Avocado Love, She Came By It Honest (Wordless Wednesday) and Words for Wednesday

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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 prompts are being provided by yours truly right here.

This week's prompts are:

great

harmony

attraction

reach

subject

delicate

Charlotte's colour of the month is Sea Green.

Our little Annie's GREAT Grandfather, Daughter-in-Law's Grandfather who played a very important role in her upbringing, died a couple of weeks ago.

The memorial service is on Easter Sunday, as her Grandfather was a part time missionary and pastor and it was felt this was an excellent way to remember him.  Religion can be a DELICATE SUBJECT with #2 Son, as his propensities for mischief making kept him under the stern eye of pastors, elders, and deacons at any church we attended, but he does attend church with Daughter-in-Law sometimes and is willing to go to such memorials and weddings.

They will travel back to her home town, a place not easy to REACH on the coast, whose main ATTRACTION is its scenery and the halibut fishing on the Sea Green coast.  In fact, the fishing is the biggest industry there.

Not only was her Grandfather a pastor, he and his wife were singers and musicians, providing musical entertainment to overnight train passengers on the railroads for quite a while.   They wrote a lot of their own songs and recorded a couple of albums.  Musical talent is strong in the family, and Daughter-in-Law is arranging the singing portion of the day, where the whole family will sing many of the songs he wrote in HARMONY.

It's going to be a whirlwind trip, but it's very important to Daughter-in-Law to be there, and i'm glad they are able to make it happen.

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Today is:

APAWS International Pooper Scooper week -- The Association of Professional Animal Waste Specialists believe every dog should have its day, but not on someone else's lawn!

April Fool's Day  a/k/a Huntingowk Day or Gowkie Day in Scotland, because an April Fool is called a gowk; in England it is All Fools Day or April Noddy Day, as an April fool is a "noddy"

Azalea Festival -- Muskogee, OK, US (month long celebration with citywide events throughout)

Capture of Brielle Remembrance -- Brielle, Netherlands

Civil Service Day -- Thailand

Community Spirit Days -- an open invitation, all month long, for any town or community to involve itself in a special service project

Day of Hathor -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)

Edible Book Day -- Sponsored by the Edible Book Festival, Austin, TX, US (celebrating books and culinary creativity by making edible representations of books, then eating them)

Fossil Fools Day -- part of the conservationist movement of many organizations that want us to decrease reliance on fossil fuels and stop corporate polluters

Greek Cypriot Day -- Cyprus (EOKA Day)

International Fun at Work Day -- originally sponsored by Playfair, which encourages non-foolish humor that is non-toxic 

International Tatting Day

Investiture of the New Captains Regent -- San Marino (sometimes listed as National Day)

Kalends of April -- Ancient Roman Empire; also

     Festival of Fortuna Virilis -- Fortune in her role of bringing luck to women who want better relationships with men

     Veneralia -- ritual yearly washing of the statue of Venus

Kha b-Nisan -- Assyrians (traditional New Year celebration)

Loki's Day -- by some calculations, but more likely it was moved to this date to celebrate the trickster of all time on the trickiest day of the year

Miyako Odori -- Kobu Kaburenjo Theatre, Kyoto, Japan ("Dance of the Old Capital", the highly anticipated geisha dance and music festival, through the 30th)

National Day of Hope -- US; recognizing victims of child abuse and neglect, a day to recommit to make the world safe for children

National Sourdough Bread Day

National Walking Day -- US

Orissa Day -- Orissa, India

Paraprofessional Appreciation Day -- honoring the contributions of paraprofessionals everywhere

Pesach/Passover -- Judaism (begins this evening, through the evening of April 20)

Pigasus Award Announcement Day -- by James Randi, awarded to parapsychological, paranormal or psychic frauds

Reading is Funny Day -- a day to read riddles, jokes, and fun things with kids to show them how great reading can be

School Year Begins -- Japan, most schools and universities

Sizdeh Be-dar -- Iran (Nature Day, an ancient Persian celebration to get out and joyfully spend the day outdoors)

