Where’s My Glasses and What’s That Smell, a Random and Happy Tuesday Post

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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.  http://stacyuncorked.com

Carl's work schedule seems to have settled in to a groove which allows him to sleep a while longer after i come to clean (he used to have to get there 2 hours earlier).

The laundry room looked like he'd tried and failed to start a load, with still dirty clothes hanging out of the washer.  The dryer had clean mostly dry clothes.  

I went to move him to the sleep chair and he said, "Can you wake me at 7:08?"

Rather a specific time, i noted, but yes, i can do that.

Meanwhile, i got into his room.

He'd left the lunch meat out, probably since making the sandwiches for work the day before.  That would have to go in the trash can.

Which he'd changed, and almost got the bag back on.  The clips were nearby so i took care of that.

I also noticed he had his shoes on the shoe dryer, since it had rained last week they probably needed it.

Of course, it only works if you plug it in, and it was not plugged in.  I've learned to check, and then plug it in for myself.

The swim trunks he was so careful to inform me last week were, in fact, swim trunks and not for wearing to work, were back with the dirty work clothes.  Maybe he'd felt it was appropriate to wear them in the rain, who knows.

I found his ice chest and opened it and thought, good, it's empty, but then i got a good whiff.  I'm glad i don't know what he had in there at the end of last week.

When it was time to wake him up, he snuggled down into his pillow and blanket and said, "Four more minutes!"

Four? i thought, but gave him almost 10.  Then it was high time for him to be in the shower so i could get the laundry started.

He remembered to throw his dirty PJ's out of the door so i could get them with the rest of that load.

After the shower,  he chatted as always.

"I went to....um, this weekend," he trailed off and i never quite figured out where, but he was off to the next topic.

"I have spider webs in the window," he noted and i promised to take care of them and did.

He can't see a huge mess right in front of him, but he sees anything moving and bugs are his nemesis.

As i put ice packs in his vest, he commented, "I don't like those!  They're hard to wear."

Of course they are, i answered.  You won't refreeze them flat in the freezer, so i can barely get them into the pockets of the ice vest. it's why you have to start putting them flat in the freezer and you'll end this problem.

He hears this, but it doesn't quite sink in, so i'll be fighting this good fight again next week.

He also discussed how the trash cans are missing at work.  Since one of his jobs when he's not pushing carts is to gather trash, this is something which really bothers him.

Then, "What's up at church?"

The Habitat for Humanity build is on, i responded, and he said, "Oh.  It's hard.  Coordinate."

I'm not sure if he meant such builds are hard to put together logistically or if he's saying he, personally, finds it hard to coordinate the time to schedule to volunteer.  Probably both.

Always, always he has trouble holding onto things which do not stay attached to him.  As his mother says, he's never come home without his pants, so at least there's that.  But he's gone through the whole box of sunglasses Ms. V bought him.

He was down to one, with the usual results.  I handed it to him as he was on the way out the door and as usual, the next time i saw him a few minutes later he was back wandering through the house asking, "Where are my sunglasses?"

Wherever you left them, i told him, and a good while after he'd left the building, i found them.

How about some funnies.

Have a blessed and beautiful Tuesday, everyone!

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Today is:

Dia del Nino -- Honduras (Children's Day)

National Day -- Gibraltar

Saint George's Caye Day -- Belize (National Day)

Sewing Machine Day -- date of issuance of an early sewing machine patent, to Elias Howe; some sites call this "Sew Be It! Day"

Swap Ideas Day -- Robert L. Birch of Puns Corp wants people to explore ways in which their ideas can be put to work to benefit all humanity and develop incentives to encourage using our creative imaginations

St. Finian's Day (Patron of Ulster, Ireland)

St. Nicholas of Tolentino's Day (Patron of animals, baby, dying people, mariners/sailors, sick animals; Albi, Italy; Cabanatuan, Philippines; Guimbai, Philippines; Lambuna, Philippines; Mati, Philippines; Tandag, Philippines; Toentino, Italy)

Teacher's Day -- China

TV Dinner Day

World Suicide Prevention Day 

Birthdays Today:

