May 9, 2023 a thought for today, We are too busy mopping the floor to turn off the faucet. Latin Proverb

The first upload for yesterday was titled “I have....”. I have taken Sweet Pea to the park to take a look to the city “wild” life. 

This is one of those days with a problem here and a problem there....it will end at some point. 

My second upload for yesterday was “my choice”. This is another image from my
archives. It was taken when I went to a horse back riding lesson with my niece. 

I have the bulletin done, the shut-in envelopes printed, and birthday cards done. So it looks like I am ready for printing.

Part of the doctors appointments for the week are out of the way. Still one to go. We are cancelling one of them. We have chanced directions on that one.

One of the uploads for today was “I read this....” This is a shot of the book I am currently reading on my tablet. It is John Grishams the Rainmaker. 

The word for today is manners.  Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image, Johann von Goethe.  Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices, Ralph Waldo Emerson.   Manners are not idle, but the fruit. Of loyal nature and of noble mind, Alfred Lord Tennyson.  Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed, Francois de la Rochefoucauld.  Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world, Lord Chesterfield. A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. Saint Basil. Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals. Horace Mann. Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere, Henry David Thoreau.  It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual, Thomas Carlyle.  Manners are very communicable: men catch them from each other, Ralph Waldo Emerson.  Good manners reflect something from inside an innate sense of consideration for others and respect for self, Emily Post.  Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way through the world, Lord Chesterfield.  Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste. Ralph Waldo Emerson. Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours. Benjamin Franklin.  Don't keep your good manners to the end another time, but begin with them. Apollonius of Tyana  Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child. Alexander Pope.  Gratitude bestows reverence.....changing forever how we experience life and the world,  John Milton.

Another upload for today “my choice” is from my archives. This one was taken on a lunch time walk in the downtown area of Columbus when worked along the river front. 

This article is about the history and growth of the Columbus Riverfront. In the fairly recent past we have had the development of the Scioto Mile Park and the Columbus Commons. The article called them “sister” parks that increased “public park space to the core of Downtown Columbus”. Before that the only ‘green space’ was a small area around the Statehouse. The article brought up the point that “in 1900 the Columbus Board of Trade started a movement for a “Better and Greater Columbus....... did not include parks”. In 1908 a plan was “unveiled” to include “buildings, parks and a mall way ....... the Scioto River into Franklinton”. This plan didn’t come about either. As part of the “river front” was the North Bank and at one point the view of  the Ohio Penitentiary which was built in 1834....it closed in 1984. As a note about the “pen” it “housed “Captain Morgan of the Confederacy and O. Henry” and was a tourist attraction. Much of the furniture in the Governor’s Mansion was constructed by the inmates. As we “traveled” on the river front all those years ago we would have seen factories and coal yards as well as an area called “tenements” and boarding houses extending from what is now Battelle Park to the Ohio Supreme Court. In 1913, the Scioto River flood swept away many of the tenements, boarding houses and factories”. In around 1921 things began to brighten up along the Eastern bank of the Scioto with a new City Hall and the AIU building and more.  Continuing south along the river front we would see another prison, more tenements and storage places until we come to where a feeder canal would have come into view in 1834. The only building still standing at about that point is the Cultural Arts Center. Continuing the growth of the “Scioto Mile”, in 1920 a plan for a place to be named “Victory Park” was brought up. This plan didn’t materialize either. After the depression, then World War II leading into the 1950s people began thinking of “greener pastures” along the river.  In 1962 an “Avenue of Flags” was put up. In 1975 another plan was announced. It was called  “South Riverfront: A Park for People” with...... fountains at Main and the Scioto River”.  We now call it Bicentennial Park. So a plan proposed in 1908 became a reality 103 years later. 

It is baked spaghetti for dinner tonight. 

Joy

                      curb side depositories every three feet perhaps?