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It seems Ms. G is still acquiring things to put up for sale.
Yesterday, after taking care of the cat boxes and running to Cramco for her for her beloved Diet Cokes, we went out to tend to the boat, which she has brought back from her place in the country and which now rests alongside Patience the Camper in her driveway, meaning both her car and her truck are now parked in the street.
She wanted to start the boat motor and run it a bit, with the water hose attached like the last time because boat motors have to have water or they burn up, but the battery was dead and when i found her battery jumpstarter thing after looking in both vehicles and finding it in the house, it needed charging.
Instead we went around the corner to where her latest fun thing to sell was waiting for her on the porch of the neighbor who sold it to her, it is a train set, specifically a holiday train set, with Christmas decor and Santa to ride in the caboose, and all of the parts are there as it looks like someone opened it, looked at it, and then put it back in "to use next Christmas."
But "next Christmas" did not come somehow, and the thing had obviously been stored forever someplace outside of a house, like a shed, and the box was barely able to hold together, so we gently cleaned, and cut away parts, and wrapped with plastic and made sure it was well sealed now.
She stored it at the storage place with all the other stuff she's "going to put on Marketplace as soon as she has time," and, well, we'll see how it goes, or maybe i should say, if it goes.
Linking up with Denise at Girlie On The Edge Blog, where she hosts Six Sentence Stories, and the cue is Hold.
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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!
Another temporary seasonal fence.
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It's Angel Sammy's Poetry Day! This week's image and my poem:
Ahhhh! It’s a Spider!
Yes, it’s worth all this fear,
even if I could squish it,
I’m getting out of here!
(please note, i am a fan of spiders and do not squish them, but this is many people’s reaction and i just don’t get it)
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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 Uncle J texted me to say he's hit a treasure trove of birth certificates, old passports, and etc. from Grandma's family. We'll go through it all properly soon.
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Today is:
Abu Simbel Festival -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (along with Feb. 22, the day when the sunlight fell perfectly on the statues of Ramses, Ra, and Amun at the temple complex)
Caps Lock Day -- celebrating life in screaming CAPITALS (i'd include a link to the promo site, but it's rather annoying)
Clean Up the Earth Day -- begun because having only one Earth Day a year doesn't give enough emphasis to the amount of work that needs to be done
Color Day -- a day to consider how color affects your life, health, and world
Eat a Pretzel Day -- unclaimed sponsorship; does anyone else suspect that pretzel makers know how to spread stuff around the internet, too?
International Stuttering Awareness Day
Jidai Matsuri -- Kyoto, Japan (Festival of the Eras or Festival of the Ages)
National Knee Day -- take care of your knees, and they will take care of you!
National Nut Day -- UK & US (also now celebrated around the world) (launched by Liberation Foods CIC, a fair trade nut company, urging us to celebrate fairly traded nuts and swap out a nut based burger for a meat based meal, at least for today, or grab a handful of nutritious almonds or walnuts or your own favorite mix; if you don't like nuts, you can just choose to go be one, instead)
Smart is Cool Day -- and i don't know who started this one, but i'd say someone tired of being made fun of for being a bookworm
St. Mary Salome's Day (Patron of Veroli, Italy)
Anniversaries Today:
John Paul II is inaugurated as Pope, 1978
Toastmasters International founded, 1924
The first Metropolitan Opera House in NYC opens, performing Faust, 1883
Birthdays Today:
Carlos Mencia, 1967
Valeria Golino, 1966
Brian Boitano, 1963
Jeff Goldblum, 1952
Deepak Chopra, 1946
Catherine Deneuve, 1943
Jan De Bont, 1943
Annette Funicello, 1942
Tony Roberts, 1939
Derek Jacobi, 1938
Christopher Lloyd, 1938
Timothy Leary, 1920
Joan Fontaine, 1917
Robert Capa, 1913
Curly Howard, 1903
George Beadle, 1903
N. C. Wyeth, 1882
Sarah Bernhardt, 1844
Franz Liszt, 1811
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Me and Bessie"(Musical), 1975
"Take Me Along"(Musical), 1959
"The Far Off Hills"(Play), 1928
Today in History:
The temple of Apollo at Daphne, outside of Antioch, is destroyed in a mysterious fire, 362
Emperor Kanmu relocates Japanese capital to Heiankyo (now Kyoto), 794
Battle of the Southern Fujian Sea, Ming Dynasty wins a victory against the Dutch East India Company, 1633
Princeton University is chartered, 1746
Andre-Jacques Trim becomes the first sky diver, parachuting over Paris from a balloon, 1797
Sam Houston is inaugurated as the first President of the Republic of Texas, 1836
First telegraph line linking US east and west coasts of the US is completed, 1861
First concert performance of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, 1881
World's first automobile dealer opens in London, 1897
President Hoover gives the "American system of rugged individualism" speech, 1928
The FBI ambushes Pretty Boy Floyd, 1934
First commercial flight from the mainland to Hawai'i, 1936
Jean-Paul Sartre is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, but turns down the honor, 1964
A Multi-Party Parliamentary Committee selects the design which becomes the new official Flag of Canada, 1964
The Soviet unmanned space mission Venera 9 lands on Venus, 1975
Red Dye No. 4 is banned by the US Food and Drug Administration after it is discovered that it causes tumors in the bladders of dogs, although the dye is still used in Canada, 1976
Tropical Storm Alpha forms in the Atlantic Basin, making the 2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season the most active Atlantic hurricane season on record with 22 named storms, 2005
A Panama Canal expansion proposal is approved by 77.8% of voters in a national referendum held in Panama, 2006
India launches its first unmanned lunar mission Chandrayaan-1, 2008
North Korea gives the US permission to search for the remains of American soldiers killed during the Korean War, 2011
Six Italian scientists are convicted of manslaughter for their failure to predict the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake, 2012
The Parliament of the UK approves the Brexit deal to leave he EU but refuses the legislation to fast track it to meet the Oct. 31 deadline, 2019
Goldman Sachs agrees to pay a record $3 billion to end the probe into its role in the 1MDB corruption scandal, 2020
Italy forms new coalition government, choosing Giorgia Meloni as their first female Prime Minister, 2022
LeBron and Bronny James become the first father-son duo in NBA history to appear in a game together as the LA Lakers beat the Minnesota Timberwolves, 2024
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