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Wednesday, May 10, 2023

That's Some Attitude (Wordless Wednesday) and Words for Wednesday

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Linking up with Wordless Wednesday, BeThere2Day, and Sandee at Comedy Plus.     






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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.    


This month, the prompts are being provided by David M Gascoigne and they will be posted by Elephant's Child.         


This week's prompts are:

 

  • Little
  • Application
  • Care
  • Companionship
  • Father
  • Only


and/or


  • Farm
  • Progress
  • Hedgerow
  • Wet
  • Distinguished
  • Industrial

 

 Charlotte/Mother Owl's color of the month is May green, if we wish to use it.



"With a LITTLE APPLICATION of CARE, fertilizer, and plenty of water to keep the ground nice and damp, not soaking WET, we will have a beautiful May Green HEDGEROW around this side of the garden!"


The older man looked down at his grandson, who was staring up at him with big eyes.


The young lad's FATHER wasn't interested in the gardening.  He'd left the FARM and gone to college, as so many do, DISTINGUISHED himself in his studies and gone into the INDUSTRIAL sector.


The elder was concerned, not enough young people loved the land and wanted to farm.  He saw what many termed PROGRESS as nothing more than progressing to a desk job and leaving the hard but fulfilling work of growing food to others.  As those others were getting old, he was starting to wonder where all those people who'd wanted progress were going to get anything to eat in the future.


Maybe, he hoped, the boy would pick up a love of the land, starting with this garden.  The child had enjoyed digging and planting in the rows, never mind they weren't straight as an arrow, and he'd really enjoyed the child's COMPANIONSHIP.


He could ONLY try, and enjoy the time doing so.


(Two notes about the above.


First, on EC's blog, both lists contained the word "care," but i think that was a glitch between her and the prompt giver, as his story in her comments section includes the word "wet" in uppercase.  I have substituted "wet" in the second set, with my apologies if i was wrong.


Second, in the USA, the average age of a farmer is 65, and rising.)



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Today is:


Clean up Your Room Day -- one of those holidays that no one knows how it got started, but it's a good idea, especially if your house is decorated by teens in "Recently Ransacked" style!


Constitution Day -- Federated States of Micronesia


Donate a Day's Wages to Charity Day 2023  


Golden Spike Day -- finishing the first US Transcontinental Railroad in 1869


Mother's Day -- Belize; El Salvador; Guatemala; Mexico (always May 9 in these countries)


National Nightshift Workers Day/Third Shift Workers Day -- US (remembering those intrepid souls who keep things running smoothly through the night)


National Receptionist Day -- US (because that first impression is important; National Receptionists Association)


National School Nurse Day -- US (the school nurse is there to help! 


National Shrimp Day


Occupational Safety and Health Professionals Day -- US    


St. Cathal's Day (Patron of blind people, drought relief, epileptics, paralyzed people; Taranto, Italy; against blindness, drought, epilepsy, hernias, paralysis, plagues, storms)


St. Father Damien of Moloka'i's Day (Patron of lepers, outcasts, those with HIV/AIDS; Hawaii)


St. Job the Patriarch's Day (Patron against depression and ulcers)


Trust Your Intuition Day -- practice, and you'll get better at it


World Lupus Day   




Birthdays Today:


Kenan Thompson, 1978

Amanda Borden, 1977

Jason Brooks, 1966

Paul "Bono" Hewson, 1960

Phil and Steve Mahre, 1957

Donovan, 1946

Dave Mason, 1946

Marie-France Pisier, 1944

Judith Jamison, 1943

Gary Owens, 1936

Barbara Taylor Bradford, 1933

Pat Summerall, 1930

Ara Raoul Parseghian, 1923

Nancy Walker, 1922

T. Berry Brazelton, 1918

"Mother" Maybelle Carter, 1909

David O. Selznick, 1902

Fred Astaire, 1899

Max Steiner, 1888

Karl Barth, 1868

George Ross, 1730

Emperor Fushimi of Japan, 1265

Emperor Claudius, 213



Debuting/Premiering Today:


Twister(Film), 1996

"The Rest of the Story"(Radio), 1976

Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major(Shostakovich Op. 102), 1957



Today in History:


