Wednesday, December 18, 2024

 December 17, 2024 a thought for today, Only if one accepts suffering will one enjoy benefit. Burmese Proverb


One of the uploads for yesterday was “ornament”. This year I have a small tree. I stayed away from using my larger ornaments. This on is only about four inches long. It is from a collection of ‘vintage’ family ornaments used and kept over many years. 



The second image upload for yesterday and for another photo group is also
“ornament”. It has the same history as the image above. These ornaments are some I have been able to keep from my mother and from her sister, my aunt. 



My last upload is “mail”. I don’t get a lot of mail due to the advent of email and text. Most of the mail I get is ads or bills. These few are Christmas and birthday cards. 

Life today. Tami, Andy and Natalie and John and kids all took me, and Gideon, to Olive Garden for my (and Gideon’s) birthday celebration last night. It felt so good to have them around me again. It was a good time and good food. 

This Sunday bulletin is done and out for proof reading. I have a pretty good start on the Christmas Eve bulletin and a tiny, tiny start on the poinsettia dedication sheet. I’m not sure yet when I will be able to get the printing done on all three. I need to take the rental car back on Friday and don’t have a “new” car yet so getting from “here to there” is in question for any necessary trips out of the house after Friday right now. 

Sue was driving and we were on our way home from the birthday dinner last night. I told Sue to slow down near interesting decorations and lights so I could get the photos for today’s “assignments”. The next three are the result. This one for today is “decoration”. These are lights and decorations from my neighborhood. 

Sweet Pea is out of meatball treats again. As soon as I get home from food pantry this afternoon I will be in the kitchen making meat balls. 

I have a meeting at church early this evening. So I want to have the chores out of the way as early as I can. 

This upload for todays is “lights”. This one was one of the several that I took that had the most different items in the complete arrangement. 

The word today is quick.  A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick. Saint Francis de Sales.  Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious. Horace.  Strive to attain to the greater virtues, but do not neglect the lesser ones. Do not make light of a fall even if it be the most venial of faults; rather, be quick to repair it by repentance, although many others may commit a large number of faults, slight and grievous, and remain unrepentant. Saint Basil.  Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse. Charles Dickens.  Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope. Aristotle.  To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions. Benjamin Franklin.  Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us. Voltaire.  How quick come the reasons for approving what we like! Jane Austen.  Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence. Johann Kaspar Lavater. We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers. Lucius Annaeus Seneca.  The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable. Horace.  Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again. Pericles.  A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two. Lucius Annaeus Seneca.  

This upload for today is another that has the same ‘assignment’ title as the one before, “lights”. This one was a block or so away from the first one. It doesn’t seem to have as many different items in the arrangement. I like the blue color and the darkening sky as well as the reflection in the pavement. 

Article: I hadn’t thought about earth quakes in Ohio so this article was educational for me. The title: Ohio Seismicity: Could A Relatively ‘Big One’ Strike The Buckeye State? The article began with what has always been in my mind when it comes to this subject “Ohio is not exactly known for its earthquake threat”. It went on to relay that Ohio does have a “system of seismometers that monitors activity in the state.” A “collection” of volunteers began operations in 1999.  Before that any activity was for the state was “recorded by out-of-state operations”. Apparently there has been only “about 1 earthquake on average each year, often too small to be felt- typically in the 2.0 range or less” in the state. There was one earthquake in April, 1900 near Berea Ohio. I caused some damage. The strongest earthquake in the state happened in 1937 near a town called Anna in Shelby County. There were no seismometers at the time but it was estimated to be in the 5.0 range on the Richter Scale. The article mentioned that that would cause “dishes and windows may break and large bells will ring. Vibrations like a train passing close to a house”. There was another occurrence in March of 1937 that was estimated to be about the same size in measurements. This one caused difficulty in sanding upright and furniture might be broken. There could have been more damage in “poorly built or badly designed structures.”  There was a second round to the 1937 quake. More widespread local damage. Chimneys were damaged and cemetery stones rotated. Water and gas were affected. Affects were felt in eight state. In 1986 there was another quake “northeast of Cleveland in Lake Erie. It was felt over 122,000 square miles”. As the article went on it mentioned that over the years there have been smaller earthquakes but “none have had damage”. It is believed by most geologist and seismologists that “the likelihood of a quake above 6.0 to be exceedingly low, as Ohio seems to lack major fault systems”. Over the years there have been aftershocks from quakes in other states felt in Ohio.  The author said that “Ohioans probably have little reason to rush out and buy earthquake insurance”. Apparently we are more likely to be affected by flooding or wind damage. 

I think it will be soup and sandwich for dinner tonight.

Joy                     

                                                                        always ready




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