M Jeannette Flamming:  

I always admired my Dad for teaching until he was 70, as teaching is hard work, (though I had fun at it!) I'm now 73, and working very little, but I would like to get more hours. I still have one (grand)child in High School, and he has no job. he has Aspberger's, and I am thinking that's part of what makes him so reticent to go to work. When I work, I work in a clinic. I want to work in Hospice for a home care, as the 19 years that I worked in Peds', I worked with kids with chronic illness, and some died each year. Helping them work through their dying was satisfying for me. IT's been very, very gloomy and smoggy in Salt Lake, but now there are hints of Spring! I hear white throated sparrows again, and I'm told that saw whet owls are calling in the city canyon. I snowshoed three days starting Jan.1, but the snow turned to mud on the South-facing trail. I have not exercized since. So much for resolve. I would dearly love to go to Death Valley right now, as I suspect that there are many wildflowers in bloom. Son, Dave, my 2 grandkids and I camped there early March 2008, but missed the time of most flowers. We still had a good time, and went from there to Zion Nat'l Park in Southern Utah. I'm not a committed camper--it's a lot of work, I think, especially the part where yuou clean up everything and get the white Borax sands of Death Valley out of your tents when you get home! However, it is worth it. My knees are too bad to ski, but I usually do a couple or three 5Ks during the year. However, I walk them. I sign up to run and then walk. How's that? I love the Morris Prairie Days 5K, as it goes out to the Pomme de Terre, where the white bridge stood. The large rock by which we judged the depth of the f...Expand for more