Kansas native
K-State Grad
Engineer eleven year
Mechanical at that.

Husband, Father
Once Laid off
Stay at Home Dad
So Blessed by GOD

Carver, Painter
What more to say.
In many ways
I'm a Jack of all trades
Master, however,
of none.
I'm told that makes me
A Renaissance Man.
But J.O.A.T.M.A.N. is what I'd say.

Ok... Ok... Enough with the poetry.
I have been sculpting pumpkins since 1986 and started carving wood about a year after being laid off from my engineering position in 2002. (This is when the power design industry hit a post 9-11 and Enron low.) In a roll reversal that has worked out very well my wonderful wife now brings home the bacon so that I can fry it up.
We now live in Flower Mound, Texas (Dallas Area) with our two fantastic daughters and when time permits I dabble at bringing home some additional income by carving.