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RE: black and white for monomad
howdy today melinda010100! hey congratulations on your placement in the Engagement League! wow I was so shocked, I figured I'd just be in the top 5 somewhere but you dang near made the top ten!
I need to work on interacting with more people this week, and doing more replies to replies! Thanks for helping with that one!
haha! well melinda010100 it is my pleasure to converse with you and most people on here are very nice to talk with so it's very easy to increase engagement, I'm sure by now you know tons of people that you could talk to more.
I do! You are certainly the master, though!
hahaha...I wouldn't say that because all I do is find wonderful people like yourself who are kind enough to carry on a conversation and so I should only get half the credit and everyone I talk to should get the other half!
So now you must tell me more about you! I have lived in a few different towns in Wisconsin, but you have lived in several states! Do you have kids? Are there things you miss about Ohio? Where did you grow up?
howdy today melinda010100! I hope today is going well for you. You're probably an early riser and have been up for a long time already.
I started off being raised in Kansas City but then we moved out to the farm in SouthWest Kansas when I was in the third grade, it was way out in the country about 25 miles from Dodge City and that's where I finished growing up, on the farm.
But I drifted around and lived in Kentucky, Indiana, Colorado and the latest state was Ohio.
I don't have kids myself but my wife had a daughter when we married and the daughter had kids early so we have 2 Grandsons ages 21 and 18.
In fact the older one joined steemit but hasn't posted anything yet.
I miss the business in Ohio, we had built a large real estate business and for me it was my dream-come-true stay at home business. I loved it and didn't want to leave Ohio and give that up, at least not when we did.
But my wife said the stress was killing her and she had to stop so we gave that up and moved to Texas because it was the best place we could find within our budget with some privacy and acreage.
Well, plus she loves the hot weather and wanted to move South. I love more of a variety of seasons and didn't want to move this far South.
Now we're looking for ways to make an income, she has a verbal acceptance for a job and if something comes up for me I might be gone from steemit except for very limited engagement.
I was up early, before it even got light. I did a few things here on Steem and then fell back to sleep again for a few more hours. My daughter works each morning for one of my neighbors who is severely handicapped. She goes to his house 7 days a week for about an hour and a half to help him get his day started. And I'm so lucky that she's in my neighborhood every day because when she finishes there she comes and sees me and we often have lunch together before she heads off for classes.
Those all sounds like really great places to have lived. Lots of good life experiences I bet. So you haven't been in Texas very long? I hope you find something acceptable there to do and make some money. Good luck to your wife, too.
You have made a great start at building your steem account. I hope that whatever happens in your future you will still have plenty of time to be here. I think it promises good things for all of us that got in as early as we did.
Now, I off to read your latest post.
howdy again melinda010100! well that is a real blessing to have your daughter around! What is she taking classes for, is she studying for a new career or just in college?
We've been in Texas for three years but in some ways it feels like we've always been here. For one thing getting back into the country was what I needed, my wife had never been in the country but she loved it as soon as we got here.
And we teamed up with native Texans first thing and absorbed the culture and became Texans totally. Actually it isn't that different from being in the country in Kansas so it was easy.
We'll find something but it would be nice if steemit and steem proved itself to be strong and going up in price, that would justify me spending so much time on here! lol.