This photo was taken in August of 2009. In December, I cut my hair into a rough Pixie style.. so the photo is no longer exactly current. Will change it before too long.

Hey! How come there's no way to change the weight figures on this account page?! My weight is certainly no longer the stated 150#... it's now 132#.

I was born into rural Maine poverty back in the front half of the forties; which IS NOT being impoverished, btw; learned farming & gardening, married at 18, still married.. to the same great fellow & still living in the interior Maine mountain woods. Self taught myself writing and had a newspaper column for awhile.. a nature column. Wanted to learn about Nordic breed dogs and mushing, so got some and went to work at it.. it took 20 years to get the proper hang of it, but I (& hubby, Steve) did do it. We've hand built several homesteads. Using an OLD T-340 bulldozer, a chain saw, back breaking manual labor and a dump truck, we hand built this prsent place in the middle of a 125 acre forest, 1/3 mile off the nearest remote road, dragged in a little camp, added onto it and it's where we live today.. surrounded with peace, beauty and total privacy. We are, after nearly ten years here though, at ages 65 & 66, working on another place "closer to things" (but not much!) There are 6 retired huskies remaining, and until they are all gone, we'll certaiinly stay here.. maybe longer.

As in people? uhmmm...

Oh wowhhhh... name it... except travelling, that is! I like doing stuff "hands on" so have dabbled in many things, trying them on for the experience.

Outside walks & a treadmill; 3.5 mph @ various inclines, with sprints. Do a simple quad builder of squats & lunges, stretches and moves from both yoga & pilates... use 15 lb free weights for triceps, biceps, back & shoulders. I do these things 2 and 3 Xs weekly.

Few, recipes! Just a diet made up of combinations of (all organic) raw, steamed & stirfried green, red, purple & orange veggies, with parsley, lettuce, greens, from an inside growlight garden, some fruits, mostly berries... avocado every day.. salmon, buffalo, tuna, yogurt, Haddock, nuts & seeds, hard cooked eggs, some whole cheeses, butter &.. gasp!! ..whole, creamy, organic, UNpasturized milk.

mixes of nuts, seeds, dried fruits, strained Greek yogurt, oohhh la la

I loved YNY... that's why I'm here! I read a wide variety... liked J. Auel's series and am into Erhardt, right now. Kingsolver's Prodigal Summer was a great read: we live in the woods like one of those characters of the book, plus we're actively helping with the American Chestnut restorative attempt as is another of the book's characters: a haunting book for me. Trying on Barbara Lewis right now... fiction... set to an Amish backdrop.

The Herb Companion, Prevention, Old House Journal

Second Hand Lions, Shergar, Christmas Comes To Willow Creek, Miss Congeniality, Wooly Boys, Emmett Otter's Jugband Christmas, Toby MacTeague... just to scratch the surface

Havn't had a television since 2000

Country Western... some classical & /or Celtic.

Games?!You mean... ugh! ...SPORTS?! If you mean 'other'... Scrabble!