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Married. Interested in meeting people for friendship

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I am happily married to a wonderful, beautiful, younger man.  I have five grown children and ten grandchildren (so far). I now live and work in Washington State, but have been the wife of and the daughter of U.S. Air Force men, so my past is filled with many places and unique memories. I am patriotic to extremes, and have tears in my eyes every time I see our Stars & Stripes flowing against the brilliant sky, and can't sing the National Anthem without sobbing.  I have several hobbies - gardening, swimming, collecting a few things, voracious reading, writing poetry, crocheting, general craft-i-ness (ok, call it scavenging if you must). I like math and logic puzzles, puns and wordplay, astronomy and all scientific "stuff", I am a bit of a language-nazi, I am a darn good cook, and I hate cold weather. I would love to have an Irish Setter again, but my husband is sensitive to most pet hair... (big sigh).

I am too heavy, and have been most of my life.  I have a few health issues, (a couple of them because of being over-weight) which sometimes cause my husband worry, but which my doctor and I are taking a bit more in stride. My parents are showing their age a little more now but are both still kickin'; a large, happy, and diverse extended family belongs to me, and it keeps growing in leaps and bounds. 

Two of my nephews (so far) and three of my four sons have served in the various military branches, and have each been stationed in different places in the Middle East. One of my sons was nearly lost in the Anaconda mission in the beginning of the Afghanistan effort, and he was re-deployed there several times.  One of my nephews has been in constant jeopardy, several times coming very close to death, in the the worst figting in Iraq. All of them have since returned to us physically whole, and are now making successful lives "stateside".

 My only daughter home-schools her five sons and is her lawyer- husband's paralegal. She is contemplating going to law school herself as soon as the littlest one is in kindergarten. Now THAT'S busy!

I am a devout Roman Catholic, a Mensa member, a conservative Constitutionalist, an NRA member, a Tea Party enthusiast, a diligent voter and polling-place worker, and as I tell my assertive (or chauvanistic)  male relatives, especially my sons and grandsons...

"I am a woman, a mother, AND a grandmother; therefore I am not only right, I am always right, and if both you and I are right, I am always righter than you."

Any questions?

Favorite Movies

The Quiet Man; Patton; Gone With The Wind; The Final Countdown; An Affair To Remember; A Man For All Seasons; Arsenic And Old Lace; Rustler's Rhapsody; Support Your Local Sheriff/Gunfighter; Going My Way; Bells of St Marys, Lilies Of The Field; Charade; Father Goose; My Fair Lady; Ten Commandments; Bridge On The River Kwai; To Kill A Mockingbird; Brigadoon; Darby O'Gill And The Little People; Disney's Robin Hood; Blackbeard's Ghost ... (aren't you tired yet..?)

Favorite TV Shows

Cosmos; I Claudius; Whose Line Is It Anyway; Big Bang Theory; Soap; Star Trek TNG or DS9; Bishop Sheen's lectures; Banecek; Monk; Psych; White Collar; Hannity & Colmes; O'Reilly Factor; Beltway Boys; Fox Newswatch; Biography; Nature Shows; Space and Astronomy programs; more...

Favorite Books

waaaaaaay too many.. but authors include Asimov, Anthony, Gabaldon, McCaffery, Peters, Jordan, Tolkein, Eddings, Christie, Clancy, Roberts, Colter, Asperin, Nimoy, L'Engle, and one I just discovered, Greg Iles... many more I cant think of right now...

Favorite Quotes

"Shoot him, daddy", " I have a very bad feeling about this", " I'm the son of a sea cook!", " He lies to me about whether its loaded or not", " I'm a lawyer, you idiot!", " I'd buy that for a dollar", "...and their joy was like swords, and their tears were the very rain of blessedness", "That was proper 1420, that was", "What have I got in my pocket?" "His heart is as big as all outdoors, but he ain't got one brain in his poor ol' head", "Goody Two Shoes and the Filthy Beast?!?" "Never mind the chaplain, she's alive - the snake's dead", "The casino will now be known as the supply depot", " I hope we have a lot of boys, and we'll name them all after you", more...

Favorite People

Family, Glenn Beck, Pope John Paul II

Favorite Places

sea, river, mountains, home, the open road

Favorite Animals

I collect owls, dolphins, wolves, unicorns. I like a lot of mythical animals like gryphon and pegasus. I adore black Labs and Irish Setters. I have a deep fondness for all-black cats, and all-gray cats (no patches, no stripes!), for instance the "Russian Blue". My fondest unfulfilled wish is to swim with (actually, to live with) dolphins.

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