Skagit Valley Tulip Festival -- Skagit Valley, WA, US; through the 30th

St. Gilbert de Moray's Day (Patron of Caithness, Scotland)

St. Stupid's Day (First Church of the Last Laugh)  

Take Down Tobacco Day (formerly Kids Kick Butts Day) -- Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids 

Tree Loving Week begins -- South Korea (always the week that includes April 5, their Arbor Day)

Uzupis Day -- Uzupis District, Vilnius, Lithuania

Anniversaries Today:

Nunavut becomes Canada's third independent territory, 1999

Jim Bakker marries Tammy Faye LaValley, 1961

Birthdays Today:

Randy Orton, 1980

Jon Gosselin, 1977

Rachel Maddow, 1973

Susan Boyle, 1961

Libby Riddles, 1956

Annette O’Toole, 1953

Samuel A. Alito, Jr, 1950

David Eisenhower, 1947

Daniel Joseph “Rusty” Staub, 1944

Ali MacGraw, 1938

Gordon Jump, 1932

Debbie Reynolds, 1932

Jane Powell, 1929

Anne McCaffrey, 1926

Toshiro Mifune, 1920

Abraham Maslow, 1908

Clara "Mother" Hale, 1905

Lon Chaney, 1883

Sergei Rachmaninoff, 1873

Otto von Bismarck, 1815

William Harvey, 1578

Emperor Go-Saga of Japan, 1220

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"The Will Rogers Follies"(Musical), 1991

"General Hospital"(TV), 1963

"The Doctors"(TV), 1963

"Der blaue Engel/The Blue Angel"(Film; premier of Marlene Dietrich), 1930

Today in History:

The ruins of the city of Pompeii are found, 1748

Japan's volcano Unsen erupts, killing about 53,000, 1793

Samuel Morey patents the internal combustion engine, 1826

Cincinnati becomes the first US city to pay firefighters, 1853

Singapore, Penang & Malakka become British crown colonies, 1867

The London-Paris telephone connection is opened, 1891

The Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago, Illinois, 1891

The Royal Air Force is created by the merger of the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service, 1918

The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed, 1924

Generalisimo Frederico Franco announces the end of the Spanish Civil War, 1939

A 7.8 magnitude earthquake near the Aleutian Islands creates a tsunami that strikes Hawai'i, killing 159, 1946

The twenty-six counties of the Irish Free State become the Republic of Ireland, 1949

The Canadian government repeals Japanese Canadian internment after seven years, 1949

The BBC broadcasts the spaghetti tree hoax on its current affairs programme Panorama, 1957

Project Tiger, a tiger conservation program, is launched in the Corbett National Park, India, 1973

Apple Inc. is formed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, 1976

The Halifax Regional Municipality in Nova Scotia is created, 1996

Comet Hale-Bopp is seen passing over perihelion, 1997

Nunavut is established as a Canadian territory carved out of the eastern part of the Northwest Territories, 1999

Croatia and Albania join NATO, 2009

The world’s first smelling TV screen is unveiled in Japan, 2013

Bob Dylan receives his Nobel Prize for Literature at a private ceremony in Stockholm, 2017

The discovery of a major archaeological site on a reef in the middle of Lake Titicaca, in the Andes, and dating to the 8th and 10th centuries AD, is announced, 2019

For the first time ever, online sales in the US overtake retail brick and mortar store sales, with 11.813% online compared with 11.807% for general merchandise stores, 2019

The journal Nature Geoscience publishes a study confirming that the European Space Agency's Mars Explorer orbiter, in 2013, did discover methane on Mars, a gas usually only produced by living things, 2019

Seven democracy protestors are convicted for unauthorized assembly in Hong Kong, 2021

Houston Astros pitcher Ronel Blanco pitches a 10-0 no hitter against the Toronto Blue Jays at Minute Maid Park in Houston, 2024

A Vest Can Cover a Multitude of Sins, a Random and Happy Tuesday Post (Plus Wednesday’s Words)

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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.  

While Carl was asleep when i arrived, he later told me, "Monday was hard, the managers couldn't agree on what they wanted me to do, then they called me in Friday."

