March 13, 2022 a thought for today, God gave us each a song. Native American Ute Proverb

We still haven’t gotten all of our people back in the church since the pandemic....I keep hoping. Maybe with spring coming “they will come”. The weather was cold today though the sun is out bright and the temps are gradually rising. 

One of the photo a day challenges for yesterday was “eye(s)”. Here again is my favorite and most cooperative model, well almost cooperative. I just can’t resist sharing the look of her “the truth and nothing but” eyes. 

Yesterday I finished the annual report and attempted to save it as a pdf. I tried everything I could think of but it simply wouldn’t save. I woke up dreading it this morning and decided to try one more time....still no luck. Then I had a bright light moment...maybe to many photographs, the file was just too large to save. So I spent some time before church and went through the photos one by one and chose the ones that really didn’t need to be there and sadly deleted them. Voilà! It worked. So I left for church with a worry lifted off my shoulder. I had spent hours on that project and wanted so much for it to be a success. 

The second photo for yesterday’s assignment was “insect”. This is winter, this is cold, there is snow on the ground, there are no live insects, visible anyway. So I went in search of one of the twin’s books. I found one that was all about bugs to the image for this theme was a photo of a portion of that book.  

We had donut fellowship after church service and I was on the committee that played hostess today so I stayed to help clean up. 

When I got home, I worked on one of the photos of the day.  The two for today will be coming from my archives. One will be a collection of images of my great-grandchildren put together as a composite. The other may be a repeat but I liked it so well I wanted to use it anyway.  

The first photo for today is “a close up”. This is the photo I mentioned in the above paragraph. She is going to be very popular in a couple of years. This is one from my archives. We don’t have them, the twins, for overnight visits much lately so I have to take what I can of photos of them. 

Since this is Sunday that will be the extent of my accomplishments for today...the rest of the day will be relax and reflect.

The word is reward.  Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. Saint Augustine.  The reward of a thing well done is having done it. Ralph Waldo Emerson.  Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result. Robert Green Ingersoll.  Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the reward of their charity and the alms they give. For these, they will receive from the Lord the reward and recompense they deserve. Francis of Assisi. God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher. Saint Teresa of Avila. The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another. George Eliot.  He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end. William Penn.  Learning is its own exceeding great reward. William Hazlitt. I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly. Catherine the Great. Honor is the reward of virtue. Marcus Tullius Cicero.   Rewards for good service should not be deferred a single day, Sun Tzu. To have prevented one single sin is reward enough for the labors and efforts of a whole lifetime. Saint Ignatius.

The second photo for today is titled “composite”. This is a collection of moments captured with each of my great- grandchildren. 

This story interested me because the youth are learning to preserve and restore historic sites. Fort Hayes, once a military post known as the Columbus Arsenal until 1922, in the south east section of Columbus became a Career Center in the Columbus Public Schools.  It is a “learning laboratory”. Columbus Landmarks has joined the career center in a project to teach the students about historic preservation.  In the beginning of the article the students are gathered inside the long-vacant gatehouse at the entrance to Fort Hayes. They are dressed in fluorescent vests, work boot and hard hats. “Paint is peeling from the walls, insulation hangs from the ceiling...and there is no heat. They are at the beginning of their class. Some will go up in a hydraulic life to “inspect the roof” to look for any kind of damage. They will look for water damage or anything “odd”. One of their lessons for this part of the class is to take notes to give to a “client” that will be the beginning of making you money. The building was arranged for this training through Columbus Landmarks and a $50,000 grant. Part of their training in historic restoration will cover electrical  and masonry classes. According to the article Columbus Landmarks also sponsors classes in “old-home repair for homeowners and works to save historic buildings”. It goes on to say “preservation apprenticeships are rare or nonexistent.....that knowledge is critical”. Some of the differences in more modern building from those of the “historic” types are “dimensions of lumber... spacing of joists”. Some of the students on the day of the interview for this article, would be learning how to use infrared heat guns to strip lead paint from bead board, others were using pry bars to tear up flooring in hopes of finding maple. Further in the article it is mentioned that “The work is slow, and more grants will be needed before this aged building can be put to any yet-to-be-determined contemporary use”. 

I think it’s going to be Subway for dinner tonight. 

Joy 

deep cleaning needed?