I can really appreciate those sentiments daiku!!
I guess for me...right now... until my house is sold I need to earn some kind of salary so my thoughts were like I said in my prior post.
I'm about as enthusiastic as a person can get which is why I've been brainstorming to death trying to figure out a way to make this happen "to some degree" right now rather than waiting until my house is sold.
Once it is sold thats a whole other ball game. I'll be some what relaxed financially and will have lots of options from apprenticing for awhile or doing one of the many schools or short workshops/forums/books and jumping right in on a small project for myself to start. Get a small saw mill going once we buy some land...
But for now...I'm just going to take this how ever far it'll get me with what I have.
I'm a pretty determined and resourceful guy. Persistence is my middle name!!
Any which way it turns out with this immediate thought it's nice that i found this forum.
If you look in my web site you'll see "Andy In the News" and the forum I "used to" be so heavily involved with from Taunton's Fine Homebuilding (Breaktime). I even had a fest here two summers ago that posters from all over the country came to, to match faces with screen names. We spent three days partying, swapping stories, some demo's and food and drink. It was a blast!!
Haven't been back to that forum in months. With me its, all or nothing it seems. I'm seriously enthusiastic about this new chapter.
Talk soon bro and thanks for the input !
andy