May 28, 2022 thought for today, Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge. Albanian Proverb

Just an update.....we are making a little more headway on my car situation. Another person on the executive side of the insurance action has come into the picture. We will see where that takes us. This is an interesting event. In all my years I have never had such a long, involved activity of this kind. I’ve never had an auto accident that required so much attention. Educational....

The photo of the day for My 27 was titled “lucky”. I didn’t have any rabbits feet or Lucy Strikes or Lucky Charms but I have lots of pennies. 

The curb side grocery pick up was on the agenda today as well as a stop at the vets office to pick up Sweet Peas phenobarbital. There is a vet tech there whom I worked with when he was a teen oh so many years ago. We both worked at a florist then, our paths have moved on.  He still needed to count out Sweet Pea’s tablets this morning. I mentioned that I use to do that when I was a doctor’s office nurse. He told me there is a new application attached to that. Then he demonstrated it for me. We use to place a hand full of meds on a counting plate and individually count them to fill the script. With this app, the hand full of pills is photographed with the smart phone...a true and full count is immediately shown on the screen. The old method of counting then takes place. For accuracy a new “photo” can be taken to show that the count is correct. Amazing. 

The photo I sent yesterday to the Canadian group is “rough and soft”, the delicate flowers against the
rough texture of wood.

Sue needed some meds picked up and since we only have Bob’s car available right now he was picked to go get them. Since he has never picked them up before I went with him...and we took Sweet Pea along for a ride. 

Back at the ranch (home) it was time to put groceries away. Once that was out of the way I was back on the computer. I took some photos for the images I need for today while we were out but I wanted to spend some time checking the archives for something more suitable for what I wanted to display. I have two full external hard drives for old and very old images that I have taken and kept over the years. It’s fun to go back to those. It’s similar to looking through an old hard copy photo album. It’s crammed full of memories. It’s heart felt watching my three kids growing to adulthood and then their children and their children’s children now adventuring into life.

The photo a day for today is “horizon”. I have many images showing verities of horizon lines in different seasons and locations. This one grabbed my attention. 

The word for today is words.  Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. Benjamin Franklin. Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. Lao Tzu.  Where words fail, music speaks. Hans Christian Andersen. The written word has this advantage, that it lasts and can await the time when it is allowed to take effect, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.  Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid, Homer. Words are in this respect like water, that they often take their taste, flavour, and character, from the mouth out of which they proceed, as the water from the channel through which it flows, Charles Caleb Colton.  Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality. Edgar Allan Poe.  False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. Socrates  A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.  There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie. Aeschylus. 

The other upload for today is an image of a tree beginning from a seed that was dropped somewhere along the way without a laid out plan for growth. 

I like when old things are being renewed and reflect history. I liked the title to this article, “HIDDEN FEATURE, HISTORIC CHARM, Apartments have century-old details with modern design”. The renovation is happening in a downtown apartment building. The project is called Discovery Park Place apartments. There are twenty nine apartment in a new building that is behind two older homes that have been renovated. The two older homes were built in 1900. There were connected by a cinder block addition. The addition was demolished and replaced by a five story building. The restoration includes covered parking, a fitness center, an interior courtyard. This part is overlooked by three level of apartments and exterior hallways. They say it is a European/New Orleans feel. Ten of the apartment on the top level are two-story. The two older buildings have high ceilings and porches with the four apartments. In order to meet the “historic requirements.... trim and stair railing had to match the century old features”.

I think I will make sloppy joes and cheesy potatoes (first had these at Tami’s house) for dinner. 

Joy

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