Another month over, another fan of the month goes into the history book.

Today doesn’t just start a new month. It starts a new year. It also starts a new decade. A new decade means 120 more fan of the month awards.

In honor of a new decade…a fan who was around for most of the old one will be honored as the January Fan of the Month. That fan is Garrett Duke.

Don’t be fooled by the starting date on Garrett’s profile (1-24-04). Garrett has been using a computer long before that to express her love of the greatest show in the history of television. Garrett began ten years ago doing fanfics under the name Kristy Duke and hasn’t stopped fanficing since. She has been involved with dozens of fanfics and role plays in the past decade and is currently working on “A Friend’s Betrayal” as part of her “Hazzard Unleashed” series. She also has just started another titled “Evicted”.

Of course Garrett can be found in many more places than just the fanfic neighborhoods. She is very active on many threads and always has something positive to contribute. The old saying “If you don’t have something nice to say, then don’t say anything” certainly applies to Garrett. Since she started watching Dukes at age 4, it’s no surprise some of their ethics have rubbed off on her.

Besides loving the Dukes of Hazzard, Garrett also has a lot in common with them. She’s a NASCAR fan and is a follower of Jeff Gordon and Jimmie Johnson. (I bet she likes Cale Yarborough too). Her favorite color is orange…. the shade of orange the General Lee is painted of course. She is a big country music fan. Her favorites include Toby Keith, Alan Jackson, Tim McGraw, Kenny Chesney and Keith Urban. And the most important thing she has in common with the Dukes is that she considers faith and family to be her top two priorities in life.

Garrett’s favorite character is Bo. Luke and Jesse are tied for second. She hails from the great state of Iowa and is a big fan of the Chicago Cubs. She loves to read and write and one of her favorite things to do is spend time with her dog Lilly.

Garrett loves the HazzardNet because this is absolutely the best place in the world to hang out with people who understand why The Dukes of Hazzard is so awesome. We think Garrett is awesome and thank her for her many contributions to the best website in cyberspace. Keep up the good work Garrett.

Congratulations, Garrett, from all of us at HNet!

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A brand spankin’ new month means a brand spankin’ new fan of the month!

After careful consideration, RogerDuke has made his selection for Fan of the Month and the lucky fan is DaisyMaeDuke!

The o-fficial announcement is as follows:

“If there was a dictionary of Hazzard County words and you looked up the word “fanatic” there’s no doubt you would find a picture of DaisyMaeDuke beside it. Because of her pure love and devotion to the greatest television show in history, we are awarding her HazzardNet’s fan of the month for December. If you’re not already sitting down, you’d better do it now because reading the list of Daisy’s accomplishments is going to take awhile.

Daisy was born at a very early age…. I apologize for the bad joke…..Well, she did become a Dukes fan at a very early age. When she was just 5 years old she got hooked on the show when it was originally being aired. Little did anyone know at the time that that cute little rug rat would go on to receive the highest honor possible. At DukesFest 2008, Daisy was justly selected as “The Ultimate Duke Fan”.

Daisy joined the HazzardNet on July 8, 2007 and this place hasn’t been the same since. She has over 5,300 posts since that time and has been involved in countless Round Robins and Role Plays. But, what Daisy really specializes in is Fanfics. She has written or co-written a long list of them including, Dukes in Danger, Lost, A Hazzard County Christmas, Turkey Surprise, I’ll be Home for Christmas, Witness, Switch, The Gift of the Magi-Dukes Stlye and Letters from War Series.

Daisy can very often be found frequenting the various threads on the trivia forum. She usually gets them right!! In fact, she has a prestigious record that will likely never get broken. In mid June 2009, she had answered over 300 Duke or Dupes correctly before missing one. To illistrate how amazing of an accomplishment that is, try going to Duke or Dupe after reading this and getting all three right. If you can pull off all 3 now try it 103 times for a total of 309 in a row. Answering that many is an accomplishment. Answering them correctly is impossible…well, almost.

Daisy has met nearly every living star of the show in real life, many of them multiple times. That list of stars includes Bo, Luke, Daisy, Rosco, Cooter, Enos, Cletus, Coy and even Sheriff Big Ed Little. She owns one of the largest collections of Dukes memorbilia in existence with way too many items to list but no doubt, every single one of them is special to her.

A resident of Michigan (Go Wolverines) Daisy has been happily married for 13 years and keeps busy with her two kids and her job in public education. Her favorite singers are (you guessed it) John Schneider and Tom Wopat. Her favorite Christmas show is (you guessed it again) “Christmas Comes To Willow Creek” staring John Schneider and Tom Wopat. Even Cletus Hogg would be smart enough to see a trend here. Speaking of trends, we’re predicting Daisy will be around the HazzardNet for many years to help us continue a the trend we have here of honoring our favorite television show. We almost hate to call it a “television show” because it’s so much more to us…..and that’s not just because of what we see on the screen. It’s also because of the strong bond we have here as a HazzardNet family. Folks like Daisy make the foundation for that family.”

Amen! Congrats DaisyMae on this deserving recognition!

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