June 27, 2020 thought for the day: Tell me what you brag about and I'll tell you what you lack Traditional Proverb

The twins went to their other grandma’s last night after a two-night sleep over here. We had a couple of times at the park. A trip to the grocery store and General Dollar. We had stops at two garage sales. Then there was the clip art and coloring pages they wanted to pick from the computer and have printed. Now it’s time of a recuperation period for me.

The photo challenge for June 26 was “Z”. There just aren’t too many objects beginning with Z readily available. Well, the best I could do was a zipper and a zipper pull on my purse.

I have an order to pick up at Sam Club as well as an enlarged photo that is supposed to be ready for a pick up there too. I thought our scheduled pick up time was later today but I just got a text that it is ready now. I had thought we would pick up dinner on our way home from Sam’s but now, since we will be going earlier, I guess I will cook. I put on potatoes on to cook so I can make some potato salad when we get back.

Bob is mowing the lawn so it will be done in case it rains by the time we get home from the store.

While I was at it, I looked around for the photo of the day. The challenge for today is “one”. I had one lonely daisy coming up in the mulch so I took the shot before it was gone.

The word today is imagine.  In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine, Ralph Waldo Emerson.  If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...Henry David Thoreau. Hatred grows into insolence when we desire to excel the rest of mankind and imagine we do not belong to the common lot; we even severely and haughtily despise others as our inferiors, John Calvin. Happiness is much more equally divided than some of us imagine. One man shall possess most of the materials, but little of the thing; another may possess much of the thing, but very few of the material. In this particular view of it, happiness had been beautifully compared to the man in the desert--he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack, Charles Caleb Colton. The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated, except by those whose feelings are withered by vitiated society. Holy, simple, and beautiful in its construction, it is the emblem of all we can imagine of fidelity and truth, Washington Irving.  Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry, Martin Luther. Cunning is neither the consequence of sense, nor does it give sense. A proof that it is not sense, is that cunning people never imagine that others can see through them. It is the consequence of weakness, Horace Walpole. Everything is simpler than one can imagine, and yet complicated and inter-twined beyond comprehension, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. We are never either so fortunate or so misfortunate as we imagine, Francois de La Rochefoucauld. 

Today’s challenge is “one”. I remembered that I had a lonely little mum flower in my “garden’ among the mulch. So she/he became my subject and model for this shot.

Here’s a bit from the Columbus Monthly about “new neighbors” (the wild kind). Slowly people began to notice that a “different” canine was entering into their yards. One person, interviewed in the article, said this past January she heard her dog barking in the back yard. When she went to investigate, she saw the coyote “nose-to-nose”. Thankfully, there was a chain link fence between them. She put up signs so that neighbors would be alerted to the possible problems. Also mentioned in the article, a couple of miles from the sighting a coyote bit a Columbus police officer. She formed a group called the Berwick Area Coyote Coalition. Members go on line to let others know of sightings. People studying this subject have come to a possible conclusion that because they aren’t hunted and trapped their number is growing. They are about four feet long and about 25 to 35 pounds and grow well in urban areas. They eat rodents, deer, fruit and people’s garbage and sometime small pets. Their enemies are larger animals and traffic. They have large litters so moving them doesn’t always solve the problem, others move in. In an effort to help reduce the number in the neighborhood one lady, moved the brush in the yard that the coyotes used for dens. She added strobe lights and motion-sensor sprinklers. If she sees one, she has used a coffee can filled with coins to scare them. She further related that there are the benefits, they keep rodents down. She said they aren’t bad they just can’t help their nature.

Potato salad and hot dogs for dinner.

Joy