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Happy Color Update: Mid-February 2026
February 12, 2026
It’s been a not quite a month since my last Happy Color update, so I could have waited a bit to do another but decided I wanted a distraction from the aftereffects of the dental surgery I had yesterday and the fact that many of my internet friends are heading to Wisconsin for a get together this weekend that I have to miss out on again this year and also all the moving stress (earlier this week there was a hiccup with our buyers financing that I hadn’t seen coming; think that’s worked out now but I won’t fully relax until we’re actually closed on that next week). I don’t exactly have winter blues, just diamond shoes are too tight blues, but though this imaged from my recently completed was fitting anyway. I can do a couple these things in between all the other stuff going on, but not the tea, not yet, as I’ll be on a cool, soft foods diet for another couple days at least.
Groups I’ve finished since the previous update (most recent listed first; all counts include any friends I matched with the main images for the group, and date is when the holiday was, not necessarily when I finished coloring those images):
– Dailies and mysteries for the first full week of February (18)
– Winter: snowflakes, snowpeople, fashion, knitting, castle, mountains (36)
– Winter: animals (12)
– American football (2) [February 8 for the Super Bowl]
– Winter: houses and landscape (48) [some are really Christmas but I’m living with it]
– Pictures of the week and month for January (12)
– Dailies and mysteries for the last part of January/first part of February (18)
– Groundhog Day (2) [February 2]
– Winter: birds in snow and/or holly berries, etc., such as penguins, owls, cardinals, bullfinches, various yellow- and red-breasted small sparrow-like ones (36) [most from already in progress winter birds group; several added last minute from the similar suggestions]
– Dailies and mysteries for third week of January (16) [messed up my arrangement of these when I found another couple friends for a picture when the similar ones popped up after I finished one of the images; I’m going to let it be rather than re-doing any just to change the order]
– Dailies and mysteries for second week of January (22)
– Pie Day (2) [Jan 23 2026]
– India Republic Day (2) [Jan 26 2026]
– Australia Day (2) [Jan 26 2026]
– Robert Burns Day (2) [Jan 25 2026]
– Happy Color Birthday (16) [Jan 24 2026]
– Dailies and mysteries for first full week of January (18)
– Bonuses: flowers with and without paintbrushes, women hugging themselves with flowers in the background, men in patterned clothes (8)
– Hug Day (4) [Jan 21 2026]
– Picture of year for 2025 (2)
– Rubber Duck Day (2) [Jan 13 2026]
– Dailies and mysteries from last days of December/first days of January (16)
Currently In Progress:
– Chinese New Year featuring fire horse (2 images plus 2 separtors) [Separators: wavy line boxes]
– Winter: recreational sports (26 + 2) [Separators: tile patterns]
– Winter Olympics (2 + 2) [Separators: distorted square grids; these need to get incorporated with the larger group below]
– Black History Month (2 + 2) [Separators: distorted diamonds]
– Venice Carnival (14 + 2) [Separators: diamond patterns]
– Pictures of the week for February so far (4 + 2) [Separators: circle intensive patterns]
– Dailies and mysteries for second week of February (4 + 10) [Separators: diamond patterns, wavy lines, distorted diamonds, lacy mandalas]
– Holi (2 + 16) [Separators: line-intensive patterns, some angular, some wavy; found these two images when looking for Indian Independence Day ones, and they’ll need to be incorporated into the holidays group when I get a chance]
– Winter Olympics sports (27 + 4) [Separators: looping lines; I took two out of this group and put with the winter recreational sports group above]
– Holiday/seasonal: Women in Science Day, Valentine’s Day, Lantern Festival, Happy Birthday, St. Patrick’s Day, Spring, World Down Syndrome Day, World Water Day, Easter, Cinco de Mayo, Mother’s Day, Fourth of July. (47) [I need to get working on Women in Science and Valentine’s Day soon]
– All the rest of the separators (22) [staircases, finely detailed mandalas]
I read a comment on one of the Happy Color Facebook groups from someone who periodically deletes and reinstalls the app to make room on their phone. I need to look into that more, as my phone storage gets too full to function well on a regular basis. I know from moving to a new phone that doing that loses any in progress pictures and some bonuses have to be downloaded again, so I think I’ll wait until I’ve whittled down my in progress to something more reasonable.
On this date in 2004 through 2025: No journal entries
2003: Critical? Who, Me?