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Well, it's been good talking with you. But let me ask you this, since you use Texans, how much is it a month? Oh, shoot it's only about ten bucks a month. Now that's for individual. Yeah, I mean, uh, to add dependents is, is you know, maybe another dollar or something it's no big deal. That's it? Yeah. Now if you, if you pay your monthly charge, do you then pay separately for classes your taking? Uh, you do for classes, for classes, but to, I mean to use any of the facilities is, is no extra charge. God, that's cheap. Yeah, it is. That's really cheap. Do you have to be an active T I employee to join Texans or, Or a Or, or a or a dependent of one.
God, I am so dependent these days. Really. It's a sense Oh, seen that my, my co-dependents have turned on the hose and are getting my neighbor's fence. Wonderful. Yeah So my position for management to domestic goddess has been an adjustment but boy, I think I'm going to go contact Texans. I really think I am, Yeah. I mean, that beats any offer I've heard in a long time. Oh, yeah, it's great. Huh. All righty. When you're there on weekends is it crowded as hell? Uh, well, it would depend on when you go it's not, it's not excessively crowded on the weekends. See I'd want to be there in the mornings like from nine thirty to ten thirty Oh, I don't think that would be bad at all.
If you're in Richardson you'd probably wanted to come to the, to the Dallas site. Oh, I'm actually right on the Plano line. Oh, well, then you could go either one, Yeah. the Spring Creek one is a lot more modern, has a lot more niceties, amenities and you'd probably like the pool there. Oh, God it sounds like I would. I might do that then. Okay, I learned something here. Well, good. I'm glad. You can go back to work now. Well, thank you. Thank you. You have a good day. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Okay, um, I guess, um, this is probably really a good subject for me because I really like to do, uh, hand work.
Uh, mostly I do needlepoint, I guess. Oh really. But, um, What kinds of things have you done? Um, well, I've made a lot of baby gifts Uh-huh. It seem like that's, like, especially lately there's been so many babies, that, uh, bibs and blankets, and things like that. Wall hangings, um, Do you ever keep any of your stuff? Isn't that funny. No I do crochet and a lot of, uh, things like that, and I have very little of my own stuff, and it's kind of embarrassing. People say let me see some of your work. Oh well, can you do it ? Yeah, isn't that funny. I guess I do have one thing. A friend of mine gave me a clock kit
Ooh. and, I, I needlepointed the face, and I, uh, kept that because she gave me that. So, That, that would be definitely something you'd want to keep. Oh, yeah. And it's real neat. Was, was the whole face done or just the numbers, and, and, like minute marks? Um, basically, the whole, well, no, I guess the minute marks, but the minute marks are done, they're like hearts. Oh. And then the, at the numbers they, they're kind of outlined and stuff. It, it was quite bit of work, but, you know, it was a lot of fun, too. I really like doing stuff like that. So. I did some needlepoint years ago,
and then I got into the Bargello. Oh, what's that? Well, it's an Italian, um, needlework, using, using the uh, I started to say the canvas, but the, uh, huh, what kind of cloth uses that. I, I've just gone blank. But it's used with yarn, and it usually takes long stitches over two or three openings in the cloth Huh. and you weave intricate patterns and use different colors. Like it could be a flame stitch where so rather than drawing a picture you're making a design like a geometric or whatever, and it was used quite often in the colonial times to, uh, uh, to upholster chairs, and so forth, as well as the crewel, um, embroidery work that was done on them. Wow, that's interesting. What did you, what kind of things did you do? What I did, when I was doing that was mostly pillows, you know, for sofas and so forth, and I can't find one that I've done. Oh. It's one of those things I I didn't give them away,
but I didn't know if it's been my color choice or multiple moves or, or what, Yeah, and it, I was so proud of them when I got them finished, but I have no idea where they are. What did you call that? Bargello. It's B, A, R, G, E, double L, O out the Huh. That's, I've never heard of that before. I've probably seen it, though, I suspect you, I suspect you have. I mean, when you described it. Yeah. I mean, when you described it, it sounded like something, you know, that would be around, I guess. But, I've never heard of it before, and it's really interesting. Um, I guess I've decorated baskets and stuff before in the past, but I've kind of gotten out of that.
I use to do a lot more and sell at craft shows. Me, too. Really Yes That's interesting. Yeah, it is. How did you know to choose this subject, tonight. That's funny What, how did you, what kinds of decorations did you use with the how were you decorating the baskets? Oh, basically bows and lace uh, ribbons. Um. Um. I really wanted to do, you know, so many of them now have the ribbons where, I'm not sure how they do it, but the ribbons, they make them, they like. I don't know how to explain it. They make them hard, you know?
Like fabric that's been stiffened. Yeah. Yes. I've never done that, and those are so neat. I mean, I would really like to do those I've seen some, and there, there, they, I suspect they're fairly simple, because the one lady I've seen, I know that does it, I've never asked her any questions, but she has three kids all under the age of like six. And, and they're all a handful. So it's got to be something she can do fairly easily and fairly quickly. Oh, definitely, yeah. When I do, um, crochet, it's usually the lacy Victorian type things like that, Oh. and I stiffen those with a, a glue mixture. It's like white glue, and it may be something similar to that that the fabric is dipped in and then, um, allowed to dry in those, those draping bows, I mean, those draping streamers. I don't know. Oh.
I was just. There's bound to be some kind of fabric stiffener like that that's very similar that's not going to melt too much with, uh, uh, high humidity, in a room, Yeah. That's I think that's what my concern was, was it really sure, and how they would, how they would last. Do you know what my concern is? How will I dust this thing? You're right. That's terrible. No that's true. That's funny. So many of my crafts, well, right now I'm looking at a little quilted, uh, uh, hanging, it's, like, it's a flag, and I don't want to wash it, because that would start breaking down the batting and so forth, but it's such a dust collector to be out, and so forth. Yeah And most of my things are dust collectors Uh, and I hate to dust. I know.
So first thing I think of is how easy would this, thing be to clean. That's funny No, I do some, I have really gotten out of it. I don't do it quite as much as I used to. Um, I guess because I, I went back to school, so I don't have as much time. Oh, you don't have time. No, and I have two children also You definitely don't have time. It keeps me very busy. But I really enjoy it when I do do it, when I get the chance, you know. It's really, it's so relaxing to just sit, and, but once I get started, I can't put it down. I just, I have a similar problem. I've got to have time or I don't even want to get into it in the first place.
