The Menagerie

Though Tara, Soom Beryl, has hooves, she's not part of today's menagerie--the animals in the photo below are the names of all the baseboards--J started out with A and B and then decided a tiny letter on a 6 foot board wasn't visible enough, so he graduated to "Cat", "Dog", "Elephant" and so on all the way up to "Unicorn". (Cat was a pain to paint, Elephant doesn't fit, and Nautilus and Giraffe were only marked on the map and not on the boards). However, they all did get painted, and eventually I figured out where Unicorn belonged, since it wasn't on the map:

I highly recommend doing this with any project where you have various sizes of similar things that you have to fit together, because it makes it a lot easier to keep track of (and communicate with someone else) what the pieces are that you are working with.

I also painted Doria:

Her eyebrows are a bit over-plucked but the rest isn't too bad.

Saturday night we went out to eat--we have found a local place that is basically a bar but stays open what we think of as "normal" hours..open until 10 PM!! How do they stay awake? And the food is good. We parked a couple of blocks away and walked back because the weather was nice, and the owner of the coin shop in Downers Grove once more has fabulous flowers:

Can you spot the two bunnies? (Right over "spot" in fact)