Clark Johnson, 1964

Randy Johnson, 1963

Colin Firth, 1960

Amy Irving, 1953

Joe Perry, 1950

Judy Geeson, 1948

Jose Feliciano, 1945

Stephen Jay Gould, 1941

Karl Lagerfeld, 1938

Charles Kuralt, 1934

Roger Maris, 1934

Arnold Palmer, 1929

Rin Tin Tin, 1918

Fay Wray, 1907

Adele Astaire, 1896

Elsa Schiaparelli, 1890

Franz Werfel, 1890

Ian Fleming, 1888

Isaac Kauffman Funk, 1839

Marie Laveau, 1801

Carter Braxton, 1736

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"The X Files"(TV), 1993

"Gentle Ben"(TV), 1967

"The Road Runner Show"(TV), 1966

"Gunsmoke"(TV), 1955

"Benvenuto Cellini(Berlioz opera), 1838

Today in History:

The Battle of Marathon takes places between the forces of the Persian Empire and those of Athens, BC490*

An earthquake known as "The Lesser Judgment Day" hits Istanbul, 1509

John Smith is elected president of Jamestown, Va., Colony Council, 1608

Nathan Hale answers the call of George Washington for a volunteer spy, 1776

Simón Bolívar is named President of Peru, 1823

Elias Howe is granted a patent for the sewing machine, 1846

George Mary Searle discovers the asteroid 55 Pandora, 1858

Lincoln Highway, the first paved coast-to-coast road in the US, opens, 1913

Austria and the Allies sign the Treaty of Saint-Germain recognizing the independence of Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, 1919

20 African-American students enter public schools in Alabama, 1963

Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by guillotine in France, 1977

Switzerland, traditionally a neutral country, joins the United Nations, 2002

The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland, 2008

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres makes an urgent call for a climate change conference saying "climate change is moving faster than we are," 2018

Researcher Martin Hairer wins Breakthrough prize for mathematics for work on stochastic analysis, 2020

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres visits and calls for global support for flood-ravaged Pakistan, where 33 million people are displaced, 2022

*actual date disputed, but it was the 9th day of the 9th moon on their calendar

Dogsitting (Awww Monday), Inspiring Quote of the Week and Poetry Monday

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Awww Monday is hosted by Sandee at Comedy Plus.

Join us every Monday for Awww...Mondays.  Post a picture that makes you say Awww... and that's it.

Make sure you get the code from Sandee's site, linked above, and leave a link to your post so we can visit you.  What better way to start the week than with a smile!

While i've been up to the hospital a couple of times, my biggest job now is taking care of Jack dog, who is as full of fun as ever, we went to the little dog park and he says, "Throw it!  Throw it again!  Keep throwing it!" at the stick.

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Sparks is the brainchild of Annie of McGuffy's Reader, who wanted us to post something positive and uplifting at the start of the week.  While she no longer blogs, i like to post an Inspiring Quote of the Week in her honor.     

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Our dear friend Diane is taking a break

accommodations we must make

we miss her poetry and wit

so carry on as Poetry Monday's a hit!

Poetry Monday was started by Diane at On The Alberta/Montana Border.  Charlotte/Mother Owl and i are keeping it going while she takes a blog break, we hope temporarily.  Anyone else is welcome to join in the fun, just let us know!

This week the theme is Family.                  

     

Family squabbles

may seem big but remember

it's all relative

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A family sense of humor

can be a precarious thing,

it can make you wonder

if you should have taken that ring.

One lady found her husband

wanted a royal name for each son,

at first she went along with it

and thought it was quite fun.

They first had a George,

then William and Henry came,

but she won't give him a fourth son,

because "Burger" is not a good name!

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Our family is growing,

our Annie is here,

and though we just met her,

she's most precious and dear!

Future themes are:

Sept. 9 family (Today!)

Sept. 16 intention

Sept. 23 teaching

Sept. 30 feedback

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Today is:

Blessed Father Jacques Leval Day -- Mauritius (physician turned priest who lived among and ministered to the poorest of the poor in Mauritius; people of all faiths make a pilgrimage to his tomb today)

Bonza Bottler Day

Chrysanthemum Day or Kiku no Sekku -- Japan

Day of the Victims of Holocaust and of Racial Violence -- Slovakia

Fairtrade Fortnight begins -- UK (a chance to get involved in making sure farmers in developing countries have fair wages and good working conditions)   

Festivity of Our Lady of Aranzazu -- Oñati, Basque

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Awareness Day -- spreading the word about the very preventable problem of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders 

Independence Day -- Tajikistan(1991)

