Steve:From my childhood recollection, the snow in Winterpeg is no worse than here ... your's is usually lighter and fluffier ... we get more "heart attack snow" here in the east.I love to traipse about and look at all the "passed overs" in the dead of winter.  

Our firm was in best and final and eventually ended up the brides maid on 3 large deals in the past year because we hit the ceiling on what we believed was a reasonable price based on the numbers. 

So naturally I blew one up and it immediately brought me back to my childhood in the 80s.

But this is my first rodeo as father-of-the-bride(zilla).  

Who knew we'd actually act out on his childhood dream. 

Karl- Nice small town, but blight, job losses, drugs and crime have really changed that down home feel from my childhood days.  

I spent my childhood summers in Wichita.

There is no such thing as a Beaver Cleaver childhood.

I learned a lot of my skills from my childhood friend Ted Burdge who did not go to college but also became a carpenter and eventually a home builder.  

I'm too scarred from my childhood!