Don't Worry, I Won't (WordlessWednesday) and Words for Wednesday, an A to Z Post

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Words for Wednesday was begun by Delores and has become a moveable feast of word or picture or music prompts to encourage us to write stories, poems, or whatever strikes our fancy.    

Thank you to Susan Kane for providing the prompts last month, and to River for posting them.          

This month, the prompts are being provided by Teresa.     

This week’s prompt list is:

• sister 
• warning
• assignment
• angry
• tourist 

Optional word list to use however you wish or not at all: 

• large 
• quest 
• blackmail 
• blunder
• notebook 

Charlotte/Mother Owl's color of the month is Reseda Green (a grayish green).

"SISTER, let me give you a fair WARNING," Amalee said, which Jen met with a wry smile.  She loved Amalee and couldn't help smiling when she started a sentence that way.

Amalee, seeing the smile, had stopped.

"Go on," Jen said.

With a sigh coming from her toes, Amalee continued.  "I'm really concerned, and you can laugh all you want.  I'm afraid this ASSIGNMENT is only going to end with an ANGRY TOURIST wanting to haul us into court."

"Over what, exactly?" Jen asked.  "Over giving them exactly the kind of tour they asked for?"

Amalee still didn't look too happy about it all, but Jen continued.

"Look, we have a small business, and I know we don't necessarily want it to become a LARGE business, but we are on a QUEST to grow it some.  Branching out like this is a way to make it happen."

"And if they give us lousy reviews online?" Amalee asked.

"Ah," said Jen, "there's the rub, the BLACKMAIL of 'giving a bad review.'  Yes, it could happen, but it can happen anyway, from anyone, at any time, for any reason.  We can only try, and if we end up going bust in this endeavor what's the worst that happens?  We go back to the old nine-to-five grind?  I'm willing to take the chance.  Are you?"

It was Amalee's turn to give a weak grin, a poor imitation of Jen's.

"All right, what can it hurt," she said.

"Good!" said Jen.  "Now so I don't have to BLUNDER my way through it this first time and forget half of what we were going to do and what I was going to tell them, hand me my NOTEBOOK -- no, not the flame red, the green, the RESEDA GREEN -- so we can get out of here."

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Today is:

Babu Jagivan Ram's Birthday -- Andhra Pradesh, India

Bell Bottoms Day -- remember those? apparently so did someone who wanted to celebrate the fact

Easter Island Day -- anniversary of the "discovery" of the Island in 1722, on Easter Sunday of that year

Fringe Fairies Welcome Party -- Fairy Calendar

Go for Broke Day -- take a risk, and make it count!  step out and do something extraordinary; anniversary of the day in 1945 that a US Army unit made up of almost all Japanese-Americans, the 442nd Regimental, went for broke and managed to break through the Nazi Gothic line in Italy in one day

Lady Luck Day -- in honor of the Roman festival of Fortune held each year on this date

National Caramel Day

National Dandelion Day

National Day of Hope -- US; recognizing victims of child abuse and neglect, a day to recommit to make the world safe for children

National Deep Dish Pizza Day -- anniversary of the day in 1979 that Uno Chicago Grill, originator of the deep dish pizza, first opened a restaurant outside the Chicago area

National Raisin and Spice Bar Day

National Walking Day -- US 

Nones of April -- Ancient Roman Calendar; also

     Fortuna Publica -- festival of Fortune in her role as the Luck of the People

Paraprofessional Appreciation Day -- honoring the contributions of paraprofessionals everywhere

Pesach/Passover -- Judaism (began yesterday evening, through the evening of April 13)

Quing Ming Jie -- China; Hong Kong; Macau; North Korea; Taiwan (Tomb Sweeping Day, last day of the Quingming Festival)(a/k/a Festival of Clear Brightness, Festival for Tending Graves, Grave Sweeping Day, Chinese Memorial Day, Tomb Sweeping Day, Spring Remembrance, and All Souls Day (not to be confused with the Roman Catholic holiday of the same name); the festival includes kite flying and rituals to call the spring rains, as well as cleaning the graves of ancestors and offering them gifts)

Saint Vincent Ferrer's Day (Patron of brick makers, builders, construction workers, pavement workers, plumbers, tile makers; of Calamonaci, Italy; Casteltermini, Agrigento, Italy; Leganes, Philippines)

Sikmogil -- South Korea (Arbor Day)

Anniversary Today:

John Rolfe marries Pocahontas, 1614

Birthdays Today:

Mitch Pileggi, 1952

Agnetha Faltskog, 1950

Max Gail, 1943

Michael Moriarty, 1942

Judith A. Resnik, 1949

Colin Powell, 1937

Frank Gorshin, 1934

Roger Corman, 1926

Gale Storm, 1921

Gregory Peck, 1916

Bette Davis, 1908

Spencer Tracy, 1900

Booker T. Washington, 1856

Joseph Lister, 1827

Elihu Yale, 1649

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"The Secret Garden"(Musical), 1991

"Married . . . with Children"(TV), 1987

"Secret Agent"(TV), 1961

"Fireside Theatre"(TV), 1949

"Pavane pour une infante défunte"(Ravel piano solo, Pavane for a Dead Princess), 1902

"Die Fledermaus"(Operetta), 1874

The Symphony No. 2 in D major(Beethoven Op. 36), 1803

Today in History:

St. Patrick returns to Ireland as a missionary bishop, 456

Two hundred Dutch noblemen petition to have the Spanish Inquisition suspended in the Netherlands, 1566

The Daimyo (Lord) of the Satsuma Domain in southern Kyushu, Japan, completes his successful invasion of the Ryukyu Kingdom in Okinawa, 1609

The Native American Indian princess Pocahontas, daughter of Chief Powhatan, marries Englishman John Rolfe, 1614

Jacob Roggeveen discovers Easter Island, 1722

The first recorded meteorite in Scotland falls in Possil, 1804

Helen Keller learns her first word, "water," from Anne Sullivan, 1887

The Greco-Turkish War, also called "Thirty Days' War", is declared between Greece and the Ottoman Empire, 1897

Archaeologists in Knossos, Crete, discover a large cache of clay tablets with hieroglyphic writing in a script they call Linear B, 1900

Firestone Tire and Rubber Company begins production of balloon-tires, 1923

In an act of civil disobedience, Mohandas Gandhi breaks British law after marching to the sea and making salt, 1930

In the Dominion of Newfoundland, 10,000 rioters seize the Colonial Building leading to the end of self-government, 1932

Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are sentenced to death for espionage, 1951

Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the UK because of failing health, 1955

Ripple Rock, an underwater threat to navigation in the Seymour Narrows in Canada is destroyed in one of the largest non-nuclear controlled explosions of the time, 1958

In Japan, the Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge linking Shikoku with Honshu, the largest suspension bridge in the world, opens, 1998

North Korea launches its controversial Kwangmyongsong-2 rocket, 2009

SkyNews admits it illegally hacked emails that belonged to members of the public on two separate occasions, 2012

San Francisco becomes the first US city to mandate paid parental leave, 2016

Italy scraps its 1914 film censorship law that could ban films on moral and religious grounds, 2021