Uh-huh. Uh-huh. And so I end up lots of time not doing anything at all. I know, I started a project, it's been over a year ago that I swore I was going to finish for somebody for Christmas. You just didn't say which Christmas, right That's what I keep telling this person, well, I didn't tell you what year as if talking to other What was this project? Um, well, it's a, it's uh, cross stitch, and it's a picture, and it's a wildlife, it has deer and trees and, it's really beautiful, but it's going to be a lot of work, and you know, I've, I have worked on it quite a bit, but not as much as I'd like to. You know, it's just so hard. Now this is done in the needlepoint? Uh-huh. Well, I
it's counted cross stitch, actually, is what I'm doing, and so it's really, since it's counted, you know, it's really a lot of work. Yes. Yes, I do know. Yeah. I have done a little bit of that, but I decided that that's something that demands my my, my total attention. Uh-huh. And so I've got to have total, almost total silence. I can't really watch television if the pattern is very intricate. It sounds like you'd have lots of shading on that particular piece. Uh-huh. Yep. It is not, does not sound like an easy one to finish. No, it really isn't, and I tell you, really, I could just kick myself for even starting it, because I have a feeling I'm never going to get it done. I'm probably going to hear about it the rest of my life Oh, I'm sure you'll get it done,
but it just may not of the original, obviously not of the original time schedule. No, that's true. I, I just don't know when I'm ever, it just seems like there's just never enough time to pick it up and do it, you know, it's just really hard. But I really do like I said I really enjoy it when I do. It's just hard. Just hard finding the time that can be dedicated. Uh-huh. And there's, there's so many other things that, I, I have done, you know, in the meantime, like I said, so many baby gifts. I've made a lot of bibs, and wall hangings, and so, you know, those don't take much time at all. So it's no big deal for me to pick those up and do them. Do you, do you use patterns, I mean, like a book of patterns, or do you go out an buy a, a kit, like for a bib or something like that. No, I usually just buy a pattern book.
I have several pattern books, and I just go with those. Okay. And then I buy the bibs separate. Usually I think it's a little bit cheaper in the long run, and then I just use whatever colors I want to. I don't usually use the colors they tell me to. Um. And it, it depends on what it is, you know. But some things, especially letters, if they suggest certain colors for letters, I just go with whatever I want to. That's what I would do, too. Yeah, yeah. Or whatever I have. There's yeah, there's a few designs I guess I've done myself, but not very many. Real simple ones, you know, I do. I've made, I made a little, uh, little, uh, little thumb print and made it a bunny. Ooh. It was really easy. I mean, just, just did a thumb print. You know.
What. With ink? Uh-huh. Oh, okay. And then, see I didn't cross stitch the actual thumb print, you know, that was just the ink, and then I made the ears and little eyes and nose and mouth. That was so simple Oh, that sounds really neat. It didn't take anything at all. Did you do, did you use, like, uh, a stamp pad and ink. Uh-huh. And then I just, Ok so you, just like being finger printed ... Okay, so what kind of movies have you seen, lately, I guess? Um, a lot, well, the last movie I saw, but it wasn't my choice, was the NINJA TURTLE movie Obviously you have kids.
That's right. Yeah, but my preference is the one we saw before that was SILENCE OF THE LAMBS. I haven't seen that one yet. That's an excellent movie. Um, the last movie I saw was, uh, SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY. Oh, was that good. I heard, Uh, see, I'm not a big Julie Roberts fan. Oh, okay. But I was a lot, I was a lot more impressed with her than I thought I would be. Well, that's good. It turned out to be a better thriller than I was expecting it to be. Yeah. Yeah, it was a pretty good movie. SILENCE OF THE LAMBS kept me on the edge of my seat. I, I'm ready to go. It just, it's, you know, hasn't worked out that way yet.
Right. You know, it's, uh, it looks good, you know if you like thrillers, anyway. Yeah, it is. Right. And I do. In fact, people I've talked to said that they hadn't slept real good for a while afterwards. So Really. Oh, I love them like that. Yeah. I'm not, I mean, I, I like all ranges of movies, but I like that where they run tense. Uh-huh. I really enjoy, they keep me guessing the whole time. It's really, it was really interesting. Uh-huh. Well, what other movies have you seen then lately?
Oh. Other than the, I assume you were talking about the new NINJA TURTLES. Yes, the new one, of course Is that any good, I mean, I'm sure I'm going to be seeing it because in a week to Amarillo where my sister lives, and she's got two boys that I took to see the first one. Oh drawn So I'm sure I'm going to see the next one here real soon. Amarillo. I didn't see the first one. My husband said it was, um, about the same lines. Oh, well, then it won't be too bad. So, yeah. You know, it wasn't impressive necessarily, but it was better than it could have been. Right, right. And I was impressed with the fact that, um, it wasn't that childish. Yeah.
You know what I mean. It wasn't, my daughter's five, I mean she understood everything. She goes to almost all movies with us except, you know, R rated. And she really enjoyed it, but it was on a higher level, you know, where there were some things that kids didn't understand that adults did, and I liked that. Yeah, I think that's important if you're going, you know, if you're going, uh, kids are going to, uh, parents are going to have to go you ought to make it at least you know, semi for them too. Right. That's right, that's right. Yeah. It's pretty good. But we take her to just about every movie, and, she, uh, she does really good. We've taken her from real young, and she does real good. Like I said, we don't take her to R
Uh-huh. So, if and when we ever get a baby-sitter, like we did with SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, we go see it. I's about to say, you're not going to take her to that one, I'm sure. Oh, no, no. Do you take her, or do you go to a lot of comedy movies or to, Yeah, yeah. What was the last comedy you saw? of to Oh gosh what was the last comedy we saw? to regular Huh, huh, huh. Good question, good question. We don't get to go that often, but something on the tip of my tongue, and I can't think of which one it was. Uh. Gosh, I can't remember. The last, uh, in fact I guess this was the last movie I saw Uh-huh.
I said that wrong, the last movie I saw was THE HARD WAY with Michael J. Fox. But that, that sounds good. Well, that really wasn't too bad. There were, you know, he's supposed, you know, he's this actor, right Uh-huh. and he's playing a cop. Right. Or he's hanging around with a cop trying to pick up the stuff. I think he did an excellent job in not being too much of a cop. Oh, okay. I mean, there, there were times when he was, like, he'd be running with a gun or whatever. He didn't look like a cop when he did it. And I was so impressed with that because, you know, usually, That's neat. The part was hard, to do that. Oh yeah, because, I mean, everybody grows up looking at these cop movies and trying to, you know, to imitate them or whatever.
Right. And, uh, I thought he did such an excellent job of not going that far. Yeah, Now, by the end he was looking more like a cop. But at the beginning of the movie and all through the middle part, you know, he was trying to, trying to get it, Right. but he wasn't there yet. Right. And you could tell it, and I guess that I thought was a real good acting and writing job both, you know, because I think, or directing job. I think they did a real good job of that. Uh-huh. And James Woods, I think is who it was, did an excellent job as the cop. I mean, you know, he just, Yeah, I like him. Yeah, and there were, there were some definite, um, should I say, tense moments, with him in there. Probably the last comedy we saw, now that I think about it, is HOME ALONE. Yes, I, I, I had seen it before Christmas,
but I took a date to it, uh, about a month ago. So, I, I, I've seen it the second time not too long ago. So. It was really cute. I really enjoyed it. Of course, the bad thing about it was, uh, the second time I saw it, I didn't really enjoy it as much, and I was kind of surprised at that. I thought that would be one of those that I would love to watch over and over. Yeah. But before, maybe it's just the idea of my reaction to the first time. I had laughed so hard I was hoarse. Uh-huh, uh-huh. I really was, I was hoarse getting out of there. Yeah. And maybe I just laughed so hard the first time that I didn't have it, I mean, it just wasn't as funny the second time because I had just gone overboard the first time. Right. I don't know but,
Maybe so, maybe so. Yeah, I mean, it was, it was a great movie though. I loved the movie. Yeah, I did, too. I'm looking forward to this summer, uh, NAKED GUN TWO AND A HALF is coming out. I love those movies. I do too. I mean, they are just slapstick drawn out for Oh, yeah. It, you have to see those twice to catch everything. Well, you have to see them more than that. Yeah, yeah. I, I, I still catch things in AIRPLANE that I didn't catch. Yeah. I mean, it's amazing
I do too. I love those movies I do too. I really do. So I'm looking forward to seeing that because that looks hilarious, as they all do. Yeah. Oh yeah. Well, we we try to go a couple times a month, I guess to see a movie. Uh-huh. It, it's just getting so expensive. Oh, isn't it though. You know, but that's at least the good thing about the Texas organization letting you buy the tickets cheaper. But normally we don't think about it until, That's exactly what, I was going to say. I keep not doing it until after I'm there and then all of a sudden I'm saying I wish I'd bought these things. I know, because we can go spend fifteen dollars just getting in the three of us. Easily. Yeah, yeah,
And then if you want popcorn and stuff Yeah. I don't understand why they charge you out the kazoo for both. You know popcorn is not that expensive. No, nowhere near that expensive. So they get you at the ticket booth and then try and get you at the popcorn and coke. And, it, it's just the idea that these, uh, these actors, you know, live in such lavish style. I mean, it's as simple as that. Yeah. We just keep breeding them. Yeah, and as long as we keep paying the money for it, they are going to keep paying them. I guess so. Now have you seen DANCES WITH WOLVES? Yes. Oh yeah. Oh, that was, that was an excellent movie. I haven't seen, we're waiting for the video.
