The owners are a retired Oregon Assistant Attorney General and a retired Oregon public school teacher (home economics and art) living in Portland, Oregon. They are native Oregonians having attended the University of Oregon (and Harvard Law School) and Oregon State University respectively. They are golfers, gardeners, readers, travelers and amateur artists. They have a blended family of 5 children and 7 grandchildren in Portland, Berkeley and Sequim, WA which they try to keep up with.