September 30, 2021 a thought for today, An angry word is like striking with a knife. Native American Hopi Proverb

It started out pretty much like any other Thursday. I was up early enough to go through my virtual visits and checks, upload the bulletin to the flash drive and head out for church. 

The photo challenge for September 29 (my daughter’s birthday) was “on my desk”. This is a cutting from my very healthy fire thorn bush. This vase is not in the middle of my desk “proper”, more like an “auxiliary” desk to hold overflow. 

After I got the coloring pages run, the bulletin printed, stuffed and folded, and envelopes filled I did some investigating. I checked some of the other programs on the computer to see if they came through the download and set up processes from Monday. To my amazement the ones I checked seemed to work perfectly, on the slow side albeit in normal format, etc. My stumbling through the “get started” portion of the set up must have worked. We are still having problems with the stapler but we will call a tech for that. I put the usual copy of the newsletter on the bulletin board. Also had a chance to encourage our sexton on a subject he was having a problem with. Along with all of this I was able to take some photos for my photo of the day. 

I stopped at White Castle on the way home, the person in front of me in the drive through had paid for my meal. I asked God to shine His face on them.  

Sue wanted some help with a couple of things on the computer so I took about half an hour to help her with that after I got my laundry started. Then I started the meat loaf and got back to the laundry.

The word for today is flourishing. Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth, Isaac Barrow.  When schools flourish, all flourishes. Martin Luther. The ego is like the root of a banyan tree, you think you have removed it all then one fine morning you see a sprout flourishing again, Ramakrishna.  Heaven, in the production of things, is sure to be bountiful to them, according to their qualities. Hence the tree that is flourishing, it nourishes, while that which is ready to fall, it overthrows, Confucius.  When you have decided to purchase a farm, be careful not to buy rashly; do not spare your visits and be not content with a single tour of inspection. The more you go, the more will the place please you, if it be worth your attention. Give heed to the appearance of the neighbourhood, - a flourishing country should show its prosperity. "When you go in, look about, so that, when needs be, you can find your way out, Cato the Elder.  This single Stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying in that neglected Corner, I once knew in a flourishing State in a Forest: It was full of Sap, full of Leaves, and full of Boughs: But now, in vain does the busy Art of Man pretend to vie with Nature, by tying that withered Bundle of Twigs to its sapless Trunk: It is at best but the Reverse of what it was; a Tree turned upside down, the Branches on the Earth, and the Root in the Air, Jonathan Swift. No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable, Adam Smith. Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth, Isaac Barrow.

Today’s photo theme is “achievement”. This is a pile of some of what my achievements look like on
Thursday mornings. 

This is an interesting story about food and animals and entrepreneurship. There is a young lady running a 6.5 acre farm called Everyday Acres. She is raising chickens and dairy goats in an effort of “Bringing Heritage Food to Columbus Homes”. She can supply our community with goat milk, eggs and chickens. She has a master’s degree in environmental science and fellowship in U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. She worked on organic farms in Ohio leading to the knowledge of experience. She had some mentors in organic farming. Her dream was to have a farm of her own. Now she manages a dairy goat herd and Red Dorking chickens. She breeds, midwifes, and raises goats to maintain her goat herd. She also raises chickens for eggs and meat. Her work sometimes includes injuring herself in tending to the goats. She must be aware of the animal’s health and nutritional needs. The process for her at this time is a herd share systems. The customers of the Everyday Acres farm are legally part owner of the goats. To explain this: “Due to legal restrictions around the sale of raw milk, Losh (the manager of the farm) started a “herd share” to make her goat milk accessible to Central Ohioans”. This process allows for the purchase of a milking animal or herd, then pay the farmer to care for the animals. The share owners are entitled to the milk from their “own” animals. This type of “sharing” allows Losh to follow her dream. She is able to sell her products in Columbus and Granville. She hopes to improve her production by rehabbing an old barn to have separate barns for the goats and chickens. People can join this “herd share” membership and pick up their share of milk at the Everyday Acres farm or at City Folks Farm Shop (Website: http://www.cityfolksfarmshop.com, E-Mail: info@cityfolksfarmshop.com, 4760 N High St.) 

Here is my end of photo a day month September 2021 composite
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I am going to make meatloaf and mashed potatoes for dinner.

Joy

battered and broken