November 11, 2019 thought for the day: An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship. Spanish Proverb

I enjoyed the luxury of rolling over to catch another nap before starting the day. This is going to be a this-and-that day, nothing with dead lines, except for getting a start on the bulletin. I am the hostess for our Martha Club meeting at church tomorrow night so I have to get to the store to pick out what I what to offer. I had planned on going today but I think I will put it off until tomorrow. When I leave the store, I may swing by the church to mournfully plea to Tony to help me get the bags to the kitchenette for our meeting later in the day. Navigating the steps with (or without) my hands full of bags is becoming a rapidly growing chore.

As is a fixed habit now whenever I am out in the car I am looking for the photo of the day. Yesterday’s theme was “brown.” That was a relatively easy color to find especially on architectural trims. I passed some as I was heading for church and decided that I wouldn’t be late if I stopped for a few shots on the way to my destination.

As I was beginning the day, I turned on the TV to the Today Show. The announcers were wearing red poppy flowers...this is Veterans Day. It immediately brought to mind my teen years when I was a girl scout. Our troop met with other troops in downtown Columbus on Veterans Day to pass out artificial poppy flowers to all passers-by. As a side note, White Castle fed all of us (scouts) at noon. Poppies became a way of remembering those who lost their lives for our freedoms. The idea of the poppy being the icon of remembrance for that day was taken from a poem called “In Flanders Field” by John McCrae. “In Flanders Field the poppies blow ....”

Once I got started on the bulletin I realized I had some work to do on the newsletter too. So I put more time in on that than I realized. I guess there was more on the agenda than I paid attention to earlier today. But all is well. I am up to date on the newsletter at this point.

The word is change.  Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside, Alexander Pope.  It is not well to make great changes in old age, Charles Spurgeon. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions, James Russell Lowell. It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people, Giordano Bruno.  But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever, Jane Austen. Not to hope for things to last forever, is what the year teaches and even the hour which snatches a nice day away, Horace. One more, A man's character is his fate, Heraclitus

For today’s photo of the day I used some subjects around the house since I didn’t plan to go out. Black is a difficult color for me to manage. I like a wide range of “black” with a really deep black as the main focus with a wide array leading to or from white. I don’t know if I hit the mark with this one. I will come back to it from time to time and decide if I need to return to the “darkroom” with it.

There are a few fast food places in Columbus, two of which I think started here, Wendy’s and I think White Castle did too....(I just now learned that White Castle was founded in Kansas but headquartered in Columbus. I looked this up before I complete this paragraph....see..I learn as I go and I try to keep things here as close to fact as I can...) The article today is about Wendy’s celebrating it’s 50th year.  A man named Dave Thomas started the restaurant. His daughter said, in this article, that she thinks her dad wanted to have five restaurants because he had five kids so that each would eventually manage one of them. It all began on East Broad Street here in Columbus in 1969. He wanted it to be a little different than others. The first pick-up window began in 1970. The interiors of the restaurants have been full of architectural features and modern conveniences such as wifi and flat screen TVs. Early on they lived by the thinking “fresh, never frozen.”

They have proven that they can be “fast” in the drive thru and still use fresh beef. I leaned in this article that their first slogan, and still is, “quality is our recipe.” They added things other fast food facilities didn’t offer such as baked potatoes and salad bars. Wendy’s also stays involved in social media with 3.4 million followers on Twitter. Even though they once offered a salad bar that feature has been scrapped and now sells specialty salads. Also mentioned in the article is that Wendy’s owned Tim Horton’s. One Wendy’s way of keeping themselves unique is keeping their stores spread out enough to keep from competing with each other. In time there was a Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption founded to help find homes for foster children. Dave was an adopted child himself.

I am not in the mood to cook tonight so I think it will be another on our own.

Joy

I just found out this image of mine was selected at a finalist at Viewbug.com