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Spring of 2005, Graduation arrived and a new chapter in my life has started. Graduated with a Civil Engineering Degree out of Colorado State University. Job lined up with The Weitz Company. The first assignment was unclear when I started; was supposed to go through 4 weeks of orientation and that assigned to an ongoing construction job in the Denver area. 2 days before I started work they told me I have to be in Telluride, CO; definitely not the Denver area (For those of you not familiar with the area it is about a 2 hours flying or 6 to 7 hours driving).

The plan was to eventually save up enough money to buy a house within 10 years. My plan got accelerated and changed to say the least.

To keep the story short, I quit Weitz because the company's way of doing business is not very good and the job was just not for me. I took a job with the building department in Mountain Village, CO and found myself my other half (her name is Marcy Pickering).

Well bringing you up to date we are building a house, starting by cutting the trees (Ponderosa pine) sending it through our portable sawmill (woodmizer) and producing all engineering and architectural drawings ourself. The Frame of the house will be a hybrid frame of Heavy timber construction and convensional stick frame construction.
Some thing we are not able to do by ourselfs cause the county will not allow it. For instance i don't have my PE and stamp yet so i can't stamp my own plan.