Michael Carter
Contract Specialist I

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I've been asked to do a bio for our website, so here goes:

I was raised in Needles California, until 1983 when I moved to Mohave Valley, Arizona. It was a harrowing trip made in a covered wagon and a team of oxen (basically a 1976 Ford Station Wagon with bald tires.)

I moved to Kingman in 1999 (another harrowing trip), met my wife Anna, and we married in 2000.

We live in a historic house, in downtown Kingman. Historic means a lot of different things to people. To me, it means three things: repairs, upgrades, and repairs. One can find me usually at Home Depot or True Value on any given weekend. I'm the one standing there in the isle trying to figure how to make a twentieth-second century item replace or work with a circa 1920 item.

Appliances and furniture of today have been fun to introduce into a house of that era. Try to fit a side-by-side refrigerator w/icemaker into the spot where the original icebox once was. It's like introducing an elephant into a doghouse. In 1920 folks usually had a wood burning stove, maybe an icebox, running water, and electricity (thank you Mr. Westinghouse.)

There weren't a lot of modern conveniences in the 1920. Most of our gadgets plug into an outlet: TV, VCR, DVR, DVD, stereo, computer, printer, recharging stations, vacuum cleaners, etc. Guess how many electrical outlets are in each room! TWO! Things just keep getting better.

If you would like to hear more stories, just let me know.