March 19, 2022 a thought for today, From the mouths of babes and drunkards, you will learn the truth. Japanese Proverb

I was awake once, the bed felt so good I fell back to sleep. Then about eight o’clock, I startled myself awake. 

One of my photo challenges for yesterday was “delicate”. I wanted to get just the tiny little fingers but I would have lost some detail to I got the sweet little hands and the sweet little nose.

There isn’t a lot on my agenda for today. I wanted to go out to trim a couple of overgrown plants but we are having some rain right now so I think that will be put off to another day.

The second image I chose for yesterday’s assignments was
“flowers”. My sister came inside yesterday from checking out any possible blooms and told me the daffodils were opening. So today I expected them to be more open....not quite. 

With the down time I had the other day, down time meaning time away from the computer, I went through my yarn tub. It was a colossal mess. I had different left over skeins that had come untangled from themselves and tangled around other untangled skeins. Some were so tangled that it was a waste of time to try to separate them. I didn’t realize just how many different colors, types, and sizes I have used over the past couple of years. I put the skeins that were slightly used but still untangled in zip lock bags to keep them from becoming part of a jungle if they were put back in the tube “unrestrained”. I guess there some good things that come out of the unexpected delays in normal routines. 

Today’s fist photo title is “a grocery story”. I was trying to find one of the images I took a while back inside the store of my sister pushing a grocery cart but I couldn’t find it, this was my second best choice. 

The word today is road.  There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting. Buddha. A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road. Henry Ward Beecher. The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. William Blake. We must trust to nothing but facts: these are presented to us by nature and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our reasoning to the test of experiment, and never to search for truth but by the natural road of experiment and observation. Antoine Lavoisier. Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end. Marcus Tullius Cicero. You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world. William Hazlitt.  Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, then go straight forward. William Wilberforce.  A little road not made of man,  Enabled of the eye,  Accessible to hill of bee, Or cart of butterfly, Emily Elizabeth Dickinson.  There is no road of flowers leading to glory. Jean de La Fontaine.   In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action. Robert Green Ingersoll.  

The second photo challenge for today is titled “detail”. This is my grand furry pup. His name is Duke. Love the “eye spy” look. 

It’s interesting to learn more about placed in our city. This article is about the history of the Defense Supply Center Columbus (DSCC). I have been there a few times and felt a sense of mystery and history each time. In the opening it is described as an area “shielded by barbed-wire fencing.....rows of parked military vehicles...”. Many people wonder what goes on there. The buildings look like any other buildings that are behind gates. It opened in 1918 after that time there have been fourteen changes on the way to becoming “a vital logistics center providing weapons systems and platform support to US military...”. There are 8,000 employees and has a $400 million payroll. The article goes on to share several facts about the base. There are twenty-six organizations using the base. The most outstanding is the Defense Logistics Agency, the Land and Maritime supply chain headquarters. They control a thousand “multiservice weapon’s systems”. The Ohio Army National Guard, the US Army Reserve and the Defense Finance and Accounting Service along with all their employees, service members, venders and contractors are “stationed” here. During World War I the land for this base was purchased and constructed. At that time the area was “undeveloped swampland and tracts of farmland”. It was important due to three railroad lines located near by.  It was also important because of Columbus was a manufacturing center where military supplies and equipment were made. The base was also important in handling the distribution of food to the military during World War I. A lot of it early on was pork and beans. According to the article “As years went by, the facility developed into one of the largest and busiest installations of its type in the world – feeding, clothing and equipping the military and furnishing vehicles”. Another of the many uses of the property was schools for trades, another was procuring Army’s horses and mules.  Here’s a bit that is interesting and unique, in 1943 silk production took place on the property and it was extracted from black widow spiders. The silk was used in gun-sight cross hairs and compasses. Eventually synthetic fiber made it obsolete. During World War II the center was the largest supply installation in the world. There were 500 German prisoners of war held there. Barracks were set up and 58 guards employed who were former miliary. In 2014 one of the specialist supervisors with the unit became the first US civilian killed in Afghanistan. 

I am making meatloaf and baked potatoes for dinner. 

Joy 

showing wear and tear