my love of food is a lifetime affair my grandfather for whom i'm named started the family's former business in one thousand nine hundred thirty one when my knee was still just a sleepy village pacific lumber and supply company specialized in selling hardwoods for the boat builders in miami my great grandfather was a ship's carpenter and bill my grandfather was a master carpenter as a young man he left that field and then decided he needed to support  family better and started selling lumber one of the sweetest smells to me is sawdust i never get over the calming nature when i first walk into a lumber yard of course today it's harder to find small lumber can depend a bookstore's they're sort of a dying breed my life over the last few months seems to be going at breakneck speed with lots of changes and growth and all kinds of exciting things but a little like a speeding train more i'm holding on for dear life that's an intriguing expression holding on for dear life life really is dear probably too dear to see it only from a speeding train so it seemed right for this show to come back to would grounding healing strong slow moving would a material that is natural enduring and able to hold a lot of feelings and of course is three dimensional all the things i love in a material for creating and touching into our unspoken feelings hello i'm billy gibbons and this is make art feel better on a show where we explore creativity and we we're just thrilled that you're here you've only been in the country for since monday we arrived fantastic and we have a map here because i thought it would be nice to be able to see where you're from and you could point out when to hold it up here i don't know whether it's best for meredith to look at this or not but we will you could hope to get really well i'm from the coast of ireland a lot of beaches up here and  very best weather we've seen in a couple of years so you know it's really nice spring is coming in the trees are ready to disburse it is it are already spring in ireland no no this it's cold it's still cold it's magic wand in a dream like ten years from now what would you like to be doing in media hopefully maybe something now done or if not and chromakey some of it to my biggest interests and that's what you like what would you like to be doing in ten years well i'm not to share what i'd like to meet in ten years but i mean hopefully something and i hope to go to college in september back home and study dry ok all right i was going to go off and on make her feel better because didn't we on the show we believe everyone is an artist and it's always fun to find out how people create but you actually like to draw on that what do you draw i mean he said it would be my favorite thing to so great and wonderful and what would you w car well you know we decided to do the show about wood and then i was talking with some of the other younger crew members and and they made the comment that my relationship with wood because of my generation may be totally different and people of your generation because now wood is not the go to material it's not as you use just much more plastic and electronics to speak to that were right but it's it's interesting that now sometimes you go in an office and you look around and there's nothing that's made out of wood everything is plastic or metal not not quite quite think i mentioned you were not familiar with that term the first time i'd ever heard it well i i wonder if this comes so many of my ancestors and a lot of people who came over from ireland and then scotland and the british isles and they landed in the appalachian area in the mountains north carolina south carolina and i think we think of that as a tradition although there would lawyers all over the country and the thought with  we're going to be very careful you have the fancier knife devan yet yours isn't quite as fancy now what i find with with it but if you're an artist you're used to exact and yes ok that i always say i like dangerous tools but the and you just take pieces of the wood off like this very carefully and then interests and you probably are sitting outside like a beautiful day to day and you have nothing better to do than to whittle when you want to take you can you can take it all branch and just be forking it see what happens and it's very meditative wonder and one said if you don't have time you should little so i think you're supposed to take turns doing this and we do it maybe i never did carving my brother was quite a car for and i i remember the story he was in high school and he carved a roman galley he wasn't very good at it lad you actually had to get a tutor because he was having a lot of trouble of latin but because he could carve these ships he got to go to the special conference you know so you never know how you're going yes it was good because he was not a latin scholar  we have other wood here yeah which you're going to you're going to be able to use hot glue and build anything you want like a structure or something that had sticks in there you could it's rough it is it is to spin the next maybe five or six minutes going into the creative zone and mike's going to play a little bit of music and we do this although i do want to stop touring but if you speak and no one will dance you know you said before the