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did you ever see SILVERADO? SILVERADO, uh, who, who was that with? Um, let's see. Danny Glover, Scott Glen, Kevin Kline, um, Brian Dennehy , Jeff Goldblum's in. Uh, John Kreas is in it if you don't blink. That, the the, the title sounds familiar, I'm trying to It was, it was a big western, I mean, I think Roseanne Arqu...
did you see that with him? No, I didn't, is that any good? With, uh, Anthony Quinn. I thought it was, I like everything he's done so far. Oh, okay. You know, it's, uh, one of those movies that it's not a great movie but it was okay. Yeah, we were in the video store today and somebody was recommending it to somebody. Yo...
that was excellent. Yeah, that was very good. Um, he was in THE UNTOUCHABLES, too. Now that's another one I wanted to see. in fact, that was advertised not too long ago. Yeah, it was on, um, Cable? no, it was on one of the networks, I think last weekend. Uh, or two weeks ago. Okay, I know I saw, yeah, something about ...
it's really silly that I enjoy him a lot but I, I've really enjoyed him in everything I've seen him in, a guy named Charles Martin Smith. I don't know him. Um, you've probably seen him and just, an, you know, oh, that's who the guy is. Do you remember, did you ever see AMERICAN GRAFFITI? No, I, I don't think so. Oh. Di...
yeah. He's, he's just, I, I don't know why but he's always a lot of fun in every movie he's in. He was in the UNTOUCHABLES. He was the accountant Oh, oh I know who you mean. Yeah. He was in, uh, uh, HONEY DON'T SHRINK THE KIDS, wasn't he? No, no, you're thinking of Rick Moranis. He looks like Rick Moranis but he's not ...
Yeah. Yeah. How about some of the ads, do you go by the ads when you look at them, or the reviews? Do they influence you a lot. Uh, a little of, a review usually won't make me go see a movie I hadn't already wanted to see. Yeah. Did you see GOODFELLAS? No, it's uh, I want to see it. That that was pretty good. Um, and, ...
Yeah. If if you read the book it's, uh, even better. The book was excellent. Oh, okay, I haven't, never read it. Yeah. and, uh, I was a little disappointed in the third it's GODFATHER THREE. It was not bad but, I expected more, I think. Uh-huh. We just rented, um, a couple weeks ago, a movie called THE FRESHMAN, with,...
and then he's running into Marlon Brando who is playing, you know, this you know this, uh, organized crime head. Uh-huh. So, it's um, it was, it was a fun movie. Uh. or, uh, I liked RAINMAN, I thought, I thought it was interesting that he was doing Oh, yeah, that was good, I liked RAINMAN, too. Yeah, well I'm, being fr...
and I'm tired and it, Uh-huh. next thing you know, it's, it's especially if there's commercial in it and then the titles might sound familiar but I really don't know what they're all about. of the three of those, DINER's probably the best. I mean, they're, they're all pretty good, but DINER is really worth seeing. Is t...
I'm not a real, uh, great football follower, I guess, there are two basic teams that I seem to follow every year. One is the Dallas Cowboys and the other is the Oklahoma Sooners. Oh, okay. Uh, being a native Okie, I uh, I like to keep up with what the homeboys are doing. Uh. I see, so you make it, uh, to that Longhorns...
Well, it's kind of same for me, I grew up in southern New Jersey and the local team was Philadelphia. Yeah. And they were like thirty miles right up the river and I'm still pretty much an Eagle fan, I guess. I guess you keep those things you grew up with. I worked in, uh, Missouri for a while and, uh, I was probably th...
Some of them turned out to be pretty good players, uh, some of them didn't and you know maybe the stuff that, uh, Jerry Jones is talking about the construction and redefining the team and maybe the effort might be starting to pay off. At least we hope it will. Yeah, I'm, I keep waiting for the Eagles to get over the hu...
Once the pressure gets turned on they, they seem to loose it. I guess, yeah. See that's the typical trait of the Dallas Cowboys. And the Oklahoma Sooners. Yeah. It's funny, over the years. I guess since Staubach left, they haven't been able to, keep it going. It's. It's been a rough tow, a rough road to hoe ever sinc...
