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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 words/prompts are supplied by Charlotte and can be found here.
This week's words/prompts are:
1.snake
2.linen
3.cake
4.tired
5.letter
6.clip
and/or:
1.brush
2.matter
3.rake
4.blue
5.bush
6.read
use either list or both, or mix and match, just have fun.
Charlotte's colour of the month is Jade Green.
He walked into the house holding the CAKE box out in front of him and set it gently on the LINEN tablecloth in the dining room.
"Is that you, Jake?" Diane's voice from the kitchen sounded TIRED.
"Yes," he answered, "I picked up the cake on the way home like you asked."
"Go ahead and bring it in the kitchen, please, we'll want to serve it on a cake plate." She gently took it from him when he walked in and they gave each other a peck on the cheek.
"Where are the kids?" he asked.
She said, "I sent them outside to do some yard work and keep them out from under my feet.
"After all, I figured it was only a MATTER of time before either they killed each other or I killed them both, and this was the easiest way to handle it. I handed Abby the small BLUE RAKE and told her to rake up the spent flowers and bits of bark under the crepe myrtles, and gave Sam the small pruners and told him to CLIP the overgrown azalea BUSH. They know how to do the work and it's about time they stayed busy instead of hanging around indoors all summer trying to irritate each other. Also, Sam came in with a ribbon SNAKE, I told him to go release it down at the creek."
"Brilliant," he smiled at her. "I know you've been busy with this party, but did we get the LETTER from the attorney today?"
"Yes, and I READ it, and it said about what we figured, so everything is going to come out right once the will is probated, it's pretty ironclad. Meanwhile, don't say anything when Mom comes over for her birthday party tonight. I cooked all her favorites and," here she opened the cake box and smiled, "got the cake frosted in her favorite shade of Jade Green, so we're just going to forget the worries and celebrate tonight."
He smiled and agreed, and she mentioned he should go out and see what the kids were doing. "I at least need to wash up a little and run a BRUSH through my hair before Mom and the rest of the family get here."
Jake went out to call the kids in to get cleaned up themselves, first making a big deal over all their help and how well they did it, and the party was a success as they were too tired from the work to even argue with each other at supper!
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Today is:
Asalha Puja Day -- Buddhism (Buddhist "Lent" begins)
Cheese Sacrifice Purchase Day (Buy your cheese that will be sacrificed on Cheese Sacrifice Day, and no, I never have found out why there is a Cheese Sacrifice Day anyway or to whom you are supposed to sacrifice it.)*
Chicken Wings Day -- Buffalo, NY, US (they want it to be a national day, and maybe someday it will be)
Feast of St. Martha, Virgin, Dragon Charmer, Sister of Lazarus (Patron of butlers, cooks, dieticians, domestic servants, homemakers, hotel keepers, housemaids, housewives, innkeepers, laundry workers, maids, manservants, servants, servers, single laywomen, travelers; Villajoyosa, Spain, which village she saved on her feast day by sending a flash flood to wash away the Moorish invaders in 1538)
Fiesta de Santa Maria Ribarteme (a/k/a Festival of Near Death Experiences) -- As Neves, Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain (festival of Mary in which those who have come back from near death are carried to the shrine in open coffins, or walk there clad in shrouds)
Full Buck Moon a/k/a Full Thunder Moon or Full Hay Moon; related observances
Adhi-Esala Full Moon Poya Day -- Sri Lanka
Asalha Puja Day/Dharma Day -- Buddhism (Buddhist "Lent" begins)
Waso Full Moon / Dhamma Cakka Day -- Myanmar
International Tiger Day
NASA Day -- marking the day President Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act into law, creating NASA
National Anthem Day -- Romania
National Lasagna Day
National Thai Language Day -- Thailand (Wan Phasa Thai Haeng Chat)
