I was born a homesteader. Spent my childhood and teenage years as a city girl. And returned to my roots at 21, when my husband and I bought our first house.

I am, and always have been, an animal lover. Seriously. 4 dogs, 10 cats, a 110 gallon fish tank, a couple rabbits, 4  ferrets. All have called this home. And that doesn’t even touch the farm animals.

At one point we had 17 cats, all collected and fixed from around the neighborhood. Our neighbor’s cat even adopted us and had 5 kittens in my closet.

I am super frugal and thrifty. Seriously. I only buy jeans at Goodwill because I can’t stomach paying more than $5 for a pair of pants.

I grow a million pounds of tomatoes each year (*not literally) but I don’t like eating plain tomatoes.

I have been a vegetarian since I was 12 years old. Except for crab cakes (Hello! I spent my childhood in Maryland), and more recently I have cheated on some home-raised pork (that stuff’s good!)

I can’t stand wearing gloves or shoes in the garden.  My hands and feet are permanently stained brown all summer long.

When I was 17 years old I was absolutely positive I was going to be an epidemiologist when I “grew up”. I was also positive I was going to marry my boyfriend. The second actually happened.

In 2016, I wrote, and self published, a young adult novel that takes place on a Texas farm. That’s one thing checked off the bucket list!

I am an overthinker. On everything. You don’t want to know how long it took to come up with these 10 random facts and how many I deleted in the process.