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just went, just went ahead and just turned the keys back in and, and got out of the lease.
Uh, one thing that I, that I am curious about is, uh, reading information on air bags, do, some of the vans I think, I don't know about the Dodge Caravan,
but some of the vans now have driver side air bags. Which I think is a goo... |
Yes.
Then there's no age limit?
No.
Your kidding. *typo you're
No,
I'm not.
Some of the people that have been involved with Peace Corps, among other things, were retired teachers.
Uh, there was a retired plumber that went to, uh, uh, Uruguay I think and helped them quite a bit with concepts in plumbing, you know, provi... |
and they get all involved
and they just, you know, don't want to or don't have the time.
Well, I understand,
but if it were told to us that we would find the time somewhere between our seventeenth and, uh, twenty-sixth birthday to give a year or two to the, to the country in the form of maybe building better roads or t... |
it's not top wages,
Uh-huh.
but, but it does pay.
Uh-huh.
The military,
for young hiring in soldiers does pay,
it doesn't pay well.
Uh-huh.
Okay, currently in our country, especially in some regions, there's an employment problem.
You're aware of that I'm sure.
That, that, that's true.
But in, even in our region there'... |
Uh-huh.
I see,
and that was, that was that was some, some program where people gave their time, in trade for, for money,
In trade for, money, and, and living.
okay.
Uh-huh.
They gave them food and uniforms
and, uh, here in Colorado you'll find a great many things.
Public roads that were worked on by the W P A, uh, dams... |
Well,
what, what I'm saying is that if it were mandatory, that every person, right after graduation from high school, that were able-bodied, would give a year, well, or, not give a year but, but trade a year,
uh-huh.
Uh-huh.
Uh-huh.
then they,
at least one not more than say three or four, then it would definitely effec... |
we have.
With, with, uh, recent generations I, I know exactly what you are talking about,
I, I mean, I know several people who do not wish to work.
Uh, they wish only for the paycheck.
Well, they wish for the money
and they, they decide that they're going to get the money anyway they can with, you know, without, uh, wi... |
we try to.
Uh, we have not in some years now.
And I think we are going to try to have one this summer.
Oh, that will be fun if you have not done it in a while.
My aunt is planning it.
Uh, where is your family from?
Uh, Missouri.
Oh.
Is it?
Southwest part of Missouri.
So you are going to have to go there?
That will, wil... |
So,
My family is from Kentucky.
Most of them is down there.
Uh-huh.
I have got an uncle in Louisiana and another sister here in Texas.
Right.
Do you all get together often?
Or,
We did when I was growing up.
It was every summer we got together.
Uh-huh.
Now, my grandmother just passed away this last year.
Right.
So, you ... |
Yeah.
But, uh, I still have elderly parents alive.
Well it, It sure does.
So, uh, it takes a lot of effort to either get everybody called or written and settle on a date, you know that,
And if they are,
Well, we,
in Kentucky it wasn't hard because everybody lives so close together.
We just did it word by you know, by w... |
I I think, I hope that is not a lost art, that people getting together as they do spread out all over the world.
Yeah.
Because it is so fun.
Yeah,
I mean, we, my mother has got like thirteen brothers and sisters
it is.
Oh, I see.
Yeah.
She has got a huge family.
And every one of them have five or six kids. And most of ... |
And it was just,
the last time we had one it was so fun.
That is wonderful.
I hope,
Yeah.
well, we need to have another one.
I hope my aunt is successful as, uh, later.
Well, it is probably not going to be done because I have not heard from them.
I, it was supposed to be this June,
so I do not imagine there is anything... |
and it is open.
we have it usually at this, uh, at this one park because there is a pavilion there, in case it rains.
Uh-huh.
And, uh, you have to have it, uh, fairly early in the summer or it is too hot up there.
Uh-huh.
In Missouri?
In Missouri,
yeah.
