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We visited Harvey at the nursing home. He was comfortable and calm, but totally delusional about what was going on outside his window. We tried to explain that the people out there with white sacks were planting rice, seeding the fields. He wasn’t buying it, spinning wild ideas of what was going on.
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I’m just back from the cafe. It rained pretty hard for a few minutes and then cleared off with the sun coming out. I got a reasonable amount of work done, so I opted to come home and rest before dinner.
I felt like I had lost a whole generation when I got my wonderful necklace during Songkran, the water festival, with what were modern Disney characters that are so popular here. So I made it a point to look these up and make a record of the cute characters.
My other latest sketch.
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I told you that one of the issues I had after my surgery a year ago in February was hearing loss. We got me some hearing aids and they have been wonderful. One of them stopped working and we went to the place who sold us the aids to have them look at them. It turned out with as careful as I have been to clean them, there is still a place that is almost impossible to clean that becomes blocked with ear wax. They changed out the ear wax guard and my aid worked perfectly again. We ordered some more, and changed out the wax guard in the other aid, which had since developed the same problem. Now I can change it out without having to make an appointment. Hooray!
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We got my glass print of the “Rooster Runway” jigsaw puzzle a couple of days ago. It’s just a bit smaller that the personality portrait painting my dad painted of me, so I put them side by side on my statement shelf.
Brian has sent the photos of the “Cats on the Beach” puzzle for a glass print to be made, with strict orders to me to SLOW DOWN on my puzzle solving. So far, I’m complying, since my newest puzzle, “Abstract Cat” hasn’t arrived yet…. 🤣 🧩
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Shout out to Michael, who was mopping his floor and slipped, falling and fracturing his wrist. He is my former hairdresser and dear friend, so he will need all of our good thoughts on helping him perform his job, slipping off and on a soft cast splint thing until further notice.
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The visit with your Harvey was not what you might have hoped for, but the fact that he was comfortable was good.
Your sketches are nice. I can just imagine a child falling asleep while practicing the piano. That was sweet.
Glad you are able to hear better now. Small things bring great pleasure sometimes.
Hope you enjoyed the rest of your day. (Donna)
Thge rest of my day was really nice. Thank you, Donna.
Hello to you. Glad you are continuing with your art work which is amazing! Hearing is critical! Have a good day!
Thank you, Linda. I appreciate your encouragement more than I can say. I hope you have a wonderful day, too.
The Disney character sketches are wonderful, Linda! I hear you about Harvey. He probably has no other memory or knowledge of rice planting on which to “hang” this new knowledge upon. That’s my guess anyway. So his brain will grapple with making linkages to anything else it can to try and make sense of what he is seeing. Well, it is a plausible explanation anyway.
Glad you will slow down on the puzzles. The guitar will take some of that time perhaps anyway. You might run out of shelf space at some point. But I know you love working those puzzles!
I’m glad you like the Disney sketches. You wouldn’t believe what he thought was going on in the field. At least he has an active imagination. I hope your time away is healing and lots of fun. When will you be back
We just got back (early). Long story. Feel like truck hit me. Ha!
Rest well. Glad you’re back