25 Things about me...what are yours?? Let me know if you dare.
1. When I was too little, my older sisters set my crib on fire but rescued me. I grew up with a large scar on the top of my right hand from boiling water spilled by my grandmother.

2. I was the oldest boy and came third in line of seven siblings. By the time I was ten I could swear a blue streak and was a bothersome terror to my two older sisters. This was tempered by a leather belt and gentle words from my father.

3. I got caught cheating on my spelling test in second grade where a paddle was administered on my bent-over behind, in front of a classroom of about thirty of my fellow classmates. I will never forget that!

4. There was nobody smarter than me when in my teens and I grew up lording over my older brothers on senseless projects and wandering care-free on the mountain.

5. I smoked a corn cob pipe in a deep hole we dug.

6. My father turned me loose to build a new speculation house from a grassy lot when I was a senior in high school.

7. My idea of a date was pick you up at six am. And drive to watch the sun come up on a secluded ridge. Then go to an auction. And then...

8. I loved the hippy people but felt I never fit in with any particular definition of human.

9. I loved the movie "Then Came Bronson" which you can see today on U-Tube. First thing I did after graduating from high school was buy a Harley motorcycle. This tended to expand my horizons.

10. I worked for an old man and his wife in my late twenties and learned from the old man that I didn't 'know it all' like I thought. He told me he was paying me to stop and have pie and coffee and visit...not to be so productive with efficiency and crap. He told me to get a partner for business. I did.

11. I hated dogs as too bothersome.

12. I saw a ghostly apparition that confronted me in the dark of night over my bed in the barn loft. I knew I'd done wrong and was terrified.

13. I was schooled in fire fighting and lost my desire in a back flash in a stairwell.

14. I hate beer in general (dark beer is my favorite) and drank Pepsi at parties with Hells angels. In the past.

15. Hunting I hated but went along with.

16. I've been red faced embarrassed but always could laugh afterwards when enough time went by. I like to laugh at others expense.

17. I'm always calm but quick thinking underneath. People say I look relaxed even when things are out of control.

18. Dreams have varied ...I looked at my hands one time in a dream. I could be aware in my dreams and do some actions that I would never have the guts to do in real life. I can fly and everything is in color and real. I dream of my dog in trouble or lost.

19. I think about romance but drift into the past nostalgia.

20. My desire would be to live in an old cabin with a rich woman of legal age and sip apricot brandy at night and then...

21. I killed by accident a red hawk in the fir trees with a rock flung from a sling like David and Goliath. I did not see the hawk but he flew from the trees and was struck broadside's felt powerless and disgusted with myself.

22. I have a strong love of nature and the outback. I can walk in the pitch dark of night and feel a rush of fear in the lonely woods and not panic but hold firm. The hair on the back of my neck has stood up unexpectedly two times.

23. My father saved a few people's lives. I never have so far.

24. I love my dog and German Shepard's in general. Someday I know I will be heartbroken by this.

25. I absolutely treasure my friends.