July 28, 2024 a thought for today, It is better to be always prepared than to suffer once. Latin Proverb
One of the challenges for yesterday was “B and W evening”. This was taken some time ago. I have several this one is the one that I like for this upload.
Life today. Sunday has rolled around again. Yesterday was a bit different. We were finishing up with the clearing in the garage. It was a bigger job than first imagined. The “crew” was back to finish up. Sue’s was back from Lancaster so was able to look through things she has stored there. Natalie stopped by after work Thursday to lend a hand. The rest of the “crew” were Tami, Andy, Lowell, Brian, and Gideon. I have been able to have food at lunch time for them. I made air fried doughnuts with Pillsbury biscuit's when I got back from curbside pick up. (Doughnuts is one of the props I needed to meet a photo challenge for yesterday.....two birds with one stone....a treat for the crew and meet my challenge.)
The weather has cooperated each day and it looks like it will be again today. The sun was bright. They finished before it got to hot. The basement and garage look good. Brian used the oversize shop vac to finish off both areas.
Sweet Pea didn’t seem to get use to all of the action around here. She is use to a quiet house with little going on especially a lot of quick movement and stacks of thing where they aren’t supposed to be when she goes outside.
TV is full now....almost nothing but the Olympics and political right now, at least the channels that I have on. I think it is going to be that way for a few weeks.
Now Sunday is here and we can all, especially the ones who put in the most effort, can rest. Lots of small mementos found there way into the house. I need to find places to put them but I don’t plan on doing that today since it is Sunday. It’s time to reflect.
Our service was outstanding. The lay reader is always good. His message touches and allows for pondering. We had a special duo. They sang The Prayer. The same song Andrea Bocelli, Céline Dion sang together. Check out our duo on our web page for this date: the tears are still flowing.
It will feel good to start the new week off tomorrow back on a more “relaxed” schedule since the busy third-week-of-the-month is in the rear view and the basement/garage projects are done. It was so nice to have so much of my family all together in one place for the past three days. For me it is like reading a good book, when I come near the last chapter I don’t want it to end. That is the feeling I have with this combined-effort-project ending. Maybe it is a “little old lady” syndrom....or just a “family-I-love” being together ending for a while.
The word today is hour. That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind. William Wordsworth. A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. Charles Darwin. To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle. Walt Whitman. Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now. P. T. Barnum. We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson. He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses. Horace. Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour. Benjamin Franklin. I have proved by actual trial that a letter, that takes an hour to write, takes only about 3 minutes to read! Lewis Carroll. Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dealer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts. Alfred Lord Tennyson. For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity. William Wordsworth. Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages. Henry Ward Beecher.
Article: Here I am with a story about how animals can help humans again. Seems to be a lot of them, stories about it I mean, so may be some truth in the pudding? When I was younger and my kids were in elementary school I wondered why some got to bring tiny pets home for the summer. They answer, of course, they couldn’t be left alone in the school all summer. We had a goose once, maybe others that I am not recalling at the moment. The title is “Animals’ presence in schools helps calm, teaches empath”.One of the authors teachers had a dog who had become a therapy dog of sorts helping her through an abusive situation. She said the dog kissed away her tears and slept beside her for the warmth of a living being. Later she decided she wanted to train the “family’s outdoor hunting dog, Millie, to be a therapy dog”. After Millie had had extensive training, in January of 2021, the teacher took her to the school where she taught. The article went on to note that many teacher feel that animals bring a calming influence to the class room. They have brought “dogs, rabbits, frogs, hamsters and the occasional chinchilla to class in the hopes of teaching students about empathy, responsibility and how to be good wildlife stewards”. In one such incident a middle school student told the teacher that she had come to school only to see the dog and said she was so glad the dog was there. The teacher noted that the dog has “helped at least one student on one day”.The teacher mentioned that over time there have been incidents such as once “Millie”, the dog in the teachers room, had taken a students water bottle and had to be taught a lesson. As the author wrote the story she mentioned that teacher’s pets “are helping students learn, heal and laugh”. One lady said she never expected the class rooms in are schools to “become a shelter for small and exotic animals”. The first one that was noted was a hamster named Henry. His situation was that he needed to be “rehomed” so he came to them. “Henry instantly became a draw for her high school students”. From what the article said Henry would “sit in their pockets while they did art – you know, in their sweatshirt pockets – or they would take a towel and make him a little burrow and he’d sit on the table and shove his cheeks full of food”. A “decade later” that same class room “has served as a refuge for chinchillas, birds, an iguana and even fire-belly toads – all of which needed a home”. There are more stories in this article of other individual stories of various animals and the stories of how they have each helped at least one human every day. It has been found that marine life such as lobsters, octopus, cowfish, stingrays are not really suitable for school class rooms. One teacher said that “As I continued teaching and caring for the animals, (I learned) at the same time you’re kind of caring for the students”. It has been found that “there is value to having different types of animals in schools”. Animals can also help to “faciligate”discussions about humanely letting them go”.
Chili for dinner.
Joy
just a peek behind some fancy grasses
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