Everyone loves a parade!

Small town parades are a whole lot of fun! Yarrow Days Parade is all that and more. Everyone knows everyone and if the folks you know aren't in the parade they are lining the route waving and cheering you on! 😁  The judges awarded our little entry with a first place ribbon and that was before Juniper arrived at the parade start.

Juniper was dressed up in her new princess dress and a custom grandma made princess hat. She had her princess wave down pat and really enjoyed throwing candy to everyone on the sidelines! After the parade we headed back home and she continued to wave to everyone along the way. As we pulled into the driveway she asked me 'Did you have fun grampa??' I think she is already looking forward to next year...

Plenty of mud

Today was what we refer to as a big mud day in our shop. That's a day we trowel and hand carve lots of fibreglass reinforced concrete onto a number of large features. Today's task was the wood grained barrels of the four halves of the giant stills. We applied the concrete onto two of the large pieces, then did other tasks for an hour or so before returning to apply the mud on the balance of the pieces. The time gap is to allow the crew enough time to carve as this process takes longer than the application. Janessa played lead today, laying out the grain on all of the pieces. Peter and I helped with the sculpting. With one person doing all of the layout, the style is then consistent all the way through. The pieces looked fabulous when they were done and will look even better when they are painted!

Ready to roll

I cleaned out every dollar store in Chilliwack to gather the plastic daisies to cover the bottom of the parade float but there were just enough to do the task. They add a bright splash of colour to the giant, rusty steel dragon. We used the dimensional letters from the Hazelnut Inn sign on the sides of the trailer and applied a giant Imagination Corporation decal to the bright yellow hood of the little Jeep to identify our companies. Save for topping up the gas tank, we are ready to roll Saturday morning. This is going to be fun!