Garth,
Sounds to me that you have a VERY meaningful and interesting life as well as job! My work with DD individuals was perhaps the best years of my career. BRAVO and Well Said on your comments regarding the funding of programs for the disabled. I will never understand why it is not seen that investing in the disabled allows tax collecting citizens to become tax paying citizens. I could jump on a soap box, but, will spare you guys!!!
Donna, many thanks for your kind comment! I am delighted to have this opportunity to meet you as well!
Getting to know you!
Loretta, you already sort of know me. Nothing unusual about my life. Married to DH for 40 years, have two grown daughters, both married. Have two grandchildren.
Grew up in Texas, married and moved to New Orleans where we lived for 25 years. We still live in the general area, although in Mississippi.
We both retired three years ago. (If I tell you I am a retired revenue agent, please don't hold it against me. LOL) We are now living our dream....live on 70 acres of red clay way out in the boonies. DH makes a wonderful veggie garden every year. We are still eating tomatoes out of our garden! We both took the master gardeners course, although we do not do the volunteer work.
My dad was a school principal, who gardened, fished and farmed all summer every year. He and my mom both loved plants and all of nature, and instilled that love in all of their children.
I bought my first brug (probably Frosty) in the mid 1980s. Then I never saw another kind except for plain white until about two years ago. I worked really hard mentally not to love brugs, because I was already such an addict of gingers and other tropicals. It didn't work. I have probably 50 or so different kinds now and am getting seriously into hybridizing them. I view hybridizing as an opportunity given to us by God to see how it feels to create something so beautiful. (Of course He is the one who is really doing it, but He allows us to get that feeling.)
One of my greatest joys in life is sharing my plants with others who love them as I do.
Kay
Kay, I am a Texan, too. Will be a Texan until the end no matter where I live. lol A revenue agent, eh? Guess I better not tell you where the still is hidden. lol I have been wanting to meet you for a while, perhaps this season. As a side note, recently I had to dig up all my gingers because we have had so much rain. They were not real established and I was afraid they would rot.
Sounds like you and your DH are living the true "American Dream", Kay. Good on ya!
I was arrested in Texas after a Frank Zappa concert for " endangering the state animal". After being pulled over by a Ranger I asked if I could, well ,relieve myself. I was arrested for urinating on an armadillo!! I had to pay $150 and spent the night in jail. All the mass-murderers and drug dealers moved to the other side of the cell. I won't ever go back to Texas-too strict.
That was one of the most embarassing things that ever happened to me. Notice I said "ONE OF THE MOST". I am not a normal person. Never have been. I wouldn't make a good criminal because if I ever kidnapped someone I'd probably tie the ransom note to a window and throw it in the ROCK garden just to be different!! But you know what is even more disturbing is I feel comfortable around you people!!LOL-Bagpypr
Well, what do you expect. Some things are sacred., especially yellow roses, The Alamo, Lone Star beer, and....
I want go back to the Armadillo,
Country music in Amarillo and Abilene.
The prettiest women and friendliest people you've ever seen.
My DH says no wonder no wonder Texans like ten gallon hats. We need a big hat to fit on a big head. HAHAHA!
I am not surprised! LOL
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Badpypr, you have lived an interesting life. LOL
Meltn, I could get on that same soapbox with you.
Kay, I'd love to have 70 acres out in the boonies even if it was red clay.
I seriously considered making up a bunch of stuff but then I remembered the old adage, "life is stranger than fiction." While no one like to be old enough to retire, since I only have 5 months left, I am champing at the bit.
Because I grew up living in hotels (my dad was a career hotel manager) with no yard, I really yearned for the outdoors.But Central Park or the Boston Commons were it for me for many years. Then we moved to Savannah and bought a bungalow on a tidal creek. Life turned into heaven on earth. I actually tried to grow a few things with no knowledge or advice. The Easter Lillies were the first success and multiplied rapidly. I still love all kinds of bulbs. But we were soon on the road again and moved to Greenfield, Mass. and then a few months later, to Atlanta where we had a home again. This place was planted in rambler roses. I remember one in particular growing up over the roof of the garage. So that's wehn my love of roses began.
