May 3, 2023 a thought for today, The result validates the deeds. Latin Proverb

An upload for yesterday was titled “I held this....”. Pretty obvious....my cell phone and that is always close at hand. 

The news about Bob is not what I was hoping for. We will be sharing a difficult journey. 

My agenda is relatively clear today. I have most of the computer “work” done for the week. I plan to work in the kitchen for a while, dishes, frig and dinner (and some diabetic “treats” to bake....something called egg muffins). Then of course there are the photos I have to idealize and generate for the day. 

The next upload for yesterday is the one from the group “your choice”. So I chose one of my very ripe tomatoes that I shot a few years back, when I was still able to garden.

The weather is throwing us a less than pleasing curve....almost late autumn like temps and dampness. 

One of the uploads for today was titled “I walked here....”. I didn’t actually walk here but I see if often and have “walked there in my mind”. It reminds me of a portion of secret garden. 

The word for today is kindness.  A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles. William Hazlitt.  Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. Edgar Allan Poe.  I expect to pass through life but once. If, therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow-being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again. William Penn.  Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe.  If a person seems wicked do not cast him away. Awaken him with your words elevate him with your deeds repay his injury with your kindness. Do not cast him away cast away his wickedness. Lao Tzu.  When you confer a benefit on those worthy of it, you confer a favor on all.  Publilius Syrus.  Silence the angry man with love. Silence the illnatured man with kindness. Silence the miser with generosity. Silence the liar with truth. Gautama Buddha.  The dew of compassion is a tear. Lord (George Gordon) Byron.  Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. Philo. Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief? William Blake.  If a man be gracious to strangers, it shows that he is a citizen of the world, and his heart is no island, cut off from other islands, but a continent that joins them. Francis Bacon.  

The second upload for today is from my group that is using “my choice” everyday for this month. My choice for today is the capture I made a while back of the doorway to a bingo game. The building is in a small town in Ohio.

It’s interesting how people envision something and then make it happen. There was an ice cream shop near Circleville with a history. The article started out  “Columbus was a thriving town in 1837....... Robert H. Erlenbusch was born .......in a pioneer home”. His name is important in this story. As a young boy her enjoyed “activity on the canal (near to his home area)....games and picnics in the large groves of trees which surrounded Columbus”. He earned “pocket money” working for his uncle. He also had a taste for something sweet like ice cream that was “rare to Columbus”.When he became a young man, around 22, he worked at baking “fancy goods” and making ice cream. In 1859 when he married he and his new wife opened a business that “continued for ninety-eight years at the southeast corner of Livingston and High Streets”. The second story of the building was their home. He used a wheelbarrow to bring the cream from farmers to make his ice cream that he kept in a freezer on top of a large piece of ice. To make the ice cream he packed salted ice around the freezer then it was “spun right to left”. As it became thicker it was whipped with a spatula. Eventually flavors were added to the vanilla bean flavor, fruits and berries and later black walnuts were used as flavorings. Time went by slavery and wars happened as the years passed. The ice cream store flourished through all the seasons. The shop became a center for weddings and “beautifully executed” delicacies besides the ice cream. In 1870 a soda fountain was installed. In the “Gay 90's” the name Purity ice cream was offered. As younger members of the family took over there were the baking and candy making services added. Eventually ice cream was available for delivery. It was delivered in “cedar tubs and metal cylinders” which were returned when empty at the next delivery. Power equipment and freezers came along. Production reached fifteen hundred gallons. In 1957 the doors were closed for the last time. “The fourth generation of the family had chosen other fields of endeavor, and so, just two years shy of a century at Livingston and High Streets, Miss Florence Erlenbusch and her brother Carl decided to retire”. The fine furniture that was acquired over the years, the molds and memorabilia and other equipment were sold or donated to the Ohio Historical Society. 

Dinner will be meatloaf and mashed potatoes for dinner. 

Joy

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