March 11, 2020 thought for the day: Cunning is a short blanket - if you pull it over your face, you expose your feet Traditional Proverb

This is the latest I have slept in a long while, almost nine o’clock. Then things got a slow start but the agenda list for today grew quickly.

On the 10th I had two photo of the day themes to shoot. The main one’s title was “off center”. That is an easy theme for me to shoot. The challenge is to find one that is suitable. I think this one will serve the purpose nicely.

I got the bulletin to the proofreaders then began to add to the list. I am teaching myself a feature using Photoshop that I have been meaning to try to accomplish for some time. I want to turn a photograph into a line drawing. I studied that for a while and printed some instructions. I was thinking about food for dinner and decided it has been a while since I made Johnny Marzetti. I tried to find the recipe I used for years, that took a while. There are several different versions out on the web but I wanted the original. While I was looking for that I decided I was in the mood for home made bread again so I worked on getting the dough stated. While I was working on the food projects, I realized it was time to make meatballs for the dogs too. So I began that task.

The second theme title for the tenth was “part of a car”. I chose the third of forth shot I made because of all of the lines, curves and shapes. Visible in the image.

I was multitasking, as usual. As I accomplished one of the food preps I got back to the computer for other researches and checked email for any corrections to the bulletins.

The word today is endurance. He conquers who endures, Aulus Persius Flaccus. Endure, and keep yourselves for days of happiness, Virgil. Nothing befalls any man which he is not fitted to endure, Marcus Aurelius. Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether past calculation its powers of endurance, Thomas Carlyle. Patient endurance attends to all things, Teresa of Avi. And have you not received faculties which will enable you to bear all that happens to you? Have you not received greatness of spirit? Have you not received courage? Have you not received endurance? Epictetusla.  For it is in our nature to endure patiently the decrees of fate, but not the ill-will of others, Jean-Jacques Rousseau. The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of humansociety, James Anthony Froude. Memory cannot exist without endurance of the things perceived, and the thing perceived cannot remain where it has never been, William Hazlitt. Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen, Thomas Carlyle. Wealth and honours, which most men pursue, easily change masters; they desert to the side which excels in virtue, industry, and endurance of toil, and they abandon the slothful, John Milton. Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

My photo challenge for today is titled “green”. It seems like I used green one or more times before in this month so far so it was hard to make a decision. I just roamed through the house and looked for things that were green. Then tried to decide if they were “interesting” enough.

I hope this effort is successful. Some areas of the city need cleaned up and hopefully kept up. This particular article is about plans for new single family homes in a run downed area of the city. Several contiguous lots of land in one area became available for revitalization. The first of five new single family homes have been started. Due to some arrangements that were made the houses will be offered at a lower price than would be normally possible, a tax abatement was part of the arrangements. The total cost will be twenty-five to thirty percent of what it would be. The area of the city in question is called Milo-Grogan. Before the late 1870s it was an area filled with factories. Later there were some revitalization efforts. According to the article, neighborhood leaders who are working to mitigate the negative effects of a changing real estate market on seniors and other longtime residents......it is a great community for a variety of reasons, yet there is so much untapped potential for growth,” There is a lot of work done by the same group in the Franklinton revitalization.

I am going to make Johnny Marzetti for dinner and home made dinner rolls.

Joy