Kerry’s Garden

I saw this link on GirlGoneGardening’s blog http://www.frontiernet.net/~cdm/age1.html. I tried it out with myself and realized I have been around for a while lol.

…you are 43 years old and about:

45 years 2 months younger than Walter Cronkite, age 88
40 years 6 months younger than Nancy Reagan, age 84
37 years 7 months younger than George Herbert Bush, age 81
30 years 3 months younger than Barbara Walters, age 73
28 years 2 months younger than Larry King, age 71
21 years 11 months younger than Ted Koppel, age 65
18 years 6 months younger than Geraldo Rivera, age 62
15 years 6 months younger than George W. Bush, age 59
10 years 6 months younger than Jesse Ventura, age 54
6 years 2 months younger than Bill Gates, age 49
1 year 4 months younger than Cal Ripken Jr., age 45
4 years 6 months older than Mike Tyson, age 39
8 years 7 months older than Jennifer Lopez, age 35
14 years 0 months older than Tiger Woods, age 29
20 years 6 months older than Prince William, age 23

and that you were:
39 years old at the time of the 9-11 attack on America
37 years old on the first day of Y2K
35 years old when Princess Diana was killed in a car crash
33 years old at the time of Oklahoma City bombing
32 years old when O. J. Simpson was charged with murder
31 years old at the time of the 93 bombing of the World Trade Center
29 years old when Operation Desert Storm began
27 years old during the fall of the Berlin Wall
24 years old when the space shuttle Challenger exploded
22 years old when Apple introduced the Macintosh
21 years old during Sally Ride’s travel in space
19 years old when Pres. Reagan was shot by John Hinckley, Jr.
17 years old at the time the Iran hostage crisis began
14 years old on the U.S.’s bicentennial Fourth of July
12 years old when President Nixon left office
10 years old when Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace was shot
7 years old at the time the first man stepped on the moon
6 years old when Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated
3 years old during the Watts riot
a 1 year old at the time President Kennedy was assassinated

I wondered how far back it went so I tried it out on my grandmother who will be 95 in a couple of months.

…you are 94 years old and about:

5 years 10 months older than Walter Cronkite, age 88
10 years 6 months older than Nancy Reagan, age 84
13 years 5 months older than George Herbert Bush, age 81
20 years 9 months older than Barbara Walters, age 73
22 years 11 months older than Larry King, age 71
29 years 1 month older than Ted Koppel, age 65
32 years 6 months older than Geraldo Rivera, age 62
35 years 6 months older than George W. Bush, age 59
40 years 6 months older than Jesse Ventura, age 54
44 years 10 months older than Bill Gates, age 49
49 years 8 months older than Cal Ripken Jr., age 45
55 years 6 months older than Mike Tyson, age 39
59 years 7 months older than Jennifer Lopez, age 35
65 years 0 months older than Tiger Woods, age 29
71 years 6 months older than Prince William, age 23

and that you were:
90 years old at the time of the 9-11 attack on America
88 years old on the first day of Y2K
86 years old when Princess Diana was killed in a car crash
84 years old at the time of Oklahoma City bombing
83 years old when O. J. Simpson was charged with murder
82 years old at the time of the 93 bombing of the World Trade Center
80 years old when Operation Desert Storm began
78 years old during the fall of the Berlin Wall
75 years old when the space shuttle Challenger exploded
73 years old when Apple introduced the Macintosh
72 years old during Sally Ride’s travel in space
70 years old when Pres. Reagan was shot by John Hinckley, Jr.
68 years old at the time the Iran hostage crisis began
65 years old on the U.S.’s bicentennial Fourth of July
63 years old when President Nixon left office
61 years old when Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace was shot
58 years old at the time the first man stepped on the moon
57 years old when Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated
54 years old during the Watts riot
52 years old at the time President Kennedy was assassinated
48 years old when Hawaii was admitted as 50th of the United States
46 years old when the Soviet satellite Sputnik 1 was launched
42 years old at the end of the Korean War
34 years old when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima
30 years old at the time of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
23 years old in the year radar was invented
18 years old when the American stock market crashed
15 years old in the year of the first talking motion picture
4 years old at the time of the sinking of the Lusitania
3 years old when the First World War began
a 1 year old at the time of the maiden voyage of the Titanic

A lot of firsts in my grandmother’s lifetime.