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Ms. G had a dream of having a camper, traveling around this state and the adjoining one to campgrounds, and spending tons of time fishing and relaxing, but of course she found out it's expensive beyond just the initial purchase of the RV and all the setting it up to tow around and hooking it up once at your campground is getting to be more than her body can handle.
Yesterday i showed up to the usual signs she's been spending more time helping everyone else solve their problems than working on all the stuff in her own house, but after cleaning up the litter boxes and loading her sodas in the fridge, she had a major outdoor project.
Patience the Camper is up for sale and she hopes has a buyer by the end of this week, and it was necessary to go through every storage bin and container in all the little nooks and crannies such live-in-it vehicles have, remove everything, and decide if it was trash, to be taken in the house, to be taken to the country house, or to be left with Patience.
For the outside storage bins, a lot stayed, but we had to sort and make sure everything was in its right place and all was still usable, "they need the electric cable hookup, the clean water hookup, the gray water drain hose, the, ugh, how did this get sticky, throw it away, I'll buy another black water drain hose, and how in the world did I get two surge protectors for the electric hookup?"
Of course, i could tell her how, she ordered one and when it came she was so busy she threw it aside in the back of the camper storage bin and lost track, and ordered another which was the one she actually used.
We got every bin and cabinet inside emptied, too, although it was getting late and time for me to leave so most of it was in piles in the camper and she was going to remove it later once her back pain settled down, thus i am pretty sure we will be going through the same stuff in piles in the house if not next week, very soon in the future; patience, Patience, by then you will be in different hands.
Linking up with Denise at Girlie On The Edge Blog, where she hosts Six Sentence Stories, and the cue is Surge.
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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!
Hanging skeletons and ghosts on your fence seems to be popular this year.
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It's Angel Sammy's Poetry Day! This week's image and my poem:
Hi, I am your neighbor
from the second tree on the right,
I'm baking a cake this evening
and need it ready for tonight!
We're going to surprise our friend
with a party at dawn tomorrow,
so excuse me for coming so late,
but a cup of sugar may I borrow?
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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 Ms. G and i got Patience the Camper mostly cleared out, with only a few things for Ms. G left to do, so she can sell it at the end of the week.
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Today is:
Candies Day -- they have to be kidding -- this close to Halloween we need another candy day?!
Coronation Day -- Cambodia (anniversary of King Norodom Sihamony, in 2004)
Cumhuriyet Bayrami -- North Cyprus; Turkey (Republic Day)(1923)
Hermit Day / Hide From Everyone Day -- internet generated, for those who would rather have a peaceful day today than celebrate the other holidays listed; look up how to be a hermit on wikihow
Internet Day -- its predecessor went live today, see Today in History for detail
Laugh Suddenly For No Reason A Lot Today Day (And end up either getting yourself and everyone around you in a good mood, or yourself being observed at the hospital in a padded room.)
Naming Day -- Tanzania
National Cat Day -- US (with the goal of getting 10,000 cats adopted from shelters today)
National Disgusting Little Pumpkin-Shaped Candies Day
National Oatmeal Day
Punkie Night -- Hinton St George, Somerset, England (a celebration for children and adults who carry candle-lit punkies -- the best one wins a prize -- made out of mangel-wurzels, a type of beet, and sing old punkie songs asking for money or treats)
St. Mary of Edessa's Day (Patron against sexual temptation)
Will Rogers' Days -- Claremore and Oologah, OK, US (celebrating the man's wit and humor at his birthplace and the museum dedicated to him; through Saturday)
Birthdays Today:
Gabrielle Union, 1972
Winona Ryder, 1971
Joely Fisher, 1965
Randy Jackson, 1961
Finona Hughes, 1960
Kate Jackson, 1948
Richard Dreyfuss, 1947
Melba Moore, 1945
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, 1938
Dominick Dunne, 1925
Bill Mauldin, 1921
Fanny Brice, 1891
Charles Hercules Ebbets, 1858
Daniel Decatur Emmet, 1815
James Boswell, 1740 (wrote the biography of Samuel Johnson)
Edmund Halley, 1656 (O.S. Date) (yes, that Halley, found the comet)
Debuting/Premiering Today:
The Internet, 1969 (the first connection between computers that would become the Internet someday was made on this date when bits of data flowed between computers at UCLA and Stanford Research Institute; this grew into ARPANET, and is now the Internet we know and yell at.)
"Let's Face It"(Musical), 1941
"Don Giovanni"(Mozart K. 527), 1787
Today in History:
Cyrus the Great entered the city of Babylon, BC539
First trial for witchcraft in Paris, 1390
Sir Walter Raleigh, adventurer, writer, and courtier, is beheaded, 1618
A severe earthquake shakes New England, 1727
Mozart's opera Don Giovanni receives its first performance in Prague, 1787
The first Ohio River steamboat leaves Pittsburgh for New Orleans, 1811
Queen Victoria grants Cecil Rhodes rights to Zambezia, 1889
The first intercity trucking service, from Colorado City to Snyder, Texas, begins running, 1904
Turkey declares its independence as the successor state to the Ottoman Empire, 1923
Israeli forces invade the Sinai Peninsula and push Egyptian forces back toward the Suez Canal, 1956
Cassius Clay wins his first professional fight, 1960
Syria exits from the United Arab Republic, 1961
Montreal's World Fair, Expo 67, closes with over 50 million visitors, 1967
The American Galileo spacecraft makes its closest approach to 951 Gaspra, becoming the first probe to visit an asteroid, 1991
In South Africa, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission presents its report, which condemns both sides for committing atrocities, 1998
Space Shuttle Discovery blasts off on STS-95 with 77-year-old John Glenn on board, making him the oldest person to go into space, 1998
In Rome, European heads of state sign the Treaty and Final Act establishing the first European Constitution, 2004
The 3G wireless transmitters at Mt. Everest make coverage available to the summit, 2010
Random House and Penguin merge to become Penguin Random House, the largest publisher in the world, 2012
Turkey opens the first underwater rail tunnel linking Europe to Asia, 2013
China ends its one child policy after 35 years, 2015
New research is published indicating that the cacao tree was not first cultivated in central America, but in Ecuador by the Maya Chinchipe culture about 5,000 years ago, 2019
A new DNA study of dogs suggests they were the first animal domesticated by humans, about 11,000 years ago, 2020
Misuzulu ka Zwelithini is crowned Zulu King in Duban, South Africa in the first coronation since the 1994 democratic elections, 2022
Using a LiDAR laser survey, archaeologists discover a complex Mayan city in Campeche State, Mexico; named Valeriana, it was capable of supporting up to 50,000 people and was most heavily occupied from 750-850AD, 2024
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