All this led to my best/worst trait. I am famously impatient. I want everything to bloom the first year. I want to stick it in the ground and voila! lots of impact the first year. I guess I can't get it out of my system, that I may not be here next year and move on. Of course, this is silly. I have lived in the same county for 32 years and the same house for about 12 of those. I hope to never move again, or not until I need to be closer to town. Being impatient is not all bad; I get things done quickly.
I work with a historical society and run the county's archives. When I give someone a project, I always say, "get back to me when you finish" of "call me when you know (an answer) or if you have a problem."
Married, 2 kids, 5 grandchildren, 2 step-grandchildren (really lucky with those two) living nearly as far in the back of beyond as darius where I am surrounded with lots of trees, rhododendrons and my spousal unit has done a lot of rock garden and terracing construction. (77 steps so far made of stone and concrete)!
I have worked as an employment counselor, chef and inn manager, journalist (still dabble in that) and been selling cemetery property off and on since 1995, lol.
This waterfall is near my house. Whitewater Falls. I have posted it before. It is the highest falls in the eastern part of the U.S. About 1,000 feet counting the lower falls (not shown).
Betty, the Whitewater Falls are beautiful.
thanks ahelms. Transylvania County is known as "the land of waterfalls." About 250 major ones and another 750 smaller ones. It's a very small county, too. This sounds fabulous but we can be very rainy at times. I think Whitewater is not only the tallest, but the most picturesque...
I adore waterfalls. One of the many things I miss about Scotland. There's an area called Glencoe at the base of Ben Nevis and near the Rannoch Moors that has wonderful waterfalls coming down the hillsides and I'll have to dig out some of my photos and post them. That is a gorgeous one, Woodspirit. Have you ever stood underneath it and heard the water? Something very spiritual about that sound.-Bagpypr
OK...now down to the dirty secrets, I thought of it after reading bag's post...
I am very time conscious, or at least I was...when I was working as a visiting nurse I would give a time I would visit a patient...if I was late, I would make up the time on the road. This got me more than my fair share of traffic tickets, not just speeding but also going through yellow lights. At one point I was in a 2 Sat. Traffic school class...unbeknowst to me, between the 2 Sat's, I got a photo speeding ticket & then had to go to class a third Sat.!
Don't worry, all of you who drive in CA! I am no longer working, and no longer time conscious & mostly follow all of the speed limits and driving rules!! XXX-cross my heart !!!
I am an author. I am published in the self help genre but love to write horror. Go figure.
Now to read hehehe
after reading I see I left alot out! LOL!
I am 36, mother of four and married to a wonderful big ole couch potato who shares my birth month and almost my birthday! My oldest child is 19 and my youngest is 6. 2 boys 2 girls. I love to laugh at life. Seriously. I just firmly believe that you change what you can and what you want to but you gotta have a good sense of humor to get you through the tough times.
I try very hard to keep in mind that I share this path through life with each person I come in contact with, I can only hope they remember the same. When they don't I shrug it off and go forward. It's not worth making a big deal out of it if the cashier at the grocery is snotty to me. It can only affect me if I let it.
what else... ummm, I love to cook and will read almost anything! I admit I have a passion for true crime stories and am hopelessly addicted to CSI and Cold Case Files and the like. I just may have missed my calling somewhere in the justice field, who knows?
No, you can't stand under Whitewater Falls, they'd knock you down and you'd float into South Carolina. In fact, it's very hard to hike down to the bottom.
I would love to visit Scotland - I hear the trout fishing is great!
