Welcome from the Deep South!
Gary and I are Georgian's, "Southern Georgian's" to be exact. And actually in our area there are many homes similar to the ones in this graphic above. (One more reason I chose this lovely set [smile] ) I have always dreamed of restoring a home like this, but the cost to restore and modernize a home like this would take a rather LARGE bank roll!! Oh but I can dream…
Can't I?
In the Historic Districts through out Georgia, you will find homes like these. All good southern women dream of owning a "Tara Plantation" from the movie "Gone with the Wind". Of course the home above is not a "Grand Southern Manse". Even so… restoring a home like the one above is best left to those with the "means" to "do it up right". (Can you hear my southern drawl? )

Well enough daydreaming, down to business here. Let me tell you a little about My Husband and I.

As you probably guessed by the mushrooms above tossing hearts at each other, Gary and I are relative newlywed's. We just celebrated 5 years of marriage, though we are both in our middle years. (A nice way of saying were not spring chickens anymore *smile*)

We found each other again after 20 years of, each of us "goin' our own way". Meeting again after the death of my late husband. We started dating and was married within 6 months!

The midi playing is our wedding song. Your Love Amazes Me.

Our marriage has been much like our romance, a whirlwind! Moving, living here and there, Gary relocating with his job, playing music on the side (which he has done all his life) And me? Well I have been stuck at home to sick to travel much anymore. We were only married 2 short years when my health took a fast u-turn south.
(that’s another story for later)

We have finally settled in our own home, in "OUR" home town, well…... sorta. Lets just say we are sneezeing distance from our home towns. We found a nice little piece of land just out of town, and we love it here. It's quiet, the land has pear tree's and a grapevine. We have pecan tree's, pine tree's, and huge wysteria bush that takes half the front lawn.

One month after we moved in I got very sick, so as of yet I have not been able to plant my flower and vegetable garden that I was planning. Gary promises as soon as life "settles" a bit he will help me plant both.
As of now we are still at a tug of war over the back field, He wants a pond, I want heated swimming pool. Should we start a poll as to who wins out? *VBS*
Of course right now I would settle for my back deck He still hasn't had the time to build. LOL

Gary is a musician of great talent. He has played some sort of instrument since the tender age of 7!! Me? Well I play the radio really well (giggle) Gary he has played with many "great's" in the Gospel and country fields.

His passion is the steel guitar. He has been playing Steel guitar for 25 years, and the bass guitar since age 7

Gary is also a studio musician, for area recording studio's around South Georgia and North Florida.
He does have a "regular job", you know the one you can count on that pays the bills and puts food on the table. He is an Engineer for a company based in Atlanta Georgia. Now sub contracted out working in Darien Georgia (another one of those places we lived for a while) He jcommutes daily, back and forth, as well as burning up the highways on the job. Then every weekend he is off to play with the band. ( I wonder if I will ever get that garden?)

As for myself, I became disabled 2 years after we were married and haven't been able to work since. We have no children of our own living at home.(nor do we want anymore at our age!) So I found myself home alone much of the time not able to do much. (boy that was so frustrating!)

Gary bought me my first computer to help fill my days and give me something to do, in "97" and I have been online every since. I taught myself to operate the computer, build web pages, and anything else you can do with a computer. I have since authored many web sites, helped others learn to do the same as a community leader in G******** (you know that other free home page place)
I now have an online Support Group <<---click there to go to support site. It keeps me really busy, and I own that domain.(lots of work)
I first started out working with other Support Groups
This past year my sister and I formed Encouragement Well It has grown like wild fire.
I have spent so much time with the support group that this my personal site has went to rot and ruin, as we say here in the south (here that drawl again? LOL)

Well that is just a little glimpse inside our lives. You can find more things on the rest of the pages, like my journey to a better way of living with pain each day. Or visit The Poet that has awakened in me after years of laying dormant. My life was just to "busy" to take time to relax and indulge in that passion. You will find many other things, as the site grows, and as I get the ruins from the old site out of the heap pile and rework them as well.

I thank you for taking time to read a little about our lives. May your days be full of the richest blessings, and may friendships bloom and shower your life!

Merry