Heres an older project, for you ferrous non-ferrous heads. I love working in cemeteries. Ben Franklin said "Show me your cemeteries and I will tell you about your culture" (or at least that has been attributed to him)
I was thinking about this thread while carving some sandstone yesterday and wanted to share this. Part of my duties whilst working in the cemetery was to bury folks. yup a couple of college degrees and here I am digging freakin graves. A couple really hit home,
the wife, guy comes in and says my wife got diagnosed with a rare cancer and the doc says she has a month to live, I need a plot. Three days later I'm covering her grave while the whole family, a 2,3,5 yr old stand in shock.
the GI Jane, a kid and a girl come in and say they are looking for a grave, "sure whats the name?" "Yup right here, would you like me to show you?" Get out there and there are two names, husband and wife, only birth dates, I look and they're one year younger than me. I'm speechless, the husband sees my look and the wife says, yea one tour in Afghan and I just got back from Iraq, terminal brain cancer. Just want to see where I'll be this summer. I still get a tear in my eye when I remember them.
Moral of the story- You better love what you do cause you might just not get to do it tomorrow.