April 27, 2023 a thought for today, It is useful to first see the spark before the fire. Japanese Proverb

Yesterday’s first upload was “bowl”. I find so many interesting and some honored things as I am walking through my church. When I was there for food pantry (before we opened the doors for the clients) I roamed around looking for an image to fit the “assignment” for the day. I found several and chose this one due to the lines and shape in and around the bowl as well as color tones. 

The roofers are still working on the church. They were already started this morning when I got there. I managed to shoot a couple of pictures for the newsletter of a couple of them on the driveway side of the building. When I got into the office and opened the window curtain, there was one of the workers moving things in the dumpster right next to the window so I was able to get a photo taken through the window.  

I had some troubles with the copier right off the bat. I tried everything I could think of but none of that worked. I called Patti. She said she was on her way in. When she got there, she did a couple of checks. She finally moved the direction of the paper in the feed drawer and that worked. 

Paul had come in before Patti. After I talked to her, I unlocked a few of the rooms in the lower level so that he could get started on some things. 

The second upload for yesterday was also taken at church. A friend was eating an apple. I asked her if she would mind if I used it as my prop. The “assignment” was “a is for....”.

Driving around looking for photo opportunities wouldn’t work for me today so I came on home to get started on things here. 

I got started on some things on the computer. A little later I got started on the laundry. Larry came to fix the faucet to the washer last night. A couple of days ago when Lowell was here he did some more work steadying the washer. I think it is more secure today so the spin cycle should be ok. 

I need to make some of Sweet Pea’s meat ball treats today too. 

For today’s fist upload I chose Sweet Pea as my model again. The title for the image is “four-legged”. She needed her angry bear toy as a comfort. She doesn’t seem particularly fond of having her picture taken. 

The word today is impossible. Few things are impossible in themselves: application to make them succeed fails us more often than the means, François de La Rochefoucauld.  To wonder at nothing when it happens, to consider nothing impossible before it has come to pass, Cicero.   I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible, Saint Teresa of Avila.  Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible, François de La Rochefoucauld.  To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so, Sir Walter Scott.  Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish, Jean de la Fontaine. Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible. Thomas a Kempis.  To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility. William Cobbett. The perfectability of humanity is indefinite, Marquis De Condorcet.  The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion, Socrates. Could we but rightly comprehend the mind of man, nothing would be impossible to us upon the earth, Paracelsus.  The mind, in discovering truths, acts in the same manner as it acts through the eye in discovering objects; when once any object has been seen, it is impossible to put the mind back to the same condition it was in before it saw it, Thomas Paine.  Let us measure ourselves by our Master, and not by our fellow-servants: then pride will be impossible, Charles Spurgeon. 

The next shot for today is titled “peaches”. I baked a biscuit and poured a can of peaches over it, topped with a dollop of whipped cream. 

Is there going to be a big change to our huge annual event that has gone on for years? The article I read today says that someone or some group is thinking of moving the Ohio State Fair. There is a plan to “conduct a study to determine whether to relocate the Ohio Expo Center & State Fair while redeveloping the existing site of the fairgrounds and the Ohio State Highway Patrol Academy”. In the discussion and plan things to be considered are the value of the “existing site” and if and how it could “help fund” a different site. Another consideration is the benefits of redeveloping the existing site for other uses. Experts of a thing called the Master Plan “found that the State Fair should continue to be located in Columbus” as its home as been since 1886. They further stated that “ moving the fairgrounds “would be incredibly difficult.” Another point toward not moving the fair grounds is considering  “money (spent) over the years improving the fairgrounds”. The present fair grounds are also used for several different venues through the year.

When I have a schedule like today I prefer to make an easy supper so I think it will be hamburger and fries tonight. 

Joy

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