Except for some excessive heat, INDE’s been blessed with
tons of sun this summer. This week made up for all of that.
Working around
dozens of visitors at any given site makes maintenance hard enough, but rain is
just problematic. In case it isn't obvious, painting in the rain is useless.
The
painters are another friendly and dedicated maintenance team just as gardening
had been a few weeks back. The week was a game with the weather. We’d start the
day painting bollards at Independence Hall, feel a drizzle, and rush back
inside to paint some benches or gloss arrowheads. One eye trained on the window
the entire time, waiting for the sun to come back out. 45 minutes later the
rain would stop, we would power-walk back out to the bollards, and paint for 30
minutes before the rain began again. Of course, we had to do extra coats and
touch ups on everything because of
the rain damage, but everything turned out good if I do say so myself. 
Later in
the week we touched up the base of the high-rise with some glossy orange paint. Photo credit goes to Ulises who, with his master photography skills, refused to let me take
this photo without some sort of posing.
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