tell me what you like to do
well i i collect antique tools uh for one thing i well i'm sort of in a an antique business but it's it's a little sideline part time thing
oh
uh-huh wonderful
and uh i'm building a a log house at a farm that i have in East Texas which you like a a a hundred miles from here
ah
wonderful
yeah it's really neat and i i been course i've been working on it for five years but you know
oh but how wonderful how are you close to getting it done
yeah yeah it's getting real close to you know uh of course there's still a lot of work to be done and then when you get it completely you you know the shell finished uh you still have a lot of stuff to do inside
oh
but uh
are you gonna move your whole family over there then
no actually uh i'm i'm not even sure i may i'll probably always have a place here in Richardson or Dallas
uh-huh kind of your getaway place
yeah escape
but it's beautiful it a you know it's eastern hardwood um forest there are a lot of pine trees but it's mostly oaks and ah
oh how beautiful and it's pretty flat there
well it's it's kind of hilly but it's you know low hills it's not uh
see i've only been to Texas once i have two sisters in Texas now um one in Austin one in Dallas and the one in Dallas is the one that got me to doing this
yeah
and um i thought Austin was beautiful i liked the hills and the trees
yeah yeah in Austin it it's really different because that's kind of a you you know that's the chalk hills down there limestone limestone hills
oh and you've always lived in Texas have you
yeah except for time in service
uh-huh
born raised Texan huh well i had never been there that's that's pretty neat my sisters both seem to like it pretty well my brother-in-law works for the university um in Dallas
yeah
he's admissions director
which
at at which one
uh University of Texas in Dallas yeah
oh okay that's just north of me here
yeah well that he's got a job there and this is his first year so it's been a real interesting thing for them
that's great
but they seem to like it okay i think they're too far away from me but
well yeah
maybe some day they can get closer we'll see
that's a pretty good trip so what are you what kind of hobbies are you in
well i'm a mother of four so basically i'm just real busy with my kids right now in sports and we have a little Halloween talent show tonight it's
yeah
i substitute at the schools part time
oh that's great
well i am a travel agent at heart and my hobby is just i love traveling and and being involved of that and finding out more uh but it's real hard to work in the summers and holidays and weekends when you have four children and a husband so
no kidding
i reluctantly gave that career up and am just substituting at the school so i've been librarian all this week which has been real interesting and i'm enjoying it i'm around my kids and
hey that's
that's pretty easy substituting isn't it
oh yeah yeah it's great it's great and what else do i do i do lots of cross stitching when i have time and i enter things in our little state fair and that's pretty fun
ooh
that's great
well that actually my hobbies is mostly is my sports tennis i play tennis
ooh i love tennis too and i ski ski do you ski
ooh do you yes we snow ski we snow ski at Mount Bachelor mostly in Oregon have you ever been there
uh that's great i
no uh
wonderful place
i've skied in Colorado and we usually usually go to New Mexico because it's a little cheaper you know but uh
ooh
uh-huh where in Colorado
uh i've been to uh Telluride which is on the west side and uh Copper Copper is kind of my favorite up there Breckenridge uh
yes yes
really
uh-huh
and Keystone i guess those are the only places i've skied up there
i would love i can hardly wait to get up there
me too you guys are are you guys getting snow
we it is snowing right now we're to get one to three inches tonight
oh gee well
it's awful
i heard Aspen got three feet
oh yeah well we're yeah we are on the dry side of the mountain Seattle is only about two and a half hours so of course i'm a real Seahawks fan and um going over that pass is just a real nightmare
yeah
i can imagine my lord
and um so and we're on the colder side they're on the rainy side we're on the snowy side
yeah and um
we we ski my my children all ski and we we have been to Whistler in Canada which is just a marvelous place Whistler and Black Home
oh super
uh-huh
is in Canada and then we've gone to Sun Valley several times that's a just a great place
but no Colorado not in Colorado since i was in college because i went to school haven't been there i keep hearing these marvelous things about Deer Valley and um don't Adam um City
what about Utah
yeah i haven't either
i always wanted to go to Canada to Canada to Banff or somewhere like that you know
ooh yes and your kids all ski
uh not all of them my my kids are all grown uh but my youngest son is a skier
uh-huh
uh-huh
really that's great well my boys are at the point where they scare their mommy to death when they're skiing they're fearless and they go off
uh-huh
