January 21, 2020 thought for the day.  To cultivate trees, you need 10 years. Chinese Proverb

This has been an interesting day. I am not receiving the information I need for the church newsletter in time for the scheduled printing time. So I am going to have to make some adjustments. There are three regular items for each newsletter that take up more than a third of a page. They haven’t arrived yet so I think I am going to delay the printing for a week past our normal monthly due date. That will give them each more time to get them to me. This has been a busy time of the year for all of us. We just need some time for “normal” life to catch up.

The photo theme on January 19 was “ice cream”. It just so happened that my great grand niece was visiting that day. She wanted one of the cups of chocolate ice cream I had bought for her and her sister. I had her put it in a bowl with chocolate syrup and whipped cream. She was delighted.

I worked some more on the bulletin. It is ready for printing except for a change in two of the hymns. I am waiting for the pastor to make the new choices. And I just got a notice that the other church newsletter I do will be ready for pick up in a couple of days.

I had one of my volunteer days at the church today. We had a good day at our food pantry with several new visitors. 

The next photo theme, “a wall” was on January 20. Of course there are several walls in the house so I had a challenge to find one that had some interest.

Sue is home now. She can’t drive yet so I will be taking her when she needs to go out, at least to the areas of the city that I feel safe driving. She needed to go to a near by bank when I got home from church. So off we went.

The word is dignity. We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist among all members of the human race, Marcus Tullius Cicero. So valuable to heaven is the dignity of the human soul that every member of the human race has a guardian angel from the moment the person begins to be, St. Jerome. A man can dignify his rank; no rank Can dignify a man, Lucius Accius  It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start, Seneca the Younger. Humbleness is always grace; always dignity, James Russell Lowell. The generous mind adds dignity to every act, and nothing misbecomes it, Plutarch.  As all error is meanness, it is incumbent on every man who consults his own dignity, to retract it as soon as he discovers it, Samuel Johnson.  Religion gives a dignity to distress, James Hervey. Misfortunes have their dignity and their redeeming power, George Stillman Hillard.  Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them, Aristotle. By a lie a man throws away and, as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man, Immanuel Kant. Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing, Francis Bacon. Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army, Edward Everett.   

The photo challenge for today is “I am...”. That is really a challenge, it didn’t say selfie. So that left things open to a wider thought for the subject. I was volunteering at the food pantry today so that left me what I thought was a good choice.

I like to include food article every now and then, probably because I am a genuine “foodie”. The article is about something called a “chaffle”. It is a waffle and cheese combination. It h


as been created for people who eat a “ketogenic” diet and also gluten-free eater. It was started for people on restricted diets. The “waffle” batter is made from eggs and cheese rather than flour. Apparently there is a “chaffle” that is made without the cheese and it is said to taste like Wonder Bread and can be used as bread for sandwiches. There is a special tool to make these called a Dash mini waffle maker. A standard iron can be used too, it’s just that the smaller one is more traditional. There are several recipes, one is for chocolate-chocolate chip chaffle, one for a pizza flavor, French toast flavor and one with cream cheese topping. It is being debated whether this is a trend or will be a new stable to our diets.

On January 20 I had another photo of the day to find, shoot and post process. This theme was “emotion”. That is one of the photos that are, for me at least, hard to shoot. I used one from the shoot with the ice cream.

For a change we are having a hamburger helper for dinner tonight. I usually cook from scratch but now and then I take it a little easier and open cans or boxes.

Joy