MY VERY FIRST STONE PROJECT
2003 / Durango, Colorado - This photo is of me holding my first born son Aidan at a rental house.
I collected a bunch of rock from the side of the La Plata mountains and built a “drystone” patio and a sod play area for us to hang outside more.
At this point in my life I didn’t know what I was doing for work, just whatever came along. I was pretty aimless because I had wanted a career in the military but it didn’t work out and I left my second military tour in 1998 very distraught.
That year (2003) we moved to Boulder so I could complete my Bachelors degree at UC-Boulder. I wanted to go on to a Masters degree in Middle Eastern studies and Arabic and work in the diplomatic or intelligence field.
I had ZERO plans to get into the landscaping field and then stonework. Wasn’t even a blip on the radar.
Little did I know at the age of 33 about how life would unfold for me 6 years later when I discovered the drystone method at the age of 39.
