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If Ms. G really wants to, she can move at speed, but often i wish i could get her to light a fire under herself and pick up the pace.
Yesterday, when we were at the storage unit picking up a few items she's found a home for, including two outdoor chairs she's figured out she can use, it was so hot out there she didn't waste any time as she loathes being hot.
Once we got back to the house and it was time for us to tackle the junk in the spare room again, it was back to the snail's pace, one item at a time, decide which box to pack it in, do we have any smaller boxes, etc.
Also, for many items take a picture, check and see how much it's worth online (for the third or fourth time), does she keep it and try to sell it, and if so, where to put it, oh, and there are all the Christmas presents she bought for the niece and great niece, she can give them these this year instead, and so on.
We spent a couple of tedious hours (to me, at least) in the spare room listening to April cat howl to be let in (she jumps on and breaks stuff and is banned from here and the library) doing this kind of sorting bit by bit, but there's good news.
While doing all this she had an idea and called a friend who has a trash and treasure shop as well as some shelves at another store where she sells things, and she agreed she could probably sell a lot of it there, so we actually packed several boxes and got them into her car for her to take out there once i went home!
Linking up with Denise at Girlie On The Edge Blog, where she hosts Six Sentence Stories, and the cue is Fire.
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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!
This tiny fence caught my eye.
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It's Angel Sammy's Poetry Day! This week's image and my poem:
Their bucket list was Italy
for a spark in their romance,
but with their serious jet lag,
they didn't stand a chance!
I'll just keep on floating them
until they wake and then
I'll drop them at a tourist spot
to start over again!
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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 simply thankful no one was hurt when my Sweetie's front passenger tire fell off the car the other day. We still don't know if it can be fixed or for how much, but one thing at a time is all we have to handle, and that's another thankful.
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Today is:
Armed Forces Day -- Taiwan
Cromwell's Day -- The Cromwell Association holds a service at his statue on his death date
Day to Mourn All Manifestations of Sexism -- in honor of passage of the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
Feast of San Marino and the Republic -- San Marino (A/K/A National Day)
Flag Day -- Australia
Ig® Nobel Prize Ceremony -- Boston University, Boston, MA, US (each winner has done improbable research, something that makes people laugh, then think)
Macchina di Santa Rosa -- Viterbo, Italy (St. Rose, patron of the city, celebration begins this evening at 9pm sharp)
Merchant Navy Remembrance Day -- Canada
National Welsh Rarebit Day
National Wilderness Day -- US (commemorates passage of The Wilderness Act in 1964)
Skyscraper Day -- birth anniversary of Louis H. Sullivan in 1856, architect credited with some of the first skyscrapers
St. Gregory the Great's Day (Inventor of Gregorian Chant; Patron of choir boys, educators, masons, musicians, papacy, Popes, schoolchildren, singers, stone masons, stonecutters, students, teachers; England; Kercem, Malta; Legazpi, Philippines; Montone, Italy; San Gregorio nelle Alpi, Italy; West Indes; against gout and plague)
St. Marinus' Day (Patron and founder of San Marino; Patron of bachelors, deacons, and falsely accused people)
Tokehega Day -- Tokelau (remembrance of the Treaty of Tokehega)
Birthdays Today:
Shaun White, 1986
Kiran Desai, 1971
Charlie Sheen, 1965
Valerie Perrine, 1943
Pauline Collins, 1940
Eileen Brennan, 1937
Alison Lurie, 1926
Anne Jackson, 1926
Mort Walker, 1923
Kitty Carlisle Hart, 1914
Alan Ladd, 1913
Edward Albert Filene, 1860
Louis Henry Sullivan, 1856
John Humphrey Noyes, 1811
Prudence Crandall, 1803
Anna, Duchess of Bedford, 1783 (in 1840, she began the tradition of afternoon tea)
Nicolo Amati, 1596
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Search for Tomorrow"(TV), 1951
"Poppy"(Musical), 1923
"Funf Orchestrerstucke/Five Pieces for Orchestra"(Schoenberg Op. 16), 1913
"What Every Woman Knows"(Play), 1908
The New York Sun(Newspaper, first of what was to become the Penny Press newspapers), 1833
"Uncle Sam"(Image first used), 1813
Today in History:
Sextus Pompeius, son of Pompey, is defeated in the Battle of Naulochus by Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, admiral of Octavian, which ends the resistance to the Second Triumvirate, BC36
Saint Marinus founds San Marino, one of the smallest nations in the world and the world's oldest republic still in existence, 301
Consecration of Pope Gregory the Great, 590
King Richard I (the Lionheart) crowned, and 30 Jews are massacred as part of the celebration, 1189
Richard Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of England, 1658
The first large group of Swiss and German colonists reach the shores of North and South Carolina areas, 1709
The Flag of the United States is flown in battle for the first time, 1777
Signing of the Treaty of Paris, end of the US Revolutionary War, 1783
John Dalton, English scientist begins using symbols to represent different atomic elements, 1803
The first daily newspaper, a "penny paper", that actually succeeded, The Sun (New York), begins publication, as well as employing the first paper boys, 1833
Outbreak of the Greek revolution against the autocratic rule of King Otto, 1843
William, Prince of Albania, leaves the country after six months because of opposition to his rule, 1914
Sir Malcolm Campbell reaches a speed of 304.331 miles per hour on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, becoming the first person to drive an automobile over 300 mph, 1935
68th and final transport of Dutch Jews, including Anne Frank and her family/friends, leaves for Auschwitz, 1944
Wally Gator premiers, 1962
Dagen H in Sweden: traffic changes from driving on the left to driving on the right overnight, 1967
The Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars, 1976
Russia and the People's Republic of China agree not to target each other with nuclear weapons, 1994
An 87-automobile pile-up happens on Highway 401 freeway just East of Windsor, Ontario, Canada after an unusually thick fog from Lake St. Clair, 1999
Iran's Parliament approves the first woman minister in 30 years, confirming the appointment of Marzieh Vahid Dastjerdi as Minister of Health, 2009
The mobile division of Nokia is purchased by Microsoft for $7.2billion, 2013
Chris the sheep breaks the world record for biggest shorn fleece (40kg / 88lb) near Canberra, Australia, 2015
A 1.4 ton WWII bomb is defused in Frankfurt, Germany with 60,000 people evacuated beforehand as a precaution, 2017
Curators at St. John's College, Annapolis, announce the discovery of a previously unknown text by John Locke, "Reasons for tolerating Papists equally with others," an argument for religious tolerance, 2019
Mackenzie Scott, philanthropist and ex-wife of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, becomes world's richest woman worth $68 billion, 2020
Typhoon Haikui makes landfall in eastern Taiwan, forcing the evacuation of 400,000 people, 2023
The City of Phoenix, Arizona reaches a high temperature of at least 100°F (37.8°C) for the 100th consecutive day, 2024