It is too it is not,
it is just, uh, very humid,
and the old peopl... |
And our parents came and caught us.
We had been playing in the sump.
It was part of the sewage cleaning system.
Isn't that great?
Yeah,
Yeah.
to child in Kyle, don't.
speaking to I have got a four year old.
Yeah.
Well, that keeps you busy.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But if we could have gotten it by a lake or something, I thought tha... |
I remember my little brother riding a bicycle through it.
We were all kids anyway noise heard in
Every family has all that going on,
I am sure.
So, uh,
Oh, but I love it, all the different foods, because that,
yeah,
Oh, I do too.
That is the best part of it.
That's the,
Everybody bringing something for a potluck picnic... |
I hope,
Well, I have been married almost five,
so I guess it has been seven years since we have had one.
Uh-huh.
And since then we have lost, oh, well, just our grandmother.
Yeah.
That is surprising.
Well, time flies so fast,
it may have been that, that long since we have one.
It is hard to remember,
but I think it has... |
I would get on a bus any day by myself,
but I won't do it with the babies.
Uh-huh.
Sure.
Because, uh, I have got, uh, a four month old and a four year old.
Oh, Lord.
So I am just starting.
And I just quit too
Oh, I am telling you.
That is, uh,
Uh, I won't be adding any more to the family reunion
No,
I hope, it, I know ... |
Good luck in everything.
All right, you too.
Bye-bye.
Bye-bye.
Well let's see, um,
I, I like to go out to eat,
I really do,
but being from Dallas, um, I think we have an average of six or seven restaurants that open and close every month
and we we have a really high turn over rate.
Oh, really?
Oh yeah
and, and this is,... |
but, uh, a good turn over would be sort of nice.
Course if you find a place you like and it works out that no one else likes it, it would be sort of sad to see it go under.
Really
and, and we go to, you know, like an older part of town
and we just notice how many, oh well
that restaurant's changed,
and oh, gee, there, ... |
No,
they've got everything here from the, uh, French Room which is ultra, ultra to, um, um, Dean Ferrings , uh, uh, restaurant which is the Mansion on Turtle Creek.
I mean we've got beautiful places to go.
You can get as dressed up or, you know just going to the local barbecue and just doing take out.
Uh-huh.
So, you k... |
Oh, well we had, uh, we have a lot of favorites here, uh, in Northern Virginia
and of course we've got D C to call on, you know,
Right.
and there's all sorts of things down there.
One thing about D C is that there are a lot of traditional restaurants where, you know, it's, the guy used to be the cook for the Capitol
an... |
I, I don't know what they say about Chinese,
I'm always hungry after a French meal, uh.
That's true too.
And, uh,
but the, the atmosphere is just wonderful.
You do feel like you've gone out, you know, and done something, when you go to a French restaurant, or a restaurant downtown.
To another place,
yeah.
Well as out ... |
Yeah
right.
You know, I, I really don't like that stuff
but my husband does.
He loves to cook it
so, he and a friend of his get together
Uh-huh.
and they cook, I mean, you know, like for a bunch of people
and, and, uh, it's really,
in fact, we do a lot more entertaining I think at home than we do going out.
So when we... |
Oh.
Right.
Maryland is, you know, a big place for crabs with the, with the bay pretty much taking over most of Maryland.
Yeah.
And, um, Captain Pell's is a place with the big huge wooden tables inside,
and people just go in there and just pig out and everything.
And then, um, the other place is called the Vienna Inn wh... |
Got to carry through with the abuse, huh.
Yeah,
carry on with the abuse,
they say you need mints,
here guy, you don't get any change, you know.
Oh, gee.
Well that's funny,
I, we just went to an Italian restaurant this,
um, just wonderful
and they, I mean
it's like being in
I mean I've never been to Italy, okay,
but it'... |
and, and, uh, then they have wine casks all over the place so you're lined up waiting in line to this place
and you just take a drink of wine
and, you know, they don't count that really,
they just,
Okay, you say you're going to buy a new car.
