Profiles in Courage of Blog Readers - AUNT LINDA

So, we're starting a new feature ... "Profiles in courage of blog readers." This chronicles some of our most consistent readers, and profiles the courage that they show every time they open their web browser to the bodgers building bodgers website. Today, we showcase Aunt Linda!

Coincidentally enough, today is also Aunt Linda's birthday, so Happy 29th Birthday Aunt Linda! (That's Imogen waiving "happy birthday")

So, lets talk a little about Aunt Linda. She is an adventurous soul who has really lived a great life (so far, even better things to come we're sure!) She's lived from Portal North Dakota, Bellingham Washington, Canada, Cheyenne Wyoming, etc. She's been all over the map, pursuing a number of interesting careers, from being a musician, to a teacher, to a textile industry entrepreneur, and re-inventing herself all along the way. She currently lives in British Columbia Canada, and has developed a new love ... knitting. Before we talk about her new love, lets just bring you up to speed on her other love ... music. Linda is a fabulous musician, and she has used it to be both an artist, performing with a number of various ensembles and symphonies, playing just about anything that she could get her hands on, but excelling as a flautist.

Well, lately she has taken the same dedication it took to become a world class flute player and applied it to knitting. At the shop that she helps run (i think the shop is on bowen island, but I could use a little confirmation on that one) she even looms her own fabric. yeah, you read that right. WOW! That's just amazing.

Well, who was Aunt Linda before all of these amazing things made her who she is? Well, she was the first born of Bethel and Barbara Belcher (much like Ms. Imogen). She had nomadic parents who were always willing to pull up stakes and move for Grandpa Bethel's job (also much like Iggy). She had a mother who was fun, and sometimes forgetful (yet another trait she and Imogen share). She's had adventures, she's been a great mother to her kids (hi you two!) and she's been a fantastic aunt, but unparalleled to any of that, she has been a fantastic Aunt to Imogen. I can't even express how much fun it is to get emails, to see the beautiful things that she has made for Iggy (that is a hand knit blanket, with the most amazing hand done detail work we have ever seen. Just breathtaking)

or that she has sent to iggy (that is a "let them play Canada" hat promoting youth sports in the Great White North), or her embracing of stirrup fridays (i'm a size 13 shoe by the by).

All in all Tiffany and I just want to say Happy Birthday, and thank you for everything! It has been awesome, much appreciated, and more than necessary, but we love and cherish every minute of it! HAPPY BIRTHDAY AUNT LINDA our first PROFILE IN COURAGE OF READER!