“I’ve been out here about 45 minutes, practicing with this casting net so I can catch my own bait fish. There’s an art to it, I guess. I’m getting a little better, but I think I’m going to need another hour...
“I like football, baseball, soccer. I like riding my bike. I like playing outside. And video games. But my favorite thing to do is play football.” According to his father, he scored 22 offensive touchdowns and six defensive touchdowns to earn...
“I lived in my roller skates growing up. I wore them up and down the stairs, every place. “I’ve been wanting to roller-skate again so bad. So when we were at Traders Village recently and I saw these for only $15,...
“I’ve been looking for work, but no one seems to like me. I tried to get on at the new Kroger. I did the application and a little phone interview, then they told me to come in. I was interested in...
“I was an art major in college, and I’ve been painting for many years. But I recently got interested in painting outdoors and joined the Bay Area Plein Air Painters. “Plein air is French, meaning open air. The point is to...
When it comes to being parents … “I told George, I think the big question in our life is knowing how much. How much, how little, when to help or when to pull back. When I was younger, I figured that...
“For most of my years I’ve been a plant taxonomist. I get hired to identify plants. “My most interesting work has been in the Big Thicket here in Texas. I have a species list, so I find the plants and write...
“We typically buy a home that needs work, live in it for a while and then flip it. We remodel it and then move on to the next one. We’ve done it about eight times now. “We’ve been in our current...
“My wife and I have been married for 74 years. We met in high school. We got married when we were 20 years old.” What’s your key to a long marriage? “Well, you just have to go with the flow. It’s...
“Between the eight kids, there’s roughly a 20-year spread. I have three sons and five daughters. “Before we got married my wife said she wanted a dozen, but I thought she was kidding. Apparently, she wasn’t kidding. When we got to...
