Today was a beautiful and warm day...perfect for painting!  

The rental place was able to raise the scaffolding for me this morning, and I finished the oval top in less than 30 minutes.  Once the scaffolding was moved, though, James came by and noticed that the oval isn't just right, so sometime next week (it will be raining the rest of this week), we'll go back and fix that. It shouldn't take any more than 30 minutes to an hour.



I'm sure most of you have noticed the Dry Cleaners' sign on the top right side of the mural.   The owner of the building contacted me the last time I was painting, and asked if I could help make it look better, since the mural makes it look more faded and old.   He wanted it to match the colors in the mural.  

I decided that since the scaffolding was already up, I would have them moved over just a little, and get that done today.  It took about 4 hours to complete. (I actually made a little bit of money with this one). 

Here's what the sign looked like before:


My mom came by and took this picture of me while I was working on the sign.  I could see my kids in her car, looking up and saying, "WOW, it's SO HIGH!"  (because the scaffolding was raised twice as high as before).  


When the sign was finished, here's how it looked:


Whew!  I feel relieved that everything has come together, and still weeks before my due date.