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The small building with the carport is my mother's workshop, and it's finished! This means that she's currently hard at work both filling her website (I had to add: don't look yet - it's heavily under construction!) with new content and creating all kinds of interesting art!

Ever since I was a child I was constantly amazed by the weird and strange devices my mother keeps in her workshop - the bulk of these had something to do with bronze working. Since this equipment was typically heavy and Canada is far away my mother had to gather a new collection of devices to use here. And she did. A big compressor, several air tubes, a lot of woodworking tools and a sturdy workbench now adorn the shop, along with other more obscure thingies. One of these devices is the, hmm, let's call it the Portable Erosion Device. It's a machine which fast forwards natural erosion to polish small objects. A few days ago we filled it with small stones and pebbles found on the beach. The machine then churns for about a month to polish it's contents. But of course we couldn't wait that long and today we looked into the container to see how the stones are progressing.