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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.
Uncle J's birthday was back on Thanksgiving Day this year, and this is about the fourth time that has happened that his birthday and Thanksgiving coincided. The first time we were teens, so i went and bought him a cookie cake with a turkey on it, and had it say, "A turkey for our turkey born on Turkey Day!"
He wasn't able to come down for Thanksgiving this year, but he did make it for Christmas (he isolated and tested before he came, and drove down instead of flying). That's why i made extra hojaldras on Christmas Eve for his birthday gift.
When i gave them to him, he hefted the bag and said, "Wow, you made a lot! Are you trying to make me fat? I'm going to regain all the weight I lost!" Laughing, i reminded him of how MawMaw always said that a fat baby is a healthy baby, and he responded, "But I'm not a baby any more, I'm an old man! And you are even older!"
A couple of days later, he sent me a text message. "I hate you for making me the hojaldras I'm almost finished already lol. I'm going to gain so much weight. Nice seeing you at Christmas, love ya."
Just goes to show that even snotty little brothers can grow up to be decent people eventually. ;)
Okay, now for some fun stuff that Grandma forwards to me, starting with the painted floors:
Have a blessed and beautiful Tuesday, everyone!
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Today is:
Constitution Day -- Ireland
Enjoying ESP Day -- internet generated, and it means eating, sleeping, and partying!
Fifth Day of Christmas
Illegal Pants Day -- commemorates Emma Snodgrass' arrest in Boston in 1852 for wearing pants
Kwanzaa, Day 4, Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics)
National Chocolate Again Day -- because someone, somewhere, believes it can't be chocolate something-or-other day often enough
National Independence Day -- Mongolia(1911, from the Qing Dynasty)
Paternoster Row Day -- in memoriam of the famous area destroyed by the Blitz this date and tomorrow in 1940
Pepper Pot Day -- Pepper Pot Soup was invented today in 1777 at Valley Forge for the army to have something warm to eat
Sacrifice to Zeus Horios -- Ancient Greek Calendar (sacrifice in the deme of Erichia; date approximate)
St. Gabriel's Day -- Ethiopia
St. Thomas of Canterbury's Day (Thomas a Becket, Patron of clergy, secular clergy; Exeter College, Oxford, England; Portsmouth, England)
St. Trophimus of Arles' Day (Patron of children; Arles, France; against drought)
Tick Tock Day -- end of the year is getting closer, stop putting off your dreams! sponsored by Wellcat Holidays
Urdhyauli Parwa -- Nepal (a festival of the Kirati People, celebration of the animals annual migration down from the mountaintops)
Yodel in the Shower Day -- internet generated, and i promise not to tell if you do
Anniversaries Today:
J. Paul Getty, Jr., weds Victoria Holdsworth, 1994
Texas becomes the 28th US State, 1845
Birthdays Today:
Jude Law, 1972
Andy Wachowski, 1967
Bryan "Dexter" Holland, 1966
Patricia Clarkson, 1959
Paula Poundstone, 1959
Ed Autry, 1954
John Polito, 1950
Ted Danson, 1947
Marianne Faithfull, 1946
Jon Voight, 1938
Mary Tyler Moore, 1936
Thomas Edwin Jarriel, 1934
Klaus Fuchs, 1911
Billy Mitchell, 1879
Pablo Cassals, 1876
William Gladstone, 1809
Andrew Johnson, 1808
Charles Goodyear, 1800
Debuting/Premiering Today:
Thunderball(Film, UK release), 1965
"The Andersonville Trial"(Play), 1959
The Adventures of Kathlyn(Film, first movie serial), 1913
Today in History:
Thomas a Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, is assassinated inside Canterbury Cathedral by followers of King Henry II; he subsequently becomes a saint and martyr in the Anglican Church and the Roman Catholic Church, 1170
The first nautical almanac in US published by Samuel Stearns, Boston, 1782
Gas lights are installed at White House, during the Polk administration, 1848
The first Young Men's Christian Association chapter in the US opens, in Boston, 1851
Emma Snodgrass is arrested in Boston for wearing pants, 1852
The first telegraph ticker used by a brokerage house, Groesbeck & Co, NY, 1867
