With the warmer summer weather Henry has been out in the yard a whole lot more. it didn’t take him long to notice the little Jeep we made to go in our local parades. One ride up and down the driveway and he was sold. The little vehicles gos much faster than our lawn tractor and that is a whole lot of fun! Now it is his favourite thing to do. Each time I see him he asks to go out to ride… again and again and again until grampa just can’t say no. He sits tight against me, thoroughly enjoying the ride as we roar up and down our 300 foot long driveway, again and again and again. Henry’s second favourite thing to do is to pretend he’s driving grampa’s big Jeep. Later, when I jump in to run an errand it makes me laugh as when I start it up the windshield wipers come on, the radio is much louder than I like it and the heater is turned all the way to much too hot. I know Henry has been playing with all of the controls. It’s all worth it to hear his laugh!
This is a fun one!
Two months ago I was privileged to visit Vala’s Pumpkin Patch and Apple Orchard in Nebraska. I was thoroughly impressed with the Vala family and their incredible farm operation. They open to the public for only a short season in the fall and amazingly welcome hundreds of thousands of guests during those few weeks. Over the last couple of months we’ve been exploring, and sketching ideas for a series of fun dimensional signs throughout their operation. The design work is now complete for this year’s projects (and many of next year’s as well) and it is time to begin building the signs. Over the next weeks I’ll be posting lots of pictures of our progress as the signs come alive. Here’s a sneak peek at a couple of the fun designs. Stay tuned…
Down to the detail
Finding time to work on my Sign Invitational entry has been tough of late as we’ve been super busy. But there is always time to sneak in a few minutes once in a while. Those minutes add up to significant progress. The bases for the two trucks are now routed and assembled and the truck chassis are mounted to them. The next stages of the sculpt can be done a little at a time as it is all handwork. The bulk of the big stuff is now complete and it is down to my favourite part - the detail. Stay tuned…