No, don't. No, really? Don't. That needs the big screen. Oh. It really and truly does, because to get the feeling of like when the buffalos are, when they're chasing the buffalos and everything you've got to be where you feel it. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Oh really? You really truly do. Oh. I would, I mean, I guess my first instinct was to wait for the video, too. But I'm glad I didn't. I really and truly am. I mean, that that was one movie I came out impressed. Uh-huh. I really and truly did.
I mean, I have absolutely no problems with them winning seven Oscars. None at all. Right. Normally I'm one of these people that I don't like one, one movie taking all the honors. yeah, yeah. I wanted him to win best actor on top of it, he was, Yeah, oh. Like I said, I wouldn't given the supporting actresses either one. Yeah. But even though they were okay, the girl in it, they, somebody made an interesting observation, now that I think back on it, I'd say yeah, I can't believe that either. She was the only indian to have her hair done at all times. You know what I mean, you know. It was just too perfect at all times. Yeah. That was a mistake that they made.
They shouldn't have done it. Yeah. Now the best, the supporting actor, he was good, but from what I heard, the guy who got it was better, so I, you know, I can see that. Yeah. But, oh, You think my daughter would like it? Oh, well there are, there is one spot that was just a little bit on the gory side. Oh, okay. But, um, it's it's She doesn't mind when we cover up her eyes. Okay, no problems It, it's just the idea that there is this one spot where the white man has come by and killed a bunch a buffalo and just stripped its hide, the hides. So there's, See, that's the one, that is the honest to God the one reason I don't want to see the movie is because I love buffalos for some weird reason, Yeah, but, well, And, and, of course,
and I know they're fake. and, well, yeah, that, and plus, I mean part of it is the idea that he goes with them on a buffalo hunt. So, I mean, they are killing buffalos in it. But they don't stress that very much, they really don't. Okay, okay. And I think it's an excellent movie for, if, if she enjoys movies I think it'll work pretty good. Oh, that'll be good. We really need some, my husband keeps wanting to. It's, it's, it's a long movie. Yeah, and I heard the video's even going to be longer. Oh yeah. They did a lot of stuff that they cut out. I may have to see the video. Yeah,
that's true, they said, I hadn't even thought of that. Yeah, they said there's a lot that had been edited, because of the length and that they wanted in, Uh-huh. so they're going to put it in the video. Yeah. And that way you can watch it at your leisure. Well, yeah, I kind of like it when they do that, because the video, like I said, there are certain things you can't do with a video Yeah. and the idea that they may put a little extra in it I think is a good idea. Yeah, yeah. Because I mean when you rent a video, videos, of course, are not cheap either True. and so the idea of getting a little extra with it I think is a good idea. Because they, they make bundles of money off those things.
I know it Isn't that ridiculous. We have cable which helps a lot Oh, I do too. Yeah, but not enough. Yeah, we keep holding out, you know. Yeah I'm getting to the point where, you know, I watch, well I watch NICK AT NIGHT. Okay, do you have Are you there? Yeah. Okay There, okay. Okay. Had to mess with my phone here. Um, do you have children? Yes,
I have one. Oh, okay. How about you? I have three. Oh, my goodness Yeah Yeah, uh, do you work? Yeah, I do. Okay. I do, I work and, and, uh, Brian's in a day care center. He's uh, he was two in December, Oh. so he's not quite two and a half yet. Uh-huh. He, uh, I put him,
I'm kind of had different, different ideas from what probably the majority of people have, Uh-huh. I put him in a day care center from the very beginning. He started in day care when he was eight weeks old. Oh, no kidding. And I just, I don't know, I have kind of the opposite opinion of most people, Really. I have had this real problem with a, a private individual. I mean I, I kind of looked at it like if you take him to a home with a, with private individual, when the door shuts, that one person has total control, Yeah. Yeah. and I always figured at least in a day care center there are other people around, Yeah. and if you get one bad apple, there's are at least other people that can see it. Yeah. They can watch, and I just kind of always felt that the chances of something happening were less. Yeah,
yeah. Uh-huh. Because there's, You know, how can you help depending on the day care center, you know, Yeah. you got to when you hear about all the horrible things that happen in day care centers, have you ever noticed they're always like a family owned center where the mother and the daughter and the son run it, you know, kind of thing. It's like a family thing. Yeah, yeah. You never hear about it really in the big ones. Yeah. So, that's what I did and I have had just excellent luck. Oh, good. I have been just so happy. He's, Oh, good. I was just going to ask you how it, you know, if you liked the, the, but obviously you do or you wouldn't have him there, I know,
but, Right. Right. Well he was in, he was in the same center for two years, for the first two years, Uh-huh. and, uh, it was wonderful, and I loved it, and I was so happy there and the woman who owned it sold it. Oh, gosh. But, I thought okay, I'm going to keep an open mind here, Right. and the people who came in, it just wasn't, it, just wasn't the same Wasn't the same. and their, their attitude and philosophy was just completely, opposite from mine, Uh-huh. Uh-huh. and I left him there for about a month and just decided I can't do this anymore, and I, moved him, which was an extremely traumatic experience Yeah.
but. but, he's done well, Was it? Yeah. he's been there, a couple of months now, Good. and I just feel so lucky. Oh, good. Yeah. That's great, that's good. How about you? Do you work or do you get to stay home with them? Well, I got to stay home with my kids for the first ten years. My oldest one is ten and a half now, or she's, I guess, Wonderful. yeah, it's, was about ten years. So I, yeah, I, I was really happy that I was able to do that.
