September 2, 2023 a thought for today, Learning is better than house and land. Chinese Proverb

My fist upload for yesterday was “my choice” from my archives. These flowers still offered their beauty even on their way out. Their counter parts in the garden outside were showing the change of season too. 

I arranged to do the curbside pick up early today. Sue wanted to visit with the girls and wanted to get with them as early as possible. She stayed with Bob while I picked up the groceries. 

I like to stop at one of the fast food places when I leave the store. White Castle serves lunch, all items all the time. McDonalds doesn’t serve the “lunch” menu before 11:00 on the week end, I wanted a fish sandwich. So I stopped at White Castle. I got Bob a chocolate milk shake just in case he had some appetite back. I always get me an iced tea. The iced tea machine at White Castle has been “on the fritz” for over a week. So.....no iced tea for me. 

My second upload is “photo from the outside.” I tried getting an image of Sweet Pea looking out the door. I wasn’t counting on the other reflections. 

I am waiting for an extension cable that I ordered some time ago so I can rearrange some of my computer equipment to make a little more room. It was supposed to be here over a week ago.  They have moved the “ETA” to today. 

We are having perfect summer weather today. Actually we have had a pretty decent summer for the most part. 

We have arranged for hospice to be here today to visit with Bob. I am sensitive about the visit right now.

The first photo for today is “happiness is.” I caught this image and thought of how all the kids are happy when they visit this place. 

The word today is equality. The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. Aristotle. The rich man in his castle, the poor man at his gate, God made them, high or lowly, and ordered their estate, Cecil Frances Alexander. All people are equal, it is not birth, it is virtue alone that makes the difference, Voltaire. Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow, Ralph Waldo Emerson. An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects, Martin Luther.  I believe in the equality of man.  I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy, Thomas Paine. I hate to complain . . . No one is without difficulties whether in high or low life and every person know best where their own shoe pinches, Abigail Adams. The hole and the patch should be commensurate, Thomas Jefferson. You cannot have all chiefs; your gotta has Indians too, Proverbs.  

The second photo upload for today is “framed.” As I was waiting to pickup, my t this image of grocery carts in a “waiting area.” 

With the OSU football season starting I thought this was an apropos story. The title is a little strong, “Ohio and Michigan almost went to war, How rivalry dates back 220 years.” It starts out by saying that one of the most heated rivalries in college foot ball dates back to the 1800s when parts of the country now known as the Midwest was being carved up for statehood.” Apparently there was a “disagreement over Ohio’s northwest border with what was then the Michigan Territory that nearly started a war. The so-called “Toledo War.” Further in the article it stated that the dispute was over the 450 square miles of land, the Toledo strip, belonged to Ohio or to Michigan. Part of the land or “line” was held for shipping reasons and the Maumee River and part of the Maumee Bay. But due to technology of the times the “line” of “ownership” was the problem. As it turned out the “assumed dividing line turned out to be incorrect, as a fur trapper told delegates of the Ohio Constitutional Convention in 1802 that it didn’t include the river.” In 1803 it was stimulated that the state’s borders did include the Maumee River. Congress accepted this but the federal legislators “never acted on its boundary provision.” Settlers in Toledo with deeds to the property claimed that it was part of Monro County, Michigan because living in Michigan was less expense since tax benefits were better that Ohio offered. Michigan kept applying for statehood by was repeatedly denied due to refusing to give up the clain to the Toledo strip. In trying to settle things in 1845 the Ohio legislator and the Ohio Common Pleas Court attempted to validate the claim. There was a plan by militias to “prepare to take the Toledo strip by force.” Prior to that the Michigan “territorial governor” created law that Ohioans were not allowed to come into Toledo.” Michigan asked President Andrew Jackson to step in. He sent negotiators. It wasn’t resolved....and Jackson replaced the Michigan Territory governor. Decades later the “war” began it came to an end in 1836 with a compromise “that allowed Ohio to claim Toledo and the Maumee River and Maumee Bay. In exchange for giving up Toledo, Michigan was given what today is known as its Upper Peninsula.” At that time according to the article Michiganders believed they go the short end of the deal. However, later they found that the Upper Peninsula was rich in minerals and is now seen by “Michiganders as an outdoor oasis.” The article asks if the rivalry “harken back to the “Toledo War.”  Historians believe the rivalry between the Buckeyes and the Wolverines “is, in fact, linked to the Toledo War.” As an ending note in the article it was brought to attention that there was a time the University of Michigan was going to be located in Toledo rather than Ann Arbor and people invested in land planing on that event. 

Creamed chicken on biscuits for me and sausage gravy on biscuits for Bob. 

Joy

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