The plan comes together

I consider myself a designer and maker of signs but I think of signs different than any signmaker I know. The signs I design are all three dimensional of course but I also design the area around the signs which are often a bigger project than the signs themselves. In the case of the current project the signs were but a small part. Everything in the whole park, including the signs, needed to tell a story, to entertain in a grand fashion.

As the project nears completion it is cool to see the original visions fulfilled, often better than I imagined at my drawing board. I walked through the park today. All was quiet and it gave me time to really look at what we have created. It made me smile.

I snapped a couple pictures tonight of things that worked out pretty well. I'll grab a whole bunch more in coming days when the light is right for each shot and as the areas get cleaned up and landscaped.

Its kinda fun when a plan comes together.

-grampa dan

Five work days and counting

Each day our crew methodically paints through the park and more areas are finished. The soil is to be brought into the park on Tuesday meaning all of the planters need to be done before then. The mountain over the bumper boat pool is to be polished off Monday. All other planters are ready.

The saloon was done yesterday and is now ready for the operating crew to move in.

Today we finished the western perimeter fence, just in time for the last of the concrete sidewalks to follow on Monday morning.

There's only five more workdays until the gates swing open for the guests. Stay tuned...

-grampa dan

Two more areas done

Each time we finish another area of the park the team is spread out less and the remaining work seems to go faster. Today we completed the painting in two areas. The Happy Horse Saloon is now finished as is Bucky's Bumper Boat island.

As the team works closer together and the job finishes spirits are high among the crew. Along with that things seem to get sillier than ever. At lunch today Sarah decided to attempt to climb into the skeleton, much to the amusement of the crew.

Becke and Jenessa were headed up into the mountain to paint the rocks by the planters which had partially filled with water from recent rains. The solution was some fancy new boots which they happily modeled for us.

As we packed up the brushes and paints at quitting time they announced a need for test riders on the Windmill Drop ride - just made working today. Our crew eagerly volunteered.

The ride works great! It seems much higher on the ride than from below. While we were briefly at the top I grabbed a picture of the south east corner of the park from a brand new angle.

With the weather now looking great through right up to opening day next Saturday we will be working hard to make the best of it. Our hope is to finish the park before the gates open. That's something I didn't think was remotely possible right from the start but now it just might be. Stay tuned...

-grampa dan