Thoughtless for the Day

Gratitude on a galactic scale to longtime caller/first time listener Kendra who alerted me that one of my nightmares had leaked out of my head while I was asleep.

"Because we are doing the best we can as moms. We really are. I know that she's doing the best she can as a mom as well."

- Lisa "Blair" Whelchel using the words "best" and "mom" in their broadest possible senses.

When last we left our tiny plastic Roman pals, they had been glued to pencil for twelve hours. It's now time to take the soldiers, their pencil-shaped tour bus, and spray can of white primer outside where you'll give the little Latin Legionaries a quick, light coating of primer. They should look something like the Edgar Winter Band when you've finished.

They'll need to wait at least twenty-four hours until you can start painting them. In the meantime, grab another pencil (make sure it has plenty of eraser on it); unbend a paperclip and stick one end in the pencil's eraser; thread the soldiers shields unto the paperclip; bend the far end so the shields won't slide off; apply primer, and leave them to sit for twenty-four hours, until they're ready to be painted.

OK. Next time, we'll start painting our 1/72 scale army and maybe they'll be a word or two about Atiis.