I've had the cat for a few days now, ;but I never got the parachute/crate thing going.  I've finally gotten the first painting done.  My flags were bought already. 

Wendy -- Did you buy the float plane for the dock?  Somewhere in all the stuff I've read about ART it said the painting quests would be triggered by the float plane.  The first painting is a tutorial.  As i remember (since I'd had the float plane for quite a while) I clicked on the dock, Chris said something and left, I clicked on the crate (which is empty) and then Fatima sort of gave you the quests as you collected, assembled and read the clues.  But it's been a while so I could be wrong.

Today's DQ is the dinner jacket.  Only one that will expire before I go to bed is priced way too high.  Lots of reasonably priced ones expring about noon - 1:00 PM.

Hope you're in the game.  There's a bunch expiring in a couple of minutes.  starting bid 300 and no bids.

My DQ was for the Silver Lazy Susan.  There were a lot of them out there, but there were a lot of people bidding on them.  Finally got one cheaply (25 coins!) at around 2:00 PM.