a delight for me to be able to now go forth and do it for others.