September 3, 2022 a thought to ponder, When one shuts one eye, one does not hear everything. Swiss Proverb

It’s a nice quiet Saturday....for now anyway. There has been some rain so the mowing for Bob will have to wait a day. We, Bob and I, got the groceries picked up. After we were home for a few minutes, we got a call explaining that one of the bags we picked up was the wrong one so we had to head back over for the exchange. I had opened one of the bags as soon as we got home and realized it wasn’t ours so the exchange was simple.

The first upload for yesterday was “plastic”. The sunglasses was the main subject to match that title but I’m sure some of the other items in the photo are also plastic. 

While we did the grocery pick up I had to go in the store anyway to pick up some meds. At some point I lost my Kroger card (I have had that card for so many years I can’t remember when I got it). So when we went back for the exchange I got a new one. I get so angry with myself when I lose something.

The second upload is an image of color and lines that add to the “artful” concept. 

After all the groceries were put away I got re-attached to the computer. I had some research I wanted to do. I am making a different one of my craft gifts for my great grand children. It is items using paper quilling. Since the finished pieces have a depth I am trying to find shadow boxes. The ones I am seeing on line are EXPENSIVE! I am going to have to do some more research. Sue and I may go to Michaels Art Supply on Monday. They have some that may work at a reasonable price. Since the kids are young I wanted something sturdy, see through and small enough to be carried....sounds like acrylic to my way of thinking. So I’ll try that route. 

Think I’ll take a break from the computer shortly to make some Nutella brownies and some cheesy potatoes ahead of dinner time. 

While I was starting the Nutella brownies and the cheesy potatoes Lowell came in with two new area rugs for the house. He is so thoughtful. 

One of the uploads for today was “paper”. Again, I am showing an aspect of one of my hobbies...paper quilling. 

The word today is garden.  Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, Francis Bacon.  Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw, Henry David Thoreau. When I go into the garden with a spade and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands, Ralph Waldo Emerson.  If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. Marcus Tullius Cicero.  Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom. Rumi.  God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures. Francis Bacon. A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil which abounds in weeds. His Majesty roots up the weeds and will put in good plants instead. Let us reckon that this is already done when the soul decides to practice prayer and has begun to do so. Saint Teresa of Avila.  A good garden may have some weeds. Thomas Fuller.  With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy. Lope de Vega.  A man ought to carry himself in the world as an orange tree would if it could walk up and down in the garden, swinging perfume from every little censer it holds up in the air, Henry Ward Beecher.  

A second upload of a photo a day was this one that I captured on my out of the post office parking lot....a blossom in line with a knot hole against the backdrop of a wooden privacy fence.  

I found this article, I am connected with this process in a small way so I thought it would be nice to share what it is about. It concerns Mid Ohio Food Collective (MOFC) and the twenty countries in Ohio that it serves. It came into existence in 1980 as Operation Feed. At fist as an emergency sort of service. As time passed it evolved in it’s operation knowing that it alone can not end hunger so it looks toward the causes of “food insecurity”. It now adds help to customers on how to succeed in other areas of their lives. The article also mentioned that in providing nutritious food it allows for them to use “limited resources for other expenses”. There are five parts to the Mid Ohio Food Collective... “Mid-Ohio Foodbank, Mid-Ohio Farm, Mid-Ohio Farmacy, Mid-Ohio Kitchen and Mid-Ohio Markets” all of which assist in the “root causes of hunger and poverty”. The Mid Ohio Farm sets up an “urban farm” in the middle of the city. The “Famacy” part works with local health care providers to connect patients with healthy foods they need. The Mid Oho Kitchen provides meals to schools and communities. The “Markets” are the source for families to get a no-cost grocery store experience. This is where with 700 partner agencies and programs food is distributed as more than 77 million pounds of food annually. The “growing organization includes partnering with other companies” such as Kroger, AEP and Molina. All of this is made possible with “dedicated volunteers.... a few hours one day a month or once a week (or what ever time can be spared).. .contributions of time and energy help MOFC feed .....neighbors in Central and Eastern Ohio”. There are food sorters, packers of meals and meal prep, helpers to assist the shopper, and other behind the scenes type times and operations. The “Mid-Ohio Food Collective connects nutritious food to seniors, veterans, the homeless and children through a 680-partner agency network that includes food pantries, soup kitchens, shelters, after-school sites, senior sites and other entities throughout its footprint.”

I think I am making sloppy joe for dinner. 

Joy

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