Wednesday and the sun comes comes out good and strong! Hurrah! it feels good! It feels like summer! We pull the crab cone out of the deep, shady confines of The Tent. It seems to straighten up under the heat, even though we still have it lying sideways, leaning on a relunctant plastic chair.

Lizzie S. (the hero who convinced her parents to drive to Poulsbo and pick up art provisons!) has pulled an creative all-nighter, fashioning a wonderful backpack creation that hosts dangling big styrofoam bobble eyes and also, she's made amazing purply magenta crab claws from those funny foam mitts that diehard fans wear during ball games--we're number one!

Virginia, Lizzie and I paint the cone "Hot Lips" pink. The dogs romp and play dangerously close to the paint.

Sarah J.'s fish evolves from paper foundation white to vibrant blue and knock-out red. It's really neat! She's worked hard. I love it that she's had this vision and kept at it! You'll see her in the parade...keep in mind she created, (with Wendy's gentle guidance), the whole backpack contraption to hold up this extraordinary fish...clap extra loud for this young artist! She deserves it!

Julie and her three wonderful girls arrive later in the day taking in all the activity. There's a lot to see now--lots of finished art projects: sea creature masks, seaweed crowns and more in the making...A new project has suddenly sprouted in the middle of everything...not quite sure who's attempting it but it looks like a large coral, or maybe a piling with sea stuff stuck to it? It's evolving and it's cool. Stay tuned.

We righted the cone, feeling good about the pretty paint and the sun.

After a while, one of the kids looks up at the bright pink cone and says, "Wendy, the hermit crab is moving..."

And it was. Melting. Sliding down unto itself. Nightmare!

Again, stay tuned.

(If anyone reading has a truck with a hitch to pull the small trailer that will house the gnarly melting crab cone with Lizzie inside...let us know!)

-Kathe Fraga  ¶ 10:00 PM