Someday Isn’t A Day of the Week (Six Sentence Story), Good Fences, Sammy’s Poetry Day, and Brian’s Thankful Thursday

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Several months ago, Ms. G got a storage unit "temporarily" so she could put things in it she wanted to sell online, getting them out of her house or keeping them out of her house as people have given her stuff they don't want to deal with when she helps them sell their house and they move.

In my experience of watching people with these units, once you start, you don't stop, it's what the storage unit places are counting on, it becomes a way to put off decisions for a "later" that never comes.

Sure enough, while her collection over there has grown instead of diminished much, she has now decided she simply needs a smaller unit to cut the costs because once she has an inventory, she's going to get rid of it all.

Thus, yesterday was spent moving everything from one storage unit into another, "taking a moment" everlastingly to take pictures and measurements of many items so they can go up for sale soon.

Please note, such pictures and measurements have been made before, and "soon" has not come yet, any more than "later" has.

I must admit, it is now organized and neatly packed and almost everything can be gotten to by simply moving one or two items, but it will be interesting to see whether any items go or if, heaven forbid, we're going to end up having to move everything back to a larger unit because she got more stuff "temporarily."

Linking up with Denise at Girlie On The Edge Blog, where she hosts Six Sentence Stories, and the cue is Stop.     

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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:    

Don't dis my chicken,

she's a happy bird,

my favorite pet

I give you my word.

She keeps me company

at the table, never begs,

and best part of all

she gives me eggs!

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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 Pam and Teddy and Angel Sammy are back online with Poetry Day after a month with no internet connection.

I am also thankful Grandma is getting good hospice care.

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Today is:

Armed Forces Day -- South Korea

Bat Appreciation Month -- hooray for Bat Conservation International! 

Bring Your Bible to School Day -- US

Christmas Seal Campaign begins

Chuuk Constitution Day -- Chuuk, Micronesia

Cut Out Dissection Day -- let's find alternatives for school kids!

Feast of St. Therese of Lisieux a/k/a Therese of the Child Jesus or The Little Flower of Jesus (Doctor of the Church; Patron of African missions, AIDS patients, air crews/aircraft pilots/aviators, florists/flower growers, missionaries, sick people, those who have lost parents, tuberculosis; Australia; France; Russia; several cities around the world; against bodily ills and tuberculosis)

Festival of Penha -- Rio de Janiero, Brazil (through the 31st; pilgrimages to the Church of Our Lady of Penha)

Firepup's® Birthday -- have fun learning fire safety from Firepup 

Global Diversity Awareness Month begins -- to foster and further our understanding of the value of people of all races, genders, nationalities, ages, religions, sexual orientations, classes, and physical disabilities

Guoqing Jie -- China; Hong Kong; Macau (National Day/Founding of the Republic)

Homemade Cookies Day

Independence Day -- Cyprus(1960); Nigeria(1960); Palau(1994); Tuvalu(1976)

International Coffee Day -- and i thought this was every day! 

International Day of Older Persons -- UN

International Music Day -- information from the International Music Councilwww.imc-cim.org/archive/international-music-day.html

Investiture of the Captains Regent -- San Marino

Kalends of October -- Ancient Roman Calendar; also

Day Sacred to Fides -- (goddess of faithfulness and keeping your word)

Festival of Juno Sororia -- Ancient Roman Calendar (Juno the Sister, protector of young women at puberty)

Little Golden Books Day -- the first twelve were published on this day in 1942 (Baby's Book of Objects, Bedtime Stories, Mother Goose, Nursery Songs, Prayers for Children, The Alphabet from A to Z, The Animals of Farmer Jones, The Golden Book of Fairy Tales, The Little Red Hen, The Poky Little Puppy, This Little Piggy and Other Counting Rhymes, Three Little Kittens)

Month of Freethought -- inspired by Freethinkers who emigrated to the US in the 19th century

National Black Dog Day

National Book It! Day -- teachers across the US can join together with Pizza Hut to encourage the love of reading each school year from today through March 31 

National Homemade Cookies Day 

National Lace Day -- US (a day for lace fanciers share their love of lacemaking! there's no history of who started this day, and other dates are given on some websites) 

National Walk Your Dog Week begins -- a campaign to bring awareness of and fight the increasing problems in the US with canine obesity

O'qituvchi va Murabbiylar Kuni -- Uzebekistan (Day of Teachers and Instructors)

Pageantry in Oslo -- Oslo, Norway (Storting [Parliament] convenes to decide the date for its ceremonial opening, which is usually the following weekday, when the King opens the session in the presence of the Corps Diplomatique, preceded and followed by a military procession between the Royal Palace and the Storting.)

