February 5, 2024 a thought for today, Your previous lies will contradict your future truths. African Proverb

My first photo a day for yesterday was “starts with the letter F”. I was sitting in church and noticed this fan as I do almost every Sunday morning. I noticed all of the beautiful wood and shapes around it. I felt it would make a pretty image to capture. 

The next upload for yesterday is “view from here”. This is one of the views from my front porch. 

The third upload was “macro”. This is one of my house plants. I like the lines and shapes of the veins and the point where the leaves come together. 

Life today. Yesterday was nice. After an interesting church gathering, I got my short Sunday agenda out of the way. I nearly forgot that we had been invited to my great granddaughter’s sixteenth birthday in the early evening. We got there about fifteen minutes late and had a great time with family.  

Mondays.....what’s the saying....rainy days and Mondays (always get me down)? This isn’t one of that kind! I am making good time on my agenda list for today and it isn’t a short one. 

The first upload for today is “starts with the letter H”. I had caught how the sun was shining on Sweet Pea's hair as she was looking out the window of the car.

I got the bulletin partially started. I did the “heavy” part and needed to put it aside for a little while to tackle some other parts of the list. At least I got a start on some intense projects that will be spread out over a couple of weeks and more. It feels good to have at least a beginning on everything I can foresee at this point. Some of the things I was working on needed confirmation date wise so I made some contacts. 

A couple of my photos a day were thought provokers which added to my planning. I think I came up with some answers to them. The thinking process is stimulating because it adds even more to my knowledge base of filed facts for later use. 

The second upload that I made today was “I’m wired” (one of the thought provokers). I couldn’t think of anything better than at least some of wires and cables I have with my computers, monitors, TVs and my new digital/wifi picture frame.

The sun is bright and encouraging for a mid winters day. According to the Ground Hog we are supposed to have an early spring. Speaking of the ground hog is another of those things that remind me of Bob. He always looked forward to what the ground hog would predict. It was something that he looked forward to as winter was moving to a close. 

The next upload for today is “year of the Boar”. This one really threw me for a loop. I had to do some research to come up with an idea for this one. "year of the Boar" which represents wealth and luck - the money tree “represents” abundance, prosperity and good luck. So I felt it was a good substitute with representation being much the same, wealth (prosperity) and luck in each.  

The word today is you. It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. Confucius.  It is never too late to be what you might have been. George Eliot. You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. Abraham Lincoln.  Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you. Saint Augustine.  Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. Rumi.  May you live all the days of your life. Jonathan Swift.   If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. Marcus Tullius Cicero.  Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. Voltaire. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble. Charles Spurgeon.  One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying. Joan of Arc.  What worries you, masters you. John Locke. What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. Pericles.  Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.  

The last upload for today is “simplicity”. This one was an easy one. I have a lot of things that I could call “simplicity”. This is one of my house plants whose leaves are of a more “simple” or single form rather than a collection of leaves around a center point as most plants present.  

The article is  probably about something everyone already knows about but here it is again. We operate on the Gregorian Calendar that was introduced by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582. See, I need these not often discussed facts brought up to refresh my past history lessons. Like, the Julian Calender “proceeded it (the Gregorian Calendar) by more than 1,600 years.” The Gregorian Calendar formed a “leap rule” which “prevented dates drifting”. Since there are only 365 days in the “common calendar” we need an “extra day” to follow the time it takse the earth to “complete a full orbit of the sun is 365 day, 5 hours, 48 minutes and 56 seconds.” In following the 365 days we would face that in “over a period of about 700 years our summers, which we’ve come to expect in June in the northern hemisphere, would begin to occur in December.” To fix this “the additional time is lumped into a neat 24 hour period and an additional day is added to the calendar every four years, problem solved”. However, “in reality, it is more like 23.262222 hours......leading to Pope Gregory XIII to devise a more accurate formula”. Leap year comes around every four years unless the “centurial year is exactly divisible by 100, but not by 400, then the leap year is skipped”. To end the article “in the last 400 years, 1700, 1800 and 1900 have been skipped as leap years.....the next leap year to be skipped will be 2100.”

I am making chili for dinner. 

Joy

                                a covered depression in asphalt collecting debris