Another Stoney Evening...

...about the trip to Dave's Avant Garden in NC. It was like a vacation in paradise for the novice stacker. Dave has four places near his home where he can go and be surrounded by stones to stack. I wore a hat most of the time so that he couldn't see that I was green with envy. I got to his place about 1400 Wednesday and stacked in his back yard till he got home from work. Then we were off to the Garden. The first thing we did was repair the stack at Quayle Manor. It was at this point that I realized the first difference between Dave's stacking methods and my own--Dave works on a massive scale. The stack was in the middle of the river on a boulder. The rocks we stacked weighed from ten to eighty pounds each (except for the cap stone). "My God," I thought, "What have I gotten myself into?"
It was the begining of an awesome pilgrimage. I met Anne's sister (cool), Anne's father, (also cool) and got to see the kids again. I haven't seen Matt and KT since Matt was three and KT was donning diapers. I got to meet Josh for the first time and he was as super cool as the other two. I can't wait to know those guys as they get older.
You know what, this is getting wordy. Let's look at pictures.