Popcorn and Tears Movie Appreciation Night -- go see a tear jerker; if guys don't want to go, make them stay home and vacuum

Pudding Season begins (Time to preserve meat from slaughtering for the winter by making meat puddings.)

Ram Mating Ceremony -- various towns and villages in Turkey (through the 20th, each village setting its own date; after being separated from the females for two months, the rams are returned with ceremonies to ensure good luck and lots of babies next spring)

Right-Brainers Rule Month begins (because left handers / right brainers are in their "right" minds)

St. Remigius of Rheims' Day (Patron of France; Rheims, France; against epidemics, fever, plague, religious indifference, snakes, and throat pain)

St. Romanos the Melodist's Day (hymn writer of the early 6th Century whose surviving works are still sung)

Unification Day -- Cameroon

US Fiscal Year begins (Why in October?)

World Bullying Prevention Month™ 

World Vegetarian Day

Anniversaries Today:

EPCOT opens, 1981 (Experimental Prototype City of Tomorrow, or, if you work there, the insider title, Every Person Comes Out Tired)

Walt Disney World opens, 1971

Johnny Carson marries Joan Morrill Wolcott, 1949

Stanford University opens, 1891

Yosemite National Park and Yellowstone National Park are founded, 1890

South African College is founded, 1829 (Now University of Cape Town)

Birthdays Today:

Zach Galifianakis, 1969

Mark McGwire, 1963

Esai Morales, 1962

Grete Waltz, 1953

Randy Quaid, 1950

Stephen Collins, 1947

Tim O'Brien, 1946

Rod Carew, 1945

Stella Stevens, 1936

Julie Andrews, 1935

Albert Collins, 1932

Richard Harris, 1932

George Peppard, 1928

Tom Bosley, 1927

Jimmy Carter, 1924

William Rehnquist, 1924

James Whitmore, 1921

Walter Matthau, 1920

Bonnie Parker, 1910

Vladimir Horowitz, 1903

James Lawrence, 1781

Richard Stockton, 1730

Henry III, King of England, 1207

Debuting/Premiering Today:

Compact Discs, 1982 (Billy Joel's 52nd Street)

"Remington Steele"(TV), 1982

"Kung Fu"(TV), 1972

Night of the Living Dead(Film), 1968

"The Merv Griffin Show"(TV), 1962

"The Honeymooners"(TV), 1955

"This is Your Life"(TV), 1952

"Tom Corbett, Space Cadet"(TV), 1950

"Best Foot Forward"(Musical), 1941

Ford's Model T, 1908

World Series Baseball, 1903 (the Boston Americans beat the Pittsburgh Pirates)

Postal Special Delivery, 1885 (USPS began special delivery services)

Postcards, 1869 (in Vienna, Austria)

Today in History:

Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia, BC331

The Russian Parliament accepts the annexation of the Ukraine, 1653

First session of the new French legislative assembly is held, 1791

Spain cedes Louisiana to France in a secret treaty, 1800

The first steamboat to sail the Mississippi River arrives in New Orléans, Louisiana, 1811

Maria Mitchell discovers a non-naked-eye comet, 1847

A cyclone strikes Calcutta, India, killing 70,000, 1864

Karl Marx' "Das Kapital" is published, 1867

The world's first postcards are issued, in Vienna, Austria, 1869

John Philip Sousa becomes the new director of the USMC Band, 1880

Thomas Edison opens the first electric lamp factory, 1880

The USPS begins special delivery mail service, 1885

Jews are expelled from major Russian cities, 1898

Arab forces under T.E. Lawrence, a/k/a Lawrence of Arabia, capture Damascus, 1918

An oil field accident cost aviator Wiley Post his left eye, but he used the settlement money to buy his first aircraft, 1926

The Pennsylvania Turnpike, often considered the first superhighway in the United States, opens, 1940

Mensa International is founded in the United Kingdom, 1946

First broadcast of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, 1962

The Concorde supersonic transport plane breaks the sound barrier for the first time, 1969

Walt Disney World opens near Orlando, Florida, United States, 1971

The United States returns sovereignty of the Panama canal to Panama, 1979

EPCOT Center opens at Walt Disney World, 1982

William Gibson's groundbreaking novel Neuromancer is published, introducing the word "cyberspace" to the English language, 1984

Denmark introduces the world's first legal modern same-sex civil union, 1989

The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom takes over the judicial functions of the House of Lords, 2009

A dedicated 3D TV channel, Sky 3D, launches in the UK, 2010

The NY Yankees record the 10,000th win in their illustrious history, 2015

A new trade deal to replace NAFTA is agreed upon by Canada, Mexico, and the United States, 2018

Peru's President Martín Vizcarra dissolves Congress over its refusal to support his anti-corruption reforms, sparking a political crisis, 2019

Claudia Sheinbaum is sworn in as Mexico's first female president, 2024

A 6.9 magnitude earthquake strikes just west of Palompon in the Philippines, 2025

Been a Long Time Since I've Seen This (Wordless Wednesday) and Words for Wednesday

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Linking up with Wordless Wednesday, Catsynth, Keith, and Sandee at Comedy Plus.     

