Becke is working her magic, putting together all of the bits and pieces to decorate the Under Hill Suite of the Hazelnut Inn. Peter created some digital artwork, which is being printed on canvases and will be fitted into the frames this week. Outside in the private garden, the planting is almost finished. This week, they will finalize the details. There are only thirteen sleeps left until the Open House on June 7.
Learning new skills
Being the weekend, Henry was eager to work on the parade float project. We first filled the water tank and took it for a test drive around the neighbourhood. Henry was delighted to test the water cannon on our good sport neighbour, Joel. It worked perfectly! When we returned to the yard, we noticed a low tire on the cannon trailer. Since we had pumped it up earlier, we decided it was time to replace it. We dug out a new tire and got out the tools. Henry knew just what to do. He placed the jack under the axle and used the air wrench to remove the lug bolts skillfully, threw on the new tire and then tightened. Although he had seen the tool in operation previously, this was his first time on the air wrench by himself. These fun projects are teaching Henry many valuable skills!
Painted!
With the entire crew in the shop all week, we accomplished a great deal. One of the projects was painting three coats of paint and two glazes onto the Cap’n Elias’ Pirate Ship Entrance Tower. For this project, the blends were created in a painterly style using a large brush. Then the crew applied and gingerly wiped off a tan glaze, which warmed up the cool base colours. Lastly, a dark purple/grey glaze was applied and wiped off. As with most of our projects, we ‘weighted’ the tower by making it a little darker towards the bottom of each rock and the tower as a whole. The result is pretty cool, including the cannonball hit on one side.
