8 Things

I love the color red. It has always been my favorite color and I find I like to wear it and paint with it.

I've visited a lot of the wine regions of the world. This was not intentional. I like wine and I happened to be in lots of wine regions so I stopped and tasted. I've been to most of the wine regions of Spain and a lot of the ones in Italy. The well known ones in Germany. We did Bordeaux but I have never been to Burgundy. We tasted in Hungary and some in Greece. In Australia we drove through the Hunter Valley but missed the South Eastern and Western regions. I've also visited the main wine region in South Africa -Stellenbosch. Of course in the US, we lived in VA so visited there, lived in NY so visited there. Lived in CA so did Temecula and Napa and Sonoma. I haven't really visited in Santa Barbara. When our flight to Japan caught fire en route and we ended up back in the US with a week of vacation, we drove up the coast and visited Oregon and Washington wine regions.

I love to swim. I grew up swimming and I could spend every day at the pool. I love swimming with the kids. I'm always the parent in the water throwing the kids, teaching them how to do flips in the water. It can be embarrassing sometimes because all the other Moms look good at the pool (they don't go under) and I look like a fish but I think I have more fun.

I have my motorcycle license. I took the class and passed the test but I never drive. I just wanted to know how in case I needed to drive our bike one day. D is the driver, I like to sit on the back and watch the world go by.

I can wake board. It took more than a couple tries and some questions for the younger generation but I'm actually enjoying it now. Can't do any flips though.

I have been to every state except Alaska. I want to get there some day soon. I've only spent the night in 37 of them though.

I love crisp not quite ripe peaches. I could eat them all day. Unfortunately(?), I seem to have passed this trait on to my kids and now they eat all the peaches we buy.

I practice the Just in Time inventory method at home. I think I studied too much Lean Manufacturing in school. I don't like to carry inventory at home. I don't buy extras of things and try to buy just in time for when I need it. It can be a little rough with toilet paper and diapers though. It's funny to me because when I say I have nothing in my pantry, I mean I have NOTHING in my pantry. Most people say that and have enough to live on for 2 weeks.