I've been married for 48 years to Jim Knight. We met in college. He grew up in Houston. He was in the army four years after taking ROTC & after we were married. Then, he worked as an organic chemist specializing in polyurethane foams.
We have 2 sons and 5 grand-daughters (aged 7-13). We've lived in the Killeen area, Houston, Conroe . and Georgetown in Texas and in Alabama, California and Pennsylvania. The longest time in the same house was 15 years in Exton, PA. We now have a Georgetown address although we're out in the country near the village of Walburg. We have been back in Texas for 7 years.
I have a B.S. in Math and Chemistry from Sam Houston State and a M.Ed. in Science Education from Texas A&M and I also took several computer science courses and accounting at UT-Austin. I taught Math and Science in grades 6-12 for 21 years. I was in Cypress-Fairbanks, Houston, Conroe and Georgetown. The subjects I taught the most were earth science and geometry.
We tent camped when we were younger, mostly in Utah and Colorado. We own our 3rd camper now, a 5th wheel. We took all the grand-daughters to Colorado the last 2 summers. We spent a lot of time in New England while we were living in Pennsylvania. Between campers we traveled a lot on the east coast and Canada where we mainly stayed in Bed/Breakfast's. I counted after a grand-daughter's question recently--I've been in 40 of our 50 states and 5 Canadian provinces.
I enjoy cooking and baking (have become quite brave). I still read a lot; recently mostly historical fiction and biographies. I do all types of sewing and other needlework, including knitting and various crafts. Jim and I are "rockhounds". Our main interest is fossils, also collect some minerals and do some lapidary work. (Jim does most of the lapidary.)
I spend a lot of time with our grand-daughters, especially with the 3 who live 7 miles away and especially in the summer. We have a pool which brings them over most hot afternoons. I took lessons and learned to swim a little when I was 30. I'm an expert floater. I enjoy good health even though I'm overweight.
I also spend a lot of time on the computer. I love Google, look things up daily. I also buy and sell online-eBay, Amazon and Bonanzie for the selling and most of the buying. I'm thinking about getting a personal website. The oldest grand-daughters want to help develop and manage it, so we're all going to study up on that.
This will be my 2nd reunion this year. My college chapter of national sorority, Kappa Delta had a reunion in April in Hunstville.
I'm looking forward to seeing everybody October 16th & 17th.
Shirley Skoog Knight
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