Where do I begin? I grew up in Northwest Louisiana, not far from the Texas line. Graduated high school and headed off to college. Initially majored in business administration, but terribly unhappy doing that. I ended up quitting college, coming home and getting a job and got married at 20, way too young in retrospect.
I didn't go back to college until 1985 after having 2 children. They were still very small at the time, and it was incredibly tough, but I managed to graduate with a Bachelors degree in nursing with honors. I was only out in the work force as an RN for about 1 year, when my husband took a job in Maine of all places, so we all packed up and headed north.
We lived there for 2 years, and while there my third child was born. We call him our yankee child, lol.
After Maine, we moved back to Louisiana, but this time, Southeast Louisiana. After 4 years here, my husband and I divorced, and I began life again as a single mother of 3. That was a pretty rough time for me. I had to take a job working evenings, 4 pm to midnight, so for a couple of years the kids lived with their dad since they were way to young to be at home by themselves that late in the evening.
After being single for a year, I found the real love of my life, soulmate, and married. My first marriage had never been as good as this was, and I couldn't believe life could be so wonderful. There was a rocky point in the beginning when I had to fight a bitter custody battle to get my kids back, but I won!
It was with my new husband, Rodney, that I began to garden heavily. I had always been very involved with plants, but mostly indoor/potted plants, because we had moved around so much when kids were younger. I had once raised African Violets. But when I moved in with Rodney he had a lovely yard that was a nice foundation for gardens, and I threw myself head first into building and planting things. I joined an email group for Louisiana gardeners, and received my first brug cutting from a member of that group. Wasn't long before I knew I had to get more.
Then after 4 years with my wonderful husband, Rodney, he was diagnosed with colon cancer. That was in July of 2000. Initially he had surgery, chemo and radiation, and we thought everything was okay. We knew the chances of recurrance were high with stage 3. We certainly didn't expect a recurrence as quickly as December of 2000. I have a feeling they never got it all to begin with. At any rate, when they discovered more cancer in December, it was too late, he was eat up with it.
I can remember the last few weeks he was alive I would pray to every saint I could think of for a miracle. It is amazing the things you will do and think. I remember sitting in the hospital and looking out the window and seeing a double rainbow. I just knew it was a sign he was gonna live, you know how the rainbow was gods covenant with noah that he would never flood the earth again, so I thought it was his sign to me that Rodney was gonna live!
Now being an RN you would think I would have been more pragmatic about his prognosis, but I was in major denial until the day he died in April 2001. I couldn't even sign a do not resuscitate order at the hospital. And when he died, I lapsed into a major depression. I couldn't believe that I had finally found the perfect person for me, and he could be taken away so quickly.
But, life goes on, and I had 2 children still at home, so I had to go on.
Since that time I have found love again, and hard to believe, but I think Theo is even more perfect for me than Rodney. Sometimes I feel guilty saying that. We haven't married, at my age in life, I don't find marriage a necessity anymore, but we have been living together for quite some time. I found a new term for him, though. I call him my "mating partner", lol.
I've rambled on for way too long, but it felt good, thanks for letting me share.
OK Trying to think of what to say
I don't do anything noble or commendable
I am 46 ,on my second marriage,mother of 2 and grandmother of 3
I have 2 Great Danes,3 Cats,1 Blue and Gold Macaw,2 Cockatoos and cockateils
Also have 4 swans, 12 peacocks,2 geese,5 ducks,and about 200 chickens
Mostly crested breeds
(crested-chik)
Which we raise and show
I was a Air force brat,by the 4th grade I had been in 14 different schools and after my father got out we ended up near Syracuse NY
When I married my first husband who I had been in love with since I was 14,(which goes to show you should date LOTS of people when you are young),we moved to Rock Springs Wyoming for a few years,where my daughter was born ,then he transfered back to NY and was working in White Plains,we lived in Fishkill and Shrub Oak where my son was born
My son who is my youngest at 23 is out of the army now and looking for ....I don't know WHAT he's looking for
We moved back to the Syracuse area and ended the marriage
We had bought a house on Oneida Lake and I ended up getting it in the divorce.With 4 acres on the lake it left me lots of room for my gardening and the gardens got bigger.Then I fell in love with the tropicals, Brugmansia included
Well I had to get a job and started at UPS
I now drive tractor trailer for them(yes I drive doubles) and spend my days cursing people in cars...LOL
I works lots of weird hours and 13 hours a day most of the time so thats why you'll see me in here and then I'm gone for a few days,which means I'm just busy
between work and all the animals I don't have a lot of time and plants are something I fit in.