But, I, that's what I wanted to, because I, uh, you know I just couldn't wait to have kids and so, if I was, I was so anxious to have them and I couldn't wait to have them it would be kind of silly, you know, to go back to work as soon as I had them, so, Right. Right. so, it, it, it, it was really great. By the end of the ten years I was really ready to go back to work, Yeah. I bet and my youngest was only, uh, two and a half Uh-huh. I mean she was already two and a half, Uh-huh. so it wasn't, you know, she wasn't an infant. A baby. Yeah. Yeah
Yeah. Yeah, so, I felt real good about that, but, uh, boy, I tell you with summer coming up I'm just pulling my hair out, in terms of what I'm going to do, I, I guess I, went back to work about a year and a half ago and, uh, I worked full time all last year and now I'm going to school part time and, uh, graduate school, and I'm working part time And, so I'm still, I know how that goes Yeah. I'm still going full time, but I only have half time salary, Yeah. and, uh, when school lets out, I just don't, I haven't, I have no idea what I'm going to do, because I certainly can't afford what we did last year which was, Right, right. Did you have them in a center or something last summer? Well, we did, we tried, we had all different things,
we sent them to camp. One, first month, in June, they went to summer school, then the second month they, uh, one, my daughter went home to visit my Mom for a while and my son, uh, went to camp and there we had, uh, I don't know some, forget what else we did but it was all, uh, really expensive Yeah, that stuff is expensive. It really is. So, now they're a year older, and I, my daughter's eleven, going to be eleven this summer and my son will be, nine and a half. And so, I'm not, I think I can leave them home, for a, if I can work part of the day, you know, I'm going to leave them home. Yeah,
yeah. I was going to say they're getting to the age where, you should be able to trust that a little bit, Right. yeah. Yeah. Yes, in fact I'm doing that right now with their afternoons, when they get home before I do. You know, that's okay. But, the four year old now I I have had her since I went back to work, or before I went back to work really, in a home day care situation, Uh-huh. and, uh, we've just been really thrilled, with it too. We were what, actually we, it took us two or three different people to find, To find the right one, Yeah. that's what we have to do though. Right. But, I wasn't embarrassed to shop around you know, No.
so, the, the person we found it through the, there's an association here in town of professional home, care providers or something like that. Where do, where do you live? In Plano. Plano? Yeah, and they have a number you can call and all these people are registered with their association and, you know, go like our, our, uh, I don't want to call her a baby-sitter, she's doesn't like, to be called that, care provider. Care provider. Right. She goes to seminars and, uh, Oh, that's wonderful. she gets home visitations by the I don't know, the state boards, I guess, some of them and then some by the association, and they have weekly meetings and everything and, so it's just really, really well regulated.
That's great. And, she's just great. In fact, uh, she's all upset because Galen is going to go to kindergarten next fall and she says this is it, you know, I'm not going to have her anymore and I said, Oh, no, don't count on that After noon classes she's going to be here because she's going to morning kindergarten. Right, right. So, but, we, we've tried, we've tried everything and one year, I guess last year when I went back to work I had my son was eight at the time, just barely eight, and, uh, we put him in Amrein's Day Care, after. After, Uh-huh, I've heard that, they were very good. Well, that's why we picked it, because they were, were supposed to be real great, and, you know, I think they were fine, but the thing is he was in school all day, in second grade, Uh-huh. in, in Plano, it's open classroom situation where they don't have walls,
Uh-huh. so there is like a hundred and twenty second graders in the same area with no walls. Oh. And, uh, and then he'd get on the Amrein's Bus to go to Amrein's and then there would be a whole ton of other kids, all in the same room, you know, Yeah. you know what fun they had with these computer games and then they'd go outside for awhile, they had snacks and story time and everything. But, it was just like going to school until five thirty at night instead of being able to get home at two thirty. Poor kid was in school all day. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Because he was always around with a crowd of kids and he just really missed being able to be by himself, and having some peace and quiet Uh-huh. or, you know. Uh-huh. Even at that age they need that time, Yes.
we all need that time, just some quiet time to wind down from the day. Yeah. Right. That's exactly it. So, another thing that we tried to do, I, I know your son's too young right now, but we're trying, we tried to sign him up for after school scouts and, stuff like that Yeah, yeah. and, I think that's really important, Yeah. and we've already started about, you know, I mean, how young can they start T-Ball and soccer? Right You know, I mean, I just, you know, we both think of that that as just so important, to get him involved in stuff like that It is. and, you could hardly wait, It is.
And, I mean, he's, he's so much fun now, Yeah. he's really, he's really starting to get lots of fun and I can't wait until stuff like that starts happening I bet, yeah. you know, and, you know, we did the Easter egg hunts, which was really the first year he was really able to Uh-huh. understand. and to know what we know what he was doing you know, and enjoy it, Yeah. and it was so much fun and gosh he went a couple of weekends ago and rode an elephant and, God he got up on this elephant all by himself Oh, my gosh. You're kidding. and Lord, I couldn't believe it. You're kidding. They had so much fun.
Oh, that's great. I bought us tickets and stood there in line and I thought, I'm going to end up on this elephant with him you know, He did it by himself, Well, good for him. so stuff like that is starting to come along where it's really, getting fun, you know. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Yeah. Day care has just done just incredible stuff with him and he like comes home with something new everyday, you know and so, I know, I know they're working with him Well, that's great. That's so good. and he's excited to get there in the morning, and just doesn't even want to kiss me good-bye. Uh-huh. It's just like bye, and he goes running, you know, He's out of there. and he's always having fun when I pick him up
so, you know. Yeah, this, this day care is, is, Uh-huh. it's Bright Steps in Lewisville. And, Uh-huh. whenever you say Bright Steps, everybody goes, oh, I've heard that's the best day care in town, you know, Yeah? Good. and it's, it's one of those that's very hard to get into. Uh-huh. and they have, this, this, this woman owns three day cares, two in Lewisville and one in Irving. Uh-huh. and she had to open the second one up in Lewisville because, her waiting list was just like, you know, like a year old, Uh-huh. it was ridiculous. Oh, my gosh. And, she's got two day cares within like three blocks of each other. No kidding. Yes,
so its, She knows something right, that she and, She knows what she's doing, all the teachers, like about half the teachers are degreed teachers. Yeah, that makes such a difference. Oh, it makes a huge difference. That's the way it is at my daughter's nursery school too. Uh-huh. And I think that really makes a difference. Yeah. They're in it because it's a profession, not because it's a job they could get because they didn't qualify for anything else, you know . That's right. That's right. That's right. And, his old day care as much as I loved it, you know, Uh-huh. and the owner, I really liked her and she worked really hard to get good people,
but the people that she got were there because they weren't qualified to do anything else you know. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Right. And, and I got lucky and all of his teachers were, very good. Because, because, Right. Some, sometimes that's fine, that's great, you know. Yeah, but then sometimes, you know, Sometimes it isn't. You just have to. Yeah. Well, is it real expensive then? Um, it just went up the first of this month. I'm paying, uh, seventy nine dollars a week for now. Uh-huh. So,
Wow. It's a little high, Yeah. but, but it's, you know, it's like where he was before I was only paying sixty three, so there's quite a little jump there, Right. Right. but, I looked all over Lewisville, I looked in every day care there was in Lewisville, Uh-huh. and, you know, and there were places that were cheaper, Uh-huh. but is it, No. you know, your peace of mind is worth a little bit of money, you know, Yeah. and I have peace of mind, where he is Uh-huh. and some of those other places I wouldn't have. That's exactly it.
