Not a movie buff.

First choice - Dixieland jazz; Big band sounds, Offenbach's Tales of Hoffman; the songs of Swainson's Warbler and Wood Thrushes

Still working on The Debate on the Constitution. In today's text messaging and speed reading, reading a book that has statements presented with sentences of 20 or more words and the punctuation required to keep them in disciplined order, takes time and attention. But this set is worth the effort.

Also reading Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss.

Blue, but enjoy all colors in flowers, rainbows, sunrises and sunsets

Fried green tomatoes, chicken fixed just about any way, fiddleheads; fish cooked over a campfire; roasted oysters; fresh baked bread; hot apple pie; a vine ripened tomato picked fresh and corn on the cob; fully ripened fresh picked fruits of all kinds - not the picked green for shipping stuff that is found in grocery stores.

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I grew up on my Grandparent's farm near Lake Erie. Here I learned to love gardening & animal care, cooking, canning,'putting-up' foods, needlework and all the important things that girls were expected to know 70+ years ago. Bob & I eloped in 1953 much to the ire of both families but 54 years later we've proved everyone wrong in their predictions. We had 2 children, Jeanne and Christopher. Bob started with the duPont Company but left it in order to work with a special minister who was building the nations first true retirement home for the aged (as opposed to a nursing home). I worked in a Tissue Culture research lab, and eventually took on the responsibilities of doing all the graphic arts & photography for the entire Biochemistry Research Dept. Currently we are both retired, Bob unfortunately is developing Alzheimer's in addition to COPD. Caring for him is what brought me to The Hill for R & R. Right now I am still active in our local Civic Assoc. plus volunteering at a museum of Natural History as a fossil preparator.

Gardening, Dixieland jazz, paranormal subjects, conversations with friends, my 4 cats, the aroma bread baking, a good laugh; camping; hiking in the woods especially along a little stream; the seashore along the Maine or Seattle coastlines

Grouchy, negative people; noise especially when it pretends to be "music"; foul language; gossips; hot weather; couch potatoes

Egg art, pen & ink or pencil drawings, photography, reading, paper crafts and needlework. The photo of the egg ornament is called Klondike and Snow, it won a First Prize in the painted egg category of an international egg art contest.
The phenology list that I've been working on for the past few years is finally in a more organized format. I callit my "When" list. For instance,in the Spring, when the first bumblebee is sighted, butterflies will be seen within 10 days; when the first butterfly is signted, expect humming birds to arrive within a week.