| ABOUT ME I find it very hard to write about myself, I think that most people do find it hard to write about theirselves. There is nothing that has happened in my life that would be of any interest to anyone. As you can tell by my pages, I am the mother of six, I can't say children since all of them are over the age of consent. I had Patsy when I was sixteen, that statement makes it quite clear that I didn't graduate from high school and everything I know today is self taught. As a young woman I did waitress work and later in life worked in a nursing home helping our senior citizens. A few years ago, my sister Netta, started in on me about getting a computer. I couldn't see the sense in me buying a machine that I would never use. I could never learn to use a computer, not with my limited education. Plus the fact that all of this new technology scares the hell out of me. Netta wouldn't drop it, so I finally gave in and got myself a computer. With my luck the first two machines were faulty and had to be returned. Now that really did a lot for my self confidence and to top it off I was positive that the machines were fine and that I had broke them. But Netta did her best to assure me that these things happen. Netta started me out on mouse 101 and I got pretty good at playing solitaire and writting letters on the desk top. And I'm quite content with my mouse 101. Here Comes Netta! It's time for you to go onto the web, come play spades with me. "O.K." Now I'm in there and playing cards and I'm told I have to double click, so now I have to learn to double click. So I learn to double click. Now I'm getting brave, I'm out there surfing the net and finding sites that I like. I'm really pleased with myself now. I've even learned how to right click and save the things I want. Here comes Netta! You should do a web page, now I know she has lost it, she has to be crazy! I will say that Netta missed her calling she should of been a teacher. Sure enough here I sat one day working on my homestead web page. I had worked for hours and was quite pleased with it, so I go up and click on "save page." A message comes up saying, " we can't save this page. use your back button." I searched everything on that page and I can't find no back button. Well I figured all I can do is exit the page. I do and another message comes up, "Do you want to save this page?" OH GOODIE, there going to let me save my page. so I say "Yes" ....message...."Can't save this page use your back button." After four or five times of this happening I am sitting here cussing at this machine ~~@#%%&**@@ ^ there is no back button. Now I have no choice I'll have to use my, ctrl alt & delete, all of my hard work will be lost forever. To my amazement when I returned to my pages it was all there, all I could think was "Welcome to Cyber Hell." Most of my life has been spent cleaning my home, shopping and doing yard work. Now there is dishes in the sink, dust on the tables, while I sit here at this machine. I say I will do it tomorrow. But I wake up in the morning and remember something that I must get onto my pages before I forget it. Isn't it odd how tomorrow never comes, there is only today, And I'm busy today... Yes Netta, I really needed this machine to fray my nerves, frazzel my brain and to drive me straight up the walls. But I do agree with her that there is more to life than a clean house. Pat written in 1999 |
| Netta & Me in England Trafalgar Square |
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| Patsy |
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| It is a very sad day for me and I am here to add a postscript to the web pages that my sister Pat created. She certainly did a wonderful job for someone who was certain that she could never do this. A few months ago Pat begin to have a great deal of pain and finally on April first she was admitten to the hospital. A cat scan revealed that she had cancer in her lung. This was was not the first fight with Cancer that she had went through. Over 20 years ago she had surgery and they had to remove her entire stomach. Then 8 years ago, they discovered that she had lung cancer and she had a wedge removed from her lung. They had discovered that the cancer had returned to the same lung where she had the surgery before. But this time it returned and was pressing against her spine causing her intense pain. In the past 6 weeks she had lost about 2 lbs a week. Since her stomace surgery had only weighed about 72 pounds. By last week she was down to 58 pound. Today, May 19, 2003 my sister lost her fight with cancer. I will try to keep her pages going as long as possible. Pat's sister ~ Netta |
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