Tammie Harrison:  

I can't believe it has been 30 years since we have been out of school. It is really scary how fast time goes! In 1985 my husband had an apportunity to take a large job in Denver CO. It was only going to be for 6 months - that was back when the intrest rates for a mortgage loan were 17%! We decided to sell our home in Bothel and go to Denver for the job and buy something else when we came back home. The job ended up lasting 2 years. By the time it was over and we had to come back I couldn't go back to Seattle because I had discovered it really didn't rain everyday in the rest of the world! I never knew I had SAD. So we decided to go to Eastern Wa where it didn't rain. I opened an Antique business there and enjoyed it for 10 years until one day we went to Arizona for a visti - it was Nov and it was already 20 degrees in Chelan and it was 75 there. We basically went home, put the house on the market, packed up and moved to AZ. We have now been there 12 years and I can't imagine not living there. I...Expand for more