Well no,
it's probably going to be a very old used one.
My husband had an acc... |
Yeah
But I also found a nineteen eighty Volvo, uh, station wagon that was in just super condition.
Right.
I mean there's not a dent on the outside body,
the inside is clean
it's had the same owner for years.
Right.
It, it has about eighty thousand miles on it
but that's all right, you know,
the engine's in excellent sh... |
and, but it's getting up in age, uh,
we're trying to hold out a little while longer, uh,
we've got a, a a daughter who's almost two now,
so, we're getting to the point where we really kind of need something a little bigger than what we've got,
Um.
but, uh, so I guess if we, when we do buy another car it'll, it'll be so... |
but You know, I would, I'd like to do that.
Well.
Yeah.
I, I have a truck myself
and I'll, I'll take, you know,
a truck's a thing that you, you need when you need it,
but, you know, the rest of the time you wonder, you know, could I use something else.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So, I, I've still got a couple years payments on it.
I ... |
used to be you kept them three years.
Right.
Well when they did all the tax law changes you had to keep them five.
Right.
So I was trying to keep my B M W in tact, uh, for three more years. So that then I could take the van,
Um.
and we'd trade my car in on a new car for his business.
Right.
And so basically that's what... |
it's, it's, you know, she's kept it up real well,
but, uh, you know, it's, it's getting to the point where we really need to do something with it, you know, if we're going to get anything out of selling it.
Uh-huh.
That's right.
So, I'm, I'm, uh, I'm, I'm hoping we that we can work something out here.
We've got other b... |
and you just almost can't find that payment anymore.
Right.
So, I understand that, it's, it's kind of hard to go do.
Well if you do look at them, I really recommend the Dodge Caravan.
We've had wonderful,
it's the only, uh, minivan they make that's on a car chassis instead of a truck chassis so it doesn't, you know, sh... |
Right.
And it is nice on long trips.
In fact, Christmas we drove to California, which is my home,
and you can take out the middle seat,
Right.
and they come out fairly easily, so we took out the middle seat, put the car seats in the back and just had a whole area in the middle, like if we were out on open road
and it w... |
she wants to, to get up.
I know, uh, coming, uh, right around Christmas we were, we were, uh, right before Christmas we had driven over to Shreveport
and we were driving back
and it was when all that bad weather was, was hitting,
Oh, yeah.
and the roads were all closed,
and, uh, we were trying to get back
and it took u... |
That would be good.
Yeah.
Well I
Well, I appreciate talking to you.
Good luck in your car buying.
you too,
I hope everything works out.
Well, really I'm supposed to hear today
and I, I hope it,
I really would prefer the Volvo, I think,
I know it's older than the Regency
but, you know, they're built of that unibody stee... |
what are your favorite things to watch?
Oh, uh, let's see,
I, uh, I have enjoyed, uh, THIRTYSOMETHING in the past, uh, now that it has gone off
Uh-huh.
Uh, some comedy shows, uh, I can not, can not think of, off hand,
Yeah.
but, what, what are your,
what is,
We do not watch a lot of T V,
we try to watch it on Thursday ... |
we, we we try to catch that most, most nights.
Yeah
And I, I have watched THIRTYSOMETHING some in the last couple seasons.
I was sort of sorry to see it go too.
Yeah.
It, it was kind of interesting, uh, some people complained about, uh, uh, the kind of whining or whatever on it.
I, I really did not think it, it was, t... |
Uh, we kind of,
uh, our T V viewing has, uh, slowed down a little bit since our our daughter came along,
so, uh,
Uh-huh.
that, that tends to, uh, put a cramp in your viewing, because by the time you get through getting her ready for bed and everything, uh, it's, uh, very little T V time left.
Yeah,
you are too tired to... |
there's a couple now that I tend to want to watch.
