Never judge a book by it's cover... or it's house!

Funny how you can get a perception of someone by what you hear or read about them.

Two years ago in February, my oldest daughter, Andrea, got married to a wonderful young man, Greg. We had a combined family Thanksgiving in November before the wedding to meet the in-laws and other family members.

During the wedding shower, Patty (son-in-law's mom) said to me, "You know, you're not at all what I expected!". Apparently, Andrea and Greg had told them all about where we live and the house we built (see the Homesteading Blog Posts), and the garden, etc. She fully expected to meet a very "granola" me. You know, the Birkenstock sandals, long hair gone grey (not!), long skirts, no make-up... the whole bit. Anyone who knows me would get a good laugh out of that!

Clearly, I'm not that person, and don't want to be. In fact, one of our new friends out here told me he never thought I'd make it in this life style because I was just too "girlie". Sigh... can't win.

We've all been guilty of it. I guess the moral of the story here is, don't be too quick to pass judgment on someone, their character, or their abilities, just by what you see or hear. Remember the old adage, never "assume". My 10^th grade English teacher taught us how to spell it this way: Assume - makes an ass out of u and me.