October 3, 2025 a thought for today, That which comes with sin goes with sorrow. Danish Proverb

Yesterday’s photo uploads

One of the uploads for yesterday was “my choice” it is one of my series of “touch of color”. This is one of the moss roses from one of the window “gardens”.

The next upload was “folded”. This is one of the extra wide gates I used to keep Sweet Pea in a confined area when we needed that. 

The last upload for yesterday was “your hand(s)”. This is mine in its most often used position.

Life today. A memory of yesterday was a happy day. I got to meet and bring home my new furry best friend. She is a tabby kitten. She is 6 months old. I was planning on no kitten and no senior ages. I was staying in the middle with a “young adult”. But she took heart and that’s that. Right now we are in the “get use to new surroundings” mode. It’s making me nervous. There are features that seem to be taking longer than I imagined. I am a “need it right now” kind of person. She is staying pretty much in one spot well hidden. She hadn’t used the kitty litter yesterday, I was worried. She isn’t eating the kitty food that was provided, that worries me. I plan to try something different for tomorrow in my grocery order today. She seems to be sleeping somewhere around 14 to 16 hours a day. About 4am she was in bed with me, it felt good. She was purring loudly. Finally she decided to try the kitty litter. This morning when I got up I couldn’t find her. I looked everywhere. There are no open windows or doors. After a mild panic attack I did find her. She was under a stack of pillows on the floor at the end of the bed. She’s sleeping again. 

Today is on the light side. I didn’t do the laundry yesterday to spend time with Evelyn Bobbi, my new tabby, to be shortened to Bobbi.  So that was at the top of the list. The frig hasn’t been attended to for a while so that was next on the list. There was a surprise connected with that the trash container was out by the curb for pick up. I got the bundle of discards together and walked to the curb. I got back inside to start loading the dishwasher when I heard the truck. Looks like I just made it.

Now its just finishing this letter and doing the photos. Then I should be done. Lowell is coming later to put on a layer of coating for the driveway. Otherwise it won’t get done until next spring. 

We are having another gorgeous autumn day. I think there are several more before a drop in temps and an Indian summer. 

The word today is increase.  Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and  character increase as the importance of the position increases. John Adams. Grow in the root of all grace, which is faith. Believe God's promises more firmly than ever. Allow your faith to increase in its fullness, firmness, and simplicity. Charles Spurgeon. The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others. John Locke.  Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase. Charles Caleb Colton.  Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end. Marcus Tullius Cicero.  Festivals cause diseases, since they lighten cares but increase gluttony. Apollonius of Tyana.  Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence. Charles Darwin.  Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness. William Cullen Bryant.  The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction. Plato.  Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. Aristotle.  Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former. William Shenstone.  No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it. Ovid.  

Article: This park looks like it is going to offer some different sights unique to most of our other state parks. The title is “History Meets Nature at Ohio’s Great Council State Park”. The article started by telling how this park opened near Xenia Ohio in 2024. It’s not the typical park “simply to showcase trails and trees”.  Instead it was created to honor the Shawnee people and their history in the area. The land for this park is on the same land that was a Shawnee settlement in the 1700s. The article mentioned that over a thousand Shawnee lived there with all traditional community life of diplomacy and colonial connections. Tecumseh, a Shawnee chief, was of the tribe in that area. The formation of this park has been a “collaboration between the Ohio Department of Natural Resources and all three federally recognized Shawnee tribes”. This will determine how the park looks, feels and tells stories. The main structure will look like an Indian council house. Within the structure there will be tree levels of exhibits, one being an indoor stream and a rotating exhibit showing cultural scenes. Part of the area will be something called “walking the land”, an area representing a prairie ending at the Little Miami River. This article said that will be the longest hike in Ohio. The hopes for the park are that it is not like other Ohio stories of Ohio, pioneers, canals and steel mills, it is more a place for the Shawnee nation telling “stories to be heard on their own terms”. It is free to visit the main center on Wednesdays through Sundays. Growth is still being planned for workshops and other events. One park in our state that is “rooted in history” and “relevant right now”.

Today’s photo uploads

The first upload is “stripes”. This is Bobbi our new furry family member. My new best friend with a tiny shoulder to cry on when needed and also ready for a quick hug accompanied with the longest softest purr maybe ever in history. 

The next upload today is “my choice” and another of the “touch of color” series. My daintiest tea cup with the kerosene lamp and mirror in the black and white background. 

The last upload is “rock(s). This is one rock on a bed of weeds and mulch in my front now defunct flower beds.

It’s DoorDash / GrubHub night....it will most likely be piazza. 

Joy

                        the "bonus" image: an image taken while sitting in a parking lot