Dianne Dessert:  

This is all Ralph Erickson's fault ya know. One little letter in the mail, two little letters in the mail, then your curiosity is piqued and next thing you know you're on some web site looking at a bunch of old people you haven't seen since some class reunion a hundred years ago. LOL I'm married to Tom, have two wonderful daughters who have done well in life, two beautiful grandaughters and three great- grandchildren. We're a close family who do a lot together and enjoy many facets of life. I worked for the gov at various activities around the country and retired early from Keyport as the senior woman executive at the activity. I moved on to spend three years involved in wildlife rehabilitation, which included building and maintaining our own satellite wildlife facility. During that same period, I was helping a couple of crazy psychologist friends start a new mental health agency in Bremerton for chronically mentally ill chemical abusers. That's your paranoid schizophrenic on crank or acid. After 50+ inches of rain and 3 feet of snow up on Green Mountain one year, we packed up and headed for Grants Pass in sunny southern Oregon. This is where my heart has been since age 9. I told my mother I was going to live here some day because "it made my insides smile". It still does. " It's the Weather" and there's a sign across main street that makes that same comment. We live half way between Grants...Expand for more