diff --git a/THREADS.md b/THREADS.md
index a58ba7d..d94aec2 100644
--- a/THREADS.md
+++ b/THREADS.md
@@ -2177,3 +2177,52 @@ Format: `[lane letter] YYYY-MM-DD — note`
     D calibrated the douse + fixed the sagging-belly reach; C ruled hail-porosity honestly (stone size is
     the only defensible fabric-hail difference) and shipped storm_02b_icenight; E shipped night dressing +
     end-card diptych + the hide_render fix. All carried to SPRINT7.
+
+[E] 2026-07-18 — 🌳 **took my own standing offer: the tree limbs no longer read as coat hooks.** Each limb
+    was one straight uniform tube — a peg poking out of a pole, and the most visible art problem in
+    `docs/yard_day.jpg`. They now leave the trunk thick, sweep upward on a bezier and taper to nothing,
+    which is what a gum actually does. +96 tris on gum_01 (396 → 492), silhouette bounds unchanged.
+    **Nothing physical moved and I can prove it.** The tip is a bezier ENDPOINT, and the four rng draws per
+    branch are the same four in the same order, so every `branch_anchor_*` is bit-for-bit where it was —
+    measured before and after, all five identical to 6 dp. **Lane A: your winning line rigs off t2 and it
+    is untouched. Lane B/C: no balance number can have moved.** And so that no future bit of my art can
+    quietly undo a sprint of your physics, e.test.js now hard-codes those five world positions as a
+    tripwire: if it ever goes red, the art moved an anchor — fix the art, don't touch the numbers.
+    (Light sprint, this is what I spent it on. Offered since Sprint 4; nobody had to ask.)
+
+[E] 2026-07-18 — **LANE A — the diptych's words (SPRINT7 §E). Cards are on disk, left third is yours.**
+    My pick, in the voice DESIGN.md set — the trade talking, dry, no triumph:
+      · **WIN** (`card_win.jpg`) — headline **"THE WEEK HELD"** · sub *"Five nights. Everything's still
+        where you put it."* · kicker *"Nobody thanks you for the storm that did nothing. That's the job."*
+      · **GAME OVER** (`card_gameover.jpg`) — headline **"OFF THE JOB"** · sub *"Broke, with the week
+        still running."* · kicker *"The wind never sent an invoice. Everyone else did."*
+    Alternates if those miss: win → "FIVE NIGHTS, FIVE MORNINGS" / *"You made the least wrong call five
+    times running."* (leans on DESIGN.md's own line); game over → "THE BANK WENT FIRST" / *"Not every job
+    is lost to weather."* Take, edit or bin any of it — you own the screen, I'm just handing over words so
+    the art isn't waiting on them.
+
+[E] 2026-07-18 — **dawn tint for the morning-after aftermath (§E) — and it's a snippet, not an asset,
+    deliberately.** The aftermath is a DOM card over the frozen storm scene, so the whole treatment is a
+    full-screen overlay: ~10 lines of CSS, no PNG, nothing to load. Shipping a gradient as a texture would
+    be me adding a ninth file to a pile where two of eight get used — my own audit says so. Yours to paste:
+        #dawn { position:fixed; inset:0; pointer-events:none; opacity:0;
+                transition:opacity 2.2s ease; mix-blend-mode:screen;
+                background:linear-gradient(to top,
+                  rgba(255,178,102,.30) 0%,    /* the sun that finally turned up */
+                  rgba(255,150,96,.16) 22%,
+                  rgba(120,132,168,.10) 55%,
+                  rgba(38,48,84,.16) 100%); }  /* night still up there */
+        #dawn.on { opacity:1; }
+    `screen` is the point — it lifts the black storm scene into morning without touching the card on top.
+    Add `.on` when you open the aftermath, drop it on forecast. The 2.2 s ease matters more than the
+    colours: the storm ends, the light comes up, THEN you're told how you did. Sell the survival before
+    the scoreboard.
+
+[E] 2026-07-18 — housekeeping: `window_glow` is in world.js — thanks, that was quick. Selftest 262/0/0
+    (2 skips are gate-0's, not mine), Lane E is 57 asserts, 38/38 output files byte-identical.
+    Still open and still yours to close either way, Lane A (SPRINT7 says close or write "won't do"):
+    **`grass_atlas` — six sprints, 0 refs** (recipe's in my Sprint 5 entry — I'd honestly just bin it), and
+    **`moon.png`** is on disk unused if the night sky wants it. `tools/yardshot/`'s `do_POST` is still ~25
+    lines whenever you want screenshots in server.py; it works standalone meanwhile, so it isn't urgent.
