June 23, 2025 a thought for today, If you continually give you will continually have. Chinese Proverb

One of the uploads for yesterday was “pink or purple”. This is one of my favorite spring/summer blouses. I think there is a bit of each, pink and purple, in it.

The next upload was “j is for....”. I used J is for jello. So I made the banana cream pie as a pardner with the jello for this image. 

The last image upload for yesterday was “too many mugs”.  Well, this is my collection. I have an Ohio State “mug”, a mug from the Columbus Police Department, a mug from the US Navy (a lot of coffee went through this one) and one from the US Marine Corp. (not "too many" of this kind).

Life today. What a day. This is one of those days that time as seemed to run away with me. There had been a problem with me getting information for the bulletin but it showed up last night in my email. I was able to get the complete bulletin done and sent out for proof reading. I also was able to put some time in on the newsletter. If all goes as I hope I should be able to finish it tomorrow. It turns out Sweet Pea is out of her homemade menu meals for the week so I had to put time in on that working on that project too. 

I  was perplexed with some of the photo work that was on my agenda for today so I had to deep search my archives for one of them. Then there was the other two. I had to spend some time with setting up for those. 

The first challenge upload for today is “upside down”. I think it is the only thing upside down in the house right now, at least the most visible. 

To add to the list this is the day my hydroponic garden needs water exchanges and all other gardens need watered too (table top and “senior” window boxes).

I’m glad I didn’t need to go out today the temperature is in the nineties with a heat index of over 100. I do have food pantry this week but I have a car with air conditioning. Some of the folks who come to pantry walk to get to us. I hope they will be careful and safe. 

I missed a call last night that I was counting on. I guess I am too set in my ways and count too much on arbitrary expectations. I think I am too old to change.

The next upload today is “my choice”. This one is the first in my series of “manhole covers”. This one was taken a while back and at a time I could stop in the middle of the street to make the shot. 

The word today is deserve. They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin.  There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny. Frederick William Robertson.  In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty. Saint Augustine.  Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it. Abraham Lincoln.  There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness. George Washington.  Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the reward of their charity and the alms they give. For these, they will receive from the Lord the reward and recompense they deserve. Francis of Assisi. May it please Christ our Lord to grant us true humility and abnegation of will and judgment, so that we may deserve to begin to be His disciples. Saint Ignatius.  A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve. Joseph Joubert.  Next to the Word of God, music deserves the highest praise. Martin Luther. Virtue comes by nature, learning, and practice, and thanks to virtue, all of the aforesaid may deserve approval. Apollonius of Tyana.  Words, which are the dress of thoughts, deserve surely more care than clothes, which are only the dress of the person. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield.  To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it. Victor Hugo. 

The last upload today is “a fridge magnet”. I don’t have any cute or fancy magnets itself but three plain ones that hold up cute and information. 

Article: I liked this article about an old engine house in Columbus. First of all my uncle was stationed there, Engine House #6, before it closed. Then he moved to 12 engine house. At the same time my father was stationed at 10 engine house, further west on Broad West Street. My husband was stationed at 17 engine house, still further west on West Broad Street. As you can see I am from a fire department family. Then there is my interest in historical architecture and their uniqueness and majesty in Columbus especially when they are in use and not torn down. Engine house no. 6 is located on West Broad Street in the Franklinton area of Columbus and is called the “East Franklinton Engine House”. The Romanesque Revival building has graced our city since 1892, what stories it could tell. The equipment and men made their last run from there in 1966. Later from 1975 to 2014 it was an electronics store. In 2016 it finally became a member of “National Register of Historic Places”. . Station #6 is only one of seven of its time still left in Columbus. It looks like an “old Roman building”, hence the Romanesque Revival. It is constructed of brick and limestone. Its neighbors use to be mostly people’s homes. In the 1950s the area became mostly businesses and factories.  Though the structure still looks like it had from the beginning, windows and doors have been “filled in”. The front doorways were constructed to accommodate the horse-drawn fire equipment used in the 1800s. According to the article the building is still in good shape even though windows and doors are boarded up. The 60 foot tall hose tower where hoses were kept in good shape is still in place. Of course when new there were stables for the horses and a loft to store their food. This firehouse experienced the “Great Flood of 1913" where the rising water reached the second story windows. It also experienced an earlier flood, 1897, where the water only filled the basement. In 1967 it was sold to a man who wanted to make it a Christian film office and museum but changed his mind and made it an electronics store. In 2014 the Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority (CMHA) bought the building and had new homes built next to it. In 2016 a place called Heritage Ohio wanted to buy it and make it a shop or restaurant but changed their mind. Now the Ohio History Center is trying to make arrangements to take over the renewal. 

Maybe chili for dinner tonight or taco salad. 

Joy

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