Butterfly lll

Here's the last of 3-piece set.  They were fun to do, a little tricky, screwed up 3 others.

All hung.  Ready for next project.

Slim

Slim recently joined our household.  He's 5' tall, weighs in at 21 pounds.  He's severely underweight, which is probably the reason he becomes light-headed at times. 

Slim's job is to shed light on Trish's jigsaw puzzle today.  She cranks up Slim's dimmer - and he becomes even more light-headed than usual.  We dim Slim some sometimes, like when we watch TV in the evening.

The picture shows him hiking, but he's frequently seen arms akimbo, showing dismay, doing the funky chicken and so on.  He's very expressive.

Home Improvement

We did a couple outdoor improvements awhile back and are quite pleased with how they came out.

First, we added permanent shades and access doors to the SE side of the patio.  It provides sun and wind protection, and adds privacy. 

And then we have the new Bark Park, a place for Trish and the 'kids' to hang out.  It's at the rear of our lot, an unused space that's now getting a lot of use.  They spend an hour or two out there every day, weather permitting - and it permits most of the time. 

That's not real grass, in case you were wondering.  It's high-end artificial stuff, professionally installed.  LHC population is 52,000, which doesn't include several thousand seasonal visitors that own homes here, but are citizens of other states or Canada.  So, the number of homes is a lot higher than the population would indicate.  And I doubt that even one out of a thousand homes has a real grass lawn.  When Minnesota relatives come to visit, we have to take them to one of the many parks every other day or they suffer severe grass withdrawal, get twitchy and irritable.  Pathetic.

Butterfly II

This is my second acrylic chain pull butterfly.  Will do one more, then move on.   Metallic paints don't show well in pictures but are dynamite on the wall in direct light.  This one has gold on top, silver on bottom.