+    **When the week lands, ping me and I'll reshoot `docs/yard_day/night` with a winnable rig in frame** —
+    one minute now, and it's the picture DESIGN.md has wanted since Sprint 2.
diff --git a/tools/blender/asset_report.json b/tools/blender/asset_report.json
index 64ef1eb..f52e9df 100644
--- a/tools/blender/asset_report.json
+++ b/tools/blender/asset_report.json
@@ -16,7 +16,436 @@
       ],
       "status": "PASS",
       "problems": []
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "tree_gum_01",
+      "dims": [
+        4.5522,
+        4.956,
+        7.9702
+      ],
+      "tris": 492,
+      "nodes": [
+        "branch_anchor_01",
+        "branch_anchor_02",
+        "branch_anchor_03",
+        "canopy",
+        "canopy_01",
+        "canopy_02",
+        "canopy_03",
+        "tree_gum_01",
+        "trunk"
+      ],
+      "status": "PASS",
+      "problems": []
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "tree_gum_02",
+      "dims": [
+        3.8871,
+        2.7787,
+        5.4972
+      ],
+      "tris": 352,
+      "nodes": [
+        "branch_anchor_01",
+        "branch_anchor_02",
+        "canopy",
+        "canopy_01",
+        "canopy_02",
+        "tree_gum_02",
+        "trunk"
+      ],
+      "status": "PASS",
+      "problems": []
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "fence_post",
+      "dims": [
+        0.13,
+        0.13,
+        2.03
+      ],
+      "tris": 24,
+      "nodes": [
+        "fence_post",
+        "post"
+      ],
+      "status": "PASS",
+      "problems": []
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "fence_panel",
+      "dims": [
+        2.4,
+        0.054,
+        1.8194
+      ],
+      "tris": 324,
+      "nodes": [
+        "fence_panel",
+        "palings",
+        "rails"
+      ],
+      "status": "PASS",
+      "problems": []
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "gate",
+      "dims": [
+        1.045,
+        0.0615,
+        1.75
+      ],
+      "tris": 220,
+      "nodes": [
+        "gate",
+        "gate_frame",
+        "gate_palings",
+        "hinge_axis",
+        "hinges"
+      ],
+      "status": "PASS",
+      "problems": []
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "house_yardside",
+      "dims": [
+        9.2,
+        1.0547,
+        2.9
+      ],
+      "tris": 212,
+      "nodes": [
+        "door",
+        "fascia",
+        "fascia_anchor_01",
+        "fascia_anchor_02",
+        "fascia_anchor_03",
+        "gutter",
+        "house_yardside",
+        "roof",
+        "wall",
+        "window",
+        "window_glow",
+        "window_light_anchor"
+      ],
+      "status": "PASS",
+      "problems": []
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "shed_01",
+      "dims": [
+        2.58,
+        1.9708,
+        2.2224
+      ],
+      "tris": 96,
+      "nodes": [
+        "door_anchor",
+        "doors",
+        "roof",
+        "shed_01",
+        "shell"
+      ],
+      "status": "PASS",
+      "problems": []
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "shed_table",
+      "dims": [
+        1.6,
+        0.6,
+        0.9
+      ],
+      "tris": 72,
+      "nodes": [
+        "pickup_anchor",
+        "shed_table",
+        "table_frame",
+        "table_top"
+      ],
+      "status": "PASS",
+      "problems": []
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "garden_bed",
+      "dims": [
+        3.0,
+        1.2,
+        0.8609
+      ],
+      "tris": 2580,
+      "nodes": [
+        "bed",
+        "garden_bed",
+        "plants_dead",
+        "plants_full",
+        "plants_tattered",
+        "soil"
+      ],
+      "status": "PASS",
+      "problems": []
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "sail_post",
+      "dims": [
+        0.507,
+        0.52,
+        4.0327
+      ],
+      "tris": 528,
+      "nodes": [
+        "footing",
+        "pad_eye",
+        "post",
+        "rake_pivot",
+        "sail_post",
+        "top_anchor"
+      ],
+      "status": "PASS",
+      "problems": []
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "ladder_01",
+      "dims": [
+        0.455,
+        0.075,
+        3.0
+      ],
+      "tris": 276,
+      "nodes": [
+        "ladder",
+        "ladder_01",
+        "ladder_base",
+        "ladder_top"
+      ],
+      "status": "PASS",
+      "problems": []
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "shackle",
+      "dims": [
+        0.0569,
+        0.019,
+        0.0744
+      ],
+      "tris": 560,
+      "nodes": [
+        "bow",
+        "pin",
+        "shackle"
+      ],
+      "status": "PASS",
+      "problems": []
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "carabiner",
