April 5, 2023 a thought for today, The empty waggon must make room for the full one. German Proverb

An upload for April 4 was “above your head”. This was shot when there were leaves on the trees. 

This is an “easy-way” day. There is not too much on the agenda. I have most of the items I need to print ready for tomorrow. I have one last-minute item that I am waiting for....so what’s new?

We covered some interesting items in our meeting last night. One gave us some food for thought. Most of the other things on the meeting agenda were taken care of in good time. Patti brought some of the things she will have for folks to put in an Easter bag for the HM3 folks on Saturday evening. 

The second upload for yesterday was “cemetery”. This was also from the archives. It was taken at one of the oldest cemetery’s in Columbus where some people of history are buried, Greenlawn.  

I’m feeling the need to get away from the computer for a while so Sweet Pea and I are going for a short ride. 

It looks like we are in for some more high winds again. There is a piece of siding on the house that is loose. Lowell is going to get someone to take care of it. I am hoping it won’t come all the way down in the wind that is coming up today.  

My first upload for today is called “solo”. This is Benjamin in a solo attempt to reach something that is quite a bit out of touch for him. 

The word for today is find. We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. Henry David Thoreau.  Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside. Honore de Balzac. I criticize by creation - not by finding fault. Marcus Tullius Cicero. To find yourself, think for yourself. Socrates.  Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery. Matthew Arnold.  Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found. James Russell Lowell.  I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. Isaac Newton. We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes. Amos Bronson Alcott. You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Henry David Thoreau. What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness? Jean-Jacques Rousseau.  This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections. Saint Augustine.  The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. Honore de Balzac.  We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend. Robert Louis Stevenson.  

My second upload for today is “planes, trains or automobiles”. I have images of the other two, planes
and automobiles, also but decided to use this one of a train stopped on an overpass instead of complicating it with three separate images or one subject.

Here is a thing from the past, a memory that makes me smile. It use to be when we needed gasoline in a car we pulled up to a pump and someone came out of the station and pulled the pump, attached it to our car and pumped the amount of gasoline we had specified. They then cleaned the front windows and used a dip stick to check the oil, not so anymore. Except for, in Columbus, one station on Riverside Drive. This station opened in 1966 and maintained their service to this date. At that station there is still free air for the tires and one pump for those who prefer to pump their own gas. The author of the piece visited the station and saw that only one customer used the full service pump in a period of two hours. There is one major difference to the different pumps at the station. The gas from the full service pump costs 40 to 50 cents more a gallon than the self-serve. The owner explained that “the core of the business....is the two-bay garage for car repairs. The station also has a small convenience store”. There is an atmosphere of family all around, after all the family has owned the business all these years and they treat regular customers like family. Apparently there is at least one other station in Franklin County that offers a full-service pump. As an addition to this article, here is a bit of history about gas pumps. Early on hardware and general stores stored kerosene in large tanks to make it available to ladle into customers’ containers. In 1885 in Fort Wayne, Indiana the first kerosene pump was invented. The kerosene was used “to fuel stoves and lamps.”. That early kerosene pump evolved into a gasoline pump. It looked different than today’s pump. It was wooden with a suction pump operated by a hand lever. It “evolved” as the years went by and in 1905 a hose attachment was added. By 1918 a “visible pump” was added so fuel was visibly measured by a “large glass cylinder”. By 1934 computer meters became involved with the pump operation and the pump evolution continued. Gas stations were formed during those growing years.  The hardware and general stores were eventually replaced with “five gallon cans stacked curbside or in large above-ground tanks, the fuel was poured into the automobile’s gas tank using a funnel with a chamois as a filter”. These curbside stops were a public concern and were changed to “dedicated retail facilities outside of city centers......and were once considered “filling stations.” 

This is one of those days where I have a third upload. This one is called “fun with perspective”. I separated one of her angry bird toys, enlarged it and put it back in the image frame....hoping it would give the impression of one angry bird looking out for another.

We are having seasoned baked salmon for dinner. I have found one that is pre-seasoned that is delicious. 

Joy 

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