The many features for NEB’s Fun World golf are being loaded and shipped out late this week. Everything is ready, save for one small piece - the sign for the Castle Golf. The sign is fully fabricated and the painting crew has been working on it. Just the lettering remains to be completed. It will of course be gilded with 23K gold leaf. We had to make sure all of the background paint was fully cured. Gilding is accomplished by pairing on a thin coat of size (similar to varnish) and the gold is then laid into the tacky paint at just the right moment. The gold also sticks well to paint that hasn’t fully cured. That’s why this job was left until the very last minute.
Base coat
Henry and I had an appointment this weekend to work on the spinosaurus car in preparation for the Yarrow Days parade which happens on June 3. Today, it was time for the base coat of paint which simply had to be blue. Henry insists he is a self taught painter and a very good one at that. He is also the fastest painter in all the land - much faster than his grampa for sure. I did my very best to keep up to Henry and fill in the missed areas while Henry coached me and it wasn’t long until we had the dinosaur car covered with a coat of baby blue paint. We’ll let it cure before we go back to add the fancy details. Stay tuned….
One step at a time...
Thankfully, my healing process continues at a rapid pace. I feel better with more energy with each passing day. Janis does her best to keep my increasing pace in check and encourages me to elevate my leg (where they took the veins to fix my heart) as much as possible to minimize swelling (which is minor) of my right foot. I am now walking about five thousand steps each day and slowly increasing. I spend a little time in the shop each day advising and encouraging the crew. I also get to attend client meetings a couple of times each week and continue doing design work. All in all my active life is slowly returning to normal. The good news is that I will be allowed to drive a vehicle again starting on Monday, four weeks after my discharge from the hospital. Because Monday is a holiday and I’m not allowed to lift anything heavy, Keith helped me remove the Jeep hard top and install the half doors on Friday. Now I’m just counting the hours…
