Even though it's way off topic, and after I refused to reveal myself to my first commenter stating that I want this blog is to be about Kimberley's Garden and not so much about Kimberley...
My new bosom garden blogging friend Linda who writes Garden Girl has invited me to participate in a meme: "List Ten Things That People Don't Know About You" It's almost too challenging since I tend to be a very open person, so I'm changing it to...
"Ten Things That The Public May Not Know About Me"
- I was born in Wurzburg Germany while my father was in the military headed to Vietnam
- I gave birth at home four times (on purpose! as Linda says)
- My eldest child is 21 - the age I was when I had him - making me officially old enough to be a grandma. (Yikes!)
- I do not want grandchildren - but not for reasons of vanity. As much as I love meine kinder, I feel guilty for producing a litter of western super consumers and I hope they'll be gentler to the environment than I was. To clarify: I would dearly love any grandchildren that come along, but my hope is that if my children want to have families that they'll consider adopting someone who's already here and needs one - the more humanitarian and ecologically responsible option.
- Ok, my other blog readers are well aware of this, but I am a die hard agnostic and I publicly question and often ridicule all the major religions in a quixotic effort to find and/or add some clarity to the convoluted and dangerous subject. (you gotta start somewhere)
- I've been a professional cook/chef off and on for 28 years and the highlights were working as the pastry chef at Robert Duval's former restaurant (was his at the time) The Rail Stop in The Plains, Virginia and also at Restaurant Nora in Washington DC, the first all organic haute cuisine restaurant in the east.
- Nora and I did NOT get along. But Mr. Duval and I did. He has a major sweet tooth and loved to watch me bake, often asking questions and or just lurking around to observe the process.
- I say outrageous things just to get laughs (all the time)
- Sadly, I have never attended college
- In addition to being an avid new gardener and former chef, I am also a traditionally published writer (culinary and travel topics), a mixed media artist and photographer, and my recycled bike parts sculpture "Where Bicycles Come From" will hang in downtown Montpelier, Vermont all summer as part of their Sculptcycles exhibition. The picture is of the model, but the actual sculpture will be approx 5'x5' made of bike tires spray painted and wrapped in white duct tape with a tricycle suspended in the center. The contraption will be suspended from fishing line from some high anchor hopefully to the effect that it appears very sporelike to the viewers below.
- Bonus: I am unemployed. (Anything considered.)
Well there you have it.
XXKHT
Next up BABY PICTURES! (and I mean the green kind)
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