October 9, 2025 a thought for today, It takes a good many mice to kill a cat. Danish Proverb

Photo uploads for yesterday. 

This upload challenge was “my choice”. It is one of my series of a touch of color. A Johnny Jump Up from one of my “senior” garden window boxes. 

The next challenge was “dolls”. I don’t have small children living in the house
anymore. I do however have a toy box of collections they have left behind. These “ladies” were in that box minus their clothing that is the why for the head shot, a respect of sorts.

The last upload for yesterday was “a collection”. This is part, part only, of my collections of yarns that have been used in my most current crochet projects. 

Life today. Lowell and Rebecca stopped yesterday. I had a minor “happening” in the car the day before. I got stuck on an exposed and elevated manhole cover on the way home from the vets office. It was raining and Bobbi wasn’t happy about being in a container that she couldn’t get out of. Two young men got me unstuck. It was in an area where there has been road work for over a year, whole stretches are torn up. That wasn’t a happy experience. Lowell stopped yesterday to see if he could tell if there was any damage. Apparently there wasn’t. It seems to be running fine.  

The church computer is back to being slow. I got there and prepared for starting, loaded paper, turned the printer on then pressed all the necessary buttons and waited. Nothing came on to the screen. After about 45 minutes I decided I would leave the computer on while I went out to get a couple of errands out of the way. When I got back the screen was still blank. I decided to give up for the day. I may be able to get there at 8:00 tomorrow morning and try again. I would not stay long because I am having company to meet Bobbi joining our family. That topped not getting the information I needed to complete the bulletin until I got up this morning to find the last minute email. 

Once that was done and I finally got home it was time for Sue and I to work together to get the dual dose of meds in Bobbi’s eyes to clear up the infection.  Just after that Tami and Andy stopped. Bobbi was not in the mood for a visit. Tami seemed to get her calmed down some. 

I was able to get the laundry started after getting a late start on the letter and the photos. It looks like it will be the rest of the day finishing it all hopefully before dinner.   

The word today is king. He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.  He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king. John Milton.  I have seen the king with a face of Glory, He who is the eye and the sun of heaven, He who is the companion and healer of all beings, He who is the soul and the universe that births souls. Rumi.  I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first. Thomas More.  The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep. Chanakya.  My tastes are not those of the king, who has none, except for hunting and mechanic's labour. Marie Antoinette.  He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king. Saint Augustine.  I am the herald of the Great King. Francis of Assisi.  Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave. Pericles.  Authority forgets a dying king. Alfred Lord Tennyson.  The place does not make the man, nor the sceptre the king. Greatness is from within. Robert Green Ingersoll.  Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty. Sallust. 

Article: This is yet another thing I know little about and find interesting. It is beyond our earth while still has a major affect on us. The title is “What are solar storms and the solar wind?”, written by three astrophysicists. The article was written in answer to an eleven year students question. To open the discussion in the article the author mentioned not only is there weather here on earth there is also weather in space. “It starts with the sun”. The sun is hot and full of gasses. The author went on to say that physicists call the make up of the sun plasma. The “plasma” become charged through natural motion and physics take place. Then it can “conduct electricity” and magnetic fields that can pull and push the plasma. In these actions the sun can cause “soar wind” then causing corona, the sun’s atmosphere, to form particles flying out from the sun’s surface. The corona can sometimes be seen during an eclipse. A solar wind occurs when the corona passes through the gravity field of the sun and enters the whole solar system. This solar wind is met by “safely guided around us by our planet’s magnetic field”. The article also said the sun is a “giant magnet”. The magnet field lines of the sun can “interact” with the earth’s magnetic field and cause something called “space weather”. The earth’s magnetic field is a “protective bubble” called magnetosphere. Most times we can’t tell if there is anything happening. There may be times with the “solar wind plasma” may make it to our atmosphere.  That is when the two magnetic fields interact. It can cause “magnetic storms” all through the earth. Scientists learn to understand and predict the “space weather”. It can cause blackouts and failures in communications. The weather also mentions that the space weather can also create light shows called the Northern and Southern Lights. So if you get a chance to see them you are seeing space weather effects “of eruptions and solar wind from the Sun.”

Beef and homemade noodles for dinner.

Photo uploads from today’s life and memories.

The first challenge upload for today is another “my choice” and another of my series of “touch of color”. 

The next upload was “doorway”. It is a space in my home. One that I see all day every day..

The last upload’s challenge title is “simple”. It is one of nature and its creator’s simplest taste of the simple beauty of life. 

Joy

this bonus photo was created from one of my original photos of an orange barrel and yellow fire hydrant in a construction zone. It was one of my photos that has been digitally to create a new design hidden in the original image and carefully brought to the surface