October 2, 2021 a thought for today, Work hard, keep the ceremonies, live peaceably, and unite your hearts. Native American Hopi Proverb

I love Saturdays...(have I said that before?) This one is typical, so far anyway. I am working leisurely and clearing away lots of tiresome little must dos.  To-dos: dishes, a few bills, finishing coloring books....that kind of thing. 

The weather is staying on the chilly side longer each day now, a super indication that autumn (and football season) is here so OSU football will be on our TV or a radio in an hour or so. My sweatshirts are on their way back out of temporary storage. 

I spent some time “playing (using filter and image adjustment through Photoshop)”  with the photo of the day for today. This month’s themes are supposed to “share ourselves in photos. So each day, it’s pretty much finishing the sentence with a photo”. 

I don’t know if I should be worried.....I think I am addicted to McDonalds and/or White Castles. I stop at one or the other whenever I am out and about. Today at around lunch time, I even had Bob go to get me a McDonalds. 

In my crocheting projects I started a “temperature blanket”....each row is a color representing the temperature for that day of the month (for instance red for a temperature in the 90s, orange for the 80s and so on). Well.....I bit off more than I could chew, I think. The blanket is becoming a monster in size. Thursday I finished the month of September making the blanket one representing July, August and September for now. My plan was to do one complete year for the entire blanket. Right now the blanket is 34 inches wide with a length of a double crochet (about an inch) stitch a day (at this point roughly 90 inches (about 8 feet) long). I have now decided I will do the project for a year but I will do it in sections of every three months. Was this TMI?

My photo challenge for October 1 was “I am....”. I am a lot of things and have a lot of photos that would work. But I liked this one.....I am an animal lover.

Onward and upward.....getting things done here so I can get ready to go to be at and greet folks at church for the HM3 (free meal) evening.

The word today is footsteps.   If you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew you never knew, Pocahontas. As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind, Henry David Thoreau.  Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought. Matsuo Basho. I have sometimes sat alone here of an evening, listening, until I have made the echoes out to be the echoes of all the footsteps that are coming by and by into our lives. ...Charles Dickens. Let us look at our own faults, and not other people's. We ought not to insist on everyone following in our footsteps, nor to take upon ourselves to give instructions in spirituality when, perhaps, we do not even know what it is, Teresa of Avila.  Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.    Unfortunately, it is much easier to shut one's eyes to good than to evil. Pain and sorrow knock at our doors more loudly than pleasure and happiness; and the prints of their heavy footsteps are less easily effaced, Thomas Huxley.  I still preserve those relics of past sufferings and experience, like pillars of witness set up in travelling through the valve of life, to mark particular occurrences. The footsteps are obliterated now; the face of the country may be changed; but the pillar is still there, to remind me how all things were when it was reared, Anne Bronte.

Above I mentioned that I used filters and image adjustments on the photo theme for today. Here is it.
The theme title is “I love....”. Again there are a lot of things “I love”. This one is I love family. This photo is from my archives. There have been some changes in the family but family is family forever. 

There’s a new statue in Grove City and it seems to honor the memory of a past in Grove City. A frequent visitor to the Beulah Park in Grove City recalled some of the memories he had of times he went to the park. He said he went for not only for the obvious, the race, he went for the atmosphere around the event and adding a new memory every time he went. He was sad when he heard that the track was closing in 2014. A few years later investors bought the 212 acres to put up a residential and commercial space. According to the article three years abo the developers announced that they want to add “a public art installation” on the new development. It was envisioned that the art might be something like two horses grazing in the grass. The art piece ended up being a “massive, 12,000 pound Corten steel sculpture”. The statue is formed of six horses and jockeys bursting out of a starting gate. One of the gates is empty, in the background there is a horse being led back to the stable representing that he was scratched from the race. Again, according to the article, “to memorialize the history of the racetrack, the dedication of the trainers, and the beauty and power of the horses”. The horses “leap out of the gate” giving the appearance of the rush and excitement of the race. It “perfectly encapsulated the history of this site”. It took three years to finish. There is sand from the original racetrack that has been put around the designs.  There is lighting that “casts shadows of movement” all different at different times of the day. The sculpture is titled “And They’re Off”. It can be found near the intersection of Columbus Street and Beulah Park Way. 

We are having some jazzed up left overs for dinner tonight....left over meat loaf heated in gravy and potato pancakes from left over mashed potatoes. 

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