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Ms. G got back in town and has, as always, been slammed with things to do on everyone's list but her own, and when she does get a bit of time to do her own projects the ones she chooses often make no sense to me.
Her pontoon boat is in the shop though she has yet to use it because she is not sure if one item needs repair so she decided to spend a few of her precious hours scrubbing the boat cover, because of course you can't have a dirty boat cover in the great outdoors.
Then yesterday she decided it was high time she took a few photos of the items in her storage unit and start putting them up for sale.
This latter i agree is not a waste of time if she actually gets them up for sale and can get some cash for this stuff, and she has tons of things to sell, so i spent a good bit of time with her in the storage unit, positioning items just so according to her very strict instructions, often standing in one spot holding out an item until my arm and my strength began to flag.
Once done, we had to get back to the house as she was going to have an appointment, and we folded up the boat cover which was finally dry and did a few other small things, when she realized a package had been delivered.
Katy, bar the door, it was the phone for Ms. Fiona, who had dropped and broken hers the week before while Ms. G was out of town, and they'd paid for expedited shipping and Ms. G wanted to get it out to Ms. Fiona that day and suddenly i was flying out to the retirement home in GusGus die Fledermaus (my car, yes, i name my cars, don't judge) to give the phone to the lady at the front who had kept the SIM card, and now all is right again in Ms. Fiona's world, she can call her sister!
Linking up with Denise at Girlie On The Edge Blog, where she hosts Six Sentence Stories, and the cue is Flag.
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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 can't believe my eyes!
The zookeeper did it again!
seasoned the salmon with sriracha
instead of using cayenne!
We all know Thai spice is for the ahi
and the sriracha's for speckled trout,
if he keeps messing this up,
I'm really going to shout!
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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 run the errand for Ms. G, taking Ms. Fiona her new phone, while Ms. G went to an appointment. I'm especially thankful i wasn't going at the high traffic time of day we all dread and it didn't take long at all.
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Today is:
Alfred G. "Alferd" Packer Day -- Colorado
Book Day and Lover's Day -- Spain, especially Catalan (women give books to men, while men give flowers to the women. Celebrated in the Spanish city of Barcelona since 1714 to honor Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes [author of "Don Quixote"] and in observance of St. George's Day)
Canada Book Day
Children's Day -- Nepal; North Cyprus; Turkey
Community Day -- CL, Spain
Community Day/St. George's Day -- AR, Spain
English Language Day -- UN
Harpa Month Begins -- Traditional Icelandic Calendar (Harp, dedicated to young women as last month was dedicated to young men)
Sumardagurinn Fyrsti -- first day of summer, a legal holiday
Impossible Astronaut Day -- if you are a Dr. Who fan, you know, and if not, go here and find out
Independence Day -- Conch Republic, Key West, FL. US (a tongue-in-cheek micronation which seceded from the Union in 1982; celebrated yearly with a week-long festival)
International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day -- on St. George's Day, encouraging members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America to continue to be what Howard V. Hendrix derogatorily termed "webscabs", posting their stories free on the internet
International Sing Out Day -- no one will claim responsibility for this one, but i promise not to observe it!
