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handmade34

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114. retired and just play all day!

Sun Aug 5, 2018, 03:28 PM

Aug 2018

I was and still am "jack of all trades"

...farmed, taught homesteading, went to school to teach HS, then went for my MDIV to preach, worked for 12 years on the NHANES for the CDC, opened a restaurant in Vermont, am now a caregiver, amateur carpenter (tearing walls and refiguring rooms for accessibility in my house) and garden, keep bees, chickens, turkeys and really hope life quits getting in the way so I can finish the Appalachian Trail before I am too feeble

...don't know if this all makes me smart?? or just crazy?

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