January 24, 2022 thought for today, If you speak the truth, have a foot in the stirrup. Turkish Proverb

We are having another snowy day. Bob cleared the driveway, porches and cars last night. Now it will have to be done all over again. It looks like we will be having more snow this season than we have had for a while. 

The first photo of the day for yesterday was “a place”. I shot this one while I was t church. It is a great image for this title. 

I got a call from my great granddaughter yesterday afternoon to let me know that the box I had sent with her prayer shawl and the other crochet items for the rest of the family had arrived. That was a relief after what I have been seeing on the news about trains and trucks being emptied of the packages. The packages have been ripped open then emptied (contents stolen) and boxes left empty on the tracks. 

My second image for yesterday was “J is for....”. And the subject for
this image is.....me, Joy. 

Sue is spending the week at Tiffany’s to be with the girls when they get home from school. That makes it too quiet around here. But it’s good that she is enjoying her time with the kids. 

I got the bulletin done this morning. The minister who is with us this week almost always has her information to me ahead of time. I was able to work on the newsletter a little bit yesterday so I have it up to the point of adding the photographs and two other items as soon as they get to me. Barring any unforseen problems I should be able to get it done in a couple of hours. 

The photo a day challenge for today is “shape”. Naturally there are all kind shapes all around us always. My choice is my late blooming Christmas cactus. There are several interesting shapes on this blossom. 

I got an invitation to join another photo a day group. I’m going to give it a try. I hope I will be able to find enough images to fill my “assignments” every day. It’s fun and believe it or not it has taught me to be more aware of things and observant. The problem is going to be that it is a little more difficult to find interesting images in the winter time, at least it is for me. 

 The word today is own.  Let us live for the beauty of our own reality. Charles Lamb. No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings, William Blake.  Knowledge will forever govern ignorance....James Madison. Each day provides its own gifts. Marcus Aurelius. As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion. Antisthenes. A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green. Francis Bacon. This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections. Saint Augustine. Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power. Lucius Annaeus Seneca. The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way. Josh Billings. Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm. Robert Louis Stevenson. Delicious tears! The heart's own dew. Letitia Elizabeth Landon. We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing. Louisa May Alcott. Love is ownership. We own whom we love. The universe is God's because He loves, Henry Ward Beecher.

The second photo of the day theme for today is “lunch”. I pulled this one from my archives. A scoop of tuna salad in the beginning of a sandwich along with a salad and a cup of tea. 

I keep looking for interesting new items in the newspapers but mostly find depressing stories of facts strewn all about without making much sense in the scheme of things. Then I search for history or new architecture, parks and spots to our community. Here is another bit of history about a near by Columbus neighbor. This article is about “former fraternity, nursing home” being revitalized. It is a stone and brick Victorian house in downtown Delaware. When a nursing home closed their doors fifteen years ago, the owners stopped paying property taxes. Then the neighbors and officials were concerned that is would become a “nuisance”. Things got pretty desperate. There were back property taxes, vines were growing around the doors and windows, the roof was leaking, no one wanted to take on all of the responsibility. There is a land bank program I Delaware, they voted in a 4-0 vote to include the building in the land bank. That will allow work to begin on getting the property ready to sale and will “wipe out the tax obligation”. The interior has been checked out, an annex that had been put on by the nursing home was damaged. The annex would have to be demolished. The main structure, built in the 1879s, would require $400,000 to renovate and was structurally sound. So there are hopes that it can be saved, it looks like the prospects are good. There are still some discussions on what direction to go with this property.

 I am going to make up cube steaks with gravy and mashed potatoes for dinner. 

Joy

a spare? or left behind?