About Me
I live in Italy with my husband. My two young adults are now leading their own lives away from home.
I married my husband in Canada, then moved to Italy.
For 20 years, I worked in the family-run bakery. Then we switched to my husband’s first love - computers.
I learned how to assemble and install software and how to repair them, it was nerve-wracking.
Now I help run the family business in a completely different branch - we have a machine shop. Now I have
become a multitasking Mom. I take care of the accounting and logistics. At times I work on the numerical
control lathe or industrial hacksaw.
I have my vegetable garden behind the shop, which is quite handy at times seeing I work there all day.
On coffee and lunch breaks I can sneak out and tend to my garden.
On weekends I take care of the grounds, cutting the grass or pruning my shrubs if the deer haven’t taken care
of it beforehand.
When I get inspired I paint with oil or acrylics or go to the shed and work on my pottery projects.
The only problem I have with pottery is the glaze. I ruin my work. Hopefully, one day, before I get Alzheimer’s
I'll be able to attend a class in ceramics and learn the tricks of the trade.
In the winter when it gets very cold and I can't go to the shed and work on my pottery,
I sit down and write. Whatever pops into my mind, just any subject I'm not fussy.
Then I stash away my outlines in a binder full of photographs and notes.
I’m a day dreamer and often get lost in my thoughts.
I am a nature and animal lover.
I obtained a BS in Environmental Sciences and Territorial Management at the age of 44.
It was quite the cruise, but I had a ball going back to school. Not so much for the math -
who in the world after 20 years still remembers derivatives and logarithms,we don’t use that
stuff every day.
I had fun giving lessons to young children in animal tracking.
I am a member of various animal welfare organizations.
About me as a kid, well, we moved around a lot. I was a tomboy and still am.
I passed my summer holidays fishing tadpoles in the swamp and minnows in the
river. I went fishing and played with the boys. It was a lot better than playing with
dolls all day.
My favourite radio station plays the good old songs from the 70’s and 80’s,
funny how old songs can bring you back in time. I often get misty eyes when
I listen to certain songs, those good old memories coming back.
I think it’s a bad sign, I am getting old, or should I say, be happy you’re still alive and
kicking, who cares if you’re a little older.
In bed I always read a few pages of a book before I inevitably doze off. I’m not fussy, any genre will do just
as long as the first chapters get me interested in the subject and turning page after page to see what happens
next.
This is it, now you know a bit more about me. I forgot to mention, I'm a grandma too, Yay!
You can contact me whenever you want, it would be nice to share interests.
eleanorann(dot)peterson(at)gmail.com
I live in Italy with my husband. My two young adults are now leading their own lives away from home.
I married my husband in Canada, then moved to Italy.
For 20 years, I worked in the family-run bakery. Then we switched to my husband’s first love - computers.
I learned how to assemble and install software and how to repair them, it was nerve-wracking.
Now I help run the family business in a completely different branch - we have a machine shop. Now I have
become a multitasking Mom. I take care of the accounting and logistics. At times I work on the numerical
control lathe or industrial hacksaw.
control lathe or industrial hacksaw.
I have my vegetable garden behind the shop, which is quite handy at times seeing I work there all day.
On coffee and lunch breaks I can sneak out and tend to my garden.
On weekends I take care of the grounds, cutting the grass or pruning my shrubs if the deer haven’t taken care
of it beforehand.
When I get inspired I paint with oil or acrylics or go to the shed and work on my pottery projects.
The only problem I have with pottery is the glaze. I ruin my work. Hopefully, one day, before I get Alzheimer’s
I'll be able to attend a class in ceramics and learn the tricks of the trade.
In the winter when it gets very cold and I can't go to the shed and work on my pottery,
I sit down and write. Whatever pops into my mind, just any subject I'm not fussy.
Then I stash away my outlines in a binder full of photographs and notes.
I’m a day dreamer and often get lost in my thoughts.
I am a nature and animal lover.
I obtained a BS in Environmental Sciences and Territorial Management at the age of 44.
It was quite the cruise, but I had a ball going back to school. Not so much for the math -
who in the world after 20 years still remembers derivatives and logarithms,we don’t use that
stuff every day.
It was quite the cruise, but I had a ball going back to school. Not so much for the math -
who in the world after 20 years still remembers derivatives and logarithms,we don’t use that
stuff every day.
I had fun giving lessons to young children in animal tracking.
I am a member of various animal welfare organizations.
About me as a kid, well, we moved around a lot. I was a tomboy and still am.
I passed my summer holidays fishing tadpoles in the swamp and minnows in the
river. I went fishing and played with the boys. It was a lot better than playing with
dolls all day.
My favourite radio station plays the good old songs from the 70’s and 80’s,
funny how old songs can bring you back in time. I often get misty eyes when
I listen to certain songs, those good old memories coming back.
funny how old songs can bring you back in time. I often get misty eyes when
I listen to certain songs, those good old memories coming back.
I think it’s a bad sign, I am getting old, or should I say, be happy you’re still alive and
kicking, who cares if you’re a little older.
In bed I always read a few pages of a book before I inevitably doze off. I’m not fussy, any genre will do just
as long as the first chapters get me interested in the subject and turning page after page to see what happens
next.
next.
This is it, now you know a bit more about me. I forgot to mention, I'm a grandma too, Yay!
You can contact me whenever you want, it would be nice to share interests.
eleanorann(dot)peterson(at)gmail.com
eleanorann(dot)peterson(at)gmail.com
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