July 27, 2022 a thought for today, You can wash your body but not your soul. Jewish Proverb

I finally got to the BMV and got my new license plate. The wait wasn’t too bad. At exactly 8:00 I got on the BMV site and did a “get in line” procedure. Then I immediately left the house. When I got there, I logged in at the kiosk which shown what my number was. That saved me standing in line and logging in after maybe ten other people. I think I waited for about thirty minutes. Glad it’s done.

The first upload for yesterday was “portrait mode”. This is my great grand furry baby. He doesn’t seem to mind having his photo taken. 

Food pantry was on the slow side. It was a pretty good turn out. Yesterday was a little busier with a person coming in just as we were locking the doors.

I had the bulletin and newsletter done a day early so I had sent them out to be checked. I had a couple of corrections come in late yesterday so I made the changes this morning before I left. I am ready to print tomorrow. 

The second photo up load for today is a visitor I had on the roof over one of the entryways. It seemed he was king of the world for a few minutes. 

We had rain most of the afternoon. It wasn’t a storm, it was more a slow off and on drenching rain this time. 

My first upload for today is titled “ countryside”. This was photo was taken on a trip to Mt. Sterling. There are many such scenes on that trip. 

The word for today is complete.  To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete. Epictetus. Unless men establish their complete happiness in God, they will never give themselves truly and sincerely to him, John Calvin.  Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom, Thomas Jefferson.  Harmony is pure love, for love is complete agreement. Lope de Vega.  Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion? Ralph Waldo Emerson. The hardest task needs the lightest hand or else its completion will not lead to freedom but to a tyranny much worse than the one it replaces, Socrates. A Christian is never in a state of completion but always in a process of becoming, Martin Luther. 

The second upload today is one of a house in my neighborhood. I like the bare autumn branches “hiding” a beautiful old house in tones of browns and tans. 

This story is about a popular display at the Ohio State Fair, the Butter cow and all the surrounding butter sculptures. This years sculptures use 2,530 pound of butter. This year, for the first time, there is a life size pig, chicken and lamb. The years display shows kids hard work raising livestock and are connected with the sculptures. According to the article about 2,000 pounds of butter are used for Butter cow. There has been a Butter cow at the fair since the early 1900s. The butter is donated by the Ohio dairy community. There was a team of sculptors who put together the display. They worked in a large walk-in cooler kept at 46 degrees. The spent 600 hours working on the display, 500 of which were on the sculpting alone. After the fair the butter will be “refined, recycled and used as an ingredient in non-edible products”.  The first butter cow at the fair was in 1903. In the 1920's a butter calf was added. Themed displays were added beginning in the 1960s. 

I think it will hamburger helper potatoes and chicken fries for dinner. 

Joy

                      “borrowed” and rejected