I now have a GH because the tropicals were taking all the space in the house ,and yes ,it costs a lot to heat it but I love it!!!!
I want a bigger one now
some of you have never seen my chickens
I've been pretty busy the past few days, and now am trying to play catch up with all the posts...
I guess I've walked in on Brugs Anonymous LOL!
Hello, my name is Gretchen. And, yes I'm totally addicted to brugs and the wonderful people who grow them, that I've been so blessed to meet here and a couple of other places!
I'm 45 and the oldest of five kids, born to Robin and Larry in West Virginia. We moved to our farm when I was in 8th grade where we were all involved with animals, 4-H, raising tobacco, etc. My Dad commuted to his executive position in the city while my Mother raised us, and her organic gardens. After living in Columbus, Ohio for 12 years where I was employed as a Branch Manager for a Surety Bond Company, and heavily involved in outdoor adventure sports, I found myself moving to San Antonio for a new job in the same field. I built a house in the Hill Country north of the city. At the time the area was still quite rural (not so these days), and I joined the local volunteer fire department and then later the local EMS after becoming a certified EMT Intermediate. In 2000 I became a Born Again Christian after growing up in the Episcopal Church, which just didn't "do it" for me. In January, 2002 I met DH through a Christian internet dating site. Its was honestly love at first site! We lived 5 miles from each other, and had both moved into our homes in August, 1997, but had never met. A small rural community -- go figure! Anyway, we figured what the heck, jumped right in and got married on March 1st!!! We sold my house and kept his. He was a Director with the largest insurance company in the country and trained horses for a hobby, and his house already had horse facilities. In June I retired from my career in bonding and also Fire and EMS to devote myself to being a wife, taking care of the horse barn, and get back to my love of gardening.
In October, he was diagnosed with AMML. The worst of the worst leukemia. He went into the hospital the night of the diagnosis and stayed there off and on for five months. We're talking in for 30 days at a stretch each time! On January 23rd, he had a bone marrow transplant, with marrow from his younger brother who was a 100% DNA match. His two year anniversary from the transplant is fast approaching and he's doing really well. Looking for a job and training horses!!!
We bounced around among several churches, looking for one that we both loved, and it ended up being the one that DH had gone to for years. In September we became members, and its become a huge part of our lives, especially mine.
Many of you know that his daughter is due to deliver our first grandchild on February 6th and we're so very excited!!!
So now I have time once again to do a little gardening. Take some digital pix of the flowers, read my Bible and try to stay in God's Word every day.
Gee, after reading all these interesting posts, I really have led a dull life. For me, though, it has been very fulfilling. I have lived in Texas all my life, so don't know anything different. I was born in Wichita Falls, moved to Ft. Worth when I was 3, and then to San Antonio in 1973. I've lived here ever since. I attended college for 2 yrs, majoring in education. I planned to be a teacher, but my mother and father divorced after 22 years of marriage and I had to quit and go to work. I worked for 2 years at General Dynamics and then quit to go to work as a secretary at an oil company. I met my husband while working at General Dynamics and we have been married for 44 yrs. We have 4 daughters, 1 son, 8 granddaughters and 2 grandsons. Hubby made me quit work when we married, and I didn't work outside the home at all until our son started 1st grade. I volunteered 2 days a week at his school to work with children that were having problems learning to read. The next year we bought 11 acres in the county about 30 miles South of San Antonio, and I started substitute teaching for whichever school might need me on any given day. I didn't go back to work full time until our second daughter was graduating from high school. We decided we could use the money, since she was going to college and we had 4 kids in braces at the time. Our oldest daughter married right out of high school, so she didn't go to college until she was 32. I worked as a legal secretary for 11 years until I discovered I had breast cancer and had to go through chemo. We lived in the country about 30 miles from San Antonio at the time, and the nurse who owned the local home health agency that took care of me offered me a job doing billing for her agency. When we moved back to San Antonio 10 years ago, I moved to her San Antonio branch and worked in her hospice dept. doing billing and QA work for medical records.
