[speaker001:] tell me what you like to do
[speaker002:] well I I collect antique tools uh for one thing I well I'm sort of in a an antique business but it's it's a little sideline part time thing
[speaker001:] oh uh-huh wonderful
[speaker002:] and uh I'm building a a log house at a farm that I have in East Texas which you like a a a hundred miles from here
[speaker001:] ah wonderful
[speaker002:] yeah it's really neat and I I been course I've been working on it for five years but you know
[speaker001:] oh but how wonderful how are you close to getting it done
[speaker002:] yeah yeah it's getting real close to you know uh of course there's still a lot of work to be done and then when you get it completely you you know the shell finished uh you still have a lot of stuff to do inside
[speaker001:] oh
[speaker002:] but uh
[speaker001:] are you gonna move your whole family over there then
[speaker002:] no actually uh I'm I'm not even sure I may I'll probably always have a place here in Richardson or Dallas
[speaker001:] uh-huh kind of your getaway place
[speaker002:] yeah escape but it's beautiful it a you know it's eastern hardwood um forest there are a lot of pine trees but it's mostly oaks and ah
[speaker001:] oh how beautiful and it's pretty flat there
[speaker002:] well it's it's kind of hilly but it's you know low hills it's not uh
[speaker001:] see I've only been to Texas once I have two sisters in Texas now um one in Austin one in Dallas and the one in Dallas is the one that got me to doing this
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] and um I thought Austin was beautiful I liked the hills and the trees
[speaker002:] yeah yeah in Austin it it's really different because that's kind of a you you know that's the chalk hills down there limestone limestone hills
[speaker001:] oh and you've always lived in Texas have you
[speaker002:] yeah except for time in service
[speaker001:] uh-huh born raised Texan huh well I had never been there that's that's pretty neat my sisters both seem to like it pretty well my brother-in-law works for the university um in Dallas
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] he's admissions director
[speaker002:] which at at which one
[speaker001:] uh University of Texas in Dallas yeah
[speaker002:] oh okay that's just north of me here
[speaker001:] yeah well that he's got a job there and this is his first year so it's been a real interesting thing for them
[speaker002:] that's great
[speaker001:] but they seem to like it okay I think they're too far away from me but
[speaker002:] well yeah
[speaker001:] maybe some day they can get closer we'll see
[speaker002:] that's a pretty good trip so what are you what kind of hobbies are you in
[speaker001:] well I'm a mother of four so basically I'm just real busy with my kids right now in sports and we have a little Halloween talent show tonight it's
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] I substitute at the schools part time
[speaker002:] oh that's great
[speaker001:] well I am a travel agent at heart and my hobby is just I love traveling and and being involved of that and finding out more uh but it's real hard to work in the summers and holidays and weekends when you have four children and a husband so
[speaker002:] no kidding
[speaker001:] I reluctantly gave that career up and am just substituting at the school so I've been librarian all this week which has been real interesting and I'm enjoying it I'm around my kids and
[speaker002:] hey that's that's pretty easy substituting isn't it
[speaker001:] oh yeah yeah it's great it's great and what else do I do I do lots of cross stitching when I have time and I enter things in our little state fair and that's pretty fun
[speaker002:] ooh that's great
[speaker001:] well that actually my hobbies is mostly is my sports tennis I play tennis
[speaker002:] ooh I love tennis too and I ski ski do you ski
[speaker001:] ooh do you yes we snow ski we snow ski at Mount Bachelor mostly in Oregon have you ever been there
[speaker002:] uh that's great I no uh
[speaker001:] wonderful place
[speaker002:] I've skied in Colorado and we usually usually go to New Mexico because it's a little cheaper you know but uh
[speaker001:] ooh  uh-huh where in Colorado
[speaker002:] uh I've been to uh Telluride which is on the west side and uh Copper Copper is kind of my favorite up there Breckenridge uh
[speaker001:] yes yes really uh-huh
[speaker002:] and Keystone I guess those are the only places I've skied up there
[speaker001:] I would love I can hardly wait to get up there
[speaker002:] me too you guys are are you guys getting snow
[speaker001:] we it is snowing right now we're to get one to three inches tonight
[speaker002:] oh gee well
[speaker001:] it's awful
[speaker002:] I heard Aspen got three feet
[speaker001:] oh yeah well we're yeah we are on the dry side of the mountain Seattle is only about two and a half hours so of course I'm a real Seahawks fan and um going over that pass is just a real nightmare
[speaker002:] yeah I can imagine my lord
[speaker001:] and um so and we're on the colder side they're on the rainy side we're on the snowy side yeah and um we we ski my my children all ski and we we have been to Whistler in Canada which is just a marvelous place Whistler and Black Home
[speaker002:] oh super uh-huh
[speaker001:] is in Canada and then we've gone to Sun Valley several times that's a just a great place but no Colorado not in Colorado since I was in college because I went to school haven't been there I keep hearing these marvelous things about Deer Valley and um don't Adam um City
[speaker002:] what about Utah yeah I haven't either I always wanted to go to Canada to Canada to Banff or somewhere like that you know
[speaker001:] ooh yes and your kids all ski
[speaker002:] uh not all of them my my kids are all grown uh but my youngest son is a skier
[speaker001:] uh-huh uh-huh really that's great well my boys are at the point where they scare their mommy to death when they're skiing they're fearless and they go off
[speaker002:] uh-huh