Here's how it works:
1. Thank and link back to the person who gave you the award.
2. Share seven things about yourself.
3. Award up to 15 blogs that are deserving (I chose 4).
4. Contact those bloggers and let them know about the award.
Seven things about me (that I may not have covered in my blog):
1. I hate rodeos. Abhor them. They are cruel and unusual.
2. I close all the shutters and dance to crazy music every morning.
3. I drool over tools. Think they are amazing. Most recent purchase: a router.
4. I wish I could belong to a Bloomsbury-like group, be one of the Russian Five (the composers, not the hockey players) or live in an intentional, green, artistic community.
5. I love toys. When my grandchildren get a toy from me, it's usually been opened and played with.
6. I have about 1,000 CDs (Yikes, I just realized how much money that represents!). All of Eva Cassiday's, most of Nina Simone's, Yo Yo Ma's, John Lewis's (of the Modern Jazz Quartet), Jenny Oaks Baker's (a sweet Mormon girl who plays violin beautifully), the Mo Tab's (Mormon Tabernacle Choir - love their CDs, especially Peace Like A River), and the Kronos Quartet's. Every kind of music is represented in my collection.
7. I know how to drive a motorcycle (sold it years ago - decided I wanted to meet future grandchildren).
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And of course I would've picked Alanna at The Chipper Writer, but she picked me first. Thanks again to Alanna! I thought this was a fun way to share our interests and friends.
Awwww, Kass, you are most kind. Too kind.
ReplyDeleteI'm not much of an awards person. I just kinda blush, mumble and scratch my head. As for revealing seven things about myself, well, over the past 5+ years I've tried to reveal and examine those aspects of my self that I find to be the most interesting, disconcerting and/or confounding. Just about every other detail falls into the "I'm just a human being" category. For the record, I will note that I, too, have over 1,000 CDs...and even more books.
Well, I surely do thank you, Kass ~ not sure I deserve an award for any purpose. But I promise to play. Just give me a short while to bubble on my 7 items, please.
ReplyDeleteIf you're going to reinvent Bloomsbury, may I be Virginia Woolf and you her sister Vanessa Bell? If not, if you want to be Virginia or have someone else in mind, I'd happily be E.M. Forster.
WV-almon. Think I'll get an almon biscotti with my Starbucks on my way to the library.
well, this is a surprise! thank you, and i'm happy to participate, tho it may take me a bit.
ReplyDeletei'd like to be a member of the round table-dorothy parker, who else?
You must be delightfully fun to be around! Congratulations on the award.
ReplyDeleteMy friends come to my home on Christmas Eve. We give one another toys among the rest of the things. Then we play with ALL of them. Three of us have wind up toys collections--not for any reason other than to occasionally wind them all up at once and watch the nonsense. Congratulations on the award--wonderful way to know more about you and about some of the blogs you follow.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations, Kass, an award is a token, it speaks for those of us who would stand up and applaud you, but have no objective way of doing so! So, brava! Well earned, certainly deserved.
ReplyDeleteOnly have time to say congrats, so...congrats!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations, Kass - New Bloomsbury group sounds fun!
ReplyDeleteI can well imagine you on a motorbike!
Congratulations, too, to the other nominees!
Congratulations on this award. I always enjoy your comments when you visit mine.
ReplyDeleteSo glad to see you back again in blogland. Your award is deserving, fershur. And S. Etole is correct about you.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations. I hope you'll keep adding to our enjoyment of your blog.
(Did you really not get your valentine until Friday?? Slow mail..a week?)
I am clapping clapping clapping in circles of applause. I see you dance behind your shutters. We look so similar :)
ReplyDeleteOh Kass, congrats! And what an eclectic and entertaining list. Your CD collection is something I'd drool over- wow :)
ReplyDeleteCongratulations... and I love finding out more about you.
ReplyDeleteI too love tools, I adore that you just got a Router, fabulous !
After the divorce I had to leave many of my favorite tools behind.
I miss my jigsaw the most.
One of my most favorite thing to do is when I go into a Lowe's, (I never shop at Home Depot, horrible company) I have to stop by the lumber isles to smell the wood. Pure Heaven !
I so agree about the toys too !
cheers, parsnip
It really would be amazing to live in a live in an intentional, green, artistic community.
ReplyDeleteEndless congratulations. Thoroughly deserved, and I'm very happy for you.
ReplyDeletehip hip hooray! i am always excited when i see that you have a new post. you have a special way about you, joyous, and/but wise!
ReplyDeletemore cheers to you! (and i see we share a passion for nina simone; my musical touchstone for close to 50 years--is that amazing, or what?)
xxoo
susan
and we do belong to a Bloomsbury-like group. don't we?
I'm 'over the rainbow' with Eva Cassidy, too. (and I concur re the Rodeo thing, ugh!) Keep it up, girl! I've always known you're an original.
ReplyDeleteKass, these were such fun facts! And congratulations on the award!
ReplyDeleteLOVE this bit:
"I know how to drive a motorcycle (sold it years ago - decided I wanted to meet future grandchildren)."
Haha!
That is a lot of tunes. I used to pick out new acquires for my library and put a lot on tape, and hardly play them. I try to rotate what I have in the car, but listen to new ones the most.You are a unique blogster, I am surprised you haven't recieved more awards.
ReplyDeleteSeven's a good number for the list. When I got tagged with it years ago, I had to think of 30! I made half of them up.
ReplyDeleteSo what did you dance to this morning from that collection, Kass?
