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"Let's go in the other room and watch a movie," said Brother-in-Law to my Sweetie, his brother (and no, only i call him Sweetie, don't be ridiculous).
"Good idea," Sweetie answered, getting up and heading for his music/TV room.
"Don't you want to bring your phone with you?" Brother-in-Law asked.
"Nah," he answered, looking at me and grinning, "I'll just leave it here with my secretary!"
"Oooo!" said Brother-in-Law, while i gave my Sweetie the side-eye and asked, "Are you sure about that?"
He looked mischievous and said, "There will be consequences, but they'll be worth it!" as we all three laughed.
Linking up with Denise at Girlie On The Edge Blog, where she hosts Six Sentence Stories, and the cue is Consequences.
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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 poem:
Be kind to arachnids,
spiders are our friends.
Most of them won't hurt you,
their usefulness never ends.
They catch the icky, nasty bugs
that you don't want to see,
so when you see a spider web,
please just leave it be!
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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 i checked the online banking when i did, a bill came in 3 days early!
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Today is:
Abolition Day -- Mayotte
Babe Ruth Day -- anniversary of the day dedicated to him in 1947 by every ball field in the US and Japan
Freedom Day -- South Africa
Furze-Hopping Event -- Fairy Calendar
Independence Day -- Sierra Leone(1961); Togo(1960)(
King's Birthday / Koningsdag -- Kingdom of the Netherlands (Aruba, Curacao, Netherlands, and Sint Maartin); Bonaire, St. Eustatius, and Saba
Matanzas Mule Day -- remembering the only casualty of one of the first naval actions of the Spanish-American War, a mule in the village of Matanzas, Cuba
Morse Code Day -- birth anniversary of Samuel Morse
National Prime Rib Day
National Teach Children to Save Day -- sponsored by the American Banking Association
National War Veterans Day -- Finland
Poem in Your Pocket Day -- carry your favorite with you to share with friends and family to celebrate National Poetry Month
Resistance Day/Day of the Uprising Against the Occupying Forces -- Slovenia
St. Zita of Lucca's Day (Patron of butlers, domestic servants, homemakers, housemaids, lost keys, maids, manservants, people ridiculed for their piety, rape victims, servants, servers, single laywomen, waiters/waitpersons/waitresses; against losing keys)
Support Teen Literature Day -- US (on the Thursday of National Library Week)
Take Action for Libraries Day -- US (Sponsored by the ALA)
Tell a Story Day -- US (no history of origin, although celebrated in many libraries)
The Ennead Sail Through the Land -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)
World Graphic Design Day
Write An Old Friend Today Day -- a real letter, in the mail, remember how exciting it is to get those?
Anniversaries Today:
Ringo Starr marries Barbara Bach, 1981
Cornell University is established as New York's land grant institution, 1865
Birthdays Today:
Patrick Stump, 1984
William-Alexander, King of the Netherlands, 1967
Sheena Easton, 1959
Ace Frehley, 1951
Cuba Gooding, Sr., 1944
Earl Anthony, 1938
Sandy Dennis, 1937
Anouk Aimee, 1932
Casey Kasem, 1932
Coretta Scott King, 1927
Jack Klugman, 1922
Walter Lantz, 1900
Sergei Prokofiev, 1891
Jessie Redmon Fauset, 1882
Ulysses S. Grant, 1822
Samuel Morse, 1791
Mary Wollstonecraft, 1759
Edward Gibbon, 1737
Suleiman the Magnificent, 1495
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Chips with Everything"(Play), 1962
"Le roi de Lahore/The king of Lahore"(Opera), 1877
"Roméo et Juliette"(Opera), 1867
"L'africaine/The African Woman"(Meyerbeer Opera), 1865
Today in History:
Ferdinand Magellan is killed by natives in the Philippines led by chief Lapu-Lapu, 1521
Re-founding of the city of Bogotá, New Granada (now Colombia), by Nikolaus Federmann and Sebastián de Belalcázar, 1539
Cebu is established as the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines, 1565
The blind and impoverished John Milton sells the copyright of Paradise Lost for £10, 1667
The British Parliament passes the Tea Act, 1773
Beethoven composes Für Elise, 1810
US troops capture the capital of Upper Canada, York (present day Toronto, Canada), 1813
The Foundation stone for new Palace of Westminster, London, is laid, 1840
The establishment of Jewish congregations in Lower Austria is prohibited, 1857
The steamboat Sultana, carrying 2,400 passengers, explodes and sinks in the Mississippi River, killing 1,700, most of whom are Union survivors of the Andersonville and Cahaba Prisons, 1865
In South Africa, the Group Areas Act is passed formally segregating races, 1950
Togo gains independence from French-administered UN trusteeship, 1960
Sierra Leone is granted its independence from the United Kingdom, 1961
Expo 67 officially opens in Montreal, Canada, 1967
Xerox PARC introduces the computer mouse, 1981
The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, comprising Serbia and Montenegro, is proclaimed, 1992
Betty Boothroyd becomes the first woman to be elected Speaker of the British House of Commons in its 700-year history, 1992
Russia and 12 other former Soviet republics become members of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, 1992
The first democratic general election in South Africa, in which black citizens could vote is held, 1994
The last successful telemetry from the NASA space probe Pioneer 10 is received, 2002
The superjumbo jet aircraft Airbus A380 makes its first flight from Toulouse, France, 2005
Construction begins on the Freedom Tower for the new World Trade Center in New York City, 2006
Estonian authorities remove the Bronze Soldier, a Soviet Red Army war memorial in Tallinn, amid political controversy with Russia, 2007
The widows and children of Osama bin Laden are deported from Pakistan to Saudi Arabia, 2012
North Korea's Kim Jong-un and Moon Jae-in of South Korea agree to officially end the Korean war and rid the peninsula of nuclear weapons, 2018
Space-X launches its Crew Dragon capsule with four astronauts, including Jessica Watkins, the first African-American woman to serve an extended mission on International Space Station, 2022
I love the spiderweb and your poem is good too.
ReplyDeleteThat phone might go missing if it was left with me.
ReplyDeleteBrilliant shot of the spider web - and I love and agree with your poem.
Mimi... you got to watch a movie : Perfect Strangers (2017)
ReplyDeleteSpider poem...so, true; yet arachnophobia is not an easy one to overcome.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lOUnBsjGuY
ReplyDeleteHe will be lucky if the secretary doesn't sabotage the phone!
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful spider web but be careful!
ReplyDeletea smile showed up by the end of the sentences, invited friends by the beginning of the fourth.
ReplyDeletewe had fun reading your Six
I laughed too! I consider spiders to my pets.
ReplyDeleteI know that spiders are important in our world but I'm scared of them especially the large black ones. I quickly kill them. Sorry about that.
ReplyDeleteHave a great day Mimi.
Cruisin Paul
Wonderful and to the point poem of spiders. The fenced in pool is amusing - do they have a bunch of small children?
ReplyDeleteThat was a fun story and a really good poem. That was a good staying caught up thankful too. Thanks for joining our Thankful Thursday Blog Hop!
ReplyDeleteWonderful poem about the spiders and great fence photo ~ trying to comment from my email but may not work ~ will see Xo
ReplyDeleteWishing you good health, laughter and love in your days,
A ShutterBug Explores,
aka (A Creative Harbor)
That's a very pretty picture of a spiderweb.
ReplyDeleteBeing referred to as the secretary had me chuckling.
Love the story and the poem.
ReplyDeletePerfect poetry - spiders work so hard on their masterpieces and I never get tired of seeing the artistry!
ReplyDeleteHugs, Pam