Ten beautiful light standards are now fully welded up and waiting to ship to Val’s Pumpkin Patch in Nebraska. Keith worked hard to fabricate the heavy duty lights. I’ve ordered the plexiglass for the light fixtures, which will be ready in a week or so. We decided to ship the lights unpainted as they would undoubtedly have required a fair amount of touching up after the long trip to Nebraska and getting them into place on the farm.
Pumpkin frame
We are building new features for the storybook land at Vala’s Pumpkin Patch in Nebraska. One is a photo op to memorialize the kid’s rhyme, Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater…. It will have a hollow pumpkin on the bottom for kids to climb into, and a window to peek out of. Peter the Pumpkin eater will be perched on top. We started fabricating the armature this past week. We ran some one inch square tube through our bender and I welded up the basic structure. Then, Keith took over to weld in the pencil rod armatures, one on the inside and then an outer shell that will be ribbed. It is a more complex job than it first appears, but it is coming along quickly. Stay tuned for more progress…
Warm wood work
The painting crew has been busy laying on the glazes to the wood details of the Under Hill Suite. The flowers have been hand painted on the walls, and the connecting leaves are still to come. One more week of work should tidy up the painting, and the hundreds of tile border pieces are cut and ready to start laying. Beck and Peter did the colour selection and everything works together in the warm light of the Tiffany lamps. There are ninety-nine days until the Open House on June 7…
