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She started to head into the bathroom but stopped short when she noticed what he was doing.
She had to stifle a giggle as he was standing on the scale and sucking in his stomach as he looked down.
"I don't think it works that way," she said with a huge grin.
"I know that!" he snapped as he turned to look at her. "I'm having to suck in my stomach so I can see the numbers. And I tell you what, those doggone kids better quit leaving so many leftovers on their plates!"
Linking up with Denise at Girlie On The Edge Blog, where she hosts Six Sentence Stories, and the cue is Scale.
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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!
Sometimes, you don't replace the fence, you just repair it.
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It's Angel Sammy's Poetry Day! This week's image and my poem:
My new husband's no mechanic,
it's how I earn my daily bread,
when I find out which "friend" pulled this prank,
I'm going to have his head!
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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 for garbage and recycle pick up. Many people in our area are complaining as the price has gone up a bit and some of the collection rules have changed (things that used to be free pick-up now have a nominal charge), but i am too grateful to not have to schlepp my own garbage to the dump every week to complain. I'm just thankful we have the service and it gets most of everything.
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Today is:
Be Kind to Humankind Week: Thoughtful Thursday
Daffodil Day -- Australia (the Cancer Council's big fundraiser) http://www.daffodilday.com.au
Day of Solidarity and Freedom -- Poland (Anniversary of the 1980 August Agreement)
Eat Outside Day -- as long as you won't pass out from the heat
Eleusinia Games -- Ancient Greek Calendar (date approximate; 3 days of games with grain as prizes)
Festal Day -- Order of the Eastern Star
Independence Day -- Kyrgyzstan(1991); Malaysia (Hari Kebangsaan/Freedom Day, 1957); Trinidad & Tobago(1962)
International Day of Blogs and Bloggers
International Overdose Awareness Day -- dedicated to prevention and remembrance
Invent A New Sandwich Day -- spread around the internet like good mayo; go ahead, have fun with this
Limba Noastra -- Moldova (Day of Our Language)
Love Litigating Lawyers Day -- yes, G-d tells us to love everybody, even litigation attorneys but He never said doing it would be easy; sponsored by Wellcat Holidays
National Trail Mix Day
St. Raymond Nonnatus' Day (Patron of babies, childbirth, children, expectant mothers, falsely accused people, infants, midwives, newborn babies, obstetricians, and pregnant women; Baltoa, Dominican Republic; against fever)
Urs Festival of Hazrat Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai -- Sindh, Pakistan (the grand three-day festival of Sindh, celebrating this famous Sundhi Sufi scholar, mystic, and saint)
Birthdays Today:
Jeff Hardy, 1977
Chris Tucker, 1972
Debbie Gibson, 1970
Glenn Tilbrook, 1957
Edwin Corley Moses, 1955
Richard Gere, 1949
Itzhak Perlman, 1945
Van Morrison, 1945
Jack Thompson, 1940
Marva Collins, 1936
Frank Robinson, 1935
James Coburn, 1928
Buddy Hackett, 1924
G.D. Spradlin, 1920
Alan Jay Lerner, 1918
William Saroyan, 1908
William Shawn, 1907
Arthur Godfrey, 1903
Maria Montessori, 1870
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Alice"(TV), 1976
"The Great Gildersleeve"(Radio), 1941
"The Threepenny Opera/Die Dreigroschenoper"(Play), 1928
Today in History:
Traditional date upon which Ayonwentah (Haiwatha) and Deganawidah (The Great Peacemaker) assist the Iroquois tribes in establishing the Confederation of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederacy, or League of Five Nations), 1142
Lewis and Clark begin their expedition, 1803
A nuts and bolts machine is patented by Micah Rugg, 1842
The first professional football game is played in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, 1895
Edison patents the Kinetograph, 1897
Mrs. Adolph Landenburg, a horse rider, debuts the split skirt, 1902
Debut of Foghorn Leghorn, 1946
Solidarity Labor Union forms in Poland, 1980
Diana, Princess of Wales, her companion Dodi Al-Fayed and driver Henri Paul die in a car crash in Paris, 1997
Stolen on August 22, 2004, Edvard Munch's famous painting The Scream is recovered in a raid by Norwegian police, 2006
In Sudan, the People's Liberation Army announces it will demobilize its child soldiers by the end of the year, 2010
A 19-year-old Indonesian man is rescued after 49 days at sea on his floating fishing trap, 2018
Mary Peltola becomes the first Alaskan Native to be elected to US Congress, 2022
US life expectancy falls to its lowest level since 1996 (76.1 years vs. 79 years in 2019), with COVID-19 thought to be the main contributing factor, 2022
Love your six sentence story and your poem. And yes, I am grateful to our garbos too.
ReplyDeleteGood ones, Mimi!
ReplyDeleteLove your six sentence, but wonder if he knows he doesn't have to eat the leftovers :)
ReplyDeleteWe no longer have free roadside pick up, there is a council fee and you get a sticker which must be placed on an item easily seen. The problem there is one person schedules and pays for a pickup and the rest of th street adds to the pile!
Always good to begin the day with a smile. Thank you, Mimi!
ReplyDeleteThe thought of sucking in your stomach to make your weight less on the scale made us laugh!
ReplyDeleteRepairing a fence is half an offence.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
LOL about the scale. Great poem too.
ReplyDeleteFun poem ~ great thankful and neat post and photos ~ Xo
ReplyDeleteWishing you good health, laughter and love in your days,
A ShutterBug Explores,
aka (A Creative Harbor)
The second sentence had me SOL!*
ReplyDelete*Smiling Out Loud
Your story is so funny, I can picture the scene - though I wish I couldn't! Love the poem too.
ReplyDeleteOh yeah, blame it on the kids - LOL! We fix our fence too - not worried about the aging of the boards matching, just that it does it's job.
ReplyDeleteThat's a cute story, I can relate a bit to one part. You're poem was fun too, purrfect for that photo. That's a good thankful too, dump trips are no fun. Thanks for joining our Thankful Thursday Blog Hop!
ReplyDeleteCute story and great poem.
ReplyDeleteThat bride's "friend" has it coming for him once he's to get married, I guess.
ReplyDeleteFixing or mending instead of replacing has my total support. I like to see how the nw boards weather and in a few years magically do not look new and out of place any more.
We are lucky to have scales that keep on showing the number for a bit after you step off it. Nice for pregnant and/or nearsighted MotherOwl ;)
Yeah. Those kids...
ReplyDeleteLove the poem and the picture!
Sign of a life well lived😉
ReplyDeleteHiya, Mimi.
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