March 13, 2025  a thought for today, They are not dead who live in the hearts they leave behind. Native American Tuscarora 

The first upload for yesterday was “something touristy”. Some of the familiar buildings in my town. 

The next upload for yesterday was “my town”. As you can see two of my peer photo clubs are assigning similar challenges for this day. 

This third upload, from another of my peer groups is along the same line. This one is called “public”. The first two are the “downtown” area of Columbus Ohio. This is more in a neighborhood site.

Life today. The first thing I did this morning, after the surprise arrival of the shingle workers, was update the annual report that I had already finished yesterday. The information for the last slots that I needed to finish it were sent to me yesterday and promptly entered. Last night I got an email that there were two pages of updates. Now....it’s finished except for any updates another person may have. 

Back to the “shingle workers”. Without any notice of a date for the repair of the bad job done earlier they were here at 8:00 just as I was getting ready to go to church. I had to stop them putting up their ladders so that I could get my car out of the driveway. 

My first upload photo challenge for today is “lips”. Yes, it is me in my younger days. I cropped an old image (shot with a timer setting) to get just the lips. Since the reduction caused noticeable pixelation I used a filter to  reduce the pixel look. 

When I got to church and turned the computer on it took a while to boot up. Once it did everything went along smoothly. Patti came in about that time so we had a few minutes to chat. 

When I got home the workers were still here, still are. What they have done looks good. 

At the “in between” times so far today I have taken my photos of the day....well, shot two of them, took the other from the archives and cropped it to fit the challenge assignment. I also got the laundry started. 

We are having an amazing day weather wise. It is 67 degrees and the sun is shining full out. Not too many of the fluffy white clouds in the sky though. I’ll take and more days just like it.

The second upload for today is “still life”. As I was walking Sweet Pea on her leash (due to the ladders and tools for the siding all around my yard), I was in a neighbors yard. I noticed the electricity plate embedded in the ground. 

The word for the day is taught. Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence. Edgar Allan Poe. Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot. Alexander Pope.  The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth. Edmund Burke.  Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe. Homer.  We called him Tortoise because he taught us. Lewis Carroll.  In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it. Samuel Johnson.  For shameful deeds are taught by shameful deeds. Sophocles.  The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire. Edgar Allan Poe.  By Time and Age full many things are taught. Aeschylus.  Good masters teach good doctrine, but that taught by evil masters is wholly evil. Saint Basil.  He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care. William Penn.  Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield.  The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught. Luc de Clapiers. 

The third and last challenge upload for today is “joy”. As I have mentioned before partaking in the exercise of eating is a joy to me. Eating sweets, in this case a donut, is on of the best “joys” of all. Except that I have to be alert on how much  due to type 2 diabetes.    

Article: Matters about The Ohio State is always an interesting subject in Ohio. The title is “Ohio State marching band tapped as country’s most popular in new study”. And “the Ohio State University Marching Band (OSUMB) is a university marching band named for and a part of Ohio State University”. The article opened saying that if you are from Columbus you already know that the “Ohio State’s marching band is the nation’s most popular” but beyond that they have received national validation of that fact. This notice came from a study by Betway Insider who named OSU’s band as the country’s most popular. The study was compiled using social media data including Instagram and TikTok. Several schools were included in the study. Ohio State was the only all-brass and percussion bank in the nation. The determination was made through 182,000 Instagram and 400,000 Tic To followers. University of Minnesota was second and University of Pittsburgh Varsity Marching Band was third. In addition to the article I found on Google this bit of history about the OSU band. The band was “founded” in 1878 “as a student-led fife and drum corps that provided music for the university ROTC program. Years later in 1896 the first band director was hired. From there the bank grew and merged with a “short-lived Varsity Band” and in 1920 the first drum major was instructed. In 1928 the “Ramp Entrance” was started. Over time new band directors came along. Through the years new initiatives came into being. There were floating and “animated formations, the uniforms, and Script Ohio”. One of the band directors, Eugene Weigel, “established the size of the band at 120 members and introduced the distinctive all-brass and percussion instrumentation of the ensemble in 1934". In 1952 “the band split from the ROTC and came under the auspices of the School of Music”. After that there was some experimentation with “modern styles of music” which eventually led to "Hang On, Sloopy" in 1965". In 1957 the pregame rehearsals were moved to “the newly-built St. John Arena”. I learned from the Google article that “After the passing of Title IX legislation in 1973, women joined the band for the first time”. From then the band expanded to 228 members.

I think dinner will be a fish patty and potato salad. 

Joy 

                                someone calls it home