I like, uh, home improvement shows like Bob Vela's, uh, HOME AGAIN on Saturday morning,
Right,
yeah.
it's, I notice it's like, it's like THIS OLD HOUSE,
yeah
but it's, uh, it's on
instead of being on P B S it's on regular T V.
Oh.
But, it's, uh, it's kind of interestin... |
Yeah,
if it's if it's a team or something that I am really interested in I am not one to just watch a football game just, just to be watching it
or, or I am not a big basketball or baseball fan, if it, unless it's baseball, if it's some, if it's a team I really like, I may watch
Yeah.
but, uh, baseball to me is a litt... |
it's kind of like, like baseball
Yeah.
Do you
we went to the movies a lot on weekends and watch them at home, because there's just, on Friday and Saturday nights there's nothing good on
and,
Right.
I think that that's what more people are doing
and I think that's, you know,
as, as T V,
I think the less good shows bei... |
I thought we were the only ones who did not have it.
No.
No,
we, uh,
the, uh, development we moved into was,
they have it on one like right across the street from us,
Uh-huh.
but when they built our section they did not, did not put it in
and we have been there about two years now.
Gosh.
and they are still, still do n... |
Huh.
Yeah.
so.
Yeah.
Well, we had it for awhile
and it just seemed like we never watched it
any we did not have the movie channels,
we just had all the normal ones, that come
Yeah.
and we just never watched any of them,
we kept a log for a month of every time we watched it
and it seemed like we did not watch even half... |
I have not really missed it that much,
there's certain things that I have, that I want to see, you know, occasionally, like a football game, a college game or something that happens to be on cable, or some old movie,
but the, uh,
I, I have not been bothered by it too much.
Yeah.
So,
Well, I can not, uh, think of too mu... |
and, and,
yes.
Yeah,
vehicles
Right,
because, uh, there's a lot of commercial vehicles out there, especially those, the big rigs like the busses and, um, the big, uh, eighteen wheelers and so forth.
Huh .
Uh-huh,
uh-huh.
I think they would generate probably, uh, one of them would probably generate enough for three cars... |
Yes
I have, I have five in the kitchen at the moment.
to You need to shut the door, please.
Shut the door right now.
We have the air conditioner running.
What do you need?
Hurry.
I'm on the phone
Yes,
you may.
And they keep turning the tape recorder up besides
Oh, okay
Do you have, do you watch children
or do you,
Um, ... |
They cause more noise pollution than air pollution
Well, temporarily they do.
That's right,
that's right.
Then we get out of that phase, soon enough.
Yeah.
But, um, I think another,
you can tell when you go around cities, you can smell specific things from, from, specific industries.
Oh, yes.
I remember being,
I, I gre... |
And, um, of course, now,
Well, people think you burn it, it's gone,
but it's not gone.
No,
and when they,
and you bury it
and it's not gone either, because it has untold ramifications.
Uh-huh.
And, uh, And it gets into, into people, you know, which is, uh, the, the most important, um, resource that we have is people,
T... |
Yes,
but there's not enough.
Yeah.
And we need expert cooperation.
Well, it's a,
we're getting,
at least they're starting, you know.
Yeah.
Education of the, Education of the people is primary, I would think.
So at least they're moving that direction.
Yeah.
And, uh, and we're hard to teach.
Uh-huh.
Well,
We are hard to ... |
Absolutely,
yes.
Uh, of course, uh, we would like to see it accelerated because, uh, of the critical nature of it.
Uh-huh.
The, the learning of it and the,
just to, um, think that way, we have to be in that thought pattern and able to, um, motivate ourselves to, um, uh, do what is right for the atmosphere.
Uh-huh.
Um, ... |
You know, I mean, everything goes back to the land.
Just a minute and I'll turn it up.
I'll turn it up in a minute, honey, when I'm done.
So um, it's just, um, very critical, I think at this point to, uh, get that through to the people and get us educated.
