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Friends, please note these next few days i am helping family members move long distance and may take a while to catch up with your posts.
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Many years ago, i read a book in which one lady asked another, "Could you loan me the housekeeper tomorrow and I'll have her come to you on my day instead?"
This is how i feel just about now in the planning for moving the kids to Arkansas. It has taken a whole lot of moving and shaking of the schedule, Ms. G is not on the rotation this week, Ms. SE and Ms. GA were Wednesday instead of Thursday, and Thursday is NOLA because i'll be out of town Saturday.
The whole rigmarole will be repeated Thanksgiving week when my Thursday moves to Tuesday, because Tuesday will be free since the children are moving. I rather feel like a yoyo and wonder if my clients are feeling the same way, i'm just glad i haven't gotten lost in my calendar yet.
Meanwhile, every evening they are dropping one child or another in my lap so they can "just do a few things," and i'm enjoying every minute while they are still here.
Linking up with Denise at Girlie On The Edge Blog, where she hosts Six Sentence Stories, and the cue is Loan.
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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!
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It's Angel Sammy's Poetry Day! This week's image and my poem:
I work all day and cooking,
well, for that I'm just too tired,
I'm trying to make it easy,
but looks like my luck expired!
Can't let it get me down, though,
I'll figure out some way
to get a bite at home
and have pizza another day.
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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 all the swapping around of days is going well and the only hiccups have been minor ones.
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Today is:
A&W Root Beer Mug Day -- see if you can frost your mug like they did at the old A&W stores
Birth of Baha'u'llah -- Baha'i
Birth of Sun Yat-Sen, Doctors Day, and Cultural Renaissance Day -- Taiwan
Chicken Soup for the Soul Day -- "Changing the world, one story at a time."
Constitution Day -- Azerbaijan
Deepavali/Diwali(Festival of Lights) -- Hindu; Jain; Sikh (fifth day of the festival)
Bhai Tika -- ritual where sisters honor brothers for the protection they give
Gyan Panchami -- Jain (celebration of knowledge and education)
Dia del Cartero -- Mexico (Postman's Day; postal carriers are shown appreciation with small gifts left in mailboxes)
Fancy Rat and Mouse Day -- the American Fancy Rat and Mouse Association wants you to know these little critters can give you a lot of love www.afrma.org
Journee Nationale Maore -- Comoros (Admission to the UN Day)
Khalkeia -- Ancient Greek Calendar (festival of smiths, associated with Hephaists and Athena; date approximate)
National Pizza with the Works Except Anchovies Day
National Youth Day -- East Timor
St. Emillian's Day (Patron of Spain, finding lost objects)
St. Josaphat's Day (Patron of Edmonton, Alberta; Toronto, Ontario; Ukraine)
Tewa Buffalo Dance -- Native American Tewa of the Tesuque Pueblo rites on the feast day of their Patron, San Diego, to honor Mother Earth, Father Sky, the four directions, and the elements; through the 15th
World Animal Enrichment Day -- bored animals are not happy animals, see RuffleSnuffle® for details
World Pneumonia Day -- because we lose a million children a year to this preventable illness
Anniversaries Today:
The Arches National Park established, 1971
Ellis Island closes, 1954
Birthdays Today:
Anne Hathaway, 1982
Ryan Gosling, 1980
Sammy Sosa, 1968
Michael Moorer, 1967
David Schwimmer, 1966
Nadia Comaneci, 1961
Megan Mullally, 1958
Neil Young, 1945
Al Michaels, 1944
Wallace Shawn, 1943
Grace Kelly, 1929
Jo Stafford, 1918
Harry A. Blackmun, 1908
Sun Yat-sen, 1866
Auguste Rodin, 1840
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1815
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Grand Hotel"(Musical), 1989
"Irma la Douce"(Musical), 1956
"Paint Your Wagon"(Musical), 1951
Song of the South(Disney film), 1946
The first Sunday American-style football game is held in Philadelphia, 1933
Today in History:
Tibetan troops occupy Chang'an, the capital of the Chinese Tang Dynasty, for fifteen days starting today, 764
Plymouth, England, becomes the first town incorporated by the English Parliament, 1439
Sir James Young Simpson, a British physician, is the first to use chloroform as an anaesthetic, 1847
Jules Leotard performs 1st Flying Trapeze circus act (Paris); he also designed garment that bears his name, 1859
World's Fair in Paris opens, 1900
The first movie stunt: man jumps into Hudson river from a burning balloon, 1910
Norway holds a referendum in favor of monarchy over republic, 1905
Robert Scott's diary & body are found in Antarctica, 1912
Austria becomes a republic, 1918
The first underwater tunnel, the Holland Tunnel connecting NY to NJ opens, 1927
The first photo of whatever is in Loch Ness is taken, 1933
Morocco, Sudan and Tunisia join the United Nations, 1956
Equatorial Guinea joins the United Nations, 1968
The Comoros joins the United Nations, 1975
The NASA space probe Voyager I makes its closest approach to Saturn and takes the first images of its rings, 1980
The Space Shuttle Columbia becomes the first time a manned spacecraft launched into space twice, 1981
Crown Prince Akihito is formally installed as Emperor Akihito of Japan, becoming the 125th Japanese monarch, 1990
Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web, 1990
Shanghai Transrapid sets up a new world speed record (501 kilometres per hour (311 mph)) for commercial railway systems, 2003
The Comparative Toxicogenomics Database is launched on the web and revolutionizes chemical-gene-disease information for research scientists, 2004
Philippine volcano Mount Bulusan erupts again, 2010
The European Space Agency's Rosetta lands the Philae probe on the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko,2014
For the first time since his mother became Queen, Prince Charles lays the wreath to Great Britain's war dead, instead of Queen Elizabeth, 2017
Five hundredth anniversary of the birth of Guru Nanak, founder of the Sikh religion, 2019
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos gives his "Courage and Civility Award" of $100million to Dolly Parton, to distribute to charities of her choice, 2022
The final US penny is minted in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2025
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