Lynn Bishop:  

As many of you know I moved to California in 1972. I came back to visit in 1973 and haven't been back since. I did laugh to hear that some people thought that because I lived in California I had dyed my hair blonde, surfed and lived on the beach. Not this girl! My first job here was working for an insurance agent in downtown Los Angeles as a file clerk. What a culture shock it was for me to come from Pemberton to LA. I told people that I hadn't fallen off the turnip truck but instead had driven it to California! I got married and we moved to Long Beach (still no blonde hair) and I went to work for a bank as a teller trainee and worked my way up to the loan department. After about two years of that I went to work as an animal health technician for a veterinarian that cared for exotic animals (alligators, snakes, monkeys, foxes, birds to name a few) as well as dogs and cats. The "city" life was getting too crazy for me and so my husband and I moved to Frazier Park, a mountain community north of LA. We were familiar with the area as we liked to camp there. I loved it (although I did not like the snow) but he liked the city life and so we went our separate ways. I stayed in Frazier Park for 15 years, remarrying and having my two children (Sarah - almost 29 and John - almost 27). While there I worked for a cattle ranch as an accounting clerk and then the schools as a teacher's aide so that I could be off when the kids were. In 1993 the kids and I came to Bakersfield as I was working here for Nestle Ice Cream in the safety department and Frazier Park was 55 miles away. With t...Expand for more