December 3, 2019 thought for the day: Good company will save you from bad deeds. Hebrew Proverb

We needed a couple of more chairs for our dining room. I have been checking on line. Then something came to mind. We just had a fall sale at church. I called Donna, who ran it, and asked if there were chairs left from the sale. There were so early this morning I went to check on them. They’re nice, they even have arms....I like arms on chairs. Tony helped me get them in my car. When I got them home, I cleaned them and put them where they will belong. I didn’t realize until now that in moving them around, out of the car, into the house then cleaning them and resetting them along with that I did a number on my back. I will be feeling that for the next few days.

I waited until I thought Tony would be there before I went for the chairs so I worked on formatting the bulletin. I had to reduce the size of the font to make it all fit but it’s done now and looks pretty good.

Yesterday’s photo of the day was “light”.  Since I don’t have my Christmas lights up yet and I was trying to complete the task in the day light I ran into a challenge. However, the day was overcast so the street lights were still on in come areas of the city. I had gone out to pick up much needed ink I shot tail lights, street lights and store window lights. None suited me when I was in the “darkroom” (Photoshop). I did find this one. I had shot it as I was waiting in the drive through lane at White Castle. Due to the overcast day none were as clear as I had hoped. I added a Photoshop filter to this one to try to highlight the street light.

As I am doing other things, I am letting the printer continuously print my Christmas calendars for family and neighbors. That’s the true meaning of “multitasking”.

Actually before I got to clean the chairs, I cleared the frig of most of the Thanksgiving left overs and started a full load of dishes.

The word is companion. Patience is the companion of wisdom, Saint Augustine. In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self, William Penn,  Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms, George Eliot. Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims, George Henry Lewes.  There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books, Henry Ward Beecher. Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions, Pierre Charron. There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life, Mary Wortley Montagu. If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away, Henry David Thoreau. Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way, Michel de Montaigne.  Never make a companion equal to a brother, Hesiod. The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility, Charles Caleb Colton.  

I didn’t find anything to interesting in either the Dispatch or Columbusunderground for today but I found this article in the Columbus Monthly magazine. I like stories about our history. It makes old things come to mind in a new way. The photo is one of the things that caught my eye. It was of the old railroad station on West Broad Street. I have often admired its shape and form. As the article stated, it is a “pagoda-like” structure. It use to be a railroad station and is also one of our city’s architectural attractions. It was built in 1895 by a firm that designed many of the notable buildings. In that time period structures were composed of from many periods and places. Some features had to be designed due to traffic and passengers. There was a fire in 1975 that destroyed the roof. At the time the Volunteers of America owned it and restored the inside after the fire.

Today’s photo theme, "something festive" was a little easier than yesterday’s but still, I don’t have any of my holiday decorations up yet. I was at church to get the chairs. I knew the sanctuary was beautifully decorated so I made a stop there before I left.

“It almost wasn’t, though. In January 1975, it lost its entire roof to fire, though our firefighters valiantly saved the interior, the corner turrets and the tower. The owner at the time, Volunteers of
I am going to make spaghetti for dinner. I usually make meat balls but I think it will be meat sauce tonight instead. It’s easier and quicker. I just brown the meat, add a 32 oz can of crushed tomatoes, one can 6 oz can of tomato sauce and 1 small can of tomato paste. Then the spices, Mrs Dash’s onion, garlic, table blend, Spice Islands Italian Herbs, Smidge and Spoon celery flakes. After that a tablespoon or so of sugar and same amount of apple cider vinegar. I also add a touch of baking soda to lighten the acid in the tomatoes. Let it simmer an hour or two.

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