For some crazy reason, Morgan (my husband) and I decided it was a good idea to build a house from scratch. It was last December right before Christmas when it happened. A friend was selling a parcel of land that we had eyed about six months before, it's in town, but it feels like the country. A sunny open meadow edged by towering Ponderosa pines and Cottonwoods with Rattlesnake creek noisily babbling by.