Adults and Ducks and Running the Roads, 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.  

Conversation yesterday: 

Daughter-in-Law Becky:  Your son thinks it’s a good idea to blast death metal at the parents and kids practicing soccer in the park.

Me: (gettin up) okay, i’m on it.

Me: (now outside, where #2 Son is holding Tripod kitty, no music playing) Son, could you do me a favor and not annoy the soccer moms?  They might call the police, and i don’t need that.

#2 Son:  Okay, I won’t, but why are parents so boring?

A friend of our has added ducks to the chickens out on the farm.  It seems someone in the area got a duck for this past Easter, and once it was past the cute stage, looked for a convenient pond at which to set it free.  The next door neighbor’s yard is fenced and locked, so Mr. Cal and Ms. Jan went out one morning and noticed a mostly grown drake feeding with the chickens.

The drake followed them around and Ms. Jan decided it was lonely.  They called around to see if they could find a female duck to adopt, and the farm supply guy told them about the duck guy.

The “duck guy,” who also has horses, is 81, retired, and runs a farm with horses and ducks because it’s his hobby.  He agreed to sell them a female duck for $20 that was about the same age as their drake.

Ms. Jan gushed about how, “They get along beautifully!  They are never more than about a foot away from each other.  And so we now have ducks that follow us around, and it was only $20, and soon we will be getting duck eggs along with the chicken eggs!”

With a bit of an eye-rolls, Mr. Cal replied, “Yeah, it was ‘only’ $20, plus a whole tank of gas to drive out there to the duck guy’s place and back, plus dinner out while we were in the area!”

Dr. D is expecting her daughter to come visit not this Friday but the next.  Instead of legal work or sorting, she's having me concentrate on cleaning next Monday, more than just the usual.

Yesterday, i had to run errands.  It took me going to six places to get everything she needed.  Her list was a lint roller, cat litter, cheese crackers, vanilla cookies, milk, a whole cooked chicken, hair clips for her hair rollers, and her mail.  Each is to be purchased at the lowest price, so i have to go to the dollar store first, then the other dollar store if the first one doesn't have everything, then the MallMart, then the grocery, then the post office to get the mail, and i finally gave up and went to the beauty supply store for the clips because no one else had them.

This is how i felt:

That's about all for now, i hope everyone has a wonderful Tuesday!

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Today is:

Africa Day for Food and Nutrition Security

Anniversary of the Declaration of the Slovak Nation -- Slovakia

Arba'in-e Hosseini -- Iran (40th day after Ashura)

Buy A Doughnut Day -- any wonder who started this one? (insert eye-roll here)

Checklists Day -- prevent tragedy, create great checklists; in honor of the development of the first well known checklist following a B-17 prototype's crash due to pilot error

Create a Great Funeral Day -- don't make your family choose the plans in the midst of grief, plan your sending away party now, it's more fun when it's done -- in advance!

Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repressions -- most former Soviet Republics

Lhabab Duechen -- Buddhism (Descending Day of Lord Buddha)

    a public holiday in Bhutan, although the exact day off may vary

Look in the Back of Your Refrigerator Day / Haunted Refrigerator Night (And hope the old hamburger isn't grazing on the moldy salad.)

Mischief Night, a/k/a Goosey Night, Devil's Night, Cabbage Night -- US

National Candy Corn Day

Practice Winter Snuggling Night -- when it gets really cold, you'll be glad you practiced

St. Dorothy of Montau's Day (Patron of brides, difficult marriages, dying children, parents of large families, widows; Pomerania; Prussia)

St. Marcellus' Day  (as a Roman centurion who threw down his armor and refused to take part in pagan worship, he is Patron of conscientious objectors)

The Rhyne Toll -- Chetwode Manor, UK (through Nov 7) -- the Lord of the Manor may tax any cattle he finds on his Liberty (free pasture) on these days

Try on Your Halloween Costume Early Day -- to see how goofy you look, and make sure you have everything you need

Birthdays Today:

Nastia Liukin, 1989

Matthew Morrison, 1978

Gavin Rossdale, 1967

Diego Armando Maradona, 1960

Kevin Pollack, 1958

Charles Martin Smith, 1953

Harry Hamlin, 1951

Andrea Mitchell, 1946

Henry Winkler, 1945

Ed Lauter, 1940

Grace Slick, 1939

Claude Lelouch, 1937

Dick Gautier, 1937

Dick Vermeil, 1936

Robert Caro, 1935

Louis Malle, 1932

Ruth Gordon, 1896

Charles Atlas, 1893

Ezra Pound, 1885

William "Bull" Halsey, 1882

Emily Post, 1872

Alfred Sisley, 1839

Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821

Richard Sheridan, 1751

John Adams, 1735

Debuting/Premiering Today:

Symphony No. 11 in G minor(Shostakovich Op. 103), 1957

"Panama Hattie"(Musical), 1940

"War of the Worlds"(Radio), 1938

Today in History:

Antioch surrenders to Rashidun Caliphate and his Muslim forces after the Battle of the Iron Bridge, 637

End of the 8th Crusade, 1270

King Henry VII, Tudor, crowned, 1485

Queen Isabella bans violence against Indians, 1503

The first Methodist church in the US is initiated (Wesley Chapel, NYC), 1768

Dr. Richard Gatling patents the machine gun, 1862

Founding of Helena, Montana (capital city), 1864

John Willis Menard, of Louisiana, becomes the first black elected to the US Congress (by special election, he was challenged by the loser, but was allowed to address Congress from the lectern), 1868

Daniel Cooper patents the time clock, 1894

Martha Hughes Cannon of Utah becomes the first woman US Senator, 1896

The first US Automobile Show opens in Madison Square Garden, NYC, 1900

Czar Nicholas II of Russia grants Russia's first constitution, creating a legislative assembly, 1905

Benito Mussolini is made Prime Minister of Italy, 1922

John Logie Baird creates Britain's first television transmitter, 1925

Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing anxiety in some of the audience in the United States, 1938

Anne Frank and sister Margot Frank are deported from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, 1944

Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs signs a contract for the Brooklyn Dodgers to break the baseball color barrier, 1945

Michael Woodruff performs the first successful kidney transplant in the United Kingdom at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, 1960

The Soviet Union detonates the hydrogen bomb Tsar Bomba over Novaya Zemlya; at 58 megatons of yield, it is still the largest explosive device ever detonated, nuclear or otherwise, 1961

The Bosporus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosporus for the first time, 1973

The Rumble in the Jungle boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman takes place in Kinshasa, Zaire, 1974

Prince Juan Carlos becomes Spain's acting head of state, taking over for the country's ailing dictator, Gen. Francisco Franco, 1975

In Japan, NEC releases the first 16-bit home entertainment system, the TurboGrafx-16, known as PC Engine, 1987

Quebec sovereignists narrowly lose a referendum for a mandate to negotiate independence from Canada (vote is 50.6% to 49.4%), 1995

The last Multics (Multiplexed Information and Computing Service) early time-sharing operating system is shut down at the Canadian Department of National Defense in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, 2000

George Lucas sells Lucasfilm, Ltd., to the Walt Disney Company, 2012