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Words for Wednesday was begun by Delores and has become a moveable feast of word or picture or music prompts to encourage us to write stories, poems, or whatever strikes our fancy.   

This month, the prompts are being provided by River.

This week's words/prompts are:

1.mosey  

2.quicksand  

3.ashes  

4.wire  

5.wild  

6.twisted

and/or:

1. clowning  

2.spilled  

3.villa  

4.reliable  

5.trusted  

6.mountain

Charlotte's colour of the month is Vivid Tangerine.

use either list or both, or mix and match, just have fun.

Once the hospice accepted Grandma, there was no CLOWNING around.  They are a "hospice at home" company, meaning their goal is to keep the patient as comfortable as possible and at home until the very end of life.

There is an aid who comes Monday through Friday.  This is going to be RELIABLE through her whole hospice journey, thankfully.

Ms. Tish doesn't MOSEY around, she can get Grandma bathed and her bed changed faster than QUICKSAND can swallow a gnat.  (Please note, i just made that up to use the word, i actually have no clue how fast quicksand will trap something as lightweight at a gnat, it might not even react.  A small lizard, maybe?  Not a quicksand expert here.)

She is good, and there's no SPILLED water being cleaned from the floor after, either, like when i was doing it.  What can i say, i'm also no expert at this part.

Ms. Tish is also TRUSTED by Grandma a whole lot more than we are.  When Ms. Tish turns her from one side to the other, or works to get her feet separated when they are TWISTED in a sheet, Grandma is very quiet and cooperative.

When i'm trying to turn her to change her, she is constantly yelling she's going to fall.  She's in the middle of a bed, with almost her whole body weight centered over the middle or just barely to one side, and she claims she can feel herself falling.  It makes for some WILD moments when the aid is not there, which, of course, is most of the time.

This is a MOUNTAIN we're all going to have to climb together, finding a way to make Grandma feel safe when we are caring for her instead of Ms. Tish.

Personally, i'd rather be on a VILLA in a mountain in Italy about now, watching a sunset in salmon pinks and Vivid Tangerines, and i'm just saying this, of course, to lighten the moment.

Then there's the nurse, Ms. Sandy.  She comes every Monday and Thursday to check on Grandma, and will come more often as she gets nearer the end.  We've convinced Grandpa, who as a doctor is always extremely concerned about addiction when it comes to giving pain meds, he can give Grandma pain meds whenever she asks and if she becomes an addict at this stage, who cares and who can blame her?  She's hurting, sometimes very badly.

Ms. Sandy and the hospice medical director and Grandpa are still working out which of her other meds, besides the pain meds, she should still take and which are unneeded.  The answer is probably most of them.

There's a podiatrist who works with this hospice and who is scheduled to come out today to tend to her very sore feet.

What has burned to ASHES was my hope there would be more hospice help at night.  This place has someone on call 24/7 in case of emergency, but they only schedule their people to come out during the day on weekdays.  I'm trying to talk Grandpa into getting a sitter two nights a week.

I spent Monday there and stayed until Tuesday morning, taking the night shift.  She had me up every single hour for something, to be changed, to have a blanket put on, to have the blanket taken off, to ask where everyone was and express surprise it was the middle of the night, to tell me the WIRE wasn't right (her phone needed plugging in).

Therein lies some of the trouble.  Grandma keeping her caregivers up all night when we have stuff to do during the day while she can just nap is going to wear us out faster, but it's the nature of this stage of life.

It's also the nature of it her mind comes and goes.  One moment she's fine, the next she is convinced she's at her brother's house (he's been gone for years) and we are lying when we tell her otherwise.  These things happen, we are learning to roll with it.

If you are a praying person, please pray we do right by her, no matter how long or short this time lasts.

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Today is:

Agricultural Reform Day -- Sao Tome and Principe

Ask A Stupid Question Day -- teachers wanted to get students asking more questions, so they started this day, telling them to ask even if the questions were stupid; now, it's a holiday on the last school day of September each year! 

Celtic Tree Month Gort begins (Ivy)

Day of Liberation of the Republic of Abkhazia -- Abkhazia (disputed territory on the Black Sea)

Do Something Wacky With A Grandparent Day -- just not the monkey bars, please; old bones don't knit fast enough; whatever you do, take some pictures!

