hollycm6

What I pledged

I have been married since 1985 to a wonderful Christian man.We have four fantastic children who are all practically grown now, and we always have lots of pets because I love them, and lots of mess in the house because I'd rather do pretty much anything with a day than clean.

We have Bernese Mountain dogs which add considerably to the mess, (I like collecting unique Bernese Mountain Dog things, especially working towards fun handmade Christmas ornaments), and cats who think they are in charge. I love hamsters, too. (Mine is Mr. Eliot Nibs, a sweet fluffy gray thing). We have a Quaker parrot named Apple (bee) who is noisy and mean to everyone but me, and fish. Please let that be all. !!! (My son wants another turtle.)

I am creative and therefore considered slightly...askew? Sometimes. And I like it that way. I am okay with some predictability, but I don't want you to ALWAYS know what I am thinking.

Oh books are IT for me. I love anything well written, that's clean and not overly graphic. I really enjoy a well-written phrase. I write in my books. I love classic literature and mysteries most of all. Sherlock Holmes! :)

My favorite book of all time is Peter Pan, the novel, followed closely by Mere Christianity. All of AA Milne's stories and poetry (Winnie the Pooh). The Red House Mystery was a surprise for me. And the Mrs. Pollifax books have been a favorite of mine for decades. I enjoy CS Lewis, Tolkien, George Eliot, ee cummings, Oscar Wilde, O. Henry, James Barrie, LM Montgomery, Sue Grafton, Susan Coolidge, Agatha Christie, Ray Bradbury, Rudyard Kipling, Harper Lee, Dean Koontz...as you can see this will just take too long. If you have read this far, you enjoy books like I do and understand, if you don't you aren't reading anymore anyway. :-)

I rarely know what I'm listening to! My current favorites are Matt Kearney and Erin McCarley, Snow Patrol, the Decemberists, Better Than Ezra, Coldplay, Gaelic Storm, Cranberries, the Gorillas, and like a thousand other groups or individual songs. I love the soundtrack to Les Miserables, the tenth anniversary cast. really pretty much anything except metal, I guess. I like trying out what other people enjoy, and hearing bands that are new to me.

I LOVE to bake, especially cookies. We always have cookies in the cookie jar. And cakes or brownies or yummy sweet things. If you love cookies, too, come join our group, "Cookie Crumbles"!

I love WORDS, books, mysteries, poetry (my own and others'...ee cummings!! I need a book of his), bookstores!, music, henna!!, road trips, maps, writing, altering books, ATCs, painting, family, animals, clutter (well, that's a love/hate thing), jogging, yard sales, my flute, shopping, creative quirky finds, journals, totebags, bookmarks, gummy bears, chocolate, the smell of cinnamon and cloves and honeysuckle, Queen Anne's lace, sunflowers, dandelions, mimosa, herbs, the beach (in the cold!!), sea glass, rocks, Autumn leaves, weeds, unexpected twists, teacups, the underdog, comic books, Arizona mandarin orange green tea... lots of other fruity teas, (dying to try red tea or chocolate tea?), dragonflies, lightning bugs, ladybugs, katydids, roly polies (pillbugs), spiderwebs, groundhogs, honey....

brown, green (not kelly green so much but any other), yellow, groups of rich colors,

Christmas...lawn gnomes...don't have any, but love them,

Thunderstorms are excellent. And cool cloudy windy days. With s'mores and hot cocoa! And snow flurries. I will get up at 2 AM and sit outside with my kids to watch a meteor shower for as long as I can. Puddles are pleasant. Walking in the rain is nice, sometimes.

I love watches and watch parts (?) and clocks and maps and really old written-on postcards, used stamps. Old gloves and eyeglasses and keys and coins (or foreign), things like that.

I like to watch old people and children. Well, some. I hope when I am old I am someone others love to watch. :)

I like handmade things.

Please...give me an excellently worked swap as opposed to a crappy thrown together piece of junk with extras thrown in to make up for it. Or send an excellently worked swap, with extras? :) Either way... put effort into whatever it is. And rate ME based on my package, not extras, which I may or may not include.

I will never purposely flake on a commitment. ANYTHING could be the case, except a purposeful flake. But mistakes happen, things get lost, etc...PM me...I will make it right. :)