all right well uh quite a few and they're varied they don't uh uh encompass uh many handcrafts like knitting and that kind of thing
uh-huh
but i do uh quite a bit of wreath making and my dogs are my hobbies i do a lot of gardening i go to estate sales which takes up a lot of time
uh-huh
now what do you mostly do
well mostly right now i'm a i do a lot of sports and stuff like that is my hobbies and do a lot of things with my family as much as possible
we're uh we're about to take the kids to go roller skating and a birthday party and stuff so
oh boy that should be fun
yeah yeah fun for them
yeah how old are they
uh i've got a little girl who's six and a little girl that's three
well i think that's better than having that party at home
yeah well uh this is a friend's party and they they rented or you know they the party they uh just rent skates and stuff for the kids so uh they're they're looking forward to it
yeah
and the
the the skating rink does the rest practically i guess boy what a help that is
yeah yeah uh-huh
yeah so uh how long have you lived in North Carolina
what kind of
well not that long uh just since October we moved here from Enid Oklahoma
really
oh uh-huh
so uh we are we're originally from Virginia this part of the country but we did spend twenty years in Norman and Enid and loved it
uh-huh
uh-huh
uh-huh
but we needed to get back uh to our older parents
yeah
uh-huh
but i am loving it the weather is divine
really
yes
was uh did you like Oklahoma while you were there
oh yes very much yeah
um what did you all do
well my husband was with uh University of Oklahoma and Phillips University in Enid and then he went with uh a family corporation that had uh has oil and ranching
uh-huh
uh-huh
and varied enterprises
uh-huh
and uh he just quit a perfectly good job and came we came East yes
really
so is uh is he working there then or
yes uh-huh he's doing uh quite a bit of consulting work and has been offered a permanent position and he's contemplating he he's liking this free time actually
oh uh-huh
uh-huh
oh yeah
it's just wonderful after all these years of working
yeah
yeah well how did how did you get uh hooked up with the TI switchboard thing
um a gal who works uh with TI on this project i think she's a temporary worker uh mother is my best friend in Virginia so
uh-huh
oh i see i see
we have spread the word a little bit in this part of the country
uh-huh well i
my wife has talked more than i have uh she's talked to four five different people it seems like she hasn't talked to anybody from Dallas in fact she's talked to a couple of people from North Carolina i think yeah
really uh what is her name
her name's Tina
yeah well i haven't talked to her i haven't i haven't talked to a Tina yet
yeah
uh-huh well uh the the call was probably for her they wouldn't accept my uh T I N number so we put hers in but uh uh like i said we're getting getting the kids ready to go to the birthday party so but uh
yeah yeah
some what yeah i i've only talked to one or two and they've they've all been in Dallas but she hasn't talked to anybody in Dallas yet so that's interesting
yeah yeah
well you haven't told me uh what sports that you are active in
well the sport i like best probably is basketball but uh i guess i'm probably better at softball and so i'd like during the summer months it's occupies quite a bit of my time but
yes
i play in a couple of leagues and and occasionally in a tournament or something on a weekend but my family usually goes with me we try to do everything we can together
well i think that's uh easy entertainment for a family too
yeah yeah well they
uh a good friend of mine that plays on one of my teams we uh that's usually the team i play on with the tournaments and stuff and they have a couple of kids that are almost my kids age so they play together pretty well and
under the stands under the bleachers
yeah yeah pretty much and uh Tina enjoys uh the other lady real well so they you know that's kind of nice it's like getting together with them so to speak
uh-huh
yes well it's getting a little hot isn't it it
yeah well it's been raining a lot here so far so we haven't really had any kind of real heat i think it's going to be warm enough this afternoon we were noticing a while ago it's already eighty in in the house so it looks like an air conditioner day but
yeah it sure does or maybe this evening anyway
yeah it yeah but you know i'm sure you're familiar with that living here we go we go through Enid you know quite a bit we go to Tulsa from time to time and my my parents live in southern Illinois so we drive up there and
very much so
yeah
well lots lot of times we take seventy five and uh it seems like
seems like that goes through Enid i know i've either seen the signs or
no no it doesn't Enid is uh it's in the northwest it's uh directly across the straight uh state from Tulsa
um i know i've seen the sign somewhere yeah
uh sure you have yes well Enid is not uh an unknown little city it uh
right
an awful lot of people know where it is or have been there and it was uh a very uh self-sufficient uh wealthy uh town for a long time anyway
uh-huh
uh uh-huh
you know until uh everything happened the bottom fell out
oh uh-huh
but it's beginning to do well but there's a lot of uh old time wealth there that has helped to stabilize things
oh uh-huh
uh-huh
so uh how long you said you've just lived in North Carolina just like six months then is
since yes something like that oh
and you really like it there huh i've heard so many people talk about that area i've never been there but they sure say it's pretty
well it's it's pretty the weather is wonderful uh
this winter we it was just we had so many wonderful days and uh
uh-huh
i if it got to be forty degrees i decided it was too cold to to walk the dogs isn't funny how how your standards change
uh-huh
yeah
yeah it really does my wife and i spent a couple years uh doing church work up in the state of Washington right on the coast
yes
and it rains you know a lot there but you get used to it i mean it's like a fine mist all the time and it doesn't really it gets to where it doesn't bother you
sure
well Carolina this part is very much like that too very foggy and misty the moss grows on the trees in the woods up eight ten feet
rea lly it
uh-huh
right right
yeah that's the way it is was there too
yeah i think however that's like February uh i know it did it all February and some people said to me well that's our wintertime
oh uh-huh but
well i know you need to go and i've enjoyed talking to you
well i have enjoyed talking to you too it was nice to talk to you
thanks so much have a
i hope you enjoy North Carolina
oh thank you and i hope you enjoy and get through that birthday party
yeah well i hope i live through it that's what i hope okay thanks a lot good-bye
yeah i do too
bye-bye
