Greg Gerot:  

Life My wife, Diane, and I moved to Pierce, Idaho in October of 2005. She had been retired from teaching first grade for two years at the time and I had retired from my position as an investment representative with Edward Jones in Eugene. I had opened up the office five years earlier, built it up to 45 million and decided to "step off the merry-go-round" while still in such robust health. (I say that tongue in cheek). Anyway, we're in a town of 600 people, bought a building on main street which we remodeled and made into our living quarters and an art gallery and framemaking shop. Diane supplies most of the art that we sell, painting local historical sights (Pierce is the oldest town in Idaho.....1860) and landscapes. We have had a tremendous response to her work. I run the business side of the gallery and do the custom framemaking and framing. We look at each other every now and then and wonder......"Can you believe we're doing this?" We're having too much fun. We snow shoe out our back door in the winter time, camp and fish in the summer, and hunt in the fall. But most of the time, we've found that we enjoy working in our little gallery inventing new things to present to the public. My four daughters still live in Eugene and are all married to wonderful husba...Expand for more