July 22, 2023 a thought for today, There is a cause for all things. Italian Proverb

The first upload for yesterday was “t is for....”. We had a pretty good storm the night before and several trees had some limbs broken. This was one block over from my house. 

There is not too much on the agenda for today for a change. The only thing besides some baking in the kitchen is grocery pickup. Bob, Sweet Pea and me, finished the pickup after Lowell changed Bob’s dressing. Now comes the putting everything away. 

The nurse who was here yesterday mentioned something Bob may like to eat. She gets it at Dairy Queen...something called “Puppy Chow”. So I looked up the recipe. That is one of the things I will be in the kitchen for this afternoon. I checked the carbs and sugar ..... out of sight. I will only be able to have a half teaspoon. 

The second upload for yesterday was from my archives and is of one of my grandsons. This was one of the “my choice” image. 

The weather cooled off after the rain but it bounced back pretty quick. It is about 80 degrees now. 

I got some containers to start some plants in hydroponically. I also ordered some plant food for that style of growing....it is supposed to get here today so I may start the “new” method, new to me, and on a small scale. Just a few plants to start with to see how successful or not that I will be. I may start with one plant this afternoon. 

An upload for today is “d is for...”. A dandelion is a perfect model for this title and image.

The word today is almost.  A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one, Thomas Carlyle. Almost anything is possible with time, Jane Austen. Almost all life depends on probabilities, Voltaire. In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept, Quintilian. He who can preserve gentleness amid pains, and peace amid worry multitude of affairs, is almost perfect, Saint Francis de Sales. So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend, Robert Louis Stevenson.  Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it. William Ellery Channing. Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship. James Russell Lowell.  Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health. Robert Louis Stevenson.  If you attempt certain things at the right time, they are easy to accomplish - in fact, they almost get done by themselves. If you undertake them before the time is right, not only will they fail, but they will often become impossible to accomplish even when the time would have been right. Francesco Guicciardini.

Another of the “my choice” images is from my archives and is of the crow’s nest on the replica of the Santa Maria that was on our downtown river bank. 

This article is a little bit of history about the Union Station Arch, the 400-ton landmark, and what happened to it through the years. The arch has moved twice since its beginning. This is a story about its history.  We had a busy train station in downtown Columbus many years ago called Union Station. The first passenger train coming to that station, the Columbus Union Depot, was in 1850. By 1874 the depot had doubled in size so a new Union Station was built. In 1897 Columbus population had grown and it was time for another station to be constructed. By 1899 the new arcade was finished. In this station there were “two arches at each of its ends”. Be 1976 it was determined that the station could be demolished. There was a judge at the time who “saved the day”, to a degree. One of the arches was rescued and transported to a spot on Marconi Boulevard. This “spot” was then named “Arch Park” and was dedicated in 1999. Later on the monument was moved another short distance to where it still stands today. Back to the time the station was demolished: “train travel started to decline after World War II. Eventually, Columbus leaders determined that the city needed a convention center more than it needed its long-held train station”. Once the station was gone, the Greater Columbus Convention Center was built in its place. A group called the Battelle Commons Company discussed preserving the station's iconic arcade with the Ohio Historical Society. That plan was cancelled due to expense. Note: the demolition of the Union Station was called by some “Friday Night Massacre." There was a judge named George C. Smith who made a plan to keep at least a part of the arcade. The demolition in total had to be stopped but there were two delays one was getting all the right people contacted the other was an Ohio State football game with Purdue on the Saturday that the demolition would be completed. So there was a delay was getting the “temporary order to stop the destruction”. The order was finally signed and hand delivered moments before the last arch was set to be “wrecked”. That is how the arch began its journey to what is now the Arena District. 

I think dinner will be sloppy joe and potato cakes (I didn’t make them the other day). 

Joy

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