She has been known to dump a package of red hots into a quart jar of......um..... distilled water, 120 proof distilled water anyway. So she comes by it naturally.
That nick actually came from our misbegotten youth and listening to too much Neil Young long ago and probably too much of other things too.
It was also her cb handle in the late 70s during the cb radio craze.
"KZY3549 Cinnamon Girl"
She also might have been the girl on the mechanical bull in a tv commercial for an infamous local cowboy type bar circa 1980 something.
I hadn't seen her in 40 years. Wished me happy birthday on facebook & I asked if she wanted to go for a beer sometime. She said she didn't really drink anymore but we could go have a beer & catch up.
We did.
When we left the bar that Sunday the Goose Island Pale tap was dry, the Guinness blonde tap was dry & I had a ninety something bar tab.
Good thing she doesn't "really drink" anymore. I told her it was just like riding a bicycle.
3 weeks later she'd moved in. We were looking at my pics of the 2015 Barber Vintage Festival one night and she said "I want to go!"
I said "on the Blackbird?"
"Of course, how else would you go to an event like that?"
That led to 3 weeks on the 'Bird, 3000 miles, Barber Vintage festival, Hurricane Nate, Deal's Gap....twice, Wheels Through Time & Maggie Valley, Blue Ridge & Foothills Parkway, a few days to visit old friends in S.C. not seen in 10 years and 2 trips across the Ozarks the twisty way.
And throughout all of it she never complained about anything. Not even once. Really.
I'll post some pics & tales from the trip in another thread eventually.