November 30, 2022 a thought for the day, The main road is an easy way, but everyone loves the side streets. Chinese Proverb

My first photo upload for yesterday was “a list”. I have all kinds of lists around my house and anywhere I spend some time. I always have been a type of person who needs a check list. 

I was able to get the bulletin and corrections and changes done early this week. So that was one thing off my plate for today. 

Bob was on vacation for the past week. He went back to work this morning ...... it’s quite around here to day. I think I enjoyed having him home for the week. He was around for a quick chat and/or for help here and there with small chores. 

The second upload for yesterday was “bottles”. These bottles were a surprise to me. With the shape and

style of labeling on these bottles they look like there is an expensive wine in them when in fact it is water.

Yesterday food pantry guest visits was very slow. Last week we had far more clients that usual. It looks like this week is going to be much slower. Maybe today will be a little busier. 

(Just got back from today’s pantry).....it was another slow day. We did have one person outside the door after we had locked up most things. We keep an “emergency box” ready for people who may come by on days we are not having pantry so that is what they gave the late comers along with a few extra items. 

My first upload today was titled “a family member”. This is my sister. She had just come in from running some errands and was paying attention to Sweet Pea who greeted her when she came in. 

The word for today is sometime. The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.  Saying nothing... sometimes says the most. Emily Dickinson. Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. Lucius Annaeus Seneca. Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated. Alphonse de Lamartine. The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice. Benjamin Franklin. Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast. Jane Austen. Sometimes, if you begin to sing in a halfhearted mood, you can sing yourself up the ladder. Singing will often make the heart rise. Charles Spurgeon.  The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return to better thinking. Phaedrus.  Sometimes the most exciting journey you can make is through your own imagination. Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet . Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis, Ralph Waldo Emerson. To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.   

My final upload for November 30, 2022 was “graffiti”. This one is on an abandoned building on West Broad Street. I think some graffiti is more like art most people understand and can be beautiful and carry a message not that that is true of all graffiti .

 Some of my family worked at Buckeye Steel so this article caught my eye and the fact that it’s final days have brought changes and left memories in history for Columbus. The article started out mentioning that as time went by Columbus produced “shoes, glass, railroad cars, grave vaults, caskets.....and steel”. That was an introduction to the Buckeye Street Castings company a long time company in Columbus. It was a structure near downtown in 1881. They were in business to make cast iron farm tools which then turned to rail car couplers. In 1894 there was a merger...Buckeye Malleable Iron and Coupler Co., that was renamed Buckeye Steel Castings. In 1902 they made both couplers and railroad trucks (“the assemblies that hold a rail car’s wheels and bearings in place”). A note of interest....in 1901 the manager was Samuel Prescott Bush, the grandfather and great grandfather of two US presidents. As would be expected as Buckeye grew so did the neighborhood and was called “Steelton”. Businesses grew, jobs brought immigrants. Many of these immigrants from Europe created places like Hungarian Village. People have described things like “A dark perfume filled the air ...... mixed with the aroma of baking bread at the Omar Bakery......a constant rain of soot, but it also rained good-paying jobs”. In 2000 things changed for Buckeye Steel Castings with  new markets and competition along with economic situation shifts. In 2016 the plant was closed and later demolished. The land it stood on is now empty and waiting. 

It will be air fry again tonight....fish and fries probably. 

Joy

These two images are of my composites for two of my three online photo groups for the month of November 2022.