November 27, 2024 thought for today, Not even God can undo a blow received. Mexican Proverb

The first upload for yesterday was “macro”. This one was taken last year of my Christmas cactus blooming.

The second upload for yesterday was “family heirloom”. This was among some of my aunts belongs. I think it is a moustache cup. 

The last challenge for yesterday was “vegetables”. This is what I had on hand. Some for a stew and some for a BLT. 

Life today. There was “bad” news about my car. Instead of it being fixed and ready to pick up yesterday, they were having trouble starting it. It had to be jumped every time they wanted to start it according to the mechanic. They want to take it to the dealer to have it “diagnosed”. My stress level is at a peak. Today I am still waiting to hear from them. They say that if whatever the problem is is not related to the fender bender the insurance will not pay for it. The loan on the car is only half paid. 

The first upload for today is “pots”. This one I haven’t seen before in my list of challenges with my four  r five photo clubs. 

My regular co-worker on the intake table couldn’t be there yesterday. Diana worked with me again. She is pretty much a “pro” doing it so we worked well together. The flow of guests was not what it has been in the past few weeks. The number of people was pretty good anyway and everyone was able to keep up. We have another pantry today.

With December on the way in I am anxious about getting the things I am making for Christmas done. I need color ink for some of it. I had to place an order a couple of days ago so I am waiting for the delivery.

Apparently the weather is going to make a drastic chance starting tonight. I hope the roads aren’t too bad tomorrow for our trip to Mt. Sterling for Thanksgiving. 

The next challenge was “thankful”. I used this one as a symbol of how thankful I am for friends and family. 

The word today is picture.  The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express. Francis Bacon.  The soul never thinks without a picture. Aristotle.  A picture is a poem without words. Horace. The study of the human character opens at once a beautiful and a deformed picture of the soul. Mercy Otis Warren.  To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter. P. T. Barnum.  A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. Vincent Van Gogh.  Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within. Caspar David Friedrich.  Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting. Aeschylus.  All the world over, the picturesque yields to the pocketesque. Herman Melville.  The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles. Henry David Thoreau.  "As the crow flies" - a popular and picturesque expression to denote a straight line. William Henry Maule.    Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture. Charles Caleb Colton.  

The last challenge upload for today is “pairs”. I found this pair of cream and sugar containers in the church kitchen.  

Article: When I saw the title to this article, it peeked my interest. I know squirrels can be pests but I kind of like them if they stay out of mischief. So I wanted to see what this article had to share. “The title” Ohio colleges are nutty about campus squirrels”.  A new student at Kent State University was “convinced that the school’s mascot was a black squirrel”. There is a large “population” of black squirrels on the campus. There is even an annual Black Squirrel Fest in the fall. The bookstore sells stuffed black squirrel animal. There are several statues throughout the campus. There was a study conducted on 536 campuses in the US and Canada, considering squirrels on campus’. Ninety-five percent “of schools have at least one species and 40% having three or more, according to a 2020 article in The Journal of Mammalogy”. According to the article the “critters as some campus culture phenomenon dates back nearly a century”. There was a story in a1938 “article in The Harvard Crimson documenting one student having been attacked by a squirrel in his dorm room”. There have been humorous questions about guides to selecting a college with the friendliest squirrels. According to the article the “Ohio State University has had countless clubs and social media accounts dedicated to squirrel watching over the years”. In 2023 there was a contest at Ohio University where “more than 1,200 took the chance to name an OU squirrel”.  In “2014 Oberlin’s (college) athletic department pitched a new mascot: the albino squirrel”. In 2019 a new mascot was created. It is a “7-foot-10-inch tall, buff buck-toothed albino squirrel”, it was unveiled during the college’s homecoming football game. The article continued with the history of Kent State’s “history with black squirrels (that) dates back more than 60 years”. Further in the article it was mentioned that “black and albino squirrels are not a different species but rather gray squirrels with a genetic mutation”. One biology professor talked about how there is a “show clear differences from squirrels that live in more natural environments”. 

It seems its going to be another dinner from the freezer for tonight. 

Joy 

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