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"We have our work cut out for us," Ms. G started in the moment i walked through the door, "the cats managed to get up under the boat cover, and if they've been scratching the seats in there I'm going to really be angry, we have to re-secure the cover and stop up any holes so they can't get in there, then Costco has started carrying a different brand of bird seed and it's crap and we have to go to Tractor Supply, and we need to take some snacks to Ms. Fiona, plus the people are coming today to fix the water heater so everything has to come out of the laundry closet that could be in their way."
I put my coat back on and we went outside, climbing into and out of the boat multiple times and then using bungee cords to "batten down the hatches" so to speak; we were out there until my feet and fingers were numb from the cold while Ms. G fussed and fumed and threatened to ship the cats off to another continent she was so very upset (although they had not, in fact, scratched her seats).
Next i did a few things indoors while Ms. G got Ms. Fiona's goodies ready, and we made the run to buy the good kind of birdseed and at Ms. Fiona's, she stayed in the car to rest her back and i went in for a visit, which was a very nice one.
Running back to the house, we unloaded 80 pounds of birdseed, aired up the tires on the green cart so we could haul said bird seed, fed the birds, and came in to unload the laundry closet, moving out almost everything except the washer, dryer, and leaky water heater.
Then it was time to do the usual cleaning, cat room, load drinks in the fridge, vacuum, but mostly where she'd spilled some peanuts and then the places where there were straw and leaves in the house - oh, did i mention checking to make sure the straw was dry in the "cat hotels" where she sets up warm areas for the feral cats and then adding more where the straw back packed down too much?
All this "fun" was crammed into about five hours and as i was leaving, the plumber was on the way to take care of the leaky water heater which is turning her back yard into even more of a swamp than normal.
Linking up with Denise at Girlie On The Edge Blog, where she hosts Six Sentence Stories, and the cue is Brand.
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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:
When the family reunion
gets to be this big,
the table to hold the food
is like a tractor/trailer rig.
And yes, though it's hard to believe
we will eat all of this, every bite,
with this many cousins and kinfolk,
it will all be gone by tonight!
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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 got Brother-in-Law's taxes done and filed on TurboTax.
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Today is:
Constitution Day -- Mexico (trad.)
Feast Day of Jacob, Patriarch -- Catholic Christian
Kashmir Day -- Pakistan
Liberation from the Alberoni Occupation -- San Marino (also St. Agatha's Day)
Longest War in History Ends -- The Third Punic War, between Rome and Carthage, was officially ended on this date with a peace treaty signed in 1985, which is 2,131 years after the war began
Move Hollywood & Broadway to Lebanon, PA Day -- sponsored by Wellcat Holidays, and Why would they want it?
National Chocolate Fondue Day
National Weatherperson's Day -- US (mostly, though some other countries now observe it as well; in honor of the first US meteorologist, John Jeffries)
Nones of February -- Ancient Roman Calendar; also
Fornacalia -- celebration in honor of bread and the ovens used to dry grain; held any day between now and the 17th, one of Rome's few movable feasts)
Runeberg's Birthday -- Finland (National Poet)
Scout Jumuah -- BSA (Boy Scouts are encouraged to wear their uniforms to mosque today or tomorrow and represent scouting to their congregations)
St. Agatha's Day (Patron of bell-founders, fire prevention, jewelers, martyrs, nurses, rape victims, single laywomen, torture victims, wet-nurses; Malta; San Marino; as well as over 50 cities around the world; against breast cancer, breast disease, earthquakes, eruptions of Mt. Etna, fire, natural disasters, sterility, volcanic eruptions)
Unity Day -- Burundi
World Nutella Day
Birthdays Today:
Jeremy Sumpter, 1989
Sara Evans, 1971
Bobby Brown, 1969
Michael Sheen, 1969
Laura Linney, 1964
Jennifer Jason Leigh, 1962
Christopher Guest, 1948
Barbara Hershey, 1948
David Alan Ladd, 1947
Charlotte Rampling, 1946
Roger Staubach, 1942
Jane Bryant Quinn, 1941
David Selby, 1941
H.R. Giger, 1940
Alex Harvey, 1935
Henry "Hank" Aaron, 1934
Andrew Greeley, 1928
Red Buttons, 1919
William Burroughs, 1914
John Carradine, 1906
Adlai E. Stevenson, Jr., 1900
Andre' Citroen, 1878
Belle Starr(Myra Maybelle Shirley), 1848
Dwight Lyman Moody, 1837
Ole Bull, 1810
Robert Peel, 1788
John Witherspoon, 1723
Sanjo, Emperor of Japan, 976
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Where On Earth Is Carmen San Diego"(TV), 1994
"Hagar The Horrible"(Comic strip), 1973
"Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour"(TV), 1967
"Peter Pan"(Disney cartoon film), 1953
"Otello"(Verdi Opera), 1887
Today in History:
Earthquake in Pompeii, Italy, 62
King Alfonso V orders Sicily's Jews to attend conversion sermons, 1428
A group of early Japanese Christians are killed by the new government of Japan for being seen as a threat to Japanese society, 1597
The first US livestock branding law is passed, in Connecticut, 1644
Georgia becomes the first state to abolish both entail and primogeniture, 1777
Sweden recognizes US independence, 1783
Hannah Lord Montague of New York creates the first detachable shirt collar, 1825
The "Oregon Spectator" is the first newspaper published on the American West Coast, 1846
An adding machine employing depressible keys is patented in New Paltz, NY, 1850
Two innovations which helped pave the way for motion pictures are patented, a hand turned stereoscope by Samuel Goodale of Cincinnati, and the Kinematoscope by Coleman Sellers of Philadelphia, 1861
Four inches of snow falls in San Francisco, 1887
The loop-the-loop centrifugal railroad (a/k/a the roller coaster) is patented by Ed Prescot, 1901
Greek military aviators, Michael Moutoussis and Aristeidis Moraitinis performed the first naval air mission in history, with a Farman MF.7 hydroplane, 1913
Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith launch United Artists, 1919
Reader's Digest magazine is first published, 1922
The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal, 1924
A hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered, 1958
The so-called Big Three banks in Switzerland announce the creation of a $71 million fund to aid Holocaust survivors and their families, 1997
Danish special forces storm a ship captured by Somali pirates, freeing 25 crewmembers on board, 2010
Archaeologist and runologist K. Jonas Nordby publishes his suggestions for how to decrypt the 13th C Viking jötunvillur runic code, 2014
Computer hackers try to steal 1 billion from Federal Reserve Bank of New York, but a typo in their codes alerts authorities before they can finish, 2016
Six days before his 50th birthday, 11-time world surfing champion Kelly Slater wins his 8th Pipeline title beating 22-year-old Hawaiian Seth Moniz in the final, 2022
US President Donald Trump signs an executive order banning transgender women from competing in female sports, 2025
