This has been a lazy day and I have enjoyed the heck out of it. I think I would like more of them. However while it seems a blessing it could lead to a disaster too. Being lazy, especially for older people, is bad. If we don’t move our parts, mainly legs and arms, regularly they can become stiff and eventually may be unable to respond at all. So we deal with the aches and move our bodies forward in the best form possible.
I worked on post processing photos that I took on the trips back and forth from Mt Sterling to Columbus. Maybe some day they could be a coffee table book, or maybe not, just for personal memories and enjoyment.
After I got some work done on those I went out in this heat and took a trip around the block a couple of times in search of a photo that might speak to me. My photo challenge group, fatmumslim.com.au, has chosen to make the month of October a free choice month rather than the usual monthly theme and daily assignment. I found a few interesting places that I am going to look at more closely while I post process them. This is the October 1 photo. It was taken in my back yard. My twin great-nieces, Sonja an Savannah, were give a small package of seeds in July. They carefully planted then in the small (really tiny tiny) pot that came with the seeds. They diligently watered them for several days and put them in the sun. Once we got back home from our Mt. Sterling stay the plants were put in the back yard. This was the lonely survivor. The girls examined it with pride just before I made the shot.The word is beloved. The world is full of suffering. Birth is suffering, decrepitude is suffering, sickness and death are sufferings. To face a man of hatred is suffering, to be separated from a beloved one is suffering, to be vainly struggling to satisfy one's needs is suffering. In fact, life that is not free from desire and passion is always involved with suffering, Gautama Buddha. To be beloved is above all bargaines, George Herbert. The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long, Moliere. Beloved brother, let us not forget that man can never get away from himself, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. One more, Among the blessings of love there is hardly one more exquisite than the sense that in uniting the beloved life to ours we can watchover its happiness, bring comfort where hardship was, and over memories of privation and suffering open the sweetest fountains of joy, George Eliot.
I think it has been a hot summer for the whole country not just Ohio. I can’t remember school being let out because of the heat when I was in school or when my children were for that matter. The article today is about the schools closing for another day due to the heat. So many of the schools don’t have AC. I wonder if it is really hotter now than it was in the summers sixty plus years ago when I was one of the students. All I can remember were open windows and possibly fans. But we didn’t miss school. The article states that they are closing the school for comfort. It is believed that this heat with no means of cooling the class rooms detracts from the learning environment. Some members of the school personnel will be working. “Administrators and custodials....bus drivers .....(taking) students to charter schools...”. Students and parents that may be home are looking for places that are cooler than it is in their homes. As is mentioned in the article, sweaters may be a choice for clothing on Friday, fall weather temperatures are on the horizon. Because of these unusual temperature rise and the dry summer the autumn leaves may not be as colorful as is normal for Ohio.
My free choice photo a day challenge for today was found in a neighbors side yard. I am enjoying these days of driving around the neighborhood to find the photo of the day. I am seeing so much that I would have otherwise ignored or have taken for granted.
I am making creamed beef on toast for dinner and maybe mac and cheese. I start with my normal white sauce, 2 T of butter, 2 T flour then enough Swanson’s Beef Stock to thicken. Continue to add stock or milk to become a consistency of thick cream. For the beef I use two small packages of Buddig Beef cut into small pieces. I add a bit of Knorr’s beef bouillon to heighten the beef flavor. The mac and cheese starts the same, white sauce with Swanson’s Vegetable Stock in place of the chicken stock. Once the stock is thick, maybe not at thick as the beef flavored stock because the cheese will add to the thickening. I then add about 6 oz of Cracker Barrel Extra Sharp cheese. If the sauce becomes a little to think add a more of stock or milk. I serve the creamed beef on toast.
Joy
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