Wednesday morning, bright and early, I got up and took Annah to the babysitter in town, and went to the Steele Furniture sign to get started.   As terrified as I was of getting up that high, I knew that I had already promised to do this...and I kept reminding myself that courage is being afraid to do something but doing it anyway.   I want my kids to see my example and see that I don't let fear make me quit something that I am planning to do (even though I was tempted to quit many times before I started).  Besides, if I am going to eventually do larger murals, I have to get over my fear sometime!    (Before this week, I didn't even know I had a fear of heights!) I started near the top so I could go down as I worked, not up!

Here's a video of the lift, so you can see what I was afraid of:


It was pretty cold Wednesday, and very windy...but I was wearing coveralls and had hand warmers in my pockets, and that helped a lot!    I had told James the day before that the only reason I was able to get the Cullman Banana supply mural done so soon was because I had given myself a deadline of 2 days, and somehow that is what I ended up doing- deadlines get me moving fast!  So he gave me a deadline for this one: 4 hours for each side.  He told me he knew I could do it.

To my own surprise, I ended up getting it done in 6 hours...three hours per side!   I was really shocked that it was done so quickly, because the task seemed so daunting at first.   I thought it would take about 2 days at least.

Here is a picture of the sign before I began:

 

And here is one side when I had it finished:


And the other side....