Line of Work (Six Sentence Story), Good Fences, Life Is More (Sammy’s Poetry Day) and More Cat Food Wars (Brian’s Thankful Thursday)

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“Are you watching reruns of that game show again, what’s it called, ‘What’s My Line?’” he asked.

“Close, this one is ‘I’ve Got A Secret,’ same idea, the panelists try to guess what people did or who they were,” she responded.

“Well, who was that guy?”

“‘That guy’ was Philo T. Farnsworth, the man who invented television,” at his raised eyebrows, she continued, “yes, really, his life was kind of fascinating in many ways, he even got raided by the Feds during Prohibition when they thought his lab was a cover for a bootlegger operation.”

“So did the panel guess who he was?”

“No, and he won $80 and a carton of the show sponsor’s cigarettes for stumping them — poor guy, his name should be on everyone’s lips as much TV as we all watch, and instead he’s mostly reduced to an answer in trivia contests.”

Linking up with Denise at Girlie On The Edge Blog, where she hosts Six Sentence Stories, and the cue is Line.      

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Gosia at Looking for Identity has taken over Good Fences, and it's now Good Fences Around The World.  Post a picture of a fence or gate, link back to her blog, and go visit other blogs to see what interesting fences there are out in this big world.    

While on vacation, i got some photos of a lovely fence, at a cemetery.

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It's Angel Sammy's Poetry Day!  This week's image and my poem:    

And can it be

That life clings

Stays stubborn rooted

Fragile yet strong

When light and water get 

Through the cracks

It will spring up

Always with the beauty 

That reminds us all

Life is more than

Mere survival

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Brian of Brian's Home hosts the Thankful Thursday Blog Hop.   It's time to share something for which i am thankful.  

Today i am thankful that i finally thought of using the mini food processor to grind up the canned cat food that comes in chunks.  We have our very skinny elderly cats on canned food once a day to keep their weight up, and it seems to work.  They don’t have a preference for one kind of food, so when we are given free cans of any major brand we use it.

The problem is that if it is anything but pâté food, all Tripod SissyCat does is lick off the gravy and it rather defeats the purpose, she’s not getting enough calories from it that way.  Thus the food processor, which grinds it all up and more of it gets consumed.

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Today is:

Adonia -- Ancient Roman Calendar (date approximate, but always in July, a ritual to honor Adonis)

Distressed Elves' Creditors' Day -- Fairy Calendar

Flag & Anthem Day -- Curacao

Freedom From Fear of Public Speaking Day -- as proposed by Beverly Beuermann-King, because you don't want to blow it when your big opportunity comes by being afraid to speak out!

I Forgot Day (the day to celebrate birthdays, anniversaries, or other special days that you forgot during the first half of the year)

National Anisette Day

Remember to Feed the Hummingbirds Day -- internet reminder to be nice to these beautiful creatures

Second Half of the Year Day -- because 2020 is a Leap Year, the second half of the year started at midnight 

St. Swithin's Day (Patron against drought; of Stavenger, England; Winchester, England)

Try to Find Your Slinky Day -- the weird holiday of the day!

Violin Lovers' Day

World UFO Day -- unfortunately, a real day observed by many around the world (on the "anniversary" of the UFO crash in Roswell, if such a thing even happened, which i doubt*) 

*i believe that if there's life elsewhere, it shows its intelligence by staying away from us!

Anniversary Today:

Prince Albert of Belgium marries Paola Ruffo di Calabria, 1959

Birthdays Today:

Lindsay Lohan, 1986

Ashley Tisdale, 1985

Johnny Weir, 1984

Jose, Jr., and Ozzie Canseco, 1964

Jimmy McNichol, 1961

Ron Silver, 1946

Vicente Fox Quesada, 1942

Richard Petty, 1937

Polly Holiday, 1937

Dave Thomas, 1932

Medgar Evers, 1925

Dan Rowan, 1922

Ken Curtis, 1916

Thurgood Marshall, 1908

Jean René Lacoste, 1904

Hermann Hesse, 1877

Thomas Cranmer, 1489

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"The Andy Williams Show"(TV), 1957

"The Lawrence Welk Show"(TV), 1955

"Finlandia"(Sibelius' Op. 26), 1900

Today in History:

Thomas Savery patents the first steam engine, 1698

Vermont  becomes the first American territory to abolish slavery, 1777

Charles J. Guiteau shoots and fatally wounds U.S. President James Garfield, who eventually dies from an infection on September 19, 1881

Twenty miles off the coast of Cuba, 53 rebelling African slaves led by Joseph Cinque take over the slave ship Amistad, 1893

Italian scientist Guglielmo Marconi obtains patent for radio in London, 1897

The first zeppelin flight takes place on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany, 1900

Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan are last heard from over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first equatorial round-the-world flight 1937

The first Wal-Mart store opens for business in Rogers, Arkansas, 1962

North and South Vietnam, divided since 1954, reunite to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, 1976

The AbioCor  self contained artificial heart is first implanted, 2001

Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo around the world nonstop in a balloon, 2002

Planetoid Pluto's fourth and fifth moons officially receive the names Kerberos and Styx from the International Astronomical Union, 2013

British Petroleum agrees to compensate the US government and states bordering the Gulf of Mexico $18.7 billion for the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, 2015

British divers discover 12 boys and their coach alive in Tham Luang Nang Non cave, Thailand, after being trapped for 9 days by monsoon flooding, 2018