Uh, it's funny watching them, them play, he's probably like a lot of quarterbacks, uh, when the pressure is really on when it's down to the last few minutes of the game for the season is when the guys seem to really do their best. Uh-huh. And I haven't quite figured that out, if they figure they have got it won or if t...
Uh, I'm figuring either one either the Eagles or possibly San Francisco I'm not real sure. Boy, they'd some big changes, speaking of them. They did. So, I don't know how these changes are going to help or hinder the team, sometimes it brings in new motivation and all you can do is get out of the way because here they c...
No, no. But that was just a good football game. And it's funny, you know. You like to pull for the underdog and for a long time I was pulling for Denver. Uh-huh. Uh, Marino makes me just crazy mad sometimes, because of some of the stupid stuff he does, but he's a good quarterback. He's got a good arm, sometimes it's to...
I just got back last night around eleven thirty or so, and it was about seven inches of snow on the ground. Wow. And it snowed all day. Well, that will make the skiers happy. Oh, yeah, yeah. If, if it snowed that much in Denver you know they got that much up in the mountains, you know, just west of there. Oh, you bet. ...
bye. Bye. Go ahead. Okay, do I still still can feel that the Soviet Union, as such, is still a threat to the civilized western world? Absolutely. And my reasons are based upon not only from what I read in the newspapers, what I see on the newspapers, but up against some of the, fun and exciting things I ran into during...
These were Soviet made, top of the line, fresh out of the box, A K forty-sevens. As well as a lot of the explosives we were running into. Um, uh-huh. In Granada, in October, twenty-fifth, eighty-three, we invaded the place. Sure there were Cuban soldiers there, but there was also a bunch of Russian advisors that were d...
These guys are top of the line. When they, when they graduate from there, they can pull terrorist actions anywhere in the free world. And they are very, very good at what they do. So until I see the entire, quote, old guard of the Soviet military, of the Soviet government completely roll over and disappear, preferably ...
and they, would level entire areas. Okay, you're from the Dallas area, right? Uh-huh. Okay, you know, basically the size of, uh, the area around Richardson? Yeah. You put five Soviet hyundee helicopters in the air, they can level the entire area and there won't be anything left alive. And they can do that in about four...
I take it you haven't spent any time in the military? No, I haven't. As a civilian that's never been attached to any form of the military, I know a lot of this stuff that I was involved in, never did make the newspapers. Uh-huh. But, during that same time frame, didn't you get some feeling, that, I mean, they're gettin...
The deal the Iraqis have with the Russians was for oil. Yeah. It's scary to know that they're supplying that many people with weapons. Especially when it's to the south of us. Uh, the ones to the south are more regional conflict. They're not really that worried about invading north. They're more interested in, they've ...
That's the only drawback that I see with the entire thing. Yeah. Gorbachev has made his attempt and he's had his problems with some of the old guard himself. Uh-huh. Yeltsin's in tight with the old guard. So it may be trying to choose between the lesser of two evils, at this point. Uh-huh. True I don't know, I sure wo...
If you've only got a token force there, you can't hold your ground. At least they're learning a little bit from history. I mean, uh, So, well, this is an appropriate topic the day after Earth Day, so. Right. Um, well, what do you think is, uh, the pollutants, the main pollutants in the air? I have trouble with the chem...
but it's incredible that they still don't have, you know, they don't, they're not made to regulate the amount of pollutants that they put into the air. Right. You know, I, I just, I can't stand that and I know for a fact that they get away with a lot that, you know, they're supposed to be regulated because we have a, w...
Right. that's a, that's a Pillsbury plant I can't imagine plants, I wouldn't have thought that Pillsbury could, would, the, I mean, or even had you know, well, those chemicals would not, Yeah, they have chemicals that they use to refine their flours with and stuff, you know to, to break the flours down Yeah. and then t...
I don't think they do the packaging at this plant, Yeah. but they do, they do a lot of research and they do, um, they do, do a lot of the refining up there or, Yeah. I'm not really, what's it called when you do flour, I'm not, Uh, only thing I can think is bleaching but, I mean, I, I don't know what's, how they do the ...
