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Posted 9/24/2010 4:25 AM (GMT 0)
Well, my name comes from my love of Flowers and being a Florist! Kinda self explanitory! I knew at a very young age that "Flora and Fauna" was for me! It has always come natural to me... the love of the outdoors! I could sit and talk about Gardening and Horticulture for hours:) Working with Mother Nature is great too because "she" never makes a mistake!

My name is Heather

There is another Flower on this website and another Heather.... so sometimes I sign my name Heather June to help in the confusion:)
Posted 9/24/2010 4:56 AM (GMT 0)
Ok Fatherjohn a priest right. No I am not a priest, well at least a Catholic Priest. I have been a pastor for 28 years. about 10 years ago, I took a large group of high school youth to Slovakia, Hungary, and the Chech Republic. We did some amazing work building a park for a community that was priviously as communist housing compound. We started a youth and children's outreach in several towns. During the trip, many of these strong young life changers started to get homesick. I was the oldest adult and leader. My job became counseling these young people to overcome emotional difficulties. They started to joke that I was their father away from home. Then as we visited cathedrals, it became a further joke to call me fatherjohn. I ended up taking another group over to continue the work and train leaders and the name stuck. I am still called fatherjohn by many when our paths cross. I was in a church recently and the pastor looked up when he saw me and announced that Fatherjohn was in the house.  
Posted 9/24/2010 8:41 AM (GMT 0)

The story behind my username is a bit of history. Our house burned down in October 2008. My husband & I were lucky to get out with our Chihuahua and Rat Terrier. We didn't make it out with our Boxer, but she woke me at 2am and basically saved our lives. The investigator said that if we had been in the house 5 minutes more we wouldn't have made it out at all. I told that to tell this:

We stayed with a friend for about 6 weeks and then moved into a borrowed FEMA travel trailer on our property. We ended up camping for a bit over a year. We moved into the travel trailer 12/6/08 and moved into our new house 12/18/09.

One of the first things we bought was a replacement hot tub. We use it for hydrotherapy almost every day so it was one of the most important purchases. As a matter of fact we started camping on our land on the day that the hot tub was delivered and connected. We had what we called "The Compound" : the FEMA travel trailer, another smaller travel trailer, and an 18-wheeler trailer that we had bought for storage a couple of weeks before the house burned down. They were set up in a U-shape, and right in the midst of it all was the new hot tub. The prevailing joke was: "you might be a redneck if the 3 trailers you are living out of cost less than your hot tub" -- so my husband started calling me the Redneck Princess & it sort of stuck.

Posted 9/24/2010 2:10 PM (GMT 0)
ElenorRigby is that poor lonely lady in the Beatles song "All The Lonely People."

I always felt sorry for her and her situation in life. I was thinking about my situation in life a few years back and decided to use her as my username ever since.

I love the gallery. I'll get around to adding pics sometime.
Posted 9/24/2010 4:51 PM (GMT 0)
I have a love for cats and was never allowed to have a pet growing up..
so the first animal that I was able to get was a cat and my passion for them has grown
and I attend cat shows and hope someday to own a Russian Blue they are so pretty...
but for now I have two rescued kitties from the shelter and one cat given to me by a friend.
and as it turns out one is a chartreux...
Chartreux breed is thought to orginate in France, by monks, it's a blueish gray colored
cat has a double coat of fur with amber eyes, and bulkier than a Russian Blue, I also have never owned a
bad black cat...black kitties can be of the best temperment and I've owned 3 black kitties in my life, my current one
was given by a friend, Black kitties are cosidered lucky in some cultures, and I believe that, and all
mine like to have their teeth brushed (chicken flavored tooth paste from the vet)..training them for it was easy...
Posted 9/25/2010 9:27 AM (GMT 0)
I just seem to keep running into life's little (ok sometimes not so little) hurdles and seem to trip over most of them. Sometimes it takes a bit to get up dust myself off and get going only to trip over the next one. Some have poked fun and thought my name was "drug related" but that was never the intention. Those who know me, know that I've broken, torn and smashed just about every bone (including my neck & back) that I have. I also had cancer twice along w/ so many other malodies I guess I seem like a hypocondreac to many. I try not to talk about most of these problems w/ most people including my wife and family because I always feel like I'm the winner of a "Top this" contest, something I really hate being!!! I like to think I'm like a Timex and "take a lickin and keep on tickin!" I have gotten myself in trouble many times for waiting and not going to the Dr. for a problem because I'm so God awful sick and tired of seeing them and trying to explain my life and problems to them!!! Seeing a Dr. and trying to tell him/her about my health and the "domino effect" it has had on me in 10 minutes has never really worked out very well for me. If I could sit and talk to one and they WOULD LISTEN to me for a couple hours they might just get a sence of what it's really like to live a day in Peteworld, but thats never gonna happen!!! Thank God I have Y'all to talk to or I think I would just loose it sometimes!!! God knows no one else will listen to me!!!!!! I know so many of Y'all know exactly how I feel!!! So there you have it. Now you know why & how Pete trips again!!!
Hugs>
Pete

Post Edited (Pete trips again!) : 9/25/2010 3:31:55 AM (GMT-6)

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