The site would not be complete if I did not tell you about the man I love. I found it was very easy to talk to Tom. Since I was mature when we met, I was very direct in my getting to know him. I was not willing to take up 6 months of my life to understand if someone was 'my type’. He asked excellent questions too so it did not take long for us to realize that we meshed. When we decided to get married, we had some places to look at to see if they were to our liking. We looked and looked for this house and just could not find it. I know I was getting slightly frustrated and was watching him to see how he was doing. I loved him even more because he did not make the situation worse by griping and storming about. We eventually did find it. It turned out to be a house that we just did not think was it. I also noticed that day, that driving around for around an hour in circles did not ruin his day. Most things do not go as planned, and it is frustrating if you are with a person and they cannot or really will not move forward and get off the problem or change. He is excellent at it; better than I am in fact. He has many qualities that make loving him so easy. I want to mention one more. All couples argue about something from time to time. I noticed that when we argued I did not have to get all defensive because he stayed on point and never wanted to “win” at all costs. I knew that the next time we had a disagreement; Tom would be safe to have it with to boot. Tom would never "hit below the belt" as I am known to say. He has told me he loves me just about everyday of our marriage. He proves it too, by letting me be me. All I have to do is in passing mention something I might want and he won’t forget. Then when he sees it, he surprises me with it. He has never begrudged me my games; he even bought me my Nintendo 64 last year. He really enjoys surprising me with a new book that will complete an author I like. He is a good man with the best heart and I thank God continuously that He put him in my life.

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	LOVES BOOKS ABOUT THE SEA. Rudyard Kipling: Kim  Captains Courageous The Jungle Book   Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte’ Jane Erye by Charlotte Bronte’   Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D’Urbervilles Far From the Madding Crowd   Daphne Du Maurier Rebecca My Cousin Rachel House on the Strand
Mark Twain: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Life on the Mississippi The Prince and the Pauper The Innocents Abroad The Celebrated Jumping Frog & other Stories Roughing It   Robert Louis Stevenson: Tales of Suspense Treasure Island The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde The Master of Ballantrae   Charles Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities Great Expectations David Copperfield Oliver Twist The Old Curiosity Shop A Christmas Carol and Other Stories   Jules Verne: Around the World in 80 Days Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea A Journey to the Center of the Earth   Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter The house of the Seven Gables Twice-Told Tales   Jack London: The Call of the Wild/White Fang The Sea Wolf To Build a Fire   Arthur Conan Doyle: A Study in Scarlet/The Hound of the Baskervilles The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes The Return of Sherlock Holmes The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes   O. Henry The Gift of the Magi & Other Stories Heart of the West	The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen The Last of the Mohicans by James Fennimore Cooper Little Women by Louisa May Alcott Silas Marner by George Eliot Tales of Suspense by Edgar Allan Poe The Legend of Sleepy Hollow & Other Tales by Washington Irving The Virginian by Owen Wister Moby Dick by Herman Melville A Treed Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith A Passage to India by E. M. Forster The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dr. Zhivago by Boris Pasternak O! Pioneers! By Willa Cather Lost horizon by James Hilton Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck The Adventures of Robin Hood by Paul Creswick The Good Earth by Pearl Buck Ben-Hur by Lew Wallace The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouck Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee The yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings King Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard Emma by Jane Austen Life with Father by Clarence Day The Robe by Lloyd C. Douglas Goodbye Mr. Chips by James Hilton Two Years Before the mast by Richard Henry Dana Beau Geste by Percival Christopher Wren The three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas   He also loves sea stories (like the ones up above); here are some of them. Has read all 25 Kent Alexander Books Dust on the Sea by Brach Captain Caution by Kenneth Roberts The Call of the Sea by Jan de Hartog The Raft by Holt Life under Sail by Snyder Tales of Land and Sea by Joseph Conrad   Really likes Garrison Keillor He likes books about houses inside and out.