July 26, 2023 thought for today, What can't be cured, must be endured. German Proverb

My first upload for yesterday was “v is for....”. I set up this image and decided to use it for today. The V is for valise. 

Hospital is still on today’s purview in this Rector house. It looks like it will be yet another day. Bob is cross and extremely upset. And the cancer is still growing.

Sweet Pea and I took a break. We drove by the park after picking up a McDonald sandwich for each of us (she eats the meat but not the bread). 

I started a couple more house plant to the hydroponic method of growth. I have been able to get most of them with a healthy set of roots attached. Others have not had a root system attached so I dipped the stem in plant hormone powder before placing them in fertilized water hoping they will develop roots soon. Some of the plant are in containers made specifically for that purpose. The others are in mason jars. I think I have eleven plants started. If they are all doing well by the end of summer I will give their larger “parents” away, I have four other plants that don’t lend themselves to hydroponic growth for one specific reason and another so they will be kept as is after being transplanted. Taking care of these plants is helping in a minimal way of calming my emotions at this point in time. 

My second image for yesterday was this one that I pulled from my archives. This little rascal seems to be trying to decide how best to get into the container for food. 

Sue is spending the day with the twins again today. Lately she has been able to spend three days a week with them. Soon school will be starting so that will not be happening. She is being smart and making the most of it.

I have the bulletin ready to print and the envelopes addressed. So things are ready for printing tomorrow. So I had some time to try to set up the “new” computer too. It’s a whole new software that I am unfamiliar with so it is taking some time.

The first upload for today is “f is for....”. In this image I used the fan (and the five blades) to represent F. 

The word today is ambition. Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition, Thomas Jefferson.  If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest, Publilius Syrus. We often pass from love to ambition, but we hardly ever return from ambition to love, François de La Rochefoucauld.  The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition, Luc De Clapiers. Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue, Edgar Quinet.  The same ambition can destroy or save, And makes a patriot as it makes a knave, Alexander Pope. Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping, Jonathan Swift.  Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled by great ambitions, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.  He who would rise in the world should veil his ambitions with the forms of humanity, Chinese Proverb. When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank, Marcus Tullius Cicero. 

For the second upload for today I used another image from my archives as “my choice”. This was one of my fish tanks from a few years ago. 

I noticed this article and took a quick look to see if there was anything that might be of general interest. It touches on some thing that seem to be an interest to many people when they come to the Ohio State fair. It seems, at least for this year, bricks and duct tape see to be major tools for artists. There are creations of the Mona Lisa in interlocking plastic bricks and The Thinker in duct tape. They are part of contests along with the more traditional kind tor ages 11 to 17, and 18 and older in Kasich Hall B. In the “Entertainment Alley........near the flea market (formerly known as the Antiques and Collectibles Pavilion) there will be such performers as The Major League Circus Show which is baseball mixing acrobatics, juggling and circus stunts; The Farmers Daughter Show, gymnastics, rope tricks, her udderly amazing milk bottle walk and more. Next on the list of things to see and experience are “The Reflector & Sparkle”. There are two walkers with 6,000 mirrors in their combined costumes that “captures a lot of attention, whether interacting with intrigued guests or dancing to the music at various events”. There was a suggestion in the article that fair goers may want to plan a visit to the Ohio History Center and Ohio Village while they are so close, it is free with free with the fair admission ticket. On the fair agenda is “The Strong & Amazing Show........aerial stunt show at the fair. .......a circus straps artist and dance trapezist”. Of course as there is every year free live music. It will include 25 free musical performances. There will be some “newbies”. One is a band of Nationwide Children’s Hospital staff, families and friends. There are other out-of-state entertainers on the list of entertainers. In the article’s list of things to see is the  ‘The Dunk’ located at the Natural Resources Park. The newest “resident” along the Geological Walk Through Time exhibit is a life-size sculpture called ‘'the Dunk”. As the article describes “ the powerful prehistoric predator that was named Ohio’s state fossil fish in late 2020" who lived about 359 to 382 million years ago. Another exhibit at the fair is “NASA’s ‘Journey to Tomorrow”. These are just a few of the things to see at this year’s fair. 

I think it will be spaghetti for dinner, to much for just Sue and I so I will freeze most of it.  

Joy  

                                 never ending