28 March 2019 - Diet Diary - Yesterday's warmth was just a memory today. Cold and windy, possible snow this weekend. Exercise and taking the neighbor shopping was my outing for the day and with the chill I was ready to return home. Did some more painting and worked on an art piece for the wall in the hallway. Silly reason for the large piece is that there was once a big doorbell with long chime tubes hanging in that hall, above the basement access stairs. This put them about 10 feet above the "floor" which was actually the middle of the staircase. When the chimes died, transformer burned out, I was able to knock the box free from the wall with a long pole but was never able to get up there to remove the screws.

When I was prepping to paint the wall I was annoyed at not being able to figure out how to get those screws removed without damage to the wall, which I would be unable to reach to repair. Then I realized, I could hang a picture from the screws as long as it was light enough to lift with minimum support on at least one side. So, I am going to have a 30"x40" stretched canvas with something (undecided yet) over it that will go there. The beauty of it is the canvas was free, someone had tossed it out, has a so-so painting on it so I rescued it but decided I would probably drop off at the Goodwill as I didn't want to paint on it or hang it as it is. Plan to cover with fabric, which I already have so cheap installation.

Intake today was 977, after the 8 peanuts I had while waiting for dogs to make their last outing of the night. Peanuts are a shockingly caloric snack, that is why they are "stored" in the back room instead of the kitchen or pantry. Tomorrow will give myself a few more calories, no more than 1200, maybe the same on Saturday, then another under 1000 day. Guess I'll see how that works. Maybe I can shock my body into letting go of the edge of the plateau.