January 14, 2022 the thought for today is Among men of honour a word is a bond. Italian Proverb

I think this has been one of those “easy” weeks leading up to two that are going to be packed with items on the agenda. Yesterday was busy with the weekly printing of the bulletin and with the laundry. Today is more on the quiet, slow moving agenda day, something like Wednesday was. 

On January 13 the photo a day theme was “happy”. I have several photos in my archives of my great grandchildren in happy times. This one is one of the most current and my newest great grandson. He is such a happy baby. 

I have finally finished the crochet projects I was working on for each of my great grandchildren. This one was a long one. I bit off more than I could chew. But they’re done now. So, since I have an easy day on my hands I spent some time looking for the next project I will do for them. I think I will make each of them a tote bag for toys or books or what ever treasures they would want to carry along. I had thought about crochet moccasins for each of them but then I would run into the problem of size. I may put that on the back burner and try it the next time.  

The word for today is opinion. Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance. Plato.  Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion. Democritus.  People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. Ralph Waldo Emerson.  Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity. Michel de Montaigne. I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. Thomas Jefferson. I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. Benjamin Franklin.  Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance. Hippocrates. Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes. Voltaire. The universe is transformation: life is opinion. Marcus Aurelius,  There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance. Hippocrates. Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another. Charles Caleb Colton.  Knowledge is true opinion. Plato. 

The photo of the day for today is “reflection”. I have several reflection photos in my archives but I see this one every day as I pass by to answer the door. 

This is interesting information about one of the oldest areas of Columbus. I have passed the old Franklinton Post Office a few times and wondered about it’s history. This article tells about the family who started it and implied how old this building that I see is. In 1798 Abraham Deardurff and his son came to the heart of central Ohio, Franklinton. This land had been laid out by Lucas Sullivant in 1797. It already had a bit of history, it was washed away in a flood in 1798 and “re-established a quarter mile west on slightly higher ground.....a booming metropolis of about 15 to 20 people”. The Deardurff’s decided to stay in the area. They had come with a wagon full of “trade” goods. They sold cloth, axes, plowshares and hardware”. One of the son’s, David who was 14 was left there to tend the family 10-acre cornfield they had acquired in a barter. David’s father returned to the East to bring the rest of the family, a wife three more sons and two daughters. The wife brought as much as she could from her “old world”. She had a large wooden chest called a “Kiester” from Germany filled with linens, bedding, china, kettles, cradles and a “crane and spider” cooking appliance. In a later account of what was in the chest other items were found pieces of Brittania ware, sheep shears, spinning wheels, brass candlesticks, candle molds. During the time that David was left alone to tend to the corn field he, with the help of others, cleared away forest and built a “fine” log house. The family “prospered”. The father continued to travel back and forth from the East with mail and articles to trade.  David set up a mail route that connected Franklinton to other parts of Ohio that were settled. Beyond the original article up to this part I gathered more information from a Google search: The Franklinton Post Office was built in 1807. It is a two story log home on South Gift Street that was built for David Dearduff. The post office took up the west room of the house. It was in operation until 1834. The Columbus post office “took over the operations” at that point. An addition was added to the rear of the home in 1860. According to the article in Google, different families lived in the “old home into the 1950s”. The current owners purchased the house in 1979 so that it wouldn’t be demolished. It is now registered with the National Register of Historic Places (1974) and in 2001 was listed on the Columbus Register of Historic Properties. It is hoped that it will be restored one day. That is my personal hope too. I would like to visit it at some point. There was an archaeological dig at the site in 2010. Some things found during the dig were a small brass plate, a clay marble, and pieces of pottery. 

Pizza. 

Joy

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