See, we do the same thing, since Galen goes to nursery school, we pay our, our home care provider, for our day care provider, full time for a whole week, but she, she's gone three mornings. Galen just doesn't go there three mornings a week. Yeah, yeah. But, I said to her, I said, you know, it doesn't matter if for whatever when school holidays come around, I used to have such a problem with that. Uh-huh. They wouldn't have anything to do. I'd either have to Okay. Well, have you ever, uh, had a family reunion? Yes, Oh. and, uh, let me tell you this is a really neat thing to do too, that they did, I didn't do it. Some of the other people, the older people organized it. Uh-huh.
And, what they did, they had, uh, a book made up and it was like, when our ancestors first came over. Oh. No kidding. And, then what they did was they asked every family to write something about their family. And, like, how many kids you had, and who you had married, Huh. and, you know, it went through like, and it showed who my, uh, well, who my husband's parents were, you know. And, who he married and then how many children we had and then like his brothers and sisters Uh-huh and it went through the whole family and stuff. Oh, that's so neat. And, it was so good. Oh, great Yeah. But it, it really did, you know, and plus it's got a lot more people interested in it because, you got to participate sort of. Uh-huh. Yeah. So, so did everybody send in their information and they made a book up, about it, Right.
Uh-huh. and then you could get it at the reunion. Right. And, everybody got a book, that came to the reunion. Oh, nice. And, it told like, uh, you know, where the first Connallys came over, Uh-huh. Uh-huh. and, um, it told what happened when they got there and how many kids they had and it just kept coming on up through the generations. Wow. So, it was really, that was really neat. That is neat. And, So, do you have a big family? Well, he does Oh, he does? Yeah He does, I don't.
But, uh, he has enough relatives to make up for me not having any That's kind of how my husband and I are. I have a kind of a big family and he just has himself and his brother and his parents, Uh-huh. and that's it. So, he had to kind of get used to us when we first started going together. Yeah. That's what, that's what happened when I, when I first, uh, met my husband. I said, this can't be, you know, nobody can have this many relatives, because a lot of them lived in like a group, you know, down one highway. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. And, there was a lake, and they all lived down there by it. Oh, how nice. And, so, we were going down, the highway, you know, and he kept saying, this is where my uncle lives and this is where my aunt lives and my uncle,
Oh, my gosh. and I kept thinking, this guy is putting me on. Nobody has this many relatives, you know Yeah. So, but, they really were all there. How funny. And, another thing that's really good about, uh, family reunions, is having everybody just cook whatever is their specialty, and bring it. At, because nobody it seemed like, liked the same thing. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Oh. But you had a choice and then you got to taste a lot of new dishes and stuff too, and get a lot of good recipes. Yeah. Yeah. Where if you said a certain thing and say, okay, we're all going to have fried fish, or, we're all going, to have fried chicken. Yeah. Yeah. Everybody might not like that. Not be able to do it.
So, did people come like from out of town to the reunion or, Oh, yeah. Yeah, They did. they came from all over. Did you put them up in other people's houses or did you have hotel rooms, or, how did you do it? Um, they just stayed with different ones of them. They did. Uh-huh. They just came down and like say, okay, this aunt and Uncle Kip, uh, all their kids and their grand kids and everything, and then, they had it. Uh-huh It had gotten so big that they had it at the church. Oh, really? And, they had a church service ahead of it, you know, and then they had, uh, uh, then they ate out on the ground. How nice.
And they just brought food with them? Uh-huh. Did they just have like over a weekend? Is that how they did it? Yeah. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Well, I'm real curious because my family, it didn't sound, I don't think my family is as big as your husband's. I don't think we'd need a whole church, but, um, the problem is we are all really scattered, around. There isn't any one place where most of us live, so if we ever had a reunion, we'd kind of all have to stay in a hotel. I mean, you know, there would be one person who lived there that would have a house, but they couldn't put everybody up. So it, I think it would get kind of expensive. But, you know what you can do? Huh? A lot of these lakes and things, if you could find a centrally located, like, say about the same distance for all of you all to come?
Uh-huh. They have these places where you can rent them and it, you know, like on a lake, Uh-huh. like, uh, it's a big place, I mean, you know, it's got little rooms that separate off of it and stuff, Uh-huh. Uh-huh. and, it's not very expensive that way. Oh, you mean so, oh, I see, so everybody could stay together? Right. It's like a, they have like a, a convention type thing. Yeah. a house or something. Uh-huh. And, then it has little rooms off of it where, you know, you'd go and sleep at night time. Oh!
But, then it has like a kitchenette and things like that but you, See, that would be great because then you could spend so much more time together, than if you all were in your own hotels or something. Right. And another, And then, every time you wanted to go eat with somebody, you'd probably have to go to out, eat or something. It would run into a lot of money. So, Yeah. But, they had, that was, you know, that, That sounds like fun. what you can do is, you can write different places, the Chamber of Commerce, tell them what you're interested in. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Ask them what they have, you know, at area lakes and all. If they have something like that Uh-huh. Yeah. because now every time we plan anything, just about, we write to the Chamber of Commerce of where we're going because, you can find out so much easier, that way, than try to locate it, you know,
Uh-huh. You get a, Yeah. calling different places can really run you up a bill. Yeah. But, if you can find a centrally located place where everybody would have to come about the same distance, I mean, you can't get it exact, you know, usually, Oh, yeah. but, uh, and then everybody goes to that place. And that is not bad at all. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. But, they have, lot of times they'll have like, uh, little cabins, Uh-huh. and three or four or five families can stay in those cabins because they have, you know, just the single bunk beds and stuff. Uh-huh. And, they can all stay in those cabins. And then, you know, you can have cookouts and stuff like that that doesn't cost you as much. That would be great.
That would be really nice Yeah. But, that's, uh, you know, that's the best way I found, because whenever you have, something where you go and, Yeah. That sounds good. now we had one, this was before I lost a lot more of my family, but it wasn't any of my immediate family anyway. Because I didn't have any of them left. Uh-huh. But, um they had, uh, uh, thing where you could, everybody could come and meet and go out to eat. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. But, I didn't think that was as good. Because, it was like, you know, you couldn't really talk and stuff, like you could when, you were at the lake, or somewhere, you know, where you were out. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Right. This was like everybody came into town and went to this restaurant. And you have to sit at a table and just,
yeah, Yeah. And, it just, I didn't like that much. Well, um, did you, was it hard to decide who to invite and who not to invite. I mean, did you have to draw a line, or did the people that had that reunion have to draw a line? No. Like, they just whoever wanted to come. What they did was, Well, see what they did was, okay, they, uh, they wrote to all the initial people, you know, the, the oldest ones. Uh-huh. Right. Okay, then those in turn got a hold of these other ones. Uh-huh. And they had like, I think there was four or five different people, that would call, you know, some of them, if they didn't have their addresses and all on them, Uh-huh.
Uh-huh. and, you know, they told them that what we had to do was when we sent back in our information, we had to tell them how many people were going to be coming, you know. Yeah. Right. And then, when they, when they talked to us or when they sent us the letter, it, uh, you know, to get the information and all, it asked, you know, will you be willing to bring Uh-huh. and you had to check off what all you would be willing to bring. Oh, I see. And, so, really there wasn't any problem with, that's the reason it ended up in a church because, I mean, there was just so many of them. yeah, yeah. But, it turned out so much better like that. Because everybody knew, they knew ahead of time how many people to expect. Yeah. Right. Now if there was a sickness or something like that, I mean, you know, you're not going to lose that many. Sure. Sure. No that would just be a few. Right.