I retired 7 years ago, because I just never had the time to do the things I loved to do like growing flowers anymore. Of course, I enjoyed our yard a lot more when we had 11 acres and I had over an acre to garden in. Now our yard is pretty small, so I can't have everything I would like to have.
I've always been an avid collector, and kind of go crazy when I start collecting, whether it be Hummels, Christmas decorations or plants.
It will take me a while to read all that, what a popular thread, thanks, Loretta!! Some of you may know that I'm a Golden Retriever breeder. This is the week of the Purina Invitational, a most prestigious dog show. Each entry must be a champion, the owner must receive an invitation. My golden granddog, a young champion female received an invite. I bred her sire and she will be handled by her breeder, owner, Haley Whitcomb. If you are interested, please go to www.animals.discovery.com and click on *Nation's Top Dog Show, then scroll all the way down and look on the lower right side and watch the promo, and you will see a girl, with a pony tail, in a navy suit, with white collar /cuffs handling a Golden, my granddog - her name is:
Champion Rivermist Miss Cod Duck (misconduct)
and her call name is: MissE Cow - MissE is a young female champion, bred and handled by Haley, who is 19, and MissE finished in bred-by, which is a big deal in the dog world, where Goldens are the most competitive breed, in that the numbers for majors are higher in Goldens than any other breed. The Purina show will be televised tomorrow night at 8pm (ET) and on Sat night @ 8pm (ET). MissE is a very young champion and I do not expect her to win, but she puts on a good show, very flashy, very up, a real show boat. I do not know if Goldens will be televised, but I surely hope so. If you do not have your own special favorite, and, if you are inclined, please give Haley and MissE a look, they may not win, but they are really cute girls!!!! If you do have a fav, please post - I'd love to keep an eye on your special entry, and I wish you the best of luck!! SherryLike
Edited to cleanup edited stuff that was repeated, instead of deleted, if you know what it mean, whew, and please forgive the confusion!!
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Oh good luck!! I hope i can get this, I love the dog shows!! I have a 4 yr. old golden, Haylee and they are the best!!So loving and sweet!!
Go Miss E!!
Bonnie
I am more than impressed with the humor and honesty in this thread!
Bag...when we sailed it was a treat to find a waterfall near the beach...we would sit under them and bathe...and get REAL cold and REAL clean!!! Waterfalls are so magic!
Carol
Good Luck, Sherry. Goldens are such wonderful dogs!
Best of luck, Sherry.
Tanks, OldFlowerGirl!!!!!!! Goldens are the best dogs ever!! You are a sweetie...I cannot believe you are so far away. My grand Golden girl is going to be bred to a dog in CAN in 6 weeks. I appreciate your being so nice to me, as well as your interest in Goldens. They are special, huh??!!
I agree, the honesty is amazing,
Mary, your story about your marraige to Rodney was so sweet and touching. It brought tears to my eyes. Is'nt it funny how just when we think we have used up our share of good things in life, it gets real good.
CC-wished you lived closer. I would love some cool looking or unusual birds.
Sylvia-I think the life you have is special and very exciting. You went through an ordeal with breast cancer and came out on the other side. That's pretty special.
