okay uh do you have children
no
have uh
are you a grandparent or you just have never had children
i've never had any children
oh oh well this is kind of hard topic for you then isn't it
that's all right i'm opinionated
you're what
i'm opinionated
oh oh okay we're we're grandparents now and uh we did spend a lot of time with our children they were we had five boys and one girl
uh-huh
um-hum
and they were all into Little League and and athletics and fact we had two two
state wrestling champions
wow
and uh then we had uh they were in Little League they were in uh Cub Scouts and uh
they were just busy and we just spent time with them i mean with five boys you're just following one or the other all the time
um-hum
five
uh-huh
wow
and one girl
uh-huh well you had to have something to even it out there
you what
had to have something to even it out
yeah we had a basketball team and this cheerleader
right
but um we and then we went camping with them and everything and uh we enjoy our uh enjoyed our children they're scattered all over the world right now we have two in Germany one in Dallas
i was going to say that's a Black Forest cuckoo clock you have
yeah
i can tell by the sound
right right and then we have uh one in Chicago he's an airline pilot and then one in Chicago Cleveland that's a doctor
airline pilot for what airline
pardon
what airline
American
really
uh-huh do you do you are you connected with American
my dad flies American he's retiring in April
oh my goodness
yeah
well how long has he flown for them
oh twenty some odd years
oh oh
twenty four twenty three something like that
well our our son's been with them about eight i would maybe not six maybe six but he's a captain now so
we're happy with that
well uh he'll he'll enjoy the the freedom that that kind of a job gives you course
he does he says and to think they even pay me for it
yeah that's what my dad says you know as soon as he is retired he's gonna you know hire some hire an airplane
uh-huh
because he really likes to fly
yeah well our son that's a doctor uh has his pilot's license too but just it's a small craft
huh
well huh
but uh how old are you may i ask
i'm thirty seven
oh and you don't have children do you
uh we can't
oh
we tried but it's just not gonna happen
well sometimes that happens and sometimes uh you fill your life with other things so
well we have animals and we have uh chickens and dogs and cats and birds
oh do you do you live on a little farm then
yeah we have a little you know just about ten acres out here out you know about ninety miles north and uh west of Dallas
oh
so it it's stop it's it's a lot of fun i'm building our house right now
oh that
oh my goodness you must be talented
well i was a you know contractor for past fifteen years
oh
doing uh anything from you know bagging concrete for a pad or uh you know i did uh couple of complete remakes of a house you know tore down and started over almost on one of them
oh uh-huh
yeah my uh specialty is in restoration restoration
uh-huh
and uh
oh
i figured well i'll build myself a house
you know and i'm doing it now as a matter of fact i just got out of the shower
oh
oh your wife answered the phone that's why oh well we're just watching the BYU
football game at the Holiday Bowl
you probably don't follow that
no not not that close hey don't televise that down here
oh it's on ESPN
well we don't take cable i mean it would cost a fortune
oh uh-huh oh
see we're they just put the phone in four years ago
well
oh my goodness
you know there was no phone service for ten miles
oh you're really rural
yeah we are crazy as they say
yeah
well we we're about sixty miles north of Salt Lake City so have you ever been there
um
i went to Salt Lake once
oh
and i was very i guess we were seven or eight
oh
but uh
well we better get back to the subject did um
oh yeah raising kids
uh-huh
i think the first thing you got to do is unplug your TV set and give it to the Salvation Army
well
they watch entirely too much TV they have
uh i think a lot of children do nowadays our with the with the athletics and the well they all took music lessons
yeah
yeah
and uh so with everything that they were involved in the arts especially our high school kids didn't have time for TV
yeah but i've worked well i work and live in the Denton area
into what
in the Denton Texas just north of Dallas
uh-huh
and uh you know i'll tell you i went to i graduated from the University of Nor th Texas a couple years ago and i you know went back as
uh-huh