Eleusinian Mysteries -- Ancient Greek Calendar (the Greater Mystery Rites, date approximate; mystery rites of Demeter and Persephone at Eleusis, one of the most sacred times of their year)

Independence Day -- Botswana

International Translation Day -- International Federation of Translators www.fit-ift.org

Kokkeisetsu -- Chinatown, Yokohama, Japan (Chinese National Founding Day in the largest Chinatown in Japan; through tomorrow)

Medetrinalia -- Ancient Roman Calendar (festival fruits offer to the goddess of medicine)

Monkey Bars Day -- a day to go see if you can still do tricks on the monkey bars, because the internet wants to kill us and let the machines that would never do anything so silly take over

National Hot Mulled Cider Day

National Mud Pack Day -- give yourself a facial

National Women's Health and Fitness Day -- US

St. Gregory the Enlightener (or Illuminator; Patron of Armenia)

St. Jerome's Day (Patron of archaeologists, archivists, Biblical scholars, librarians, libraries, school children, students, translators; Saint-Jerome, Quebec) 

     also an Apache celebration of Geronimo, the Native American who was named after this saint

Truth and Reconciliation Day -- Canada

Anniversary Today:

Haleakala National Park is established in Maui, Hawaii, 1960

Birthdays Today:

Dominique Moceanu, 1981

Marion Cotillard, 1975

Jenna Elfman, 1971

Crystal Bernard, 1964

Eric Stoltz, 1961

Fran Drescher, 1957

Deborah Allen, 1953

Victoria Tennant, 1953

Marilyn McCoo, 1943

Z.Z. Hill, 1935

Johnny Mathis, 1935

Angie Dickinson, 1931

Elie Wiesel, 1928

W. S. Merwin, 1927

Truman Capote, 1924

Deborah Kerr, 1921

Buddy Rich, 1917

William Wrigley, Jr., 1861

Rumi, 1207

Debuting/Premiering Today:

Millie's Book: As Dictated to Barbara Bush(Publication date), 1990

"Murder, She Wrote"(TV), 1984

"Cheers"(TV), 1982

"Love Child"(Single release), 1968

"The Flintstones"(TV), 1960

"Tea and Sympathy"(Play), 1953

"The Red Skelton show"(TV), 1951

"Porgy and Bess"(Opera), 1935

Little Women(Publication date), 1868

"Les pecheurs de perles/The Pearl Fishers"(Bizet opera), 1863

"Die Zauberflote/The Magic Flute"(Mozart opera, K. 620), 1791

The Gutenberg Bible(first section, publication date), 1452

Today in History:

Rambam (Maimonides) authorizes Samuel Ibn Tibbon to translate the Guide of the Perplexed from Arabic into Hebrew, 1199

Anesthetic ether is used for the first time by Dr. William Morton, who extracted a tooth, 1846

German scientist Hermann von Meyer announces the discovery of the first fossil of an archaeopteryx, 1861

The first Portuguese immigrants arrive in Hawai'i, 1878

The world's first commercial hydroelectric power plant begins operation on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States, 1882

Hubert Cecil Booth patents the vacuum cleaner, 1901

The first manned rocket plane flight, made by auto maker Fritz von Opel, 1929

The Islamic Republic of Pakistan and Yemen join the United Nations, 1947

The World Series, featuring the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers, is televised for the first time, 1947

The U.S. Navy submarine USS Nautilus is commissioned as the world's first nuclear reactor powered vessel, 1954

James Dean is killed in a road accident, 1955

Mexican-American labor leader César Chávez founds the United Farm Workers, 1962

James Meredith enters the University of Mississippi, defying segregation, 1962

General Suharto rises to power in Indonesia after an alleged coup by communists, and massacres over a million Indonesian people suspected of belonging to the Communist Party, 1965

BBC Radio 1 is launched and Tony Blackburn presents its first show, 1967

Ethernet specifications are published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation, 1980 

The Dalai Lama unveils the Canadian Tribute to Human Rights in Canada's capital city of Ottawa, 1990

The first images of a live giant squid in its natural habitat are taken 600 miles south of Tokyo, 2004

The controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, 2005

A 315-billion-ton iceberg named D28 calves from the Amery ice shelf, Antarctica, 2019

Canada observes its first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, honoring victims and survivors of residential schools for indigenous children, 2021

Land, including the world's oldest living rainforest, Daintree National Park, is returned to the Eastern Kuku Yalanji people in Far North Queensland, Australia, 2021

The UK becomes the first major economy to give up coal for electrical power, 2024

Internet provider AOL discontinues dialup service, 2025