About
THE OLD WOMAN WHO KEEPS A PARROT
THE PARROT
ABOUT ME
I am a progressive seventy-year-old woman who has an opinion about most things.
I live in Victoria, Texas, USA.
I was a teacher of English literature for four years in a public high school in the mountains of North Carolina, USA, after college.
Following my tenure as a teacher, I became a social worker for the State of North Carolina. My clients were elderly or disabled. A number of them lived in family care homes or in nursing homes. I placed people in these homes from the state mental hospitals for several years. I also licensed family care homes and foster homes for the state.
I moved to Texas from Greensboro, North Carolina in 1976.
My husband and I started a concrete business in Victoria in 1979 and worked together in the business until his death in 2009.
My daughter and her husband have operated the business for nearly ten years.
I have one daughter,one grandson, two dogs, an Amazon parrot, a chinchilla and two Winter White Russian Dwarf Hamsters.
I still have all of my teeth and most of my marbles.
If you want to know anything else, ask me. :-) I would like to know about you too. I am particularly interested in what you think.
Thank you for your interest in my blog. I hope you enjoy your visit.
George Weaver
she has a wonderful blog …
lei ha un blog stupendo…
dumneavoasta aveti un blog minunat
March 19, 2013 at 11:41 am
Mulțumesc!
March 19, 2013 at 11:46 am
Thanks for stopping by the Sunshine Scrapbook and liking so many of my posts
March 6, 2013 at 10:08 pm
Hi there, I’ve nominated you for the Versatile Blogger Award: http://sunshinescrapbook.wordpress.com/2013/03/06/ooh-yippee-another-award/
March 6, 2013 at 1:28 am
Great Blog georg! Full of beautiful light and sensibility . Nice to meet you .
February 21, 2013 at 11:09 am
Nice to meet you too, Anisjarossi. (What? Your name?)
Thank you for stopping by and for your kind comment!
February 21, 2013 at 9:20 pm
Thank you George . My name is Anisja.
February 22, 2013 at 3:56 am
Thank you for your likes to my wordpress site. I have enjoyed looking through yours as well. Best, Jon
February 20, 2013 at 1:37 pm
I’m glad you enjoyed the visit, Jon. Thank you for dropping by. I am very interested in your project and will be reading back to the first of it soon and following along. A great project! So happy to see that you are devoted to creating a photographic record. The photographs that you published already are very sensitive and just wonderful. Thank you.
February 21, 2013 at 9:18 pm
ciao! luvFAB blog.
thebestdressup
February 10, 2013 at 5:27 pm
Ciao! I just scrolled through a few delightful posts on your blog. Such a bright and clever and happy place! I will be back! Thank you for stopping by.
February 10, 2013 at 8:15 pm
Thank you so much for liking all of my photos!!! Your comments are so very kind, thank you.
January 20, 2013 at 11:19 pm
Ah, Dave. If you ever change your Gravatar photo, I will lose you for sure. That gentle guy looking out of the little frame makes me happy when I see it. I remember it from the first time I saw it. I thought to myself, “There is a kind man” … and so he is. I do like your photographs. A lot. And, you’re welcome.
February 10, 2013 at 7:52 pm
Fascinating to discover you and your blog.
January 12, 2013 at 5:30 am
I love it when I see “LensScaper”. I always think “Lens Caper”. That makes me chuckle in delight. I’m sure I follow you, but I’ll check on my notification setting to be sure I’m getting notifications since I fail miserably at following the Reader. It’s my nemesis here on WP! Thanks for finding my little blog.
February 10, 2013 at 7:48 pm
what a delightful person you are! i will treasure receiving your future posts!
lisa/z from ecuador, formerly from mississippi!
January 10, 2013 at 10:37 pm
Hi, Zeebra Girl. I replied in the recent past, but I failed to hit “Post” apparently. Sigh… Getting old. You are a delight yourself. I smile when I think of your transporting yourself from Mississippi to Ecuador! I have to visit more often. I loved the wonderful face and its smile and the painting when I was at your place recently. I don’t often keep crisp images of paintings in my head, but that one sticks. Thanks!
February 10, 2013 at 7:45 pm
yes, you are a gift to the world! the personal journey has been a unique one, for sure, and who knows what life has waiting for me ’round the bend?!!!
thanks so much! lisa/z
February 10, 2013 at 7:54 pm
Hi George,
Happy New Year to you. May 2013 bring you more happiness, love, and success. And I would like to thank you for keep following my blog. I hope my posts do not disappoint. My subscription went messed up, so now I am resubscribing, looking forward to reading more of yours!
Thank you again, many blessings and much love to you.
Subhan Zein
January 6, 2013 at 4:33 am
You know, I missed your comment here. And, I don’t get email notices of your blog posts either. I have to check my notification settings. I love seeing your sweet face when visit blogs. Yours is one of the faces I know. Thanks for the new year wishes. May you find an abundance of love, happiness and success too. Thank you for coming to tell me. Now, we can get back on track!
February 10, 2013 at 7:42 pm
Hi George, I have nominated you for a host of awards. If you wish to accept please go to my blog http://luccav.com/2013/01/03/multiple-awards/ for the instructions. Congratulations!
