July 18, 2023 a thought for today, Abuse does not invalidate usefulness. Latin Proverb

An upload for yesterday was “h is for ....”. My choice....hubcap. It was an easy one to find. 

I am one of those people who absolutely hate (and I don’t like using that word either) not honoring an obligation that I have willingly and happily committed myself to. This is one of those days I had to do that. I was supposed to be at food pantry today. At this point I don’t like leaving Bob with no one near by. I was the only one available for him here at home today. So I called to let them know I couldn’t make it today. I tried to call early enough for them to get someone else to be there. 

I made it to a meeting last night. I have had to miss about three meetings and felt I wanted not to let another one go by without making it. 

The second upload for yesterday was “my choice”. I kind of like this composition of this photo. The shapes of the weed and the lines and textures of the rest of the objects. 

I managed to use the time at home well. I ordered refills on meds for both me and Sweet Pea. I made a well over due appointment for myself at the eye doctor and one to get my hair cut. All of the appointments with a calendar near by to schedule around Bob’s appointments and other established calendar items. 

I took a break to take Sweet Pea for a ride as I picked up lunch for Bob and me. Then it was back to the computer. 

We had some rain last night with rumbling of thunder  and a little lightening that made Sweet Pea to nervous to eat, either her dinner or her special treat. She wanted noting to do with either. She seems to sense the thunder well before we hear it or see any lightening. 

The first upload for today is “a is for....”. I picked this one and turned it to a sketch. This is an alarm we have had on the garage for some time. My husband installed it over fifty years ago. 

The word for today is against. Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. Marcus Aurelius.  I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. Thomas Jefferson. When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him. Jonathan Swift. Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. Harriet Beecher Stowe.  Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it. William Penn.  I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen. Martin Luther. Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God. Benjamin Franklin.  I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one. Henry Ward Beecher.  It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul. Heraclitus.  Is it not hard that even those who are with us should be against us - that a man's enemies, in some degree, should be those of the same household of faith? Yet so it is. John Wesley.  It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others. Michel de Montaigne.

The second upload, another “my choice, was a small garden at the drive-in window at the McDonalds near my home. 

This article is from another of my favorite reporters. It is on the light side and may offer information on some gardening projects. In this article he planting and dealing with basil and garlic. He opens by saying “basil likes me”. He said he had tried to grow it before by with not much success. This year he feels he has found a better location, the two plants he planted are “thriving”. He is glad because basil is expensive in the stores and pesto, with basil, is a favorite in many dishes especially spaghetti. He goes on to write how easy it is to prepare the successfully grown basil. He doesn’t think it necessary to blanch the leaves then “plunges” them in an ice bath as many suggest. He also plants another ingredient for pesto....garlic. He claims that it, garlic, is easy to grow. Easier than many other vegetables. He plants it in the fall so that he sees green shoots “at the first hint of warmth the next spring”. He claims that he can harvest it by mid to late June and have that space for another crops which is an “important quality in my small garden”. In the article he claims that ground hogs, deer and bugs leave it, garlic, alone. His gardening philosophy is “don’t grow stuff that’s more trouble than its worth, such as zucchini”. Some of his suggestions about other crops are: oak leaf lettuce because it tolerates heat; Swiss chard, good for small spaces; peppers, because they taste good; and cherry tomatoes, as opposed to others that wilt or rot on the vine (and the cherry tomatoes go well with basil). 

We are having left over meat loaf in mushroom gravy with mashed potatoes for dinner. 

Joy 

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