April 12, 2022 a thought for today, Cut your coat to suit your cloth. Dutch  Proverb

The situation with my back from the “fender bender” that attacked me last Saturday has had its own progress. The area where the discomfort first appeared has evolved from what felt like a tightness to a radiation sensation a little higher and a little broader. I don’t consider it a pain at this point just discomfort. On the one hand it is sort of like waiting for the other shoe to drop. 

My first photo of the day for April 11 was “a green food”. The closest thing I had on hand was an image of the lettuce salad at a church function. 

The dialog between the two insurance companies has begun. There hasn’t been anyone to inspect the car yet. In the mean time I am out of transportation. I did find out that I can’t get a rental car with insurance money, it has to be selected in your insurance contract and I didn’t select that feature because the age of the car. I didn’t give much thought as to how constrictive it is to not be able to come and go at will. It’s not just being able to take a notion to go out it’s the planning time and availability of others that now enters the picture. 

I don’t know if I mentioned that a small section of siding on the house was blown lose in the last high winds we had a few days ago. We had called someone to come to reattach it. He couldn’t get to it until this morning so now, at least, that problem is solved. 

The second photo of the day was “barn”. This is from my archives, an image of my niece leading her horse back to its stable.

I have a secret....I have been wearing long johns for the past month....these old bones don’t take the winter temps as well as it use to. After I went out to the yard to find some photo possibilities, I decided it’s time to take them off. Although, we may still have some snow and lower temps. Not to worry.... the long johns are not far out of reach. 

I have the insert for the bulletin ready to print....it is the words to the anthem we will be singing this week. Acclamation for Easter. I have a major portion of the bulletin done, waiting for the rest to come in. I have two names for the in honor/memory expressions for Easter Lilies....I am hopeful I will get the rest by tomorrow so that I can get it finished too so I only need to get a ride for one day to print them all.

The first photo challenge for today is “snack”. This was my mid morning snack for today, pretzels and V8 juice. 

The word today is simple.  In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present. Lao Tzu. Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify, Henry David Thoreau.  Simplicity is the glory of expression, Walt Whitman. There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth. Charles Dickens.  Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another. Charles Caleb Colton.  Crafty men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they teach not their own use: but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation, Francis Bacon. The words of truth are simple. Aeschylus. That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest, Henry David Thoreau.  As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness, Henry David Thoreau.  The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest, Thomas Moore.  

The second photo for today is “fit to be tied”. We put up twin swings for my twin nieces some years ago. The wood is badly showing its age but the knots were “fit to be tied” and are still holding after a couple of years in the elements. 

It’s been years since Cooper Stadium was filled with the sounds of baseball. I have wondered what they would eventually do with the property. I think there have been several different suggestions and plans. Here is the newest plan. This one is for two “mixed-use buildings....several apartment buildings, two rental buildings and “what looks like a large warehouse....”. It is planned to “preserve” the two brick buildings that remain on the property along with what remains of the stadium itself. The area left where the rest of the stadium was once will be turned into green space, the rest of the space would be “paved event space”. This was an interesting item in the article, “stacked shipping containers would line the south and east edges of the site”. There would be 550 units in the apartments. The mixed use buildings will not be more that six stores tall. I didn’t see what the shipping containers that were mentioned would be used for, that could be interesting. 

I think we are having chicken and dumplings for dinner tonight. 

Joy

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