| |  There were two little ones who were not permitted to paint the fence and they were very bummed out about that. Jacob is the youngest and while I am told he is a bit of a hellion sometimes, he was very convincing with his pleas to paint something, anything.
I had several cans of paint collected for never done art projects as well as left over house paint. I also had a side of my shed that didn't face anything but Jacob's back yard. So yeah, it became kind of a no-brainer.
 As much as I wanted to let all of the kids paint, when I came outside in the morning there was kid trash everywhere. So I told e crew that if they helped pick up all of the garbage, hey could paint. Only Jacob decided it was worth the effort.
I made him the job boss and took orders about where to sketch in certain things so he could paint them later. As I was hoping, Jacob finally asked if he could let the other kids paint. "That is your call, Boss." I told him and he was very happy. Which meant that a dance break was required (one of many).
Supplies! I have been picking mulberries from the trail during each ride this week and they became the snack for painting. As might be expected, since the white ones looked a little like grubs or something gross, they were eaten first. A little note about these particular kids. They have been staying next door with their aunt because they were removed from their mother's care. Their aunt is not rich. Nobody around here is. They haven't felt the recession because they never have been spoiled and every little thing I gave to them or let them used was treated like some huge score including free picked mulberries.
Enough talk! Here is the completed mural and some of the details:
Those airplanes are headed straight for the sun! And one of them is skin colored! Mr. Orange Pants is my favorite. And of course fireworks had to be included.
Jacob asked me to paint over the first picture because he didn't like it that the older boys had painted a bird pooping on someone. His aunt told him that the white spots could be eggs and the person could be gathering them. He wasn't buying it. "Eggs don't lay in the sky," he explained sweetly. We agreed to keep it because as long as it was pretend it could be funny. The middle shows a marker sketch peeking out from behind the tree. I like his hat. And the last one started off a stick figure but we filled it in and Jacob wanted to make it be Michael Jackson so he painted a guitar. We told him we'd never seen MJ with a guitar but so be it.
 
The very first thing painted on the background was the tire swing. Jacob painted himself and his sister on it since they always had to wait longest to play with it.The last photo doesn't include Jacob but Leigha, Matthew, Day Day (the self-painter) and Michael (he will be staying next door and is the expressive lad to the right.)My sister Julie painted a sun/moon face for me a long time ago and I had it hung in the shed. The little snoops spotted it and thought it would look good in the middle of their painted sun. I agreed.
  And I could not help playing with some of the photos I took. The sun got cropped and hypnotized. Maybe that is why it was raining this morning. The three leave today at 2PM or so the eldest told me. I haven't seen them and their van is gone. Darnit! I have photos printed out for them and some snacks for the road. I hope I didn't miss them!The video of the days events is posted at Vimeo. I tried to upload it here but wouldn't work. Darnit again. Happy Sunday to you!
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