But how about like because of divorce and stuff like that? Like my parents are divorced, Okay well, and they are both remarried and, you know, there, I mean, there's, I don't know. Well, see, then okay, if you wanted them both to come, then you would put, you would have put that down on the list Yeah. and you would have sent, you would have been the one that sent their invitation to them, and ask for their information. Yeah. Yeah. So then, To send back to those other people. I, I'm kind of like, in control over who comes. Uh, just from my family. Right. Because once it went to the, the oldest people and then they knew who they wanted to invite, Yeah. then, they sent their little things to us.
Yeah. Okay, it was up to me, who I was going to, you know, whether I wanted my kids and, you know, my, any of my family to come. Uh-huh. Right. Right. I see. So, I see, that's a pretty good idea to do it that way. And then, you know, it never did, like if I didn't want somebody to come, then I just wouldn't send them one of the questionnaires. Uh-huh. So there really wasn't a problem that way. Right, right, right. Well, that's a real good idea. Well, Yeah.
but, I tell you what, that's the neatest book we've got, I bet. course we've got, we've still got it and they charged us, I think it was like, it was like five or six dollars, I can't remember exactly, you know, that we paid for the book to be printed. Uh-huh. Yeah. Yeah. and it's not, uh, it's not a hard back book, it's just a, oh, like a, you know, folder type thing. Uh-huh. But it has the entire, you know, it has everybody that you could ever imagine, and some you couldn't How neat. Yeah, I know, that's really neat. That's really neat. and, it will be something my kids will have, you know. Just like, I was just thinking of that. What you could tell your kids. yeah. Because if you stop and think,
I don't know if you're like me, but I know very little about before my grandparents. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. I mean, very, very little about it. I just, the thing is I know a lot of stories, but I can't remember who it was about. My grandparents told us when I was growing up and even when I was an adult they still tell all kinds of stories about their parents and their cousins and their best friends, cause they all grew up in New York City, but I can't, you know, I remember these stories but I have no idea who it was that was in those stories. Yeah. So, I mean, I couldn't give an accurate, I couldn't tell my kids what, you know, those people were like, I just remember they had some funny stories, but I don't know who it was. Maybe what you could do if you couldn't get into a full family reunion, and you wanted to go back some, Uh-huh. but then usually when you find out some information from like your parents, then you can find out from, you know, you can find somebody else that can tell you something else about these,
Yeah Okay. All right. What, uh, what kind of camping is there in Texas? Well, there, there are quite a few, um, parks, I guess, state parks, and there's a couple of national parks, I guess, that you can camp at. Uh-huh. Um, most of them have pretty good facilities. I don't know if the camping that I've done is really roughing it without a, a whole lot of stuff. Yeah. So, you do, uh, like backpacking and the like? Uh, done a little bit of that, mainly just, um, like camping out at the state parks, I've been to a couple in Texas and there's some real nice ones in Arkansas. Uh-huh. Um, I think Arkansas has one of the best parks departments around. Huh. Is the Ozarks in Arkansas? Uh-huh. Yeah,
part of them are. Yeah, so, that's probably a pretty nice place to go Yeah, they've got, uh, real nice lake system, and, around their parks. One of them, uh, the gray , I think that's one of the ones we've been to, it's real nice there, a bunch of lakes around it, there's a golf course and, um, just a whole bunch of camping sites. Yeah. What about you, where have you, uh, Oh, I've been camping for years, not on a regular basis but, uh, I first started camping out in the desert in California. And then sometimes in the mountains also in California Uh-huh. and, uh, then I moved to North Carolina and I, I didn't camp for a long time, and then I started to, uh, go camping again kind of in conjunction with white water rafting, so, I'd go up somewhere and camp overnight and then do some rafting. Uh-huh. And then maybe camp another night and drive home. And that was, uh, that was pretty good
so, I went out and bought a whole bunch of camping gear and, uh, you know, I still do it once in a while. Yeah, I think we've collected stuff off and on over the years. The more times we did it, the more serious we get about it. Uh-huh. Yeah. Where, where is Raleigh, in North Carolina? Uh, well, it's, it's, uh, in terms of north, south I would say it's, uh, a little, a little more towards the northern border of the state and pretty much in the eastern half of it. Okay. So what Are you kind of away from the Blue Ridge Mountains, Well, it, it's, uh, an area. actually the, the Blue Ridge in Virginia are closer to Raleigh. They're about three hours away if you go due north. Uh-huh. Um, of the Blue Ridge in North Carolina I think are much nicer and you can pick those up going west,
but then you're talking about six to eight hours. Yeah. The way it works. But, um, it's a real, it's a real nice place to go and camp, and there's some pretty decent campgrounds although , I don't think Raleigh, I don't think the state of North Carolina takes, they probably just don't spend as much money as a lot of other states might. Uh-huh. Yeah, my wife's from the western part of Virginia, we've been down the parkway a lot, but I didn't know how much, how much camping areas there were along there. I think there's quite a few. I can't say I've checked them all out though. What, what's it like camping in the desert and California, that seems, like a challenge. It's, uh, it's actually kind of incredible, it's really, really nice. Um, I like it better than almost anything I've ever done. Just the sky is so amazing. You know, you really can probably count thousands of stars,
Uh-huh. and, uh, it's, it's just kind of nice. I like the, uh, I think the desert has a rare kind of beauty which, uh, a lot of people don't realize, you know, they hear desert and they think of scorpions and snakes and sand and being real dry, and lack of water, course it, it has all of those qualities but it also has a certain quality of beauty that you just don't find anyway else except in a desert. Uh-huh. So, it's pretty nice. The, uh, the movie, THE DOORS, has some nice desert scenes, those guys all go camping out in the desert. Yeah. Of course, they drag a lot of drugs with them but, um, the, uh, the shots are, are pretty nice and it's sort of like that, I mean, it's just almost surreal, in some places. Huh. It's very pleasant. Are the temperatures real extreme there
or the, the, They can be, yeah. I mean, you got to, you sort of have to choose your season carefully and know what's going to happen. Uh-huh. I've been camping in Death Valley, one doesn't go in July Yeah, true. But it's beautiful in February. Yeah. I mean, it's just beautiful. The days, get up into the high eighties, uh, maybe the nineties but it's, it's quite bearable and then the nights are reasonably warm, you know, sixties or seventies. It's just great. It's really very nice. Yeah, we've talked about planning a trip up through, um, I have a sister-in-law that lives in New Mexico, up through New Mexico and into Colorado and the Grand Canyon area.