And, uh, But, I mean, you think about it, it, you know, it's probably a lot easier to detect things that go into the ground than it is maybe to just, I'm not really sure but I would think it would be easier to detect those things because you could detect them down or stream or such, Yeah. or you can, you can, you know,...
we're still on a well water, we're not on city water, Uh-huh. and I think, well, what if somebody's dumped something back there in the, and no one knows about it and, you know, it sinked in through the ground and all that, Yeah, well, I know out in some, I'm not sure, I can't remember the name of the county it's, it's ...
no Stephenville. Oh, okay, okay. Okay, where Stephenville's at, they've had a lot of problems because they've, um, introduced a lot of dairies there, Uh-huh. Yeah. so, they have a lot of cattle in the area, I mean, they've got like per, per, uh, per lot, you know, they've got like a lot of head of cattle because dairie...
and they, and this thing says that, that, you know, people think, well, cow manure is good for fertilizer but when you get that much manure it says it becomes a real problem because it's not, it's not when, you know, you buy cow manure at the store they've added stuff to it and they've added humus and stuff that, break...
It will. and they won't be able to have any drinking water because they will have, um, polluted, completely polluted, so that they're, you know, there's too many toxins and bacterial growth, Uh-huh, yeah, and the and I'm like my God, you know, just from that one, you know, just from them introducing dairy farms, in tha...
Uh-huh. but they're just so spread out on ranches and stuff that it's not, you know, a problem, Right. but when they get them in these tiny little areas, you know, and they've got a real big problem, and they, they said that, that what they were doing was scraping it with bulldozers and stuff, and taking it to, uh, the...
but I, I don't know it really frightens me though as far as the, when you think about the, you know, thinking of just air pollution itself and then, and, channel thirteen they're really, um, emphasizing the problem with acid rain, you know, Uh-huh. if we, if we keep putting that stuff into the air and, and, you know, i...
and trees help so that, uh, I don't, Well, they do because, what is it, carbon dioxide, they use that where we can't synthesize it Uh-huh. and they're synthesizing it for us. Right, right, believe me it's just so much better. Yeah. So, uh, yeah, I knew, I think there's lots that be, that could be done to, to improve ho...
but, uh, I think the only, the main thing is just keep on the, your legislator's back, you know, as far as, seems like they've only just really started as far as the environment saying, okay, we're really going to get involved Uh-huh. it, it's really becoming a problem. By the year two thousand there will, what, what a...
and I now have grandchildren that are teenagers, and I don't know that it might do them a little bit of good to see the world from a different perspective. Uh, I think this "me" generation has gone far too far. And the young people are overly impressed. And I think it wouldn't hurt them to step back from themselves jus...
and I know, that like if you have college notes, if you teach in a lower income bracket where they don't pay as much and they cancel part of your, you know, your college note or whatever. Oh, really? Uh-huh. If it's like, you know, really a, you know, a lower paying job, you know, where in a small town you don't obviou...
Yeah, I think that is an excellent program, I really do. I like that. And it's, it's beneficial to the small towns too because, they really, really have, have a disadvantage that we wouldn't understand because we're in the Metroplex. Yeah. As far as yeah, getting doctors and all that stuff, yeah. Right, you know, if, i...
And don't they go into other countries and stuff? I want to believe they go into other countries and teach them how to do things like farm, uh, dig their own wells, set up, their schools. Uh-huh. Things that make the, yeah. Make them more self-supporting? Yes. They, Yeah. It's not a program to teach them to use the Ame...
Um, I think I, I've singled out my grandchildren and but actually they're, they're pretty good, along those lines as compared to what I have seen from other people's children and grandchildren, mine aren't really that bad, Uh-huh. but at the same time I think it would do them a world of good. Yeah. But there's a, I don...
but it's, it may be the more of the issue versus should young adults, can they go in there and can anyone go into, well, out of the Kurdish community is a little bit extreme at this time, but say, I think Bangladesh would have been a good example or some, some really desperate situation and teach them to farm and teach...
