About

I’m the father of three, husband of one.

I’m a builder of timber frame, log and stone shelters.  Usually with my brother.

I’m the owner of a construction company, Traditional Timber Works.

I was born in Arkansas, but grew up in central Ontario.

I left home when I was 16 years old having met that girl who eventually made me her husband.

I met her in Virginia, senior year of high school. I was already building and restoring hewn log cabins.

We’ve lived a few different places. On a lake in the Muskoka region of Ontario. RF in Wisconsin — picked up our first son there.

We’ve lived in a couple different spots on the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Picked up our other two sons, one in each spot.

We’re now in the initial stages of homesteading a tract of land that has been cut off my parents farm in central Ontario.

I did some college, but that’s really beside the point, though I loved it. Fine art and geology.

I’ve always been a builder. I happened to stumble into a niche of the building sector that has shaped my waking life.

More to come…

Chris (me), Tus, Jen, Oak and Cedar -- told you, hippyish.