Born and raised in Montana, I grew up near the small community of Florence located in the Bitteroot Mountains. We had a small farm in the mountains and I had the most wonderful parents that a child growing up could ever have. After graduating from high school, I married and had two children. We lived in Kennewick, Washington and for 16 years, our family life was training and running race horses. I also worked at Lynel Farms in Burbank, Washington, which was a big brood mare farm that had close to 300 mares. I also helped take care of the stallions. These stallions were very well bred and worth thousands. Secret Intent, one of Secretariat's (Triple Crown Winner) first colts, Nevada Battler, Jet Deck Jr., Special Feature and others were all part of life there.

In the early 1980's, I moved to the small town of Tygh Valley, Oregon and started a new life. I worked for Mountain Fir Lumber Company and then Ashley Sand and Gravel. A short story with the Ashleys. One time we had a job to replace the well pump at the North Headquarters of the Imperial Stock Ranch. When coming out here for that job, I told Fred Ashley how I would love to live out here. This was in the 80's. It happened in the 90's that I am living out here. Fate is good.

I worked for a couple other ranches in the area in the 80's and early 90's, White River Ranch, then on to the Big Muddy Ranch out of Antelope. That was shortly after the Rajneesh were run off. We were tearing out old buildings and cleaning the place. My husband Scott took a job at Silver Lake, Oregon for a short time on a ranch that eventually sold. We came to inquire with Dan and Jeanne Carver about a job opening that our good friend Butch Cubic told us about. We were hired on to begin our life here on February 1, 1996. We moved here in a blizzard and had to shuttle our things down off the hill with many pickup loads. We have been here for 9 years now and love it very much. We have a beautiful home in Golden Canyon and wonderful friends here on the ranch.

There are many different things to do here with the cattle and sheep, the farming and all else that goes with the ranch life. Our children and grandchildren have many stories of being here and seeing all that happens; and how people can work together and make things live and grow.