Photograph Your Children When They're Not Looking Day -- get a good, candid shot to enjoy
Rain Day Festival -- Waynesburg, Pennsylvania (yes, it has rained at 113 out of the 140 observances of this festival on this date)
Runic Half-Month Thorn begins (defense)
St. Lazarus' Day -- date given in the Martyrologium Romanum; celebrated on Lazarus Saturday by most Eastern Churches and on Dec. 17 in most Western Churches
St. Olaf's (Olav) Day (Norway's Viking king; patron of carvers, difficult marriages, kings; Norway), related observances
Olavsokadagur -- Faroe Islands (opening of Logting, or Parliament; a National Day, on the Feast Day of St. Olav)
Oslok Eve -- Norway (celebrating the valiant death of their hero on this evening at the battle at Stiklestadt in 1030)
sometimes associated with Thor's Day among the Norse and Thunor of the Anglo-Saxons
Territory Day -- Wallis and Futuna
Tu B'Av -- Jewish (a celebration of love, originally a joyous holiday at the beginning of the grape harvest, and now rather akin to Valentine's Day; through nightfall)
*"A cheese may disappoint. It may be dull, it may be naive, it may be oversophisticated. Yet it remains cheese, milk's leap toward immortality." Clifton Fadiman
Anniversaries Today
Andy Taylor marries Tracey Wilson, 1982
Charles, Prince of Wales, marries Lady Diana Spencer, 1981
Mary, Queen of Scots, marries Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, 1565
Birthdays Today
Danger Mouse, 1977
Josh Radnor, 1974
Wanya Morris, 1973
Wil Wheaton, 1972
Julian McMahon, 1968
Martina McBride, 1966
Alexandra Paul, 1963
Patty Scialfa, 1956
Ken Burns, 1953
Tim Gunn, 1953
Marilyn Quayle, 1949
David Warner, 1941
Peter Jennings, 1938
Elizabeth Dole, 1936
Paul Taylor, 1930
Chester Bomar Himes, 1909
Melvin Belli, 1907
Clara Bow, 1905
Dag Hammarskjold, 1905
Stanley Kunitz, 1905
Benito Mussolini, 1883
Newton Booth Tarkington, 1869
Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt, 1861
Alexis de Tocqueville, 1805
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Friday Night Videos"(TV), 1983
Help(Film), 1965
"Steamboat Willie"(Animated short, first appearance of Mickey Mouse), 1928
Today in History
King Olaf II fights and dies trying to regain his Norwegian throne from the Danes, 1030
James VI is crowned King of Scotland at Stirling, 1567
English naval forces under command of Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis Drake defeat the Spanish Armada off the coast of Gravelines, France, 1588
John Graves Simcoe decides to build a fort and settlement at Toronto, having sailed into the bay there, 1793
Inauguration of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, 1836
In Tipperary, an unsuccessful nationalist revolt against British rule is put down by police, 1848
The First Hague Convention is signed, 1899
Sir Robert Baden Powell sets up the Brownsea Island Scout camp in Poole Harbour on the south coast of England; this is regarded as the foundation of the Scouting movement, 1907
The International Atomic Energy Agency is established, 1957
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and President of France François Mitterrand sign the agreement to build a tunnel under the English Channel, 1987
The film Cry Freedom is seized by South African authorities, 1988
Astronomers announce the discovery of Eris, the largest dwarf planet in the solar system, 2005
South Sudan becomes the 54th member of the African Union, 2011
Scientists reveal new research identifying a mechanism by which Earth-warming carbon is pulled deep into the Southern Ocean, and locked away, and scientists claim this process may be threatened by climate change, 2012
Microsoft launches Windows 10, 2015
A scaled back Hajj pilgrimage begins in Saudi Arabia, with no foreign visitors permitted, 2020
Sunisa Lee becomes first Hmong-American Olympic champion in any sport when she wins the women's artistic individual all-around gymnastics gold in Tokyo, 2021
A modified 1978 Toyota Land Cruiser is driven 7km under water across Darwin's Harbor in Australia, setting a world record, 2023
Heavy rains after a prolonged drought causes partial collapse of a pyramid estimated at 1,100 years old at Ihuatzio Archaeological Zone, Michoacán, Mexico, 2024
