Clifton retired in 1960 from his job as an accountant with General Motors and the couple moved to Rancho Bernardo in 1972. They married in 1929 and had two daughters, Joanne, and Carol, now 76, a retired lawyer who lives in London. She later enrolled at the University of Oregon, where she met her future husband at a dance. With her savings from the library, she booked passage on the USS Manchuria in 1923 and sailed alone (with her parents’ blessing) through the newly completed Panama Canal to San Francisco. When her family moved to Syracuse, she enrolled at a the city’s university but hated the cold winters so much, she decided to make her way west. “The flies loved to swim around in the milk, and I remember when I got home, we just scooped the flies off the top and drank it,” she said.Īs a teen, she worked in one of New York’s Carnegie libraries, where she was paid 10 cents an hour to wash the pages of the books with soap and water (people didn’t wash their hands as often then). A horse-drawn cart brought coal to heat the house each week, and during one particularly brutal winter, she remembered fetching on foot a pitcher of milk from a nearby dairy. She got her first kiss at age 7 (she beat up the boy who administered the unwelcome peck), and at age 8, her favorite pastime was following the man who lit the gas streetlamps on their block each night. As a 2-year-old, she tossed her mother’s precious teacups and saucers out the window, and in grade school, she watched the world pass by from a precariously perched rocking chair that she dragged on to the second-story roof of the family’s home. While watching the hourlong video, Boggs nodded her head and laughed uproariously at some of her stories from childhood.īorn in 1903 to Navy chief petty officer Robert Ross and his seamstress wife, Leona, Florence said in the video that she was a mischievous child. “If she was difficult, it might not have worked out so well.”Īlthough Boggs now has a hard time remembering details from her long life, Oswald and Evans got her to tell her life story in a home video five years ago. “It helps that she’s such an agreeable person,” Oswald said of their life together. After her father, Clifton Boggs, died in 1992 at the age of 87, Oswald devoted herself full-time to her mother’s care. “She’s a positive person,” said Oswald, 82, a retired General Motors shipping clerk who moved from Michigan to Carlsbad in 1985 to be closer to her parents. Oswald said her mother was always a quiet person, though she’s less talkative now than she used to be. In an interview at her home on Thursday, Boggs spoke very little. They are the country's national symbol and appear on coins, postage stamps, and airplanes.Her daughter Joanne Oswald - who has cared for Boggs in a home the’ve share in Carrillo Ranch for the past 13 years - said that up until this past year, her mother was playing bridge with friends every morning, painting oils each week and traveling the globe on 66-day cruises. Kangaroos outnumber people in Australia.A joey sometimes will jump headfirst into its mother’s pouch if frightened.

This is an energy-efficient and fast means of travel, which enables them to go long distances in areas where there is little water and food available.

Kangaroos are the only big animals to hop as their main method of locomotion.

Due to the position of their eyes, Red kangaroos' range of vision is approximately 300° (324° with about 25° overlap).

On land kangaroos always move their back legs together, but in water, they will kick each leg independently when swimming.

Red kangaroos can jump as high as six feet (1.8 m), and leap a distance of 29 feet (8.8 m).

A joey is about the size of a jellybean when born.

The red is, in fact, a musky red oil this is excreted from glands in their skin. Red kangaroos are so-named due to the color of their fur.Males are 'boomers', females are 'flyers' and young are 'joeys'.

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