September 14, 2024 a thought for today As soon as stones can swim, leaves will sink. Japanese Proverb

The first upload for yesterday was “food”. This one is from my archives. It was taken at one of the free meals at church as it was being prepared. 

The next photo upload for yesterday was another in my series “door”. This is
another in my neighborhood. Most of the doors I am finding in my limited area are not fancy or unique. Many have pretty colors and surroundings. 

The last photo challenge for yesterday was “a bicycle wheel”. This is Brian’s new transportation. He is very happy with it. 

Life today. I’m not making the headway that I would like to be on the newsletter.  The calendar dates were easy to set up yesterday before I took Sue to get a couple of more of the paper works about the car taken care of. That is as far as I got on the eight pages that need new news. I think I am a week ahead anyway.

Since Bob isn’t here to share in our Friday night pizzas I have been getting frozen ones from the grocery. Last night I ordered a Donatos. I had a reaction to the tomatoes or the spices. So we may try something else next week on “pizza” night. It may be changing to “door dash” night instead. Tami and Andy gave us a gift card for door dash that I haven’t tried yet. Maybe next Friday will be the day. Isn’t it odd that a habit sticks? The pizza night thing goes back years when I was working and didn’t want to cook on Friday night. I still enjoy that feature even though I am not in the working-to-make-a-living class any longer.

Saturday....this one is gorgeous. This is the kind that makes one hate to see summer coming to an end. Not feeling too bad about leaving this years drought behind. Sue went with Sweet Pea and me to pick up the groceries today. I drop her off at the door then wait for maybe fifteen minutes before I call for my groceries to be brought out. Hoping that that gives her a little time to pick up a few things. I had ice cream in my order for today. So I didn’t want it sitting in the car long enough to start melting. 

The first upload for today is “a reflection in water”. This was at my local park. It was only thing I could think of for a body of water. There are puddles due to no rain. 

When we got home Brian was waiting for us to see if I have anything for him to do. I didn’t have a list for him but Sue wanted the dying peppermint in the edge of the front lawn pulled up. 

This is the day all of the house plants get tended to. The ones in soil get a drink of water. The hydrophobic get a dose of fresh water with a touch of fertilizer (food) and the air plants get their bimonthly drink of water then a total drying period.  

The second upload for today is “hidden beauty”. My hibiscus plant is still producing some blooms. Many of them are “hidden” because the blooms are getting few and far between. They are still a beauty in nature. 

The word today is never.  The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore. Vincent Van Gogh.  Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves. Jean-Jacques Rousseau.  Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven. Charles Spurgeon. Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart. Washington Irving.  I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. Francis Bacon  Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost. John Quincy Adams.  Be the chief but never the lord. Lao Tzu.  Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one. Robert E. Lee.  In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.  Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself. James Anthony Froude.  The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close. Thomas Moore. As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Pythagoras.  We must never assume that which is incapable of proof. George Henry Lewes. 

The last upload for today is “s is for....” soup. I have a few kinds to choose from right now. These are some of my favorite besides the homemade kind. 

Article: I am kind of proud of what is happening in Franklinton. It is one of the earlies parts of our city. There is a wealth of exciting and interesting history there and a renewing of the neighborhood. It went down hill for a time but I think there is a new “rebirth” in that community. This article - Columbus company plans to build 50 new homes north of West Broad Street in Franklinton. The homes will be sold, rented and leased-to-own. The company in this project is called  New City Homes. Most of the homes will be built along Broad Street. The article related that it is unusual to build a number of new homes in an old established neighborhood. In this case the chosen area is where “vacant lots exist today only because many of the older homes were demolished over a period of several decades." The first homes have been completed and were featured in the BIA Parade of Homes. The descriged home is a two story home with “three-and-a-half baths, three bedrooms on the second floor, and a fourth in a finished basement”. In this home there is also a first floor laundry, a two and a half car garage, a patio and a fenced rear yard. The article related that "today, there is a rush of positive energy coming into the neighborhood."

Dinner from the freezer tonight. 

Joy

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