At a Glance
I’m reading the new book by Brad Taylor, American Traitor: A Pike Logan Novel.
I greet the family, give them hugs, help my wife with dinner, and then we gather around the table for our family dinner.
I’ve never been to Europe, so I would just say anywhere in Europe.
I’m not really a big pet fan, so I don’t think I would [he laughs]. I guess if you could miniaturize like a giraffe or an elephant and have that as a pet, and it was about the size of a dog, that would be rather interesting.
At a Glance
I’m reading the new book by Brad Taylor, American Traitor: A Pike Logan Novel.
I greet the family, give them hugs, help my wife with dinner, and then we gather around the table for our family dinner.
I’ve never been to Europe, so I would just say anywhere in Europe.
I’m not really a big pet fan, so I don’t think I would [he laughs]. I guess if you could miniaturize like a giraffe or an elephant and have that as a pet, and it was about the size of a dog, that would be rather interesting.
Off the Cuff
uke Blomfield joined Davis Constructors & Engineers in 2002; by 2012 he was a partner at the company. He’s been the general contractor’s president and CEO for a little more than two years, and today he’s also the president of Mass Excavation. Despite his upward movement and the more than two decades he’s spent in construction, what he loves about his job remains the same. “I still think the favorite part of my job is what brought me to it: when we’ve completed construction of a building, an infrastructure project, or any sort of development that’s going to be there long after I’m gone, it’s nice to drive around town or different places throughout the state and just say, ‘Our team had a hand in building that.’”
Luke Blomfield: The family and I, we go to the cabin quite a bit up in Willow, and there’s plenty of summer and winter activities there; we’re on a creek and we can fish, and play in the water, and in the winter we can snow machine, and snowshoe, and cross-country ski.
AB: Is there a skill you’re currently developing or have always wanted to learn?
Blomfield: I’ve been really trying to pick up golf—I need to get substantially better at it before I can, you know, play with the big dogs.
AB: What’s the most daring thing you’ve ever done?
Blomfield: I got an opportunity once to fish in the Brooks River right by Katmai with the bears, and I didn’t realize that’s where we were going at the time, so I ended up fishing next to all those grizzlies. I don’t know if it was necessarily “daring,” because I think it’s pretty safe, but when you’re fifteen feet to a big grizzly, or twenty-five feet, it spooks you a little bit.
AB: What is your favorite local restaurant?
Blomfield: Club Paris: I tend to lean towards whatever their special is.
AB: Other than your current career, if you were a kid today, what would your dream job be?
Blomfield: I’ve been doing this since I was fourteen… If I won the lottery tomorrow, I’d probably take a longer weekend, but I’d still be at work the following Monday. So it’s hard to say—I’m one of those people fortunate enough to really do what they love.
Blomfield: Billy Joel, preferably on a Saturday, not too late, about 9 o’clock.
AB: What’s your greatest extravagance?
Blomfield: Probably the biggest extravagance is just the cabin, and the toys, and fun things that we get there to keep the kids engaged. I think that’s where the majority of our supplemental income goes is to develop that place. It’s old—built in the ‘40s—so over the past six or so years we’ve been upgrading it and rebuilding it.
AB: What’s your best attribute and worst attribute?
Blomfield: I would say my best attribute is also my worst attribute: I can process things really quickly, however in doing so in a conversation, I tend to assume what someone’s going to say next and quit listening while I develop a response. 
