One tree - to go

It is fun to sit with my sketchbook and draw idea after idea, each one wilder than the last with the intention of eventually putting together a collection of the best ideas and then going out to the workshop to actually build them. For the Trinidad project I've done well over a hundred concept drawings, most of which have made the final cut. The eighteenth hole feature of the adventure golf is one of my favorite pieces for the project. Hangman's Tree is also one of the most complex pieces of the collection. It will be a hefty challenge to fabricate it in such a fashion to allow it to be broken down to fit into a shipping container for transport about 4,500 miles and then taken out and reassembled again on site.

There will be plenty of head scratching and shop engineering to make it all work I'm sure but as always we'll find a way and learn plenty in the process. It is going to be a lot of fun!

-grampa dan

Big day on the mountain

While most people might think you build a mountain from the bottom up, in this busines we do it the other way around. Gravity rules and mud falls when you drop it. The answer is to start applying the mud at the top and then work your way down.  We had a fabulous day and as a team we did an incredible amoiunt of work and finished the top half of the mountain

Here's a pic of the mountaineering team, still smiling after a hard day.

On Monday the painting will start on the top half as work continues below. Stay tuned...

-grampa dan

Men on the mountain

Today we went truly vertical with the mud as the crew began applying concrete to the mountain. They begn with the planter bottoms and the rocks that will poke out of the dirtbanks. They also did the tall light posts around the fence on the south east side of the park. 

It is amazing how fast the plaster work changes the look of the park. Tomorrow we'll finish off the bulk of the top of the mountain and maybe some more of the fence too. Stay tuned...

-grampa dan