Arlene Kalton:  

My husband John and I live in a new home we just built on 4 acres west of New Market. We were residing in Prior Lake for 40 years but decided to venture into country living. We were instrumental in designing our new custom built house and our talented contractor was one of my husband's students - in fact so were most of the sub-contractors. John was Principal at the secondary school in Prior Lake retoromg in 1985. I worked as an Executive Secretary at the Administration Building in Burnsville retireing in 1995, We raise miniature smooth dachshunds which we show at locations around the mid-west as a hobby and presently have seven of them, six of which are AKC champions. My other hobby is sewing and designing color coded norwegion sweaters. My husband collects stamps, enjoys jigsaw puzzles and extensive yard work. We have traveled to many world locations including, Africa two times, Israel, Turkey, Norway three times, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, China, France, Italy, Thailand, Nepal, Burma, all South America countries, Costa Rica, Australia, Alaska and have been on seven cruises. We have a townhouse timeshare on Cable Beach on Providence Island in the Bahamas where we spend the month of January. We have five children and thirteen grandchildren. They all live near us except for Karen our oldest, who resides in Woodland Hills, CA. ...Expand for more