The Wounded Knee Massacre takes place, 1890
Edison patents "transmission of signals electrically" (radio), 1891
Mongolia gains independence from the Qing dynasty, 1911
The first movie serial, "Adventures of Kathlyn," premieres in Chicago, 1913
Fred P Newton completes longest swim ever (1826 miles), when he swam in the Mississippi River from Ford Dam, Minn, to New Orleans, 1930
Physicist Richard Feynman gives a speech entitled "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom", which is regarded as the birth of nanotechnology, 1959
Filming began on Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey in England, 1965
Riots break-out after Hong Kong decides to forcibly repatriate Vietnamese refugees, 1989
Guatemala and leaders of Guatemalan National Revolutionary Union sign a peace accord ending a 36-year civil war, 1996
Leaders of the Khmer Rouge apologize for the 1970s genocide in Cambodia that claimed over 1 million lives, 1998
The last known speaker of Akkala Sami dies, rendering the language extinct, 2003
Chaparrastique volcano erupts in El Salvador, 2013
The Ebola epidemic in Guinea is declared over by WHO, after 2,500 died over 2 years, 2015
I wonder whether my brothers (all older than I am) think I have grown into a decent human being.
ReplyDeleteLove Grandma's contributions but couldn't walk on any of those floors.
Those floor painting are really .. well I miss words. Thank you!
ReplyDeleteGiraffes do not exist. They are horses with their neck and legs stretched out.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
I'm glad you enjoyed Christmas.
ReplyDeleteDidn't know pinkies are so important.
Have a great Tuesday!
That cat without matching parts is so funny. Love those painted floors too. Amazing what the eyes can do seeing things like that. Happy Tuesday, and keep taking good care of your "little" brother!
ReplyDeleteIts nice to have your brother spending Christmas with you. I am okay with 3D painted walls but no thanks with painted floors because I wouldn't dare walk on them. Happy New Year to you and yours.
ReplyDeleteThat was a good story and WOW, those floors are pretty wild!
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you got to spend Christmas with your birthday brother. I chuckled at his remarks.
ReplyDeleteLove all the funnies and I didn't know the did you know stuff.
Yikes on the floors. They are most beautiful, but I think I'd have physical issues trying to walk on them.
Thank you for joining the Happy Tuesday Blog Hop.
Have a fabulous Happy Tuesday. ♥
Mimi,
ReplyDeleteNow that's cool, a self cleaning bathroom floor every time you flush or shower. :) That's really wild on the eyes. The deck on the pool cracked me up. lol Thanks for the giggles. I'm ready to kick the old year out the door and bring in a new one. Here's hoping 2021 is a great one for you, me, and the whole world!
Unbelievable Mimi. It's scary just looking at the floor in the bathroom. All the pictures were fantastic. I just want to get rid of 2020. I hope that 2021 will give us a better year.
ReplyDeleteCruisin Paul
Always a good laugh when I come here.
ReplyDeleteThe second one of the ripply rug would drive me nutso! Thanks for always making my day! YOU ROCK!
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Marv, Jo Jo, Kozmo, Cinnamon and Barb
All that eating you'd think giraffes would look fat...I guess the long neck is slimming.
ReplyDeleteThat was a sweet story. Your brother sounds nice and I know you are too. Cool photos.
ReplyDeleteI must be channeling a giraffe, thanks to Covid, I spend 70% of my day eating too.
ReplyDeleteAnd I would definitely not want painted floors that would make me dizzy.
Doesn't Thanksgiving fall on the same date every year? So Uncle J's birthday would always be the same? Or is it a moveable date like Easter?
ReplyDeleteA good name for that cat would be Quilt, because of the patchwork look.
It's fun when birthday's fall on a holiday. I have an April birthday so sometimes it falls on Easter. My husband and my two kids all have birthday's at the same time as I do so that's three more chances for Easter birthdays!
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