A Tag and a Response Way Beyond the Call of Duty!!

At first I said no--I'm not going to do this; I don't like chain letters which this is. But then my ego kicked in---so! The Rev. David Fischler over at Reformed Pastor tagged me. I am to list six unimportant things and /or quirks about myself. And my ego has kicked in, so, well, I have pictures!!!

1. From the 2nd grade to the 5th I went to country school. Pilot Nob was a one room school house and I was the only one in my grade.

2.When my husband to be, Brad, met me, I was working as a telephone operator and at the time they still used the boards with plug-ins. He was a telegraph operator. We met at Church.

3. I like stout, mainly oatmeal stout or double chocolate.

4. I once played a harem girl in a production of "The Passion Play" when it stopped in Stockton California as it toured the United States. That was when I was in high school.

5. I won the philosophy essay contest at the California State University in Sacramento in my Junior year in 1988. My essay was entitled " Plato's Four Concepts of Soul in the Phaedo.

6. This is a rather long one. One of the best vacations I ever took was when my husband went to England with the Community choir he sang with in Marysville, California. I didn't want to go on a plane with a whole load of choir people who would probably hit the ground running. (Not stop to sleep) Instead ,I took another plane landed at a different airport in a different city and slept before moving on. I met my husband and the choir in Avon where he spent the night and saw a play with me, Ibsen's Peer Gynt. (He slept through most of the play.)

He went to Cambridge with the choir, I went to Oxford (with a fever) but stayed shopping at Blackwell's' bookstore for hours. I also went to the last of Oxford's proms (Musical competitions held every year and everywhere in England, most ending at Royal Albert Hall in London-- for an example see the movie "Brassed Off.") which ended with all kinds of fun things, like the choir members waving little British flags and singing Rule Britannica. I stayed in an inn which reminded me of a nineteenth century play about England. We then met and went to Wales and London together. A great vacation.

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7. This is an extra; it is a newspaper account of the death of one of my great grandfathers, Henry Mertin Tilley. He blew himself up using dynamite when blowing up stumps. I had heard about his death all of my childhood, and accidentally found a newspaper account, which I had never seen, on the Internet. The way they wrote such notices in those days was certainly different than how we write today.

I will only tag a few people.

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Melissa, my granddaughter at Libellus Stellatus.

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Debbie Berkley at Taking The Ring

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Barb Moody at I was just thinking...