It's almost been a week since Mum and I were at the Traffic Signaling Box and when we arrived at 11am this morning, we found that it hadn't been tagged. Yay!
We unpacked quickly, laid down the drop cloths and orange markers and donned our bright vests and got to work on applying the templates. It was funny and interesting work. Mum was really great at getting the centre of the flowers right and we got in and mixed the paints with the help of the mixing chart on the inside of the lid.
Work was slow and as we had to put on three coats of each colour. Dad showed up with a much-needed lunch of pies and pasties... yummo! And he suggested we painted the rest of the flowers with a white before applying the colour. So, we tried that and voila! It was a lot easier.
By the time we got most of the flowers painted white, I had drawn up the stalks in pencil; with the leaves as well. We had taken a few breaks and found that traffic was slowing down to take a look at what we were doing; thus there were fair few people beeping horns at the lights. And an accident nearly occurred when a tow-truck nearly rear-ended a nice white sedan. The sedan was forced to run the red light so it wasn't destroyed. It was scary to watch on and not be able to do anything about it.
While I went to get a drink earlier in the day, I spotted a gorgeous Thunderbird on a car trailer at the service station. It was red and American-built! I asked if they could stick around for a few minutes while I got my camera and took some photos of it. They said yes and I ran back to the car and grabbed by camera. Isn't she a beauty? The owners had just bought her and were taking her back to Rockhampton! What a car!
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