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Relationship

Married

Hometown

Canton Ohio

Places I've been

From Canton to Akron to East Aurora New York to Alta Loma and Rancho Cucamonga (the home of the Quakes minor league Baseball) and presently in Adelanto California. Rancho Cucamonga used to have lots of citrus groves and vineyards but the area is being swallowed up by housing and businesses. Newest in the area is the Victoria Gardens outdoor mall. Adelanto is the 'high desert', Joshua Trees and desert, dirt/dust, hot summers, cold winters. Lots of new housing going in so eventually it most likely won't look like desert anymore. While living in East Aurora (great village life, serene but hated the mosquitoes, humidity and snow) we made several trips to Niagra Falls. But my kids don't remember, it was too long ago! Hubby and I love to go to new places to visit. I like revisiting, San Francisco for example, we've been twice and I'd love to go again but he feels he's already seen it! Guess I'll have to go with my grown daughters for a trip, they'd love it. I'd love to revisit Australia and Fiji, hubby didn't like the long flight, but he really enjoyed being there once he was on ground.

More about me

Love to travel (I've been to Australia, Fiji, Kauai, Kona and Maui, Cabo, and Puerta Vallerta. Acapulco, Ixtapa ), snorkel, and oh, did I mention quilting? Hmmm, I love to buy fabric and have more than I can use in a lifetime, so maybe I love fondling fabric more than I like to quilt. Love Oriental/Asian fabrics and quilts. Love bright colors, not thimbleberries! oops, spending too much time on fabric.

If you love quilting, check out http://www.road2ca.com the largest quilt show in our area. I've been there the last 5 years, volunteering both to hang quilts and to white glove. The website shows fotos of all winning quilts over the years.

I've got a great hubby of 39+ years who supports all that I do. He was my rock and support when I found out I had ovarian cancer after a trip to San Francisco. Said it was fine that I looked like him, we could be bald twins, while going thru chemo. That was 12 years ago. I am a survivor! Then the year of the Twin Towers attack, I was recovering from melanoma excision and hernia repair surgery a week before the attacks.

I volunteered at my local Friends of the Library for 11 or 12 years but got burned out. A number of years ago I volunteered for more than a year at His Hands charity house giving donated food and clothing to the homeless or poor. What a humbling experience.

I used to be a Realtor-Broker but burned out from that too after 11 years and let my license expire. That was right about the time that I volunteered at the library bookstore to help me de-stress. 

At the FOTL bookstore I met another volunteer who told me she volunteered at the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden in Claremont...well I got hooked on taking digital photos of the California native flowers and was asked to volunteer to take pix for the garden's annual sales, taking pix of plants while in flower so that they could post pix of plants for sale that weren't in bloom so buyers could see what the flowers would look like.  Then I became a trained nature interpreter/docent and loved it, especially during our spring wildflower season!  Right now I am 'on leave' and not sure when I'll return but will go thru training again because I've forgotten so many of the botanical names.  I've got some of my pix in my photos. 

3 daughters. 2 grandsons, 3 granddaughters. One daughter and 2 of the grandkids live with us, so that makes for busy days.  Temporarily (which lasted 10 months!) my other DD, SIL and 2 grandkids have moved in till they can buy a house...now really busy days!  (update, they have all moved out as of 7-31-10)

The  physical therapy for degenerative disc disease/osteoarthritis and cervical herniated disc in my neck worked, I'm a convert. Sooo much better than I was a year ago! I didn't believe that exercise could relieve all the pain I was in, and now I should be doing 3x wk 'maintenance' but of course, not doing it.  

Did I mention quilting? LOL, of course I did! I should do it more often cuz it is wonderful for quieting the nerves and destressing, just remind myself I have to quit, stretch, and go spend time with hubby.

 geesh,  I'm writing a novella about myself and didn't know I had that many chapters in my life!   I'll update as I remember some of my forgotten chapters.

 

 

Activities

Quilting, reading, quilt guild, grand parenting, digital photography, fabric postcards

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Favorite Charities

Multiple Sclerosis Society

Favorite Music

Favorite TV Shows

Lost, Law and Order, CSI, Closer, Damages, So You Think You Can Dance, Paula Deen, Grey's Anatomy, Saving Grace

Favorite Movies

Sixth Sense

Favorite Books

Life is a Banquet by Rosalind Russell, Harry Potter, Charlie Bone series

Favorite Quotes

Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death...Rosalind Russell

Favorite People

hubby, kauaikim

Favorite Places

anywhere with warm clear water where I can snorkel and see brilliant colored fish and coral

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