Losing Lids, Losing Dryer Parts, Losing Minds, 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.  

Somehow i think Carl had a hard week.  Even his sock gave him fits.

The pants and the sock came off together, stuck quite firmly.

His shirt was already dirty when i arrived, so i shooed him back into his room to change.  He took the dirty shirt off, inside out of course, and dropped it on the bed.

As i'm looking for another clean shirt, i notice him digging around on his bed among all the other clothes there.  Then he grabs the same dirty shirt he just took off, only now it's inside out so he thinks it's clean and starts to put it back on.

Nope, i told him, that's the dirty one you just took off, here's a clean one.  After he had it on, i handed him is apron and made him wear it.

It's no wonder his poor mother kind of loses her mind.

Speaking of other lost stuff, i had to hunt for the lid to his lunch ice chest.

Naturally, it was over on the counter with the light fixture from his bathroom, because he can't keep the lid on the ice chest.  That would be logical.

No, i don't know why the light fixture was over there, but i moved it so i could clean.

Somehow Carl had also lost the plastic piece that fits over the lint screen in the dryer.

There should be a plastic piece over the screen at the front.

I finally found it.

I also found he's money laundering again.

He has to have the cleanest dollar bills in town.

He has often thrown clothes, clean or dirty or a mixture, in the top of his closet, and they are always on top of everything else up there.  Until this time.

This time, he had clothes sticking out from between the game boxes up there, i guess so it would stay.  We'll never know.

His refrigerator is always interesting.

Because his mom throws things away if they're not covered or don't have a lid, he has a fascinating way of making anything a cover or lid. The original cover or lid, if it had one, is long gone by the time he's putting something away.

This time he'd ended up with more on top of the fridge than usual.

Yes, more of his games.  He'd pulled them out for some reason and the top of the fridge seemed the best place to store them instead of putting them back.

I put them back before they got lost, too.

In honor of lost things, some funnies.

Have a blessed and beautiful Tuesday, everyone!

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Today is:

According to Hoyle Day -- death anniversary of Edmond Hoyle

Be Kind to Humankind Week:  Touch a Heart Tuesday 

Birthday of Hathor -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)

Chop Suey Day

Feast of the Beheading of St. John the Baptist (Patron of baptism, bird dealers, converts, convulsive children, cutters, epileptics, farmers, French Canadians, lambs, monastic life, motorways, printers, tailors; over 70 cities and countries around the world; against convulsions, epilepsy, hail and hailstorms, spasms)

     Head Day -- Iceland (a weather omen day; whatever today's weather, it will stay the same for at least 3 weeks)

Individual Rights Day -- on the birth anniversary of John Locke, the first philosopher to argue that a human being has basic rights based on his status as a sovereign human being, and that people are not slaves of their government, but their human rights should be protected by government

International Day Against Nuclear Testing -- UN

Judgment Day -- according to "The Terminator"

Lemon Juice Day

More Herbs, Less Salt Day

National Sarcoidosis Awareness Day -- US (by presidential proclamation in 1991)

Runic Half-Month Rad begins (Motion)

Slovak National Uprising Anniversary -- Slovakia

St. Medericus' Day (also called Saint-Merri or St. Merry, acclaimed as the Patron of the Right Bank of the Seine River in Paris)

Tvímánuðr -- Traditional Icelandic Calendar (the name means "Double Month", and the origin is uncertain; perhaps because winter is coming and it's time to double up on the preparations)

Birthdays Today:

Lea Michele, 1986

Rebecca De Mornay, 1962

Mark Morris, 1956

Michael Jackson, 1958

`Richard Gere, 1949

Robin Leach, 1941

William Friedkin, 1939

Elliot Gould, 1938

John McCain, 1936

Richard Attenborough, 1923

Charlie "Bird" Parker, 1920

Isabel Sanford, 1917

Ingrid Bergman, 1915

Preston Sturges, 1898

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., 1809

John Locke, 1632

Today in History

Era of Diocletian (Martyrs), the last major time of persecution for the early Christian churches, begins with Gen. Gaius Aurelius V Diocletianus Jovius becoming emperor of Rome, 284

Japan mints its first copper coins, 708

The last Incan King of Peru, Atahualpa, is executed by order of Francisco Pizarro, 1533

The first Indian "reservation" is formed by the New Jersey Legislature, 1758

Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction, 1831

The United Kingdom legislates the abolition of slavery in its empire, 1833

Treaty of Nanking signing ends the First Opium War, 1842

The first motorcycle is patented in Germany by Gottlieb Daimler, 1885

The chef of a visiting Chinese Ambassador invents "chop suey" in NYC, 1896

The Goodyear tire company is founded, 1898

The Quebec Bridge collapses during construction, killing 75 workers, 1907

Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California, 1911

The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, 1949

Speedy Gonzales makes his debut, 1953

The Beatles perform their last concert before paying fans at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, 1966

Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union suspends all activities of the Soviet Communist Party, 1991

Hurricane Katrina devastates much of the U.S. Gulf Coast, 2005

Sumatra's Sinabung volcano erupts for the first time in 400 years, killing one and causing Indonesia to evacuate thousands of people, 2010

London holds the opening ceremonies for the 2012 Summer Paralympics, 2012

Austrian researchers announce they successfully grew 'cerebral organoids' or mini-brains, containing several distinct regions of the brain; the mini-brains will help scientists understand how brains develop, and what causes schizophrenia and autism, 2013

Hurricane Harvey sets a rainfall record of 51.88 inches in Cedar Bayou the most ever from a tropical cyclone in continental US, according to US National Weather Service, 2017

John McCain lies in state in the rotunda of the Arizona State Capitol Building in Phoenix, only the third person ever to do so, 2018

Hurricane Ida makes landfall as a Category 4 storm near Port Fourchon, Louisiana, on the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, 2021