I am George

Hi, my name is George and Beatriz asked me to come on the show. She wanted me to tell my story. And I said, okay, I'll give it a shout. My name is George Teynor. I grew up in a small town in Ohio, probably many have never heard of it. It's called be Bucyrus. The name originates from an Indian tribe. I believe it translates to beautiful valley.The town itself was settled by. The Dutch Germans and those traditions lived on till nearly today. Most of them have faded away, but getting back to me, I was born in 1953 and those were totally different times. My parents were both Catholic, very strict Catholics. And I grew up in a household that went to church every day.And also on Sunday, my father was strict. And so as my mother and my upbringing, thinking back in those years, most of the kids, I knew that went to Catholic school. Their parents were also strict in the upbringing of their children. And I think I was very good for the way I turned out today. Now, mom, she grabbed a hold of me when I.Four or five years old and started teaching me different things around the house. I learned how to sew and also how to operate the sewing machine. I got to do a lot of patchwork on my father's work clothes, and even my clothes from time to time, my mother showed me how to cook. We had a Betty Crocker cookbook and my mother would go to different pages and play.Meals for the day. And she would employ me as her little assistant. And I learned a lot. I got to chance to read the recipes, do measuring, a cup of flour A half a teaspoon of salt, a dash of this it really came in quite handy for me growing up because it allowed me to be more self-sufficient, which I eventually handed down to my own children.The needle is the same. Mom had me busy in the kitchen and in the house helping her out. So I learned how to iron I learned a lot about cleaning the house. Let me tell ya. And when it came to the outside, when the warmer months when I was old enough, I mowed the grass and then I also tended to the garden, plenty tomatoes, lettuce cabbage, all sorts of crops and everything.Back when I was very young, we had a cherry tree while we had a couple of different fruit trays, but my favorite was cherry. And I would help my mom pick the cherries in a tree and she would bring them into the kitchen, wash them off, cook them down, make a, like a cherry sauce. And then she'll go to the Betty crocker cook.Makeup the pie dough, grow it out in a rolling pin. I would help her. Sometimes I would row it out if I could get it fed enough for and placed it in a pie pan and trim it out on the edges, fill the pan up full of cherries sauce and cover them pie with a piece of pie dough. And then my mother would stick to pies into the oven.Cook them by that evening, after they sat in the frigerator and cooled down, we typically hand pie for dessert, and this was very common for our household to have fresh desserts, made nothing came from a box. Nothing came from a freezer. Everything in our household was homemade later on. When I got old enough, when I turned the age of 12, my father.Took me out to the job sites where he worked out and he was a contractor. And I learned a lot of construction skills, mixing mortar, blame blog, claim, brick, cutting stone, electrical plumbing, basically what it took to build a house. So those skills were very important to me all through my life and with the hands-on.Practical application. I took an interest in engineering when 1972 rode around the draft was still on in the United States. My number was one of the low numbers, and I decided at that point in time to join the military and rather than being drafted. So I joined the army after getting out of the military.I went into the. National guard and reserves. And at that point in time, I just wanted to relax and try to figure out what direction in life I want to go into. And after working in manufacturing for a couple of years and learning how to be a machinist and learning that trade along with welding, I decided there's more opportunity for me to go to college.So I used my GI bill, went to a local college Marion technical college went there for several years and then also took classes over to a highest state. And while I was at a highest stain, I applied for a job through the state of Ohio and I was accepted. I took a part-time job and they gave me the opportunity to go to school full time and work.And then later on the government seeing what an excellent job I was doing. So they turned it into a full-time position and the rest was really history for me and my career. And because the government took care of me, I kept getting pay raises. I got queer advancements. And along with this, I was still in the national guard and I continued to Excel in the military.So after 28 years of serving in a national guard, I decided to retire out. And a few years later, I retired out from government. So now uranium retired in Jacksonville, North Carolina in a military town. Oh, my, ...