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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.spice
2.think
3.scissors
4.glue
5.numbers
6.glum
and/or:
1.patch
2.banana
3.evening
4.lamp
5.shady
6.golden
use either list or both, or mix and match, just have fun.
Charlotte's colour of the month is Jade Green.
It's been a busy couple of days, and if you want to SPICE up your life, let your son learn to work on cars by working on yours.
No matter how many times #2 Son tells me it's easy, just these bolts and these screws, i know better and as always, it's harder than he THINKs.
After all, we're not just playing with SCISSORS and GLUE here, these are major car parts. It never quite goes by the NUMBERS.
Monday, i left the car at the house and the key on the hook and walked to Ms. D's to work for her so he could get a good start if he wanted. He ran to the car parts place, got what he thought he needed, and came back, dropping Annie with me and leaving her with a BANANA to snack on and her favorite capybara, Sid, which is her latest favorite.
He got #1 Son to come help, and of course it was harder than #2 Son thought. #1 Son ended up needing a PATCH on the back of his thumb where one of the belts cut into it.
By early EVENING, i was holding little Ben and playing with Annie and #2 Son and Daughter-in-Law were fighting with the part by the light of one of those headLAMPs he has, the time had gone past SHADY and the GOLDEN sunset was over and he finally sheared off a screw trying to get it out.
That's when he called time and left, looking rather GLUM.
Tuesday morning, he came over with Annie and went back to the parts store, got a different component, and fought it for a few hours. At one point it has to sit with a vacuum on the parts, making sure the system is clean with nothing in it, and his pump was plugged into two extension cords running through the house to an outlet with room.
"Yeah! Get out here!" he finally yelled in triumph, and taking me out with whoops and hollers, he let me open the door to Lawrence the Honda, which now has a functioning A/C!
He washed up and took Annie to go for her nap, and i let the car run with the A/C on for 15 minutes to prime the system and let the pag oil circulate (i now know more about car A/Cs than i ever wanted to, including the special oil they need which mixes with freon to keep them lubricated) and i no longer have to be Jade Green with envy of those who have functioning air conditioning in their cars.
Next job, the A/C and driver's window in GusGus die Fledermaus, which will soon be #1 Son's car to replace the one wrecked two weeks ago.
Little by little and by the hardest, #2 Son is learning car repair.
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Today is:
Aphrodisia -- Ancient Greek Calendar (bathing festival of Aphrodite and Peitho [Persuasion]; through tomorrow)
Casual Pi Day / Pi Approximation Day (22nd day of month 7; 22/7 is the approximation of Pi)
Hammock Day -- don't know who came up with this one, but at the height of the dog days, it seems appropriate; on some sites listed as Summer Leisure Day
International Childbirth Education Awareness Day -- can't find confirmation on this, but if you're going to have a kid, it's not a bad idea to get educated about what to expect!
King Father's Birthday -- Swaziland
National Penuche Fudge Day
Ratcatcher's Day -- celebrated by the British dating of the Pied Piper story; celebrated June 26 in Hamelin, Germany
Revolution Day -- The Gambia
Soma-Nomaoi Festival -- Haramachi City, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan (Wild-Horse Chasing, a four-day festival in which a thousand horsemen, clad in ancient armor, compete for possession of three shrine flags, and along the Hibarigahara Plain, men clad in white costumes attempt to catch wild horses)
Spooners Day (Spoonerism -- Named for William Archibald Spooner, English cleric and scholar who once fussed at a student because "You hissed my mystery lesson," told a groom it was "kisstomery to cuss the bride," and once accidentally referred to Queen Victoria as "the queer old Dean.")
