I build custom replicas of old-time logging & farming equipment and sell them globally via the internet.I was the youngest of eight children born to a poor farmer on the wrong side of the tracks in northern Indiana. The only "store-bought" wheeled die-cast toy I ever had was a 1948 pickup truck, so my brothers & I learned to make our own toys from very crude materials with even more primitive tools. I farmed with horses until I got married at 20 years old. Then I startedworking with bigger and more powerful "toys" and wanted nothing more to do with horses! Now, on the threshold of my second childhood, I'm finding that some of my fondest memories were made in those early, simpler years of my life.So I live them all over again while making horse toys.