Jim's Bio and "I" Story
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God has granted me a Miracle!
THANK YOU
for all of your prayers during the past three
years while I have been in a very serious health
condition.
| I am now making a fantastic recovery - hopefully, it will be
enough for me to function fairly well in the future. I have a
care-taker who assists me to handle normal day-to-day activities.
Realistically, I will probably never be back to being able to function normally
without my wheelchair and/or assistance. I am thankful for
each extra day, hour, and minute that I have been given. |
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I am a retired USDA-NRCS Conservation Agronomist. I am a native Kentuckian (My Ol' KY Home, UK Wildcat Marching Band (WMB))
and graduated from the University of Kentucky
(UK fight, UK WMB) with a degree in
Agronomy. I worked for over 40 years with USDA before I
retired on Halloween day, October 31, 2005.
I worked for 26.5 years as District Conservationist in Central Kentucky
and the final 13.5 years in South Texas with Agronomic
responsibilities for 51 counties (20% of the state). |
Definition:
Agronomy - the application of soil and plant sciences to land management and crop production. |
I met Billie in Corpus Christi in July, 1988 and we married in April, 1989. Billie moved to Kentucky in 1989 after her school year was over. I learned quickly that "you could take the girl of Texas, but you could not take Texas out of the girl" so a search was on to find a position in Texas. Divine intervention would have it that in the summer of 1992 a position became available in Alice, TX that I applied for and accepted. So back to Corpus Christi, we came.
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I became a Mary Kay husband in September, 1998 and firmly believe in the product and the company values. Since
Billie began her Mary Kay business, I have been actively
involved as her Business Manager doing just about everything that she needs to be done around the office, handling all financial aspects of the business, training consultants on the "business and organizational" aspects of the business, taking phone orders, resales, delivering products, publishing newsletters and everything else except helping ladies to decide what cosmetics they need. Color stripping, facials and classes are strictly Billie's forte. I keep asking myself, "Why did it take so long for us to find this opportunity?" I guess the Lord makes it available when we are ready for it. |
I have attended Mary Kay seminars, career conferences, retreats, and leadership conferences and I would strongly urge any husband to attend when possible to gain a better overview of your wife's career. If the husband is employed by his spouse, you really need the experience in order to know about the company, products, and the way things should be done. It is really amazing and a real "eye-opener" to see what this company is all about. If one can not get excited at Seminar; then, there is no hope for you. In an audience of over 8,000 excited estrogen-filled women - come on! You are already dead! There really is not any limit as to what these women can do. The sky is the limit!
I have two grown sons, Jeff and Jason. Jeff and his wife, Dawn, live
in Spring Hill, FL with three daughters, Chloe, Kayleigh and
McKenzie plus two sons, Alex and Mikey. Jason and his wife, Jamie, live in South Lebanon, OH with their son, Ryan.
Our
current family includes two Dachshunds, a toy Poodle
and a one-eyed Pomeranian. Our English Bulldog,
Maxwell, died in October, 2006. Of
course, these dogs are spoiled and they rule the house!
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My hobby is golf. We have played in many different
states, Australia, New Zealand and Western Canada. Our
last month-long golfing vacation to
Australia and
New Zealand in November and
December, 2006 was the vacation of our lifetime!
Depending on my health recovery, we are now discussing our
next vacation to Scotland and Ireland.
I am an avid
UK Wildcat fan
- both football and
basket-
ball. I "bleed
blue" with any loss to the
"PROGRAMS"! |
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