2/6: working on two holidays

Now that the winter holiday is over, we're applying a protective coating to the 114 wooden blocks which we painted shades of green, silver, and gold for our cat-proof Christmas tree.  It will take a little longer than a week to do, since each side needs two coats, and on weekdays we can only manage to do one coat, but it feels nice to have this stage of the project underway.

And this evening I finished writing Valentine's Day cards.