August 24, 2022 a thought for today, Friendship broken may be soldered, but never made whole. Spanish Proverb

Today was another food pantry day. We weren’t quite as busy today as we were yesterday. But it was comfortable. My regular partner on the check in desk is out with COVID. So we had a backup today. She forgot what time we start so was a little late. I did the set up by myself. Usually Gail had it mostly done by the time I get there. It was a little slower today since it was just me. Once we got started everything went smoothly. 

The first photo a day upload for yesterday was “I sat here.....”. I sat in the chair then took a picture of the end of it to show th grain and lines. 

I still have one piece I need to finish in the newsletter. I finished the rest of it to that point so I sent it and the bulletin to the readers. 

Before I left for church, I pulled up one of the photo uploads I need for today from the archives. The other one I need was easy to shoot, it just took a bit of a set up. I still need to do the “darkroom” work on both of them. I want to get that done and this letter finished before we leave for a dinner at York. 

The second upload was an image I found when I was walking through the alley behind my house. Someone had hung this watering can on the post. 

The temps are starting back up. It’s getting hotter again...more typical for August. 

The word for today is fortune.  There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures. William Shakespeare.  Fortune favors the prepared mind. Louis Pasteur. Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance. Virgil. When fortune calls, offer her a chair, Yiddish. If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him, Horace. Fortune is like glass--the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken. Publilius Syrus. Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm. Robert Louis Stevenson. Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune. Walt Whitman. Every man is the architect of his own fortune. Sallust.  No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune. Plutarch.  There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune. Thomas Carlyle.  From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune. Tecumseh. I beg my Children to be just and virtuous, never to disgrace my name or theirs, and then they are out of fortune's power. Thomas Willis.

The first upload and assignment for today was titled “I like to eat...” I didn’t pick any one item because I like to eat many things ...... I am a “foodie”. 

There will be some new jobs and a clean up of an area that has been vacant for a while. The property of an old factor, Columbus Castings, that has been unoccupied since 2016, will become a new tree building commerce park. It will be called Castings Commerce Park. The plant “provided jobs to the South Side” and the area now offers “a rare in fill development opportunity” where industry was successful. The new buildings are “geared toward distribution or manufacturing”. It is estimated that the new complex will provide around 300 jobs. The strictures will be “suited” for manufacturers and could be good warehouse use also. Once the building was torn down weeks and “empty wasteland” took over and became an eyesore. It is hoped by some that the area will be part of revitalization of the South Side.  

The second upload for today was an image that caught my eye as I was about to go down the stairway. I happened to have the camera in my hand at the time. 

Dinner will be at York this evening for Bob’s birthday. Love having a night off from cooking and clean up. 

Joy

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