things about me

Things about me.  

           1.  I am a mother and grandmother, and pretty much have loved the role.  I have loved the role and still feel very much for my girls.  I love to give my grandsons kisses.
           2. I am a wife.  And I have loved being married.  There are a bout 50 -60 days in my 51 years of marriage that I would have preferred not being married.  I  have loved the companionship.  

3. love to look at water.  Any water , even a fountain.

         4.  I am a cook.  Food has been a passion for 51  years, although now it is forced at times.  Now I am cooking from a limited number of cookbooks, trying to streamline the process. .  I have come to the point that leftovers are not so bad.  

           5. I always have a creative passion going besides food.  Many years it was knitting.  I went through that passion about 3 times in my life.  I started knitting at ten.

           6.  I am a blogger.  Not great, but I have stuck with it for six years.  I love people to look at it, but I realize that I am doing it for me.  Some times I like telling little stories of things that amuse me.  I blog about four days a week.  

   7.I have come to love photography.  I have taken snap shots for one reason or another, but I took a blogging class and realized that photos made all the difference. I  learned how to use my camera and it has been great since then.  I am not great    , but I have improved, and I think that others , if they do not know about the art of photography, they think I am great.  Currently I am doing Project life, but what I do not like about that is that the photos are only snapshots, I like to take a little time and at the least frame them.  I am not taking quality photos.  

         8.  I do not have many close friends, although I know a lot of people.  I am sort of an in-depth friend. I used to have friends like that, but after moving to Washington, it has been harder.  Everyone including me, is into their retired husbands, and my husband is a loner.  I do miss friends.  I will  say not having a lot of close friends does leave me time for my creative endeavors.  

         9. I go to church and have a small women's group which satisfies my feeling on bonding.  These women are willing to talk religion.  I do volunteer work at church.  

           I am a conservative in the American political system.  I worry a lot about how our country is headed and our culture and how it is falling apart.  

       11. I sailed to Hawaii in a sailboat from San Francisco.

       12.  For a short time I washed towels for the homeless shelter, but I gave that up as there were enough cognitive people that they could go to the laundromat.