Um, and one of the quick examples is the Aborigines. Yeah, uh-huh. Uh, when we were in Australia, uh, sad little things. Uh, I felt sorry for them. Because their society isn't there anymore, and their belief system and all their structured of theirs, all the structures of their society are gone, essentially. Yeah. And ...
Yes. I think we ought to worry about our own species. And maybe rather than just, require somebody to join like the Peace Corps for a year maybe like, um, during college, you know, maybe have some kind of course where they'd be required to do some kind of community service type work, and help people in that area or peo...
Yeah, that's exactly it. but. They're not going to take that money you give them and go try to figure out a way to dry out with it. Now come on, let's be realistic, Yeah. that's just not realistic. Or, you know, to find a job where they can learn how to support themselves, Right. I mean, I guess we're getting kind of o...
and, and again I don't think the, the Peace Corps is, is as successful now simply because it's not. It doesn't fit the circumstance anymore. Yeah. Uh, we've got plenty, in fact, we've got far too many. You're in, uh, what Flower Mound? Flower Mound, yeah. So, we're a little you know, farther removed from like Dallas an...
and of course it doesn't fit right now. Yeah. But now we start in May, breaking it down, and they're picking it all up. Um. So they're going to by, and we have to separate our papers, and our glass, and then, uh, they have one day for, like, um, oh, everything you picked up from your yard, Uh-huh. and we put that in di...
Well, does your, uh, where you work, do they also have aluminum cans pickups and things like that? Um, I've never noticed that. We don't have a, a whole lot, because we're in a hospital setting, so most of the things we have are through our cafeteria. Um, Well, down in the cafeteria do they have any place where you can...
Uh-huh. And then like, the week before that, they said go through your cupboards and any food that is still good, bring it in and they brought it down to the shelters. And, they have, one, two, they have three, I think, that I know of for cans for people have pop, Uh-huh. and they put them right near where they have th...
I saw part of that. It was good. The only thing I thought, um, that I haven't been trying, is when I, you know, go to take a shower, to save the water, and to put it on my plants. Which I had never thought about before. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. But I've already gone to, oh I started years ago, I guess, not years ago, but, yeah...
But I didn't realize that our garbage isn't being decomposed. That was a shocker to me. Yeah, well there are a lot of things that aren't, I'm , that's, uh, one of the things I wonder about, uh, one of the questions was, do you think more should be done, or something else. I, I wonder about some of the products that the...
I I seen a lot of adds recently for organic fertilizers and, and lawn additives and that type of thing, but the cost is, is like, double or sometimes triple, what the regular things you, fertilizers and things you buy. Uh-huh. So, in, in terms of that, it's, you know, and, for the environment it's, it's, there's a goo...
And if we're going to really do something, they ought to put that stuff out bigger for people to see it. I had to put my bifocals on to see it Um. That's hard when you're in a grocery store and you're short anyway. Yeah. You have to get enough nerve to ask somebody to take something off the top shelf. You haven't got e...
it was toilets. You know, the old ones? Smashing them up, because they're, that stuff there is great for, in road work. Uh-huh. Huh. And I thought, well, that's good. And then I saw recycling on tires between, uh, well, hoses were being used, and, uh, uh, soaker hoses, made out of old tires. Uh-huh. Yeah. What else, s...
I think that's just the biggest problem is keeping it in, in front of the public so they understand how serious the problem is, and how important it is to do that. You know what I'd like to see a little more. I don't have any little tiny kids, Uh-huh. but if they get the little tiny kids saving it now, in five years, w...
Uh-huh. Right. So, I I pack around a lot of them, but I only use a few of them. You have a lot of discipline. They make it really easy for people to, uh, to get credit cards, especially college students. Yeah. I have, uh, two daughters who, who both are in college or, in fact, one has finished now. But they both have a...
Uh-huh. And then all of the others I just try to use kind of like you would an American Express card and, and pay it off every month. Right. And that way I feel like I'm getting, you know, a thirty day loan. Yeah. But I don't have to worry about, you know, running them up too high, except at Christmas. Then they usuall...
