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Annie

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. ~ J.R.R.Tolkien

About Me



"The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit." ~Nelson Henderson

My Interests



music, forestry, scouting, camping, horses, being outside, fires, rain, rivers, mountains, woods, stars, travel, archery, dancing, costumes, theatre, geneology, mythology, history, philosophy, superstitions, astrology, literature, research, exploring, wandering and wondering, crosswords, word play, games (Trivial Pursuit, Scrabble, Clue...), rendevous, renaissance festivals, highland games...

I'd like to meet:

People who just let me be myself.

Music:

I have an eclectic taste in music.
"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world." ~J.R.R. Tolkien

Movies:

Just about anything directed by Steven Spielberg, Alfred Hitchcock, Mel Brooks, Monty Python, Ron Howard, Robert Zemeckis, Mel Gibson, Walt Disney, Rob Reiner, Bollywood films, foreign films, my favorite classics and anything Cary Grant, James Stewart, Julie Andrews, Carol Burnett, Katherine Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Tom Hanks, Emma Thompson, Cate Blanchett, or Johnny Depp is in.

Television:

History, Discovery, Travel, TCM, NGC, BBC, IFC... Star Trek, LOST, Heroes, Rome, Cash Cab, Weeds, The Riches, The Tudors, Reaper, Flight of the Conchords, How Clean is Your House?

Books:

Reading is one of my favorite things to do. I have read and keep a library of books...
"My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine. Everybody drinks water." ~Mark Twain

Heroes:

William Shakespeare

Queen Boudicca

Queen Elizabeth I

Mark Twain

J.R.R. Tolkien

Jane Austen

Robert Burns

Mama and Papa

~This Flame~

~Burns~

~for our dear friend~ ~Laura~
~1983-2007~

My Blog

As we are tonight

The night they invented champagne It's plain as it can be They thought of you and me The night they invented champagne They absolutely knew That all we'd want to do Is fly to the sky on champagne And ...
Posted by Annie on Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:58:00 PST

Phenomenal Woman

PHENOMENAL WOMANby Maya Angelou Pretty women wonder where my secret liesI'm not cute or built to suit a model's fashion sizeBut when I start to tell them They think I'm telling lies. I say It's in the...
Posted by Annie on Tue, 23 Sep 2008 09:32:00 PST

The Creator

http://www.careerpath.com/ Best Occupational CategoryYou're a CREATOR Key Words:Nonconforming, Impulsive, Expressive, Romantic, Intuitive, Sensitive, and Emotional These original types place a high va...
Posted by Annie on Sat, 20 Sep 2008 10:39:00 PST

Storms

For many years I was self-appointed inspector of snow-storms and rain-storms and did my duty faithfully. ~ Henry David Thoreau; Walden    I have heard a greater storm in a boiling pot. ~ ...
Posted by Annie on Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:59:00 PST

My Type

INFP The Idealist Introverted iNtuitive Feeling Perceiving   INFPs present a calm, pleasant face to the world. They appear to be tranquil and peaceful to others, with simple desires. In fact, th...
Posted by Annie on Thu, 04 Sep 2008 10:28:00 PST

Wood

Oaken logs if dry and old,Keep away the winter's cold;Poplar gives a bitter smokeFills your eyes and makes you choke;Elm wood burns like graveyard mouldEven the very flames are cold;Apple wood will sc...
Posted by Annie on Sat, 23 Aug 2008 02:53:00 PST

I am Orpheus

Your result for The Greek Mythology Personality Test... Orpheus You are an artist, an aesthete, a sensitive, and someone who has never really let go of that childlike innocence.  To you, all of l...
Posted by Annie on Fri, 18 Jul 2008 02:15:00 PST

"No dogma..."

No dogma taught by the present civilization seems to form so insuperable an obstacle in a way of a right understanding of the relations which culture sustains as to wilderness, as that which declares ...
Posted by Annie on Mon, 23 Jun 2008 03:10:00 PST

Eleanor Roosevelt

You always admire what you really don't understand.   I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity. &n...
Posted by Annie on Tue, 20 May 2008 09:55:00 PST

Golf

Golf, like measles, should be caught young. Author: P. G. Wodehouse   It took me 17 years to get 3,000 hits, but I did it in one afternoon on the golf course. Author: Hank Aaron   We learn...
Posted by Annie on Sun, 20 Apr 2008 11:04:00 PST