St. Mary Magdalene's Day (Patron of apothecaries, contemplative life and contemplatives, converts, druggists, glove makers, hairdressers and hair stylists, penitent sinners, penitent women, people ridiculed for their piety, perfumeries and perfumers, pharmacists, reformed prostitutes, tanners, women; Anguiano, Spain; Atrani, Salerno, Italy; Casamicciola, Italy; Elantxobe, Spain; Foglizzo, Italy; La Magdaleine, Italy; against sexual temptation)
Stilt Dance Day -- Anguiano, Spain (a special stilt dance performed on the Feast of the city's patron, St. Mary Magdalen)
Sumarauki -- Iceland (their calendar's extra days added to take into account the "drift" of the calendar from the moon phases)
Tisha B'Av -- Judaism (begins at sundown, through tomorrow; fast in remembrance of the destruction of the First Temple in 586BCE and the Second Temple in 79AD)
Birthdays Today:
George Alexander Louis Windsor, His Royal Highness Prince of Cambridge, 2013
Madison Pettis, 1998
Selena Gomez, 1992
Scott Dixon, 1980
Daniel Jones, 1973
Rufus Wainwright, 1973
Irene Bedard, 1967
Rhys Ifans, 1967
Shawn Michaels, 1965
David Spade, 1964
John Leguizamo, 1964
Rob Estes, 1963
Keith Sweat, 1961
Willem Dafoe, 1955
Alan Menken, 1949
Albert Brooks, 1947
Don Henley, 1947
Danny Glover, 1946
Estelle Bennett, 1944
Bobby Sherman, 1943
Kay Bailey Hutchison, 1943
Alex Trebek, 1940
Terrence Stamp, 1939
Louise Fletcher, 1934
Oscar De la Renta, 1932
Orson Bean, 1928
Bob Dole, 1923
Amy Vanderbilt, 1908
Alexander Calder, 1898
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, 1890
William Archibald Spooner, 1844
Gregor Johann Mendel, 1822 (Note: some sources say July 20)
Debuting/Premiering Today:
Plan 9 From Outer Space(Film), 1959
Today in History
King Edward I of England and his longbowmen defeat William Wallace and his Scottish schiltrons outside the town of Falkirk, 1298
The Swiss decisively defeat the Imperial army of Emperor Maximilian I in the Battle of Dornach, 1499
A second group of English settlers arrive on Roanoke Island off North Carolina to re-establish the deserted colony, 1587
Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean becoming the first Euro-American to complete a transcontinental crossing of Canada, 1793
In the Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Rear Admiral Nelson is wounded in the arm, and part of it is amputated, 1797
Death of Josef Strauss, Austrian composer, 1870
First ever motorized racing event is held in France between the cities of Paris and Rouen. The race is won by comte Jules-Albert de Dion, 1894
Wiley Post becomes the first person to fly solo around the world traveling 15,596 miles in 7 days, 18 hours and 45 minutes, 1933
Dezik and Tzygan become the first of Russia's Space Dogs, making a sub-orbital flight, which they both survived, 1951
Japan completes its last reparation to the Philippines for war crimes committed during WWII, 1976
Martial law in Poland is officially revoked, 1983
The second Blue Water Bridge opens between Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario, 1997
The Stonehenge World Heritage Site announces the discovery of a possible new henge, the biggest discovery at a major monument in over 50 years, 2010
Norway is the victim of twin terror attacks, on government buildings in Oslo and a youth camp at Utoya, 2011
Scientific studies reveal that dolphins have unique names for one another, much like humans do, 2013
The Brain Kids, a team of robots from Japan's Chiba Institute of Technology, wins this year's RoboCup, a robotic soccer tournament started 18 years ago to encourage new developments in the robotics field, 2015
India's lunar mission, Chandrayaan-2, successfully takes off from Satish Dhawan Space Center, Sriharikota aiming to make India the fourth nation to soft-land on the moon, 2019
The French submarine Minerve, which disappeared in 1968 with a crew of 52, is rediscovered off coast of Toulon, France, 2019
Droupadi Murmu is the first tribal politician to be elected President of India (head of state, without executive powers), 2022
The United States Postal Service issues a commemorative stamp in honor of Alex Trebek, long-time host of Jeopardy, 2024
