The truck is starting to look closer to finished with most of its paint now complete. The grill and headlight bezels still needs glazing and the frame and bumper will be painted black. Then we’ll fit the box back onto the back for final detailing. Stay tuned…
Rocks and dirt
When I imagine a project the idea is fully formed in my head but still vague in many details. I know through experience that I don’t need to sweat these details for they will easily come as I actually begin work on the project. Today I found about an hour to start the detailed sculpting on my Sign Invitational piece. I started with the rocky dirt banks. I used a variety of tools including my fingers, crumpled tinfoil, a sharpened popsicle stick and a couple of other basic pointy clay sculpting tools. I’m liking the effect so far and can hardly wait to see how it works out as I sculpt around the piece in the next days. Stay tuned…
45 wonderful years
Back in the fall of 1971 Janis and I met while we were both in high school. I was smitten badly, almost instantly. Janis took a little longer to warm to my charms. By Christmas of that year we were ‘going steady’ as they called it in those days. We were ‘secretly’ engaged not long after, although Janis didn’t say yes on my first asking, nor the second. We were officially engaged in the fall of 1973. Forty-five years ago today we were married. Inside our wedding rings the word ‘ALWAYS’ was inscribed. Those 45 years have flown by in a flash. We have been best friends, lovers and business partners through many good times and a few tougher years as well. Janis reminds me occasionally, ‘I will ALWAYS love you, even though some days I may not like you very much.’ We are still best friends. I am reminded of a speech that Peter gave during our 25th anniversary celebration. He complimented Janis (his mom) as beautiful, loving, patient, kind, and a most awesome person. Me, he called the luckiest man alive. I truly am.
