January 26, 2022 today’s thought, The devil tempts all, but the idle tempt the devil. Turkish Proverb

And colder still!! There is snow still on the ground just from two days ago and it doesn’t look like it is going anywhere soon. 

One of the photo a day challenges for the 25th was “flowers”. In the winter I have my photo archives get a work out. This is one of the samples from one of those files. These were holly hocks on my back chain link fence. 

I got the envelopes for the bulletins for the people who can’t make it to church done and the labels for the newsletter printed. I had a couple of other things to get done on the computer. I kept checking on the email so I could catch the last of the newsletter items that I need to finish. When it got here, I formatted it and put in the spot I had saved. Now I am ready to print tomorrow.

The second photo for the 25th is “coffee brake”. We offer coffee and snacks to our visitors to the food pantry. That was a perfect capture for the theme, 

I’m back from food pantry. There was a really low turn out today, I’m sure in large part due to the weather. As it turned out we got a little work done on some handouts material that has become outdated. Two of us who were working on the sign in desk started through some of the papers. We made very little head way but it is a start.  

One of the photo themes for today is “water”. This is another from my archives. The pond in the park near my house is frozen over so the image I got didn’t show much of the water. 

The word today is pass.  Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught. Honore de Balzac. Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms. George Eliot. Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us. Voltaire.  He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven. Thomas Fuller. Time brings all things to pass. Aeschylus. Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage. Publilius Syrus. Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second. Baltasar Gracian. Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom. Charles Caleb Colton. I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause. Jonathan Edwards. I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up. Abraham Lincoln.  We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs. Saint Augustine. Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures. Anthony Trollope. Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place. Tecumseh. 

The second photo for today is “homemade” . This is one of the crochet project for my great grandchildren. The cord around the edges of the tic tack toe mat pull together to form a pouch that carried the x’s and o’s.  

This article talks about recycling and how important it can be for the economy and for the earth. It is about recycling. The article said: “ Did you know that recycling does as much for the economy as it does for the environment?” Wrapping paper, cardboard and other papers can be made into 100% recycled container board for packaging materials. Plastic bottles can be recycled back into new plastic bottles or decking materials, drainage pipes. The article stated that Ohioans in supporting recycling favor a “circular economy.....moving away from........take, make, throw away”. This kind of process supports “redesigning products to be more durable, reusable, repairable and recyclable”. In the recycling processes more jobs are created along with environmental pluses. In 2018 recycling businesses in Ohio employed more than 5,000 workers. This caused a payroll of $235 million which generated $1.3 billion in revenue. According to the article these figures to go to 10,000 employees and $2.5 billion in revenue. The article went on to say that not only are there things we want to get rid of that may not be recyclable but can be reused. Old and used bicycles can be revitalized and reused for transportation for people looking for work and fitting needs for other reasons for transportation. Donations of furniture help homeless and others in need of furniture and can’t afford brand new. Household items help people in need. Those items passing through the Goodwill Industries also “fund a variety of vocational programs for individual with developmental disabilities”. So recycling and re-purposing helps others and saves on the environment and on the economy. 

I think we are having creamed chicken on biscuits and potato pan cakes for dinner.

Joy 

would some attention do it?