Uh, or, Well, uh, you can go in a bank and just hand them the Visa Card and say, "I want a cash advance." Or if they've sent you a, uh, a number that you can use. You know, a, a personal identification number that you can use in the, uh, impact machines or whatever, you, you can do that. Yeah. Oh, okay. Because I have...
So I thought, man, I don't know if I trust this or not Well, they, they do that a lot if you have good credit and you have been paying your bills on time. everybody in the world will offer you a, a credit card. It's like, let's see if we can get her to run up her bills But it's hard, I mean, it's, it's tempting when yo...
You do? And I think they're getting ready to, to probably sell us out, our division. Where are you? In Johnson City, Tennessee. Johnson City, uh-huh. I know they're selling out somebody in Colorado Springs. Yeah. Yeah. They just, they just announced that, didn't they? Yeah. So, I mean, it's, it's kind of a bad time to ...
Man! And, uh, there's just so many people that have bought jewelry, which is really a luxury item Yeah. and then they, they just can't pay for it. Something, something happens, you know, and you hear so many stories listening to them. Like, uh, you know, they lost their job or, uh, they, they've signed for a friend. Yo...
I didn't realize that. Yeah. And if you, if you're, uh, it's bad because if you, you know, your bill is due on the fifteenth then you're not past due until the fifteenth of the next month. Yeah. Oh, okay. But, you know, if you, if you pay one day after that fifteenth, you're not one day late, you're thirty days late. T...
It is, it is. You might even find somebody's been reporting on you and you didn't even know it. You know, you, I mean you might think you're paying something on time or and you, by that day and you're thirty days is not real bad though anyway. phone line that persists through the end of the recording. Sounds like a cor...
I would think it wouldn't be, you know, much more than the eighteen or nineteen percent everyone else charges. Yeah So that, that wouldn't be too bad. Well, always watch out for anybody who bills you out of Atlanta, Georgia. Or there's a couple of other places that are able to charge us like twenty-one and twenty-two p...
So, So anyway, they can't bill you any higher than eighteen percent, I think, in, in Texas. But there, there are a couple of states that can. Oh, that's great. And one to watch out for is anybody that bills you out of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia. I'll try to remember that one. Well, Well, let's see. I was trying to think...
So that's, that's probably the worst thing I've ever had happen with a credit card. I wonder if they ... Okay. Hi Norma. Hi. Have you taken anything back lately, uh, that you've bought? Well the only thing we've taken back recently are plants. Shrubbery, that were guaranteed Well why? and we had no problem with it. Ve...
I don't think they're shoddy, not as shoddy. Electrical appliances I think are pretty good, reliable. however, I didn't like it very well when the transmission went out on my car with sixty-three thousand miles on it. Right And I don't like it very well if, when my electric blanket that was only one year old went out a...
Also, I took an iron back after having it only one year. Oh. Now I figure uh, anybody that is dumb enough to iron, needs to have an iron that will last a long time, and one year of ironing only once a week is not long enough for it to last. No, huh-uh. Did they replace it? Well without even any question, but I think it...
That was poor quality, I think. I think it is too, and it was an expensive dress. I wondered if it weren't expensive, Yes it was. and they should have put buttons on it that would last forever. That's right, that's what I think too. And one belt loop, the uh, you know, like the chain link, chain belt loop half of it ra...
Well I believe that we've been talking about five minutes. Okay, I think so. And Norma, it is just wonderful to talk to you. Good talking to you too, I've enjoyed it You are a good one to talk about consumer goods, because you keep up on it all the time. Well, we'll be talking to you later. Bye, bye. Bye, bye. And, uh,...
okay. Yeah, okay. I, I hadn't been down in that part of the state really. Uh-huh. Okay. Well, we vacation a lot. How about you? Quite frequently. Uh, I wish we did Well, we retired early Oh, okay. so, we're, we take trips pretty often. Where all you guys go? Well, we go to Maine every Fall Uh-huh. then that's kind of a...
and we go to Florida Uh. and down, oh, we were just out recently at the outer banks of North Carolina. All these places that I've never been Is that right Where do you go? Uh What type of vacation? well, it really depends, I mean, uh, seems like I do a lot in the Midwest lately, uh, my, uh, fiancee's family's from Wisc...