Any change in his routine is not easy, and it shows in how messy his room gets.  Yesterday, it showed.

Once again i was following a floss trail.  He has a very hard time with floss, and of course, the dental picks are worse as he spills and leaves them all over.

His bachelor's fridge.  Carl is keeping less and less in his own refrigerator as he takes all his meals in the big kitchen.

I was surprised and gratified to find not only are all five of the dryer balls still hanging around (it's uncanny), Carl had done a load of laundry on the correct setting and it hadn't been sitting in the washer long enough to spoil.

It felt like he'd hit a home run.

He got up twice, once to brush his teeth and then go back to snooze more, and then later to take his morning meds.  While he was doing so, i asked if he was ready to get up, even though it was only 9am and he usually wants to snuggle in until 9:15.

For once, he was ready and as he passed the laundry room, i made him give me his pj's so they could go in the last laundry load, then he went for his shower.

We talked about the weather and he agreed, since the little rain we were getting would be over before he left and the afternoon would be warm, he'd wear shorts.

He's actually down to only 2 pair of work shorts, but since he's moving in a few weeks and will be turning in his notice, they should get him through.

I'd found one of his two aprons (the green one is now AWOL) and got it on him, but he never fully tied it.  While i didn't check to see if he got any food on the side of his shirt, i've realized since he has to wear the safety vest on the job, the vest really can cover a multitude of sins, or food spills.

This week, though, i had to go to the car to find the safety vest, and that's where i found his winter bathrobe (the summer one was in the wash).

Once done with the shower, we chatted while he ate and i packed lunch, which really means he chats and i try to follow as sometimes he's a bit hard to understand.

"My friends want to see the movie," he noted, although i never figured out which movie.  "We'll try this weekend, last Saturday we went to the park..."

Carl talked about one of the programs at the park, it might have been a nature hike as he does enjoy those, especially if he can get a friend to go with him.

I asked him about the robe being in the car.

"It was in the car?  Oh, yeah, it was cold in the morning and I couldn't find my jacket..."

Carl, what have we told you about not wearing your bathrobe in public? i asked him.

"But it was cold!"

Then keep looking for your jacket, i told him.  Then i gave up and left, just shaking my head.  He will use whatever is handy, it's just part of who Carl is.

Getting him out of the house to head to work wasn't very hard, i'd had glasses and a hat waiting, and he'd brought home some gloves so had those.

Some days it just happens.

How about some funnies.

Have a blessed and beautiful Tuesday, everyone!

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It's my month to provide the prompts for Words for Wednesday.  Since it becomes Wednesday in some parts of the world while it is still Tuesday here, i am providing the prompts early, so you can work on them and post them when it's Wednesday where you are, or put your story in the comments here tomorrow.

This week's prompts are:

great

harmony

attraction

reach

subject

delicate

Charlotte's colour of the month is Sea Green.

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Today is:

Bunsen Burner Day -- on the birth anniversary of its inventor, Robert Wilhelm Eberhard von Bunsen, in 1811

Buy Some New Socks Day -- because all the websites that list it agree you are worth it

Cesar Chavez Day -- Arizona, California, Colorado, Michigan, New Mexico, Texas, Utah,& Wyoming, US

Culture and Traditions Day -- Micronesia

Eiffel Tower Day -- inaugurated this day in 1889

Festival for Luna -- Ancient Roman Calendar (moon festival)

Hot Guitar Day -- the day Jimi Hendrix first set fire to his guitar in 1967

Jum il-Helsien (Freedom Day) -- Malta

King Nangklao Memorial Day -- Thailand

Mahavir Jayanti -- Jain (honoring Lord Mahavira on the founder's birth anniversary; local dates may vary)

National Clams on the Half Shell Day

Oranges and Lemons Day -- St. Clement Danes Church, London, England (traditional children's service based on the rhyme that begins "Oranges and lemons/say the bells of St. Clement's)

"She's Funny That Way" Day -- pay tribute to the women in your life, and how they keep you laughing; sponsored by Brenda Meredith of Dahomey Publishing, Inc.

