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It's time once again for a random and happy Tuesday, linking up with Stacy's Random Thoughts at Stacy Uncorked and Sandee at Comedy Plus.
Ms. S has agreed until my new Monday morning job starts in September, i will go to her house around 9am every other Monday.
This week, they were supposed to leave for the annual summer trip to see family, but weather concerns, car trouble, and family who needed to change the arrangements made them postpone it until next month, so i did arrive at nine.
When i asked if this was okay with Mr. D, who likes to sleep in, she told me, "Don't you worry about him! I'll get him up at quarter to nine and send him to the casino and he'll be just fine."
Indeed, when i arrived yesterday, he was getting ready to do just that. He later came home with a bit more than he left with, plus cake.
When he goes to the casino on certain Mondays or Tuesdays (he only goes once a week, and which day can vary) he will sometimes come home with a bonus from the casino for being a regular there, and the bonus is in the form of individual desserts, usually cakes.
He and Ms. S have a very intricate cake distribution system.
"Now, last time you brought red velvet to James, but it's also Marg's favorite, so this time you have to bring it to her and James can get the Boston creme cake," she will say.
He may come back with, "Well, what about Lars and Ginny?"
She'll answer, "If you pick the chocolate fudge, they can share the lemon pound cake, or the other way. But they have to share since Ginny is on a diet and told me to only bring them one to share."
Then he says, "But, Lars isn't on a diet, what if he wants a whole one?"
Ms. S's answer? "Well, tough, he has to share, that's all!"
It's such fun to hear them making these arrangements, and once they've agreed, off goes Mr. D to spread cake cheer to the neighbors.
How about some funnies, since i can't give you cake.
Have a blessed and beautiful Tuesday, everyone!
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Today is:
Barn Day -- celebrating barns, old and new, and their history and importance
Bastille Day / National Day -- France, French Territories and some former Colonies (Quatorze Juillet/Fete Nationale)
Birthday of Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden -- an official Flag Day of Sweden
Bohemian Club Annual Rites begin -- Bohemian Grove, CA US (if you are into conspiracy theories, this is supposedly when and where the male movers and shakers of the world meet for two weeks and decide the fate of the world for the next 12 months; the members of the club, including former presidents and other high level officials, do meet for a couple of weeks this time of year to have, among other things, a Cremation of Care ceremony)
Cow Appreciation Day® -- sponsored by Chick-fil-A
Feast of St. Nicodemus of the Holy Mountain
Festival of Millennial Fairy Olympics -- Fairy Calendar (Closing Ceremonies)
Macaroni Day
M&Ms Argument Day -- which are best? plain? peanut? almond? minis? spend the day in a heated discussion with friends and end with an M&M feast
Nachi Himatsuri -- Kumano-Nachi Taisha, Nachi-Katsuura, Japan (one of Japan's 3 largest fire festivals, a grand summer festival and purification ritual, through tomorrow)
National Culture Day and Uniwaine / Unaine Day -- Kiribati (Senior Citizen's Day, specifically Elderly Men's Day / Elderly Women's Day
National Grand Marnier Day -- on Bastille Day, to show the friendship between France and the US
National Nude Day -- New Zealand (although now it's often called International Nude Day, and celebrated everywhere as a day to enjoy your beautiful human form)
Pandemonium Day -- internet generated; don't let the crazy things that happen in your life get you down, celebrate instead!
Republic Day -- Iraq
Runic Half-Month Ur begins (primal strength)
Shark Awareness Day
St. Kateri Tekakwitha's Day ("Lily of the Mohawks", first Native American proposed for canonization; Patron of ecologists, ecology, environment, environmentalism, environmentalists, exiles, people ridiculed for their piety, people who have lost their parents)
Tape Measure Day -- the first modern spring tape measure was patented this day in 1868 by Alvin Fellows of New Haven, NJ, US
World Chimpanzee Day -- on the anniversary of Dr. Jane Goodall's arrival in 1960 at what is now the Gombe National Park in Tanzania
Birthdays Today
Missy Gold, 1970
Robin Ventura, 1967
Matthew Fox, 1966
Jackie Earle Haley, 1961
Jane Lynch, 1960
Joel Silver, 1952
Tommy Mottola, 1949
Steve Stone, 1947
Roosevelt "Rosie" Grier, 1932
Polly Bergen, 1930
John Chancellor, 1927
Harry Dean Stanton, 1926
Dale Robertson, 1923
Ingmar Bergman, 1918
Douglas Edwards, 1917
Gerald R. Ford, 1913
Woodie Guthrie, 1912
William Hanna, 1910
Ken Murray, 1903
Dave Fleischer, 1893
Florence Bascom, 1862
Debuting/Premiering Today:
License to Kill(Film), 1989
"Spring Symphony"(Britten Op. 44), 1949
Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care(Publication Date), 1946
Today in History
Foundation of the Mission San Antonio de Padua in modern California by the Franciscan friar JunÃpero Serra, 1771
Citizens of Paris storm the Bastille and free seven prisoners, 1789
First ascent of the Matterhorn, by Edward Whymper and party, four of whom die on the descent, 1865
The Campanile in St Mark's Square, Venice collapses, also demolishing the loggetta, 1902
The United States $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 bills are officially withdrawn from circulation, 1969
A powerful solar flare, later named the Bastille Day event, causes a geomagnetic storm on Earth, 2000
The United States Government admits to the existence of "Area 51", 2003
In Borneo, a rainbow toad, believed to be extinct since 1924, is sighted, 2011
Neptune, discovered in 1846, completes its first orbit of the sun since that date, 2011
Scientists from the Large Hadron Collider announce the discovery of a new particle called the pentaquark, 2015
A huge iceberg looming over Innaarsuit village in western Greenland prompts evacuations in case it calves, 2018
A new scientific study of the Andean condor, the world’s heaviest bird that can fly, among other things reveals that these birds can stay aloft for up to 5 hours without flapping their wings, 2020
India launches its Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft from Sriharikota space centre on the country's third moon mission, 2023
American billionaire Alice Walton opens the Alice L. Walton School of Medicine in Arkansas, United States, and covers tuition for the first five graduating classes, 2025
"Dr. Jane's Dream, The Goodall Centre of Hope," an immersive experience of pivotal moments from Dr. Goodall's life and the evolution of her work, is released in Tanzania on World Chimpanzee Day, 2025
