March 26, 2021 a thought for today, May you live up to one hundred years and I up to ninety-nine. Japanese Proverb

This has turned out to be an interesting and kind of exciting day. I had laser “surgery” on my eye yesterday, that’s a whole other story, but I had put off doing the printing that I generally do on Thursday until today. It’s good I did, yesterday took almost the entire day waiting and having one exam after another. It all turned out well, my vision has improved. When we got home, I had to get directly to the laundry. That was keeping a long story short, and another day of learning lots of new things about people and health. 

Yesterday’s photo theme was “y is for....”. We had just left McDonald’s and Sue had her coffee in the MickeyDs yellow paper coffee cup. I did a couple of shoot of that. When we got home, I noticed that my daffodils were fully in bloom so that was another choice and ended up being the one I picked after the Photoshop view and work. 

When I got to church, there were already people there. There was supposed to be some people coming to get some maintenance done. Anyway, I had extra help getting the newsletter and the bulletin done. It was wonderful to get it done so smoothly and great to do some “bonding” with friends I don’t see every day. It was also good that Patti was there. The copier had two hiccups that could have been disasters to getting the work done today. Patti knew how to handle each of them. Two days in a row, actually all week, with new experiences with learning and memory making. 

The word for today is strange.  How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude! Emily Dickinson.  It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self. Francis Bacon.  There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange. Daniel Webster.  All things must change to something new, to something strange. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Arguing is a game that two can play at. But it is a strange game in that neither opponent ever wins, Benjamin Franklin  There is nothing strange in the circle being the origin of any and every marvel, Aristotle. Hope is a strange invention - A Patent of the Heart - In unremitting action Yet never wearing out, Emily Dickinson.  You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience, Victor Hugo.  Do not reject anything because it is new or strange, and do not sneer nor jeer at what comes from the Lord, for if we do, we endanger our salvation, Brigham Young. 'Tis a strange thing, Sam, that among us people can't agree the whole week, because they go different ways upon Sundays, George Farquhar. Sleeping or waking, we hear not the airy footsteps of the strange things that almost happen, Nathaniel Hawthorne.  ... strange things may be generally accounted for if their cause be fairly seached out, Jane Austen. A strange thing has happened, do you know? I am in darkness. There is a person who, departing, took away the sun, Victor Hugo.  Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.  All the windows of my heart I open to the day, John Greenleaf Whittier.  Spite is a little word, but it represents as strange a jumble of feelings and compound of discords, as any polysyllable in the language, Charles Dickens. Inanimate objects sometimes appear endowed with a strange power of sight. A statue notices, a tower watches, the face of an edifice contemplates, Victor Hugo.   

Today’s photo title is “z is for....”. Imagine how much thought I put into this one. Not all that many
items especially common subjects begin with the letter z although it is much better than the letter X. I shot a zip lock bag then remembered all the zippered pouched I have on my purse.  

I have never been to Europe but I imagined about outdoor dining through stories I’ve read and movies I’ve seen. According to the article for today, it looks like more of that kind of dining is coming to Columbus. Some restaurants turned parking lots and sidewalks into dining areas to comply with safety rules during the pandemic. The red tape normally required to move restaurant seating into these areas were cut back a little. Several bars and restaurants applied for permits to be outside during the pandemic and it looks like more will apply for this spring. I will share a few of the names listed in this article. Actually there were many more listed but I felt too many to list in this message. There are, maybe, thirty-four more that will “expand patio seating”. But here are the ones motioned before the loner list. DK Diner near Grandview, one that started outdoor tables early in the pandemic. The Ugly Tuna Saloona, in the campus area, put six tables on the patio. Top Steak House on East Main street is one of the oldest restaurants in central Ohio. They will be expanding its patio. BrewDog “will be expending to New Albany” where is will have an outdoor patio. Gateway Brewing Co. In Dublin is under what is called the “Seventh Son group”. They will have a 1,000-square-foot greenhouse patio “overlooks the river”. Bendi Wok N’ Bar is a new location. It serves Vietnamase, Thai, Chinese and Indian food will offer a small patio. Oldfield’s North Fourth Tavern plans to expand the patio to sixty seats.  

It’s pizza night. 

Joy