They are vague on what they do at school—humans aren’t allowed—but I gather there’s very little time spent at desks. “Unless we want to,” PennyCooper says.
This year, they’ve been informed that they’ll be starting with a unit on Life in the Water. Clothes for the first day are underway:
Col. Tara, above left, is worried that she will be mistaken for a pink geranium. “I am an octopus!” I assured her that will be unmistakable in context.
Spike is a red-eyed tree frog. (They don’t spend their lives in water, but that’s where they get born.)
More to come.
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I need some new clothes too. I don’t think I’ll keep this because I don’t like the colors but yesterday I tried on a crocheted toaster cover as a hat. Inspired by Justin Bieber, eh?
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Not school related…
I started working on the clown board again. I decided against the blinky doll eyes: too small and sad. I’d left the board at work, and that’s being fun—my books-and-toy work area is right next to the tool room. Yesterday I sawed in half a big spool I’d found and set the stems in the holes I’d already punched out for the doll eyes.
The dessert-delivery board is with E now. I’m glad she says she definitely wants to keep collaborating even without AM. He’s much more proficient—with his degree in graphic design—but she’s the real deal, creating out of nothing. He’d added a traffic cop to the board, the cop’s hand raised to stop traffic, perfectly X-acto’d. Visually it fit perfectly, but the feel of it —halt!—was all wrong. And a cop? In this climate? Since AM’s not working with us anymore I felt free to remove it.
I didn’t add much since I last posted it—just the Official Candy Salesgirl pin from Linda Sue (thanks, ❤️LS!).
