February 20, 2021 a thought for today: The smarter you get the fewer words you'd say. Arabic. Proverb

It looks like the snow is beginning to melt....I wonder where it will all go. There are small hills of snow all over the place. I think the temperatures are in the twenties but the sun makes it look a lot warmer and is helping to melt the top layers of the white stuff. Now to get ready for the next problem, water in the basement and mud on the dogs paws. 

Yesterday’s photo theme was “something old”. I happed across this old filing system when I was at church today. It seemed perfect for this challenge.

I finished the last parts of the handout for tonight’s meal at church. So just before noon I headed out for the church to drop them off so the folks preparing the food will have time to put the envelopes in the food packages. 

I took a couple of pictures while I was out so I would have a selection for one of the two photo challenges for today. 

Of course I stopped at McDonald for a familiar lunch to share with Bob. 

I had an external hard drive that had some vintage photos on them....well maybe not vintage but from as far back as 2001. I hadn’t been able to pull it up and was so disappointed to think I had lost snippets of all those memories. Yesterday I was able to revive it. I spent most of the day reminiscing and collecting favorites to move to a newer drive. 

I also found out yesterday that I have to change my diabetes medicine due to insurance. So now I have to go through all of the testing to find the one that will work for me, the highs and lows of blood sugar and all of the attached ups and downs. Maybe I am worrying about nothing. That wouldn’t be unusual because I am the premier worrywart. The first problem with it is I have to wait for it to be delivered in the mail so I have no medicine for it for the next few days. 

Today’s photo theme is “sweets”. That was kind of a hard for me today since my diabetes meds are
making a detour today. But I had a package of M&Ms in the refrigerator (to keep them “fresh” longer). So I chose those as my photo prop for today. 

The word today is sensitive. It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive, Henry David Thoreau.  Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears, Edgar Allan Poe. It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded, Charles Dickens. There is a quiet repose and steadiness about the happiness of age, if the life has been well spent. Its feebleness is not painful. The nervous system has lost its acuteness. But, in mature years we feel that a burn, a scald, a cut, is more tolerable than it was in the sensitive period of youth, William Hazlitt.  The gravest events dawn with no more noise than the morning star makes in rising. All great developments complete themselves in the world and modestly wait in silence, praising themselves never, and announcing themselves not at all. We must be sensitive, and sensible, if we would see the beginnings and endings of great things. That is our part, Henry Ward Beecher. Self-love, so sensitive in its own cause, has rarely any sympathy to spare for others, Madame de Stael. While extremely sensitive as to the slightest approach to slander, you must also guard against an extreme into which some people fall, who, in their desire to speak evil of no one, actually uphold and speak well of vice, Saint Francis de Sales. Though the youth at last grows indifferent, the laws of the universe are not indifferent, but are forever on the side of the most sensitive, Henry David Thoreau 

I had two photo challenges for today and the second is titled “things seen through the window”. I took several shots through a couple of my windows at home showing snow drifts and white, white, white. I also made some shots while I was out and about, taken through the car window. That was my choice for today’s entry. 

If you have followed me in my letters and or on my blog you know I am a foodie. So this article struck a cord. There is a another and unique new food establishment in the works here in Columbus. This article is describing this new idea. The business will be operating in an old historic building called the Old Budd Dairy located in the Italian Village.  Cameron Mitchell Restaurants is backing this new idea. There will be nine restaurants and two Cameron Mitchell-run bars in this “food hall”. There will be televisions, “including a massive theater-style screen”. Since the building is designated a “historic property” parts of it have to be preserved. In the upstairs of the building there is a bar and space for games such as skeeball and arcade games. These features will come along sometime after the opening. The plan is to have a beer garden on the roof which offers a view of downtown. Some of the restaurants included in the project will be “Borgata Pizza, Tacos Rudos, Boni Filipino Street Food, Cluck Norris, Pokebap, Stauf’s Coffee Roasters, Cousin’s Maine Lobster, Modern Southern Table and Alphabetical Comfort Kitchen.” Staff from these restaurants say they welcome the opportunity to work with other successful restaurant owners including Cameron Mitchel. The Borgata owners mentioned that since the space would be more limited than their other stores they would limit the menu to four items at first. The owners of the new locale envision a gathering place for office workers and many other different things such as watching sporting events or a movie night and so on. Though the closing times are still to be finalized they expect the hall to close around 11:00pm on week nights and midnight on weekends, maybe 10pm on Sunday.  Though they don’t see it as a late night hangout as some others are in the Short North. This project was panned a few years ago but there were a few set backs. Now the opening is planned for some time in April.

I think I am making salmon loaf with hash brown potatoes for dinner tonight. 

Joy