July 25, 2022 a thought for today, A mouse will put the finishing stroke to a castle wall. Latin Proverb

One of the uploads for yesterday was “a metaphor”. I picked this one and called it “let there be light”. 

I started the morning out by getting the bulletin done....that’s right.....DONE! I had planned to get the title to my car in my name and the new tags. Well, I found out you have to make an appointment to get the title taken care of. So I logged on to the BMV and made an appointment for 9:45. After I got there and took care of the title I found out I have to go to the other building to get the plates. I wandered over and found people in line coming out the door. So I decided to put that off for another day.....going to be a busy week. When I got home and checked my email I found that my glasses are ready for pick up too. I just don’t know when I can get there to get them with food pantry, the licence business and the church newsletter to get done this week. It will get done....one day at a time. 

This is the second upload for yesterday. This is one of our old family lamps. I added a couple of filters to dress it up a bit. As off shoot of what I meant the filters to do it gave the image blue casts. 

I have been using my archives for a lot of my photos of the day lately. Since I have had a car back in my life I have been able to go out and shoot more. But my time seems to be a little more limited right now. There have been some sad happenings at church that have required a little more time and I have been catching up on personal appointments that I missed when my transportation was limited. Hopefully things will calm down soon. 

Sue has always been more a “fixer upper” than I most of our lives. I am more in the kitchen and little straightening/cleaning tasks around the house. She is more the “heavier” stuff. Right she is painting the outside of our two front doors (I have one of those houses that have two doors on the front of the house). She also likes to do weeding.....that ship of mine passed a year or so ago. 

One of the uploads for today is titled “beauty”. This collection of white poinsettias is always a beautiful sight. 

I had the meat ball treats to make for Sweet Pea today so since I had kitchen tools out and on the ready I decided to go ahead and get the cheesy potatoes ready for the oven. Now I have the clean up to do. 

The word today is cheer.  Hope, smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering 'it will be happier, Alfred Tennyson. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us, Ralph Waldo Emerson. Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking, Marcus Aurelius.  Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant, Robert Louis Stevenson. Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind, Robert Louis Stevenson. His love was like the liberal air, embracing all, to cheer and bless, William Wordsworth.  Farewell to Thee! But not farewell To all my fondest thoughts of Thee; Within my heart they still shall dwell And they shall cheer and comfort me, Anne Bronte. Thus, when the lamp that lighted The traveller at first goes out, He feels awhile benighted, And looks around in fear and doubt. But soon, the prospect clearing, By cloudless starlight on he treads, And thinks no lamp so cheering As that light which Heaven sheds, Charles Lamb.  

Since I used a poinsettias for todays other upload I chose this one from the archives for the second of today’s uploads. 

Here is a story about something that made me think about something old and no longer serving its original purpose can be made into something with a new purpose that may bring smiles.  An old fire tower is going to have a new home and purpose. The new purpose is to offer sights to folks that they may not otherwise have the chance to see of the Columbus skyline, the Scioto River, and Downtown. It will be located in the Scioto Grove Park in Grove City. The 100-foot Keystone Fire Lookout Tower resided on private property in eastern Jackson County in southern Ohio prior to the move that is coming up. It has been donated by the US Forest Service to Grove City Metro parks so more people could experience and enjoy it. It will be dismantled and moved 80 miles to Scioto Grove Metro Park. The there will be some cosmetic touch ups and reassembled hopefully by the end of 2023. The park already offers a rope bridge, a play area, a canoe launch, backpack areas and a disc golf and archery area along with a drone flight zone. The tower will be an added attraction. The tower was designed in the 1920's (100 years ago) to detect and control fires before helicopters and drones. It will retire from that service to begin a new life as a sort of tour guide. There are multiple flights of metal stairs to get to the top. 

It’s going to be hamburgers and cheesy potatoes for dinner. 

Joy

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