Daily Notes- April 4th

Happy Birthday to this Big, Lovable, DOG!!  Twelve Years Old. I was going to take a new picture of him this morning but he is not interested in posing--turns his back on me, covers his face etc.  He no longer needs the choke chain collar to keep him in check.  Now, a soft, "no Riley" is all that is needed.  Such a good boy.  Unless you are trying for a picture.

Riley wants to go for a walk but G is on the couch with the heating pad and some Tylenol.  Having a bad day with the shoulder pain (which he hasn't talked about for days).  He has a stress test tomorrow and a PET scan on Monday.  G reported looking on line regarding the shoulder pain and he says none of the medical sites has anything good to say about it.

I did what I could--gave him the Tylenol that he always forgets to take.  I never know how seriously to take his comments regarding pain--I even doubted he was having a heart attack until the dog pressed his head on G's chest.  If someone is always saying things hurt--how do you know when it's really something????  I think his doctors have the same problem I do.  Pain is personal and hard to define.  

I am getting bored with my daily plate of cooked cream of wheat cereal, butter, sugar and cinnamon.  So yesterday I tried having honey oat toast with strawberry rhubarb jam.  Wow, did that hurt.  My jaw was not happy about toast---and I forgot to cut it into tiny squares. My jaw likes plain soft soup, hot runny cooked cereal, yogurt with squishy fruit.  I tried a banana this morning--jaw is not a fan of the banana either but perhaps if cut into small pieces?  Jaw does not want to have to bite anything.  The 4X a day 600mg of Advil is not working.  Of course, I forget to take it.  I don't  have my iPhone set to remind me to take pills like G does on his.

I found some free images on the internet of Vincent's paintings.  You may or may not see them here. But I was interested in one site that did macro images of Vincent's brush strokes. After April is over--I might mix up some paint and give those signature strokes a tryout on a canvas. Experiment.

I never decided on a 100 day Art Project.  Yesterday, instead of hand sewing my tiny 1.5 squares (from last Winter/Spring) together I used the sewing machine to sew them--faster and less strain on my old sticky eyes.  My square of tiny "inches" is now seven inches square-slight crooked due to the initial hand sewing.  I may keep going--I have a rainbow of colored squares precut for the project.  The sewn square is mostly a range of four shades of pink.  Light to dark and I just added a pink purple to the most outside edge.  I have three or four shades of green and some yellow to add.  Enough to make a small doll quilt I think.  And then hand quilt it.  I had thought to make a placemat but the hard use a placemat gets would destroy it pretty fast.

I still have "five ratty items" to get rid of this week.