Someone Would Know (Six Sentence Story), Good Fences, Angel Sammy's Poetry Day, and Brian's Thankful Thursday

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What is it about cleaning houses and running into money?

Change i understand, i find it everywhere, and the first thing i do at any place i'm going to clean is find where they keep the spare change and make sure anything i find goes in there (except with Carl, that's a story for another day).

Last week at Ms. SE's house i found this

in this

and texted her telling her i left it here (it was her son's, he'd lost it and they'd looked everywhere except the dirty laundry).

Yesterday, it was Ms. G, she'd set down some socks and money on top of a dresser in the spare room and forgotten it was there, so i pointed it out to her, and she was quite relieved to see it.

Sometimes i wonder if The A-mighty doesn't put me in this position just to remind of how and why He wants me to be honest in all of my dealings with clients, giving good work for the pay, doing things i'd rather not do because i was asked to as part of the job, and even turning in money i could easily take and no one would know.

But that's the kicker, isn't it, not just that it's a sin, which it is, but that someone would know, and that someone is me, and i couldn't live with that.

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

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While Good Fences Around the World seems to have gone the way of the dodo bird, i still enjoy looking for and posting interesting fences, so i will!

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It's Angel Sammy's Poetry Day!  This week's image and my two poems (i got carried away this week):    

Tell you what I'm going to do,

If I ever get back to shore,

I'll find a landlubber job, and

I'll nail my feet to the floor!

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I'd just signed up with the Army,

They were shipping me "over there,"

We were in a huge Naval convoy,

In the middle of who knows where.

The enemy subs were attacking,

Torpedo fire was exchanged,

I couldn't believe I was out here,

Right within enemy range.

Our ship was carrying fuel

For much of the whole convoy,

If we'd gotten a direct hit,

All I can say is, whoo boy!

The ship in front of ours took a hit,

And so did the one right behind,

As I manned my position I wondered,

If I was going to lose my mind.

We didn't get hit that day,

We made it to the shore,

I did a two-year tour,

and later I did two more.

Many years after I wanted

To take my beautiful wife,

Over to France where I'd been,

We'd have the time of our life.

As we were planning, she asked me,

"Are we going by boat or by plane?"

And I said we'd fly 'cause "I never

want to see that much water again!"

(This poem is based on Ms. PA's story of her husband's service during WWII.  He really did tell her this, including that he never wanted to be surrounded by that much water again.)

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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 Becca's mom, Ms. A, is feeling better, she had Covid last week and i didn't get to take Becca to church.  We're going to make up for it this week!

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Today is:

Bad Poetry Day -- Wellcat Holidays suggests you get back at your high school English teacher for making you read all that "good" poetry; get together with friends, write some truly awful stuff, and mail it to him/her!

Krishna Janmashtami -- Hindu (birth of Lord Krishna)

Long Tan Day a/k/a Vietnam Veterans Day -- Australia

Mail Order Catalog Day -- the first one was published by Montgomery Ward this day in 1872, and was only one page (Do yourself a favor and opt out of the doggone things, save a few trees: www.catalogchoice.org )

National Ice Cream Pie Day

National Science Day -- Thailand

National Soft Ice Cream Day

Serendipity Day -- and it's here serendipitously! begun by writer Madeleine Kay, it's the day to step out of routine, do something you've always wanted to do, and see what happens

St. Agapitus' Day (Patron of Palestrina, Italy; against colic)

St. Helena's Day (Mother of Constantine the Great; Patron of archaeologists, converts, difficult marriages, divorced people, dyers, empresses, nail smiths, needle makers; Birkirkara, Malta; Helena, MT, US; against fire and thunder)

Toge-Pogling Season begins -- Fairy Calendar (Toges are normally pogled in groups of five or six, depending upon the size and strength of the individual Toge)

Birthdays Today:

Andy Samberg, 1978

Malcolm-Jamal Warner, 1970

Christian Slater, 1969

Edward Norton, 1969

Felipe Calderón Hinojosa, 1962

Madeleine Stowe, 1958

Patrick Swayze, 1952

Elayne Boosler, 1952

Martin Mull, 1943

Robert Redford, 1936

Roberto Clemente Walker, 1934

Roman Polanski, 1933

Luc Montagnier, 1932

Rosalynn Carter, 1927

Shelley Winters, 1920

Greta Garbo, 1905

Max Factor, 1904

Meriwether Lewis, 1774

Virginia Dare, 1587 (first English child born in the Americas)

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"Private Lives"(Play), 1930

"Iphigénie"(Racine's dramatic tragedy), 1674

Today in History:

Founding of the oldest known Roman temple to Venus, BC293

Rome is occupied and plundered by Visigoths under King Alarik I, 410

Death of Genghis Khan (fell from his horse), 1227

A Portuguese ship drifts ashore in the Japanese province of Higo, 1541

The Boston, Massachusetts Evening Post begins publishing, 1735

Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, 1834

Pierre Janssan discovers helium, 1868

German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright Brothers, 1903.

Mayor of Tokyo Yukio Ozaki presents Washington, D.C. with 2,000 cherry trees, which President Taft decides to plant near the Potomac River, 1909

A Great Fire in Thessaloniki, Greece destroys 32% of the city leaving 70,000 individuals homeless, 1917

19th US Amendment ratified (gives women the vote), 1920

Premier of The Wizard of Oz, 1939

The first commercially produced oral contraceptives are marketed, 1960

James Meredith becomes the first black person to graduate from the University of Mississippi, 1963

Steve Biko is arrested at a police roadblock under the Terrorism Act No 83 of 1967 in King William's Town, South Africa. He would later die of the injuries sustained during this arrest bringing attention to South Africa's apartheid policies, 1977

Massive power blackout hits the Indonesian island of Java, affecting almost 100 million people, 2005

Columbia's Chiribiquete National Park expands to 3 million hectares from 1.2 million hectares, becoming one of the Amazon's largest protected zones, 2013

Civilian researchers led by Paul Allen re-discover the USS Indianapolis 18,000 feet below the Pacific surface, 72 years after it was sunk by Japanese torpedoes, 2017

Food matter found in the 3,200-year-old tomb of Ptahmes, an official of Memphis, Egypt, is confirmed to be cheese, the oldest evidence yet of cheesemaking, 2018