The Dream Home in Santa Fe, New Mexico

One interesting stop on our trip last year was to the Dream Home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Jody Feyas and his wife Cara Leigh were the builder and designer team. It took them 5 years to design, and as they has started construction, they heard about the Envirocoatings product from a local Dunn-Edwards rep. As soon as he saw the product, Jody knew he had found something extraordinary, and specified it for the exterior walls and the roof. (See www.thedreamhome.info) You can see more information on the product on the supplier list on the right, and also at the company website at: www.envirocoatings.com where you can Geof's picture as part of the team there. The home won awards at the Hacienda Parade of Homes including the Gold Merit Award for Excellence in Green Building and the

Judges Award for Outstanding Innovation and Technology.


Jody Feyas and Cara Leigh


Geof and Jean at the Dream Home. This home so dazzled the judges at the Hacienda Parade of Homes that they felt they couldn't enter it in the regular competition since it was so advanced in innovation and technology that it would not have been fair to the other competing homes!! Quite a feat. Jody's background as a commercial painter and his commitment to quality makes his choice of Envirocoatings even more notable.

The Gunslingers and the Grand Canyon

Catching up on the Highlights over the past year means recalling our trip to the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone Park, the Dream Home in Santa Fe and Breckenridge Lodge. We'll start at Highway 66 where we ran into some gunslingers - a fearsome bunch! Not so fearsome with us in the picture!


The Grand Canyon was.. what shall we say? BIG, just as I recall from previous visits. It's size is only realized when you see, as I did on a previous visit, a plane going out of sight into one of the canyons gorges only to appear 5 or 10 minutes later! That gives some better understanding of the scope of this historic national park.