January 11, 2023 a thought for today, Tomorrow is often the busiest time of the year. Spanish Proverb

My first upload for yesterday was “red barns”. In my travels to and from Mt. Sterling I pass a lot of farm land and a lot fo barns some very old, some in decay and some not so old. I have several pictures of these barns. This one with the Mail Pouch ad catches my eye on ever trip. So I decided to share it here.

I am still battling a head cold. I am among the lucky, I think, that I don’t often experience a common head cold. But this one is giving me the whole bag of symptoms, runny nose, phlegmy cough, stuffiness in the head and weepy eyes. I have taken my temperature and even done the COVID test. It seems it’s just the old fashioned cold. It seems to force me to be slower in all my activities and for someone like me that’s a drag....it’s like being lazy. Oh....and it causes me not to be able to focus on anything for very  long. 

The second up load for yesterday was “currently reading”. As any of you who have followed this blog know I read ebooks on my ipad now. I am currently reading one of my favorite authors, Ken Follett, Nigh over Water. So I used the camera to shoot a photo of the ipad screen. 

I have the bulletin all ready to print so that’s a plus. And the house has been cleaned so there is no push to get a lot done which is a plus for now. I should just relax and enjoy the experience.

This is one of those days I had a third upload called “seeing spots”. I remembered this one from my archives that seemed to fit the bill for this title. It was taken on a rainy day through the windshield of my car of two ladies loading groceries into the trunk of their car. 

The word for today is belong.  Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. Voltaire. You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one. Jean-Jacques Rousseau.  Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. Ralph Waldo Emerson.  Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken. Jane Austen. Nothing is more generally known than our duties which belong to Christianity; and yet, how amazing is it, nothing is less practiced? George Whitefield. Tell me with whom you associate, and I will tell you who you are, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.  Your actions are your only true belongings, Gautama Buddha. There are two things parents should give their children roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging, but also wings to help free them from constraints and prejudices and give them other ways to travel (or rather, to fly), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.  Resolve to treat the things in your possession as belonging to others, Saint Basil.  We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away, Plutarch. 

The first upload for today is “sun”. It’s difficult to get a direct photo shot of the sun with a normal camera so I decided to share one of my photos of effects of the sun. 

Here’s another bit of history about a Columbus landmark since World War I. In 1918 places for troops and materials were “filled to capacity”. The article explained that though Columbus was “swamp and farmland” there was access to three railroad lines. At that time the US Army Quartermaster Corps bought 281 acres of land here in Columbus to form a “military installation”. It began with six warehouses to receive material to put in storage.  These warehouses were still in use until the 1990s. After the war, World War I, the facility was used to sale stockpiles of material left from war time. When World War II began, more land was purchased for civilian workforce which “the largest and busiest military supply installation in the world”. I learned from the article that in the last eleven months of the war there were 400 German prisoners “held” there. The work there during the war was for the employees to keep supplies moving to support troops all over the world. Later the facility became the Defense Construction Supply Center under what is presently known as the Defense Logistics Agency. In January 1996 the Defense Construction Supply Center” merged with the Defense Electronics Supply Center that had been in Dayton, Ohio. Changes took place over the years. Now it is a Land and Maritime Supply Chain headquarters with “ the Defense Logistics Agency with over 3,000 employees in 51 locations around the world” and “continues to have a profound impact on national defense by supplying the armed forces with $3 billion worth of materiel annually.”

Another upload for today is “B & W”. I used a filter on my original image of a red hibiscus to get this black and white image. 

We are having meat loaf for dinner tonight with mashed potatoes and gravy, rolls and cole slaw. 

Joy 

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