Ken,
Thanks for the loggy info.  Lumby is just down the road a few miles.  Years
ago, when officially unemployed after a summer of being a fire lookout
(living joyously with wife and baby in a 14' square lookout with 24
windows), I applied to be in the first course in log building offered by
Allen Mackie, the (now old) grand master of the modern log building movement
here in BC.   I needed to have my attendance at the course approved by the
Unemployment Insurance Commission to keep a cash flow going through the
winter,something they liked to do then for anyone seeking job retraining,
but I was told emphatically by the Commission bureaucrat that there was no
future for employment in such a hobby and that my attendance was not
approved.   It was a life-course moment of change, at least it became a path
not taken that I  knew I would be good at.

Wife, baby and mortgage took precedence to subtle UI starvation, and we
moved to another town where I was able to develop a business building
architectural models, and soon was back working in an architectural office
as a jet-set architectural supervisor for some high-rise projects in
downtown Victoria, BC.   Almost overnight, life went from (1) living on a
mountain top and sharing breakfast pancakes with the Whiskey Jacks that
would come sit on our outdoor porch table trying to steal food from our
baby's plate, to (2) jetting once a week to two big city projects where one
contractor and I did business over breakfast in a penthouse restaurant
overlooking the Victoria Harbour and the job site a few blocks away (he said
he could keep an eye on things from up there while he was off-site)(that job
was a construction nightmare due to the contractor and the only time I have
ever felt fear of collapse on a job-site).   Today, there are log building
companies all over the place in BC, and every time I pass one I recall that
UI desk jockey up North, but I can't say it wasn't fun to jet-set for a
while, staying each week in a suite in a fancy hotel that the out-of-town
architect I work with had booked for a year.   God has been good!   Life has
been rich with experiences.

cp in bc

> CP, Are you a member of the International Log Builders Association?
> If not, possibly you should consider looking into it or at least making
> a connection.  Let me know if you are interested.
> http://www.logassociation.org/
> International Log Builders' Association
> PO Box 775
> Lumby, BC
> V0E 2G0 Canada
> ][<en

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