February 17, 2024 a thought for today, Be sure that the candle is lit before you throw away the match. Native American Creole Proverb
The first image a day upload yesterday was “hobby”. This is my crochet bag full of yarn with two projects on top easy to get to each evening at hobby time (before reading time and “brain strengthening exercise” on the tablet).
The next upload for yesterday was “spider’s web”. It had collected some dust to give it more of a lace affect before I knocked it down.
The last upload for yesterday was “starts with the letter R”. I happened to be hungry, was tired (temporarily) of fast food, and had this stored in an ice tray from the last time I made it.....Welsh Rarebit (the R in the rarebit, get it?).
Life today. We got another snow fall. There was a little more to this one than the one we had last month. One of my neighbor’s cleared the front part of the drive for me. Then I called Brian to finish by doing the back. I needed both of them to be able to get my car out so that Sweet Pea and I could do our curbside pickup. Brian was late getting started so I got a late start on the outside chores.
I got the groceries home and in the house but not put away yet. I put them away in between working on other things on my Saturday-to-do-list.
(I just got three new photos digitally sent to my “Frame” slide show picture frame. Two of my great grandsons....awesome how technology can help keep up with “away family” in this day and age.....not as good as hugs but as good as it can get.)
I have been putting in some concentrated effort and push on getting the annual report done just in case the date has been changed to earlier than expected by two weeks.
I have to get back to putting up groceries and get a couple of other things on the list crossed off.
The word today is after. Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. Henry David Thoreau. After all is said and done, more is said than done. Aesop. A youth, when at home, should be filial and, abroad, respectful to his elders. He should be earnest and truthful. He should overflow in love to all and cultivate the friendship of the good. When he has time and opportunity, after the performance of these things, he should employ them in polite studies. Confucius. An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men. Charles Darwin. We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne. Marcus Aurelius. The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists. Charles Dickens. Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession. George Washington. What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy. Voltaire. Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth. Phaedrus. The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence. Ralph Waldo Emerson. Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with short steps. Hans Christian Andersen. Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments. Henry Ward Beecher. Be slow to speak, and only after having first listened quietly, so that you may understand the meaning, leanings, and wishes of those who do speak. Thus you will better know when to speak and when to be silent. Saint Ignatius.
The article. I think urban farming sounds interesting if it is handles with common sense and consideration for neighbors. It is an article that explains that urban agriculture “is expected to be an important feature of 21st century sustainability.” The first benefit on the list is that it can provide food to people who would otherwise have a hard town finding and buying fresh food. An off shoot is that is helps to control “transportation’s greenhouse gas emissions”. However, there is a question of how they can be “carbon intensive” (The carbon footprint of homegrown foods is five times greater than produce from conventional agricultural practices). However there is a helpful aspect that can be used to lessen that factor. Some of these are aquaponic tanks, rooftop greenhouses or vertical farms”. The article suggests by considering “life cycle emissions of more common low-tech urban agriculture.” Raised beds to sheds and concrete pathways gardening infrastructures means more carbon emissions per serving of produce than the average wide-open fields on conventional farms. After some studies were conducted, it was determined that some: practices for shrinking the carbon footprint of urban food production are: use recycled materials, including food waste and water. Use old building materials for making the infrastructures, such as raised beds. The use of old material can cut “site emissions” by 50% or more as opposed to using new wood and certain other materials. Using composted materials to replace 95% of synthetics. This avoids methane emissions from food buried in landfills as well as the need for synthetic fertilizers. Careful “compost management could cut greenhouse gas emissions by nearly 40%.” Using rainwater saves on using water treatment and distribution tools. Growing food that is helpful to nature like tomatoes that “cut emissions” growing in “low-tech” urban gardens. Grow asparagus because due this lessens transportation emissions to their short life use they have to be flown from larger farm areas to city grocers. As cities grow, they take over farms...urban gardens are not as “vulnerable to development pressures”. As mentioned before urban agriculture “provide ecosystem services and social benefits, such as fresh produce, community building and education”. The article went on the mention other benefits the urban gardens offer such as: homes for bees and urban wildlife as well as “offering some protection from the urban heat island effect”. The article, written by professionals as a Ph.D. Candidate in Resource Policy and Behavior, an Assistant Professor of Sustainable Systems and a Professor of Environment and Sustainability, ended with “We believe that with careful site design and improved land use policy, urban farmers and gardeners can boost their benefit both to people nearby and the planet as a whole.”
Taco Salad for dinner.
Joy
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