July 12, 2023 a thought for today, Joking must have its proper limit. Latin Proverb
Last evening we had a rough spot and worried me during the night but today is “all better”. As a matter of fact it is a little like Santa has been here. A few weeks ago some of our family got Bob a laptop computer....today he got a couple of more things he enjoys to occupy the long hours of treatments he is and will be experiencing. He is a ham radio enthusiasts. Today, his brother loaned him a hand held radio. Then just an hour ago he received a heavy package in the mail. When he opened it he found that it was a portable ham radio that he had his heart set on from the time of the Dayton Hamvention a month ago. They were sold out of it there and he has been searching for one since. Today it arrived....his brother somehow located one and had it delivered to him.
After Bob got home from another of the medical appointments we took Sweet Pea and ran a couple of errands. I needed to stop to fill the gas tank, Bob was able to do that for me, then we picked up lunch at McDonalds.
Sue is home today. The twins are with their dad for the next few days. So she will be catching on some interests here a home.
We are having a beautiful summer day today. So far the summer days we have had have not all been the typical summer weather. Tomorrow we are suppose to get some rain so I want to go out to the side yard to see if I have any blooming flowers that I can bring in for the vase on the dining room table.
My computer is getting weaker and weaker due to older and older and lots and lots of use. Lowell surprised me this morning by bringing me a computer he had purchased some time ago but hasn’t had the time to use (he now uses a lap top). All I need to do now is set it up. The place were I am expecting some problems as well as time is installing all of my familiar software and files on the new one. I have a back up for two areas of use but the one that takes up a lot of my day is the one that I predict will offer me a challenge in setting up .....Photoshop.
The word for today is admire. You always admire what you really don't understand. Blaise Pascal. Many admire, few know. Hippocrates. I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own. Marcus Tullius Cicero. Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass. Ralph Waldo Emerson. Fools admire, but men of sense approve. Alexander Pope. We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us. Francois de La Rochefoucauld. Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly, William Makepeace Thackeray. Be not too hasty to trust or to admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels, but they live like men, Samuel Johnson. Admire as much as you can. Most people do not admire enough, Vincent Van Gogh. What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire, Blaise Pascal. Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration, William Hazlitt. We live by admiration, hope and love, William Wordsworth. No nobler feeling than this, of admiration for one higher than himself, dwells in the breast of man. It is to this hour, and at all hours, the vivifying influence in man's life, Thomas Carlyle. Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural, Ralph Waldo Emerson. Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness, Horace. Admiration and familiarity are strangers, George Sand.
Franklinton was one of the first settlements in the Columbus area and through the years was pretty much forgotten or less noticed. Now it is making a new appearance with all “modern” structures, many on the “artsy” side. This next phase called “Gravity’s Second Phase” has begun. A plan for 380-plus apartments and 200,000 square feet of commercial space is on the move. The location of this phase is across West Broad Street from the first Gravity building (whose connecting art work has caused conversations). Some things to watch for in this phase are a 12-story apartment tower, a six story office building with OhioHealth on the ground floor, a 5-story apartment with shared living units, a 899-space garage, a 5-story town house and apartment buildings lining the west side of the garage. There are two renovated buildings on McDowell where the plan is to house restaurants. At this point the new buildings are identified by alphabet letters. Some people have moved into Building B, the apartment tower and the parking garage is now open to the public. There is renovation going on in the two older structures. Work will begin on the “Gravity Experience Park”. There will be space there for music, food trucks, “pop-up retail” and pickle ball courts that will be “bumper inner tube ice rink in the wintertime.” In the shared living suites, in Building D, the apartments are fully furnished with private bedrooms and the shared living space with “ a fitness center and swimming pool, and yoga centers” available. There will be a “Gravity Third Phase” called the Greenhouse. In this phase there will be a seven-story building and parking garage located between McDowell and South May. The Gravity and Greenhouse brands are being looked at in Austin, Denver, Salt Lake City and Miami as possible destinations for the concepts.
Dinner is to be planned on the fly.....Sue won’t be here and Lowell was planning to take Bob to a new opening of a chicken carry out.
Joy
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