Six weird, or distinctly different oddities about me

There is nothing weird about me. It's everyone else that's weird.

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NOw that's an interesting twist on "the good die young". I always figure that means I'm going to live forever! When your 70, I'll be wearing purple also, but hopefully be living up at my friend's ghosttown. He used to raise goats up there several years ago - so hitch your cart and come on up and see me. Here's my own oddball self: http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474976940110

Pamela, I was truly tempted to take that stance as well! :)

Cecile, I will follow your link. You never know i might show up with my goat drawn cart!

Debbie...thanks!!! Number 1 was cute and funny, number 3 was amazing, and number four cracked me up!!! I enjoyed this very much!!!

Well, #1 works for me since I hate doing dishes. We need to talk about that goat thing, though. Good list, Deb. Glad that the rest of Gather is getting to share in some of the things about you that make you so special to me (well, all except that goat thing - we really do need to talk!).

Laughing here!

Well Debbie I think you should use goats to get around with, if I remember right your car gets stuck a lot, well I know of one time LOL... I think a lot of people don't like crowds, most of the get together I ever when to (very few in my life) either their all drunk and those who don't drink like me just find a corner until nobody know who your are and then leave.... Thanks for sharing Debbie...

Three votes for goat transportation.. four if mine counts.

Oh no! I can't be outnumbered on this one!

Well who will you enlist to vote?

and, how can you be sure they will vote your way? Hmm?

Hey, the goats are okay. It's cows that you have to watch out for.

Thanks Ron, you're a big help here - guess I can't enlist your help in my cause. Actually, I do like goats, but we are already guardians to quite a few animals.

Goats, ewww.... oh, wait that was sheep. ha! I love goat cheese though. And I love to cook. Guess my vote goes to Tonia, sorry Debbie. You are a sweet person for your empathy to patients. And I wear purple whenever I can, even though I'm a long way off from 70. (shut up, Kath)

Oh Faith - THANK YOU! See Deb, there are some that will come over to my side.

I see, and I won't hold it against Faith at all. I will invite her right over for a wine and goat cheese tasting. :)

Oh Debbie - you are just wicked!

When I am 70, I want to be like Maxine on all the cards. She is soooo great! If you want to have goats, have all the goats you want!!!

Sandra, you are invited!

...muttering to self..."sure, win them all over with your invitation, but who's gonna have to do all the cooking, huh? Dang goats!"

For some reason I can't explain making goat cheese is not 'cooking'. You can choose the wines Tonia. We will have a great time!

70 is right around the corner when you consider that it's only 13 years away and I've always worn purple - ! Just start wearing and loving it now Miz Debbie G. Enjoyed reading these wierdisms...actually, a couple of wonderful traits! Salud.

You are my heroine. 150 poems by heart. Wow. What a resource. No dull time for Deb. No need for Ipods or the like. Just summon those poems up and start jogging, or walking, or dreaming. Wonderful.

I like your idea about the tags. I've been tagged but didn't know who's already been tagged.

I embrace your self-proclaimed weirdetry and hope to live long enough to see you and your goats heading into town for supplies!

How wonderful to have at least 150 favorite poems.

Beryl and d m - It is a great boon to me as well that Deb has all that poetry memorized. Picture if you will, a walk through the woods in companionable yet silent company, when all of a sudden this marvelous and most appropriate poem tumbles into the shared space. It is a magical thing, but then, that is Deb.

Number 4 is my favorite lol. That would really be something to see!

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#3 - IMPRESSIVE!!

Well, first of all, I like Deb's approach of not actually tagging people but inviting open participation. I think that works best. I look forward to seeing lots of "Wierd" lists.

Next, OMG! what is this overwhelming obsession with goats?!? Of all the animals Debbie has been closely associated with in her lifetime, I'm amazed she would choose goats as her exclusive transportation mode. If you're going to be dressed in purple anyway, why not have goats, horses, peacocks, deer, dogs, cats, ferrets, and the list goes on ... 8)

I was glad to hear that you have so many poems committed to memory. For me it is song lyrics. Thousands of them. I have a strong musical background, so maybe that explains it. Or maybe that can be one of my items on my wierd list.

Lastly, all of your items are appropriately wierd. Having known you for so many years, I am tempted to add another half dozen (that would have everyone laughing at their computer screens). But these six are good. ;)

Thank you Pam, for your judicious restraint! It's best to leave something to the imagiantion don't you think?

#1 explains a lot! Tonia, remember that a good leg of goat is almost as a succulent leg of lamb! especially cooked using a Jamaican recipe. However, that wold make it a little hard for thm to pull a cart wouldn't it?! Although losing a leg at a time would make the cart even more interesting; a bunch of three-legged goats. What do you say to that?

OK - you have us roaring with laughter here! Don't think I could do that but definitely post the Jamaican recipe.

Laughing so hard I have tears!! Great comment Peter!

Hi, just stopped by because of your beautiful horse picture. Nice job on the Six Wierd things as well.

Louise, thank you. Drop in anytime! I'm glad you enjoyed the images as well!

Or she could cook the goats, like that really cool lady on Cold Mountain! I'd like to be like her!

Have you considered mules? There are people who do that here, like on Sundays and stuff. Have mules pull them to town in these really cool Little House on the Prairie type covered-wagons.

Well Maire, I did consider hitching a cart to one of the horses..check out my images. It just didn't seem eccentric enough for my tastes!

Mini horses! A 12-mini-horse hitch. Now THAT would get you a lot of places fast.....Big parades, football games.......
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Myself, I'd rather be walkin' down a country road, my faithful mini by my side, if I had one.

Debbie,

What are some of the poems? Fascinating! I can't even remember my own!

Barbery, Thanks for asking. Here are a few favorites: Yussouf by James Russell Lowell: The Spell of the Yukon by Robert Service: Lasca by Frank Desprez: Hyacinths to feed thy Soul by SAADI: The Loveliest of trees by AE Housman: The Day Is Done by Longfellow: Trees by Joyce Kilmer: God's World, by Edna St. Vincent Millay: Home by Edgar Guest: The Barefoot Boy by John Greenleaf Whittier: Tis the Human Touch by Spencer Michael Free: My Mind to me a Kingdom is by Sir Edward Dyer: Be True by Horatius Bonar: Last Lines by Emily Bronte: If by R. Kipling: Living..by Anonymous:
The House by the side of the Road by Sam Walter Foss: Who Walks with Beauty by David Morton: What I Live For by George Linnaeus Banes: Abou Ben Adhem by Leigh Hunt: Ad Coelum by Harry Romaine. And too many more to name. :) I found while I still recalled the poem some of the author names, and even some titles had to be looked up :)