3:20 PM. AT LAST the 12 cradled canvases for Grande Island arrived. The studio got crowded again, though, because each one of the canvases is 3 feet x 3 feet.

I'd already hunted for another canvas maker and actually found an old friend who owns a frame shop on EDSA, but, when the old canvas maker and his wife arrived, they were so apologetic and so pleasant, and they promised never ever to make a late delivery again. They are also dirt poor--they deserve to be employed, and why not, indeed?