Thursday, September 30, 2021

Thursday, September 30, 2021

Tonight's picture was taken in September of 2008. Mattie was home between treatments and was outside in our commons area with our neighbor JP and resident Jack Russell, JJ. Mattie and JJ practically grew up together. Mattie loved playing with JJ, until he got his limb salvaging surgeries. After that point, Mattie was always frightened of falling and hurting himself. Therefore, it changed his relationship with JJ the dog. Yet JJ continued to love Mattie, and after Mattie died, JJ was depressed for months. It is hard to believe that both Mattie and JP are no longer with us. 

Quote of the day: Today's coronavirus update from Johns Hopkins. 

• Number of people diagnosed with the virus: 43,445,267
• Number of people who died from the virus: 696,717

Sunny is finally putting weight on his back leg, which was operated on 9 days ago. Yet walking with him continues to be challenging. Mainly because I have to walk with him in a sling, and he is heavy, not steady on his feet, and despite the fact that he can't go far, his brain is telling him to walk and walk and walk. In fact, he gets head strong with me when I try to turn him around to head back home. By this point, he should only be walking about ten minutes total at a time. But today, he and I walked (and I use that term loosely) for an hour. By the time I got him home, I felt like I went through a major work out. 

I got it in my head today that I was going to do all the paint touch up jobs in the house rather than pay the painting company MORE money. So I got the painter's tape out and lined the staircase. The problem is when the wood on the stairs was sanded and restained, the stain got on the paint around the staircase. Painters charge you by the hour and frankly just getting the tape down took a lot of time. In addition, with moving and having all sorts of contractors in some of the baseboards and walls got dinged. I went at it today and worked on it all day, between conference calls. Hopefully tomorrow in the daylight I will see how the touch ups worked out and will then be able to continue painting in the garage. Peter and I decided to also paint the garage ourselves. Therefore, it was another busy day on the Farm. Though I know no other type of day here.