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You may have seen the movie “Life as a House.” If you haven’t, I wholeheartedly recommend it. The story is more-or-less that of a son and father, neither of whom are close to or even capable of having a strong healthy relationship. As the movie progresses the father takes his troubled son to help him build a new house on the beach. From there, well… you’re just going to have to order it on Netflix.

Nearly three years ago my father embarked on a mission to build a new house. Now this was no trip over to Simmions homes to build some McMansion in the crappy Tulsa suburbs. This has been a full fledged effort to build a house with very little help from anyone more then a few friends and family.

Tomorrow morning, three whole years from the conception of this project, we will be marking a tremendous step as a huge crane will lift the roof trusses in place over the second story.

Throughout this whole project I have spent time helping my Dad, either with my brother, a few random workers he has hired, or just the two of us. I have always been blessed to have such a great father and to have such an open and close relationship with him, but working together on something as unique and powerful in ones life as a house has been a truly rewarding adventure.

I’ll have some pictures of the house and the progress posted tomorrow.