do you exercise a lot
um it's uh scaled back considerably uh right now my exercise is pretty much limited to uh softball league and occasional ride on the bike
but uh i uh
i was just recently well recently nine months ago got married and bought a house so my outside activities have been curtailed somewhat
is mowing the lawn a new exercise
yeah lawn it's a forty year old house so we are doing a lot of refurbish work and uh yeah painting lawn gutters you name it all kinds of stuff flower beds
oh my
i think that's considered exercise whether you want it or not
yeah that that's true that's true it's there's always something to do and uh
and and uh it keeps me going
well you're you are so far ahead of me i used to uh
but
i used to walk two miles a day and i really enjoyed it
uh-huh
yeah
because the two miles went fairly quickly i could do it in twenty eight minutes
yeah
and that's not stopping and talking to everyone along the way but it's a lot you know it's not too strenuous
right
and i could sort all kinds of things out and make plans and everything but i don't know what i did to my knee i
was crawling under a desk hooking up a computer
uh-huh
and i mashed it wrong or i did something
oh gosh
and the doctor has had me on medication and she doesn't want me to walk she said that's you know while it's healing you're going to mess it up so i can't walk
wow
and uh she said you know the most conservative approach you do the medicine you do the medicine again and again
before you think of surgery and i don't want her to think of surgery on my knee i don't want anyone to think about that
uh-huh
no that that's a tough situation
ever
that's that microscopic stuff you know uh-huh not my kneecap
uh-huh
so i'm i'm being very good
yeah
but i miss it i really do and i
oh that it's so aggravating to uh to have an injury like that my wife uh
runs or likes to run but uh she's well we moved we moved down to the north end of Oak Cliff in the Castle Park area
oh really
yeah and she started running down there and all the hills
uh-huh
and she lasted about two weeks and her ankles couldn't take it anymore
she was used to running you know flat tracks and whatnot and uh
ever since that it's just been real difficult it's real aggravating because she starts in and her ankles will start hurting again and stuff
even if she does get on flat ground so she's kind of in the same mode She was all ready to
get back into it and start running uh five K's and ten K's and stuff this spring and she just hasn't been able to stick with the training schedule long enough to really get back in shape
and when you want to do it it's really really aggravating you know it it's one thing to get motivated to start doing the exercise and it's another thing to to already
be past that and then not be able to because of your health
i can you understand that uh
yeah
uh i don't really want to i just know i need to
well it's
you know i make myself do it and if i do it okay i don't love it
uh-huh uh-huh
you know but i will do it
sure
uh it's not anything i would want to but i can really tell the difference since i have not been able to walk
i have got to be so much more careful with what i do
yeah yeah uh-huh it is and you know you you
it's depressing
you don't well speaking for myself i don't sleep as well when i am not exercising and uh
it's really it's harder to get out of bed in the morning and all kinds of stuff it your body just gets used to it and yeah i i don't particularly enjoy
well i i used to lift weights an awful lot and stuff like that i do enjoy riding bike but as far as the working out and lifting and things like that
uh i i can't say i really enjoyed it all that much but once i got used to it
it was habit forming it was i felt so bad if i didn't
physically i mean i just my body was was was uh tuned into that that mode
and if i if i skipped it then it kind of threw the the whole the whole system out of whack
right right boy
yeah
hopefully my my knee is a hundred percent better maybe i can get back into it
yeah that's for sure
i have ask you a question off the subject though you're in you're living in the Castle Park area
okay
that's right
i grew up in Oak Cliff
did you really
yes uh just
close to Methodist Hospital
okay yeah
on Candy C A N D Y
right
oh
in fact i lived there
oh until nineteen
late nineteen fifties
okay okay
and that area is it changing back again so many people are moving back into those old houses and are restoring them
yeah it is um we're on we're on a little street called Bison Trail
it's only about a block and a half long but it's it's over on the other end It it's over by the far edge of uh Stephen's Park Golf Course
oh i know exactly where that is
yeah it's it's uh you know where the little bridge is on North Oak Cliff Boulevard yeah we are just south of that little bridge back up on the hill in the trees there
yeah sure
and yeah um our street is uh an awful lot of retired people but the other half in fact our you know one little block and a half there
four houses sold last summer and three sold the summer before and everybody in their
late twenties to mid thirties are buying and and starting to rebuild and fix things up again and everybody is real excited
oh that's
that's wonderful that is a gorgeous gorgeous place
yeah and then
oh it's it's a lot of fun the people are great there too our uh
we've got a real active neighborhood association and uh we have well we've got four regular parties every year and we do a neighborhood recycling program and
you know all that kind of stuff so it's a lot of fun and it is it's a really beautiful area
and some some of the people um
some of the higher dollars lawyers and stuff downtown too are picking up some of those great big houses and they're they're getting them at a real bargain
well sure they are
you know they're they're getting four thousand square feet for a hundred fifty a hundred and seventy five thousand dollars
good great
and uh and they're just going to town with them they're people are putting in pools and
and completely redoing the outside restoring to the original you know nineteen thirty nineteen forties look
oh wow
and uh it it's it 's really coming around i guess
i need to go over there and just drive around and look
it's it's worth the trip
oh i'm sure it must be
i'm just we had a lovely little house over there it was like a two story
uh-huh
well story and a half really because we had a basement
okay
and the guy that built it was weird
i mean weird
yeah
it's one of these really creative houses that i grew up in that nothing was on the same level with anything else
okay
oh wow
and i just loved the neighborhood and i mean everyone everyone had houses like that They were all completely different
yeah
uh-huh that's right
and so neat
yeah ours ours is kind of a little ranch style with a great big oh i guess it's twenty eight by fifteen front porch and uh next door we've got an Austin stone
uh
across the street the guy just uh it was burnt out about two years ago and and the guy moved in and completely redid it and it's got oh it's got a rounded
front on it it's all brick and he's he's landscaped his yard and he's about ready to put in a pool and things like that so
yeah there's a variety you just don't see it anywhere else as far as the different styles in the houses and whatnot
now why couldn't your wife run around the golf course is that not good
um
oh she could a little bit we i tell you what we got into the fitness center at Methodist
oh was he
and they have a quarter mile track there
so she has started doing that rather than uh rather than take off
the problem is she's a school teacher and for her she can't run in the morning For her to get home and try to run at six o'clock in the night in the winter time it's starting to get dark and
oh
you know you don't want to she doesn't want to be out by herself anywhere in Dallas regardless whether it's north Dallas or whatnot and
when she goes over to this fitness center it's fenced in and there's somebody in the building watching her and all that so there's a lot of consideration
yes i i really hear that you know i think you know you're in Oak Cliff
uh-huh
but i'm in Plano In west Plano
yeah
and we live on one of those blocks that it's a neighborhood watch block we all know each other and the street doesn't go anywhere
uh-huh
right
if you are on the street you better belong there
that's right
because it's not a through street
that's right
and still i want to get up early in the morning and walk before this knee business and my husband
uh-huh
had a lot of heartburn with that
yeah
i mean
it looked darker to him because he he was in the house with the lights on
right
when i was out walking it was more of a pre dawn type pretty
but huh-uh he didn't think it looked pre dawn to him it looked dark and even he was real concerned about that so
yeah
yeah
it's not just because you are in Oak Cliff it's just because you're smart that you don't do things like that
that's right that's right it only takes one time that is it's a hard lesson to learn so
that's right
there's only one crazy out there you know to make any difference
uh-huh
yeah
yeah it's you know it goes all over well we got this
