August 6, 2022 a thought for today, There are many languages on earth, but one in heaven. Latin Proverb

The photo a day upload for yesterday was “I love this time of day....”. The photo speaks for itself .....when I see it I think of Golden Pond. 

It has been a little busier that I expected for a Saturday. I was up early on one of the days I could have slept in this week. But I knew there was extra work for today. Last night the freezer drawer under the French door refrigerator we have quit working. A couple of weeks ago the ice maker quit. We didn’t have it fixed at the time and started using ice trays. We had put in some ice trays a few hours before dinner. After dinner we realized the ice was not making and some of the items in the freezer were thawing out. We got the manual out and tried every thing we read but nothing worked. We tried a “reset”, pulling the pug for thirty seconds and restarting, hoping by morning it was be “fixed”.....not a chance. The frig is working but not the freezer. So before Bob and I left for the curb side pickup for this week, I started clearing out the chest freezer on the indoor back porch.

My second upload for yesterday was just an image of one of my best furry friends (all of them have been my “best”. This gone “over the rainbow” so she is just left in our memories and photographs. 

After the pick up and putting groceries away,  I finished cleaning out the chest freezer and cleared out
the frig for good measure. After that there were dishes to be washed. The dish washer is full so there was a sink full to be done by hand. 

I had a third upload for yesterday. Its title was “a body part....”. So I am showing my feet and legs at
rest. 

As we were coming home from the store, it began to rain. As it turned out it wasn’t much more than a short misting of rain. So Bob decided he had better mow the lawn after he brought the groceries in for me. 

It’s been a busy Saturday in this Rector household. Now I am going to head to the kitchen and make the potato soup and dumplings. 

My first upload for a photo of the day today is “I love....” ...”Summer flowers”.  These hibiscus flowers can be seen at the nearby McDonalds drive through. 

The word for today is create.  There is nothing like a dream to create the future. Victor Hugo .  I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart, Vincent Van Gogh.  It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see, Henry David Thoreau. It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation, Herman Melville.  The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it, Michelangelo. What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality? Elizabeth Barrett Browning.  Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found, James Russell Lowell.  When you are describing, A shape, or sound, or tint; Don't state the matter plainly, But put it in a hint; And learn to look at all things, With a sort of mental squint, Lewis Carroll.   Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures, Henry Ward Beecher. Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

My second upload today is an image of some daffodils I cut and put in a vase early  this spring. 

I might want to check out these vegetables sometime. As is custom the title “spoke” to me....”pick-your-own” relating to finding vegetables that are hard to find. There is a farm in Perry County where people can pick their own vegetables. One Saturday mentioned in the article folks were walking through a muddy parking lot “carrying buckets and sun umbrellas”as they came out of the fields. There are Bhutanese and Nepali varieties of hot peppers, corn, and cucumbers. The farm is about an hour from downtown Columbus and was started about four years ago. The couple who owns the farm work full time at an Amazon warehouse. With their farm they enjoy giving people who experience a bit of the agriculture feeling.   Also giving the older generation of his nationality a feel for the farm that they may remember growing rice, corn and betel nut. The husband and wife owning the farm lived in refugee camps in Nepal and knew nothing about farming when they bought the farm in 2018. YouTube and advice from the older community near  by helped to teach him. Many of the varieties of vegetables he shares are hard to find anywhere else. One customer said when she came to the US she enjoyed going there and harvesting tomatoes to make “achaar”. The article mentioned that one bucket of tomatoes sold at $13, less that $1 a pound. The owner says he does not use chemical fertilizers or pesticides. Younger people who come with their older family members may spend time in the barn “snacking on ice cream sandwiches”. Right now the farm is a parttime venture for the owners who hope to move to full time a little later in time. 

Dinner is going to be hot dogs, brats, kraut and potato soup with homemade egg dumplings.

Joy

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