Six Word Saturday

To participate all you need to do is describe your life (or something) in a phrase using just six words. For more information, go to Show My Face. and Cate will explains it....feel free to explain or not explain. Add an image, a video, a song, nothing.

 

Thursday's post made me really homesick!

6 of Granny's 8 kids in front of the old house - probably around 1980

My parent's house

A little cabin that used to be a Post Office-it sits between Sneedville, TN and Morristown, TN

Compromise Church - past Kyles Ford on the way to Clinch Mountain

The old Miller Place - right beside Compromise - close to the old home place of my dad's family. When I was a kid, there was a goldfish pond in front of this house that fascinated me. Us kids would walk down the road from Grandpa's and watch them for hours.

The next 3 pictures are views from one of the hairpin turns on top of Clinch mountain

The rest are were all taken at the Natural Tunnel at Duffield, VA - just 15 miles from my parent's

Background

For those of you who have just started following this little blog - which is pretty much everybody since even though I've had this blog for 2 years, I have just started really getting into it - I thought I'd give you a little background. I am what I call a "displaced" Tennesseean. My father was a contractor so we moved around a lot when I was  a kid but home was always Tennessee. I graduated from high school in IL, went to college for 3 years and then got married and went to work in a factory where I stayed for 13 years until they shut down - the same year I got divorced. My kids were 5 and 7 at the time and I decided to go back to school, which I did - got my Associates and then went to work in the office of another factory.  I was there for another 12 years before they too, shut down and I was once again without a job. I did manage during those 12 years to take some more college classes and  get both of the kids through high school and beyond. My daughter got her Bachelors and my son went to a Tech school then joined the Air Force. They are both doing wonderfully. Raising them has been the most important thing I have ever done in my life. I did  manage to get a job after 9 long months of looking. I am now working in the office of a university here in IL where I can take classes for free! I will soon have my Masters in Computer Science. It's been a long journey and I've changed directions a lot of times - from way back when I studied Medical Technology right out of high school, to Office Systems Technology after I lost my job the first time to Computer Science now. It's been quite a ride but that's life. You just keep going and if you meet a roadblock, you have to change directions.