June 19, 2025 a thought for today, The friendship of officials is as thin as paper.  Chinese Proverb

One of the uploads for yesterday was “my choice and another of my “trees” series. This on is another from one of the lawns in my neighborhood. 

The next upload is “closed”. I had some “closed” signs in my archives. For today I wanted something with a little more in the image than just a closed sign. 

My last upload for yesterday was “smells weird”. This challenge made me think about what I could use to depict the “sense” of smell. Maybe use food with mold on it, or a babies diapers, or a gasoline can, this was my final choice. 

Life today. Thursday has rolled around again and the printing is done. The building was quiet until just before I was finishing. Some of the other groups were starting to come in. I did have some problems with the computer again today. I was able to get one page printed before it began acting up. I usually print one page for final checks before I print the total amount that I need. After that page printed I typed in the number of pages I needed to print. Then the printer went into the mode where it is “deciding” how to proceed, the little icon spins and spins. It didn’t stop spinning and didn’t allow any “escapes” so I elected the use the page that had printed and ran it through the copier itself, overriding a computer command. Luckily the first page printed ok in the first place. Oh, but the printing wasn’t the first bump in the road. The knob to the office door just didn’t respond to the key as normal, it seemed stuck. So I went in through the “back office” instead. No matter, with the “bumps”, it all got done. 

When I parked at the church for pantry yesterday there were two of those rentable electric scooters parked in the lot. Today when I got there one was gone and one was left???

I dropped off the mail, stopped for a sausage on biscuit and iced tea (and I sneaked in a cream filled donut) then on to find a couple of photos before I headed home. 

The first upload for today is “a plant that’s trying”. This is one of my new window box gardens. All the plants I chose of this basket are doing well. It took some time for them to get comfortably acclimated.

We have a huge tree in the neighborhood behind my house. The tree is in the yard catacorner to my house that use to belong to our grandfather. Anyway, when I went to the car this morning a “smallish”, not tiny, branch, as opposed to very large, from that tree was in our yard. The tree is probably as tall as a six story building. Now I am concerned about it’s stability. There were tremendous gusts in the wind last night accompanying a storm.

Once I was home and got a bit of a start on the letter and the photos I got the laundry started. I also managed to use a quick swipe of the Swiffer mob in the kitchen and powder room.  

The next upload today is “my choice” again, one of my series of “trees”. This image is of three separate trees close together in the park a couple of blocks from my house. 

The word today is dark.  O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams. Saint Augustine. The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity. Ulysses S. Grant.  Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind. Henri Frederic Amiel.  A dark cloud is no sign that the sun has lost his light; and dark black convictions are no arguments that God has laid aside His mercy. Charles Spurgeon.  There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast. Charles Dickens.  Every moment of light and dark is a miracle. Walt Whitman. What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self! Nathaniel Hawthorne.  I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark. Thomas Hobbes.  We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success. Henry David Thoreau.  He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself his own dungeon. John Milton. 

The last upload for today is “kitchen”. This is a part of my kitchen. When I shot this I thought I should have taken one of the church kitchen while I was there this morning. I use some of the things around my house and may get a bit boring. 

Article: It always amazes me of what a computer could have done with things that needed “invented” for advances in life styles and human comforts years ago. This article suggests computers could have done that  toward inventing an easier way to move heavy objects from one place to another with ease, on wheels. Yet men’s minds did it anyway way back then. I just took longer and not so “refined” in the beginning. The title: “How was the wheel invented? Computer simulations reveal the unlikely birth of a world-changing technology nearly 6,000 years ago”. The story opened explaining how a copper miner in Europe in the year 3900 BCE hauled copper ore in “sweltering tunnels”. In he story the miner saw another worker using an “odd looking contraption” to move “the equivalent of three times his body weight on a single trip”. The article pointed out that the action of this “odd looking contraption” changed history. It is mentioned that no one knows who invented the wheel or when. There is a “hypothetical scenario” based on a 2015 theory that “miners in the Carpathian Mountains – in present-day Hungary – first invented the wheel nearly 6,000 years ago”. In time more than 150 “miniaturized wagons” were discovered by “archaeologists working in the region”. The body of the “contraptions” were made of clay and had engraved patterns in the clay. The miniature wagons were carbon dated which led to the knowledge at the time that these were the earliest know “wheeled transports”. It is believed that the wheels “evolved” from “simple wooden rollers”. I learned as I read on that the “transition from rollers to wheels requires two key innovations”. There has to be “semicircular sockets” on the cart or other item that needed “wheels” to keep the “rollers” in place. The next step would be for the “rollers” to become “wheel’s”. To understand how and why the rollers through time and experimentation became “wheels” the author and team used computer aided “engineering”. Computer algorithms were used “by modeling hundreds of potential roller shapes” and studying how they “performed” mechanically and structurally. The team believe that “similar evolutionary process” happened all those years ago by experimenting over and over again manually. As time passed and changes were made the rollers became narrower.

Maybe a chicken cutlet for dinner. 

Joy

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