June 2, 2021 a thought for the day, Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden. Chinese Proverb

The temperatures are a little warmer than they were the last few days of last week but it is dreary and misty. 

Yesterday’s photo theme was “ordinary”. In our neighborhood it is “ordinary” for people to have their flags on display on sunny days. It is also ordinary for this time of year for all of the green to be coming to life and for my house plants to be outside. 

Sue had a doctor’s appointment with a new doctor today. So I left to drop her off about eight thirty. Since Sugar is no longer here to keep Sweet Pea company when all her human family is out I took her with us. Some dogs don’t care to go for rides in the car. I wasn’t sure of her attitude about it. She has only been in the car before this long enough to get to the vet and back. She seemed to enjoy herself. It is hard for me to tell about her enthusiasm about anything....she has no tail. That has been my method of determining if my dogs have been happy or not, the wag or lack thereof of the tail. When I opened the window, she seemed to sniff the air for unfamiliar (but pleasant (?) new scents?). We also stopped at the park so that she could familiarize herself with the many new scents around the trees and in the grass. We made it short due to the misty rain. 

Once we got home, I got back on the computer and got the message/hymn lyrics ready for printing for Saturday evening. I don’t have much more on the agenda for the rest of today. 

The word for today is absence.  Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great. Roger de Rabutin.  Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness. Zhuangzi.  In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? Saint Augustine.  Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong. Thomas a Kempis. Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves. Charles Reade. Greater things are believed of those who are absent. Tacitus. Absent in body, but present in spirit, Paul the Apostle. Friends, though absent, are still present, Marcus Tullius Cicero. The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret –......mark and avoid him, Marcus Tullius Cicero. Letters are signs of things, symbols of words, whose power is so great that without a voice they speak to us the words of the absent; for they introduce words by the eye, not by the ear, Isidore of Seville. He who quarrels with a drunken man injures one who is absent, Publilius Syrus. We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it, Epicurus. When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot become manifest, strength cannot be exerted, wealth is useless, and reason is powerless, Herophilos.  

Today’s theme is “card”. I have a few cards especially some homemade ones I have gotten from my great grandchildren but there were two more recent and were within arms length. Both my regular vet and the vet clinic that last saw my Sugar sent my family sympathy cards in remembrance of her life.. 

I haven’t visited many farmers’ markets over the years but this has a bit of a different and interesting twist form the few I have observed....live animals from the zoo. That adds a bit of smile to the advantage of fresh produce. The article has added an attraction that is a bit of a change for these kinds of events. They are binging in some of the animals that are ambassadors of the Columbus Zoo. I’m sure it is a treat for the young children that come along for the shopping trip and would be otherwise bored. The market in the article is called Market on the Green, located in the Norton Crossing development on East Broad Street in Whitehall and just opened on June 1.  One of the animals that was visiting the market was named “Trout”. He is a black-footed penguin. Along with the fresh produce and honey there were arts and crafts and food trucks. The market will take place on Tuesdays Through August 31 at 4 to 6:30pm. The set up of vendors is “organized but relaxed”. For those interested adult beverages are available in the park on “selected Occasions”. Other than the farmers market the Kelly Green park, where it is held also offers oversized Jenga-style puzzles, corn hole games and a stage for performers. 

I am making spaghetti for dinner.

Joy 

                                                                              Peek a Boo                                                                             “Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth. Buddha”