The Roman armies under Titus open a full scale assault on Jerusalem, 70

Vienna's church orders all Jews to wear a distinctive garb, 1267

Scottish nobles recognize authority of English king Edward I, 1291

Amerigo Vespucci allegedly leaves on a voyage to the New World, 1497

Christopher Columbus "discovers" the Cayman Islands, 1503

Jacques Cartier visits Newfoundland, 1534

Scottish Protestants under John Knox uprise against queen-mother Mary, 1559

England forcefully annexes Jamaice from Spain, 1655

Benjamin Franklin first tests the lightning rod, 1752

Louis XVI becomes King of France, 1774

The Barbary pirates of Tripoli declare war on the United States of America, 1801

New York City banks fail, and unemployment reaches record levels, 1837

In India, the first war of Independence begins, 1857

The First Transcontinental Railroad, linking the eastern and western United States, is completed at Promontory Summit, Utah (not Promontory Point, Utah) with the golden spike, 1869

Romania declares itself independent from Turkey, 1877

The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Nix v. Hedden that a tomato is a vegetable, not a fruit, under the Tariff Act of 1883, 1893

The first Mother's Day is observed, 1908

J. Edgar Hoover is appointed Director of the FBI, 1924

First successful launch of a V-2 rocket at White Sands Proving Ground, 1946

Bill Haley & His Comets release "Rock Around the Clock", the first rock and roll record to reach number one on the Billboard charts, 1954

The nuclear submarine USS Triton completes Operation Sandblast, the first underwater circumnavigation of the earth, 1960

The Federated States of Micronesia  becomes self-governing, 1979

François Mitterrand becomes the first Socialist President of France in the French 5th republic, 1981

Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa's first black president, 1994

Deadliest day on the mountain: a rogue storm on Everest claims 8 lives, including experienced climbers, 1996

The Maeslantkering, a storm surge barrier in the Netherlands that is one of the world's largest moving structures, is opened by Queen Beatrix, 1997

Solicitor General Elena Kagan is the youngest Justice and third woman nominated for the Supreme Court of the United States, 2010

Microsoft announces plans to purchase Skype, 2011

An Indian fertility clinic announces that a 70 year old woman has successfully gave birth to a baby boy, 2016

The United States Geological Survey releases a report saying that some glaciers in Montana have receded by 85% in the last 50 years, 2017

Mahathir Mohamad is sworn in as the seventh Prime Minister of Malaysia, the world's oldest leader at 92, 2018

Taxi service Uber becomes a publicly traded company, 2019

Prince Charles delivers the Queen's Speech at the state opening of the UK parliament for the first time, 2022

16 comments:

  1. Thank you - and you were not wrong about the glitch. I don't know what the average age of farmers is here - and hope it isn't that high. I fear it might be.

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  2. I like your story and hope the little boy does take up farming. Someone needs to grow the food to feed the chickens that supply the eggs...

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  3. IKEA would like that sign LOL :-)

    Have a doityourselftastic week 👍

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  4. Do it yourself. Good motto.

    God bless.

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  5. If only some people would go ahead and do it themselves, things would get none quicker and maybe even better if they used a little elbow grease.

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  6. Farming is a hard life and it has to be something you do because you love it. Mom always prefers to do things herself because then she knows they are done.

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  7. Yep, if you want it done right, you gotta hold close to heart the "Do It Yourself" motto because that's the only way it's gonna happen. :)

    I enjoyed your story and makes me wonder as well about future generations to come. Where will the food come from if not maintained across America? I prefer my food products to come from within the country. It's bad enough most everything else is imported.

    Have a happy WW!

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  8. I think the average age of UK individual farmers is pretty old but so much land is now owned by conglomerates who employ people without the same sort of connection with the land. I think land is just too expensive for young people to buy now

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  9. Do it yourself is a good thing. Been doing that all my life.

    I love your use of the prompts. Always so entertaining.

    Thank you for joining the Wordless Wednesday Blog Hop.

    Have a fabulous Wordless Wednesday. Big hug. ♥

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  10. Nice story. Sadly, there is no money in farming so no one wants to work so hard for so little. XO

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  11. I loved your story. Yes we need farming, I don't understand people who think a magic bean may appear to feed them! Good Lord we can not trust those in high places. All farmers I know, I respect. My husbands uncle Bud is still farming and he is 94! He is the most youthful man I ever met. Its called hard work and breathing fresh air! Tipping my hat to all farmers.

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  12. Farmers are more deserving then most in this wasky world of ours. My sister-in-law Joyce grew up on a farm. Her dad planted corn and moonlighted as a janitor at the local high school. My friend's husband attended Yale. Says now he has had to spend his entire life unlearning all the lies he was taught. He is a 4th generation farmer. He & his wife and children farm together.

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  13. That was a good story. Hey, I've know several people who needed that desk sign.

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  14. Great job with those prompts, Mimi. Sometimes I wish I had that sign on my desk at work for certain folks to read. LOL

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  15. Thats a sign I can relate to! A great story - never mind they weren't straight as an arrow!

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  16. That sign might be a little off-putting!

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