July 1, 2025 a thought for today, If Heaven creates a man, there must be some use for him. Chinese Proverb

One of the uploads for yesterday was “what’s this even for?” My son, Bob, use to “collect” odd objects, at least odd to me but of some interest to him and others I’m, sure they were on the market after all. I found this one in some of his things I had no idea what the red one was for. Once I had the photo on Facebook I got an answer. It is a key to an electric lawn mower.  

The next upload was “my choice”. It is another of my “manhole covers” series.
 

The last upload was “lens flare”. I had to help this one along. There was a tiny bit of “lens flare” on the car but I wanted to make it a little more prominent. So I used a filter to “enlarge it slightly”.

Life today. Yesterday I finally found time to get my hair cut. My hair has always been thick and it grows fast so I need a visit to the hair salon often, but I keep putting it off.  

I am having a nice easy going Tuesday. I have gotten back some updates on the bulletin and have those done. I also finished the other tasks that go with the printing, envelopes and birthday cards. 

Last night I found that I can do one of my regular photo/calendar task on my tablet as well as on my computer. It allows me to do that task while I am “down” for the evening with the computer shut down and I am in my lounge chair. This gives me a little more time on the computer for other things during my computer time. 

The first upload for today is “seashell”. This is one of the seashells we have had for years. One of our times when were young and on a family vacation to Florida we collected this one and others. I use is now for as a resting place for one of my air plants. 

Andy showed up unexpectedly a little while ago to work on a window screen for me. That was a nice surprise. I am lucky to have family looking after me and the things I need help with.

I need to clear out the refrigerator today. When I get done with that and since it is an easy going day I think I will “cook/bake” for a while. I haven’t been doing much of that lately. I am going to make some meat balls and maybe brownies. Then a quick mop on the powder room floor and light some comforting candles. 

We are having some cooler weather now. I think it is a short break from some pretty high temperatures will be back. There is some rain along with it. 

The next upload for today “the best of Canada! Your choice”.  This photography group is based in Canada. I have joined the group on line. I enjoy sharing photos with our Canadian neighbors and seeing images from that part of the world that I would never have the chance to see in real life. I share my photos of our part of the world too which may or may not be unique to their lives. I haven’t visited Canada for about fifty years now. I may have a smattering of photos from that time period in the archives. I chose to show something of our downtown gardens with the buildings in the background. 

The word today is disappear.  Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. John Quincy Adams. Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness. Rumi.  Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself. Desiderius Erasmus  Purposes, plans, and achievements of men may all disappear like yon cloud upon the mountain's summit; but, like the mountain itself, the things which are of God shall stand fast for ever and ever. Charles Spurgeon. Anger never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Gautama. When people are educated, the distinction between classes disappears. It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear. Rutherford B. Hayes.  All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else Gautama Buddha.  Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears. Marcus Aurelius. The inevitable end of multiple chiefs is that they fade and disappear for lack of unity. Napoleon Bonaparte.  How very near us stand the two vast gulfs of time, the past and the future, in which all things disappear. Marcus Aurelius.  Translate a book a dozen times from one language to another, and what becomes of its style? Most books would be worn out and disappear in this ordeal. The pen which wrote it is soon destroyed, but the poem survives. Henry David Thoreau.

My last upload for today is “currently loving”. She, Sweet Pea, is currently love me, not the camera however, as I am currently loving her. 

Article: My first interest in this article was the use of words, all words in general, and their separate and unique meanings. When my husband came home on leave from the Navy when we were dating he kept calling what I called (and he once called) pop, soda. At first it sounded strange to me after a life time of pop to soda. The title to the article is “Pop, soda or coke? The fizzy history behind America’s favorite linguistic debate”. As I had learned way back the article mentioned “the word you use generally boils down to where you’re from: Midwesterners enjoy a good pop, while soda is tops in the North and far West”. And I understand from the article that southerners aks for “coke” in stead of pop or soda. The author of the article went on to say that she is interested in the “history behind how a fizzy “health” drink from the early 1800s spawned the modern soft drink’s many names and iterations”. She went on to say there was “the urge to create drinks with medicinal properties inspired what might be called a soda revolution in the 1800s”. Apparently it start with the process of “carbonating water” that was discovered in the late 1700s. Then the “carbonated water” was called “soda water” and considered a “health drink”. I also learned from the article that the word soda came from the sodium that was in the drinks. That was considered that the salts (sodium) had healing properties. It was mentioned that pharmacists sold soda water at soda fountains bu th glass. This all began some time around 1806. In the mid 1800s the soda water was seasoned with herbs, roots, sassafras and marketed as “cures for everything from fatigue to foul moods”. Then there was another word for the drinks, seltzers where carbonated mineral water and is called “fizzy water”. The different names for the drinks have a history. Soda in the northeast probably came from the soda fountain that had come into being and the drinks became popular. The word pop refereed to a sparkling beverage that appeared in the “1840s in the name of a flavored version called “ginger pop.”  There is a theory that “pop” may have come about related to the sound that was made with the cork was pulled from the bottle of the drink. The article came to talking about the name “coke”. The Coca-Cola was served in 1886 in Atlanta. There was an effort in the 1900s to “stamp out” for the term Coca-Cola instead. Other popular items whose names became a generic term, Jell-o, Kleenex and Band-Aids. Eventually the term “soft drink” came to mean only such sweetened carbonated beverages”. The author noted that Americans “guzzle” almost 40 gallons per year. Anyway, even though this was a work in the subject of pop or soda, it can indicate how the use of many English words may develop their names, meanings and uses. The English language has many words that sound the same but have different spelling and meaning. Words and language are fascinating. 

Spaghetti and meat balls for dinner. 

Joy

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