Full Heart, Empty Bottles, a Random and Happy Tuesday Post

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It's time once again for a random and happy Tuesday, linking up with Stacy's Random Thoughts at Stacy Uncorked and Sandee at Comedy Plus.  

Carl's car is still in the shop, so instead of going to his church this past Sunday, he attended ours with his parents.  He's a familiar figure there, and no one batted an eye when he came in with his shirt only half tucked in and wearing his camo work hat.  They know his heart is in the right place.  Yes, i gently suggested he either tuck the shirt all the way or untuck it, but he only laughed.

I spoke with him for a few minutes, reminding him i would be taking him to work Monday and he needed to make a sandwich so i could pack his bag quickly.  Becca and i offered to have him sit with us in the balcony, but he prefers the middle of the center pews downstairs.

A couple of times i've mentioned Ms. V emptied everything from under all the sinks and bottoms of closets for a thorough spraying by the pest control people.

Yes, almost all of it is still out.  Thus, Carl did not have a garbage bag in his garbage can again, and no wonder, the bags were not under the kitchen sink where he's used to finding them.

I took care of that first thing, then went to pack his lunch in the new lunchbox i finally found.  He's put it in a cabinet.

He had not made a sandwich, but i did find lots of large zip bags with tiny amounts of snacks in them.  I grabbed all of that and headed to the kitchen to put together a lunch and asked him what he wanted on his sandwich.

Gallon zip bag, five crackers.

"Why do I need one?" he asked, and i noted he might get hungry.

"I only work 'til 11," he said, and my response was, now you tell me!

I packed the box anyway, with several snacks and a cheese stick and a bottle of water, telling him he'd have all that to nosh on while waiting for his parents to pick him  up after work.  He seemed delighted with that idea.

On the way to work, he tried to tell me something about the weird Youtube video he'd watched, and something about a round robin game at the library.  I just let him chitchat and while i'm not sure exactly what he was talking about, he seemed glad to share and i was glad to listen.

When i got back, i continued cleaning and found a few things.  He's back to putting clothes in the top of the closet.

These might be clean and he didn't feel like actually hanging them up, or they might be dirty and he was taking his mother literally when she says, "Get everything off the floor so no one trips on it," and putting dirty stuff in a hamper is just too logical.

Then there was a new trick, two shirts on one hanger.

I'm not sure why that happened, as it's not like he doesn't have enough hangers.

Right before we left he'd sat on the floor to put his powder on his feet before putting socks and shoes back on.

When i picked the two containers up to put them away, both were completely empty.  Well, i guess it's the thought that counts, right?

In honor of things empty, a few funnies.

Have a blessed and beautiful Tuesday, everyone!

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Today is:

Day of the Living Children of Nut -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)

Feast of Epona -- Ancient Celtic Calendar (Rhiannon in Wales, Macha in Ireland, guardian goddess of horses, stables, horse owners, agriculture, and transportation; date approximate, and disputed, she was the only Celtic goddess worshipped by the Romans, and they celebrated her on December 18)

First-in-Line and Queue-Jumping Tournament -- Fairy Calendar

Ides of June -- Ancient Roman Calendar; related observances:

     Festival of Jupiter Invictus (Jupiter the Unconquered)

     Lesser Quinquartrus/Quinquatrus Minusculae (festival for those who played flutes at religious ceremonies; through the 15th)

Kitchen Klutzes of America Day

Magic Circles Day and Magic History Gathering -- marking the founding of The Magic Circle, a society of amateur and professional magicians 

Roller Coaster Day -- the world's first "Gravity Pleasure Switchback Railway", patented by LaMarcus Thompson, opened on this day in 1884 on Coney Island, at a cost of five cents per ride

Sewing Machine Day -- why this day is anyone's guess, but we must admit it's a useful invention

St. Anthony of Padua's Day, the "Hammer of Heretics" (Patron of amputees, animals, asses, boatmen, domestic animals, elderly people, expectant mothers, faith, fishermen, harvests, horses, mail, mariners, Native Americans, oppressed people, paupers, poor people, sailors, seeksers of lost objects, starving people, swineherds, Tigua Indians, travel hostesses, travellers, watermen; Amantea, Italy; Anzio, Italy; Brazil; Cianciana, Italy; Dorado, Puerto Rico; Favara, Italy; Ferrazzano, Italy; Giano Vetusto, Italy; Lisbon, Portugal; Nocolosi, Italy; Padua, Italy; Portugal; San Antonio Tiayacapan, Mexico; San Fulgencio, Spain; Sandia Indian Pueblo; against barrenness, shipwreck, starvation, and sterility)

     a municipal holiday in Lisbon, Portugal and parts of Spain

Weed Your Garden Day -- a reminder to get out there and do a little each day, so the little buggers don't get out of hand

World Pet Memorial Day -- some sites say this is always on June 10, others that it's always on the second Tuesday in June, but none can tell us where it came from or who started it that i can find

Anniversaries Today:

Mission San Luis Rey de Francia is founded, 1798

Martin Luther marries Katharina von Bora, 1525

Birthdays Today:

Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, 1986

Raz-B, 1985

Rivers Cuomo, 1970

Jamie Walters, 1969

Ally Sheedy, 1962

Tim Allen, 1953

Richard Thomas, 1951

Ban Ki-Moon, 1944

Malcolm McDowell, 1943

Siegfried Fischbacher, 1939

Christo, 1935

Paul Lynde, 1926

Ralph Edwards, 1913

Red Grange, 1903

Dorothy L. Sayers, 1893

Basil Rathbone, 1892

William Butler Yeats, 1865

Winfield Scott, 1786

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"The Closer"(TV), 2005

Roadie(Film), 1980

"Les vêpres siciliennes"(Verdi opera) 1855

Today in History:

Coronation of Alexander III as King of Scots, 1249

Ibn Battuta, who was to become the foremost world traveler of his day, seeing most of the known world in his time, begins his first hadj, 1325

Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain's North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves, 1774

Mission San Luis Rey de Francia  is founded, 1798

Meriwether Lewis and four companions sight the Great Falls of the Missouri River, 1803

A fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia, 1886

King Ludwig II of Bavaria is found dead in Lake Starnberg south of Munich at 11:30 PM, 1886

Yukon Territory is formed, with Dawson chosen as its capital, 1898

The University of the Philippines College of Engineering is established, the largest degree granting unit in the Philippines, 1910

Mir Mine, the first diamond mine in the USSR, is discovered, 1955

The United States Supreme Court rules in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them, 1966

Thurgood Marshall is nominated to become the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, 1967

Fahd becomes King of Saudi Arabia upon the death of his brother, Khalid, 1982

Pioneer 10 becomes the first man-made object to leave the solar system, 1983

President Kim Dae Jung of South Korea meets Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, 2000

The US withdraws from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, 2002

The Al Askari Mosque is bombed for a second time, 2007

A capsule of Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa returns to Earth with particles of asteroid 25143 Itokawa, 2010

The U.S. Supreme Court invalidates gene patents held by Myriad Genetics when it rules that isolated human genes are not patentable, 2013

Philae, the first spacecraft to land on a comet in the European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission, re-awakes after 7 months, 2015

Volkswagen is fined €1 billion (£880m) by German prosecutors over diesel emissions scandal, 2018

Archaeologists announce Scottish crannogs (fortified settlements on artificial islands in locks) are far older than first thought, as radiocarbon dating puts some of them as being older than Stonehenge, 2019

The world's largest freshwater fish, a stingray 3.98m x 2.2m is caught in the Mekong river, Cambodia, then tagged and released, 2022