Chore Day, June 13, 2020 -- Cleaning, Cooking, and Going Through Pictures

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This week my chores were vacuuming the house, cooking up a veggie meatloaf (tofu, oatmeal) for Willie, my furry friend, and going through my digital photos, thousands of them. I started by collecting all of my images into a single folder, then removing the duplicates. The next step, which I’ve only started, is to manually examine all of the images to find my furry family members and copy each image into a special folder. I’ll use those images to create physical picture books. I’ll need about six volumes.

The pictures go back 20 years. Seeing my companions again was simultaneously happy and sad. I’m grateful and happy for the time I had with them, and I’m sad that they are gone.

The picture above is a sketch I did this morning while having a cup of tea — pencil and pen. It’s Jimmy Jay looking middle-aged. He’s not wearing his shoes in this picture.