Childhood Memories

- My jaw making contact with my brothers knee and my lower two front teeth chipping

- Smoking straws of hay pretending they were cigarettes

- Collecting cat eyes (pieces of shot-out glass) in the BLM

- Making sage brush forts

- Playing house on the farm equipment

- Making up songs while hoeing beets

- Discovering alternative music.....before I thought country was the only genre that existed

- Singing a Shania Twain duet with my sister

- Doing Paula Abduls dance video in the living room

- Watching my brother skin a rattle snake

- Getting blisters from the handlebars of my bike

- Feeding my eel, Spike

- Picking out a cute piglet for 4-H

- Throwing dirt clods at each other to pass time while hauling rock

- Learning how to saddle and brush a horse

- Hit the deck

- Catching lizards and snails

- Playing in the sand pile my mom made us

- Smiley face stickers

- The smell of dirt during harvest

- What lava rock looks like under a microscope

- Jack rabbits and grasshoppers

- Clothes line

- Pepsi...the drink and my favorite dog

- The excitement of power outages and snow days

- Picking an excessive amount of flowers, drying them and having the hardest time throwing them away

- The one time I can remember getting my dads boot in the butt....it knocked me down flat on my face but I deserved it

- Homemade mac and cheese

- Canning food

- Gathering caterpillars and milk weed

- Monarch butterflies

- My dads rough hands

- Murder She Wrote

- Burning myself many times with the curling iron, once on my upper lip...it looked like a dirty stache

- The disappointment in myself after every school photo

- Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego and The Oregon Trail

- Getting lice from school

- Watching my cat give birth....shocking but kind of cool

- Winning two group lip sync competitions

- Doing 10 back hand springs down the front lawn

- The smell of sage brush after it rains

- The taste of well water

- Running in circles on the tramp while being roped by my brother

- Rope burns

- Clear nights and star gazing

- Two-Door Silver Volkswagon Pick-up truck that can jump a 6 foot canal

- Grated dirt roads

- Zinc nose

- My brother cheering me on my first time skiing down a little hill by our house

- Catching tad poles in the pond

I'm thinking that maybe I should be living in a trailer park in North Dakota