Meet Fiscal!
Believe it or not Fiscal Yere (his racing name, tho he doesn't race any more, he lays in bed all day instead) is a painted stone. I've been participating in the Kindness Rocks Project and a UK version called Love on the Rocks UK (see them both on Facebook if you are so inclined) basically you paint up a stone, varnish it, and hide it somewhere public so a random person finds it and it brightens their day. It's purely for fun and I think half the world seems to be involved over last summer, and it's looking to continue this year too. Anyway, this particular stone is going to be a present. Being as how money is tight (when it is not?!) I had to come up with a meaningful pressie for Mum's birthday, that wasn't going to cost too much. It must be twenty or so years since I painted a greyhound!
The idea came from a pintarest piccy, but Fiscal here (so named for two reasons, Fiscal Yere is a boy in the Perishers cartoon that Mum loves, he's basically a rich boy but pretends to be poor, and of course it's a pun on Fiscal Year, or Financial Year) is basically a natural wonder of the world LOL. Apart from where I've painted the black lines to denote his form, and added a tiny bit of brindling to his quarters, neck and head, everything else is the natural stone colour! He really was a happy accident.
Here's the back of the stone, unvarnished, so you can see what it looked like
So Tye gets to spend an evening snuggling with a greyhound, tho soft and warm he most certainly isn't!
Course the perspective is a bit off, but we don't mind!
Happy belated New Year to all our lovely readers.