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Thank you so much for your comments. I read each and every one of them and am honored that you take the time to give your input. I understand how hectic life is and how there never seems to be enough time to get everything accomplished in a 24 hour period, so a true heartfelt thanks to each of you for taking the time out of your busy day to send your opinion, both good and bad, as I learn from both and try to become a better person from accomplishments as well as shortcomings. I would say the goal in life is not to never make a mistake, but rather to identify one's mistakes and proceed in life without repeating them.

On that subject, get ready for the next episode ... not my finest hour by any means. We all had a wonderful time on the retreat, but the last evening I had too much fun, which isn't wrong, it just wasn't the time or place for it ... I will explain more on that evening after the airing, so until then, have a laugh at my expense as I just saw the footage and laughed at myself as well. Since the last blog, there have been a lot of questions so I would like to answer the ones that seem to come up a lot. To make it easier on the reader, I have numbered the questions and you can scroll down to find the corresponding number that answers the question.

Here are the questions: (1) Are you on HGTV's Designed to Sell show? (2) Go into detail about your cover shoot with Erika and how you train for a cover shoot. (3) Your views on Peeler's dismissal? (4) Steroid use / workout tips you use? (5) Tell us more about your Pit Bull dogs you rescued.

(1) I am a featured carpenter on HGTV's Designed to Sell. There are three design/carpenter teams on the show. One team, the team I am on, from Los Angeles, a Chicago based team, and a Washington D.C. based team. The airing rotates through each team, so I am only on every third night, but they have a lot of repeats that re-air a lot. I filmed 21 episodes over the course of 9 months and left the show to join the cast of Work Out for Season 3. I feel extremely blessed to have had the opportunity to be a part of such a successful and fun-filled program and miss my fellow cast and crew members tremendously. I am a carpenter by trait, a hobby that grew into somewhat of a career as I bought and fixed up homes during my time in the military before selling them prior to changing duty stations. I owe much of my knowledge of carpentry to my father who included me in many home projects growing up at an early age and demanded I do the job correctly so that I only have to do it once and never have to go back to redo a project. As for my real love, woodworking has always been a means of relaxation for me I will often fix my eyes on a piece of furniture in a store or at a friend's home and want to recreate it. I would take dimensions and draw up blueprints of the piece and over the course of free time in my garage where I have my shop, I would begin to turn blueprints on a piece of paper into a reality and a piece of furniture for my home or for friends and family. My love for woodworking or construction is that time kind of stands still for a minute and you are able through working on a project, work through some problems that might be going on in your head, in other theaters of life. It's funny how the progress in the construction or woodworking has a parallel effect on progress in whatever has been hanging over your head in other areas of your life. I guess sometimes you have to step away from one's problems to really understand them and in order to be able to see the problem so you can apply a means to fix them. I call woodworking and construction sawdust therapy.