Uh-huh
Yeah.
Well, I think science has come a long way to makin... |
and they can really uh, relate to that.
Yeah.
I think they are starting probably in the first grade.
They're, you know, they're hearing somewhat about it.
Um, I know, uh, Target has their program to make kids more aware of it
and,
Target stores?
Yeah.
Oh, okay.
They've got, if you go in the entrance, they've got, uh, s... |
and other will, others will pick up on their example and carry it, uh, further.
Yeah.
You know, because, uh, thoughts are,
Well, I, I know it's it's a hard problem to solve because you, you know, like McDonald's has changed back and forth between paper and foam and that kind of thing,
Uh-huh.
and they do all these stud... |
Uh-huh.
What kind of singing do you like to do?
Oh, pretty much anything.
Yeah,
uh-huh.
Um, are you, uh, are, are, have you, have you been singing a long time
or have you studied?
Oh, yeah.
Uh-huh.
A long time out, all through college and everything I was in the choirs.
Right.
And I've had some classical vocal training... |
In, uh, in Germany.
Uh-huh.
Oh, that's wonderful.
Um, well, I likewise sang in high school and in college in choirs,
and then I didn't sing in a choral group, um, until after I was, uh, married,
and I sang in a couple of, uh, community choirs, and then um, waited for a while,
and now I've, for about the last eight year... |
Uh-huh.
I've been listening to, um, some, uh, some advertisements for MADAM BUTTERFLY,
and I'm wondering if you, if you have ever done anything like that,
have you ever done any, uh, if, if you had done MADAM BUTTERFLY.
No,
no,
I haven't done, uh,
I'd love to,
Yes.
but, um, that's, uh, Puccini, I think,
right?
Uh-huh,
... |
the acting was particularly nice, I thought,
and, um, so, it was quite popular.
Yeah.
Um, you don't play, um, an instrument
so, uh, um, have you ever wanted to, like guitar or piano or
Yeah,
yeah.
That, I think that's always a good instrument for anybody who sings or does, you know, some other kind of instrument,
I thi... |
Um, but the,
I, I think that the piano background is very, um, useful,
and, um, I'm sure that it, for you, it would have been great to be able to accompany yourself, just for practicing and so on.
Oh, yeah.
Uh-huh.
Do you have any other kind of music that you like?
Um, oh, I like to listen to all different kinds of mus... |
but,
Yeah,
yeah.
Um, do you have any plans to, uh, do anything with your music in the near future
or,
Well, I have, I have like, we,
I wish I could
Uh-huh.
but I, I don't really know how to go about it without having a degree
or,
Yeah.
um
I know that there are, if you're interested in choral singing,
I'm not sure where... |
but, um, there usually, you know,
that they take tours and things like that
and you get to know you know, people socially as well as, as in a musical setting,
Uh-huh.
so that's always fun.
Yeah.
I think that's, well, that's one reason why I have enjoyed my choir so much, is that not only do we sing wonderful music,
but... |
so, um, we're just not too far apart, actually.
Yeah,
that's pretty close.
Uh-huh.
It was funny, um, uh,
it's, you know,
I talk to people all over, uh, Texas, um, and only one person outside of the uh, of the state,
so I'm always asking where, where in the state, you know, the person is from if they're in Texas.
Yeah.
... |
Yeah,
I think so.
Yeah,
yeah.
That often is the case, um,
the, you know,
it's, it, sometimes it will skip.
Like my husband is not musical at all,
but his mother is very musical,
and, um, and his children are very musical,
so you never know where the talent is going to show up, I guess, sometimes.
So, um, well, I'm not ... |
thanks.
Uh-huh.
Bye-bye.
Bye-bye.
Okay.
Okay,
now, now we're supposed to talk about music?
Right.
Why, why did you check music?
Why did I pick music?
Uh-huh.
Oh, because I know a little bit about music, you know,
so I thought that I would put that,
plus I, I like, uh, to listen to music.