Jurgi Festival -- Ancient Latvian Calendar (day sacred to Usins; first day outdoor work began for the summer)
National Cherry Cheesecake Day
National Picnic Day -- US
National Sovereignty and Children's Day -- Turkey
National Teach Children to Save Day -- sponsored by the American Banking Association
Sigurd the Dragon Slayer's Day -- because he was probably the inspiration for the legends about St. George
St. Adalbert's Day (Patron of Bohemia; Czech Republic; Poland; Prague, Czech Republic; Prussia)
St. George's Day (Patron of archers, armourers, Boy Scouts, butchers, cavalry, chivalry, Crusaders, equestrians, farmers, field hands, field workers, horsemen, horses, husbandmen, knights, lepers, Order of the Garter, Palestinian Christians, riders, Romanian Army, saddle makers, saddlers, sheep, shepherds, soldiers, Teutonic Knights; Canada; England; Ethiopia; Georgia; Germany; Greece; Lithuania; Malta; Portugal; Cappadocia; Catalonia; Palestine; over 20 cities and diocese around the world; against herpes, leprosy, plague, skin diseases, skin rashes, syphilis; by the middle ages, St. George was revered in much of Europe as the personification of chivalry)*
Support Teen Literature Day -- US (on the Thursday of National Library Week)
Take Action for Libraries Day -- US (Sponsored by the ALA, on the Thursday of National Library Week)
Take a Chance Day -- internet generated encouragement to try something different
Talk Like Shakespeare Day -- on The Bard's birth anniversary
Vinalia Priora -- Ancient Roman Calendar (tasting the first wines of the year)
World Book & Copyright Day -- UN (this date chosen because of how parts of Spain celebrate St. George's Day, with books)
World Book Night -- Germany; Ireland; UK; US (anniversary of the birth and death of Shakespeare, and the death of Miguel de Cervantes; over 20 book titles have been specially chosen for this year and special editions of those books printed so you can share books and your love of reading with those who don't read much
*To save a Maid, St. George the Dragon slew
A pretty tale, if all is told be true
Most say, there are no Dragons, and 'tis said
There was no George: pray God there was a Maid.
-- John Aubrey, Remains of Gentilism (1688)
Birthdays Today:
Dev Patel, 1990
John Cena, 1977
Kal Penn, 1977
Scott Bairstow, 1970
Melina Kanakaredes, 1967
George Lopez, 1961
Valerie Bertinelli, 1960
Craig Sheffer, 1960
Jan Hooks, 1957
Judy Davis, 1955
Michael Moore, 1954
Joyce DeWitt, 1949
Bernadette Devlin McAliskey, 1947
Sandra Dee, 1942
David Birney, 1940
Lee Majors, 1940
Roy Orbison, 1936
Shirley Temple Black, 1928
Vladimire Nabokov, 1899
Lester Bowles "Mike" Pearson, 1897
Sergei Prokofiev, 1891
Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck, 1858
Granville T. Woods, 1856
James Buchanan, 1791
William Penn, 1621
William Shakespeare, 1564(attributed -- only the day of his baptism, April 26, is known for certain)
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Baywatch"(TV), 1989
"No Man's Land"(Play), 1975
"She Loves Me"(Musical), 1963
"Patience; or, Bunthorne's Bride"(Opera), 1881
"Il re pastore/The Shepherd King"(Mozart opera, K 208)1775
"The Tender Husband"(Comedy), 1705
Today in History:
The founding of the Order of the Garter by King Edward III is announced on St George's Day, 1348
William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor is first performed, with Queen Elizabeth I in attendance, 1597
The first public school in the United States, Boston Latin School, is founded in Boston, Massachusetts, 1635
Connecticut is chartered as an English colony, 1662
Canada issues its first postage stamps, 1851
The Vitascope system of movie projection debuts the first motion picture at Koster & Bial's Music Hall in NYC, 1896
Namibia becomes the 160th member of the UN and the 50th member of the Commonwealth of Nations, 1990
Eritrians vote overwhelmingly for independence from Ethiopia, 1993
Beijing closes all schools for two weeks because of the SARS virus, 2003
The gamma ray burst GRB 090423 is observed for 10 seconds. The event signals the most distant object of any kind and also the oldest known object in the universe, 2009
Despite an initial ban on the film 'Borat,' Kazakhstan issues and official 'thank you' to actor Sacha Baron Cohen for his character, Borat Sagdiyev, 2012
Loretta Lynch is confirmed as the first African-American woman as US Attorney-General, 2015
The WHO begins distributing the world’s first malaria vaccine to children in Malawi, 2019
The journal Scientific Reports publishes the findings on the first frog fossils, about 40 million years old, found in Antarctica, 2020
Artists Sonia Boyce and Simone Leigh are awarded Golden Lions at the 59th Venice Biennale, the first time Black women have won representing their countries (UK and US) at the prestigious modern art exhibit, 2023
A carbonized ancient Greek scroll from Herculaneum, deciphered using new technologies including AI, gives details of the death of the philosopher Plato, 2024
The International Coral Reef Initiative releases study showing that 84% of the world's coral reefs have been impacted by an ongoing bleaching event, 2025
