[speaker002:] hobbies do you have
[speaker001:] oh I love quilting crocheting painting uh just a number of things what do you have
[speaker002:] well you've got you you're good at all the things that I'm very poor at
[speaker001:] what are your hobbies
[speaker002:] oh I um I jog and I play the saxophone and the piano
[speaker001:] oh
[speaker002:] I play in a little jazz band a local community band over here
[speaker001:] what part of Dallas are you in
[speaker002:] um North Dallas
[speaker001:] uh what's the name of the town
[speaker002:] I live in Garland uh right on the border of Richardson
[speaker001:] oh he he lives my son lives in Dallas in Plano
[speaker002:] oh quite close
[speaker001:] uh-huh well uh do you have much opportunity to play the saxophone
[speaker002:] quite yeah because I'm in this jazz band I you know we we meet once a week and then we'll have a concert um several times a year we'll go play wherever anybody needs a band
[speaker001:] oh how fun
[speaker002:] yeah we play a lot of um jazz from the from the forties and fifties and it's it's a lot of fun I'm I'm I'm the only girl in the band
[speaker001:] oh oh that would be fun
[speaker002:] and uh well the average the median age has to be about sixty so
[speaker001:] oh my goodness
[speaker002:] so it's a bunch of you know old folks getting together and playing
[speaker001:] um-hum well you don't sound like you're in that category
[speaker002:] no I'm not I'm I'm twenty seven but um I enjoy it a whole lot because they talk about you know a lot of um older musicians
[speaker001:] oh um-hum well I have we I belong to a quilting group
[speaker002:] uh-huh and do you all meet like once a week
[speaker001:] once a month and there's about eleven of us and so we meet every uh once a month and then we each get a turn to have a quilt
[speaker002:] uh-huh oh so you each get a quilt out of it
[speaker001:] and then everybody helps on it uh-huh
[speaker002:] well that's nice
[speaker001:] yeah we get help with the quilt so we enjoy that and then I do a lot of quilting on the side
[speaker002:] on the ones that you um do for your like if you get the quilt do you get to pick what pattern you want or
[speaker001:] yes we furnish the material and the quilt and everything and then people just come that and then we spend all day quilting and have dinner and uh just just get together and visit and quilt
[speaker002:] well that sounds nice
[speaker001:] it is nice we really enjoy that and then in the evenings I I do a lot of crocheting
[speaker002:] crocheting and what kind of things do you crochet
[speaker001:] uh-huh oh afghans uh pillows uh I'm I I'm just doing right now some uh Christmas ornaments
[speaker002:] uh-huh Christmas ornaments well that sounds nice
[speaker001:] um-hum yeah snowflakes and things like that bells balls
[speaker002:] it's always nice to get a few unique ornaments you know that mean something to you
[speaker001:] yes like a we have uh six children and I gave each of them some for their trees this year
[speaker002:] you have quite a large family
[speaker001:] um-hum um-hum
[speaker002:] plenty of quilting to keep you busy
[speaker001:] yes and we have fourteen grandchildren so I'm trying to get a quilt for each one of them oh fifteen after today
[speaker002:] oh my yeah that'll keep you busy right there
[speaker001:] fifteen after today
[speaker002:] yeah that's true well congratulations that's just wonderful what's what's the little child's name
[speaker001:] we don't know yet
[speaker002:] oh they haven't quite decided
[speaker001:] well no it came early and she had to have an emergency C section so we didn't get we they don't have the name yet
[speaker002:] oh well I'm glad everything's all right
[speaker001:] yeah but uh do you have any other uh hobbies
[speaker002:] well I didn't I we jog quite a bit um this
[speaker001:] you and your husband
[speaker002:] my husband and I yes and um we take one of our dogs she jogs with us and just recently I did my first fifteen K which is a little over nine miles
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] so hopefully this year I'll be able to do a half of a marathon which is thirteen miles so
[speaker001:] oh yeah
[speaker002:] that's kind of what I'd like to work up to I've been ill a little bit over the holidays so I haven't um had time to um you know do any type of running really
[speaker001:] uh-huh we have two sons that run one's a pilot for American and the other one's a doctor in Cleveland and so they uh they do those marathons too
[speaker002:] uh-huh uh-huh well
[speaker001:] but my husband walks a lot but he doesn't jog
[speaker002:] what kind of painting do you do
[speaker001:] tole painting and uh painting on wood wood things
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] mostly I don't do any oil or anything like that
[speaker002:] my mother just started painting and so
[speaker001:] with what
[speaker002:] uh she started water color and she took a class at the local community college and I wanted her to take another class she wants to um I think get into some drawing by hand because that's what she feel best with
[speaker001:] uh-huh uh-huh
[speaker002:] but other than that I don't have a whole lot of hobbies I've got three pets and they pretty much two dogs and a cat and they keep me kind of busy and
[speaker001:] um well those are hobbies aren't they
[speaker002:] yeah I suppose so
[speaker001:] what kind of dogs are they
[speaker002:] well one of them is part Great Dane in fact we think she's mostly Great Dane but um we found her and then the second dog she looks Black Lab we found her too
[speaker001:] oh oh
[speaker002:] so uh we got a bunch of strays running around the house
[speaker001:] my husband has a little cocker spaniel that walks with him
[speaker002:] oh
[speaker001:] when he when he's here when he doesn't you know he walks at the University of Utah a lot too but he's he uh walks here and takes the dog with her with him
[speaker002:] is he a professor out there
[speaker001:] no no he's an educational specialist
[speaker002:] what kind of what uh what does that mean
[speaker001:] well he is a civilian employee of the Army and he just uh tests uh universities and the high schools to place students where they'd like to be if they join the Army
[speaker002:] oh I see um-hum
[speaker001:] well even if they don't they can still take the test
[speaker002:] have all your kids left home
[speaker001:] yes well yes we have one that's uh on a mission in Germany for our church
[speaker002:] uh-huh well how neat