News: Lori and I made a 1-1/2 day trip to a limestone mill in Bloomington Indiana and brought back 1000 lbs of nice Indiana Limestone. Thus far, my limestone pieces have been made from the Illinois variety, generally inferior to that found just a few hundred miles away.

I'm also in the midst of reconfiguring my outdoor carving studio to enable carving with pneumatic tools for the first time in many, many years. This should speed up the roughing-out phase and allow quicker production.

So, I don't expect to be carving any of this new stone for at least a few weeks, more if I decide to tear into a 200 lb. piece of white marble I've had sitting around for nearly a year.