[graciegirl]

We have had some wonderful role models in the generation before us.

There is a wonderful girl who lives here in TV and she was born in November of 1912 and she is from Ohio.

This woman washes out plastic bags to reuse them, she grows green beans, tomatoes, pepper, broccoli, cabbage green onions, and blueberries next to her pool. Her daughter cans tomatoes and my older friend is extremely careful with her money and investments, checking them daily on her computer.(AT 99 YEARS of AGE!!) Her brother who is 85 is still a seated professor at a prestigious university and she herself could at least have been president of the United States if she had been born at a different time.

Her grandson came to visit and changed out all of the lightbulbs in her home with energy saving ones and he himself is very interested in the green movement.

This friend called for me to come to rescue some butterfly bushes that had to be moved in her backyard for an addition..so they wouldn't go to waste.

It is true what the OP wrote and it was indeed fun to hear it.

I am so blessed to know so many interesting people hearabouts and so glad to be sharing my space on the planet with these lovely grown up people with some mighty good habits.

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OH.....I remember another thing about my almost 100 year old friend. She makes her own piecrusts, and yummy ones too, with white flour and lard...and she puts refined sugar in the pie filling. Amazing, isn't it???