Valley's profile

Buy a travel trailer August 16, 2007

Buy a travel trailer

Organize the closets in my home August 16, 2007

Organize the closets in my home

Take vitamins, get proper exercise, hike and walk and ensure body is well USED and healthy August 16, 2007

Take vitamins, get proper exercise, hike and walk and ensure body is well USED and healthy

Communicate better with extended family August 16, 2007

Communicate better with extended family

garden August 16, 2007

garden

Exercise more May 29, 2007

Exercise more

Retire May 29, 2007

Retire

Exercise more 2006 - Anchorage, Alaska

What prompted me was seeing the scale at 155 pounds. Walking every morning was not keeping me from gaining. I asked for a Bow Flex for my 59th birthday so I would be inspired to do strength exercises more often, and it's worked. Without dieting, I'm down to 147 and continuing to lose. The goal is 138. Now I'm retired, as of May 25, and I'll have more time to walk and work out.

Move to Alaska July 24, 1973

Drove up the Alcan Highway from Michigan, taking 13 days.

Married a great guy February 1973

Me with kitten 1952 - Grand Rapids, Michigan

This was a neighbor's cat. I loved the house we lived in--much more modern than when I was preschool age. My oldest brother went off to the University of Michigan, then West Point, then California when I was this age. The next brother was busy with studies, piano practicing and singing with a beautiful baritone voice. My youngest brother, 7 when I was born, was like a dad to me, tossing me around and teaching me. My dad was a minister and very busy with meetings and sermon preparation. My mom was home whenever I was, but did a lot of minister's wife work.

Birthday June 15, 1947