TAGGED !!

The Hammered Player tagged me !!! It took some thought, but I have come up with a picture and 16 things of interest concerning me:

1 -I was born on an Air Force Base . 2 - My husband served on an active Destroyer for two tours of duty in Vietnam. 3 -I have one older brother who is an orthopedic surgeon and one younger brother who is a retired lawyer now a journalist. I missed out on the scholarly gene?! 4 -As a child I could have been called McGiver, constantly constructing /rigging contraptions to get the desired result. I am still rather resourceful. 5 -I scored 100% on a mechanical aptitude test and was told I should study engineering- NOT , I hate math. 6 -The love of my life and I eloped almost 39 years ago= 3 children and 6 grands with identical twins on the way!!! 7 -I am a cancer survivor – having my first battle at age 42 and second at 47 – 8 - I have always ADORED horses, rode a hobby horse down to a nub and collected horse figurines and read Black Beauty a multitude of times. I still adore them- my daughters rode and one competed in the Jumpers so I lived vicariously . We still own Spike who is retired now. 9- I did have auburn hair and freckles and always hated them both. 10 -I believe In the Bible. Spirits, angels, ghosts, whatever you call them, there are other dimensions beyond 5. 11 - I got a tattoo at age 56. 12 -I have always named my autos . We currently have a Bertha, Bean and Ben. 13 - I have traveled across the US by train twice. CA to CT 14 -I was extremely shy as a child, still tend to be. 15 - I bite down into the navel end of an orange to start peeling it. 16 -My Grandmother was engaged to Adlai Stevenson (II), but married his roommate. The women in my family are Unforgettable (for another post)