The horse would like a shovel

This is the first time that Mr. Bug asked me for an image that Tux Paint didn’t have.  He requested a shovel.  I froze.  I didn’t know what to do.  “I don’t know how to draw a shovel”, I nearly said, but then I decided that I didn’t want to get my son thinking in negatives.  Instead, I dodged: I put the shovel in a caption.  I still regret doing this, in some way… it is such a cop-out.  I wish I’d just hauled out the rectangle tool, bit the bullet and drawn an ugly shovel.  However, I guess I needed to see whether situations such as these were avoidable or not.  Toddlers change quickly.  Perhaps, thought I, shovels are a mere passing fad.

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