Hope you had a great Christmas and New Year.
cheers
Luciana
January 2, 2013 at 10:48 pm
Thank you, Luciana! I am honored to be included in these awards. You are too kind.
I hope you had a good Christmas and New Year too. I am determined that all of us have a good 2013!
January 2, 2013 at 11:18 pm
I am hoping 2013 being a bumper year for us all too!
January 2, 2013 at 11:53 pm
Like you, I am determined to follow blogs that I enjoy more instead of trying to keep going with so many. I love all of them, but I just am too shaky (with my familial tremor) to tour fast enough. I have done a really bad job of responding this year. I will do more if it kills me!
If I don’t come calling as I should, please poke me awake over here! Just leave a message: “Wake up, Granny!”
January 3, 2013 at 12:01 am
George – thanks for visiting my blog and for following it too – I hope you’ll enjoy the images. I certainly like your pictures and the layout of your very classy blog, but I’m unable to follow any more blogs at present as I just can’t keep up with all the emails. However I may be retiring soon and then things will be different.
I especially like “I still have all of my teeth and most of my marbles.” – I do too!
I’m also in social care, but on the stats, facts and figures side, rather than the actual care side.
Take good care of yourself. Adrian (FATman Photos)
December 29, 2012 at 8:53 am
I see you everywhere, Adrian, and I like what you do very much. I don’t expect you to follow. I can’t keep up either!
Have a wonderful retirement … send photos!
December 29, 2012 at 11:01 am
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Thanks for stopping by my blogs!!
December 27, 2012 at 7:37 am
Hello George. I haven’t played with spreading concrete since I was a teenager but your mention of being in the concrete business brought back some memories. Moving from North Carolina to Texas sounds like a major change to me. Wow. We may share some common ground via English Literature. Or should that be common text?
So glad I cybersurfed here from Lynda’s blogcasa.
December 19, 2012 at 5:56 pm
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I can see that we are going to get along quite well. I am thrilled to have come across your blog and wonderful to see that you like my photos and are following me too. Thank you!
December 9, 2012 at 3:24 pm
Yes, I enjoy what you are doing on your blog. It feels “right” to me. I am very comfortable there and can find my way around easily. I especially like the way you process your photographs.
December 9, 2012 at 4:25 pm
George, I hope you’ll accept the Sisterhood of World Bloggers Award -
http://thewanderlustgene.wordpress.com/2012/12/07/blogging-a-window-on-the-world/
No pressure – the important thing is that others come over to see one of your great photos and maybe entice you back to the blogosphere
December 7, 2012 at 10:04 am
Oh, dear… I only just saw this! I apologize for failing to see the post. I think I am not receiving them on my reader or email. Thank you so very much. I really do appreciate your thinking of me, and I will be certain that your posts get to me. I am going to try to post more in 2013.
January 2, 2013 at 10:51 pm
Don’t worry about it George, but I do hope you’ll be able to find the time to blog more – you’ve been missed! As I said when I made the ‘nomination’, i was hoping we could draw you back somehow
January 2, 2013 at 11:59 pm
Love your resumé , especially the parrot, the teeth and the marbles.
November 26, 2012 at 9:51 am
“The parrot, the teeth and the marbles” pretty much describes me.
Thank you for stopping by and saying “hi”.
November 26, 2012 at 6:20 pm
Real nice introduction. Amusing and informative
October 30, 2012 at 2:46 pm
Hi George,
It has been a while since I have heard from you. How are you doing? Sending good thoughts your way.
Warmly,
Naomi
October 29, 2012 at 10:24 am
I’m still around, Naomi. Had a kind of hard summer for some reason, but I’m getting back in gear here. You are kind to ask! I remember the first post that I saw on your blog. It was a photo of a reclining figure on a crypt. It sticks in my head. I thought that my own posts were so provincial by comparison. I still do, but I keep posting anyway. Yours was the most sophisticated blog for me. It still is. Thought you might smile at that.
I haven’t forgotten you. I’ll get there in my stumbling around. Thanks for the visit.
October 29, 2012 at 1:44 pm
You are too kind, George. I felt the same way about your posts, and have a great admiration for your writing and photography. I am still one of your faithful followers. I am no longer receiving your posts, but I am not sure why. I hope I am not on your spam list! So good to hear from you!
October 29, 2012 at 1:50 pm
I have no idea how to check the spam list, but I’ll wander on over to the dashboard to see if I can discover why you don’t get the notifications. I haven’t posted anything to the parrot blog in awhile. I post to the Fuzzy because it is easy to drop one photo there. I appreciate your keeping up with me. It figures that we’d remember the “old timers” here. (For me, that means since last January … which may be a lifetime at my age! So much to do and so little time left!
October 29, 2012 at 1:59 pm
Hi George, I’ve been away and out of it for months. My world as chaotic as ever! I thought going overseas would change all that. Hmmm, things are as usual – utter madness! I’ve missed you. x
October 21, 2012 at 3:50 pm
I was kind of scattered during the summer so I have lots of catching up to do. I missed you too. I can’t decide what to post anymore. I do love visiting your blog though. I went back there to your “about” page some time ago and admired the “couple” in the garden!
I was thinking that I’d be too fearful of the bull to get close enough for that wonderful photo! Good to hear from you, Charlene. I’ll be around soon!
October 29, 2012 at 1:53 pm