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needtoescape · 02-05-2006, 11:58 AM

deleted. was off topic. sorry

Martha H · 02-05-2006, 12:18 PM

Hey, welcome neighbor! I'm up north just below the Michigan line. We get more snow here than you do, but this year it's been unusually warm, which is great for me!

The man I married was from Germany. In 1970 he became unemployed in NY where we lived, and he got a job over there.

Two years later he lost that job, and found one in Zimbabwe.

That lasted 3 years.

Then we returned to Germany where we stayed until I left in 2000.

Wherever I went I either tutored school children, or taught adult education courses (English as a second language) or taught nursery school.

Yet nothing I had ever seen or done prepared me for the hardest job of my life: Dementia Caregiver!

I also hope to see Australia someday - Sally ... just wait and see, one day we will suddenly appear! (dream on!)

Love,

Martha

BarbaraH · 02-05-2006, 01:04 PM

Hi -

We lived on the east side of Louisville in St. Matthews from 1988 until 1992 and loved it! We enjoyed Paoli and Brown County, IN, but were on a tight budget and didn't travel much unless it was south or east to visit family. That was when Mom had both oars in the water and neither of us had a clue about what was to come. Sigh!

I'll join you whenever we go to Australia, but let's not go during their summer, okay?! Wish, wish!!

Group hugs! Barbara

LuvMyLilDoggie · 02-05-2006, 03:11 PM

Me? I've never even seen an ocean much less been across it. Most of my trips were to visit family and in most recent years, shuffling my dad back and forth to my sister's house. But my sister has done most of that the past three years. So here I am at home.....

May I join you ladies when you make your way to Oz???

Love, Barb

needtoescape · 02-05-2006, 05:05 PM

I think Sally should tell us of a pub or something where she will leave instructions for us should we ever make our way to Australia for a respite from our caregiving...