March 16, 2021 a thought for the day, Our first teacher is our own heart. Cheyenne Proverb

I finally got though to get Bob signed up for his first vaccination. But....they were not making appointments today. They put him on a waiting list and will call some time next week to set up an appointment. 

One of yesterday’s photo challenges was titled “o is for....” After the thought process that is usual for this type of photo theme, those beginning with letters of the alphabet, an onion was my final pick.  

I worked on and finished the bulletin earlier today. I also, passed on some information I learned about how to count people we are reaching with our streaming on Facebook for church. 

I spent over an hour working on this letter. I was multi tasking between the letter and things in the kitchen. At some point after I was about two-thirds of the way through the quotes for the day I lost all that I had done. My computer has been limping along for over a month now and pretty soon, probably very soon, it is going to “give up the ghost’. That will mean I need a new computer which I would love, but it also means reinstalling all of the programs I use and all my little tricks that are saved. That takes a lot of time....and patience, something I am not famous for. 

The warm and sunny days we were having for a few short days are gone for a while. We are having clouds and a little rain today. 

The second photo theme for yesterday was titled “complimentary colors”. I because of a time limitation for today I went through the archives and found this photo that seemed like a perfect on for this challenge . . .  

Sue took a car service to go to an appointment in an area I am not familiar enough with to drive. I have an eye doctor appointment tomorrow. Hopefully, I will have at least some better vision when I get the new glasses. 

The word for the day is smile. Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray, Lord Byron. A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles, William Hazlitt. A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles, Washington Irving. What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable, Joseph Addison.  The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment, Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Look back, and smile on perils past, Walter Scott. Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles, George Eliot. Better by far you should forget and smile that you should remember and be sad, Christina Rossetti. A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities, Herman Melville. Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms, Thomas Gray. Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either, Henry Ward Beecher.  Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned, Emily Dickinson.   

The theme for today is “p is for....”. This one gave me a bit of a problem. I took some shots of Sweet Peas paws. Which was the one I almost used but I had this packet of straight pins that I had taken to church to mount some posters on foam core board. Someone else had already done the job so I brought this packet back home. I liked the symmetry of this shot better than the one of Sweet Pea’s paws. 

Who doesn’t like Girl Scout cookies? Here are some interesting things on the subject. Here are some of the “Girl Scout Cookie Power Rankings”. They were rated by and taste at room temperature, taste out of the freezer.  There are two bakeries that provide the 110-plus GS councils throughout the country. There are 12 types of Girl Scout cookies. For the purposes of these ratings, there are 12 types of Girl Scout cookies. But technically there are “17 different cookies; a number of the classics, like Thin Mints, are baked by both companies and have slight but distinct differences”. I didn’t realize until I read the article that there are two names for the Peanut Butter Patties, Tagalongs. Samoas/Caramel deLites are crunchy along with chewiness due to the caramel. Apparently this is a good cookie for freezing. Next there is the Tagalongs/Peanut Butter Patties, ‘equivalent of Reese’s Pieces. It is chocolate-coated with creamy peanut butter on it, not very good for the freezer. The next description is the Do-si-do/Peanut Butter Sandwich. The outside is crumbly, “like a granola bar”.... “is a winner”.   The interior of Thin Mints is “almost sandy but the chocolate coating combines with the delicate, barely-there cookie to create a minty communion wafer”. Apparently there is a “Little Brownie version (that) is crispier”. The Think Mint is the best to be frozen. There is a gluten free Girl Scout cookie called “Tofffee-tastic” that uses rice flour and tapioca starch in its ingredients. It offers the  buttery toffee chips giving it more chewiness and freezes fairly well.  The article rated some of the other Girl Scout cookies in their “frozen ranking”, S’Mores, are a 4, Lemon Ups are a 8, Trefoils/shortbread are a 12, S’mores Version 2 are a 12, Lemonades, 5, Toast-Yays a 3, and finally Carmel Chocolate Chip a 6. 

We are having meat loaf for dinner tonight. 

Joy