July 11, 2020 thought for the day: Knowledge is not what you can remember, but what you cannot forget. Traditional Proverb

 It’s been a slow-moving day. It started off with a computer problem for me and it took me a couple of hours to “fix” it. It appears that my yahoo email account was hacked. So I waded through several ways I thought would fix it until I eventually decided to simply close it out. Now I am going to have to let people know AGAIN that my email has been changed.

The challenge for yesterday was “listening to...”. Whenever the twins are here I try to get as many photos of them as I can. This one fit the theme title, sharing the secrets of youth.

That put me at a slow start with everything else I wanted to accomplish for today. It hasn’t rained for a while so I have the two “garden’s” to water. The dogs are out of their favorite treat (my bad....I started it, now I would feel guilty if I tried to stop it.) It’s meatballs, they are healthy for them, they have all the vegetables and healthy other ingredients to keep them happy.

The pharmacy just called to say my meds are in so I should take some time to go over and pick them up. I may have to let it go until after church tomorrow.

I had a second photo of the day yesterday. The title was “repetition”. After some searching I settled on this one of the old gate made of wooden slats.

The word today is inquiry.  Difference of opinion leads to inquiry, and inquiry to the truth, Thomas Jefferson. The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius, of virtue, and of life, which we call Spontaneity or Instinct, Ralph Waldo Emerson. There is no permanence in doubt; it incites the mind to closer inquiry and experiment, from which, if rightly managed, certainty proceeds, and in this alone can man find thorough satisfaction, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. ... For we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry would have been of no use, Aristotle. We lawyers are always curious, always inquisitive, always picking up odds and ends for our patchwork minds, since there is no knowing when and where they may fit into some corner, Charles Dickens. Some men covet knowledge out of a natural curiosity and inquisitive temper; some to entertain the mind with variety and delight; some for ornament and reputation; some for victory and contention; many for lucre and a livelihood; and but few for employing the Divine gift of reason to the use and benefit of mankind, Francis Bacon. The sermon which I write inquisitive of truth is good a year after, but that which is written because a sermon must be writ is musty the next day, Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Something is new at the zoo again. I hope we keep seeing new things added. I think we are one of the biggest zoos in the country. At one spot on Google it is mentioned as the number one zoo in the country; in another spot it is listed as number three. Either one is something to be proud of. The article today is about a new region at the zoo, called Adventure Cove. It is an underwater sea lion tunnel.  The article says it is “the first of it’s kind, a 60-foot-long acrylic tunnel.” It’s an over head tunnel filled with water. This new complete addition is still being worked on. There will be a “tunnel” under the floor which is covered with acrylic flooring. Visitors will be able to see the sea lions below them too. There are four harbor seals, still in the process of being trained, in the exhibit. The article mentioned that the theme was “inspired” by the Pacific Northwest Fisherman’s Wharf and Pier39 in San Francisco. The decking is heated so it will be open year round. The article went on to say that there are twelve sea lions including the two new pups presently at the zoo. Stingray Bay is located in the Adventure Cove also. It offers a touch pool. This feature use to be a seasonal opening part of the zoo but will now be open all years.

My photo theme for today is “cold”. It’s summer and scorching hot so the best choices were something cold to eat or drink or a photo inside the freezer. I decided on a glass of my diet cola filled with ices cubes.

I think we will have chili mac for inner and a sugar snap pea salad to go with it.

Joy