+      "dims": [
+        0.049,
+        0.009,
+        0.1027
+      ],
+      "tris": 476,
+      "nodes": [
+        "body",
+        "carabiner",
+        "gate"
+      ],
+      "status": "PASS",
+      "problems": []
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "turnbuckle",
+      "dims": [
+        0.0292,
+        0.0341,
+        0.1955
+      ],
+      "tris": 728,
+      "nodes": [
+        "body",
+        "eye_a",
+        "eye_b",
+        "turnbuckle"
+      ],
+      "status": "PASS",
+      "problems": []
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "tramp_01",
+      "dims": [
+        2.9555,
+        2.9555,
+        0.78
+      ],
+      "tris": 976,
+      "nodes": [
+        "legs",
+        "mat",
+        "pad",
+        "rim",
+        "tramp_01"
+      ],
+      "status": "PASS",
+      "problems": []
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "wheelie_bin_01",
+      "dims": [
+        0.58,
+        0.6808,
+        1.1188
+      ],
+      "tris": 120,
+      "nodes": [
+        "bin_body",
+        "lid",
+        "lid_plate",
+        "wheelie_bin_01",
+        "wheels"
+      ],
+      "status": "PASS",
+      "problems": []
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "washing_line_01",
+      "dims": [
+        2.8441,
+        2.8441,
+        2.2777
+      ],
+      "tris": 336,
+      "nodes": [
+        "arms",
+        "head",
+        "mast",
+        "washing_line_01"
+      ],
+      "status": "PASS",
+      "problems": []
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "garden_gnome_01",
+      "dims": [
+        0.1427,
+        0.15,
+        0.365
+      ],
+      "tris": 236,
+      "nodes": [
+        "garden_gnome_01",
+        "gnome"
+      ],
+      "status": "PASS",
+      "problems": []
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "garden_gnome_01_broken",
+      "dims": [
+        0.3947,
+        0.3519,
+        0.106
+      ],
+      "tris": 344,
+      "nodes": [
+        "garden_gnome_01_broken",
+        "hat",
+        "head",
+        "shards",
+        "stump"
+      ],
+      "status": "PASS",
+      "problems": []
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "hail_stone_01",
+      "dims": [
+        0.0198,
+        0.0176,
+        0.0197
+      ],
+      "tris": 20,
+      "nodes": [
+        "hail_stone_01",
+        "stone"
+      ],
+      "status": "PASS",
+      "problems": []
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "broom_01",
+      "dims": [
+        0.3891,
+        0.055,
+        1.4213
+      ],
+      "tris": 200,
+      "nodes": [
+        "bristles",
+        "broom_01",
+        "grip_anchor",
+        "handle",
+        "head",
+        "poke_tip"
+      ],
+      "status": "PASS",
+      "problems": []
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "fence_panel_snapped",
+      "dims": [
+        2.4125,
+        1.0144,
+        1.8181
+      ],
+      "tris": 312,
+      "nodes": [
+        "debris_palings",
+        "fence_panel_snapped",
+        "palings",
+        "rails"
+      ],
+      "status": "PASS",
+      "problems": []
     }
   ],
-  "debris": []
+  "debris": [
+    {
+      "file": "BlueCrate_v2.glb",
+      "dims": [
+        0.36,
+        0.36,
+        0.29
+      ],
+      "sane": true
+    },
+    {
+      "file": "BlackTub_v2.glb",
+      "dims": [
+        0.36,
+        0.54,
+        0.2
+      ],
+      "sane": true
+    },
+    {
+      "file": "WhiteTub_v2.glb",
+      "dims": [
+        0.36,
+        0.54,
+        0.2
+      ],
+      "sane": true
+    },
+    {
+      "file": "WoodenBin_v2.glb",
+      "dims": [
+        0.35,
+        0.36,
+        0.31
+      ],
+      "sane": true
+    }
+  ]
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/tools/blender/build_yard_assets.py b/tools/blender/build_yard_assets.py
index f67ad96..b486060 100644
--- a/tools/blender/build_yard_assets.py
+++ b/tools/blender/build_yard_assets.py
@@ -467,6 +467,30 @@ def build_ref_capsule(name):
     return root
 
 
+def _limb(name, base, tip, r_base, r_tip, mat, segs=3, sweep=0.30):
+    """A tapered, up-swept limb from base to tip.
+
+    A single straight uniform tube is what made these read as coat hooks in
+    docs/yard_day.jpg — a peg poking out of a pole. Real gum limbs leave the
+    trunk thick, sweep upward, and thin to nothing.
+
+    The tip is a quadratic-bezier ENDPOINT, so it lands on `tip` exactly. That
+    matters more than the look: branch_anchor_* sit on these tips, Lane A's
+    winning line rigs off t2, and every balance number in the repo assumes those
+    points don't move. Consumes NO rng — the caller's draw order is untouched.
