Ellen Wright:
CLASS OF 1961
Carmel High SchoolClass of 1961
Carmel, CA
El Monte High SchoolClass of 1961
El monte, CA
Bassett Elementary SchoolClass of 1957
La puente, CA
Washington Junior High SchoolClass of 1956
Bakersfield, CA
Jefferson Elementary SchoolClass of 1955
Bakersfield, CA
Ellen's Story
Life
(Written just before my end-of-April 62nd birthday, 2005) I'm no longer a goatkeeper and cheesemaker.. lifting big vats of milk and wrestling 185 pound goats is NOT good for my back. I miss baby goats and the sweet sound of contented does chewing their cud. I miss my homemade cheese, and now I have to buy my goat meat; but instead of tossing hay, I'm now tossing clay around. For 4 years I've been attending ceramics classes at Hartnell College.. still a rank amateur, but enjoying myself immensly. My husband Dave and I have a big, aromatic Mediterranean garden and too many dogs.. 4 geriatric dogs and a big Gordon Setter/Aussie pup. A herd of 11 guinea pigs makes manure for our garden, 7 hens eat snails and lay delicious eggs, and in my senior years I have become an overworked cat door for our rotten bossy cat.
My 1972 model son is an RN at CHOMP, a passionate surfer (just got back from quake relief and ...Expand for more
surfing in Indonesia), a rock climber, and long-distance bike rider.. athletic ability he did NOT get from his mother. I love to cook and feed friends.. am very casual.. still don't wear shoes unless I must. I believe cotton shirts and sweatpants to be the perfect uniform and I don't own ANY makeup.. not even a lipstick. So.. what did you expect of the girl who milked a cow before she caught the bus? I drive my first-ever new car, a 1990 Subaru Legacy stationwagon bought in '89, that still gets 32 mpg on the highway and goes lickity split.. important for crossing 101 in Prunetucky where I live. Prunedale reminds me of Carmel Valley back when Carmel didn't want us!
I'm really surprized that so few of us have included biographies. Frankly, at my age I could care less about salaries and acquisitions. I'm a lot more interested in stories and lessons learned, and values discarded and kept. I do answer e.mails!
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