My Hobbies and Interests

This tigeress has a wide variety of interests.
Big pudder tat! I love the outdoors, especially fishing and hiking. On a hot day I like to sit under a big tree and read a good book, or drop a line in a lake. On a cold day, I like to be inside crocheting or embroidering and watching a good nature film. I love the programs PBS offers, especially Nova. I really love to sew and do embroidery by hand and by machine, and I love to quilt.

Cats are some of my favorite wild animals. (besides fish of course) My favorite kind of hunting is with a camera. I believe in preserving our natural surroundings and wildlife, and I am concerned for the loss of our wildlife, wildlands, and wetlands. I am especially concerned over global warming and it's effects on wildlife.

A big catch!
I'm a fairly good fisherman, but it doesn't show in this photo (which is 20 years old). This fish was so dumb, it wasn't even hooked, it was holding onto the bait. I do believe that the worst day fishing is better than the best day at work, and of course the fastest growing thing in nature is a fish. From the time it is caught to the time the story is told.



Clouds Even cloudy days don't seem to stop me from enjoying the outdoors. I've been known to be out tending my flower garden on drizzling days. I've fished in the rain, and been skiing in a blizzard. Snowball fighting is more my style now though. I love to garden and really love roses.

I also love to cook. I've tried my hand at catering, and have catered as a chef to 80 people. I also worked with a team that catered a dinner for 750 people. I especially love chocolate, and I love to share good recipes, so if you have a good recipe e-mail me. Food is a passion! Of my favorite cooking, baking pies, cakes and cookies are a speciality. I have a great recipe for almond biscotti I created I will share if you ask. My grandfather was a baker, and I believe I picked up some of his passion.

The thing that matters the most to me is my faith in Jesus, the people I love, and the youth I still have. I retired in 1997 with nine and a half years of service as a police officer specializing in community oriented policing. I was forced to retire because of a spinal injury from an accident at work. My best advice is to be careful of your back because it's the only one you have, and once hurt it bothers you the rest of your life. But with all this, my faith carries me through. With faith I have the courage to continue my life, and share with others.  Never give up!

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Last June 22, 2009