November 27, 2023 a thought for today, Lose your temper and you lose a friend; lie and you lose yourself. Hopi Indian Proverb

My fist upload for yesterday was “vegetables”. I didn’t have and fresh vegetable in the house, well some tomatoes and lettuce. I decided to use the bag of frozen mixed vegetables for the image and then for dinner.

The second upload for yesterday was “yummy”. When I was picked up my brunch for the day I got a pumpkin cream pie along with the burger. I picked it with this “assigned” subject image for the day. And it was yummy. 

My last upload for yesterday was  “silhouette”. I don’t do too many silhouette style images although I find them intriguing. I may have used one very similar to this one of one of my great grand sons.

Life happens. This day morphed into little bumps in the path. I took the balloons out of the last two crochet “snowballs.” I found that one instead of coming out in one piece as all the others had I had to fish for it with a crochet hook. That was number one bump. The printing went fine. I stopped at White Castle for a brunch order. Then made a round of some photo spots. I wasn’t completely satisfied with the photos I got. Maybe when I get them in Photoshop I will see more than I did when I did an in camera preview. Number two bump.

When I got home and started on the brunch I decided it wasn’t what I was really hungry for. That was the third bump. 

I started on some what turned out to be multitasking chores that need to be done. I put a few ornaments on the tree....I don’t seem to be getting it done all at one time. I put an ornament on in between other tasks. I put the new electric blanket on the bed and found that the plug is not at the spot ideal for the outlet in the wall. It works but a little on the awkward side. This is number four bump. Then when I started the download of todays photos the memory card reader wasn’t reading. Then the printer wasn’t printing until I ‘rebooted’ it. More “bumps.” 

The first upload for today s “thankful”. I am thankful for so many things it would be hard to share

them all in one upload. I decided on an everyday simple thing that I am grateful for.....ATM machines when I need them and the bank is closed.

I should go back to the beginning of the day. Yesterday I had two visits, one a visual call from my great grand children. It was a great call, two calls actually. Then Lowell and Rebecca stopped by. I put some of my uploads on hold for today. I had just about finished the sermon upload to facebook so that was off the todo list. When I got up this morning and before I left for church I finished yesterdays uploads. 

I think I will stop on the todo list for today. Tomorrow is another day, maybe a smoother path than today. 

The second image I chose for the subject matter “I remember....”. I have a bank of memories. To settle on one and chose it without going through the memory bank I chose a sliding board. I remember when I laughed and smiled while a flight downward. And when I watched as my kids and my grandchildren and great grand children laughed and smiled. Memories that don’t fade.

The word for today is humor. The secret to humor is surprise. Aristotle.  A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.  Henry Ward Beecher.. Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society. William Makepeace Thackeray. True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper. Thomas Carlyle. Fortune and humor govern the world, Francois de la Rochefoucauld. Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense, Phaedrus.  The happiness or unhappiness of men depends as much on their humors as on fortune, Francois de la Rochefoucauld.  A jest often decides matters of importance more effectively and happily than seriousness, Horace.  Many a true word is spoken in jest, English Proverbs.  No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor, Samuel Taylor Coleridge.  Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be, William Hazlitt.  One never needs their humor as much a when they argue wit7h a fool, Chinese Proverbs. 

The third image upload for the 27th was “texture”. I found this piece of wood that needs a facelift but I need it for todays image before we consider what kind of face lift it will get. 

I remember this parade. We use to look as forward to it as the Macy’s Day parade around Thanksgiving time. We use to watch it from one of the Lazarus’ parking garages. According to the article the “history of holiday parades in Columbus falls into two distinct eras.” There was a parade to “kickoff” the Christmas shopping season at Lazarus. During the season there were activities at Lazarus where people were “dazzled by elaborate window displays.” On the sixth floor of the store was Santaland filled with a talking Christmas tree, a top workshop and Santa himself. Another happening was for decades there was a Lazarus Santa Claus Parade. In time it grew to be travel “a five-mile route from North Broadway to the store downtown.” I was reminded of the fact that the first parade was on December 1, 1922. Boy Scouts and Girls Scouts were in the early parade and then “escorted” Santa into te store. The parade grew and changed over the yeas. It moved to the first Sunday after Thanksgiving. As it moved and grew into the 50s and 60s it eventually included “as many as 10 marching bands, dozens of floats and popular Disney characters.” In 1973 the traditional parades stopped for several reasons, competition on television, bad weather, and “the desire to focus money on entertainment inside the store.” The article went on to relate that even though the parade ended “Santaland continued to be a beloved holiday event at Lazarus for another 20 years.” In 1981 “the Columbus Area Chamber of Commerce sponsored the first Secret Santa Parade.” In this parade there were helium balloons, floats, marching bands and “”elves”. About 200,000 people watched this parade. Later it was called The Holiday Parade until 1993. There was an attempt to restart the parade tradition in 2001 at the City Center mall but it didn’t work out. I wonder if there will ever be another attempt to bring the parade and its feelings back to Columbus.

I am having creamed chicken on biscuits and Spanish rice for dinner. 

Joy

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