January 31, 2023 a thought for today, How you make your bed, thus will you rest. Polish Proverb

The cold, cold is back....it has been cold but now the temperature dropped a few more degrees so it is cold, cold.....like, 18 degrees. 

My first upload for yesterday was “fresh”. A neighbor gave us an arrangement of fresh flowers to remind us of spring. This day lily with its name and in this fresh arrangement felt like the right image for the title. 

Well....we have a mouse in the house. So I have set up my handy dandy electronic mouse trap the night before last and last night. I caught two, one each night. I don’t like killing any living thing but I’m worried about the damage it could cause. I thought about getting the natural mouse invasion stopper.....a cat. I would love to have a cat but I wouldn’t be able to take proper care of it at this stage in my life. So it has to be the other choice....a trap.

My second upload for yesterday with “chain”. I like the patterns and textures on old heavy rusted chains but I don’t have any of those around here but I do have my rain chain so that was the model for yesterday.

I did some computer work earlier in the morning then had to take a break to go pick up some meds for Sweet Pea. While I was in the vets office picking up the meds I was admired by a gorgeous boxer dog. He wanted to greet me with all his wonderful, youthful life. When I got home Sweet Pea let me know that she knew I was in the presence of another of her species while I was out and about. She couldn’t stay away from my jacket where my new boxer friend must have left a bit of his scent.

When I got back home, it was time to get back to my desk where I had left a small stack of things to be done today and tomorrow. So, it was back to work. 

The first upload for today is “this improves my mood”. In most cases food almost always improves my mood. And I have a penchant for McDonalds fish sandwiches. 

The word for today is bold.  Put a grain of boldness in everything you do, Baltasar Gracian.   Whatever you do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe.  Both fortune and love befriend the bold, Ovid.  Boldness be my friend, William Shakespeare. Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful. William Shakespeare   Begin, be bold and venture to be wise. Horace.  How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold. William Wordsworth.  I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way. Thomas Jefferson.  He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold. Herodotus. A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably. William Penn.  Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly. Virgil.

My next upload for today is “the end”. In that fresh flower arrangement mentioned earlier one of the flower stems was not in the water and had had its best days so that was my choice for this image. 

This article shares some more history about us and our surrounding areas. This one is about Dublin, Ohio. “Dublin...offers the perfect mix of quaint and modern” and is one of the oldest communities in Central Ohio. According to the article the first settlers came in 1801. One of the first settlers, Ludwick Sells, was the first. He built a small settlement near a spring on the riverbank. In 1818 he divided the land that he had purchased and offered them for sale and a town grew. The surveyor of the land, John Shields, was asked to name the town. He named it Dublin after his hometown in Ireland. With the National Road and the canals bringing products like lumber and flour the town it grew and “boomed’. One of the earliest homesteads was Fletcher Coffman’s family home. It was a “simple two-story building”. It has been restored to “interpret the lifestyle and tastes of a middle class farm family of that era” and still remains on the edge of Coffman Park. It is furnished with furniture and memorabilia from families in the area at that time and  "typifies farm life in the 1800s”. There is a legend that most of the dwellings in Dublin at one time “housed a tavern”. In the 1970s there were 681 residents. The outerbelt brought about a connection to the Columbus Metropolitan area. The Ashland Chemical Company and the Jack Nicklause Muirfield Golf Club were attributed with adding to the “exponential” growth from the 1970s on. Today the Dublin population is more than 47,000 residents. Many memerable connections to Dublin are the Wendy’s Company headquarters, the Dublin Irish Festival and the Memorial Tournament. Adding to Dublin’s growth is Bridge Park. In visiting Dublin you will notice 19th century architecture and many are listed in the National Register Historic Places. 

Chicken and fries in the air fryer for dinner tonight. 

Joy

here it is the end of the month again so I am sharing the composites of the photo a day images from two of my photo clubs....FMS and Sudbury