September 5, 2025 a thought for today, The mistakes of others are good teachers. Estonian Proverb

The first upload for yesterday was “my choice”. I used one of my “still life” for this one. 

The next upload is “a book”. As you can see there are actually two books having one of them as the main subject. They are both vintage or antique.

The last upload was “baby”. Since I don’t have any babies around to photograph this is from my archives and is my second born great grand son. 

Life today. Yesterday was the “busy” day. After the printing at church I got started on the laundry. I have an alarm set to alert me to clean some in the freezer or frig since trash pick up day would be the next day. I have another alarm to alert me to work on “downsizing” for fifteen minutes or so every day. Both of those alarms were answered today. Some days I skip that alarm depending on available time. It has been one of those days that I flipped from one thing to another. It started with all the virtual visits. Then moved on to starting the letter. While Brian was here working on the lawn I had him move a couple of things to the garage for me so I could make some space for the furry friends corner.  I was suppose to have a meeting last night but I realized I had “overextended” myself and backed out of the meeting. 

The first upload for today is another of “my choice”. It is on of my house garden plants, with one of the kid’s tennis ball, and three of my vintage books. 

Sue and I had a chat before she left to have some blood work done for one of her next appointment. She called a little later to say she was going on over to Lancaster to help with something there after the lab. 

I wanted to talk to Sweet Pea’s vet about some tests coming up, a refill on meds and to tell him my plans for getting a cat to be her companion. I called the office and they said he would call me back. 

The next upload is “a drink”. It is one of my “sparkling ice” waters with a glass of ice ready for a guest. 

I moved on to setting up the photos I need for today. After I got them shot I “dark roomed” them in Photoshop. I was able to get them key worded, for future searches, and attached to the September photo calendar. 

After a quick lunch I got back to the letter. I took another break to work on a l piece I want to upload to a magazine. 

The next upload of photos is “a pair”. It could have been any kind of pair. The
choice of a knife and fork was my first thought for this image. 

The word today is full.  Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy. Henri Frederic Amiel.  There will be a great loss of learning before the moon's full cycle is completed. Fire and floods will be fomented by ignorant rulers; much time will go by before it is rectified. Nostradamus.  Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world. Nathaniel Hawthorne.  I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read. Thomas Babington Macaulay.  As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly, when they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky. So up to the house-top the coursers they flew, with the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too. Clement Clarke Moore.  Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. By Time and Age full many things are taught. Aeschylus. To every soul that knows how to pray, to every soul that by faith comes to Jesus, the true mercy seat, divine sovereignty wears no dark and terrible aspect but is full of love. Charles Spurgeon. Memory is a net: one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

This is one of the days a month that I have four photo a day uploads this one is “vintage”. This is a dictionary, a second edition of a book my father recommended that I keep handy particularly when I was reading. He suggested that when I came to a word I didn’t know to look it up increasing my knowledge and vocabulary. He also suggested it because I sometimes, many times, had a problem with spelling. Now there is spell check and grammar check and thesaurus check digitally.

Article: It seems Columbus and Ohio have a lot of history to share. Here is some more about the time in history when there was a canal in Columbus Ohio. It’s interesting to see what is there now where the canal once existed. I am summarizing the article titled: “The Secret Waterway That Helped Build Columbus (And Why It Disappeared)”. In the 19th century canals were in use in many areas of the United States. They had served their purpose and were about to be shut down in many areas This “shut down” came about due to competition from railways. In that period here in Columbus there was the “Columbus Feeder Canal, a 12-mile stretch of waterway” that connected Columbus with the Ohio and Erie Canal. The purpose of most canals was moving  goods, water (power) and dreams of property” from one place to another. In the 1800s our country was a “nation on the move”. As the article related the roads were “rough” and “muddy” with an added lack of railroads making the transfer of goods a difficult situation. That’s when canals were thought to be helpful. They were “man-made waterways” that allowed for a smoother connection of people and goods from town to town. That’s when Columbus “jumped on the bandwagon”. In 1827 construction began on the Columbus Feeder Canal and was completed in September of 1831. In taking a ride on a canal boat you would experience a “leisurely” trip moving on a  “40-foot-wide, 4-foot-deep canal”. The canal boats were pulled by horses or mules at around five miles an hour. The canal benefitted “farmers, manufacturers, and merchants”. Some of the items that would be carried by this system were corn, wheat, flour, and even whiskey. The journey went from Columbus to the Ohio and Erie Canal then moved on to other systems. One more thing that was shared in the article was that not only did the canal move people and good it provided water power “for mills and factories along its route”. Places where the canals met could and did lead to thriving life styles. Around the 1950s the steam engine began it’s time in history. For the Columbus area the Cleveland, Columbus, and Cincinnati railroad line opened in 1851 making travel faster and “more reliable”. The feeder canal in Columbus continued to be used until about 1904 when it was “officially abandoned”. Today there are “remnants” of parts of the structures of the abandoned canal in Lockbourne Ohio where the two canals met.        

It’s a DoorDash/GrubHub night. I will have to look at the menu to decide

Joy

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