degrees driven family, football

DEGREES DRIVEN FAMILY 


one of the motivations behind my blog is to overtime
leave some record of my family for my kids and their
kids to read one day as well as my siblings kids and
their kids
these will be all my views of how things were
remembering that i came through at a different time
in my parents lives than the older siblings did and also
the younger siblings

those of you that know our family may not realize how
poor we were the last few years we were all at home

there was a point in our lives when we had no
indoor bathroom  we had very little clothing and our
gardening helped to keep us with food during those years
thank goodness for mom and dads ability to can and
preserve food

from this home though something drove us to be
successful especially in education
have always tried to figure this all out but have not
been able to
know my dad had a bachelors degree he obtained during
the last of the depression and with the beginnings of  ww2
he taught school, was a baptist minister and later in life
also was an insurance salesman
know my mom had at least one year of college      she taught
school some early in her life  and later in her early forties got
her nursing degree

most  of us never had any money to go to school but by
working, getting scholarships, getting grants(benefit of being
poor), gi bills, work study programs, student teaching,
military college, and commitment to public service
in exchange for paid college and school

many of us took a tortuous and sometimes painful journey
to get our degrees but we all eventually made it

there are eight of us kids in the family
we have 3 retired military siblings
we have 1 retired fireman
we have a teacher/librarian, teacher/licensed counselor,
medical doctor, history professor, a retired pilot/certified
financial planner, and a teacher/librarian
we have 2 associate degrees
we have 1 who completed fire academy and who
also completed police academy
we have 7 bachelor degrees, 5 masters degrees, 1 phd, and
1 medical doctor degree

have always been proud of our siblings success in school and
their careers     but always wondered what there was that
motivated all of us

just dont know

FOOTBALL
the razorbacks looked good
they won and now to the bowl game
havent seen which bowl yet but it should be a major
one

longhorns are through
they dont desire a bowl game
now they have to smolder until next year
surely next year has to be an improvement

the local team where i practice won and now play
a team that has won the last 2 state championships
they played each other early in the year and the local
team crunched the other team
they play at texas longhorn stadium
should be a large crowd there
hope to make this game
go wolves

the organicgreen doctor

testing one two three, my duck box

TESTING ONE TWO THREE
testing one two three
my website manager has lost some of my automatic email
notifications
have gotten some emails complaining that you are not
getting notified when i post an entry to my blog

have talked to my website manager and he thinks he has it
fixed now

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was under the impression that if you signed up as a
follower that you would automatically receive a new blog entry
but now my website manager tells me that aint so

if you are a follower and want this blog  emailed to you then
email the website manager at organicgreendoctor@gmail.com

now that that  is fixed (i hope) i went into the bathroom
and looked in the mirror and had a good talk
with my website manager

MY DUCK BOX 
i want to thank my nurse she and her husband he 
for taking the time out of their busy and stressful lives 
to do this shadow box for my duck collection

no i dont buy these things they just come through the mail
from california(my motherinlaw she)  and from patients
that go to disneyworld or disneyland or go to the disney store
to buy these for me to display  
want to thank all those folks(usually kids) for the gifts

these are the ones that the kids continuously knocked off the
shelves in my office      now they are glassed and box-
protected and are hanging on the wall where little hands
cant play with them


quackquackquack thanks

the organicgreen duck doctor

wife gone, football

WIFE GONE

my wife she is gone 

she left earlier in the week to visit relatives 

no shes not mad at me

this is the holiday i had to work the day after thanksgivng

so spent the thanksgiving day with my brother he and 

his wife my cowgirl sisterinlaw she 

felt bad for her having to deal with two adult twins 

at least we napped a lot so she could get some 

mental rest 

my wife she comes home late tonight 

will pick her up at the airport

have a lot to do today to get ready for her return 

well been soaking those dishes for a week now so 

they should be ready to wash now 

we conserve water by not using a dishwasher 

so today my dishwasher is me 

all the food is gone in the house so have to shop 

for groceries this am to replenish the supply to 

where it was when my wife she left

well got newspapers everywhere-by both potties, on

my tv watching couch, by my chair by the window, on 

the kitchen table 

lucky for me had to start a fire in my woodburning stove as

the temperature is in the 20s here this am 

use newspaper pages rolled up and tied in a knot to start the 

fire      that took 2-3 days of papers there 

oh yeah left several in the car

have to clean the floors as worked outside this week and 

left some residual stuff on the satillo floors 

will leave the bed partially made so that she will feel 

like i couldnt get by with out her help 

also will leave a few unwashed dishes in the sink to

add to that feelling of couldnt get by with out her help 

have to make sure the house doesnt look too perfect when

she gets home   

am glad shes coming home tonight 

FOOTBALL 

the razorbacks play lsu today at 230 pm at war memorial 

stadium in little rock     go hogs 

the local team where i work won and will now advance 

they lost their starting quarterback but like a lot of good teams 

they continue on winning as they have a lot of good players

go wolves

the other local team started the year out poorly but got 

better as the season went on 

they are now on a playoff roll

their game is today      go lions 

no pro games for me this weekend as will have to do 

honey dos all day tomorrow       sure she is making 

the list in her dreams 

the organicgreen doctor