May 13, 2024 a thought for today, Where honour ceaseth, there knowledge decreaseth. German Proverb

The first photo a day upload for yesterday was “earth”. I was going to photograph just a hand full of soil to be my “model” or “prop” for the day but decided on this glob that Sue bought so all the young people coming into the house could enjoy and learn. We pointed out about where some of our Marines were from time to time when the kids would ask. 

The second upload yesterday was “retired”. I chose to use a pick of a stretch for the meaning of “retired” to time to take a break from years of service. 

The third upload for the 12th was “an open door”. This is the from outside our choir room to the hallway leading to the sanctuary and the rest of the church. 

Life today. It has been a typical Monday. I have the biggest part of the bulletin done. Then I started working on the letter and some photos. 

On Saturday when we got home and I made the trip for the grocery curbside pickup. Some more things were in store for the day. It was an interesting day all the way around. The Spectrum tech came. In conversation we got to know each other. He asked me what the problem had been with my service. I explained that the biggest problem was that when I wanted to make virtual calls to my marine families the phone kept fading out he said. ‘I’m a marine’. So he told me of some of his miliary experiences. I think he is somewhere between the age of Mick and Matt. He was well mannered and clean cut. He wanted to make friends with Sweet Pea though she kept barking at him (she was ‘lightly’ caged). Anyway, as he was finishing, I let her out of the cage so she could meet him. He knelt on the floor until she was calmed down and let him touch her. I said ‘I like you....you are a marine and you like dogs’. Anyway, he put two new boxes in a router and a modem, so things should be working now. The wifi passwords had to be changed on all my devices. The internet is working much faster. 

The first upload for today is “in my head”, I chose to veer off a bit and use on instead of in my head. This is my mop of white (notice not grey) hair, maybe white with a bit of gray. 

Unrelated to the work on our wifi/internet service there was another less happy occurrence.  I let Sweet Pea out in back. Fifteen minutes later when I went to look for her she was gone. I noticed that the front gate was partly open. I called up to Sue to come help me look for her, Brian was next door working, I asked him to help me look too. I found out later the neighbor on the other side of my house went out looking for her too. Anyway, I got in the car, went around the block and found her. She was starting down the next street over. When I got out of the car and she saw who I was she jumped in the car. That scare had a happy ending . 

So Saturday was an interesting and learning day for me, most of it excitingly happy.

Yesterday was nice. Church was great. There was a prayer technique that the minister told us about that I am anxious to try. Later Tami and Andy stopped with mother’s day remembrances for Sue and me. We had a nice visit and talked about pleasant memories.

All in all the whole weekend was happy and comforting. 

The next upload was “colourful umbrella”. I just couldn’t locate a colorful umbrella. I used one of my neighbor’s shade umbrella’s. That one was not really “colorful” so I added the color in my darkroom (Photoshop). 

The word for today is decisions. Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness or oppose with firmness. Charles Caleb Colton. Quick decisions are unsafe decisions. Sophocles.  The person who in shaky times also wavers only increases the evil, but the person of firm decision fashions the universe. Johann von Goethe.  A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers. Plato. Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life. Victor Hugo.  Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision making, it is a burden, not a benefit. William Pollard.  A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. Chinese Proverbs.  The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you cannot accept regret. Henri Frédéric Amiel.  Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide. Napoleon Bonaparte.  Indecision and delays are the parents of failure. George Canning.  Love is a decision - not an emotion! Lao Tzu. Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence. John Henry Newman.  

My last photo a day upload for today is “door knob”. Most of the door knobs in my house are ho-hum.  However there are a couple that offer a bit of ‘art’ in their presence.

Article: This sounds like it would be an interesting place to visit. I don’t know how older folks could enjoy it although they say there is an elevator. There is a new way to enjoy nature in one of our local parks. It is a ‘new way’ in that you can enjoy it by an overhead view. The park in question is in Blacklick Woods Metro Park. The new style of viewing in a “canopy walk”. This path is suspended 35 feet in the air. It allows visitors to “wander through lush treetops, catch glimpses of chirping birds, and feel a gentle breeze with every step”. It is an eighth-of-a-mile long. Along the way there is a “cargo-net hammock” where the visitor can “sway”. There is a

“firefighter’s pole and an encapsulated rope bridge.”  There is a 40-foot elevator tower at the entrance near the park’s nature center allowing everyone to share in the experience. The “grand debut at 6975 East Livingston Ave. is planned for May 17 at 10:00. 

I think I will make creamed chicken on biscuits for dinner. 

Joy

   this poor soul’s temporary home was about to be gone with the wind