March 5, 2025 a thought for today, A lie can take you far away—but with no hope of return. Yiddish Proverb

My first upload for yesterday was “blurred foreground”. The foreground was done in Photoshop. Blurring the foreground of an image us bit in my forté.

The next upload was “daffodil”. Not surprisingly they are not yet in bloom in Ohio so this one is from the archives. 

The last upload for yesterday was “patterns”. There are all kinds of patters around us. This was just a point and pick. 

Life today. Wow, I finally have a day without interruption, oops, I still have a few hours to go...better keep my mouth shut (as usual). 

I got several places on the annual report done this morning. I still need three reports and to have Patti check it for any differences I haven’t noticed in groups in the building, she may need a coupe of days for that. It’s due a week from Sunday. I want to be “free of it” by Wednesday next week. 

The first upload for today is “romance”. These two ducks seemed to be trying to introduce themselves to one another. 

Since I have put Sweet Pea on a different diet I have more “cooking” to do. Today I browned another pound of lean beef to supplement the chicken that I already have done. She seems much happier with this diet. I don’t know if it is my imagination but I think the senior multivitamins I ordered for her are giving her a boost too. 

The next upload is “an image that includes a story”. I think this one is self explanatory.....part of road work that goes on all around us. 

The AC was finally fixed and finished yesterday. The siding is supposed to be started, and I hope finished, tomorrow. That will mean more cars to park around my house. There will also be a dumpster in street by the curb. There will be my car and Sue’s not to mention several for the workers. There are supposed to be some changes in the weather tonight, I don’t know if that will make a difference in the schedule. We are experiences some of the wind that will accompany it right now....and the rain is starting. 

This next upload for today is “a pop of color”. This is a dried up week that had lost its green and turned to yellow found in the crack on a blacktop driveway. 

The word for today is surprise.  The secret to humor is surprise. Aristotle.  Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense. Ralph Waldo Emerson.  Always mystify, mislead and surprise the enemy if possible. Stonewall Jackson.  Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. John Keats.  Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.  The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us. Francois de La Rochefoucauld.  A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open. Francis Bacon.  Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed. Joseph Addison.  Wonder is from surprise, and surprise stops with experience. Robert South.  Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence. James Madison.  The secret to humor is surprise. Aristotle.  

The last upload for today, a fourth photo a day for today is “phone photo” taken with a cell phone. 

Article: It’s interesting to revisit the history of the Ohio State University stadium, renowned in the entire United States, “considered one of the most iconic college football stadiums in the country”. The title is: How Ohio Stadium Became the Heart of Buckeye Nation. The article relays that it is affectionately called “the Shoe” and is “a symbol of Ohio State University’s pride, a landmark of college football”. In the 1920s football at Ohio State was growing in “both talent and fanbase, it became clear that the school’s modest Ohio Field could no longer accommodate the rising demand”. So a larger stadium was beginning to be envisioned. Some funding plans were put into place and new construction began in August of 1921.  The stadium “was revolutionary for its double-deck horseshoe shape”. The design took into consideration good“sightlines from nearly every seat” and led to increased seating capacity. It was built with reinforced concrete, “a relatively new building material for stadiums.” In 1922 it was opened to a “crowd of 72,000 for its first game against Ohio Wesleyan University”. Over time as the crowds grew they filled “the massive 66,210-seat capacity”. Naturally it became a “point of pride” for both the OSU and of Columbus, Ohio. In 1928 a most “notable moment” toke place when 90,411 fans were in the stadium to play Michigan. As college football “grew in popularity” renovations and expansions took place to the stadium over the decades. By the 1940s it had grown to seat over 80,000 people. In the 1950s and 60s it grew to a capacity beyond 90,000. In the 1990s “the stadium underwent a major renovation to bring it up to modern standard...the playing surface was lowered to increase seating capacity, bringing it to over 100,000. At that time “luxury suites and club seating were added”. Amazingly with all of the renovations over the years the “iconic horseshoe shape was preserved”. It became more well know be the “Script Ohio” performed by The Ohio State University Marching Band to the deafening cheers of over 100,000 fans”. Besides football it has  hosted a “wide array of events throughout its history”. Events like concerts, graduations, festivals, political rallies becoming “a multifaceted cultural hub in Columbus”. Today it is “one of the largest stadiums in the country, with a capacity of over 102,000" . 

Welsh Rarebit sounds good for dinner. 

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