May 24, 2022 a thought for today, You can run into debt, but you have to crawl out. Albanian Proverb

I got a little more done on the newsletter this morning. I had gotten both the newsletter and the bulletin as far as I could yesterday. I have been waiting for the rest that I need for both. I had one of the pieces of information in the email this morning so that one is done. Now to wait for the rest.

The photo of the day for the 23rd was “stairs”. I took this one a while back. It is a set of stairs on a storage tank. 

Here’s another food pantry day. This one was a busy one. Even heavier than our best day last month. 

I had an up and down day. I will try to summarize. The mechanic from the insurance company came out today to exam and photograph the damage on my car. He took several photos and checked the milage and made some estimations. The final figure was a surprise and a relief. He said he would be back to take care of the towing etc. after some final work with the adjusters/agents. I was excited, beginning to see the end of this “soap opera”. About half hour later the other agent called to say they were denying me again, due to no proof of who was actually at fault. It felt like the adjuster knew she was going to make that call before she sent the adjuster/mechanic out. There was a new story I hadn’t heard before...... the other man, th one who hit me, said he was in the street and moving forward when we hit. A total lie. What a downer. After some thought and discussion with friends and a reminder that the photos should show who was at fault. I called the agent back and left a message to that affect..had to leave a message as at every other occasion. So it looks like there will be another message to the corporate offices. I think in the long run I am going to be their “official” looser.

The image I up loaded for my Canadian group yesterday is of a house in the neighborhood with some very tall flowers to ornament the side of the house. 

The word for today is wish.  Great minds have purposes; others have wishes, Washington Irving.  What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know. Saint Augustine. Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble, Joseph Addison.  Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old, Jonathan Swift. Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish, Plautus. There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world. Thomas Jefferson. Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility. Saint Augustine. When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless. Ralph Waldo Emerson. The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do. Horace. You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long. Marcus Tullius Cicero.  Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details. Heraclitus.

The photo of the day for today is “a pair”. These were two of my dearest friends. They have both died but left wonderful memories. 

Here’s a little bit about the history of our state.....the Ohio Valley. It began with prehistoric times and the Ohio River and its parts was a “conduit for human migration”...from the Atlantic to Appalachia to the Mississippi valley. Humans were here over sixteen thousand years ago. Woodland Hopewell culture. Then “protohistoric and historic Native American societies. The Ohio Rive got its name from the Iroquois language and means "Great River." Early maps showed the Ohio River flowing into the Mississippi. The French built forts on the Upper Ohio River in Pennsylvania. The British took over a fort built in 1758 and named it Fort Pitt. After the French and Indian War the British gained control of the Ohio valley. A majority of settlers came to the Ohio Valley through the “river’s headwaters”.Then the river became the major object of transportation. During the War of 1812 settlers from the Ohio valley and the Atlantic colonies came together against the British and the Indians. I learned that commercial traffic on the Ohio let to some growth of Pettsburgh, Cincinnati, and Louisville. The completion of the Erie Canal in 1825 slowed down the use of the Ohio River as a commercial route. The article went on to relate that by 1840 Ohio was a dividing line between free and slave states. Railroads became the major “means of transportating raw materials, general cargo, and passengers”.  It became necessary to form a US Coast Guard station. Major flood control became necessary after floods in 1847, 1881, 1913 and 1937. The ending sentence... “The river remains a major transportation artery, a distinct sectional dividing line in the United States, and a source of recreation and tourism.”

My up load to my other group is titles I see your “camera”.

I am making chicken carbonara for dinner tonight. 

Joy

                     has seen better days