St. Balbina's Day (Patron of those with scrofulous diseases or stroma)

Thomas Mundy Peterson Day -- New Jersey, US (the first African-American to legally cast a vote in the US, this date in 1870)

Transfer Day -- US Virgin Islands

Vigil to Mourn China's Annexation of Tibet -- anniversary of the day in 1959 when the Dalai Lama fled to India

Birthdays Today:

Pavel Bure, 1971

Ewan McGregor, 1971

Marc McClure, 1957

Angus Young, 1955

Edward Francis "Ed" Marinaro, 1950

Al Gore, 1948

Rhea Perlman, 1948

Gabe Kaplan, 1945

Christopher Walken, 1943

James Earl "Jimmy" Johnson, 1938

Herb Alpert, 1935

Richard Chamberlain, 1935

Shirley Jones, 1934

John Jakes, 1932

Gordie Howe, 1928

Cesar Chavez, 1927

William Daniels, 1927

Leo Buscaglia, 1925

Henry Morgan, 1915

John "Jack" Johnson, 1878

Andrew Lang, 1844

Mary Boykin Miller Chestnut, 1823

Edward Fitzgerald, 1809

Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol, 1809

Joseph Haydn, 1732

Andrew Marvell, 1621

Rene Descartes, 1596

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"'night, Mother"(Play), 1983

"The Shadow Box"(Play), 1977

"The Best Man"(Play), 1960

"The Glass Menagerie"(Play), 1945

"Oklahoma!"(Musical), 1943

"Le Chasseur Maudit/The Accursed Huntsman"(Symphonic poem), 1883

Today in History:

Bernard of Clairvaux preaches his famous sermon in a field at Vézelay, urging the necessity of a Second Crusade; Louis VII is present, and joins the Crusade, 1146

King Ferdinand & Queen Isabella sign decree ordering Jews to convert or be expelled from Spain, 1492

Jews are expelled from Prague, 1745

Commodore Matthew Perry signs the Treaty of Kanagawa with the Japanese government, opening the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American trade, 1854

Thomas P Mundy of Perth Amboy, NJ, becomes the first African American to cast a vote, 1870

The Eiffel Tower, commemorating the French Revolution, opens, 1889

Richard Pearse allegedly makes a powered flight in an early aircraft, 1903

Serbia accepts Austrian control over Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1909

Construction begins on the RMS Titanic, 1909

Construction of the RMS Titanic is completed, 1912

The United States takes possession of the Danish West Indies after paying $25 million to Denmark, and renames the territory the United States Virgin Islands, 1917

Daylight saving time goes into effect in the United States for the first time, 1918

The Royal Australian Air Force is formed, 1921

The Dominion of Newfoundland joins the Canadian Confederation and becomes the 10th Province of Canada, 1949

Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau, 1951

In the Canadian federal election, 1958, the Progressive Conservatives, led by John Diefenbaker, win the largest percentage of seats in Canadian history, with 208 seats of 265, 1958

The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, crosses the border into India and is granted political asylum, 1959

The Soviet Union launches Luna 10 which later becomes the first space probe to enter orbit around the Moon, 1966

Explorer 1 re-enters the Earth's atmosphere after 12 years in orbit, 1970

The USS Missouri, the last active United States Navy battleship, is decommissioned in Long Beach, California, 1992

Netscape releases the code base of its browser under an open-source license agreement; the project is given the code name Mozilla and is eventually spun off into the non-profit Mozilla Foundation, 1998

Amid unrest in the Mideast, activists claim China has launched the largest crackdown on dissenters in recent years, 2011

The International Court of Justice at the U.N. agrees that Japanese whaling is conducted for commercial purposes, not scientific research; Japan accepts the order to cease all whaling activities in the Antarctic, 2014

Robert Weighton of Great Britain becomes the world's oldest man at 112 years, 2020

The first truly complete sequence of a human genome is published by the Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) consortium, 2022

SpaceX mission Fram2 launches four people aboard a Falcon 9 rocket, becoming the first crewed spaceflight to enter a polar retrograde orbit, 2025