What club do you follow? I'm, uh, I'm a big Red Sox fan, Red good, but, uh, I, uh, me too uh, you're a Red Sox fan too? Yeah, uh-huh. I usually try to catch whoever's in town though, I don't specifically, I, you know, go to Cleveland to see them play, the Indians or the Red Sox, Uh-huh. uh, uh, that's about it, we don...
Uh, have you ever heard of it? I've heard of it. I've never been there. Yeah, it's, it's really neat. It's this house built on, on a waterfall and it's, uh, really cool Uh-huh. Um, of course, we keep picking crummy weather to go out there, uh, the first time we went out there was, uh, the day after hurricane Hugo had c...
have you been down there? Uh, my girlfriend has with her sisters but I haven't been, down there. Uh-huh. Uh, I hear that's nice. We're going to get down, probably down Norfork sometime this Summer, just to see why, catch a football game actually Uh-huh. We were down, well, when we came back from the outer banks we ca...
Uh. Uh, yeah, we'll, do that. You can go, to the buildings and not go in if you're not, Oh, okay, so I can wander around without, Yeah, you can wander, it's a good town to wander in. Oh, okay, I just have it pay somebody to get into the buildings? That's right. Oh, okay, I didn't know that. Yeah, I think, uh, they do...
so. We really didn't do that really this time, we just, uh, visited around. Uh, uh, We've done it a couple of times and that's enough for, uh, probably another twenty years. Yeah, I was, uh, we use it live in California and, uh, my, um, up, up around San Francisco, and, uh, there was one year when my father was, uh, my...
but the kids in Los Angeles didn't Uh-huh. so we basically had one of the parks. Right. Uh, Disneyland, I mean there's still a lot of people at Disneyland, but there was another, um, another amusement park down there, Busch Gradens, uh, there was nobody there when we were there, we got, we won a log floating ride like ...
Oh. So, I, um, keep wanting to get further, you know, I thought I would go to Florida a couple Summers, ago Uh-huh. but never did it. Charleston is a really nice place to visit. My, uh, my sister lives in Charlotte and they've gone to, Charleston a couple of times and had a real good, time. Uh-huh. Yeah, it's a real...
and, uh, Is it on, uh, one of the lakes? It's, um, uh, I don't if you've ever seen a map of Wisconsin but there's kind of like a little, a little thing sticking out, uh, in the Lake Michigan, Uh-huh. that's Door County Oh, okay, yeah, that would, be really nice. So, Yeah, they call it the Cape Cod of the, uh, the Mid...
Well, I don't know what our next trip will be, I guess our next, well, I know what my next trip, I'm going to be a grandmother in July Oh. The first, the first one, Oh, boy. so my next trip is going to be to Texas Oh, that'll be fun Yeah, in the middle, in the middle of the Summer. Well, yeah, you won't even, notice i...
Uh-huh. so, when I, you know, when I heard you were from Virginia I was like, oh, okay, there's somebody different, and you said, oh, I got somebody down in Texas, I go, okay, that the connection, right there That's it, yeah I talked to one in California, I never asked him the other day how he was connected, I don't t...
I mean she's talking on the project too Uh-huh. and, uh, we got back Monday and I got a call yesterday and it was her, on T I Network Uh, that's neat. I haven't, uh, I haven't had something like that happen, just, uh, just getting the one guy, from the lab. Uh-huh. Uh, you're sure have a nice town, uh, my, uh, sister ...
Traffic , not much else we do for vacation really, uh, just so we don't, haven't been able to take really. Are you a golfer? No. No. Me either. No. Are you guys, golfers No, uh-huh, or, uh, no, uh-huh, nope, not too much into sports. Except our outside , though. Just walking that's all Oh, I don't think there are any,...
When, uh, I was thinking I might be minor league but, Oh, there's one in Salem, Salem Rebels. Yeah. Salem Rebels, Buccaneers. Buccaneers. Oh, okay. Yeah, um, yeah, I may be seeing them, um, in a town just west of here, Frederick has a, uh, has a minor league team that plays in the same league with Salem and, uh, I thin...
