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"Do you have time to talk about it now?"
"Yeah, I'm sorry, when you first called the boss was in here and I couldn't get away, go for it."
"Is this connection secure?"
"What do you mean?"
"Are we sure no one is eavesdropping on our conversation -- is the connection secure?"
"Oh, for Pete's sake, no one wants to listen in on our conversation about your so-called super secret new recipe!"
Linking up with Denise at Girlie On The Edge Blog, where she hosts Six Sentence Stories, and the cue is Connection.
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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.
Fences with doors always make me smile.
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It's Angel Sammy's Poetry Day! This week's image and my poem:
It's hard to believe I'm here,
Amazed I even got in,
But here I am and ready for the
World's fastest typist contest to begin!
(In 1917, when Grandpa's mom was 16, she came in second in the world's fastest typist contest. Using one of these kinds of old machines, she typed over 120 words-per-minute!)
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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 yesterday Ms. G gave me some nuts as a snack to eat on my way to my second job. It was a long day, and i really needed the pick-me-up.
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Today is:
Adhesive Postage Stamp Day -- the first adhesive postage stamps went on sale on this date in 1840 in Great Britain
Army Day/St. George's Day -- Bulgaria
Beverage Day -- an internet holiday that encourages you to try a beverage you've never had before
Festival of Min -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (a four day festival celebrating male fertility; date approximate)
International No Diet Day -- for reasons not to diet, but focus n health instead, click here
Joseph Brackett Day -- birth anniversary of Shaker author of the song "Simple Gifts"
Martyrs' Day -- Syria
Mounikhia / Munichia -- Ancient Greek Calendar (festival of Artemis, date approximate)
National Crepe Suzette Day
National Day of Prayer -- US / Interfaith
National Day of Reason -- US Humanist alternative to the National Day of Prayer
National Nurses Day -- US, start of National Nurses Week
National Tourist Appreciation Day -- during US National Travel and Tourism Week
No Homework Day -- sponsored by Wellcat Holidays (celebrated on Monday if it falls on a weekend)
Remembrance for Eyvind Kelve -- Asatru/Norse Pagan Calendar (pagan martyr)
St. George's Day -- Eastern Orthodox Churches (the day to visit graves and decorate, leave special food, and provide entertainment for the dearly departed) related observance:
Shepherd's and Herdsman's Day -- Bulgaria
St. Gerard of Lunel's Day (Patron of epileptics and Montesanto, Italy; against epilepsy and headaches)
Yale Lock Day -- the Yale lock was patented this day in 1861
Anniversaries Today:
David Duchovny marries Tia Leone, 1997
Princess Margaret marries Anthony Armstrong-Jones at Westminster Abbey (the first televised royal wedding), 1960
Birthdays Today:
Gabourey Sidibe, 1983
Leslie Hope, 1965
Roma Downey, 1964
George Clooney, 1961
Tom Bergeron, 1955
Tony Blair, 1953
Lynn Whitfield, 1953
Alan Dale, 1947
Ben Masters, 1947
Bob Seger, 1945
Willie Mays, 1931
Orson Welles, 1915
Stewart Granger, 1913
Rudolph Valentino, 1895
Gaston Leroux, 1868
Rabindranath Tagore, 1861
Sigmund Freud, 1856
Robert E. Peary, 1856
Maximilian Robespierre, 1758
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Entertaining Mr. Sloan"(Play), 1964
Today in History:
Spanish and German Imperial troops sack Rome, which many consider the end of the Renaissance, 1527
Mongol emperor Babur defeats the Afghans and Bengals, 1529
Henry VIII orders that English Bibles be placed in every church, 1536
Louis XIV of France moves his court to Versailles, 1682
The first African-American Masonic Lodge (African # 459) forms Prince Hall, Boston, 1787
John Deere produces the first steel plow, 1833
James Gordon Bennett, Sr. publishes the first issue of the New York Herald, 1835
The Glaciarium, the world's first mechanically frozen ice rink, opens, 1844
Dr John Gorrie patents a "refrigeration machine", 1851
Linus Yale patents the Yale lock, 1851
Chief Crazy Horse of the Oglala Sioux surrenders to United States troops in Nebraska, 1877
The Eiffel Tower is officially opened to the public at the Universal Exposition in Paris, 1889
George V becomes King of the United Kingdom upon the death of his father, Edward VII, 1910
George Herman "Babe" Ruth, of the Boston Red Sox, slams his first home run, against the New York Yankees, 1915
The German zeppelin Hindenburg catches fire and is destroyed, 1937
John Steinbeck is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes of Wrath, 1940
Bob Hope performs his first USO show, 1941
Roger Bannister becomes the first person to run the mile in under four minutes, 1954
Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and French President François Mitterrand officiate at the opening of the Channel Tunnel, 1994
Chaiten Volcano erupts in Chile, forcing the evacuation of more than 4,500 people, 2008
The second largest intraday point swing in Dow Jones Industrial Average history occurs, 2010
Wal-Mart becomes the largest company by revenue on the Fortune 500 list, 2013
84 abducted schoolgirls released in exchange for Boko Haram suspects in Nigeria, 2017
France bans too thin fashion models and makes labeling of digitally enhanced photos mandatory, 2017
One million plant and animal species are now at risk of extinction according to a major new UN report, 2019
Beautiful blog
ReplyDeletePlease read my post
ReplyDeleteI love that fence and gate.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
I am thankful for your blog!
ReplyDelete120 words a minute is very impressive - not matter what the machine.
ReplyDeleteLove your six sentence story too.
Your six made me smile, Mimi!
ReplyDeleteI'm lucky if I type 12 words a minute without making 11 mistakes!
ReplyDeletelol
ReplyDeletewell, you can never be too careful (especially nowadays!)
fun Six
We don't understand that fence with the doors as it is like a fortress, but on either side it is the iron fence one can see right through. It is pretty, though.
ReplyDeleteSuperb as always
ReplyDeleteThat was a good story, quite the poem and a most excellent thankful. Thanks for joining our Thankful Thursday Blog Hop!
ReplyDeleteLove your six and that ending was a surprise. I know it was intended to be a surprise.
ReplyDeleteWow, typing over 120 words a minute on a manual typewriter is amazing.
Have a fabulous Thankful Thursday, my friend. ♥
There are those who take their recipes very seriously😉
ReplyDeleteWhat a cool (and intimidating) picture. 2nd?! Wow. Can't even imagine typing 120 wpm on one of those, lol. That is quite an accomplishment.
Nuts! They're an awesome snack. Drink a bunch of water with them; they'll keep you full for hours :D
Fun story, Mimi.
ReplyDeleteSome folk think it's all about them!
Great story and poem. That is cool about your great grandmother's typing skills.
ReplyDeleteI like how it was all written in dialog.
ReplyDeleteHa! You can never be too careful with new recipes!
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful typing achievement. One about which to be proud.
ReplyDeleteI love your 6 sentence story! ��
ReplyDeleteI'd be a total flop at any typing competition, even after have a computer of one kind or another since 1998, I'm still a hunter and pecker, with two fingers and an occasional thumb.
ReplyDeleteGreat post ~ fun story and quite the fence ~ Xo
ReplyDeleteLiving moment by moment,
A ShutterBug Explores,
aka (A Creative Harbor)
I'm still smiling at your six. And wondering what the recipe is for? ;)
ReplyDeleteYes! Recipes can be secrets! Great blog as always!
ReplyDeleteGoodness! I remember those top secret recipes...I always wondered if those old church cookbooks had EVERY ingredient or if only certain people knew the secrets.
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