Uh-huh.
What kind of music do y... |
Like the fifties oldies, or older oldies?
Usually in the fifties.
Uh-huh.
I'm not really sure,
I think it's, it's a fifties, sixties, and seventies station that I listen to.
Uh-huh,
uh-huh.
They have the same kind of station down here,
and when I listen to music most of the time that's what I listen to.
Oh, really.
Uh-... |
We are, we were really quite pleased with it.
It was good.
Uh-huh.
Have you, um, do you listen,
have you heard of Nat, heard of Nat King Cole?
Yes,
I have.
Okay.
Well, um, um, do you play any musical instruments or anything. At, at the same time, or, *slash error should be qy
Um, I played the accordion for seven years
... |
I, I played the baritone horn in high school band and in college.
Oh, okay.
So, and, my wife played flute in high school.
Uh-huh.
So.
And then in concert band I played the bass clarinet.
Really
Yeah.
really.
Uh-huh.
Actually that's exactly the same thing my ex-wife did
She played the clarinet
and then she played bass c... |
so I asked him if I could play it, because I was first clarinet,
and they end up playing a lot of the high notes,
and I don't, I don't care for the sound of the high notes.
So I asked him if I could play the bass clarinet,
and he said, Sure, you know,
he didn't have anyone to play it.
So I played it,
and I really enjoy... |
but, uh, Michael Crawford was in PHANTOM OF THE OPERA on Broadway.
Uh-huh.
You know, you know whom I'm talking about?
Yes.
And he's coming to Dallas on the twenty-ninth,
and we got a big group going down to hear him sing a bunch of, uh, Andrew Lloyd Webber's music.
So that'll be good.
Oh, wow.
My sons are kind of into ... |
and Chris didn't want to go,
so the friend David went,
and he went and bought one of the low priced student tickets,
and they, they gave him the seat that normally belongs to John Bel John
It's his house seat.
That's under his control,
and he said it was a great seat.
Holy smoke.
So, he, he's been to, they've been to s... |
and so I really didn't have the chance or the money to go see them.
Sure.
Well, we're kind of, you know,
they,
well, I saw two, two road shows of LES
and they were both excellent.
Uh-huh.
So if it comes to Pittsburgh in the road shows, and I think they have three different companies that tour the U S, um, you should go... |
and then, you know, those, um, two guys who wrote LES MIS wrote a new show call MISS SAIGON
Oh really.
Yeah,
it just opened in New York this spring,
and my son and his friend were in a lottery to get tickets to it,
and they got tickets for the opening night.
Oh.
And they went to it,
and they said it was, it was great, ... |
Oh, I don't know, uh,
really weird names, like The Dead Milkman,
or I don't know.
Oh, it's you know, really weird stuff, he likes,
and I thought, Oh my gosh,
So he listens to New Wave
and you listen to the oldies.
Yeah
That's kind of different.
Well,
Well, that's good though, you know.
It's good to cover all the bases ... |
Uh-huh.
That is excellent.
We, Well, we, I've never, never listened.
Do you like Randy Travis?
I mean, I've, I've probably heard him,
but I've never bought any of his music.
Uh-huh.
Garth Brooks is probably the only country album we have,
or, no wait, my wife bought an album of Hank Williams' greatest hits.
Oh, Hank Wi... |
If you have the chance,
It's a little, it's a little too country for me,
it's a little too, uh, ronky tonk or something.
Yeah,
uh-huh.
I like, I like the Garth Brooks album a lot.
Uh-huh.
It's pretty good,
it's pretty good.
Um, I don't know,
maybe you wouldn't like Randy Travis.
He's really country himself
Uh-huh.
but,... |
I can't, you know, name the names of them off hand
Uh-huh.
but we have, I think, all his records so far,
and all my brothers and sisters listen to them, even the ones that like the heavy metal they really enjoy listening to him,
Uh-huh.
so.
