I took Sweet Pea, my mini Australian Shepherd/Corgi mix, to the vet for her annual shots/checkup.....the bill nearly floored me....I can’t imagine how a senior citizen is going to be able to have a pet companion at these prices.
The twins (my grandnieces) have been here for a couple of days now and will be one more. They will be starting back to school next week. So we will be going back to the one night a week with them. All summer long we have had them about three or four days/nights in a row.
I worked on Nancy’s journal for a while this morning. Nancy passed on a few months ago. I considered her my best friend at this time in my life. I think we have a “best friend” in daycare, kindergarten, high school, college, neighborhood, and on until Senior Citizen, not necessarily the same one on this long journey and in this “veil of tears.” She kept a journal most of her life for the benefit of her children. It was all hand written. Her daughter offered a view of it to visitors at her funeral. I am spending time typing it page by page. I want to use it in the church newsletter I maintain and to give to her family. At some point maybe I can share some of her beautiful and wise thoughts with you.
I belong to a photo group called FMS (fatmumslim.com/au) where photographers from all over the world who belongs to this same group follow a given challenge from the owner of the website. There is a theme of the month such as “food,” then each day there is a particular food or food-related item. Today’s challenge was “ingredients” after several shots my choice was macaroni and cheese. It is interesting to see what some of my peer upload in that 24-hour period (especially watching the uploads the facebook where we show our efforts. Some I watch some come up in the morning that are uploaded from where it is night time.) I also watch backgrounds to get a hint of what else may lurk in the photo as a clue to the surroundings.I got some plants watered in the front part of my city garden and left the other side for this afternoon. I worked on starting a couple of pilot holes for the drawer handles. Our house has been remodeled but still needs many finishing touches. I can handle about fifteen to twenty minutes on my feet before an hour recess before tackling something else. Later, I made some bacon for a BLT. When I did that last week when the twins were here, I discovered that I had better make extra so there was some for them too.
I got the last of the Venetian blinds in four of the lower level windows up yesterday. I am having a little bit of a brain block on attempting to put up the traverse rods in my room. I am going to have to suck it up and get to it brain block or not or it won’t get done. Maybeeee...tomorrow?
I want to see William, my newest great grand sons soon. I want Kim and Mick (grand son and granddaughter in law) and William to get use to the newness of it all, life and its wonders, privately first. I wanted to put a couple of more smaller pieces on the mobile I have been crocheting for him, but I am going to tighten up the loose threads and have it ready to take to him the way it is.
The word to ponder today is anticipate. To anticipate and prevent disasterous contingencies would be the part of wisdom and patriotism, George Washington. At almost every step in life we meet with young men from whom we anticipate wonderful things, but of whom, after careful inquiry, we never hear another word. Life certain chintzes, calicoes, and ginghams, they show finely on their first newness, but cannot stand the sun and rain, and assume a very sober aspect after washing day, Nathaniel Hawthorne. Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil, Aristotle. Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other—it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age, Charles Caleb Colton. Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation, Honore de Balzac. The present time has one advantage over every other -- it is our own, Charles Caleb Colton. One more, Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today, Seneca the Younger.
The article I latched on for today at Columbusunderground.com is how riders have taken advantage of the newest attempt to offer free bus passes, C-pass, to Downtown workers and how it has grown. It’s my understanding that these free rides cover business in an area of the downtown area. It helps users in a cost saving of parking fees as well as wear and tear on person vehicles or on legs when walking from business to business. It is also my understanding that interested downtown businesses join together as a group to keep this system working and growing. I think this is one of the signs that Columbus keeps up with the world, maybe in some ways and sometimes a leading edge.
My photo today from my Photo a Day photography challenge in the https://fatmumslim.com group. Today’s “assignment” for this world wide group is ‘kitchen”. This is a shot of my remodeled kitchen.
Here it is Friday again. When I was among the working community, Friday night was a “let the stresses go” night. We ordered pizza so there were no dishes and little clean up. That habit has hung on. So I am about to order the pizza and not worry about working on one of my recipes.
Joy
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