August 31, 2023 a thought for today, Heavenly music is interpreted differently by everyone. Chinese Proverb

An upload for yesterday was “a before/after.” There is one of me at about four with a wide open mouth (kind of stuck)....and me now. 

It has been a busy day....most of them are these days. I re-arranged the printing time for the bulletin from 8:30 to later. Bob was going for his next chemo treatment so I wanted to be here when he left. That wasn’t until ten o’clock. I also had set up an appointment for Sweet Pea. So I asked Sue to  take her to the appointment (annual checkup and shots). Sue took her to the 9:15 appointment. 

After they had all started out on those appointments, I left for the church. I got the printing done after a couple of printer adjustments. Once they were printed and placed I left to mail the few bulletins out to members then I stopped at Kroger to pick up meds so I didn’t have to have someone else pick them up for me so I wouldn’t have to leave Bob without someone here. 

The second upload for yesterday was another of the “my choice” images. This one was taken of my hibiscus last years. Gorgeous, aren’t they?

I have been having trouble with my ipad charging so I thought I would have to ask Sue to take it for repair for me. I set it up to charge before I left just in case it would work. When I got home, it had a full charge. I don’t know what is going on, maybe the battery going bad. Then when I went to shoot today’s photo my camera wouldn’t come on. After that and when I got home, I plugged it in to charge also, finally after some urging it got a full charge. Maybe I over use some of my technology...smile. 

After all of that I got the laundry together and put it in the washer. With that started I swept up some of the kibbles Sweet Pea had left on the floor for us.....she picks out the part she likes and leaves the rest. 

The first upload for today is “this season.” This is the best way I could think to show summer in Ohio. 

The word today is environment. God has in fact written two books not just one. Of course we are all familiar with the first book he wrote namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation, Francis Bacon.  Every man is like the company he is wont to keep, Euripides.   The poetry of the earth is never dead, John Keats. They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse, Sitting Bull.  It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it, Jean-Jacques Rousseau.  One touch of nature makes the whole world kin, William Shakespeare. The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man, Charles Darwin. True wisdom consists in not departing from nature and in molding our conduct according to her laws and model, Seneca the Younger.  A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children, John James Audubon.  It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature, Henry David Thoreau. In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous, Aristotle. Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself, Chief Seattle.  Your descendants shall gather your fruits, Virgil.  In the environment, every victory is temporary, every defeat permanent, Thomas Jefferson.  

For the second upload today .... another of the “my choice”. These flowers were near the end of their “lives”, but I think still offer a hint of beauty. For their counter parts in the garden outside, the season was coming to an end. 

Another of our area communities is growing. There is a mixed development planned for the area around the Intel Site, 400 areas of land to be exact. The proposal is divided into “two subareas that sit directly across from the Intel site.” There would be apartments with retail and restaurants, and some multi family housing with senior housing included. There would be green space with two streams and a ravine artfully situated. Add to all this would be a data center, warehouse, and offices. This is the proposal stage some areas of the land would have to be annexed the rest is already in the Johnstown. There are apparently mock ups of the plan and slides and other presentations for a vote of “a range of local stakeholders, including the Johnstown-Monroe School District.” They are keeping in mind the “need to proactively plan for future development in order to preserve farmland and the historic character of existing towns and cities.”

I am thinking sloppy joes for dinner.

Joy 

                along an Ohio USA country road