My husband and I live in rainy Tacoma, Washington. We were both born and raised here...about four blocks from each other. We met when we were seniors in high school, and the second I saw him, I knew that was who I would marry! It turned out that we had been in the same schools since seventh grade, but had never met, even though he knew all my friends since junior high. Even funnier, our parents knew each other for twenty years before that!!
Enough of that....we will celebrate our 30th anniversary this December (going to Hawaii for three weeks!!). We have two grown daughters, both married. They have given us three grandchildren and a fourth will be born next March. Tyler is the oldest, at 10.5 years, and for 4.5 years, we had custody of him. He went back to live w/his mother and her husband two years ago, shortly after they married...the bad part is that he lives in Oregon, 262 miles away from me! Our other daughter is married to a man from Texas, who just got out of the Army two days ago. He was deployed to Iraq w/the Stryker Brigade for one year, and we were lucky to get him back. They have two daughters, both w/boy names, Ryan and Mel, ages 4.5 and 2.5....my husband says that the grandchildren are our reward for not killing the children!!!
I have been employed at the 911 center here since 1983, the majority of that as a dispatcher for the sheriff department. My voice has been on COPS several times. If you ever see that show and it says it's from Pierce County Washington, that would be here! My husband is employed in the computer field and is quite the guru.
Then there are the dogs!!! Cooper the cairn, and Yoda the schnoodle. We got Cooper shortly after Tyler moved away. He is now 2.5 years. A year later, we got Yoda, and he is now 1.5 years old. We felt at the time that Cooper needed a buddy, and after much thought, got Yoda...mainly because we were told he was quite laid back and would calm the cairn down!!! Ha ha....now we have a schnoodle who thinks he is a cairn!
When we are not home, we spend a lot of time at our lake place which is about an hour away. Quite often, you will find me out on the lake in my rowboat, either fishing or napping! My newest hobby is knitting....I just learned how this past January, and found it can be quite addicting. If anyone here is in search of a good website for that, check out knittinghelp.com. Other hobbies I have done in the past are crocheting (much easier than knitting!), woodwork/tole painting, and scrapbooking. I also enjoy the internet.....you can find almost anything there you ever wanted to know, or may want to know in the future.
That's about it......
pat.
Edited by bubba, 13 October 2005 - 10:31 AM.
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Although the lack of furniture has made it easier raising my dog.
