April 17, 2024 a thought for today, The habits of our youth accompany us in our old age. Latin Proverb

The first photo a day upload for yesterday was “landscape”. The park near my home makes a perfect landscape photo. I use it many time for various photo opportunities. 

The second upload for yesterday was also taken at the park.  It is titled “relaxing”. This gentleman was enjoying some time relaxing at the pond that is stocked with fish on a regular basis. 

The last photo upload for yesterday was “stripes”. I happened upon this truck while I was out and about. Several other kinds of equipment with stripes passed by but I wasn’t quick enough to get a shot. 

Life today. I had one of those waking moments where all the problems of the day present themselves for some kind of solutions. They seem to hang on. I made a one word list of each thought as soon as I woke up for attention at some time during the day. One of the “worries” real or imagined was that Sweet Pea seems to have developed problems with the “good” leg since she had her treatment yesterday. I don’t know that it is serious enough to call the vet. It may be a temporary muscular soreness that will pass in a day or two. I am keeping a regular and worrisome look on her any time she moves. 

The first upload for today is “floral”. This is my neighbor’s early tulips. I couldn’t pass them by without taking photos of them. 

Food Pantry yesterday was not as busy as the first Tuesdays have been recently. I doubt that today will be much busier due to the rain we are having. I find myself having difficulty placing some of our clients with their names. They are new comers to our area. Their names are different in nature than the ones I am use to. For instance full names may be four or more separate names written in different “language”, again than what I am use to. It took me about fifteen minutes to help one person yesterday that shouldn’t have taken more than five minutes or less. We had a language difference. He couldn’t help me with answers that I understood. We some how made it through the process. He got his groceries and was on his way. 

This morning I finished the things that I needed to get ready for printing tomorrow. The birthday cards for this week and the shut in envelopes as well as the lyric’s insert for the bulletin. 

The next upload for today is “rope”. I found a rope still in the package that I was going to use as a prop. Then I remembered the clothes line we have still partially attached. It is tangled and weather aged but still a rope. 

The word today is content.  Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything. Aesop.  A Sunday well-spent brings a week of content. Proverbs.  Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor. Benjamin Franklin.  Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty. Socrates.  True humility is contentment. Henri Frederic Amiel.  When we cannot find contentment in ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere. François de La Rochefoucauld.  Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. Lao Tzu.  Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He who is content. Who is that? Nobody. Benjamin Franklin.  If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably. Plautus.  My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. Abraham Lincoln. Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen. Horace Mann.  He will easily be content and at peace, whose conscience is pure. Thomas a Kempis.  Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. Laozi.  Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough. Emily Dickinson.  Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship. Gautama Buddha.  The rarest feeling that ever lights a human face is the contentment of a loving soul. Henry Ward Beecher.  Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Benjamin Franklin. 

The last photo a day upload for today is “spoon”. I have a huge metal spoon that I use when I am making stew or soups but when I tried to shoot it I got lots of reflections. I don’t have a box set up for taking small items with light interference. Instead of setting on up for this one shot I decided to us one of my wooden spoons.

Article: The only thing I know about Plain City is that restaurant with such delicious “home cooked” meals, Der Dutchman. It looks like the city is adding some interesting sights to Plain City. In the 1880's there was a map that the village of Plain City had. It was a map that showed the lot for a “public square”. The people realized that that is what the people of the 1800s also wanted for the area, a central gathering space. It seems a  future generation would have the same idea. “Fast-forward to 2024: Leaders in Plain City plan to revitalize several parcels in the Uptown district by combining them into one space, which is known as the Public Square Project”. People of the village were asked what they would like. “People want more walkability. They want more public spaces that are free to access for everybody and more central locations.......in line with their 19th-century counterparts.” The village also bought a 1,473-square foot, historical 1880s train depot and had it restored. It will become a museum and event space with three historic train cars”. In 2021 the village purchased a building with a gravel lot and open space that will become part of this ‘Public Square’. The train idea is important to the village due to the story that in 1853 the “Columbus & Indiana Central Railway, which would later be part of the route for the funeral train for Abraham Lincoln in 1865". This station became a major stop for transporting livestock and goods from the East Coast. The depot will be a major part of the project. After the beginning start to building the village there will, in time, be an added park and a market place. The park will include a splash pad, a play area and an outdoor event space. In the marketplace area there will be space for parking bicycles and an area of seating. In the marketplace there will be space for small businesses, community events and “seasonal vendors”. 

It will be Tuna casserole from the freezer for dinner. 

Joy

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