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The @welcomewagon graduate @twodorks has come up with a challenge in which she wants people to share ten random things about themselves. That shy little spy @maquemali and @bluefinstudios both decided to nominate me. So, here goes nothing: 

### 1. Anyone who has known me more than oh, an hour, knows I have two cats.
Dawn is the elder of the two. She arrived in November 2006 as a two month old kitten and Fawnya arrived in April 2009 as a six week old kitten. 

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Dawn wasn’t impressed to have him around at first but they do seem to have become used to each other in the intervening years. Oh, she’s on the right in that picture. 


### 2. I like to cook. 
Not so much for myself, but for others. For myself, my cooking is pretty basic unless I get in the mood for something different. When I was overseeing doing the meals at the Legion I enjoyed the challenge of coming up with variety in the meals. Of course, taking recipes for a few people and scaling them so they were served fresh and tasty to over 100 presented some interesting challenges. 


### 3. I Read, A Lot
I have a very large collection of books on my hard drives. Many I’ve read and many more waiting to be read. I try to spend at least an hour a day reading a book. That is in addition to the other reading I do. 


### 4. Speaking of Reading, I Am a Bit of A News Junkie
A lot of my other reading during the day is on news sites. My interests range from the headlines to more indepth news coverage. I keep an eye on political stories the most but since politics are shaped by other events, I tend to explore as much of the bigger picture as I can. 


### 5. I Live In The Country 
I was raised in the country and have chose to find rural settings to live in my whole life. I don’t know that I could ever be comfortable living in a suburban setting. I like the buffer of some land around me between me and my neighbours. My neighbours and I look out for each other, we just don’t intrude. Recently I was away for a couple of days, my neighbours noted the vehicle not in the driveway and were concerned that I was okay. 

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### 6. College Education 
I was an adult student in the eighties when I took an Electro-Mechanical Technician program with the then new speciality of Robotics. It was a two year program fully completed in one calendar year. Of the class of twenty-two who started the program, nine of us finished it. I was the remaining woman out of the four who started and was a half percent off being the top of the class. I was also half a percent off being on the Dean’s list and they wouldn’t round up. 


### 7. Yes, I Have Done Crafts 
While I haven’t done so in several years I have done my fair share of knitting, needlepoint,  petite point, crocheting and ceramics over the years. When I looked at patterns for projects I always treated them as suggestions and almost always added my own twist to them. 

I once created a chess set by combining ceramics and needlepoint. I stitched the chessboard using a variety of needlepoint stitches and a Grecian key pattern for an edge as well as the initials of the recipient of the gift. I was able to match the blue of the board to a ceramic glaze for the chess pieces and then finished the project off by finding a table to mount the board in the center of, and placing glass over top of it to protect it. 


### 8. Very Much an Introvert
As much as I believe in the power and importance of community both on and offline, I’m not comfortable being around groups of people. It’s easier online because I’m sitting in my own space when I’m around groups. Offline, I actually have to leave the house. 


### 9. A Person of Faith 
I believe there is something hard-coded into all of us that draws us toward a desire to have a deeper understanding of ourselves, the world we live in and the forces which shape our lives. There is a certain level of faith required in that exploration. 

I was raised in the Christian traditions. I reflect my faith through those traditions but no longer as part of the institutional church. As I’ve explored the history and practices of those institutions, I believe they are more political than faith based. There are many genuine and caring people within them, but the structure is full of rot. I focus on living my faith. 


### 10. Yes, It’s True, I Don’t Like Green Beans
Actually I don’t like either green or yellow beans. It’s one of the few vegetables I wont eat. There has been a lot of joking around about me, green beans, zombies and garden gnomes as the result of a [podcast](https://steemit.com/pantsareoptional/@snook/pants-are-optional-episode-three-with-my-guest-shadowspub) that @snook did with me as guest. For the record I don’t believe in zombies and really could care less about garden gnomes as long as I don’t possess any. 


## Nominees 
So, there you go, the challenge has been completed. That is a few minutes of your life you’ll never get back learning random stuff about @shadowspub. 

Well, almost completed — now for the new ~~victims~~ err… nominees — @snook, @enginewitty, @guiltyparties, @jasonbu and @gmuxx 


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