I have to admit, I never thought that these words would ever be spoken, but here we go:
We're done.
Finished up about 8pm, rolling on the last of the big walls. We have a few touch-ups to do iin the morning (if it doesn't rain), and then we'll pack. Touch-ups will take less than 30 minutes, repairing water-damaged areas.
We let the ground crew go home right after lunch, with the lift crew hanging on until this evening. They're going to meet me at the pod at 9:30am for final clean-up, consolidation of paint, supplies, gassing up the lifts, etc. Ahhh, 9:30am. It seems like such a luxury.
I am sitting here in awe, because I can't believe that we actually did it. I drove from the beginning of the project all the way through and let me tell you: these walls haven't gotten any smaller. They're huge! And we painted them! 2500 gallons of paint. Wow.
I can't say enough about all of the wonderful and amazing people that worked on this endeavor. We couldn't have done it without you.
And of course, none of this would have been remotely possible without Mickie. Truly an amazing woman. And you all know what I'm talking about.
I'll close up with some comments and more pictures tomorrow. In the meantime. we're going to sleep - until late.
Well, until 9:30 anyway.
Mike
Right after finishing the last of the walls from the ground. I think that everyone just kinda backed off and let me put on a couple of strokes. The lift crew came over to help finish, since they were working through lunch to finish. We actually just felt sorry for them. BTW, those radios really came in handy.
This is how it's done, from 30' up. Notice how light the paint gets when it dries. A real bitch trying to match up the patterns.
Newbie Joe was trying really hard to drive his lift correctly, and he really did a great job. Or should I say, a bang-up job. I guess Blalock won't miss this barrel too awfully bad. Jonny and JoHanna did, however, judge it as a "clean kill."
With only a patch left to go on the wall, you can see how far these guys actually went - in two days! Well, the wall on the right, anyway.
Here it is - the last spot on the last wall. From the ground, anyway. Again, everyone did an amazing job.
Ahhh - the last of the last wall - All four lifts going at it, in the waning daylight. But we finished. I would have gotten kleig lights if it came down to it. Jack and Marsha had to come by to see the end. It really was exciting.
Mickie modelling some glasses she got from Marsha. She will HAVE to wear them in her new convertible.
OK, now really, who looks better in the glasses?
We're done.
Finished up about 8pm, rolling on the last of the big walls. We have a few touch-ups to do iin the morning (if it doesn't rain), and then we'll pack. Touch-ups will take less than 30 minutes, repairing water-damaged areas.
We let the ground crew go home right after lunch, with the lift crew hanging on until this evening. They're going to meet me at the pod at 9:30am for final clean-up, consolidation of paint, supplies, gassing up the lifts, etc. Ahhh, 9:30am. It seems like such a luxury.
I am sitting here in awe, because I can't believe that we actually did it. I drove from the beginning of the project all the way through and let me tell you: these walls haven't gotten any smaller. They're huge! And we painted them! 2500 gallons of paint. Wow.
I can't say enough about all of the wonderful and amazing people that worked on this endeavor. We couldn't have done it without you.
And of course, none of this would have been remotely possible without Mickie. Truly an amazing woman. And you all know what I'm talking about.
I'll close up with some comments and more pictures tomorrow. In the meantime. we're going to sleep - until late.
Well, until 9:30 anyway.
Mike
Right after finishing the last of the walls from the ground. I think that everyone just kinda backed off and let me put on a couple of strokes. The lift crew came over to help finish, since they were working through lunch to finish. We actually just felt sorry for them. BTW, those radios really came in handy.
This is how it's done, from 30' up. Notice how light the paint gets when it dries. A real bitch trying to match up the patterns.
Newbie Joe was trying really hard to drive his lift correctly, and he really did a great job. Or should I say, a bang-up job. I guess Blalock won't miss this barrel too awfully bad. Jonny and JoHanna did, however, judge it as a "clean kill."
With only a patch left to go on the wall, you can see how far these guys actually went - in two days! Well, the wall on the right, anyway.
Here it is - the last spot on the last wall. From the ground, anyway. Again, everyone did an amazing job.
Ahhh - the last of the last wall - All four lifts going at it, in the waning daylight. But we finished. I would have gotten kleig lights if it came down to it. Jack and Marsha had to come by to see the end. It really was exciting.
Mickie modelling some glasses she got from Marsha. She will HAVE to wear them in her new convertible.
OK, now really, who looks better in the glasses?
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