SignMedia, Canada’s premier sign magazine, is celebrating its twentieth anniversary. As part of that celebration, the editor selected one article from each year to feature in this month’s magazine. The story she picked for 2011 was an article about one of our earliest dimensional signs made on our CNC router. It was exciting to discover the capabilities of both the router and software back then. That journey continues to this day! Reading the article was a fun trip down memory lane.
New wall
On the rear wall of our shop is a plywood wall that houses our ‘Zombie Apocalypse Station’… which is a fun way to name the rack where we store our shovels, rakes, hoes and other garden tools. We fastened plywood to the insulated concrete forms (ICF), and over the last twenty years, the plywood had begun to rot a little at the bottom. Rather than replace the plywood, we cut off the bottom three feet, and the crew added some sculpted concrete rock. Over the next few weeks, this, along with the rest of the rear of the shop, will receive fresh paint to make it last for decades to come.
Official end of summer.
It has been a fabulous summer with lots of fun drives in my Jeep - with the top off, of course. Now, as the days get a little shorter, the temperatures get cooler, and the rainy season approaches, it is time to put the top and full doors back on the Jeep. How long I delay installing the top on the Jeep is determined by the upcoming weather forecast and planned trips, which require leaving the truck at the airport for multiple days. While there will still be some warm days when I wish the top were gone, today was the day I officially declared the summer season over for 2026.
