Easy? No, but I Did It. (Six Sentence Story), Good Fences, Sammy's Poetry Day and Brian's Thankful Thursday, an A to Z Post

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It was one of those times where I'm holding on by a thread, and by that same thin line, I managed to keep my mouth shut and not throw out an "I told you so!"

Years ago, Brother-in-Law was gifted a small, dorm size refrigerator, and he's no longer using it and thus is trying to rehome it; his bringing it up in conversation reminded Sweetie he hadn't defrosted his similarly sized fridge in quite a while.

After I'd spent a long day with Ms. G, he decided it was time for me to help him move the fridge out and defrost it right that very moment, no, it couldn't be done right where it was even though that's how it was done last time, no, it couldn't wait, yes, it needed to go to the porch, no, he couldn't leave it open overnight to thaw, get him the ice pick and hammer.

We all know where this goes, don't we, right where I knew it would go, with him demanding to attack it with an ice pick, clumsy as he is, not leaving it to me because i leave it to thaw for an hour first to make sure it won't be too hard and he couldn't possibly wait that long and a perfectly good refrigerator bit the dust.

Brother-in-Law was back at his apartment by this time and Sweetie called a friend with a truck to try to make arrangements to use the truck this Saturday to move the fridge and the friend said, "I have time right now" and the fridge is here, on the porch, and this time it's going to sit out there and thaw like the other one should have, we'll bring it in the house tomorrow.

It wasn't easy, but I held my tongue and maybe next time Sweetie will listen to me, but somehow I doubt it because, well, George Carlin always said it best.

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

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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!

I like the back yard of this house.

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

"I'm not sure I understand art," said a friend

as our group entered a nice gallery.

We gathered around the first exhibit,

she was looking at us expectantly.

"A person gets an idea," I said,

"and puts it into art in some form.

It might be painting, or sculpture or song

or a play for many people to perform."

"Then you come along," I continued,

"and experience that art in some way,

and in that experience, you decide

what you think the artist wants to say!"

"Is that how it works?" she asked us,

then, "But what if I don't get it right?"

"Art is a conversation," another chimed in,

"with no wrong answers, so no reason for fright."

We all went through the art gallery,

we all had a wonderful time,

and the friend who put her new knowledge to use

for her, it was most sublime!

(True story.)

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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 Brother-in-Law did have the extra small fridge he wanted to give away and the friend with the truck was available and willing to help us move it.

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Today is:

Act of Self Determination Day -- Cocos (Keeling) Islands

Animated Cartoon Day -- date of release, in 1908, of Humorous Phases of Funny Faces, often considered the first actual animated cartoon

Army Day -- US (by proclamation of FDR in 1942)

California Poppy Day -- California, US (state flower)

Chakri Dynasty Day and King Rama I Memorial Day -- Thailand

Drowsy Driver Awareness Day -- please pull over and take a nap when you need to

Full Pink Moon -- a/k/a Full Sprouting Moon, Grass Moon, Egg Moon, White Moon, Virgin Moon, and Fish Moon; in other traditions

     Bak Full Moon Poya Day -- Sri Lanka

     Tagu Full Moon -- Myanmar

Hanuman Jayanti -- Hindu (celebration of the birth of Lord Hanuman; local dates may vary)

International Day of Sport for Development and Peace -- UN (on the anniversary of the date of the opening of the first modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896)

Jump Over Things Day -- probably started by the same people who brought us Walk Around Things Day on the 4th; as if friends and family aren't looking at you strangely enough after that one

Maundy Thursday -- Christian (a/k/a Holy, Green, Chare, Sheer, or Shere Thursday; commemoration of the Last Supper)

     Procession of the Addolorata -- Taranto, Italy

Nafels Pilgrimage -- Canton Glarus, Switzerland (commemoration of the Battle of Nafels in 1388, observed with processions, prayers, sermon, and a reading of the names of those killed in battle)

National Alcohol Screening Day® 2023 -- US (if you or a loved one need help, find a way to get screened)  

National Caramel Popcorn Day

National Student Athlete Day -- US

New Beer's Eve -- US (unofficial celebration of the end of Prohibition; beer became legal to sell again on tomorrow's date in 1933)

