September 4, 202T a thought for today, Sometimes it takes only an hour to get a reputation that lasts for a thousand years. Japanese Proverb

The first upload for yesterday was “artistic selfie”. I don’t like selfies but this one is a little less intimidating since I could add a filter and play with it.

The next upload for the 3rd was “ordinary thing”. This master lock on a rusting and aging lock is the challenge for the day. 

The last upload for yesterday was “back to school”. I found the back pack sitting on the floor when I was out and decided it would meet the challenge. 

Life today. This is another of those days that got away from me. I had a nice leisurely day planned for getting things done today with a little catch up from yesterday. Welll, c'est la vie. I got a good start then, out of nowhere, there was an about face. 

I needed to go to the eye doctor to pick up a sample of a new medication she, my doctor, wants me to start. We have tired three others but the expense on each was over $200. She has made some arrangement for me to try another and wanted me to get the samples until we can get the prescription set up. I was prepared to go there when Sue came in the room and told me the papers that we got for her yesterday were the wrong ones. We had to go get another set. I thought the person at the BMV would surely have know what she needed when she explained it to her. Anyway, I picked up the sample meds. Then came home to arrange things with Sue. Off we went for the new papers. I got a sandwich to eat while Sweet Pea and I waited in the car. When she came back out she said the lady in the BMV said those were the right papers to begin with. 

The first challenge for today is “a playground”. This is an image from one of my favorite places to find  good photo shoots. It is the park near my home. I like the way the tree is a frame to the playground equipment. 

Brian came, between the eye doctor and the trip to the BMV, to fix the stuck garage door and empty the shop vac. 

When Sue and I got back I got back to work on the envelopes I need for tomorrow. Then more work on photos and this letter. 

Shortly I need to take Sue to pick up her meds. Before that I have to make Sweet Peas meat balls. I think it will have been a full day. 

Oh. I forgot to mention before all of this began, before all unraveled, I did some research. I am planning an art project with some of my family. As part of it I needed to find how I want to frame watercolor art work under glass without the art work touching the glass which could ruin it. I found the information I wanted but it took a good chunk of time before the rest of the surprise. 

I love this life with all it’s surprises.

The next shot is “baby”. This is one from my archives. It is one of my great grandsons. It was taken a few years ago. I have no babies close by right now.

The word for today is might,  It is never too late to be what you might have been. George Eliot.  When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. Lao Tzu.  For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'. John Greenleaf Whittier.  A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men. Plato.  To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality. John Locke.  Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love. Francis of Assisi.  Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it. Abraham Lincoln. Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good. Benjamin Franklin.  So many have come to me that I might serve them, leaving me no time to think of myself. However, I assure you that I do feel deep down within me, God be praised. Saint Francis de Sales.  You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect. Charles Spurgeon.  Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries. George Eliot.  If the work is high and far, You must not only aim aright, But draw the bow with all your might. Henry David Thoreau.  Perchance that I might learn what pity is, That I might laugh at erring men no more. Michelangelo.  

The last challenge for today is “ordinary thing”. This weed is a sort of one of natures art design. It is growing in an unlikely place as many weeds seem able to find some kind of substance in or below the blacktop. 

Article: I thought this might be educational and of interest. Of course it is of interest to me, I am an animal lover and I have an attraction to horses. The title is “Domesticating horses had a huge impact on human society − new science rewrites where and when it first happened”.  It was written by an assistant professor of Archaeology. He started out by saying that in all human history “no single animal has had a deeper impact on human societies than the horse”. One thing that has been hard to determine is when their “domesticating” began. Further on it mentioned that over half a million years ago our ancestors hunted horses “with wooden spears”. In the Paleolithic ear, 30,000 years ago the artists of that time depicted horses in their work. As years went by horses became “the foundation of herding life in the grasslands of Inner Asia”. Then came chariots, saddles with stirrups that lead to travel and communication as well as in agriculture and warfare. As travel across the globe began horses spread to “every major landmass – even Antarctica”. This movement “reshaped ecology, social structures and economies at a never-before-seen scale”. The author wanted to find and share how these wild animals were caught and tamed. Some time in the fourth millennium BCE or before , residents of the steppes of western Asia and the Black Sea used horses and started “huge migrations across the continent, distributing ancestral Indo-European languages and cultures across Eurasia”. In the process of proving or disproving that that was the beginning of the domestication clues were studied in the bones and teeth of these animals that were found. This study was called archaeozoology. As they dug for these artifacts they found what looked like fence post holes that “could have been part of ancient corrals”. There was evidence found that milk could possibly have been deposited from domestic horses. Teeth found in the excavations found in northern Kazakhstan dating to around 3500 BCE appear to have been “worn down by a bridle mouthpiece, or bit”. Some of the bones found had signs of “projectile points embedded in their ribs, showing that they died through hunting rather than a controlled slaughter”. There are some conflicting stories in the time-line of the domestication of horses but this one seems the most prevalent. 

I think I have some tuna casserole in the freezer for dinner.

Joy

        as seems obvious so many time, weeds can add a touch of something to the scene