March 14, 2023 a thought for today, Dogs have so many friends because they wag their tails, not their tongues. Chinese Proverb

My first upload for yesterday was “bottle”. I wanted to shy away from a coke or Pepsi bottle so I choose this one that I use some times as a vase. 

Our meeting last night met with some heavy conversation with generally means it comes with two sides. We got it settled with a lot of thought and talk and a vote.

I sent this week’s bulletin out for review. I also got some touch up information for the annual report. All are ready to print on Thursday. It feels good to have things done ahead of time without a deadline hanging over my head. 

Lowell and Rebecca are going to Florida for Lexie’s birthday party so I have asked them to take the paper quilled pictures I made the kids along with the annual calender that I am late getting to them. I haven’t got them packed yet. I plan on putting plenty of bubble wrap around them so they don’t get bumped around. It’s not Lexie’s birthday gift I sent that earlier. It’s an “I love you and I am thinking of you” gift....one thing for each of the four of them. Then I have two more boxes like those to get delivered.   

The second upload for yesterday was “your favorite mug”. I don’t use a mug for my tea and I have saved very few.  But did have this one from left from my husband. This was his favorite when he was at work at the Bethesda Naval Hospital. 

Our new sexton (janitor) is supposed to be starting work at the church today. I hope it works out. We have had a rough time finding one and from what I heard a few shaky moments with this one but it may have turned around now. We need a sexton badly since our church is used daily by different groups and needs attention after they leave and before others come in. 

Spring is due to arrive here in six days but it feels like winter is trying to make up for the mild days that were around for the biggest part of its 2023 season. The thermometer is presently reading a couple of degrees below freezing. 

One of the uploads for today is “something I don’t understand”. This, one for me, was that I don’t know
why the yellow caution tape would be wrapped around a telephone pole. 

The word today is easy.  That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly, Thomas Paine.   Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. Lao Tzu.    All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. Galileo Galilei.  To rule is easy, to govern difficult. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress. Charles Dickens. Nothing is easy to the unwilling. Thomas Fuller. Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.  It is easy to give advice from a port of safety. Friedrich Schiller.  I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. Benjamin Franklin. It is well not to lend too easy an ear to accusations, Publilius Syrus.  It is easy to cut down the tree of liberty, but not so easy to restore it to life, Toussaint Louverture.  It takes hard writing to make easy reading, Robert Louis Stevenson. Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all things easy, Benjamin Franklin.  Speeches are like babies-easy to conceive but hard to deliver, Aristotle. 

The second upload for today is “bird (flying)”. I’m not a bird watcher though I like to watch when I happen to see them within my sight. This was an “accident”. There were several birds landing on this roof top and the taking off something like a military touch and go. I wanted to get a capture of several of them at a time perched as the single one left is. It just so happened that one of the birds took off just as I pressed the capture button. 

Back to a bit of history to make our city a place to explore. It is about an old church that has left behind its bell. It was called the Blue Church on Blue Church Road. The road was named for the church. The church no longer stand but it left a bit of it’s being....a bell. The church stood for over one hundred years. Its name was originally Kingston Presbyterian Church. At some point in its existence its name changed to the Blue Church. In the beginning the church was painted a grey color. Over the years the grey faded to a light blue. It was built in 1827. Not only was it used for religious services but also “community socials, school events, and Christmas pageants until about 1953". When it was built in 1827 there were settlers living in “remote” log cabins near by. The church was a place for residents to meet and socialize. There were World War I rallies and grade school graduations in this historic building. It was demolished in 1975 but it left many memories and the bell acts as a reminder. One of its members was interviewed before the building was demolished. He told of how he was the first one there on Sunday morning and he would ring the bell and “warmed up the place”. Along with those duties he had other through the week. He used a wagon to deliver the stained glass windows to the church in a remodeling. During tough winters the church was a ‘refuge’ for Kingston Township. There were annual suppers, songs and games on Children’s days, as well as a two-week period extended services fo social and spiritual comfort. A lady who was interviewed about the church in 1955 told stories about evergreen trees lit with candles and the chocolates and oranges that were passed by Santa with plenty of carols. By the middle of the 20th century it was a “struggle to keep the community alive”. One of the past parishioners told the person doing the interview that the “Presbyterians wouldn’t send us ministers anymore. And so, you know, it had to close”. At the same interview someone mentioned that she “doesn't remember finances being the biggest issue in the end....The bigger thing was that they didn’t want to send ministers out here to small little churches anymore”. Throughout the 1960s there were those who tried to save the building but to no avail. It was eventually “deemed unsafe”. For seventeen years the church sat empty and “theft and decay” took over. The bell that was rung many time to summon folks to come was saved and is “mounted on a small blue brick memorial with a plaque commemorating “Old Blue Church.”” The land it occupied is now a cemetery named the Blue Church Cemetery. Revolutionary War to Korean War vets are buried there. According to the article many people in Delaware have forgotten about the church however the Sunbury Halter and Saddle 4-H Club visit to pay respects to the veterans.

It’s going to be coneys’ for dinner tonight. 

Joy

                     No available trash receptacle? Just toss it?