June 7, 2025 a thought for today, For an intelligent man, one word and he understands. Chinese Proverb

The first upload for yesterday was “the laundry I ignored”. Well, temporarily. 

The next upload was “dog”. This is one of my ‘best furry” friends who lives in my heart and memories.

The last upload for yesterday was “my choice” , one of the “doors” series. A walk down cellar door. 

Live today. I need some energy. I have so many “chores” that need done. They are the kind that when I was twenty or thirty, “no problem”. Well, fifty years of the “no problem” kind grew gray hair and expired stamina. That ship sailed . There must be some substitutes for the necessary oomph that accompanies the years of depletion of the younger versions. I haven’t found the appropriate transition  yet. 

Today is the now “traditional” curbside pick up of groceries. This trip usually has an added thought, find some good photos. They help to add to the humble attempts at art as well as visual notes to a daily journal of life. 

When I get back home I may try an attempt at attacking an invading mulberry bush in the back yard too close to my snow ball bush. 

One of the photo challenge “assignments” for today was a “Sudbury Super Stack”. The only smoke stack I could even think of here in Columbus was the one near the Crew stadium, the Municipal Light Plant smokestack. I wasn’t going to drive around in down town traffic, especially with the Art Festival going on.  Sweet Pea and I drove around closer to home before going to Kroger looking for a tall chimney that might work instead.

After the groceries are put up it will be some time in the kitchen. Sweet Peas, fried ground beef weekly meals, lima bean soup in the pressure cooker and to prepare the chicken cutlets for the air fryer. Then clean up the mess I make. 

As much as I like the windows open and fans on I gave in and turned the AC on yesterday. According to the weather predictions for the next few days I think I will be able to turn the AC off and the windows back to open. 

My window gardens are doing their job. The one on the front porch has several blooms and a few seeds popping open. The one in the back is different due to its position in the sun and the plants I chose for it. There are a few plantlets (no blooms, yet) and a few new seeds sprouting. BTW, the  bird who was entertaining him/herself in that “garden”  the other day had spread some of the Johnny Jump Up seeds  from my chosen location. I didn’t notice the move until this morning when I saw the sprouts. Hopefully his/her frolic and choice turns out to be a good spot. We’ll see when they bloom.

The nest upload for today is "sock that lost it's mate". I used a whole pair of socks that the sock that lost it's mate wouldn't look so lonesome. 

The word is bring.  I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts. Abraham Lincoln.  Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal. Thomas Moore.  God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. Saint Augustine.  First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others. Thomas a Kempis.  Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success. Louisa May Alcott. We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it. Epicurus.  Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God. Francis Bacon.  Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them. Epictetus.  Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers. Victor Hugo.  There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself. Henry David Thoreau.  It is not talking but walking that will bring us to heaven. Matthew Henry.

The last upload for today is “half full/half empty”. All I had to do for this one was drink half my iced tea for the day.

Article: Since thoughts of summer time and vacations are in the air this article may add to the dreaming. The article is about a “former” quarry west of Columbus near the Indiana border. It has become a resort. In 1889 this quarry, now resort, was discovered as an area of limestone that “sprung” into a quarry in the 1920s. At that time there were 50 local employees at the quarry in New Paris, Ohio. Now, a hundred years later, it has been “transformed” into the “Natural Springs Resort”. It is a 46 acre resort with a spring fed lake. There is a beach area, natural rock formations and “even a heated swimming pool”. On a visit to the area you will see an “epic floating obstacle course” in that lake along with an area for scuba diving. There are camping areas and cabins. There is a Camp Store for things you may have forgotten or other necessities. There is a restaurant on the site called “the  Beachside Café and Grille”. If you are planning a visit for a day it is open to the public Monday through Friday. There are weekend accommodation for over night guests only.

Lima bean soup and chicken cutlets for dinner. 

Joy

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