June 10, 2007

• Church sign

  This weekend has flown past.  Its been a bit drippy, but not torrential downpour.   I've spent a great portion of it on a labor of love.  When we moved out here we desperately looked for a place to Worship.  Our options in this community were not great.   Two of the churches were doctrinally unacceptable.  And the third church was a denomination Rob swore he would never go to.   (loonng story).

  We couldn't see any other options, so continued to drive to our old community, and were extremely frustrated.

  One day while driving I finally noticed a dilapated sign for a church.  It was a denomination I was unfamiliar with, but willing to research.  We researched, my parents researched, we talked to the Elder in charge.  And then we finally visited.  We entered the building and immediately felt at home.  We have been worshipping at the Church of Christ in Clallam Bay for over a year now.  And last week I finally got brave enough, and unstressed enough to ask who was in charge of church maintenance.  (There's only 30 of us at  church.)  Chris one of the men there smiled and said I was.

  I laughed at him.  And then asked if I could repaint the sign.  He said it was a project that nobody wanted, but everybody knew was way overdue.  (understatement)   I talked to the lady whose treasurer, secretary etc.  And she said the church would easily provide money for paint.  After church her husband showed us the sign could be unbolted.  He and Rob unbolted it and we took it home.

  

  This is the way it looked before hand.  I had to spend a good half hour with a wire brush scraping it, as it was very very bad.  The letters have been carved out, and were cool.  But you couldn't read them worth beans, and the paint was bubbling, and mostly gone. 

  

  So two coats of white, two coats of brown on either side, and the sign turned out very nicely.

  

  It was fun to do, and greatly appreciated. 

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