Uh-huh.
You know, maybe if you did like Hank Williams and Garth, you know, mayb... |
are you there?
Yeah,
I'm here.
All right.
Do you have any one that has been in a nursing home?
Uh, well, only my, um, my grandmother, but for a very short time.
Um, she, uh, she was just more or less in a, in a nursing home for, uh, recovery from a broken hip because she could receive more medical attention.
Oh.
Yes.
B... |
and she lives with my aunt and uncle,
and they care for her, you know, all around the clock.
Though she's not, uh, she doesn't have to receive constant medical attention, she, because of arthritis, she's just unable to get out of bed.
So, I guess, you know, there's that family commitment.
Um, I know that my parents, my... |
I worked with an agency in West Texas that they, it's where they really started this concept of Meals On Wheels
Uh-huh.
and I think it's such a valuable thing for our elderly.
Uh-huh.
If they didn't have to, you know, go into a kitchen
Right.
my mother expired just, just a little over a year ago,
and we had finally,
sh... |
I think, you know, it's really funny,
I have two grandmothers still alive,
and my one grandmother says that she wants to stay in her house for as long as possible.
She's like openly told people.
She's always been very good about knowing,
yes, she's eighty-nine,
and she said that she would really like to stay in her hou... |
and I am finding it extremely hard to adjust to.
Right.
So, uh, mother had the little kitchenette
Uh-huh.
and she could do all these fine things that she just, had a microwave, had to pop her popcorn.
Right.
Now this is wonderful.
Uh-huh.
But when it came time for a full meal, then mother was able to go with people and... |
Uh, number one, I am one hundred percent for total gun control.
I,
Total gun control.
Yes,
I am not a member of the National Rifle Association
and, I don't believe in hunting,
and, uh, I just have had my fill of what is going on with the crime rate
and I really feel that we have to do something in order to, uh, to ,
Ye... |
Most of the people really are, uh, honest and, uh, worthy of carrying on their lives properly.
Uh, I'm sort of in line thinking in terms,
I don't see anything wrong with this five day waiting period if the waiting period is utilized to really look at the background of the person purchasing the weapon.
I mean there's no... |
We've got to be able to get a handle on what is happening
and we've got to reduce the number of weapons that are out in the, in the in the public.
Yes.
And the, the people should be, uh, selected so that we know that they are all right and that they're, they're not, uh, acquiring weapons for illicit use.
Uh, that is no... |
All right,
you, you sound like you're into the technology of it, which is,
yeah, I agree.
And, you know, and, again, I'm, my entire family are, they are all hunters
Uh-huh.
and, you know, they, they don't appreciate my stand,
and I I have no, I really have no problem with sports hunters.
Yeah.
I really don't.
It's just... |
Uh-huh.
I think we've had two terrible accidents here recently,
and also on, um, just like, I bet you within five days a truck where the, uh, a dump truck, where the driver was, uh, high on marijuana,
I guess he smoked marijuana for lunch and, uh, drove his truck up the back of two small cars in a tunnel that goes unde... |
Uh-huh.
I don't know,
even, I think the random drug testing, I don't know in my own mind if it has reduced the athletes from taking drugs, because they're still being caught
Right.
that make sense?
Yes,
uh, it may make a difference for some of them because they don't want to lose that lucrative, uh career.
Yeah,
and th... |
and was to the point, he was on probation,
he was to the point that if he was caught another time that he would lose his contract,
and they wouldn't have to pay him,
and the Mavericks wanted to get rid of him,
but they couldn't afford to replace him and still pay his contract
Right.
and, uh, just recently he was, uh, m... |
Right,
I, I think, that, that, that's a terrible you know,
it's really funny though, um,
I guess, my dad was hit by a, a drunk driver who was also high um, when I was probably eighteen, my senior year in high school
Um.
