My life has involved a wide variety of activities, many of which I still work at, which include:

• Owner and operator of a craft store; where I enjoy meeting people, doing silk flower weddings, teaching classes and doing demonstrations.

Having a cottage food license that allows me to can and bake in my kitchen

• As you can see by my garden picture, I love the garden and also many more farm agricultural activities.

Having Blue Earth County condemn the homestead on my farm for County Road 90. 

• Graduating from Mankato State College with a teaching degree in Business Education and Social Studies. 

• Loving local history and conducting tours as a step-on guide for tour buses coming into our area. I live on the Century Farm that my Great Grandfather settled in 1856. He had come from Wales through Wisconsin and made his home in South Bend Township.