Tammy,anything I might have read. There have been phases in my life where I desperately sought spiritual enlightenment, desperately. lol Even though I am still an avid reader I don't read that genre much these days.
Carol-next time ya'll go, can I come with you?
Nice reading! Hummmm I've always disliked writing (or talking) about me. Bur, Here's the long & the short of it!
I'm 50something & retired from a life of doing lots of things just to survive.
My Dad left when I was 5, so my Mom raised me & my 4 brothers
(1 younger,3 older) alone. She did a pretty good job considering what she had to work with. lol! In 71 I married at 17 right out of highschool & moved to Germany where my army Hubby cheated on me every chance he could, but I was too smitten or dumb to realize it (or both). I worked in a Army mess hall as a cook. Then he got stationed in TX, where I worked as a coctail waitress, & became pregnant, & finally realized what HE was doing all of this time. Ran home to Mommy in No. Calif. with 1 month old son. Divorced the
s*# o^ #@*~. and began the single Mom life. Met many frogs, no princes. Discovered I like gardening even tho my Mom was an avid gardener. (I made it a point to not like anything my Mother liked in those days.) I worked at a gas station, that gave "Island Girl" a whole new meaning! But it wasn't as a cashier, I busted down tires & turned brake drums, checked oil with the best of em' I have always tried to do the best I could at whatever I did, no matter the job. My mom was getting to me so I escaped & moved to San Jose, CA. area following what I thought was a "Prince" (Turned out to be a very mean toad!)We lived together for 5ish years. I managed an apt. complex then worked in a break shop as a break mechanic for several years. The Toad beat the snot out of me several times before I realized he may kill me if I don't get out of that relationship. So I bailed, Son in tow.
I moved farther south, Visalia, to be near a friend & went to work as a coctail waitress in a Holiday Inn & the next week got a second job at a Lumber & Truss yard. building trusses. I was 5'2" 110lbs (I'm a wee bit fluffier now.) I guess growing up with 4 brothers gave me the guts to try unconventional jobs. All of this time raising a son, My friend babysat while I was working, on the days we had off together we had such fun, she lived in the area all her life so she knew all the fun stuff to do. We (Jasen & I lived) in Visala for a few years my friend got married & I got home sick, so I came back North & to Mommie. In 83 I met a CHP at a softball game, he had 2 boys he was raising himself, He was very kind & a good dad, I adored his sons, who were older than mine by 3&4 years. We dated & married & became one big happy family. Until I realized he actually wanted a housekeeper & nanny rather than a wife, wouldn't let me work out of the house, kept me pretty much under wraps, no friends, no money. No life of my own. (Darn another toad!) After 3 years, I left, just Jasen & myslef & my car, yep the bug. he stalked me for a while. I moved to another town near by & it stopped. He never would give me my belongings, Well starting over seemed to be my best trait, so we just grined & got to making a new life just us two, again. Luckily I wasn't a drinker or I would have certianly been a drunk!
Jasen's father was like my father, nonexistent. Also no support.
I went to work in a jewelry store as a counter person then later as a designer, I learned quite a bit from the owner but really enjoyed designing enough to go to San Francisco to a jewelry academy where I learned all the aspecs of jewery making. My aunt left me a little money so I put it to good use. I opened my own Jewelry shop where I made custom jewelry, (I dated a few more frogs in there, too) I stayed mostly to myself. Went to work, to home, rode bikes with my boxer dog Tia & raised Jasen who was about 14 around this time. Wonderful age, 14. (If abourtions were retroactive, I wouldda had one!!! ) We had some pretty rocky spots until he turned 17, it was like night & day. 70's was a tough time to be a kid. We both survived (amazingly) Several years later I met a prince. Not wanting to repeat history, (mostly mine) I was pretty aloof. It took him a while to corral me, but he did, That was 12 years ago, And he is a prince. My son is 32 and a wonderful son at that (whodda thunk?) I have a 11 year old grandaughter who doesn't like to garden. I bought her cute little gloves & tools, she told me "If gardening was this much work then she probably wouldn't ever have a garden!" Ah Babes! I have 2 dogs a boxer "Lilly" & a mutt named Cassie, 2 cats, Ben & Fu, some gold fish with no names.
