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| Page Views: 5,895 | Getting To Know Me by deecat - last update: Jun 23, 2007 |
I think one of the reasons that I love the Chicago area (the midwest for that matter) is because of the changing seasons.
It's so much fun to wait anxiously for the first signs of Spring and to watch everything come alive again.
The summer is wonderful because it's filled with sounds of nature, beautiful flowers, sun-filled days, and warm nights.
Fall, with the shades of reds, oranges, ambers, rusts, and golds delight my senses. The crisp air envigorates us all. Of course, it's sad to see the summer's growth die back, but knowing that it will return, gives hope.
Winter is my least favorite season, but I still feel like a kid with the first snowfall. It cleanses the earth and brightens the grey days.
Yes, changing seasons: one of the many reasons I don't CHANGE my love for the Chicago area! |
A Sweet, Quiet Cat: Sally Sally will be Thirteen years old on July 4, 2007. She is one of the sweetest cats I've had because she is quiet and well trained. She walks on a leash, only eats her dry cat food mixture (one the Vet recommended twelve years ago), never begs for food while we are eating, does not jump up on cabinets, sleeps on her window perch beside the bed or at the bottom of Allan's feet at night; she tolerated Mr. Rabbit when we brought him in as the new pet, ALWAYS uses her litter box (even when she is outside, she cries when she needs to use the litter box so we'll let her come inside), and she's really quite BEAUTIFUL.
I've always thought that people who hate cats are people who always want to be in CONTROL. I like cats because they are independent and self sufficient. |  | |
| Jill and Allan, My #1 Favorites |
| | Likes and Dislikes To know me better, you might want to find out what I like and dislike.
Likes:
1. My husband and daughter
2. Optimistic people
3. Male Singer, Josh Groban, and Il Divo Group
4. READING
5. Traveling
6. Playing golf
7. Flower Gardening
8. Pizza & all Italian food
9. Weather between 60-85 degrees
10. Italy, beautiful Italy
11. Spain
12. Chicago
13. Chicago Cubs Baseball Team
14. San Diego, California
15. Dark Chocolate with nuts
16. Cats, especially long haired cats
What I Dislike:
1. Rap Music
2. Reality Shows, especially "Fear
Factor"
3. Smoking
4. Profanity for profanity's sake
(Get a vocabulary)
5. Fakes & Pseudo intellectuals
6. Pessimists
7. Racist & Right Wing Extremists
8. Potatoes (that's right, potatoes)
9. child & spouse abuse/abusers
10.Tourist who want everything in a
foreign country to be like "home" |
Way Back When... The following pictures represent the best of my past.
The picture on this page is in a frame that sits in front of me as I use the computer. It is my favorite of my father and mother.
My father: Ross O. Wood: The greatest Daddy ever. He died in 1999.
My mother: Wanda Jean Wood
The most unselfish Mother ever. She died in 1999, ten months after my father passed away.
No matter how old I am, I still feel like an orphan now that they are gone. | | | Daddy Ross & Momma Wanda Jean |
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| | Way Back When...II This picture was taken when there were just four in the family. My mother Wanda Jean; my sister, Ronda Jo (the one in the back), my father Ross O, and me, Dee Dee (back then)
I was about 4; my sister was 5 1/2, and my parents were only 24 and 26! |
The Four of Us One of the only pictures I have of the four of us: 2 sisters and 2 brothers (from my wedding in August of 1963!)
My sister, Ronda Jo Gullett was my Maid of Honor. (24 yrs old)
My brother, Douglas Ross Wood, was a Groomsman.(16 yrs old)
My little brother, Dustin Jay Wood, was the Ring Bearer. (3 yrs old)
Me: Sharon DEE Johnson, the bride
(22 yrs old) | | |
| | I DO, I DO.... n August of 1963 (40 years ago), Allan and I wed. We were so young, 23 and 22. That was not considered young back then. Most of my friends and my sister married shortly after graduating from high school. So, for the times, I was an old maid!
So many years ago, and I'm still saying, "I Do, I Do". |
And Baby Makes Three..... Our daughter Jill was born on October 29, 1969...it was the best of times.. She was a sweet, easygoing baby who loved to laugh, to play with the cats, and to be with her "Daddy". To this day, she still often laughs, still loves cats (Cleo, her own cat especially), and still loves to be with her "Daddy". The only difference now, she has her own love, Eric. | | |
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Stephen-KarenConn Sat Jul 26, 2008 00:24 UTC
Hi Dee, I was in Colorado and Utah the past couple of weeks and missed your birthday. Hope you're still celebrating. Happy Day - Every Day! | Dabs Thu Jul 24, 2008 23:31 UTC
Ha ha, I just saw all the stuff with the babushkas picture on it that they are selling at Pierogi Fest, I think I'm glad no VTers are coming this year ;-) Pillowcases, Xmas cards, cardobard cutouts.... | iandsmith Thu Jul 24, 2008 01:50 UTC
Thank you for the birthday greetings. I would have replied sooner but I've been in outback OZ as you are only too aware. I do hope you also had a wonderful birthday celebration. I know your family would have been involved. Cheers, Ian | deeper_blue Wed Jul 23, 2008 14:15 UTC
Have another great year, all the best |
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