The three smaller Downey signs are now substantially complete, and tomorrow morning, one final coat of paint will be brushed on the letters, along with a few minor touch-ups to the rear faces, to complete this portion of the order. The extensive metalwork on the D of the DOWNEYS letters will also be finalized by coffee break tomorrow, making all of the letters ready for the welded pencil rod lath, which is the next step. By weeks end, the letters will be prepared for the sculpted concrete. Stay tuned…
Twice as busy
There’s only one thing better than when Henry works in the shop, and that’s when he is joined by his sister Juniper. It was the perfect spring day, and both kids were eager to do some real work out at the shop. One of this weekend’s projects was to clean out the concrete mixing area. That involves some hard labour with a pickaxe or our little backhoe to break up the concrete floor area. The kids insisted it would be much faster if we did it with the pickaxes. I like to work smarter and not harder, so I stuck to the backhoe, but the kids thoroughly enjoyed doing things the hard way. Together, the job was accomplished in record time!
Hard working Henry
The kids are staying the weekend, which makes for very busy times. Henry, of course, wanted to do stuff in the shop, not really caring what we did, as long as it included as many power tools as possible. One of the many tasks we accomplished was packing the entries for the Sign Invitational. We stuffed copious amounts of bubble wrap (always fun!) around the pieces before we fastened on the lids. Henry did the honours of screwing the lids tightly in place. We then loaded the giant boxes into the pickup, and Henry insisted on doing a more-than-excellent job of strapping them into the pickup bed with three straps tightened extra tight. As required, he slapped the tightened straps and declared that this load wouldn’t go anywhere! We went to town without incident and then unloaded the boxes and wheeled them into the UPS store to fill out the paperwork. We celebrated our success with lunch at Tim Hortons. Then it was back to the shop to continue our adventure…