I don't know, don't know when I'm going to get a chance to do that but, Yeah. Well, that would be, that would be pretty nice. I've been, I have been camping on the south rim the Grand Canyon. That's okay. A lot of people like to go down and camp down inside, I was just too lazy that trip to do all that walking, especially with my gear. Uh-huh. I'll bet . That one, one thing you said about the stars is really true it's, when you're close to a big city like Dallas, the, the lights kind of wash, wash off the star Oh, yeah. so it's nice to, to get away. It's just amazing, how, how much you miss. Yeah, it, Yeah, it,
yeah, it really is. I mean, I don't think I ever see the Little Dipper, you hear people talk about the Little Dipper. Huh Uh-huh. But I don't think I ever see it except when I go get out of the city and go camping in the desert or in, in the mountains. Otherwise it's just too faint Well, I guess we've talked as much as we need to on the subject. Yeah, I think we fulfilled our obligation. Well, thanks for calling, nice talking to you. Yeah, it was good talking to you Robert . Okay, bye-bye. Bye-bye. Well, Stephanie, what's your position on gun control? Well, on a scale of one to ten, uh, being ten, no, kind of legislation and zero being, uh, total ban, I probably would lean more towards six or seven. Um, I feel like a total ban on guns is just going to put the guns in the hands the criminals.
Uh-huh. Um, I lived in Massachusetts for two years and they have a total ban on guns and I saw that, it didn't stop crime in that state. Now was that just on handguns or was that on rifles? Any, any kind of firearms. Really? Yeah. Uh, it's, there's was a mandatory jail sentence if you were caught, um, with a firearm and also I think there was a fine. And that didn't help at all? No, I don't, the, the crime is not any better or any worse, I mean it's, Huh. I, I shouldn't say I don't know if it was any worse, but it certainly didn't get any better. Uh-huh.
I usually just, I'm trying to think of, I guess I would tend myself to be more towards the, the, like three, where I don't think you should necessarily ban guns any, by any means, Uh-huh. but you should definitely have the character search and the seven day holding period and things along that nature, uh, you know, you shouldn't be able to go out there and just buy one and, you know, right off the shelf. Yeah, I, I, I agree with that. And but, I, I think that the, the law is on who can buy a gun are, are way too lax. Uh-huh, exactly. I think that, I think that the, And, so, I think that kind of control is, would be good, Yeah. but the, uh, I, you know, I'm trying to think of how many times you make the statement and, just to kind of exam it a little bit and I, I know that any statement in absoluteness is not necessarily true, uh, only the guns were in the hands of the criminals, but how many times,
I guess I have never heard of a, a robbery being foiled or spoiled because the person who's being robbed had a gun. Um, I, And maybe they just don't report those or I'm not sure or, you know, I can't think of ever hearing on the news or whatnot or hearing or knowing anybody who was being robbed but good thing they had their gun on them and they, they thwarted the robbery attempt. Yeah, I, I'm, I'm not really sure, I don't, personally I don't own a gun, Uh-huh. um, and I don't think I probably ever would, um, although I would like to know how to handle one, and I think it's good that and I think everybody should learn how to handle one. Uh-huh. Um, you just never know when you might come into contact with one. True. Um, Did, did you, were you brought up in a family that hunted or, No.
Uh, nobody in my family hunted, uh, my father had, had guns when I was in high school because he got them from a friend who lived in Massachusetts We lived in New Hampshire at the time. How about that. And he lived in Massachusetts and had to get rid of all his guns, Huh. so we ended up, uh, with these guns, Uh-huh. and my, really my only experience with a gun was shooting a pistol and not knowing how to hold it right and the hammer came back and hit me in the thumb and blood squirted everywhere. Oh, jeez. And so that was really the only experience that I've had with guns and it, it kind of scared me. Right. Uh-huh. But I think that if I learn how to use one, I would, I would feel better. Right. I've also always thought about the idea, you know, most sports, you know, which are the N R A and people have their thing, you know, if you ban guns, you're just banning the, the recreation, the sport of hunting, things of that nature. Most of that's done with rifles and such. Uh, though there's, you know, probably I'm sure some sector that does it with handguns.
But just by the mere fact of outlawing handguns, would make it so that it would be not as conspicuous, you couldn't be inconspicuous, when you walked into a store stuff like that, Yeah. you could see someone coming or dressed inappropriately, you know, if they had to have a rifle or was, you know, made it more difficult to get a, a, uh, a handgun. Now of course, you know, in this world anytime you've freedom you can be able to get anything you want. Yeah, that's true. But I guess to make it more difficult for the person who's just so irate and upset and, you know, temporarily a little bit, uh, offset or off keel, I don't know if that's a large percentage of, uh, crime or not but I guess it would be some. But I, I think definitely, like today they just introduced the, what's called the Brady bill. The seven day mandatory waiting period, on getting any guns. Uh-huh. And I think that, Shoot that's a good idea. I would definitely support that. Yeah. I, I, I agree the thing that scares me, uh, though about where I would, I would definitely want some sort of legislation and coming from the north east, I'm just not used to seeing, um, these,
and I, I know this may sound kind of stereo typical but the cowboys with the gun racks in the back of their trucks. That's kind of scary to me Oh, sure. that kind of, to me it is more like vigilantism . Uh-huh. You know, and it kind of scares me especially with all the shootings that have been going on, in L A, on the freeways, Right. Yeah, that's crazy . and then you come here in, in the Dallas area, um, I don't, I don't believe that people should be allowed to carry guns in their vehicles. Um, especially not in the back window, for everybody to see. Yeah, that's kind of, kind of wild. Uh-huh. That is kind of wild. Well, that's all very interesting Well, thanks for talking. Sure you're welcome. Good-bye. Okay,
bye-bye. There we go. Right. Well, actually I'm a, I'm a Dodgers fan from way back. Oh Um, how way back, I mean Like, um, late fifties, early sixties. Okay so Wally Moon moon shots and all that. What's that? Yeah, coliseum, Wally Moon and all that. Yeah. Okay, yeah, it's a, um, I, I'm living in, just west of Baltimore, and Frederick, um, which is also just west of Baltimore, has a minor league team. And, uh, and, Wally Moon is the manager of them. Is that right?
Yeah, so he's still kicking around. That's interesting. Yeah, I, I also lived eight years in Ohio before going to, uh, going away to college, and I used to go watch the Toledo Mudhens. Oh, I saw them, um, um, I was out there last Summer, and I saw a game at Ned Skelton. Is that the stadium? Uh, I couldn't tell you for sure. It's been a long time. Oh, okay. So, um, there used to be a, uh, race track. Uh-huh. Yeah, it was, that was impression I got when I was there so, Yeah,
I think that's right. Okay, yeah, so had a lot of fun actually, I mean, I like minor league baseball, a lot. It's cheaper for one thing Well, that's true. I think, I've kind of become a Rangers fan over the last eleven years since I've been here. Uh, they've led the American league in batting, fielding and pitching, but they've never been able to do more than one of those in any, any given year. So. Yes I think they're in for a odd year this year, actually, um, they, um, I don't understand why Encovilla got released. I don't either. I mean, the guy's twenty, twenty-five home rums, maybe thirty, eighty some R B I-s. I mean, he, you know, he can't field and, you know, he strikes out a lot, but, I mean, he's done that for five years.
Why get rid of him now? Really, I mean, he really has become a, a very decent fielder. Oh, yes. Okay. He's not a, the liability that he was, that he used to be. Oh, okay. Um. Oh, he fits right in with Texas bunch of guys, I mean with Detroit, bunch of guys that hit home runs and strike out a lot. Yeah, of course, get a guy like Cecil Fielder, you know, if he strikes out a lot, so what. Yeah, well, I mean, with Detroit, I mean, they can get away with one guy like that. I mean, if I, if I were in Detroit, I would start building the team around Fielder. Oh, yeah. But that doesn't mean get three other guys who hit, all they can do is hit home runs and strike out you know, which they did. Right. Yep. So. Well, I think the key for, for L A this year is whether Oral Herschiser can come back.
