Hair-Brained Ideas

I'm not sure where this term came from, but I sure know all about it's meaning.

I would consider myself a 'queen' of hair-brained ideas.  I've gotten myself into all kinds mischief with my 'cockamamee' plans.  I don't know how it all started for me - when I was just a kid for sure.  I recall many  light-bulb moments when the flash of an idea popped into my brain.  Unfortunately (or fortunately, however you look at it) I usually found my 'ideas' sensational and acted upon many of them! 

Things like turning the old chicken coop at Grandma's into a playhouse!

Shooting bottles that we found with b-b guns - on someone else's property!

Jumping off the roof of the barn into the snowbank!

Making a fort 3 whole fields away from the house instead of in the first group of woods!

Trapping muskrats in Grandpa's pond for money!

Riding a skateboard down the huge hill not far from my house!

The painted bedroom walls that I let all my friends design and paint their names on and then painted a full wall clown face on one as well (that was still there when my parents sold the house - poor people).

At least 1/4 of the things I cook.  And certainly 1/2 of my dessert ideas.

Most of my 'decorating' ideas - these mostly are worse because I have questionable decorating sense to begin with, so my hair-brained ideas usually turn out extra questionable - like the swinging chair that swallowed people up and ruined the ceiling!

My wedding dress, turned into a summer dress for daughter #3, oh yeah, still working on that because I've lost patience with it for now.

Oh, did I mention the decorating ideas???  The huge quilt (and I mean HUGE) that I made for our king size bed with leaves of varied sizes, shapes and colors appliqued on the top with shiny GOLD thread!!!  I was just recently musing about how I could re-model that to a usable state.

Christmas present ideas!  Oh yeah, I could spill the beans on some of those! 

On and on and on...

And MH is usually so patient with these.  He usually gives me a look (which should alert me to my hair-brained idea issues - but doesn't).

Now, I have one daughter in particular that seems to have some hair-brained idea DNA as well.  She planned and constructed a Tepee (yes of the native american style) last year.  Not just any ole Tepee, but one of sizable proportions (about 20 ft. diameter and that tall as well).  And now, she's planning on constructing a sweat lodge (again, of the native american style).

I say, "GO FOR IT." 

Hair-brained ideas are exciting, fun, adventuresome, risky, daring, fulfilling (sometimes), educational (sometimes), memorable, memorable, memorable.... and you learn so much from them!

I guess that's the crazy in me.