The nights are getting cooler but then I can’t complain....it’s a normal happening and fall is one of the pretty seasons, they all are, to each it’s own. I have a window open and I am enjoying the smells and sounds and feel of the soft breeze on my arms.
I woke up worrying about my window that won’t stay up and decided I had better see if there was something I can do about it. I called Midas. It is just down that street and would be quick to get to. I was told that he would have to look at it but I ask for a ball park figure for fixing a window that was out of track. The mechanic quoted just over one hundred dollars but told me that they would have to see if that was indeed the problem. So I took the car to the shop. Once they had the door disassembled they said the piece that holds the window up was broken and that replacing it would be just over four hundred dollars. Wow. That seems to be the story of my life, expecting, with at least a bit of information then smacked with a large change in direction. I told them to go ahead. My credit card is hurting.
Yesterday’s FMS photo a day challenge, “E”, envelopes. On lazy days I have to try to find something around the house that will fit the challenge. After some roaming around the house and eyeing several items I picked a stack of envelopes.
Bob (my son) picked me up so I didn’t have to sit there and wait. Once it was done and Bob dropped me off I went to Strader’s Garden Center to get some more plant drip trays and potting soil. I stopped at Tractor Supply to see it they had any water absorbent pads, I have started sitting the pots on some ordered earlier (Waterhog) since the floor where I had them before was badly stained when they refurbished them a couple of months ago. The store didn’t have the pads I wanted so I headed home with a stop at Wendy’s.
Once back home, I started putting my bed room curtains up. I got the hooks I had ordered in the mail yesterday.
I want to bring another plant in so I will have to go pick one out and treat it with my DIY solution, giving it some fresh soil, good drink of water and clean up. .
I think that is about the best I am going to do today with getting things done today.
The word is attraction. If one should give me a dish of sand, and tell me there were particles of iron in it, I might look for them with my eyes, and search for them with my clumsy fingers, and be unable to detect them; but let me take a magnet and sweep through it, and how would it draw to itself the almost invisible particles by the mere power of attraction. The unthankful heart, like my finger in the sand, discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day, and as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some Heavenly blessings, Henry Ward Beecher. But the place which you have selected for your camp, though never so rough and grim, begins at once to have its attractions, and becomes a very centre of civilization to you: "Home is home, be it never so homely." Henry David Thoreau. Sense will always have attractions for me, Jane Austen. There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person, Jane Austen. Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen, Ralph Waldo Emerson. Our life is what our thoughts make it, Marcus Aurelius. We are always getting ready to live but never living, Ralph Waldo Emerson. Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think, Benjamin Disraeli. We forge the chains we wear in life, Charles Dickens. One more, The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become, Nathaniel Hawthorn.
It’s always good to see that the city is keeping up on needed repairs and maintenance. Although, many times it comes late. This article today is about bridge inspections. I was enthralled with the mention in the article that the men doing the inspections sometimes put on scuba gear as part of this procedure. At the beginning of this article one of the inspectors was inspecting a bridge on the Blacklick Creek At the same time as he was in his scuba gear there was another inspector across town using an access door 100 plus feet over Lane Avenue at the Ohio State University to check the supporting cables of the bridge. State law requires yearly inspections for bridges of specific sizes. There are also federal procedures for bridge inspections. Of interest in the article is that there are more than 100 bridges in this county that were built 75 or more years ago. It is common sense that the early problems are caught the better and I would imagine less expensive to repair where needed. I caught the point that from March through December people passing by may spot problems arising and report them. In the article it explained that during one of the inspections a walk is need in a creek where the water may come to the knees to test for decay that may be found using that method. Things that inspectors look for are obvious such as voids in the structure, cracks things that may not be seen normally without looking for them on purpose.
Today’s fatmumslim.com.au photo theme is F. I chose fan blades as my subject today. Once again it was looking around the house to find something to fit the challenge title/heading. I liked the shape of the blades
PIZZA! No recipes for this treat, at least not my own. I make pizza’s now and then but not often, if/when I do I will share my recipe.
Joy
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