Woodstove wall

The cultured stone arrived on Thursday so I had a job for the weekend. Luckily Al showed up to give me a hand. The cultured stone will be behind my woodstove. Below is the process. first I had to put up some cement board.

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Then we layed out the stone according to size and shape.

We then screwed some wood to the floor in the shape of the wall so we could lay out the stone. It was quite the jigsaw puzzle.

It took us the entire day to fit all the pieces together. The goal is to make it look random. I think we achieved it.

Then we moved the stone, one by one, and cemented them to the wall.

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Almost there......

We did it! Thanks for your help Al.

It was alot of work, but I am really happy with the end result.

Now I need to pick the tile for the hearth.

Catherine's Tree

Yesterday, a tree was planted in Holland in Catherine's memory. It was planted in Wilhelminabos, a forest named after Queen Wilhelmina. The forest is located in the northern part of the Roggebotzand in Dronten opposite Kampen. The forest was started December 9, 2000 and is dedicated to people who have died of Cancer. Some of Catherine's relatives in Holland got together and arranged to have a tree planted in her memory. On this day there were around 3000 people. A tree was planted and her name was engraved on one of the glass panels. After 1 minute silence, they let red and white balloons into the sky, and then they went to a field to plant a tree.
To all involved in arranging this for Catherine, I thankyou all. It is a beautiful memorial. Below are some pictures of the day sent to me from Loes en Kees.

Below, Loes,Okko and Oliver are shown planting the tree (Kees is the photographer)



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Loes en Kees

They chose an evergreen tree for Catherine.

Catherine's name is engraved on the glass panel (28-9) for September 28th.

Thanks again to all involved.
Ken