Tagged...and starting to blog!

So many people have blogs and I have been thinking about posting for a long time. I decided that the first post should be a “tagging” because a lot of people are doing it and I want you to know just a little bit about me.

Here goes.

Hobbies - knitting, beading, walking, biking, photography.

Favorite film series - Sherlock Holmes with Jeremy Brett, Dr Who, Big Love, Six Feet Under.

Favorite movies - Pieces of April, Fanny and Alexander, Boondock Saints, Fight Club, Love Song for Bobby Long, The Black.

Stallion, Vincent and Theo, Jean de Florette, Babette’s Feast, Pelle the Conqueror, Green Card, Young Frankenstein, Crooklyn and anything by Spike Lee and Robert Altman

Favorite actor- Gerard Depardieu.

Favorite musical artists - Herbie Hancock, Leonard Cohen, Jamie Cullum, Coco Love Alcorn, Pat Metheny, Harry Manx, Victor Wooten, Jesse Cook, Freddy Cole, Lyle Mays, Wayne Johnson, Rufus Wainwright, Danny O’Keefe, Tony Bennett, k.d. lang,

Jonny Lang, Nusrat Fateh, Ali Khan, Dan Hicks, John Doan, The Doors, and Sting.

Favorite musical instruments- drums, didgeridoo, bamboo flute, viola da gamba.

Favorite Song - John Doan ‘Where Horses of Faerie Hide.’

Watching - Dr Who.

Listening to - Outlander by Diana Gabledon (Audio Book).

Reading - Confessions of a Pagan Nun.

Favorite Fictional Character- Jamie Frazier ‘Outlander.’

Favorite books - Dove, Stranger in a Strange Land, The Kite Runner, Life of Pi, Ishmael, The Prophet.

Favorite artists - Van Gogh, Matisse, Monet, Henry von Roessler.

Favorite experiences - Cirque du Soleil, white water rafting, and walking on the beach

Favorite Quote – “Let the beauty we love be what we do. Don’t go back to sleep, don’t go back to sleep.” Rumi

Sorry about this incredibly long first post…I guess I’m just too talkative today.

Also, I want to introduce our newest member of the family, Gryphon.

He is a rescue dog we have had for two weeks now. He was literally a basket case when we got him. It was as though we had captured a wild dog that would not let you approach him. He had never been socialized and was kept in a kennel in someone’s barn. He has progressed to sleeping in our room instead of the crate and even comes up the stairs by himself. He was originally afraid of them and had to be carried up! This weekend he experienced the leash and went for a walk to the coffeehouse where he met several people who were anxiously waiting to meet him. He was incredible on the leash. I continue to learn that I underestimate his intelligence.