Back eight or
nine years ago when I first put up my own website,
most of what you see below was current. Today some of
it is hopelessly outdated, but I am putting it here
with the updates I made to it.
I have changed the colors of the text on the updates,
and added graphics to it now that I have learned how.
Let me just say a few words to introduce myself to
you.
I am semi-retired. (1998)
Update:
fully retired (2000)
I am a full-time homemaker and I love to read and
work in my garden, and I love ice cream sundaes.
My favorite TV show is "Murder She Wrote",
and I don't care if they are re-runs, I just love Angela
Lansbury!
Update:
Now that they are all being put on DVD's I just
gobble them up as they come out, and could, and sometimes do, watch
Jessica solve mysteries all day long.
I know, if you
think I am crazy, you are not alone. My children
agree with you.
I don't do much gardening nowadays, as my knees are getting kid of creaky, but I'm happy to say I have not had to give up...
I am in the process of training a new puppy. This is
a full time job, which I am sure that anyone who has
a new puppy will know.
Update:
Whooppee! She's trained. (late 1998)
Update update: Now SHE is training me! (1999-?)
Update update update: Today Cassie is an old lady, and her bones are getting creaky too, so all she likes to do
is lie in the sun. She hardly moves a muscle to
chase the critters who come in the yard looking for
something to eat. (2007)
My husband passed away many years ago, and I have
three children, two boys and a girl.
My daughter is married and lives several blocks from
me.
My sons are both unmarried, the youngest does not
live
at home. My eldest son lives with me, which is a
Godsend, as it has enabled me to keep up with the
mortgage and taxes.
Update:
The mortgage payments are just about the same, but
the property taxes might just do us both in. I really
wish someone could convince both the Governor and the
President to stop helping us old folks by taxing our
children into the poorhouse. (timeless lament-comments censored. This is a family site.)
I am a Born-Again Christian and zealous to spread
"The Good News" of the gospel.
Fifty some odd years of doing it my way and following
after the ways of the world, I had come to a dead
end. I was a successful failure. I had achieved
everything that I had set out after and still I was
unhappy.
My life had lost purpose and I felt that I had stayed
too long at the fair.
It was at this point, the lowest I had ever been,
that Jesus Christ came into my life.
Actually, I think he had always been in my life, but
I just didn't realize it.
I was a modern woman. Independent and
self-sufficient, and didn't think I needed anything
or anybody.
Boy, was I mistaken.
All I had were things, in fact my life was cluttered
with "things". Today, I have less
"things" but I am rich.
I found something that I never thought I could
attain.
I found
a personal realtionship with my Heavenly Father.
I found a relationship with the one person who will
never leave me or let me down.
