June 26, 2023 a thought for today, Don't buy the house, buy the neighborhood. Russian Proverb

One of the uploads for yesterday was called “bridges or arches”. There are a multitude of arches in my church. Here are a few of them. 

We are still in the morning hours and I think I have accomplished a days work already. Our trash containers go out to the curb this evening for tomorrow morning pick up. I needed to clear out our top loading freezer. There were things in there that had been forgotten and have passed the expiration date. So I worked on that. The frig was also at a point for clearing so that was next on the list. It required unloading and reloading the dish washer. This was all after the usual morning virtual visits. I also decided to start the beef broth in the pressure cooker so all I will have to do for dinner is add the homemade noodles. 

A second upload was called “macro shot”. This is my choice for today. I like the subdued colors and the patterns.

There was another problem that I had to tend to during all of this. Sweet Pea had diarrhea during the night so there were a couple of areas in the house that needed scrubbed. She also needed a “bed bath”. I can’t get her in the bath tub by myself so I had to bathe her back side from a pan of soap and water. Then I gave her a tablespoon of baby food pumpkin to, hopefully, settle her stomach. 

I haven’t taken time to get the bulletin started as I usually do on Monday morning. I got a hint of something that may offer a bit of a bump for me. Tom mentioned yesterday that we are having a “mystery” speaker for next Sunday. That was a surprise, I had no idea that was coming. I don’t know what to put on the front cove for the name of the “surprise” speaker and may not have the customary bio for them. So I will have to wait for that when someone has time to let me know. 

My first upload for today is “statue or monument”. This was one I had in my garden for several years as you can tell by the wear from the weather. 

Lowell took Bob for a doctors appointment today. I am thinking this is going to be a major stepping stone in his treatment. There may be a port applied today depending on the blood work. There hasn’t been a notation that chemotherapy would start today, I think that will be decided after a blood test to determine other factors.

The word today is strength. Little strokes fell great oaks, Benjamin Franklin.  No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path, Buddha.  Persuasion is better than force. Aesop. We acquire the strength we have overcome, Ralph Waldo Emerson. Put a stout heart to a steep hill, Egyptian Proverbs.  Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength, George Henry Lewes. It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done, Vincent Van Gogh.  It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men, Frederick Douglass. I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest, Henry David Thoreau.  Rule your mind or it will rule you, Horace.  What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne. Marcus Aurelius.  We must go on, because we can't turn back,  Robert Louis Stevenson. Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength. Saint Francis de Sales.  Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light. Saint Bernard.  Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is? Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.  Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.  Jonathan Swift.  Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body. Ovid.  When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they? Aeschylus. 

The next upload for today is “my choice”. My peonies didn’t do so well this year so I chose a photo from the archives. 

In this story I think that this training will not only possibly produce new law officers it will help the students better understand the law as it may relate to their everyday lives as they go on. The title to the article is: “Students learning crime scene investigation tactics”. The article mentions that one of the first things police officers do in a crime situation is investigate the scene itself. Lancaster high school students have in their school is a crime scene class where they learn the investigative techniques in criminal science and forensics in the class. According to the article there is even a national championship for students in this field in several states. One of the scenarios is in assault cases. The students examine evidence, note the evidence, collect samples of  DNA, and photograph the scene. In the championship trials they are timed. These crime lab tactic classes are a two-year course with about fourteen students in each class. The junior year is law enforcement with a trip to the police academy. In the senior year the attention is mostly in forensics and corrections. Upon graduation the students may work in a sheriff’s department in a correction’s area or as a dispatcher. Eventually some become canine officers, some forensic scientists. 

We are having beef and noodles, mashed potatoes, and corn bread casserole for dinner. 

Joy

                  it’s a dangerous job