25 Things You Probably Don’t Know About Me
My friend (or should I say ex-friend after this) tagged me in this challenge and I can never resist a challenge.
Here is his post if you are interested Keith Purkess
The person that started this is Gary
So here goes my 25 things:
1. I was born at home and the doctor almost didn’t make it because the train was switching and blocking the road.
2. My parents were teachers. My father was my role model as far as work ethic and later on teaching ethics.
3. I graduated from University of Central Oklahoma (then just plain Central State College) and got both my bachelor’s and master’s there.
4. I graduated from college in three years so started teaching at age 20.
5. I taught for 30 years in the public school system and retired at age 50. I went on to teach at the University level and at Job Corp for the next 8 years.
6. After retirement from teaching, I opened my own business doing secretarial work, bookkeeping, and income tax preparation. Also did telephone answering service for 3 out of those next 8 years.
7. I was the first single woman in Oklahoma to adopt a child when I adopted my son (now 36) when he was 6 weeks old.
8. I live on 3 acres in the central part of Oklahoma about 8 miles from the nearest small town.
9. I have internet high speed through a satellite company and hate it. Every time it rains it goes out.
10. I started IM about 2 1/2 years ago and have learned more than I could have ever imagined. I’m now addicted.
11. One of my problems in IM is that I am not a good salesperson–good teacher though and I love that.
12. I have always been considered the most patient person around but that patience seems to be getting shorter with every passing year.
13. I mow our entire 3 acres (on a riding mower of course) and the neighbors think I’m crazy. Evidently weeds are ok in the country.
14. I love gardening — especially flowers. Right now my favorites are old timers like zinnas, morning glory, peonias, etc.
15. I basically use my wheelchair more and more each day. I have 4 ruptured disks in my back and standing or walking very long gets me.
16. I can run a weedeater from my wheelchair and hoe weeks.
17. I have been addicted to Diet Pepsi for years and recently gave it up. Drinking only very weak tea is doing ok but it sure isn’t as good as the carbonated beverage.
18. I share a double wide mobile home with 3 other people who are all over 60. Does that make this a senior citizens home?
19. I share my home also with 3 dogs — 2 Schnauzers that belong to one roommate and a Pugadoodle (mixed Pug and Poodle) that is 21 years old. AND I am not crazy about dogs.
20. I don’t like cats.
21. My favorite food is Mexican food.
22. My computer and desk is set up around my recliner — what a life.
23. I play Hearts on the computer when I am brain dead.
24. I have long, very skinny feet. Didn’t get to be twirler in the 7th grade because I couldn’t find boots. When I played competitive basketball (8th, 9th, 10th grades) I wore 15 pairs of socks to fill up the very wide tennis shoes.
25. I never minded that teachers didn’t make any money. It was exactly what I wanted to do from the time I was a little child.
My task now is to tag 5 people to do the same thing. May have to come back here and change if any of these won’t accept my challenge. But here they are:
Judith
Pat
Peg
Lynn
Paula
I will come back here and post their blogs so you can read their entry. It would help a lot of you will bookmark these people’s entry and also mine and the two at top of post.
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August 22, 2009 — A Look At My Flowers
Well, it is still summer in Oklahoma. We have gotten a lot of rain in the past 20 days so that means the task of mowing. Everyone always looks at me like I am crazy when I tell them that I mow the entire 3 acres.
Most of the places along our country road (we are about 3/4 mile from the public road — and that is no highway but a country blacktop road) mow just around the house but I don’t like all the weeds. Guess 2 years of living in the country hasn’t really made me a “country girl”.
This is my “yard” from the east corner straight up the fence line to the west corner where the vegetable garden.
These are just a few of the flowers we grow.
This last picture I have enclosed to show that this section of Oklahoma really does have RED dirt. This field is about 2 miles from my house.
So when I am a little slow getting a post out, you will know that I am not being lazy — just struggling to keep the weeds at bay so we can enjoy the beauty.
How’s Your Day?
It is another 100° F. day in Oklahoma. But I can’t complain. We just finished a run of days that were well under 100. In Oklahoma the most popular statement about the weather is, “If you don’t like the weather, just wait a minute and it will change.” That hasn’t been entirely true this year. We have tended to stick on hot.
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