Rodeo Paintings on Shop Windows around Cloverdale

When I was growing up in Cloverdale just about every shopkeeper had a rodeo themed painting down on their window to celebrate the Cloverdale Rodeo weekend. A man from Vancouver Island used to come over and spend about a month hiring his artistry services to the local businesses.

These days you have to really search around Cloverdale to find a shopkeeper painting a rodeo theme on their windows. I've found a few.

This one is in front of the Destination Cloverdale office on 176th Street.

 

This sign is obviously an old one. It's in the window of the old Clover Inn liquor store that closed/moved many months ago.

The next two are from the same windows in the office Stephanie Cadieux has set up on 176th Street.

Ron's barber shop on 176th Street.

Starbucks in the new Cloverdale Brick Yard Station.

Clancy's meats in the Brick Yard Station.

 

The new produce store in the Brick Yard Station.

 

 

 

Rodeo Paintings on Cloverdale Shops

Here are some photos around downtown Cloverdale where the shopkeepers have hired a painter to decorate their windows to celebrate the Cloverdale Rodeo. Photos taken from iPhone with dog yanking on the leash and some of these windows have glare and a couple of them are mirror images so you can see the cars on the street! At least this gives some idea of how some shopkeepers are getting into the rodeo spirit.

The Small Project that turned Big

The upstairs of our house has been a renovator's battleground all of October. After our discovery of the hardwood floors and ripping out the carpets, things were put on hold for a bit. Ultimately the advice we were given was that it would be less costly to refloor with laminate than try to repair the original hardwood. So we purchased a nice Yukon cherry, enough laminate to do the entire upstairs less the bathroom and kitchen.

Mainly due to Kerry's construction trailer being stolen during the night of October 1. The trailer was recovered the next day, but less $20,000 in tools that were inside. Fortunately all the tools had been diarized in a database with serial numbers and photos and this information was given to the police and our insurance company. But its been a real pain replacing these items and of course it will take months for Kerry to realize exactly everything that was missing until he starts looking for something. Fortunately the more expensive tools were inside the house due to the renovations.

Kerry proceeded to tear down all the living room walls so he could rewire the plugs and light switches. Plus he was never happy with the way the walls looked. Not a good drywall and mudding job.

Unfortunately he undertook this endeavor while I was at work and gave me no advance notice. I came home to a house and contents completed coated in drywall dust from the deconstruction. There wasn't much I could do. Kerry had already removed all the bedroom doors in anticipation of receiving the new ones and he'd removed my closet doors so all my clothes were coated in dust. The worst was the grand piano coated in dust. That is horrible to clean. I'm probably going to need a tuner to remove the keyboard and give it a good cleaning.

And then there was more dust as he cut and installed the drywall, mudded, sanded, and repeated. I kept the kitchen and bathroom as clean as I could and let the other rooms go.

But finally an end is in sight. The dining and living areas have been painted. My new walk in closet is painted and just ready for the laminate floor. The dining room and living room have the new laminate floor installed. I have been doing a lot of cleaning of the drywall dust and things are looking better. Our new doors are not installed yet, but they are in the workshop, already painted, just waiting to be installed. Kerry is currently putting trim around the doors and other openings in the dining and living areas. With the exception of the office we plan to have the painting completed and the floors done by mid-November.

Its looking good.

A small project that quickly escalated into a large one.