I think I'm still alive - deteriorating, but with no dread disease (that I know of). My knees are definitely 74 going on 75, but the rest of me keeps pretending to be young.

 

I do many, many hours of volunteer work in the University's Lakeshore Nature Preserve, a 300+ acre on-campus preserve.  I grow rare species of wildflowers from seed (over 2000 potted seedlings this year) and then work to get them into appropriate spots. Yesterday we had a "planting party" and planted 25 or so flats (32 each). Getting there, though there are still hundreds to go. Also build and maintain trails, wrench out invasive shrubs and do other tasks of ecological restoration.

 

Also keep on doing Global Village Habitat for Humanity house builds in exotic places, e.g., Uganda, Ethiopia, Nepal, Bangladesh, Guatemala, Fiji, Nicaragua, Haiti, Thailand, Cambodia......

At the end of this month I'm heading for Armenia for another build. I love travel, and justify my adventures by doing primarily service trips: water projects, house construction, and reforestation and other ecological jobs. I'm good for grunt work but don't do well with modern electrical tools. 

 

I have three grown children, two of them adopted from Korea and three beautiful granddaughters, almost 2 to almost 6.

 

Life is good.

 

Cheers,

Glenda