• Bobbi is an avid disc golf player and has improved her top score by more than 30 strokes in the last two years. Her favorite courses are in Michigan, Illinois and Colorado.

 • Bobbi loves reading history and biographies to learn about leadership and communication. Her favorite book is Team of Rivals (how Lincoln built his cabinet) by Doris Kearns Goodwin. Her second favorite is No Ordinary Time (about the partnership between FDR and Eleanor) by Doris Kearns Goodwin. Some other favorites are Into Thin Air (Krakauer), In Harm's Way (Stanton), The Last Season (Jackson), It's Your Ship (Abrashoff).

 • Bobbi and her husband traveled cross country by car for 3 months with their two cats on their way to make their new home in Portland, Oregon in 2001.

 • At Bobbi’s first big-time skiing event in Vail, Colorado in 2000, she passed her husband (a 25-year skiing veteran) at the bottom of the hill at the end of the day. When Rick finally caught Bobbi, she already had her boots off, feet up, and nursing a drink at the bar.

 • Bobbi and Rick embarked on a large landscaping project beginning September 2004 so they could hold their wedding in August of 2005 in their back yard.

 • Bobbi was once chased by a pack of wild pigs.

 • Bobbi was a contestant in the Miss Teen Missouri Pageant (and she won the public speaking event.)

 • Bobbi has a goal to tour the battlefields of the Civil War. She's seen Antietam and Gettysburg so far.

 • Bobbi was a superstar shortstop on her grade school softball team which won two championships. In the few losses they had, their opponents jeered, "We beat Custer! Turned them into mustard!"

 • Bobbi has a soft spot in her heart for kitties. A litter of feral cats adopted Bobbi as their mother, and Bobbi put a cat door in the basement window so they could be warm all winter.

 • Upon their 8th grade graduations, Bobbi's sisters received a Timex watch. Bobbi's gift was a donkey, which she asked for, but couldn't ride because it was pregnant.

 • Bobbi wrote a poem that was published in a national poetry magazine, but was not allowed to buy a copy so she could see it in print.

 • Bobbi won second place in a baking contest for her super-secret recipe for jelly rolls.

 • Once when Bobbi was on vacation in St. John, a local woman chased Bobbi with a machete.

 • Bobbi used to be a member of the American Rabbit Breeders Association and the Dutch Rabbit Breeders Association, and she won second-place ribbons for her rabbits.

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