January 18, 2024 a thought for today is, Happiness is a form of courage. Albanian Proverb

An upload for yesterday was “boots”. I searched for a photo I had of two set of boots taken off at the door when the wearers entered. But I couldn’t find it so I talked my sister into finding a pair of her boots for this shot. 

The next image for today is “shoe laces”. This is also a photo of old worn out
boots but I needed it for the laces. I don’t have a pair of shoes with laces anymore. I had to pull this one from the archives. 

The last upload for today is “food and drink”. This is one of my favorite things to do....eat. Of course, this is a McDonalds brunch for me, a fish sandwich, no cheese, french fries and large unsweet ices tea. 

Life today. It has been a mostly typical Thursday in the normal weekly adventures. I have the printing done. I had the chance to do some friend-bonding with Patti as we both worked. Bonding brings wisdom on many levels. It cements friendships and combines minutiae of other happenings that touch each part of our life activities that we share. It can also be a thread to other lives that touch us as we travel this “vale of tears”. Along with the printing I was able to download and clear the memory card used for the streaming. Another project I began was printing half-sheet hand outs describing the many areas of digital and social media that we at Hoge offer the community. I hope to print enough copies to offer to the AA and NA groups we have at the church as well as the HM3 (free meal and ministry) and food pantry that Hoge offers to Gods people in our community and beyond. Hopefully it brings more people to our church, in my mind, especially young people. We have a lady who seems to really enjoy sharing the stories of God with children. I hope this may somehow bring more of them to her and to us. 

The first upload for today is “shadows and light”. I took this one a while back. I have several photos of shadows and light. I like the atmosphere of this one. 

A friend nudged me to take another look as the web page I created a few years ago for updates. After some urging and time putting things together along with another friend I was “charged”. Maybe God’s hand at work for touching my life where needed right now as well as touching many others in the long run I hope. 

As usual for Thursdays, when I got home, I started the laundry. It is no more than one light load now that Bob is no longer here. I will have it done in an hour or so. 

They say snow is coming to the point of accumulating. I may need to see if Brian, the young man who does my lawn in the warmer months, will be able to clear the snow so that Sue and I can get out and be on our merry way. Hopefully I will be able to do my curb side pick up on Saturday and make it to church on Sunday. 

There is an area of the web page that I wanted to update today but I am going to have to put it on the back burner until tomorrow. I am actually enjoying the work I am putting in on it at this point in my life. I am spending time with facebook and instagram also. It amazes me how things we do come into our lives when we need them. Many of which end helping others like a hand reaching out to touch.

I was having a real problem with the cold weather. My house is old and does not heat evenly. The upstairs is comfortable while the lower level is cold, especially my sleeping area. When speaking to a friend of mine yesterday I remembered a space heater Bob use to use in his “ham shack”. I went down stairs to find it. I found it but I could not get to the place he had it plugged into the wall. So Lowell came over and got it for me. What a difference it has made.

The second upload for today is “a single tree”. I see this one every time I pull in my driveway. It’s very old and very tall. Hopefully it will never fall, it would get two or three garages and a house or two as well as lots of wires and cables. 

The word for today is try. Try and fail, but don't fail to try, John Quincy Adams.  I have been impressed with the urgency of doing, Leonardo da Vinci.  There is nothing impossible to him who will try. Alexander the Great.  The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. Aristotle.  Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. Thomas Huxley.   I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. Charlotte Bronte.  I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I think, and out of all that I try to form an idea into which I put as much common sense as I can. Marquis de Lafayette.  Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly. Saint Francis de Sales. It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed. Horace.  All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other. Charles Lamb.  The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words. Marcus Tullius Cicero.  

The last upload today is
“technology”. I’m sure every house has something like this with TV remotes, cell phones, computers, tablets, wireless phone, and we could go on. 

This article is about a place visited by a lot of us who live in Columbus. Many important events have happened there, personal and business related. There apparently is a  “Plan to Redevelop Former Spaghetti Warehouse Site”. It looks like the plan is to build a fifteen-story “mixed-use” building on that site. The old building would be demolished. A 534-unit building and parking garage would take its place. The people who owned and ran the Spaghetti Warehouse restaurant did not own the building but are seeking the help of another group of people to “partner” with them to buy the space. One of the possibilities mentioned in the article would be for the restaurant to make “a return to the site, occupying a spot on the ground floor of the new building”. According to the article Columbus Landmarks and some other would like to see the building preserved. However there was a problem with the roof when the restaurant closed and there are concerns that the building in the state of having “caved in and it’s already started falling down”. It has been examined by structural engineers who have determined the building’s not safe, not salvageable.” There are some hopes that they will “be able to salvage parts of the building.... want to incorporate some of the history into the project in some fashion.” to execute it, to develop a property that will continue the theme that the [Columbus Downtown Development Corporation] is doing with The Peninsula, what Kaufman did with Gravity....and help connect the neighborhood.”

It is going to be tuna casserole tonight for dinner. 

Joy

                                                just a taste of today’s gift from nature