Wednesday, May 15, 2019

Veterinarian Sense of Humor Again (Wordless Wednesday) and Words for Wednesday

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Linking up with Wordless Wednesday and Sandee at Comedy Plus.     





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Words for Wednesday was begun by Delores and has become a moveable feast of word or picture or music prompts that encourages us to write stories, poems, or whatever strikes our fancy.    

This month, the prompts are being provided by Margaret Adamson and her friend Sue Fulton, and are posted by Elephant's Child.                  

This week's prompts are pictures from Margaret's friend Danny McCaughan.  Each gave me a separate impression.



She never got tired of looking at the sunset fire over the hills.

It was her favorite time of day, after her busy world grew still for a while and she was able to sit and relax, to dream, to just soak in the beauty and be thankful.

Even when there were storms it was beautiful, she was so glad to live right here.  At first it had seemed too far from everything, but now she was used to the drive.  She found herself looking forward to spotting the stones that lined the roadway on her way in.  Always one with an imagination, she thought they almost looked like they waited for her whenever she had to leave and come back.

Reaching for her dinner plate, she headed out to the porch.  This evening's show was especially lovely, she decided that even with the huge window it was impossible to stay inside.




"Hey, Duke, what are you doing here?"

"Isn't it obvious, Socks?  I am out here to ignore The Lady.  She wants to give me that nasty stuff she calls 'hairball remedy,' and I am simply not in the mood!"

"But Duke, why do you come hide over here at my house?"

"That should also be obvious, Socks.  She looks around our house for me, not yours."

"Well, okay, give me a minute to work on my own Lady, and once she lets me out, I'll take you to that new catnip patch the neighbor two doors down just planted."

"Splendid!  Much, much better than 'hairball remedy.'  Hop to it!"


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Today is:

Aoi Matsuri -- Kyoto, Japan (Hollyhock Festival, a pageant reproducing ancient imperial processions)

Cold Sophie's Day (5th Ice Saint; according to Nordic legend, this day may be very cold, but there will be no more frosts after this)

Flip Your Mattress Day -- because it's a good thing to do

Hyperemisis Gravidarum Awareness Day -- bringing attention to morning sickness that becomes life-threatening   

Ides of May -- Ancient Roman Calendar; related observances
    Feast of Maia and Vesta
    Mercuralia -- festival for Mercury
    Sacrifice day to the Tiber River

Independence Day -- Paraguay(1811)

International Conscientious Objectors' Day

International Day of Families -- UN

International MPS Awareness Day -- check here for details about these inherited diseases    

Kan Phuetchamongkhon -- Thailand (Royal Plowing and Farmers Day) 

La Corsa del Ceri -- Gubbio, Italy (festival on the eve of the saint day of the city's patron, St. Ubaldo)

Mother's Day -- Paraguay

National Chocolate Chip Day

National Employee Health & Fitness Day -- US (originally the 3rd Wednesday in May, but now spreading around the world as Global Employee Health & Fitness Month)   

National Safety Dose Day -- cannot confirm they sponsor a day any more, but the Safety Dose people still want us to remember that more is not necessarily better when it comes to taking medicines, and to dose them correctly for children

Nylon Stockings Day -- they went on sale at stores around the US this date in 1940

Over the Rainbow Day -- birth anniversary of Lyman Frank Baum

Police Officer/Peace Officer Memorial Day -- US (National Association of Chiefs of Police sponsor the main memorial event at the American Police Hall of Fame and Museum in Titusville, FL, but there may be services where you are also)

Relive Your Past By Listening to the First Music You Ever Bought No Matter What It Was No Excuses Day -- no, i can't find out who started this, or why; maybe we should all take a pass at this one

Turn Beauty Inside Out Day -- the day to remember what really counts is who you are, not just what you look like

St. Dymphna's Day (Patron of epileptics, family happiness, incest victims, martyrs, mental asylums/hospitals, mental health caregivers and professionals/psychiatrists/therapists, mentally ill people, nervous disorders, neurological disorders, possessed people, princesses, rape victims, runaways, sleepwalkers, those who have lost parents; against sleepwalking, epilepsy, insanity, mental disorders, mental illness)

St. Hallvard's Day (Patron of Oslo; protector of innocence and virtue)

St. Isidore of Madrid's Day (a/k/a Isidore the Farmer; Patron of agricultural workers/farm workers/farmers/field hands/husbandmen/ranchers, day laborers, livestock, rural communities; Angono, Philippines; Asturias, Cebu, Philippines; Bukidnon, Mindanao, Philippines; Carampa, Peru; Castalla, Spain; Cuz Cuz, Chile; Digos, Philippines; Estepona, Spain; La Celba, Honduras; Leon, Spain; Lima, Peru; Lucban, Philippines; Madrid, Spain; Malaybalay, Philippines, diocese of; Morong, Philippines; Nabas, Philippines; Orotava, Spain; Pulilan, Philippines; Pulupandan, Philippines; Sabana Grande, Puerto Rico; San Isidro, Argentina; Saragossa, Spain; Sariaya, Philippines; Seville, Spain; Tavalera, Philippines; Tayabas, Philippines; United States National Rural Life Conference; against the death of children)
    Carabao Festival -- San Isidro, Pulilan, and Angono, Philippines (second day and main festival; on St. Isidore of Madrid's Day; the farming communities celebrate their beasts of burden and have them blessed)
    Municipal Holiday -- Madrid
    San Isidro Day -- Mexico

St. Sophia of Rome's Day (considered by some to be among the Ice Saints, and invoked for protection against frost)