+    """
+    b, t = Vector(base), Vector(tip)
+    ctrl = (b + t) / 2 + Vector((0, 0, (t.z - b.z) * sweep + 0.12))
+    parts, prev = [], b
+    for i in range(1, segs + 1):
+        u = i / segs
+        pt = (1 - u) ** 2 * b + 2 * (1 - u) * u * ctrl + u ** 2 * t   # u=1 -> exactly t
+        r = r_base + (r_tip - r_base) * ((i - 0.5) / segs)
+        parts.append(add_tube_between(f"{name}_s{i}", prev, pt, r, mat, verts=6))
+        prev = pt
+    return parts
+
+
 def _gum_tree(name, height, canopy_blobs, spread, anchor_heights, seed_name,
               sway_amp=1.0):
     """Eucalypt: pale chalky trunk, sparse olive canopy, low branches that a
@@ -500,9 +524,11 @@ def _gum_tree(name, height, canopy_blobs, spread, anchor_heights, seed_name,
         tip = (base[0] + math.cos(ang) * reach,
                base[1] + math.sin(ang) * reach,
                z0 + reach * rng.uniform(0.35, 0.6))
-        trunk_parts.append(add_tube_between(
-            f"{name}_branch_{i:02d}", base, tip, r_top * rng.uniform(0.5, 0.7),
-            bark, verts=8))
+        # Same four rng draws, same order, so every tip is bit-for-bit where it
+        # was — only the geometry hanging off them changed.
+        r_limb = r_top * rng.uniform(0.5, 0.7)
+        trunk_parts.extend(_limb(f"{name}_branch_{i:02d}", base, tip,
+                                 r_limb * 1.9, r_limb * 0.42, bark))
         anchors.append(tip)
 
     join_group(trunk_parts, "trunk", root)
diff --git a/tools/blender/contact_sheet.png b/tools/blender/contact_sheet.png
index 9f72654..9c0cf4f 100644
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diff --git a/web/world/js/tests/e.test.js b/web/world/js/tests/e.test.js
index 1833470..f2914c6 100644
--- a/web/world/js/tests/e.test.js
+++ b/web/world/js/tests/e.test.js
@@ -144,6 +144,42 @@ export default async function run(t) {
     });
   }
 
+  // These five numbers are load-bearing for the whole repo: Lane A's winning
+  // line rigs off t2, and every balance figure B and C measured assumes the
+  // branch anchors sit exactly here. I reshaped the limbs in Sprint 7 for looks
+  // and pinned the tips bit-for-bit to do it; this is the tripwire that keeps
+  // the next bit of art from quietly invalidating a sprint of physics.
+  // If it fails, the art moved an anchor — fix the art, don't touch the numbers.
+  t.test('branch anchors have not moved — the balance numbers depend on them', () => {
+    const EXPECT = {
+      tree_gum_01: {
+        branch_anchor_01: [-0.960, 3.636, -1.460],   // Blender (x,y,z) -> glTF (x,z,-y)
+        branch_anchor_02: [-0.941, 4.145, 0.777],
+        branch_anchor_03: [-1.382, 5.227, 0.978],
+      },
+      tree_gum_02: {
+        branch_anchor_01: [-0.167, 2.950, 1.154],
+        branch_anchor_02: [0.142, 3.722, 1.043],
+      },
+    };
+    for (const [tree, anchors] of Object.entries(EXPECT)) {
+      const g = loaded.get(tree);
+      assert(g, `${tree} did not load`);
+      g.scene.updateWorldMatrix(true, true);
+      for (const [n, want] of Object.entries(anchors)) {
+        const o = g.scene.getObjectByName(n);
+        assert(o, `${tree}/${n} missing`);
+        const p = new THREE.Vector3().setFromMatrixPosition(o.matrixWorld);
+        const got = [p.x, p.y, p.z];
+        for (let i = 0; i < 3; i++) {
+          assert(Math.abs(got[i] - want[i]) < 0.005,
+            `${tree}/${n} moved on ${'xyz'[i]}: ${got[i].toFixed(3)} vs ${want[i]} ` +
+            `(full ${got.map((v) => v.toFixed(3)).join(', ')})`);
+        }
+      }
+    }
+  });
+
   // Anchors are the actual product here: Lane B pins cloth corners to them and
   // Lane A builds world.anchors from them. A surviving name isn't enough — the
   // position has to be usable.
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index 159f9b2..6475479 100644
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diff --git a/web/world/models/tree_gum_02_v1.glb b/web/world/models/tree_gum_02_v1.glb
index c52ec85..39c8448 100644
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