North Pole Day -- Peary and Co. arrived there this day in 1909

Plan Your Epitaph Day -- figure out how you want to be remembered, and then live that way! (some sites celebrate this on Nov. 1)

President Ntaryamira Day -- Burundi (anniversary of assassination)

Sorting-Out of the Doggets Day -- Fairy Calendar

St. Sixtus' Day (Patron of Alatri, Italy)

Tartan Day -- Scottish diaspora of Canada and the US (anniversary of the Declaration of Arbroath in 1320)

Teflon Day --  Polytetraflouroethylene resin was developed by Roy J. Plunkett while working for  E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company in 1938

Theravada New Year -- Buddhist (through tomorrow; dates and length of celebration can vary locally)

Think About Spring Cleaning Day -- don't do it, just think about it

Twinkie Day -- the snack cakes that will never go away were invented on this day in 1930

Birthdays Today:

Candace Cameron, 1976

Zach Braff, 1975

Ari Meyers, 1969

Paul Rudd, 1969

Marilu Henner, 1952

John Razenberger, 1947

Barry Levinson, 1942

Philip Austin, 1941

Roy Thinnes, 1938

Merle Haggard, 1937

Billy Dee Williams, 1937

Andre Previn, 1929

James Watson, 1928

Gerry Mulligan, 1927

Lowell Thomas, 1892

Rose Schneiderman, 1882

Butch Cassidy, 1866

René Lalique, 1860

Raphael, 1483

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"Barney & Friends"(TV), 1992

Post-It Notes(first day of sale), 1980

"Entertaining Mr. Sloane"(Play), 1964

"Little Orphan Annie"(Radio series), 1931

"La Double Inconstance / Double Inconsistancy"(Play), 1723

Today in History:

Julius Caesar defeats Caecilius Metellus Scipio and Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the Younger) in the battle of Thapsus, BC46

The Roman army under the command of Stilicho stymies the Visigoths under Alaric in the Battle of Pollentia, 402

Charlemagne confirms his father Pepin the Short's "Donation of Pepin," which had established the Papal States, 774

King Richard I, The Lionheart, of England dies from an infection following the removal of an arrow from his shoulder, 1199

The Scots reaffirm their independence by signing the Declaration of Arbroath, 1320

The Italian poet Petrarch first sees his beloved Laura, 1327

At the Cape of Good Hope, Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp that eventually becomes Cape Town , 1652

An earthquake devastates Dubrovnik, then an independent city-state, 1667

Peter the Great of Russia ends the tax on men with beards in that country, 1722

Rama I succeeds King Taksin of Siam (modern day Thailand), who is overthrown in a coup d'état, 1782

The Committee of Public Safety becomes the executive organ of the republic in France, and the period known as the Reign of Terror begins, 1793

John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company, 1808

Celluloid, the first plastic, is patented, 1869

The city of Vancouver, BC, is incorporated, 1886

The Mormon Temple in Salt Lake City is dedicated, 1893

In Athens, the first modern Olympic Games are opened, 1,500 years after being banned by Emperor Theodosius I; James Connoly of the US becomes the first gold medalist of the modern games, 1896

The Kishinev pogrom forces thousands of Jews to seek refuge in Israel and the West, 1903

Robert Peary and Matthew Henson allegedly reach the North Pole, 1909

Governor Huey P. Long is impeached by the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1929

Mohandas Gandhi raises a lump of mud and salt and declares, "With this, I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire." Thus he starts the Salt Satyagraha, 1930

Launch of Early Bird, the first communications satellite to be placed in geosynchronous orbit, 1965

The American League of Major League Baseball begins using the designated hitter, 1973

Pakistan tests medium-range missiles capable of reaching India, 1998

Rolandas Paksas becomes the first president of Lithuania to be peacefully removed from office by impeachment, 2004

Scientists announce the discovery of three new animal species that spent their entire lives without oxygen, 2010

In England, lawmakers ban the display of tobacco products, hoping the move will lead to a reduction in the number of youths who smoke, 2012

The first baby with DNA from 3 parents through mitochondrial transfer is born in Mexico, 2016

NASA's InSight lander detects its first ever "Marsquake," a seismic event on Mars, 2019

Nadia, a tiger at the Bronx Zoo in New York City, tests positive for Covid19, the first known case of human-to-cat transmission, 2020