I think the pitching's deep enough that it doesn't matter. It may be. I, I like them a lot. I think they're going to go all the way. Um, and, and, I mean, by saying I like them, I like their chances. I, I actually don't like the Dodgers, I'm a Giants fan from way back. Right, right. Well, picking up Darrell Strawberry didn't hurt. No, but Butler didn't hurt either. Uh, and Bobby Ojeda didn't hurt and, Uh, who's the last one. Bobby Ojeda. They got him from the Mets for Hubie Brooks. Oh, okay. Um, he's a, a pretty decent pitcher. He's,
Yes he is. Okay, you know, he . Yes. And, uh, that guy , the short stop, is going to be good. Yeah. Um. Well it should be an interesting year. Yeah, I'm looking, I've already been to one game, and I should have been to two but, Are you an Orioles fan? Um, the, the team I live and die with actually is the Red Sox, mostly die, but, um, I go to the Orioles since they're here, and I, you know, I do enjoy them. Yeah. Um, I've had an opening day on Monday. Yeah,
you know, I kind of wish that they had inter league play, like they do in all the other sports so I could see some of the National League teams here once in a while. How far is Houston? Uh, three hundred miles. Oh, okay, keep forgetting how big states are out there sometimes. Yeah, it is, it's incredible. Yeah, I, um, you know, we're, we're pretty lucky because if I want to see a National League team, I can usually go up to Philadelphia. There you go. And, um, saw, saw the Cardinals and Cubs last year, and a bunch of teams the year before. Boy, you are a baseball fan, aren't you. Okay, uh, yeah Interesting. Um, I try to see whatever I can. I mean, I've been to like thirty or forty games each of the last few years. Wow. Yeah,
hope I'm going to do it this year because, um, uh, having a kid this fall, so it's like so much for going to lots of baseball games. All right. So, so do it while you can. Yeah, seriously. Sure. Well, it's been good talking with you. Yeah, good talking with you. And, and you'll be happy I think in October when the Dodgers win. I wouldn't mind it. Yeah, I'll be, I'll be upset probably even though my prediction will be right Yeah, well, God bless and good talking with you. And good talking with you. Take care. Bye-bye.
Bye. Do you want to start? Yeah, I'm trying to think what I've seen lately. I well we just finished watching, uh, TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES on tape, you know Did you watch DANCES WITH WOLVES, did you see the movie? Yeah, we, we've seen that, yeah. Did you like it? Yeah, it was great, have you seen it? I thought it was very well done. Yeah, I, um, How about GHOST? We, we saw, an, we liked it
but, you know, I didn't think it was as good as all the, uh, hype was about it. Right, I feel the same way about that too. It was okay. Yeah, I I, I couldn't see it worth getting a nomination for, uh, best picture. No, no. And, uh, let's see, uh, the most recent ones that I've seen are those two, GHOST and, uh, DANCES WITH WOLVES, but I rent, uh, uh, videos, do you? Yeah, yeah, and so we just, You, you watch many? Uh, it depends, um, you know, it depends on Do you like the classics like, uh, GONE WITH THE WIND and, uh, you know the older movies.
I'd like to see those, I keep, you know, um, you know, there's like three movies that I, I keep telling myself that I should see one of these, you know, some day that I haven't seen, you know, that, that are classics, you know. Because I've never seen CITIZEN KANE, Yeah, that was good. and never seen, I've never seen CASABLANCA and never seen GONE WITH THE WIND. I think I've seen most of Humphrey Bogart's movies, but, in, in, you know a long time ago, Uh-huh. and, uh, like the MALTESE FALCON and all those, uh, uh, Oh, I, I we saw part of THE AFRICAN QUEEN on, on T V a couple of years ago, Yeah, that was good, yeah. and I've, I've I've been wanting to see all of it but we just, you know, we walk into the video store and we're like well why don't we go see this now so. Yeah, yeah,
it's true. But, um, I one of the movies we saw recently, we saw, uh, MISERY. Oh, I didn't see that one. That was good, um, Really. oh, it was great. And it, you think, you know, for a Stephen, you know, it because it was by Stephen King it would be really gory but there's only one, well there's a couple scenes, at, at the end there's, there is, you know some blood and everything and there's one really bad scene where it's, I mean, there's not blood but it's pretty graphic Yeah. But it's, um, it's a really good movie, um. Really, is that the one where, uh, the guy gets captured by that women? Yeah, yeah, Okay, yeah.
he's a writer and, um, she's his biggest fan and she's also a little, a little on the nutso side. Yeah, right. Uh-huh. Did you see PACIFIC HEIGHTS? No, we haven't, um, I saw that one, that one wasn't that great either. Oh, it wasn't? Well I didn't think so, no. I, I got, I heard like mixed reviews, um, of that, we How about SILENCE OF THE LAMBS? That's, that's on our list of things to see I know,
I, I wanted to see, I, I was curious if you had seen it and that, uh, our big thing is, um, you know, movie prices up here I think it's like six bucks now in the theaters, Yeah. you know. So it's like, you know, a lot of things we try to catch like at the dollar theater or matinees and then a lot of other stuff we just wait until it comes out on tape. That's us too, yeah, yeah true. I know, it's too bad that they've gotten so expensive. well one movie we saw in the last couple of months that we really enjoyed was, uh, EDWARD SCISSORHANDS. Oh, really. Yeah, have you seen that? No.
Oh, it was great Really. Yeah it was, I thought it was kind of maybe for kids more, than No, no, it's, um, it's an odd film and it's really interesting that, I like the director a lot, um, a guy named Tim Burton. Uh-huh. Did you ever see the movie BEETLEJUICE? Uh, part of it, I, I never really watched the whole thing. Oh, Oh, yeah, well if you, if you liked BEETLEJUICE you'll probably like EDWARD SCISSORHANDS, if you didn't like BEETLEJUICE you'll probably won't like EDWARD SCISSORHANDS. Oh, really.
Yeah, it's, um, Burton's kind of, uh, he's, a very odd, odd man but he's, I think he's very interesting and, uh, I liked those two movies of his a lot. Uh-huh. He did BATMAN also, which, you know Yeah, that was pretty good, though, really. It was good, but I mean, he was, um, When you think of what it takes to make some of those kind of movies, you know. Yeah. You see it for, uh, you know a couple of hours or an hour and it really, there's a lot in it when you look at the scenery and the cars, and all the different stuff like that, you know. Oh, yeah, oh. Yeah.
Whose your favorite actress or actor? Um, don't really know, I like Costner a lot but, uh, I'm a big, I'm a big baseball fan Uh-huh. so, you know, after BULL DURHAM and FIELD OF DREAMS, you know, Yeah. Um, although, you know, That was good, I saw that movie too. That was very good. Which one? FIELD OF DREAMS. Yeah, FIELD OF DREAMS was good, um, and, I, I think, I liked the other movies he's done. NO WAY OUT was really good and, Oh, yeah, yeah.

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