Just a quick note.

Here are a couple pictures of our newest addition to our sign. I am so excited and I think it looks awesome!

Yay! A Tank!

Here it is! We got the tank in! It wasn't that bad either. After we got it set, they filled it full of liquid nitrogen (photo on bottom) and you can see the frost that formed on the bottom of the tank. It is 1500 liters, which is almost 400 gallons. It weighs one ton empty and a lot heavier full! It is completely harmless and totally okay to touch, and it is extremely noisy when it is filled! I mean EXTREMELY noisy!  The pipes you see go out to a box that is on the outside of the building where they will pull a truck up to it and fill it. For a couple months we will have a smaller tank, about 230 liters, that we will wheel around because we are having special tubes made to transfer the liquid nitrogen from this larger tank to the counter where we add it to the cream. But it will still have an awesome effect. Thursday they are supposed to start on the floors (I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't happen until Friday though) and then it will really look official! We have all the painting done (as you can see) and just have some touch-ups to do. Tomorrow we are going to stain trim and then put it up after the floors are finished. If everything goes well, we will be making ice cream at the shelley spud day saturday the 20th, so if you are going, look for us! 

So we got our sheetrock all hung! The group that did it was from Phoenix and they like it up here. They drive a Cadillac Escalade! It was kinda funny. But they worked fast and they did a great job! As soon as they got done, and we let the final coat of texture dry, we were already in there prepping for paint! And we got all the primer on today, along with one coat of black on the ceiling.

The black looks absolutely awesome! It just makes the whole ceiling disappear. I am not even kidding. When you look up, you can't tell where the wall stops and the ceiling starts, which is exactly the look we were hoping for. Tomorrow, we should get on the main colors and it will really start to take shape. Our sign is supposed to be installed on Wednesday and Friday of next week, the tank will be installed on Monday, and they are working on the floors starting Tuesday. Things are really starting to come together! A huge thank you to my brother Reid for making it all possible with the painting. He has worked hard (as he always does) to make this paint job happen. And we wouldn't be able to do it without him. And thanks to his wonderful wife and family for letting me borrow him for so much time. I really appreciate it. Sometimes, the time and the interest that people put in and show is worth a million dollars! Thanks to all for your help and support! Opening day, September 29th!