Daily Notes- April 22nd

Now 12 inches square.  It's a cheerful little thing.  Doll Quilt?  What measurements for doll size quilts?  But I did two full rows for today and my Morning Pages on events in Life where we could have taken another Path.  I could have written 20 pages on that subject.  I have made poor choices for most of my 72 years.

The dog needed a tranquilizer to get thru the day yesterday and then I slept on the couch with him last night (he sleeps on the floor).  He was ringing the bell we have on the back door.  I taught him to do that if he needed to go out to pee when he was a puppy.  Now he rings it when things aren't feeling good.  I got myself into a comfortable place on the couch and fell asleep and woke up around 6 am.  Still in same spot.  G got up to feed the dog and we switched places.  I got another few hours of sleep in my bed.

I don't mind.  Riley is a good dog and probably has no idea what is going wrong inside his head.  Why be mad at him?  Or feel inconvenienced?  And, as both G and I have discovered--the couch is very comfortable.  We take turns.  It's good.  But we know the clock is ticking on the amount of Time we have left together.  The three of us.  No regrets.  I get emotional.  Tears are every present these days.

It's warmer today--Spring--but still cloudy with chances for rain all day.  G is pruning the nests out of the crab trees.  Nests of tiny worms that mature into caterpillar type things with thread hairs that cause much suffering if they get on your skin.  Itching and a rash.  He has a bucket of soapy water to put the nests in.  We have to do it before they hatch out of the worm stage.  And the caterpillars manage to eat all the leaves off the trees as they grow.  Over a period of Time, killing the trees.

I made G's favorite pasta sauce yesterday for his dinner.  Never got around to making a holiday dessert or making a special dish for myself.  I think I might go to the store and buy a small square of carrot cake with cream cheese frosting.  He loves that.  I still have my yogurt with cut strawberries from Saturday.  Feels too cold for a bowl of cold fruit and yogurt. And I might buy a slice of baked ham. Just for me. Fry it in the frypan.