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David
Rich is the hands-on owner of Copper-By-Design. A talented
designer and fabricator of custom copper
sheet-metal. Mostly rain management products for clients across the Nation through:
For local clients he is still a residential rain-gutter replacement
contractor for the Portland, Oregon Metro area specializes in low-maintenance
gutters with a 15 year no-clog warranty through: Tia worked with him full time for a couple years. She trained as a Social Worker, Registered Nurse, Reiki Healer, Tantrica, Doula, Teaching birthing classes & parenting, Hypno-birth, Herbologist, Placenta Encapsulation, CranioSacral, Massuse, Midwife, and other therapies through her web site http://inner-serenity.org |
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David was born Aquarius in Sacramento, California. The middle child of five, born on 1/30/63. His family moved to Utah when he was just 6. Located right between Salt Lake City and Ogden. Of course he was raised strictly Mormon, but has since worked to shed his original programming. His parents divorced when he was 12
and his Father moved back to Portland Oregon,
where his parents had raised him. David visiting his Father
at 15 decided to call Portland home in 1978: This is nearly paradise here in the Great Northwest; where we have clearly defined seasons, yet no extremes. He left the LDS church in his late teens, but remained spiritual, respectful to women, and not into alchohol or other substance abuse. Over the years he gradually realized a strong connection with his Celtic Pagan Spiritual Heritage to honor our Great Mother Gaia (Earth). Down on organized religion of any kind. Spirituality is a very personal thing about connection to your divine, and need not conform to anyone else's ideas. As fast as you can try to describe it, you have misrepresented it with those seto of words. Think feeling. What else is needed? |
David attributes a good deal of his talents and aptitudes from his family. His Grandfather: John William Rich who was a brilliant inventor. His Father: William Dale Rich (12/33 - 3/06) was a natural born mechanic and salesman who ran a successful health products business through http://www.billrich.com. David's Mother: Carolyn Ann Collins enjoys many creative artistic endeavors. David was tested to have a very high aptitude for math, spatial arrangement, and mechanical comprehension. David worked at his Father's auto shop in early 1981, and was a self taught auto mechanic by years end. He specialized in the very small cute 1971-72 Honda 600 cars (pre-Civic), and had customers referred to him by all three Honda dealerships in the area, because they no longer wanted to service those early Honda cars. By late 1982, he had around 75 full engine over-hauls under his belt at the age of 20. He eventually found it impossible to continue working for his Father at Rich's Repair and had to leave the business, since his father owned the tools he used and was not paying him for the work he did. He then began his self-training in construction, but for some odd reason the Honda 600 car web page had remained one of the most popular web site he had authored into the 2000's.
Here's his long list of jobs in order, with
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David
out in front of our Lake Oswego home (2/07)
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Self portrait 2006 |
Her birth name is Tina Ellis, or as she is affectionately known as: Lady Tia. Tia was born Aries/Taurus on the cusp in Santa Clara California on 4/20/66. She was raised as an only child, but she has several older siblings on her Father's side. Tia was raised in Vista, California. She was raised in a much more open minded home, where she was able to explore any avenue of education and spirituality she chose. She was introduced to the Pagan beliefs by the Mother of a close friend. This felt right to her, but she continues to leave her options open and enjoys the study different theologies. Tia had studied many a faith, but has been drawn more towards a classic Celtic Spirituality, which centers around an Earth based respect of our great Mother Gaia, which predates the mith of Adam and Eve. She has been a sensitive as long as she can remember; seeing and communicating with spirits. She is trained as a Reiki Healer, Tantrica. She got her degree in Hypnotherapy (2005), hypno-birthing, Doula, and a licensed Midwife (2011), along with several other therapies through her business web site: |
Early in Tia's first marriage she had followed her Parents up here to Corvallis Oregon in early 1989, where she resided until December of 1998. She had landed a position at the Children's Farm Home working with trouble young men for 5 years, and later decided to get her degree as an RN (before we had met), following in the foot steps of her Mother. She worked professionally as a Nurse for a few years, and decided to set that aside to work with me for a few years before starting her own business to follow her passion as a Healer/Midwife. |
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David & Tia at the Oregon Country Fair (2004)
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David & Tia both had always loved the concept of finding one's Soulmate, but did not hold out much hope that we would be fortunate to have and find that special someone. On 10-1-98 Tia, contacted David via the Internet, from his sarcastic ad placed on a dating web site called: match.com, where they had both decided to take advantage of a 7-day free trial period. They had a story book romance. They are here to report to you that dreams can come true. We truly believe that we have found our Soulmates in each other. We said our vows to each other and exchanged gold rings just 2 weeks after that first e-mail. Here are a few inspiring words written by Lady Tia in November of 98, about Soulmates, and our joyous rediscovery of each other. We find that we have a great deal in common and qualities we respect in each other. We find each other to be very honorable, intelligent, wise, fun, and funny. It may not be a completely smooth sailing, but our life together is a joyful bliss to finally have a best friend and partner to share our life with in this wonderfully healthy relationship. She inspires him to learn to live life and love, and do what he always hoped to do with his life. We can only hope you are at least half as happy and fulfilled. We had acquired several domain names for web site content, that we add to occasionally:
dmr-gutters.com |
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Hotter than ever New Years Eve
(2006)
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Running our own businesses is a lot like riding a wild horse,
without being able to get off and take a rest. We not only have to hang on as best we
can, but keep on pushing forward. There's no going back to punching a time clock
for us. It often requires long
days, but we love having the control of what kind
of high quality standards are used.
David worked as an
employee for a general contractor that has long since been out of business. He got his feet
wet performing nearly all
aspects of construction work and compiled his stock of tools and machinery. He hated
working under their set of low standards and how they would deceive their clients.
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Here is David's three daughters from his first marriage. You are also welcome to visit his family photo page. Porsha Lea Rich, Ceair Carry Despra Talea Rich, Hope Lezly Rayzanna Alexzandria Rich |
. This is our current home/workshop in Sherwood since 12/19 . For a decade this was ourhome in SW Portlandin SW Portland from 7/09 to 12/19 (We had to move after our Landlord tried to jack our rent up another 50%) For a couple years this was our home and workshop from 7/07 to 7/09 (We had to move closer into town for Tia's Midwifery apprenticeship)
This was our home in Lake Oswego from 11/03 to 7/07 Here is the back yard of that 2+ acres place
in the summer
Autumn
(Our Landlord sold her Family home she had grown up in to a developer who
just tore it down Winter . The Clackamas House 2000 to 2001 The
NW Keiser House 1999 to 2000 (recent pic 2019)
SE Portland house from 1992 to 1999,
(pic in 2007 before restoration)
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David having fun at a Halloween party 06
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We may not be able to change the world, but as an absolute rule; we must do no less than what we would hope to get from others, regardless of what we do in fact receive! Without these ethics, we have no right to even hope to receive any better from others, let alone expect it. If we do not want to live in a world of deceit and corruption, we need to make sure we are not adding to that muck! You can read some more thoughts on our
personal philosophies on our philosophy
web pages. If you like Sci-Fi/ Fantasy Art, you can also check out our Art Collection Page. Have fun! |
Helpful Roofing Information For some valuable advice with regards to roofing and rain management issues check out our:
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Gutter Installation web pages for answers and solutions that could save you thousands of $ and a great deal of anguish. If you do find this information very helpful, feel free to send us a $ tip for the assistance we so freely have published on the web here for your benefit, like you might tip a waitress. Heck, send us a gift certificate for a candle lit dinner for two. |
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We were also a 1997 finalist for this same award. See our referral web page to see how we managed to be honored with this special award |
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