We live in the mountians in No. Calif. on 4 acres, Built us a cute cabin & I'm finally getting to garden & love it every much as my Mom did. I have a jewelry studio here at the house, but mostly spend my time in my yard. I love to start seeds, I grow flowers & veggies. & Thank-x to DG, I too have a Brug addiction! (Yes, you know who you are!!! LOL) A small green house stuffed full at the moment.
My Mom passed away last Feb, I see her in every pretty bloom. & I found my Dad who I haven't seen since I was 5, but we haven't gotten together yet, we talk on the phone & e-mail a lot. He is 84, I guess I better go see him & get reaquainted. He Lives in Arkansas.
In all the clearing & digging on this land, you know... there is not ONE toad on this property!
That's quite a story , BsjBloomers. I am so glad to see it had such a happy ending . Thanks for sharing.
I am new to Dave's Garden and have just recently found out about brugs. I don't have any as yet. I was born in British Columbia Canada and came to US when 12 to go to a private school. Stayed in the States, went to college in Missouri. Have been living for the last 30 years in Tucson AZ. Was a locator of defendants for child support for years. It closed in Tucson and was taken over by the state. Now am in health care. Hope to retire in three years so I can do Priv. Investigator work. Am a roseaholic and have 16 rose bushes and just planted 8 more in cans to get a good root system before planting in the ground. Wow, that makes 24, and I am totally addicted. Hope to get some teas, musks and some other kinds as it is hard to find anything other than hybrid teas here. Am hoping to join the Tucson Rose Society next month. Keep forgetting to go! Love reblooming irises too. Have five now and plan to get more. Love fragrance. Have started a fragrance garden. Not everything fragrant can grow in Tucson AZ. Have big back yard with a lemon, orange, red grapefruit and tangerine tree. Have some jasmines and a gardenia. Am addicted to gardening. Grow tomatoes in the summer. Short season. Have five kids. two litters. Oldest is sign language interpreter and working on a degree in anthro who is also a gemologist. Other daughter also in Tucson part-time is a gemologist in the Amazon in Brazil. Son after that is former marine, now on disability in Yuma. Not all of life goes your way. Have youngest two at home, girl, 18 a senior and a boy in 8th grade. Husband has a couple of new businesses just getting off the ground. Want to learn all I can about brugs and get to know all of you on this site.
Welcome to the Brug Forum, Joanie. You need to get a Brug and then you'll want more and more.
BjsBloomers, wow, what a story and such a nice ending, good for you!!! Where in Arky does your dad live?? SherryLike from southeast Arky
As I promised-Scotland
And Glencoe
Great pictures, Garth. It looks lonesome. LOL
Scotland looks just beautiful...bags!
BJ's...you have had SOME life! I am glad it turned out well for you! I am sure you appreciate it ! I guess every life has some bumps....as long as it goes in an up-hill direction, I guess we are O.K. ! Thank you for being so open about yours!
Margie
Thanks for your interest, Ada & Carol!! I'm very excited. Thanks to you, LadyBlue62, I got your name and OldFlowerGirl's names mixed up - I appreciate hearing from both of you!!!
Well, it looked like most were "Puttin it out there!"
It's weird reading it & much different living it, Yes it turned out wonderful!
SherryLike, he lives in Wynne about 40 miles from Memphis TN. I may go in April for a few days.
The Scotland pics are pretty, I always wanted to go there.
Bj
Really cool mountains in Scotland, huh, Bagpypr. Look so smooth and barren compared to our mountains of North America.
How wonderful to read everyones stories! I look forward to checking this thread each morning with my cup of coffee.