April 11, 2024 a thought for today, By a brave endurance of unavoidable evils, we conquer them. Latin Proverb

My first photo upload for yesterday was “bokeh”. I generated this one using a couple of Photoshop filters for the background. The image is of wind chimes hanging in one of my windows. 

The second image upload for yesterday was “something brown”. There are a few shades of brown in this one. My pants, the stool, and the floor under the stool. It was the handiest thing in brown that I could find. 

Yesterday was the 10th which is another day of the month when I have a fourth photo a day shot. This one was “grounded (shot on the floor)”. Sweet Pea taking one of her naps under the table. I set the camera on the floor and set the timer for the shot.

 The last photo for yesterday was “outside”. This is my snowball bush in the back yard. It has some tiny green “snowballs” forming. They are waiting to get bigger and bigger and turn white. My neighbor gave me this pant several years ago when she found out the one I had was destroyed when some renovations were going on in and around my house.

Life today. This is what I call my “busy” day. It seems I have something on my Thursday schedule all day long. If I am not involved in one project, I am coming out of one or beginning the next one. I got to church before any others today. Then had a good start on the printing before Bob came in to help open up some of the rooms for others coming soon on his heels. I had the memory card that needs cleared on my home desk but overlooked it as I was picking up the envelopes and flash drive with this week bulletin. We have one memory card already loaded in the camera so I should have time to clear this one next Thursday.

On the way home I stopped by Kroger to get some chicken for Sweet Pea. Since she has been on the treatment cycle and new meds she has had a bit of a problem with her meals. She seems to relish chicken more than anything else right now. 

As is my custom I was on the alert for todays photos while I was out and about. I also made a stop at McDonalds for a breakfast sandwich.

Todays first upload is “black and white”. I sometime shoot in color and change to black and white in Photoshop. This one was shot with the camera set to black and white. I took this one while I was in church this morning. Our church is so beautiful and artistically pleasing that I felt the black and white images offers even more and added feathers to see.

Once here at home I got back to some computer work and then to start the laundry. I try to pick one of the household chores that needs attention most to tackle while I am still on my feet after starting the laundry on Thursday. I had spilled a whole cup of my morning tea earlier. I mopped up the water right away. I missed some spots, now it needs a bit more attention. 

This is another of those spring days that the temperature is a little lower. We are also having some more rain. The rain makes it a little more difficult for Sweet Pea to make her trips outside.

My second upload for today is “something orange”. Most of the fire hydrants in my neighborhood are yellow but now and then there is an orange one. I have also seen a few in red. 

The word today is condition. The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh. Rumi.  Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. Voltaire.  Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies. Alexander Pope. Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits. Thomas Jefferson.  I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind. Abraham Lincoln.  Honesty prospers in every condition of life. Friedrich Schiller.  No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. Aristotle.  Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence. Saint Basil.  Any landscape is a condition of the spirit. Henri Frederic Amiel.  All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors. John Calvin.

The last photo a day upload today is “hair”. I did a selfie. So this is my own “snow on the roof” hair color.  

Article: It’s the time of the year when some families are planning on planting a small piece of earth for their annual garden. Some of the land can be shared as community space. It also brings to mind the Victory Gardens that I learned about some years ago. This article is called “Ohio Victory Gardens program continues to grow”. I didn’t realize these most current shared community gardens were called “Victory Gardens”. I guess that is something I can chalk up to my education for this day. The beginning of the article states that “urban and rural gardening is back and bigger than ever”. There is and has been for about five years an Ohio Victory Garden program. This year it has grown into 64 counties. The program will be handing out free seed sample kits. The hope is families will be growing their own produce. The seeds will be carrot, cucumber, lettuce, and sunflower seeds. The “Ohio Victory Gardens program  provides gardening advice, helping with community gardens, and promoting local food production among their neighbors throughout the state”. The *Victory Gardens “originated during World War I as an answer to a severe food shortage at the time”. *these gardens were first promoted during World War I, as war gardens, or victory gardens.  They provided American citizens an opportunity to assist with the war effort. Americans were encouraged to produce their own food, planting vegetable gardens in their backyards, churchyards, city parks, and playgrounds. "Food will win the war." said Herbert Hoover.” The original Victory Gardens encouraged people to grow more and “consume less”. In this article, added from a Google search, was a statement that this effort “successfully avoided wartime rationing”. The everyday folks “supplemented their rations with produce from their own gardens, while farmers grew the essentials”. These historic Victory Gardens continued from 1943 to 1945.

I think it will be tuna balls and rice for dinner. 

Joy

                                 a session in home maintenance