Karasu-zumo -- Kamigamo-jinja Shrine, Kyoto, Japan (a distinctive local festival where the Shinto priests imitate crows)

Liberation Ceremony -- Petange, Luxembourg

National Day -- North Korea(1948)

National Sports Day -- Indonesia

National Steak Au Poivre Day

St. Peter Claver's Day (Patron of African missions, inter-racial justice, race relations; Colombia; Lake Charles, LA; Shreveport, LA; Witbank, South Africa; against slavery)

Synaxis of Ss. Joachim and Anna -- Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches

Teddy Bear Day -- internet generated, but since it's so much fun to have one, celebrate your old friend

Thimphu Tsechu / Thimphu Drubchen -- Thimphu, Bhutan (three day Drukpa Buddhism tshechu festival, sacred masked dances dedicated to Bhutan's protective spirit which tourists may watch but are strictly prohibited from taking pictures; this is Bhutan's largest tshechu and has been held every year since 1867)

Wakes Monday -- Abbots Bromley, England; related festival

    Abbots Bromley Horn Dance -- Abbots Bromley, UK (a/k/a Antler Dance or Ceremony of the Deermen; uses deer horns from the 11th Century, and a traditional dance, tune, and circuit around the neighboring farms, and includes a fair)

Wienerschnitzel Day

Wonderful Weirdos Day -- we all have a few in our lives, they remind us to be true to ourselves, so thank them today; sponsored by Wellcat Holidays

Anniversaries Today:

California becomes the 31th US State, 1850

Birthdays Today:

Michelle Williams, 1980

Michael Buble, 1975

Goran Visnjic, 1972

Rachel Hunter, 1969

Adam Sandler, 1966

Hugh Grant, 1960

Mario Batall, 1960

Angela Cartwright, 1952

Michael Keaton, 1951

Tom Wopat, 1951

Joe Theisman, 1949

Billy Preston, 1946

Otis Redding, 1941

Sylvia Miles, 1934

Cliff Robertson, 1925

James Hilton, 1900

Colonel Harland Sanders, 1890

Alf Landon, 1887

Leo Tolstoy, 1828

William Bligh, 1754

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"Welcome Back, Kotter"(TV), 1975

"Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids"(TV), 1972

Imagine(Lennon album release), 1971

Today in History:

William I, The Conqueror, dies in a horseriding accident, 1087

The New England colonies declare war on the Wampanoag Tribe, 1675

The first steam engine arrives in the US colonies, 1753

The first recorded black to graduate from a US college, Alexander Lucius Twilight, receives a BA from Middlebury College, 1817

Charles Durant, the first US aeronaut, flies a balloon from Castle Garden, NYC to Perth Amboy, NJ, 1830

The first plate glass photograph is taken by John Herschel, 1839

California becomes the 31st state and the territories of New Mexico and Utah are created, 1850

The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works is finalized, 1886

Orville Wright makes the first one hour plane flight, 1908

J. Verdrines becomes the first person to fly at over 100mph, 1912

First actual case of a computer bug being found: a moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University, 1947

Hurricane Betsy makes its second landfall near New Orleans, Louisiana, becoming the first hurricane to do over $1billion in actual unadjusted damages, 1965

The four-day Attica Prison riot begins, 1971

The Palestine Liberation Organization officially recognizes Israel as a legitimate state, 1993

At exactly 01:46:40 UTC, the Unix billenium is reached, marking the beginning of the use of 10-digit Unix timestamps, 2001

The "Ophel Treasure", about 1,400 years old, is discovered near the foot of Temple Mount in Jerusalem, 2013

Queen Elizabeth II becomes Great Britain's longest-reigning monarch at 63 years and seven months, beating the previous record set by her great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria, 2015

Egyptian archaeologists announce the discovery of the 3,500-year-old tomb of a goldsmith and his family in Draa Abul-Naga, Egypt, 2017

In what could be world's most important modern literary discovery, Jason Scott-Warren finds poet John Milton's own copy of Shakespeare's First Folio of 1623 complete with Milton's own notes and annotations in a Philadelphia library, 2019

Scientist reveal evidence of the earliest milk consumption from cows by humans, 6,000 years ago from the dental plaque of teeth of prehistoric farmers from Britain, 2020

Tom Brady becomes first player in NFL history to start 300 regular season games, 2021