The Honest Scrap Award

I’m a little behind on just about everything these days. Okay, I’m a whole LOT behind. I’d like to say that’s unusual, but it seems to be the usual instead. I just seem to have more to do than I can keep up with, but no way to cut back on what I’m doing just yet.

Plus we’ve been to West Virginia and back recently, and yesterday we just got back from a 4-hour trip to the Atlanta, Georgia, area so I could visit the Fibromyalgia & Chronic Fatigue Clinic near there. Mix in the fact we all have a summer cold that just won’t let go (the parrot has even taken to imitating us coughing, she’s heard it so much), andit’s just been crazy around here.

Anyway, moving on, I’d like to say THANKS to CeeCee at “My Little Bit Of Heaven” for giving me the Honest Scrap Award!

The idea of The Honest Scrap award is to:

“List 10 things about you that many people don’t know about, but are true.”

Hmmmmm, something that most people don’t know. . . well, here goes!

1. I used to like to cook. Now it’s just one more distraction, one more thing to have to worry about, while I’m trying to reach other goals.
2. I got what must have been a spider bite over 4 weeks ago, and it still isn’t totally healed up.
    
3. My grandfather wanted me to show horses, but I hated it. I loved working with horses, but I’m too introverted to enjoy being in front of people in a horse show. He finally declared I was “a better hand with horses than anyone he knew” but realized I wasn’t meant to be in the ring showing horses. My little sister took over that department.
4. While I was in high school, I worked two summers as a “recreation aide” at a home for the ‘developmentally disabled’.
5. I believe that becoming part of a step-family does not automatically generate real relatives. (Very short explanation why: I think you have to work at it and grow into it, and even then, you won’t always have the same relationship the strict legal outlook might say, especially when you haven’t grown up with said step-relatives.)
6. One of my favorite occupations as a kid was going off by myself and hunting fossils.
7. When I was a kid I fell onto our burn pile where there were some smoldering catalogs and ended up with 2nd and 3rd degree burns on the side of my right leg (long story how I managed that in the first place).
8. For several years I made machine-knitted neck scarves, toboggans, and Cabbage Patch Doll clothes for Santa’s Workshop.
9. I don’t play any card games except Uno. Period. (Another long story.)
10. I worked as a night supervisor at a small hospital to earn my PHT (Put HubbieThrough, in case you’re not familiar with that, as in working while putting first husband through college). Turns out it was a waste of time. . . (yep, another long story!)

Okay, that’s the first ten things I could think of.

As for the other guidelines for the Honest Scrap Award – if anyone reading this would like to jump in and put an Honest Scrap on their blog, I’ll be happy to link to you if you let me know!

A Bunch Of Bunnies!

A friend (Hi Joan!) sent me a link to this news story about a woman with 334 bunnies in her yard.  (How did they count them accurately I wonder??? )

Yep, in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, a certain Nancy Haseman was cited because the local ordinance only allows FIVE pets per household, and she, shall we say, somewhat exceeded it with her 334 bunnies hopping around in her yard.  (I’m thinking that isn’t all those bunnies are doing in her yard to multiply so rapidly – place must be pretty X-rated!)

If she could have kept her bunch of bunnies in her own yard, she might have got away with it, but a neighbor complained about the rabbits eating her garden.  Can you imagine having 334 rabbits in your garden?  Sounds like a plague of Biblical proportions!  I don’t think there’d be much left of any garden after that many rabbits chomped their way through.

I mean, just take a look at that picture!  It’s a visual aid to show you exactly what 334 bunny rabbits looks like.  That’s a whole lot of Hassenpfeffer hopping around in your back yard or garden!

Evidently this all started when her husband rescued a rabbit 12 years ago after a neighbor abandoned it, then the couple began rescuing more bunnies.  Though she says they “kept the males separate from the females,” apparently the males hopped the fence and things got “out of control.”  (Talk about understatement!)

Well, you know the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.  Guess the boys thought that wasn’t all that looked good on the other side of the fence.

Hassenpfeffer anyone?

“What Doesn’t Belong?” Contest Winner

All right people, it’s Friday, and I said I’d announce the contest winner today!

For all of you who looked and looked and couldn’t find the “thing that doesn’t belong” in the first picture, I’ll admit, that one was difficult.  All you could see was the top of her head and one eyeball peering over a picture.   Here’s a closer view, with the culprit clearly marked.

Yes, the thing that didn’t belong was our ornery little parrot, who took a notion in her head to fly in there one day.

I figured when I gave the clue of:

There are three of these things in the picture.  Only one is real. .

. . that it would make it easier to figure out, since there were two fake parrots in the picture, while number three was real.

And of course, you can see more of the REAL parrot in this picture than you could in the first picture!

So there you have it, the thing that didn’t belong was the REAL parrot.  She’s not exactly part of the racing memorabilia, family pictures or fake bird stuff.  Okay, so the peacock feathers are real, but they’re no longer attached to the live bird!  The parrot was the only LIVE thing in the picture.

As for the winner, well, some sent emails and some commented.  However, it was Amy over at Amy’s Corner who was once again the speediest to reply with the correct answer.

Congratulations Amy! Send me an email and let me know if you want a picture or a magnet.

If you missed out this time, stay tuned!  Something else crazy will happen around here, or I’ll otherwise come up with an idea for another contest.  You’ll have another chance!

What Doesn’t Belong – Part II

Okay, it’s hard to see what doesn’t belong in the first picture I posted.  So I’m going to make it a little easier, and post another picture where you can see more of “what doesn’t belong.”  It’s in the same location in the picture, just showing a little more. . .

I figure by comparing the two pictures, it should make it much easier to see the thing that shouldn’t be in the picture.

And besides all that, here’s a clue:

There are three of these things in the picture.  Only one is real.

With the clue and the new picture, someone ought to guess real quick.

Good luck!