Oh, my goodness.
and, um, though he's alive today and everything worked out fine, it, it, it happene... |
and I guess when I younger I was, um, probably a little more liberal on the subject.
I think most of us are.
Yeah,
but as I've, as soon as that happened,
I guess when I was eighteen years old, if you'd have asked me, I'd have thought it was fine
Uh-huh.
but by the time I was nineteen my opinion had totally changed.
Yes... |
He, uh, has been tutored,
and he'll catch up in school and everything,
but, he's still not back where he was.
Right,
yeah,
I don't think somebody,
He may never have all those motor skills back.
Yeah,
you don't, you don't, you don't have the right to interfere in somebody else's life.
No.
I can't even say, you know, I w... |
he's out of the coma now,
and eventually they think he will come back,
but you don't know that,
and
Right.
but he's lost,
he was an outstanding football player,
So, what kind of a house do you live in?
I'm in a, uh, in a ranch.
A, uh,
it was about, uh, sixteen hundred square feet when I bought it,
and, uh, it's about t... |
but most of them now are up in the millions of dollars.
Really?
Oh yeah,
there's,
How many square feet do you have?
We have got about, uh, twenty, I'd say about twenty-four hundred.
Four bedrooms?
Uh, we've got five bedrooms, because we built onto our garage.
Five bedrooms.
Uh-huh.
A, a bedroom for my mother,
and, uh,
... |
How many stories?
Just one?
It's just one story.
Yeah.
It's a Fox and Jacobs home.
How are they built?
Um, we've been real happy with it.
Yeah.
I've heard that,
I've heard the construction is pretty good on Fox and Jacobs.
Of course, I'm not a carpenter or anything like that.
They could probably come in and say, gee, t... |
No.
All right.
We've been real lucky.
So,
And is it, um, a natural gas and,
Yeah.
You know what I miss though?
Basements.
Oh, yeah.
I I sure wish they could build basements in homes in Texas.
Yeah,
I, I've heard a lot of people say that.
That's for sure.
Uh, we have an attic that we've just put, you know, plywood over ... |
So you have a probably a more pitched roof than is typical around here.
Yes.
ours is pitched so shallow that you, uh, don't get much room in the attic.
Yeah.
Yeah,
we, uh, we've got, you know,
I'll store all our Christmas stuff and whatever else junk up there.
So, five bedrooms and two living, two family
Two living are... |
Probably our family room is the, the biggest. Uh,
Right.
Some people, I mean,
families seem to migrate towards one, one room and carry on most of their activities there,
and, uh, uh, some rooms, we have one room that we never use.
Yeah.
I mean might as well not even heat and cool it.
Yeah.
Strange.
Well, that's kind of... |
Boy, it doesn't seem that long
but it is because we, uh, came to this area about the same time
Uh-huh.
We've been fifteen, fifteen years in the, in the house that we're living in.
Oh, wow.
And we, the, the principal feature I like about ours is that it's pier and beam.
Oh, uh-huh.
Yours is a slab I assume.
Yes,
it is.
... |
Well, my husband wouldn't do that anyway.
That's his, that's his,
I know,
he's not a handy,
right?
worst thing in life is to have to repair something.
I, on the other hand, uh, do a lot too much of it
So,
and, uh, I've gotten good at it which in a, in a way is bad because then you, uh, you start to take pleasure in it
... |
Um, thinking about it, some of the ways I try and keep up on current events is, uh, I enjoy reading the newspaper, but, uh, quite often don't have time to read all of the newspaper,
and so, uh, I enjoy watching some of the T V highlights and also, uh, some of the news periodicals, uh, weekly magazines,
and, uh, at work... |
and you get.
Uh-huh.
It's historic events, huh.
Right.
Then you can just sort of have pictures to go along with it or something, because really, I've thought lately, there's nothing new in the TIME MAGAZINE.
Oh, okay.
You know, it's, it's, basically you've heard everything
Yes.
and, uh, you might, you might get a littl... |
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