Thursday, December 29, 2022

You Never Know (Six Sentence Story), Good Fences, Sammy's Poetry Day and Brian's Thankful Thursday

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My assignment at Ms. G's every Wednesday is a roll of the dice, you never quite know what you're going to get.


Yesterday as i walked in, it did not surprise me at all when she said, "We have to go back out of town today, we're picking up more of those blankets, they're distributing to the 'Grandparents Raising Grandchildren' event."


We made the hour drive out to the warehouse, Ms. G on the phone the whole time as she called for a hairdresser appointment -- "She didn't cut it short enough last week!" -- spoke to a fellow animal rescue worker, and called the state police troop headquarters located in the parish we drove to in order to report a pickup truck with garbage flying out of the back, as she has every state police number on her phone and is a local police community liaison board member.


The warehouse was humming like a hive of bees as one crew was trying to repair the plumbing damage from a pipe that burst in the cold and others were moving and packing and shifting items for distribution to other places.  They loaded us up with about 200 blankets and throws, then handed us bottles of laundry detergent, bottles of dishwashing liquid, and rolls of paper towels for out own use!


"We gotta take care of the community volunteers who help move stuff out," Mr. Dale told us with a wink as we thanked him for thinking of us, "it keeps you coming back!"



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





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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!


More holiday fences, before they disappear for the year.







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





There's no doubt about it, we partied quite a bit,

Music was great, crowd was wild, it really was a hit.

It was one of those quite crazy nights that proves who is a friend,

One who'll stick around with you until the bitter end.

I have a good friend, I've already called, with bail money he will run,

But my really best friend is next to me saying, "Didn't we have fun!"


(I couldn't resist, as i do like the line, "A good friend will bail you out of jail, a great friend is sitting in the cell with you saying, 'Boy, howdy, wasn't that a good time!'")



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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 the winter cold has moderated here for a while, also that i now have laundry detergent, dishwashing detergent, and paper towels.






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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


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

The American weather satellite NOAA-20 records the coldest ever temperature of -111C at the top of a storm in the western Pacific, 2018

19 comments:

  1. Ms G sounds like a total dynamo. Wonderful energy for great causes.

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  2. “You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.” – Kahlil Gibran

    Happy New Year, Mimi!

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  3. So much fascinating stuff to read through. You are a veritable fount of knowledge :-)

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  4. Wow, that is a lot of blankets and other stuff. That woman is obviously a well known person in the community.

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  5. Festive fences. Thank you.

    God bless, Mimi.

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  6. What busy bees you all were. I like that jail/bail line!

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  7. There are so many helping those in need. It warms my heart.

    I'd be sitting in jail with you. That's how I roll.

    I love your thankful. Made me smile.

    Have a blessed Thankful Thursday, my friend. Love and hugs. ♥

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  8. You always have a tale to tell. May this never finish. I love your poem, and I did not know that saying.

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  9. What an adventure, and such a good cause - I've just recently heard about that organization and think it is a wonderful idea.

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  10. Smiling at your thankfuls ~ great photos and I am 'sitting in the cell' with you ~ Happy New Year ~ Xo

    Wishing you good health, laughter and love in your days,
    A ShutterBug Explores,
    aka (A Creative Harbor)

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  11. Phew! I got tired just reading about your day with Ms. G! She sounds like a real powerhouse.

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  12. That was quite the story and an excellent poem too, funny friends! All great thanfuls, thanks for joining our Thankful Thursday Blog Hop!

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  13. Sounds like a great program. Good job on the poem- so true about best friends. XO

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  14. 200 blankets! Did you hire a farm wagon? Surely 200 wouldn't fit in one car? I like when people help out others like this.

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  15. Mimi, the 6 sentences ROCK! (as do you!) The fences are cool and I LOVE your Poem! Keep being awesome! Purrs Marv and Mom

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  16. We should all have a Ms. G in our lives. Never a dull moment, lol
    Poem, of course, reminded of a few wild New Year's thankfully none being spent in jail 😆
    When the cold subsides, there's a definite change in mood. Enjoy!

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  17. Just a fantastic read, Mimi, from top to bottom. And there simply aren't enough Mrs. G's in the world! Happy New Year!

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