Thinking With My Hands

As much as we might want to still use a 'cracked stone' in the dry stone wall we are building but use it like 'two stones',...

What are the things we should think about before we 'dive in' to building a dry stone wall? When building with a random selection of...

This is something I did in Victoria BC a few years ago before I knew about Sue Lawty or her vision for a world-wide hands-on community of ar...

Where would we be without Donny the truck driver? He is on the road most days delivering random dry stone now that walling has started to ta...

Here we are warming our hands around the fire pit which we completed this weekend in Guelph Ontario. It rained most of the day. There may no...

This is the 'hand check' at the end of a day of working with stone. Most of the fourteen tons of limestone material brought in for t...

Is it ironic that the work I most enjoy doing has nearly the same description as the thing I enjoy the least? Dry walling can never be as mu...

Stones have been laid upon stones since the beginning of time. We see evidence of this in every land and continent. These ancient stone stru...

If I only thought with my brain, I'd say that some things that are basically 'preventative' could conceivably be good ideas. If ...

There is an inherent problem with voting with your feet. It is basically defeatist and negative. While voting with ones hand's doesn...

Many new parents feel a pressure to have their baby's seat or bouncy chair cluttered with all sorts of interactive plastic 'mobile...

With the ash cloud continuing to shut down air travel in Europe, airline companies are talking about having to let go of some of their emplo...

Now and then a dry stone wall idea comes to mind that is worth trying to illustrate. It's way better than one of those fancy new 'M...

The term 'stone boat' refers to a flat farm implement used for moving heavy rocks and stones. It was usually pulled with horses by t...

Volcanic ash is made up of small particles of pulverized rock created by a volcanic eruptions. There are three ways this rock dust is formed...

Watt's the difference between a rock and a stone? Bobby Watt of RJW Stonemasons in Ottawa defines a 'rock' as being 'an unem...

As I'm on the subject of the our hands being tied and not being able to touch things at the Art Gallery ( blog entry for April 12 ) I th...

I am thankful that there are occasions in my life when I have been 'touched' And, in some mysterious way feel (in terms of contempla...

The Art Gallery of Ontario has a massive permanent collection of impressive works of art. It is a museum comparable to any of the best in N...

Near the C.P.U. BUS terminal in Ambleside there is a platform overlooking an existing MS Office firewall where a user video opening is block...