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It's time once again for a random and happy Tuesday, linking up with Stacy's Random Thoughts at Stacy Uncorked and Sandee at Comedy Plus.
It was odd arriving at Carl's place yesterday and no Carl there. His room/apartment is in quite a state and i will still be going over there to clean for as long as it takes to get it deep cleaned.
Ms. V wants it to be Carl's place still, just not with as much junk and stuff in it. She wants others to be able to use it as a guest room when needed as well.
The first thing i convinced her to let me do was throw away the bathroom rug, so old and tatty it's a trip hazard, and the shower curtain and liner, both falling apart.
I was able to Ring King the bathtub, which can only be done if the tub is totally dry, which it never was when he was there. It took off some of the built up soap scum i've battled for years, but it's going to need more and it's now on Ms. V's purchase list.
Then i tackled the refrigerator, inside and out. There was very little food in it, what was good got moved to the big fridge and what wasn't went right to the trash can.
I expect to find a whole bunch of odd, weird, or funny stuff as we sort through and purge in Carl’s room. This week, some of the fridge magnets had been on there so long they broke into pieces when i tried to remove them and had to be scraped off with a paint scraper.
Ms. V must really be trying to learn to get up earlier as she came in not long after 9am and we talked. Among other things, she told me the room will take as long as it takes and meanwhile, since the tub and refrigerator and floor behind it were now clean and sparkly, could i suspend operations and go clean/tidy in the main house, she's having company!
Of course, i did that, and she told me about Carl. It seems after watching pickleball the first day with his new friend, they then went to karaoke night and he got up and sang!
He's having the time of his life, apparently, making friends, trying new things, they've even worked out his schedule so he can have an afternoon nap, something he will probably revel in. Also, they do have chapel they may go to on Sunday, and one local church sends a bus for those who want to go, but he can get up on Sunday, have breakfast, attend a service (he likes going) and then have free time until 2pm. I'll bet he spends it sleeping!
It’s a new normal at his place for a while, cleaning, mending, tidying, making sure the room is functional and yet ready for Carl’s visits home, probably at holidays.
One thing won't change in my Tuesday posts, how about some funnies.
Have a blessed and beautiful Tuesday, everyone!
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Today is:
Day of Purification of All Things -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)
Hug Your Cat Day -- another date given on many sites, and here's some advice about how to do it safely
International CFS/ME Awareness Day -- bringing awareness about Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Myalgic Encephalomyelitis
International Nurses Day -- birth anniversary of Florence Nightingale
Limerick Day -- birth anniversary of Edward Lear
National Nutty Fudge Day
Odometer Day -- actually first called a "roadometer", it measured wagon wheel revolutions, as 360 of them made a mile, and was invented and first used this day by William Clayton, Orson Pratt, and Appleton Milo Harmon, Mormon pioneers traveling to Utah in 1847
Olde May Day (Julian Calendar)
Rotuma Day -- Rotuma, Fiji
Saint Andrew, the First Called Day -- Georgia
Snellman Day/Day of Finnish Identity -- Finland
St. Diomma of Kildimo's Day (Patron of Kildimo, County Limerick, Ireland)
St. Francis Patrizi's Day (Patron of reconciliations)
St. Pancras' Day (2nd Ice Saint; Patron of children, oaths, treaties; Albano, Italy; Iserlohn, Germany; Pontevico, Italy; Sestino, Italy; against cramps, false witness, headaches, and perjury)
Anniversaries Today:
Mick Jagger marries Bianca De Macias, 1971
Eddie Fisher marries Elizabeth Taylor, 1959
Coronation of George VI of England, 1937
Maria Theresa of Austria is crowned Queen of Bohemia, 1743
National University of San Marcos is founded in Lima, Peru (oldest in the Americas), 1551
Jagiellonian University is founded in Krakow, Poland (oldest in Poland), 1364
Richard I (Lionheart) of England marries Berengaria of Navarre, 1191
Birthdays Today:
Emily VanCamp, 1986
Cheryl Burke, 1984
Jason Biggs, 1978
MacKenzie Astin, 1973
Christian Campbell, 1972
Jamie Luner, 1971
Kim Fields, 1969
Tony Hawk, 1968
Stephen Baldwin, 1966
Emilio Estevez, 1962
Ving Rhames, 1961
Kim Greist, 1958
Bruce Boxleitner, 1951
Gabriel Byrne, 1950
Lindsay Crouse, 1948
Steve Winwood, 1948
Millie Perkins, 1938
George Carlin, 1937
Tom Snyder, 1936
Frank Stella, 1936
Burt Bacharach, 1929
Yogi Berra, 1925
Mary Kay Ash, 1918
Katharine Hepburn, 1907
Florence Nightingale, 1820
Edward Lear, 1812
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Lena Horne: The Lady And Her Music"(Musical revue), 1981
"Mary Had a Little Lamb"(Paul McCartney & Wings single release), 1972
"The Poisoned Kiss, or The Empress and the Necromancer"(Opera), 1936
The Symphony No. 1 in F minor(Shostakovich Op. 10), 1926
"L'elisir d'amore / The Elixir of Love"(Opera), 1832
Today in History:
Antipope Nicholas V, a claimant to the papacy, is consecrated in Rome, 1328
Rao Jodha, a Rajput chief of the Rathore clan, founds Jodhpur, India, 1459
Philip Lenzi places the first ice cream advertisement, in the NY Gazette, 1777
Society of St Tammany is formed by Revolutionary War soldiers; it later becomes an infamous group of NYC political bosses, 1789
The Manitoba Act is given the Royal Assent, paving the way for Manitoba to become a province of Canada on July 15, 1870
US District Court Judge J. Dundy rules, in Standing Bear vs. George Crook, that Native Americans are persons within the meaning of the laws of the United States, 1879
Tunisia becomes a French protectorate, 1881
In the North-West Rebellion, the four-day Battle of Batoche, pitting rebel Métis against the Canadian government, comes to an end with a decisive rebel defeat, 1885
Ten weeks after his abduction, the infant son of Charles Lindbergh is found dead in Hopewell, New Jersey, 1932
Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin, 1941
A formal North American Aerospace Defense Command agreement is signed between the United States and Canada, 1958
West Germany and Israel establish diplomatic relations, 1965
The U.S. merchant ship Mayaguez seized by Cambodian forces in international waters, 1975
South Africa prisoner Nelson Mandela sees his wife for 1st time in 22 years, 1984
Amy Eilberg is ordained in New York as 1st woman Conservative rabbi, 1985
Fred Markham of the US becomes the first person to pedal a bike at 65mph unaided by wind, 1986
Ingrid Baeyens becomes the first Belgian woman to ascend Mount Everest, 1992
Russia and chechnya sign a peace agreement after 400 years of conflict, 1997
The Texas, US, legislature is brought to a standstill when 59 Democratic lawmakers go into hiding in a dispute with Republicans over redistricting, 2003
An 8.0 earthquake in southwest China kills more than 69,000 people, 2008
Queen Elizabeth II becomes the second-longest-reigning monarch in British history, 2011
Pope Francis canonizes the 813 martyrs of Otranto as Saints, 2013
Brazil declares an end to the Zika national emergency as cases decrease, 2017
The first images of the supermassive blackhole Sagittarius A that lies at the heart of the Milky Way captured by the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration are published, 2022
The US and China agree to a 90-day trade deal in which tariffs will drop significantly, 2025