1,000 CDs must take up a lot of space! I'm so with you on #3 and #4, I dream of living in an artistic community and being able to use tools as part of my everyday. I've always wanted to be the sort who could fix a roof.
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ReplyDeleteLeslie,
rraine,
Susan,
Jeannette,
Melissa,
Kirk,
Rachel,
Paul,
Marie,
Annie,
Vicky,
Parsnip,
Loach,
Dave,
Susan,
Mary Anne,
Sangu,
Eryl, Steve,
Dick,
Isn't it interesting when world events become catastrophic, blogging seems kind of frivolous?
...and yet, it is an opportunity to reach out to our friends in and around New Zealand. I don't know anyone in Libya, but I'm sure we will all feel the effects of what is going on there.
Kass, I would have sworn I left congratulations yesterday, which I obviously did not. Congratulations on your award and for letting us know more about you (motorcycle...a level of courage I am not likely to reach)...Eva Cassidy a favorite. I look forward to reading your awardees, already knowing Sherry's work, how visual and atmospheric it is and now with the soundtrack.
ReplyDeleteIn the circle that I've come to know, bloggers are aware and connected, always reaching out in what ways we can. Your award is deserved for those reasons and many others.
Being tool-oriented and handy...perhaps it is not too late to learn.
Hi Kass! Oh, it was fun to learn some tidbits about you! You sound like a really fun person! I love #2... I do this too, except I don't close the shutters! LOL! I console myself with the thought that it's 4:30 a.m. and I'm the only one crazy enough to be up that early so who will see? hehe
ReplyDeleteAlso... #3 and #5... the funny thing (for me) about #5 is that I don't have kids so I have to make due with playing with dog and cat toys! LOL!
Congratulations to you Kass for your Award...and I thoroughly enjoyed getting to know YOU better...I knew we had much in common...
ReplyDeleteYes, indeed, Kass, blogging may seem like solipsistic frippery in times of travail.
ReplyDeleteThen again, and even so, in these times of woe, one should still check one's e-mails.
Just sayin'
Ugh. Rodeos. I grew up in Iowa and now live in Nebraska. Rodeos are considered DATE ideas.
ReplyDeleteUgh. Ugh.
oh i love that you love tools! i remember when i got my first hammer and how that made me feel. i love the hammer department at ace hardware.
ReplyDeletethanks, kass!!! for naming me one of your stylish bloggers! i am honored to be included in such a fine list! you are on mine as well!
A well deserved award Kass, even if you're not into them. Nancy Devine has sent one my way too and now I must think up those seven things. Blogger friends are easy to list, but interesting and unusual things about oneself are much harder.
ReplyDeleteHello again...get ready for another...please come over to my blog, I have something for you... :}
ReplyDeleteGood to know good things about you. Especially your CD collection I loved it!!
ReplyDeletei have never been to a rodeo. i rather like the thought of COWBOYS, but not of rodeos.
ReplyDeletehave you ever been to a bullfight? absolutely HORRENDOUS. bawlfest. a friend dragged me to one in mexico, and i had to leave early. and i wanted to shake my fist at everyone in the crowd that was enjoying themselves. awful. just awful.
"I drool over tools"..Love it Kass!!Congrats on the award!!Hugs,Cat
ReplyDeleteCongrats! you are too funny. Great to find out more about you... and I am so honored to just notice my blog on your sidebar! hope you are doing well.
ReplyDeletexoxo
You haven't been blogging for awhile. Hope everything is OK with you.
ReplyDeleteKass, Hoping you are well, knowing that my sense of order in our uncertain times is aided by tapping on the doors of those whose words and presence strengthen me. xo
ReplyDeletei'm chiming in, as well, Kass, to let you know that i feel the presence of your absence.
ReplyDeleteit's a cool, brilliantly sunny morning here in Maine; i hope the sun is shining, on you, too, friend.
xo
susan
... a fellow musician! Brava. Thanks for visiting me.
ReplyDeleteCongats on the award, Kass. First visit and I learn interesting things about you.
ReplyDeleteI also (k)notice a lot of friends here. This must be a good place!
Blessings and Bear hugs.
Borrowing a pebble from Claire, saying hello. (((0))) Marylinn
ReplyDelete"The K..................Is No Longer Silent" has been included in this weeks Sites To See. I hope you like the image I featured, and I hope this helps to attract many new visitors here.
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Hi Kass ... thinking of you ...
ReplyDeletemissing you on here, very much so.
ReplyDeletemuch love to you
xo
Where you been Kass? You've been missed.
ReplyDelete((Hugs))
Just thought I'd reiterate that a great many care about you, Kass.
ReplyDeleteI hope you're faring well.
Thinking of you and hoping all is well. Please let me know you are OK... big hugs to you.
ReplyDeleteA few folks are worrying after your whereabouts, Kass, which I can understand from both sides, yours and theirs.
ReplyDeleteI've been a tad awol myself of late - thesis writing. I pop up though from time to time whereas since February you seem to have disappeared. I too hope all is well with you and send you my best wishes.
Maybe if enough of us make a noise you might reappear.
Count me among those hoping this is just a temporary respite.
ReplyDeleteadding my two cents, you are much missed.
ReplyDeleteBack again...wondering where you are...hope all is well...please come back...we miss you!
ReplyDeleteHey, Kass - missing you. Dick's gone MIA, too - hope it's not a pact!
ReplyDeleteSending you many well wishes x
Still silent, Kass? Funny how much it bothers me. Keep well.
ReplyDeletegood information ... I have read and will be added to my personal knowledge... thanks
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