Straw Hat Day -- just as you don't wear white after Labor Day, you don't wear straw hats before today, the unofficial start of summer and the official start of straw hat season    

Teacher's Day -- Mexico; South Korea



Anniversaries Today:

Mary, Queen of Scots, marries James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell, 1567
Airmail service begins between NYC, Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia, 1918 


Birthdays Today:

Jamie-Lynn Sigler, 1981
David Krumholtz, 1978
David Charvet, 1972
Sam Trammell, 1971
Emmit Smith, 1969
Giselle Fernandez, 1961
Dan Patrick, 1956
Lee Horsley, 1955
George Brett, 1953
Chazz Palminteri, 1951
Brian Eno, 1948
David Cronenberg, 1943
Lainie Kazan, 1942
Madeleine Albright, 1937
Trini Lopez, 1937
Anna Maria Alberghetti, 1936
Jasper Johns, 1930
Richard Avedon, 1923
Eddy Arnold, 1918
Max Frisch, 1911
James Mason, 1909
Joseph Cotten, 1905
Abraham Zapruder, 1905
Katherine Anne Porter, 1890
Arthur Schnitzler, 1862
Ellen Louise Axson Wilson, 1860
Pierre Curie, 1859
L. Frank Baum, 1856


Debuting/Premiering Today:

Gigi(Film), 1958
"Esclarmonde"(Opera), 1889


Today in History:

Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, is sentenced to death, 1536
Bartholomew Gosnold becomes the first European to see Cape Cod, 1602
Johannes Kepler confirms his discovery of the third law of planetary motion, 1618
James Puckle, a London lawyer, patents the world's first machine gun, 1718
The Seven Years' War begins when Great Britain declares war on France, 1756
Diego Marín Aguilera flies a glider for "about 360 meters", at a height of 5-6 meters, during one of the first attempted flights, 1793
George III survives two assassination attempts in one day, 1800
Opening of the first private mental health hospital in the United States, the Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason (now Friends Hospital) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1817
Francis Baily observes "Baily's beads" during an annular eclipse, 1836
Rama IV is crowned King of Thailand (The King and I), 1851
Opening of the present Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London, 1858
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Woman's Suffrage Association, 1869
Las Vegas, Nevada, is founded, 1905
The United States Supreme Court  declares Standard Oil to be an "unreasonable" monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act and orders the company to be broken up, 1911
The Winnipeg General Strike begins; by 11:00 a.m., almost the whole working population of Winnipeg, Manitoba had walked off the job, 1919
In an attempted Coup d'état, the Prime Minister of Japan Inukai Tsuyoshi is killed, 1932
The Moscow Metro is opened to public, 1935
The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 3, 1958
Mercury-Atlas 9 astronaut L. Gordon Cooper becomes the first American to spend more than a day in space, 1963
President Richard Nixon appoints Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington the first female United States Army Generals, 1970
Portrait of Doctor Gachet by Vincent van Gogh is sold for a record $82.5 million, the most expensive painting at the time, 1990
Edith Cresson becomes France's first female prime minister, 1991
California becomes the second U.S. state after Massachusetts in 2004 to legalize same-sex marriage, 2008
Jessica Watson, age 17, becomes the youngest person to sail, non-stop and unassisted around the world solo, 2010
U.S. scientists develop a device that can generate electricity from genetically-engineered viruses; these piezoelectric materials are a step toward the development of personal power generators, 2012
The UN Security Council condemns North Korea's missile tests, 2017

21 comments:

  1. An excellent use of the prompts. I've stared at the pictures for quite a while and nothing is coming to me :(

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  2. If cats could talk - they wouldn't let us know would they lol
    That's a great little story - like River I'm having to put my thinking cap on for this one

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  3. I like your take at the photos. It is really beautiful siunset, and I'd like to live in your story :)
    So many good thing on the calendar today. Ans a special thank you for reminding me of the ice Saints.
    But do tell isn't it a bit cheating to post a photo of words for wordless Wednesday? ;) It's fun anyway.

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  4. Brilliant quote I am sure they wouldn't waste their time texting back haha!

    Have a returntexttastic week :-)

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  5. That is very true and one more thing to add to their list of ways to ignore us.

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  6. Ha ha...I like and enjoy the conversation between the 2 kitties.

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  7. What a great story. Wonderfully descriptive at the start, then a really amusing conversation as we read on.

    Bluebells! LINKY

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  8. Cats would not text back, but we dogs sure would.

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  9. That is so true about cats not texting back. Instead, they'd just bat the phone on the floor. Have a great Wednesday :)

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  10. Mimi,

    Both short stories are nicely done but I love the second one which brought a smile to my face. Oh yeah, you know a cat would never text you back. They barely want to acknowledge you unless you're carrying their food bowl. lol Happy WW!

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  11. Count me in for Chocolate Chip Day. As far as reliving my past, I believe the first record that I purchased was Ray Charles, "What'd I Say". Listening to music is still a big part of my life. Have a blessed week.

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  12. You are great with writing short stories and love the cat photos!

    Happy Day to you,
    A ShutterBug Explores,
    aka (A Creative Harbor)

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  13. I wonder how many human beings would text back unless you who it is. I've never text in my life. I guess I'm really old Mimi. See ya.

    Cruisin Paul

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  14. Bwahahahahahaha. They wouldn't text us for sure.

    I love both your stories, but the last one is my favorite. Kitties rock.

    Thank you for joining the Wordless Wednesday Blog Hop.

    Have a fabulous Wordless Wednesday. ♥

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  15. Cats have better things to do than human stuff like texting.

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  16. I bet if there were treats involved, there would be world class cat texters!

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  17. Great story, such cute kitties too :)

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