Biography
I was raised with my 6 siblings on an apple farm in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada range on the west slope about 50 miles from Lake Tahoe, I'm number 3. My father was the agricultural commissioner of the county and I was raised in the dirt. I started working for the USFS when I was 19 at the Institute of Forest Genetics and worked myself up into a management position but remained vary active in the physical work my whole career of 40 years. My husband was a gifted woodworker and we restored an old house in CA before he died at a young age. I retired 4 years ago and moved up to Portland 3 years ago and purchased a house with my only child, a daughter, her husband, and my now 3 grandchildren. A littler girl 4, and 2 boys age 3 and 1.
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