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Most religions which have a god of thunder depict the deity as male, but if there was going to be a goddess of thunder, i'd associate her with Ms. G.
When Ms. G is wanting to put the hammer down on someone, she starts out slowly, like a light spring drizzle, almost warm and delightful, then next thing you know, she's gotten the information out of you she wants and boom, you're struck before you realized it wasn't a drizzle, it was the precursor of a monsoon.
Last week, she needed a new battery and for reasons she did not explain to me (and it's none of my business), she bought the battery at the car department of Cramco, but did not let them install it, instead taking it to the dealership to be installed while she had other work performed.
This meant the dealership mechanic put the old battery in the back of her vehicle to be returned to Cramco to get some type of credit for it, and upon going to the back of the vehicle to look at said battery right before we left for Cramco, she realized the mechanic did not take the insulating sleeve off of the old battery and put it on the new one, as the old one was still in said sleeve.
"I know just what probably happened," she was fuming, "he installed the new one and then realized he hadn't put the sleeve on it, and he didn't want to have to take it out and reinstall it, and he thought, 'The old woman won't know what that's for anyway,' so he just left it, but he's going to find himself having to take the new battery out and put that sleeve on it anyway!"
The poor mechanic doesn't realize it, but the goddess of thunder in the form of Ms. G is going to drop that boom on him very soon.
Linking up with Denise at Girlie On The Edge Blog, where she hosts Six Sentence Stories, and the cue is Thunder.
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While Good Fences Around the World seems to have gone the way of the dodo bird, i still enjoy looking for and posting interesting fences, so i will!
I like the subtle flag ribbons on this front yard fence.
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It's Angel Sammy's Poetry Day! This week's image and my poem:
Hey Rover?
Yeah, Rex?
Can you
define bliss?
Well, Rex...
Yeah, Rover?
...I'd say
it's this!
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Angel Brian's Family of Brian's Home - Forever hosts the Thankful Thursday Blog Hop. It's time to share something for which i am thankful.
Today i am thankful i was able to go to summer Bible study yesterday, after missing last week due to good reasons (the new baby!). It was worth missing last week, and worth going yesterday.
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Today is:
Call of the Horizon Day -- can't find any history on this one, but if the idea of following your dreams over the Horizon has ever called you, take the time to follow today!
Constitution Day -- Australia; Palau
Constitutionalist Revolution Day -- São Paulo, Brazil
Don't Put All Your Eggs In One Omelet Day
Feast of Our Lady of Chiquinquira (Patron of Colombia; the Venezuelan National Guard)
Hodag Country Festival -- Rhinelander, WI, US (at the Hodag "50" Track, a large open-air country music festival; through Sunday)
Independence Day -- Argentina(1816); South Sudan
Martyrdom of the Bab -- Baha'i
Muffler Appreciation Day -- if you've ever had a loud vehicle, you will understand why someone started this one
National Sugar Cookie Day -- what could be simpler or more versatile? make them plain or make them fancy, but be sure you make enough!
Nunavut Day -- NU, Canada
Offerings to Heru and Amun -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (day Heru hears prayers in the presence of the Netjers; date approximate)
Oregon Trail Days -- Gering, NE, US (the oldest continuing celebration of the Oregon Trail; through Sunday)
Shiman Rokusen-nichi -- Sensou-ji Temple, Asakusa, Tokyo (Day of 46,000; a visit to the temple on this day through tomorrow credits you the same as visiting 46,000 times on ordinary days)
St. Mary Hermina Grivot's Day (Patron of martyrs)
Anniversary Today:
Steven Cauble marries Lisa Whelchel, 1988
Birthdays Today
Mitchel Musso, 1991
Kiely Williams, 1986
Fred Savage, 1976
Jack White, 1975
Courtney Love, 1964
Kelly McGillis, 1957
Tom Hanks, 1956
Fred Norris, 1955
Jimmy Smits, 1955
Margaret Gillis, 1953
John Tesh, 1952
Chris Cooper, 1951
Mitch Mitchell, 1947
O.J. Simpson, 1947
Richard Roundtree, 1942
Brian Dennehy, 1938
David Hockney, 1937
Vince Edwards, 1928
Ed Ames, 1927
Mathilde Krim, 1926
Ottorino Respighi, 1879
Elias Howe, 1819
Anne Ward Radcliffe, 1764
Today in History
Roman military commander Avitus is proclaimed emperor of the Western Roman Empire, 455
Henry VIII annuls his marriage to Anne of Cleves (his 4th wife), 1540
In Versailles, the National Assembly reconstitutes itself as the National Constituent Assembly and begins preparations for a French constitution, 1789
The Act Against Slavery is passed in Upper Canada and the importation of slaves into Lower Canada is prohibited, 1793
The 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified guaranteeing African Americans full citizenship and all persons in the United States due process of law, 1868
In Provident Hospital on Chicago’s South Side, black surgeon Dr. Daniel Hale Williams performed the first successful open-heart surgery, 1893
Queen Victoria gives royal assent to an Act creating the Commonwealth of Australia thus uniting separate colonies on the continent under one federal government, 1900
Johnny Weissmuller swims the 100 meters freestyle in 58.6 seconds breaking the world swimming record and the 'minute barrier', 1922
The Russell-Einstein Manifesto is released by Bertrand Russell in London, 1955
In a seminal moment for pop art, Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans exhibition opens at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles, 1962
Margaret Thatcher begins her second term as British prime minster, 1982
South Africa is readmitted into the Olympic movement after 30 years of exclusion, 1991
The African Union is established in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2002
South Sudan gains independence and secedes from Sudan, 2011
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi proclaims victory over the Islamic State forces in Mosul, 2017
Thai amateur golfer Atthaya Thitikul becomes youngest ever winner in a female professional golf event at 14 years, 4 months & 19 days at the Ladies European Thailand Championship, 2017
US coffee company Starbucks announces it will stop using plastic straws by 2020, reducing use of more than 1 billion straws a year, 2018
Archaeological evidence from shale rock in Taoudeni basin, Mauritania, seems to indicate that 1.1billion-year-old bacteria produced the world's first biological color, a bright pink, 2018
Death Valley, California, records a temperature of 130 degrees F (54.4 C), one of the highest temperatures ever on Earth, 2021
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Chinese economic leaders end two days of talks in Beijing, 2023
Ariane 6, the European Space Agency's new heavy-lift rocket, blasts off from French Guiana, 2024
