November 15, 2021 a thought for the day, He that despises the little is not worthy of the great. Dutch Proverb
Yesterday’s church service wasn’t quite what I needed for renewal and this coming week but the donut fellowship made up for some of that. As I was leaving to come home I, along with everyone else, was greeted with our first snow fall....there were a few flurries to be seen the day before if you didn’t blink, today’s was a little more abundant.
This turned out to be a visit to the grocery store day. We thought there had been a doctor visit scheduled but realized it was for next month instead of today so we took advantage of this being the day best this week for the store especially since I had meds to pick up at the pharmacy. As has become a custom now, it takes the rest of the afternoon to put things away. I do it in spread out sections once the frozen things have been put away (this is one of those times when DoorDash and Grubhub really sounds good).
Last night I broke down and put my electric blanket on the bed.....did it ever feel good this morning.
I read the end of my book last night (The Poet by Michael Connelly...there were twists and turns in this one that I didn’t expect). I uploaded my next book from the library to Libby on my cell phone while I waited for Sue to run some errands in The Dollar Tree. This one is Sooley by John Grisham. The first few pages look really good if you are into sports, me...maybe not so much.
As soon as I take my next brake I need to make some of Sweet Pea’s meatball treats to freeze for the next few weeks.
One of the two themes today was “floral”. This isn’t the season for find good floral shots right now. I was in the grocery store section of floral designs and was able to grab a couple of shots
The word for today and further contemplation (perhaps comfort, perhaps new understanding) is impatience. Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health, Michel de Montaigne. Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength. Charles Caleb Colton. A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap. Abraham Lincoln. Patience and time do more than strength or passion, Jean de La Fontaine. The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint. They talk as if they alone knew everything and what passes for wisdom with us is foolishness with them, Socrates. I had neither the good sense nor the good feeling to know that this was all my fault, and that if I had been easier with Joe, Joe would have been easier with me. I felt impatient of him and out of temper with him; in which condition he heaped coals of fire on my head, Charles Dickens.
I have always thought the Ohio State House was gorgeous as it was so I was interested to see where this article took me. The renovation “transformed the Ohio State house” and cost $120 million. The article was titled “...from dump to crown”. Personally, I never thought of it as a “dump”. Here’s is a bit of what is meant by “dump”: “Thirty years ago, mice, asbestos, radon gas and water leaks were as common in the Ohio Statehouse”. Over time the original fifty-three rooms were divided into 317 spaces. There was even “a stairway to nowhere...and two rooms that had no doors”. Sky lights were painted to obscurity and ceilings were dropped with added florescent lights that covered awesome details. A stained glass state seal was stored away. In the 1980s money was raised to support a renovation that would take six years to complete. People’s offices had to be moved out during the renovation. After the completion of the renovation more than 140,000 visitors a year have come to see it. The article noted that it is the only state capitol where the state constitution is on display as well as being one of only a handful with “a museum within the building. The architects created an atrium, “a soaring, gleaming enclosed space that connects the statehouse to the annex”. There will be a 25th anniversary to celebrate the renovation on November 17. During the days of the renovation the Statehouse was closed, all necessary activity that would had taken place there was moved to other quarters. Over the years heating and cooling systems that came along as time passed were added. All of that was not “salvageable” so had to be removed. New equipment had to be installed with keeping in mind that it should be “hidden” while energy-efficient where it was installed. Long lost original documents were found and used to guide which furniture to use, window details and other renovation tips.
We are having left overs for dinner, chili and hash brown potatoes with fresh deviled eggs added to the menu.
Joy
Open mouthed
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