I've never been up there. I've never visited Baltimore. I'd like to go just sight see a little bit sometime. Oh, there's, there's some nice things in Baltimore, you know, the Inner Harbor and the, uh, the Aquarium and all that are very nice. Uh-huh. Uh, they've just done a, uh, you known, I, you know, the Aquarium is o...
We love fresh vegetables in the summer, and it's just one of the things I enjoy doing. So do I. I would, I had rather be outside than, than inside any day. So would I Do you work during the week, uh, outside the home? Yes, I do. Uh-huh. Uh, so I manage to fit in my gardening chores afterward, I work for a school system...
in fact, I was prevented at like no, about thirty years ago with a life membership, uh, from the Richmond, Virginia counsel of garden clubs. Wow. And it wasn't because I was so good, but I organized a very large garden club, but I still have, uh, Oh, that's wonderful. It, well, it's always something that seems so odd t...
that, that, Yeah. those numbers were, were great but it, Yeah, well, I think it sounds good. I've never belonged to a garden club because I've always been more interested in just doing what I can do on my own, I've never had, the time really to get involved in the organized sort of format, Yes. but I know people who d...
For heaven's sake. Uh-huh Uh-huh. Well, um, there aren't men's gardening clubs in this area that I know of, they're, they're women. But, um, and usually they're the tea type things, you know, where they have a little luncheon and they do their thing. Uh-huh. But, um, flowers are primarily the emphasis, um, whereas I e...
Yes. Uh, many of those tanned until the last couple when, uh, we had such an economic slowdown. Oh, terrible yeah. Yeah, well, tell me what's in your garden this year, since I don't have one. Okay. Well, uh, the flowers I'm just, in fact, I was going to go out today to buy some plants so I could put them in, I, I alway...
In my, Do you have trouble with red spider on marigolds? No. I don't. Maybe it's, I don't know, maybe this climate is a little better. Yes, uh-huh, uh-huh. Um, but in the vegetable garden we grow, um, usually, what our favorite is something called white half runner green beans , now that's, Do you, isn't that funny, so...
Yeah. but that's the kind that produces the best. Yeah, well, I think it has the best flavor. And, and they're wonderful, and I pick them when they're very young and have very little string and then just steam them a little bit, my mother picks them when they're fat and she cooks them for an hour with some fat backs , ...
yeah. yeah. Uh-huh. My mother, Well, my mother doesn't think they have any flavor the way I cook them Well, and I know I love them, well, that's the yankee way. But I think, that's like another vegetable. Oh, of course. I love them that way just, just the thrill of, Yeah, it is. They're two different vegetables that w...
and, uh, she would do that if, if we didn't tell her that she'd better not Yes, uh-huh, yes. But she doesn't have that big a garden, but she has a bigger one than I do. yes. And I have four children, you know, so, And she tends to it herself? Oh, yes, oh, yes. Uh-huh, isn't that wonderful. Oh, it is, it's great. It's, ...
We also grow, um, yellow and green squash, um, much to my children's chagrin, Uh-huh. Right. and, uh, we grow a lot of tomatoes, uh, Uh-huh. there's just no replacement for fresh grown tomatoes. No. So, we enjoy that, um, we grow I, I have been trying to grow watermelon and cantaloupe and get teased by my family but I...
I don't know if you have had that problem there or not. No. But it's, you know, it's a problem that's, that's moving south from, from the New England area. Yes. And they devastate the trees so they, they spray, the government, uh, sprays, um, two, three times in the spring when the, uh, caterpillars are, are coming alo...
October. Oh, so, well, that's not very long. Uh, so, yes, recently seven months and it, Yes. the weather is wonderful, I love it. Oh, that's great, that's great. It is just terrific, you know, rains a little too often. Well, I hope you have a, an opportunity to garden again. Oh, I think so, I have a little spinach Oh, ...
Uh, I'm at a little bit of a loss, you know, I don't know, ten years ago, see I'm what, I'm about, uh, twenty-eight now so when I was eighteen, Uh-huh. things haven't changed a whole lot. Really. People are being a little more, oh, I don't know, a little a little less bigoted in some ways, I don't know Uh-huh. seems to...