August 25, 2021 thought for the day, Words are for reasoning. Sicilian Proverb

I got it all done! The bulletin and the newsletter, the shut-in envelopes and the newsletter mailing labels, the coloring pages ...... all done!!! I’ll be leaving for food pantry and possible copy repair tech in an hour or so. 

The August 24 month of the gratitude challenge is my temperature blanket. I started on this one at the first of July so the colors that you see are representative of the temperatures for the month of July and August. Each line of crochet shows the temperature for that day. The green is for 70s, the orange is for 80s and the red for 90s. As the days grow cooler the colors will shift to blues. 

I have planned a picnic sort of birthday party for Bob for Friday but from what I am hearing about the weather we may have to make some different arrangements. I was planning on the play ground equipment area of the park since we would be having a couple of small children. If we have to move it to my house I will have to do some cleaning between the printing and mailing prep for the newsletter. 

Right now the sun is out in full and no rain clouds in sight. As a matter of fact the heat predicted for today is hazardous. 

The word for today is difficult. All things are difficult before they are easy. Thomas Fuller.  It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere. Voltaire.  Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy. Saadi. The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself. Thales.   Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks. Isaac Watts.  It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.  It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so. Hosea Ballou.  It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get. Confucius. As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed, Vincent Van Gogh. Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones. Charlotte Bronte. To rule is easy, to govern difficult. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.  To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world. Aristotle.  Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive, easy to govern, but impossible to enslave, Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux.  

Today’s month of gratitude theme for is coin operated laundry. I am grateful that they are available with my washer/dryer is on the fritz. 

This article talks about a bit more history around our community. It begins telling about two brothers who in 1914 were in the automotive business. In the beginning of the article the history story started concerning a bit about the history in Grandview. The 1918 flu pandemic was noted. It was the deadliest in history, the second wave of it infected 500 million people worldwide. It is believed that it was spread by wartime troop movement and “lack of quarantine mandates”.  Both of the brothers caught this influenza. One of them did not recover. The other died the following December from complications. This second brother left his half of  the automotive business to his wife, the other brother had left his half to his wife earlier. The two wives, together, sold the business for a $146 million profit. One of the wives, invested her share in tax-free municipal bonds netting $1.5 million a per year. Along with her jewels and art collections, she was one of the wealthiest women in the country when she died at the age of 103.  In her first “mansion” there were  many historical items, such as chairs that belonged to Marie-Antoinette, a piano that had been played by the children of King George III, a jewel coffer that once stood in the bedroom of Russian Empress Maria Feodorovna and a bureau made for Catherine the Great of Russia. In 1971 she married a Broadway and silent film actor. She then purchased a mansion at 1550 Roxbury Road which was previously owned by Samuel Prescott Bush, the grandfather of President Geroge H.W. Bush. In 1947 the marriage ended. He received a number of riches from the marriage. The article sated that the home on Roxbury was sold to the Carmelite Sisters. She died on 2 June 1970 at her home, Rose Terrace, in Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan. 

I think it will be chili for dinner. 

Joy

          wordless is the description for this dot of color of an object thrown on the sidewalk