Are there Seven Things You Don't Know About Me?

I got "tagged" by my friend to share "Seven Things You Don't Know About Me". Are there 7 things that I would like to share? Hmmm...

1) When I was a kid, I would climb up in the apricot tree at my Grandma's house and just watch the horses. I would make mental notes about what they were doing. It made me feel like a real scientist.

2) I love the smell of dirt! There's nothing better! It always makes me smile!

3) I never got in trouble at school. I was never sent to the principles office. I never had detention. (That's kind of embarrassing. Talk about a goody two shoes!)

4) I had two chickens when I was in 2nd grade. As a class project, we got some chicken eggs, put them in an incubator and waited until they hatched. Once they hatched, the teacher said we could bring in a note from our parents if we wanted one. I went home and told my mom that I wanted a chicken because I never had a pet before. She laughed at me, then wrote out the note. My Grandma Cherryl picked me up from school the day I brought the chick home. She felt badly that it was going to be all alone, so she took me to a very smelly chicken farm and we picked out another one for a friend. One was black and one was white. Their names changed almost daily, so I can't tell you what they were named. Then, they ate all the seeds out of our neighbors garden (they'd get out of the chicken coop all the time) and the neighbors made me give them away. My dad gave them to one of his friends who had a farm. I realized when I was older that that's normally code for "we had them killed." I asked him and he PROMISED me that he really did give them to his friend with a farm. I hope so.

5) My cousins and I would climb up in my grandma's apricot tree and pretend that we lived there. We decided that we weren't going to come down, so we had better find something to eat. We tried some sticks and leaves, then decided we weren't going to stay in the tree and got down and had good food from my Grandma.

6) I have played with and fed lion cubs, servile cubs, baby goats, baby antelope, a miniature horse foal and 100 tarantula babies. I have made "mouse balls" for owls. (Mouse Balls are made by taking some horse meat and making a meat ball out of it with a mouse in the middle. Maybe that's why I don't like to make meat balls anymore.) I've fed armadillos and pygmy pigs. I've been scratched by iguanas and rabbits. I have petted a emu and been followed around by it. How did I do all this, you ask? I worked at Hogle Zoo from when I was 12 years old until I was about 16. The lion cubs were the most fun. They had HUGE paws!! The tarantula babies were the ABSOLUTE WORSE! I would have to pick out small crickets, open up these cups with lids and throw the cricket it. Sometimes the tarantula would jump at the cricket and I would always jump because I thought it would jump on me. I have always hated spiders. I do love animals though.

7) This one is a little embarrassing, but I'm going to share it anyway. I knew from the moment I met Brent that I was going to marry him. He was almost instantly my best friend. I'm so lucky!

Ok, everyone who is reading this is now officially "tagged"!