July 16, 2024 a thought for today, What belongs to everybody belongs to nobody. Spanish Proverb

My first challenge upload for yesterday is “photographers choice”. I took this one on our trip to my great grand daughter’s swim meet. I love the open country side and the blue sky full of clouds.

The next upload for yesterday is “patterns in nature”. I like the “patterns” of the branches also the patterns that the leave make with the sunlight and shadow. 

The third upload for yesterday was is “the colour red”. I had to hunt around for a color red that would fit without a lot of other color surrounding it. The mail box and red flag seems to work. 

I have four uploads for yesterday. This challenge was called “jewelry”. My daughter gave me this several years ago. I have always meant to add to pieces to add to it. I think we use to call them charm braces. 

Life today. I had the dishes done and was sitting in my “after dinner and clean up” chair doing some “brain and memory exercises” when my digital calendar popped up on my tablet reminding me that there was a session (board) meeting at church tonight. I glanced at the clock. It showed twenty to seven o’clock. The meeting starts at seven o’clock. I didn’t bother to change clothes, just brushed my teeth and combed my hair and ran (as fast as 84 years lets one run) out to the car. I made it just in time. 

The cleaning lady, Nancy, is here today, she cleans places I can no longer manage. Sue needed to be with the twins today and I needed to take Sweet Pea for her monthly treatment shot (remember....the torn ACL). I had to leave the cleaning lady for a short time and Sue had already left. 

Back home from the vet with Sweet Pea, the information needed to finish the bulletin was in my email. With the template pulled up on the computer, it was  finished in about thirty minutes. 

The first upload for today is “photographers choice”. As I was going through the park again today looking for whatever I could find and enjoy was this stem of flowers. I’m not sure what flower they are just that they are gorgeous. 

The peppermint cuttings I started for a Christmas project are drooping. There is another method I want to use as a backup. The cuttings are a new beginning from the parent plant that is growing in the window hydroponically. The cuttings have been treated with plant hormones and put in prepared soil. I think I will take other cuttings from plants in the yard and start them to root in water. I think that method will be quicker. I will do that later today. 

Once I print the shut-in envelops, the birthday greeting for a church member and another special letter I will be ready for printing on Thursday. That will leave a day for me to start on the upcoming newsletter. 

Once the Nancy is done now so Sweet Pea and I are going out for a photo search and a sandwich. Later I will be working in the “darkroom” ..... Photoshop. 

The next upload is “park bench”. While I was in the park was the perfect time to get this photo also. There are several of these benches throughout the park. 

The word today heard.  You may have heard the world is made up of atoms and molecules, but it's really made up of stories. When you sit with an individual that's been here, you can give quantitative data a qualitative overlay. William Turner.  I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all. Marie Antoinette.  And tears are heard within the harp I touch. Petrarch.  All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired. Martin Luther.  Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you. Hafez.  The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world. Friedrich Schiller.  I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the first time I was very much afraid. Joan of Arc.  I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more. William Wordsworth.  You should not decide until you have heard what both have to say. Aristophanes.  It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray. Aesop.  Judas heard all Christ's sermons. Thomas Goodwin.  Poor men's reasons are not heard. Thomas Fuller.  

The last challenge for today is “broken”. There aren’t too many things around the house that are “broken”, at least not photo ready. But I did have a couple of egg shells left from breakfast.  

Article: A sixteen year old asked an Aerospace Engineering professor about what living on Mars would be like. Here’s a summary of that article. Part of the title was “Here’s what it would take to transform its barren landscape into a life-friendly world”. The article relates that it will take time, energy and imagination to “sustain life beyond Earth”. It went on the pass on that “engineers and scientists have started to chip away at the many challenges”. Practical thing to be considered on a check list are “food, water, shelter, and air”. The most logical place known to man that may be were “humans to live beyond Earth is Mars.” So the thinking already began to figure if “terraform Mars” can be transformed to “resemble the Earth and support life”. I learned in the article and probably in high school that the atmosphere on Mars in “almost all carbon dioxide, with virtually no oxygen”. As a part of that consideration is the fact that less heat can be held in those conditions. Night time temperatures drop “routinely” to 150 degrees below zero Fahrenheit. I also learned that although there are no active volcanoes scientists “could trigger volcanic eruptions via nuclear explosions” which would then allow gasses “trapped” in the volcano including radioactive material to be released into the atmosphere. There are ideas how that could be managed. In the article there were ways to heat Mars such as “gigantic mirrors built in space to orbit around Mars”. Certain soil could reflect sunlight for warmth. Those kinds of heat could melt the polar ice caps so that water would be available. Since Mars is covered in dust-like material it is not good enough to raise food. That part of the equation has to be considered such as “adding extremophiles........genetically engineered organisms are also a possibility”. Mentioning that the plan to convert Mar space to living space for humans like “providing oxygen, water and food in the right proportions is extraordinarily complex”. Then the article went into building a house on Mars. One idea is to use 3D-printed housing once the other problems had been addressed. Other things to consider are solar winds and cosmic radiation. It would take “centuries or even millennia”to solve all the situations. Also mentioned was whether it is ethical.  Ending the article it is mentioned that “as scientists create innovations to terraform Mars, we’ll also use them to make life better on Earth” one of those would “will help address the world’s housing shortage” as with the 3D-printing of housing.

I think it will be hot dog for dinner.

Joy

                              another one bites the dust