biscuit

It's warm enough to take the dogs swimming, which means that they should both be getting more exercise. Except today the water was pretty high, and we lost both sticks to the current because Sherman's not good at going after a stick that's out of his sight, and Stella won't pass Sherman to get at a stick.

My camera phone doesn't have enough shutter control to capture the shot I wanted, but here Sherman is shaking water off his coat.

I've shared these before, which are a curiosity that fell out of some code that I wrote to tile dominos for a puzzle. Rather than thinking of it as packed diamonds, I started from triangles, then paired them, and arrived at the very op-art look quite by accident.

It's not so far away from the "tumbling blocks" quilt pattern, but picking colors for it seemed challenging; three solids is just too flat. Now I am considering the idea of using two greys plus an assortment of prints, lightly sorted.

Hey look, it's another dog picture.

It's been not quite a year since Sherman came home with us, and I took him to the vet's for some vaccine boosters. He weighed in at 102lbs (almost 10lbs up) and after hearing the story of how swimming agrees with him, but that he limps if I make him walk, the vet offered up the possibility of using carprofen on him (it's an NSAID anti-inflammatory). The first day I gave it to him he played and frolicked more than I had ever seen from him. So I'm giving one to him every day, and noticing that all sorts of things that I thought were "just how he is" are more likely a response to arthritis pain. For example, he's shown here sleeping in a much more spherical configuration than he could do before.