Old Things Arranged in New Ways

RIGHT: A recent interior fireplace job using eastern Washington basalt that the homeowner and I gathered into our pickups. Very little mortar is visible as I hoped to replicate the natural stone formation from whose base we gathered the fallen shards. The hearth is Pennsylavania Bluestone.

The logwork is done by a Twisp master of the chainsaw. I will get back with his name should he like to be credited.

I completed the fireplace prior to the sheetrocker's arrival, an unusual order, but in this case the sceduling required it. In the last day or two of the project we worked about the other, negotiating for workspace. The sheetrocker was the first in years to proselyte his religion to me while on the job: something I find highly distracting and interfering with my mind space at work. But for any interested and searching for that one true church, the sheetrocker is certain that if one accepts the Bible as the Word of God, then Seventh-Day Adventism is the one. I made the mistake of saying that I don't accept the premise that the Bible is the Word of God. He couldn't leave the subject alone after that until he was satisfied that I wasn't ready to change my mind, despite his proofs that alternated between reason and faith, from numerology to all of the ways that evolutionary theory had supposedly been debunked by Creationist interpretations of bacterial mechanics.