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Happy Easter from the Grand Duchy of Stollen!

  H appy Easter everyone!  Well, as the delightful old tune by The Beatles goes, it's getting better all the time (and couldn't get much worse).  Despite a solid week of reviewing  and evaluating student learning team projects (My brain is mush, and I'll enter the grades tomorrow), I've managed to squeeze in a few brief painting session here and there during the evening hours after the house quiets down.  But anyway.   With the notable exception of the many buttons and the flags, we're just about there except for a few minute touch-ups with flesh tone, to cover blemishes on a couple of faces and hands where I have managed to slop a dash or two of other colors since the faces and hands were first tackled back during the winter.  Here are a couple of shots taken this morning and brightened in Fotor (my usual online editor) to illustrate where we are with the third and final batch of the Anhalt-Zerbst Regiment. Wow, that first sentence was a gallop!...