June 21, 2025 a thought for today, Gamblers know neither fathers nor sons. Chinese Proverb
The first upload for yesterday was “my choice”, another of my “trees” series. This was taken in a different season and stored in the archives.
The next upload is “what I should be doing”. That is finish loading the dish washer.
Life today. Summer is here and it is bringing the heat this week. I think air conditioners will be running regularly for several days. The temperatures are predicted to be in the nineties all week, heat index over 100 at points.
The Saturday curb side grocery pick up is done as well as put away. The trip to the store this morning called for the AC, this is first time for us in this car. It worked great.
Sweet Pea’s failing health is hard to watch. However, it’s not a lot different from both mine and Sues. It is faster as dog lives are more delineated than we humans. She is having an increasingly hard time walking and standing for more than several minutes. I noticed last night there seems to be periods of confusion for her now and then too. It feels like I am in a period of saying good bye. I am bond to make her as comfortable as she can be and as I am able to make for her.
I can’t remember a period of any length of time in my life that I have been without a pet. At my age it is getting harder to take care of a dog. I have had a couple of cats in my life and have noticed that, in my opinion, they are somewhat easier to take care of than dogs. They seem to be a little more “self contained” at least for cats that are “indoor” rather than “outdoor” in living conditions. I need living things around me. They bring smiles, comfort, companionship, a “shoulder to cry on” all overriding the care they need. When I got Sweet Pea I already had my dachshund, Sugar, so they were company for each other. Since Sugar passed away a few years ago I have felt Sweet Pea needed another pet in the house. I put it off, now it may be to late or it may help her. Anyway, I am leaning that way. I am trying to make up my mind if it would help Sweet Pea or be to much for her. I am not thinking a kitten I am thinking an adult, not senior, cat. One who is already use to kitty litter and household surroundings.
The word today is deliberate. Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in. Andrew Jackson. Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it. Quintilian. Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire. Heraclitus. How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them. Henry David Thoreau. It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature. Harriet Martineau. Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance. Horace. Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent. Samuel Johnson. Take time for deliberation. Haste spoils everything. Statius. Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you. Ralph Waldo Emerson. I therefore beg leave to move that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessing on our deliberations, be held in this Assembly every morning. Benjamin Frankl. The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation. Demosthenes. Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations. Horace.
Article: Here is a swing from other kinds of “news”. Here is a touch about the history, to some of us a review, of our state. The title is: Significant Historical Events in Ohio”. I like the opening sentence, “Ohio is like a small version of the whole United States and has been important in the country’s history”. The article goes on to say it all started in 1787 with the Northwest Ordinance which set rules for new states joining the country. Ohio had a role in the War of 1812 that was important “military and political matters”. An early disaster in our state was the Great Dayton Flood in 1913. It helped to start new “technologies” to control floods. Ohio had a part in the equal rights movement. And of course, there is the Wright brothers in the world of flight. So a bit about those accomplishments one is about the War of 1812. Ohio was important due to its location like in the Battle of Lake Erie and the Siege of Fort Meigs. It ultimately led to the American win at Lake Erie that gave the control over the Great Lakes and cutting off supplies to the British forces. The Great Dayton Flood of 1913. Led to one of the first big systems to control floods in the United States. During the time of the Civil Rights movement Ohio was involved and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 happened. Ohio had a “wide” effect in Civil Rights which also involved Jesse Owens as a pioneer in his movement. The Wright brothers changed the world in 1903 with the birth of aviation “by inventing the first airplane that could be controlled and powered by an engine”. They did most of the building of the air craft in Kitty Hawk, NC but it was in a “Dayton, Ohio workshop, which was also their bicycle shop, where they really prepared for this achievement”. So as the article related “Ohio has a deep history marked by key moments that have not only shaped the state but also had a big impact on the whole country”.
I think meat loaf and baked potatoes for dinner.
Joy
in the distance
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