The lighted Christmas Parade is happening this Saturday. We haven’t had the excitement of building the float this year, so it’s slightly less work, but it still took up more of my weekend than I’d like. Friday night Sam and Rachel helped me get the top and sides out of the garage where it’s being stored. That building is FULL of floats, and ours was back in the corner. Saturday Lloyd, Sam and Gracen helped get the rest of it out and we took it to the center. Today (Sunday) was repair and assembly day. (I still have to fix the star. The post was bent when we were rolling it into the garage last year.)
Last year one of the tires lost air either before or during the parade and made it DIFFICULT to push. This year I have 10″ tires to replace the 8″ tires, and hopefully the combination of larger size and actual inflation will help.
It mostly went together fine. As I was assembling I thought, “I should have marked these pieces so I’d know how to put them back on.” Well, it turns out I did, and I put every piece on backwards that I possibly could. It doesn’t matter.
Up and ready to go.
I have the costumes that kids can borrow hung up all over the thing. It’s like a Farmer’s Market! Get it? ‘Farmer’? ‘Stable’?
I guess it’s just not funny.