We finished the fish today. Got good work done on the crocodile and leopard. Best of all, an old friend came into town and dropped by to help out. (Hi Rob!) Afterwards, Rob and my Rob and I went out to catch up.

Life is good.

I thought you might be interested in seeing what the to-do list on a puppet build looks like. This is the one for the fish. Bear in mind as you look at the list that we have to build sixteen of them.

Things in bold mean that anyone can do them.

1. Ask office about painting in parking lot. - Emily
2. Spray glue on all foam and dry it.
3. Design belly paint - Emily
4. Call Brickman’s - paint - Emily
• 1. Design Master 1 can Blueberry
• 2. Beltone Molatov Premium - Goldfish (brooklyn or Pearl Paint) or TerraCotta 1 can
• 3. Krylon Special Purpose Florescent Green 3106 need 3 cans
• 4. Krylon OSHA special purpose Safety Yellow
• 5. Fireproofing spray
5. Pick up spray paint.
6. Pattern fish tails and fins with accordion folds - Mary
7. Cut fish tails and fins
8. Split fish heads - Erika
9. Cut spacers for heads
10. install headspacers
11. Paint inside of thirty eyeballs
12. Pattern eyelids - Mary
13. Cut eyelids
14. Test rod placement - Mary
15. 16 10″ rods cut and sanded from bamboo
16. cut 16 wedges for rod placement, see pattern.
17. Install rods
18. Check girl lips - Emily
19. Pattern fish lips - Mary
20. Cut fish lips
21. Look at inside of eyeball color - Emily
22. Finish sewing bellies - Sarah
23. Paint bellies - Jane
24. Assemble fish
• 1. Head to spine
• 2. Belly pulled on
• 3. Attach belly to head
• 4. Attach belly to spine
• 5. Attach lips
• 6. Attach eyes (No heat after eyes attached!)
• 7. Attach eyelids
• 8. Additional painting
• 9. Attach fins

In the photo at the top, the fins are pinned on and we still need to do the additional painting. We have five fish at this state. The rest should be finished fairly quickly tomorrow.

There’s another to-do list, like this one, for the crocodile and leopard which we are also making.