March 3, 2025 a thought for today, If you pray for another, you will be helped yourself. Yiddish Proverb

One upload for yesterday was “my choice” another of my “partial” series. This is the water towers at the local part a couple of blocks from my home. 

The next upload was “inside”. I caught Sweet Pea looking out the back door. She like to watch whatever is going on on the outside. 

The last upload yesterday was “simple pleasure”. Most of my “simple pleasures” have to do with food. This was my attempt to make Rice Krispy treats with peanut butter instead of butter and marshmallows. 

Life today. It was an interesting weekend with the air conditioner being installed. All in all the installation turned out to take almost eleven hours. There was a problem and another technician had to be called in. It looked like we were going to be without heat for the night because the furnace was involved too. Fortunately, the second technician was able to fix that part of the problem. Two of them will be back today to finish the rest of the installation. 

Yesterday at church I had a thought as I was listening to the sermon. For some reason the thought generated me to think about what we can get from reading along with a notion of what senses the use of repetitiveness may present. That was not the message in the sermon, it was a sort of an extra line of thinking that nudged itself in.

Now for today’s first upload, “old”. This old car was parked in front of my house last summer. I think it would be a great ride.   

Today I have made some big steps into the work on the weekly bulletin and a beginning start on the annual report. So far I am waiting for the rest of the information for the bulletin. I have also entered all of the information I have so far for the annual report. I also finished uploading the taped Sunday service to Facebook this morning. 

I want to get the photo uploads ready before the people come back today to finish with the AC and the man who will be putting up the new siding will be stopping by also.

The next upload for today is “cute, odd or funny”. This is Sugar. She has been gone from my life for a couple of years now. This was one of the cute, odd, funny things she use to like to do....cover herself as much as she could while she took a nap. 

The word for the day is sure. Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm. Abraham Lincoln.  Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure. Confucius.  Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times. Martin Luther.  Whatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure or lasting, but the love gained by kindness and moderation is certain and durable. Alexander the Great.  What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable. Joseph Addison. Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty. Thomas Jefferson.  Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it. Pericles.  God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners. Soren Kierkegaard.  I build on Christ, the rock of ages; on his sure mercies described in his word, and on his promises, all which I know are yea and amen. John Wesley.  The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings. Robert Louis Stevenson.  In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds. Aristotle.

One more upload for today. This one is “light and shadow”. It pretty much explains itself with shadows of the tree branches on the snow.

Article: I thought this article would offer a bit of spring feeling and add a bit of interest in the biology.  The title is: “Maple seeds’ unique spinning motion allows them to travel far even in the rain, a new study shows”. The article seems to tells about the life of a “detach winged maple seeds called samaras from their parent tree”. When “high-speed” raindrops “interrupt the spinning” seed it an dismiss the drop and restart the spinning in less than a blink. On in the article the author mentioned “helicopter seeds – made up of a seed pod attached to a delicate wing”. They further mentioned that the design and movement “can teach physicists...about seed dispersal patterns and even engineering new types of flying vehicles”. There is a name for their particular movement, it is called “autorotation” which keeps the “seeds” in the air for longer so they travel farther”. In one of the studies that was filmed of these seeds they found that as the raindrops “crashed into autorotating samaras” the raid drops were shed as the seeds drops flung the drops off like they were “turning away from a punch”. If the rain drop falls in the right place “the spinning seed can cut it in half.”  The seed “drops fastest when the drops hit the heavier, round nutlet part of the seed, rather than the wing”. The seed and wing are “mildly water-repellent”. The life of these seeds are important because their parent, maple trees, “are an important species to the Eastern United States”. These trees produce “syrup and timber.....making them economically and commercially significant”. The article related that in these trees need to grow “rapidly in a rapidly changing climate” so the seeds need to spread as far as possible. A team of scientists studied how the wind “transports rotating and nonrotating seeds alike”. They found that some of these seeds can actually travel hundreds of miles. Due to the interest in the seeds and their travels “insights gained from our study could inform the design of new types of aerial vehicles that use autorotation to ride the wind without a motor”. Further in the article it was noted that other plants “use the wind to disperse farther”. Some of these plants are dandelions, hop tree seeds, tulip and ash tree seeds. 

I am having hamburgers and fries for dinner. 

Joy