How one client made the kids stop stealing his toothbrush (Wordless Wednesday) and Words for Wednesday

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Linking up with Wordless Wednesday 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 that encourages us to write stories, poems, or whatever strikes our fancy.    

This month, the prompts are being provided by River at Drifting Through Life.    

This week's words are:

1. yellow

2. zinnias

3. adjust

4. boots

5. chicken

6. doomed

and/or:

1. extensively

2. flagstones

3. gingerly

4. holding

5. investigator

6. jerked

Looking at the new CHICKEN coop in her back yard, she shook her head and smiled wryly.

He’d been EXTENSIVELY researching keeping chickens for months now as she GINGERLY probed for reasons like an INVESTIGATOR trying to come up with the motive for the crime.  Did he want fresh eggs?  Was he trying to turn into a city farmer?  Trying to keep up with the obnoxious fellow at work who always bragged about being raised in the country and how much better it was and how he was going to move back someday?

While she hadn’t gotten to the bottom of it, she’d been HOLDING on to the hope that perhaps it was just something that would die away on its own, like his earlier delving into archaeology.  (When he’d figured out he’d be spending most of him time sweating at the end of a shovel if he signed up as an amateur digger on an excavation site for a vacation, he’d dropped that like the proverbial hot potato and gone back to watching Indiana Jones movies.)

Seeing a large YELLOW coop delivered had made her realize that he was not just serious, but that he’d determined raising their own chickens was now a foregone conclusion.

Not that she had anything against it, it was simply that she had no clue how to care for such critters.  Seeing the FLAGSTONES he’d bought to use for a path to the coop piled up next to rolls and rolls of chicken wire and lots of lumber, she knew he was going to build them a run and who knew what else.

She was going to have to act fast and lay down some rules if she didn’t want him to encroach on her ZINNIAS and roses.  He would have to ADJUST some of his building plans to keep her flower beds from being DOOMED.

When he got home, he whooped like a child to see that the coop was there, and  pulled out his new “farmer BOOTS” as he called them.  She just laughed and let him have his moment, knowing he’d be JERKED back to seriousness at some point in the process.

She just hoped they both enjoyed the fun of having chickens when it was all over, because if they were this far in, she was going to make sure they went all in.

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Today is:

Air Guitar World Championships -- Oulu, Finland (through Friday; "The purpose of the Air Guitar World Championships is to promote world peace.")  

American Quilter's Society Quilt Exposition -- Grand Rapids, MI, US (their largest show; through Saturday)

America's Cup Day -- the first America's Cup was won this date in 1851 by the yacht America

Be an Angel Day -- Sponsored by Angel Heights Healing Center, encouraging people to be a blessing and perform an act of service for someone

Corn Palace Festival -- Mitchell, SD, US (harvest celebration and redecoration of the world's only Corn Palace; through Sunday)

Eat a Peach Day

Feast of the Queenship of Mary & Immaculate Heart of Mary -- Catholic Christians

Flag Day -- Russia

Hoodie Hoo Day, Southern Hemisphere -- Wellcat Holidays says to go outside at noon and call "Hoodie Hoo" to chase away winter and call spring

National Spumoni Day (i don't think i've had really great spumoni since i went to Italy all those years ago -- nothing like getting things at the source.)

National Take Your Cat to the Vet Day -- US (started by a vet who declared today a cat's only day for his practice, so his feline patients wouldn't be upset by any dogs in the place; now many vets will only schedule cats on a particular day)

Rumpleskunkskin's Wedding Anniversary -- Fairy Calendar (Goblin celebration)

St. Symphorian's Day (Patron of children, students; Autun, France; against eye problems, syphilis)

Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration -- Shelbyville, TN, US (an 11-day festival celebrating the world famous Tennessee Walking Horse and crowning this year's World Grand Champion)

Anniversary Today:

Henry Leland founds the Cadillac Motor Company, 1902

Birthdays Today:

Kristin Wiig, 1973

Giada De Laurentiis, 1970

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, 1967

Tori Amos, 1963

Cindy Williams, 1947

Steve Kroft, 1945

Duane Charles "Bill" Parcells, 1941

Valerie Harper, 1940

Carl Yastrzemski, 1939

E. Annie Proulx, 1935

Norman Schwarzkopf, 1934

Gerald Paul Carr, 1932

Ray Bradbury, 1920

John Lee Hooker, 1917

Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1908

Helene Bertha Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl, 1902

George Herriman, 1880

Dorothy Parker, 1893

Claude Debussy, 1862

Archibald MacNeal Willard, 1836

Samuel Pierpont Langley, 1834

Virginia Clemm Poe, 1822

St. Anthony of Padua, 1195

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"Later with Bob Costas"(TV), 1988

Today in History:

St. Columba reports seeing a monster in Loch Ness, 565

The Battle of Bosworth Field, in which King Richard III is killed and his forces defeated by Henry VII, 1485

Madras, India (now called Chennai) is founded by the British East India company on land purchased from the local Nayak rulers, 1639

Jacob Barsimon, the first Jewish immigrant to what would become US territory, arrives in New Amsterdam/Manhattan, 1654

The Newport, RI newspaper, Mercury, becomes the first in the US to hire a female editor, Ann Franklin, 1762

Austria laundches pilotless balloons against the Italian city of Venice, thus staging the first air raid in history, 1849

Gold discovered in Australia, 1851

12 nations sign the First Geneva Convention and the Red Cross is formed, 1864

William Shepphard patents the first liquid soap, 1885

Founding of the Cadillac Motor Company, 1902

President Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first US chief executive to ride in an automobile, 1902

The first Victor Victrola is manufactured, 1906

The Mona Lisa is stolen, 1911 (recovered 2 years later)

Althea Gibson becomes the first black competitor in international tennis, 1950

Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogota, Colombia, becoming the first pope to visit Latin America, 1968

Rhodesia is expelled by the IOC for its racist policies, 1972

The first ring of Neptune is discovered, 1989

A version of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway, 2004

The Storm botnet, a botnet created by the Storm Worm, sends out a record 57 million e-mails in one day, 2007

Russia and Vanuatu become members of the World Trade Organization, 2012

India’s highest court outlaws instant divorce (talaq, talaq, talaq) for Muslim men, 2017