Lennon’s World

First came the stories of Sir Lennon the Good and Sir Bobby the Brave. Then came the little action figures that became them. And now the castle is finished.

It’s taken quite a while to get to this point. The can of gray spray paint was defective, it had no nozzle and I couldn’t return it because I had no car. I found a can of lavender spray paint in the garage and was afraid that once I took the nozzle off of it, neither one might work, so I painted the castle lavender! Then I switched the nozzle to the gray paint and it worked, so the second coat was gray. Whew!

Lennon and I looked up the family crest on the internet. It was blue and yellow with a red line across the shield. I think the red was just so no one could blow it up and copy it, but Lennon loved that red line. Today I made a similar one in gold and blue, but it had to have that red line on it. He insisted.

Then while he and his daddy went hiking, I added all the other details. Now it is a fully fleshed out experience. Since I am leaving him my rock collection, I put the iron pyrite, copper and rose quartz in his treasure room. I put some hematite in the corner where a future Merlin might stick a sword some day and a conglomerate with some rough amethyst in another corner. Then when he got home I added the log and spotted rock he brought back. He wanted fish in the moat, so I added three almost hidden fish and an oracle, which, in our case, happens to be a white dove, to the castle parapet.

Now no matter what happens in this world, that world belongs to Lennon.