Howdy Y'all,

That's the official greeting from Texas which is where I have spent the past 38 years. I married in Ontario in 1964. My husband was a native of Galveston and in 1973, we sold our home, packed up, and moved to Texas with our two daughters. We later added two sons to our family.

We were married for 43 years until my husband passed away in 2007.

After graduation, I worked as a secretary off and on, the last 11 years that I worked commuted 50 miles each day to Houston until I retired in 2008.

I live in Lake Jackson, Texas which is what I would call a semi-rural area. We are 10 miles inland from the Gulf of Mexico and one of the larger cities in this area with a population of 26,000.