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Thursday, September 7, 2023

What They Can’t Invent These Days (Six Sentence Story), Good Fences, Sammy’s Poetry Day and Brian’s Thankful Thursday

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"She invented what!?!"


"An Emergency Bra, it's a good support bra and you can take it off without removing your clothing, take it apart and reassemble it and each cup is a mask for personal protection with the straps holding it securely."  


"Was this a pandemic thing?"


"No, she started working on it after she worked with Chernobyl victims and then saw 9/11 footage of people using rags and their own clothing to protect themselves when running through dust and ash, she started thinking about what kind of clothing could work to help people in such a situation and came up with it.  This way in an emergency, you can have a protective mask without having to hold something to your face and she's even adapted it since and you can buy one with a radiation sensor or send them your favorite bras and they'll adapt them into Emergency Bras for you."


"Now I've heard everything!"



Linking up with Denise at Girlie On The Edge Blog, where she hosts Six Sentence Stories, and the cue is Cup.      





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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:    






I love my turn

on the rocker horse,

I hold on tight,

brother pushes, of course.


Then we trade,

it's fair that way,

we ride our horse

for fun each day.



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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 inexpensive carnations in a vase on my kitchen windowsill.  They are most cheerful.






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Today is:


Air Force Day -- Pakistan


Beer Lovers' Day -- ESPN began to broadcast on this day in 1979


Constitution Day -- Fiji


Feel the Love Day


Grandma Moses Day


Independence Day -- Brazil


Jeune Genevois -- Geneva, Switzerland (Genevan fast, dates back to the 16th century; now a flower and garden show also)


Lusaka Peace Agreement Day / Victory Day -- Mozambique


National Acorn Squash Day


National Attention Deficit Disorder Awareness Day -- US (by Senate proclamation in 2004)


National Napoleon Day (the dessert, not the general)


National Threatened Species Day -- Australia


Neither Snow Nor Rain Day -- celebrates the opening of the US Post Office in NYC on this day in 1914, which building has the famous inscription on it


Salami Day -- sponsored by salamiday.com


St. Cloud's Day (a/k/a Clodoald the Confessor; Patron of nail makers; St. Cloud, Minnesota)


St. Regina's Day (Patron of poor people, shepherdesses, torture victims)


Turn A Cartwheel in Public Day -- the internet has it out for us



Anniversary Today:


Sergey Brin and Larry Page incorporate Google, 1998



Birthdays Today:


Evan Rachel Wood, 1987

Devon Sawa, 1978

Angela Gheorghiu, 1965

Michael Feinstein, 1956

Corbin Bernsen, 1954

Chrissie Hynde, 1951

Julie Cavner, 1951

Susan Blakely, 1950

Gloria Gaynor, 1949

Richard Roundtree, 1942

Cuneyt Arkin, 1937

John Phillip Law, 1937

Buddy Holly, 1936

Don Messick, 1927

Peter Lawford, 1923

Jacob Lawrence, 1917

Anthony Quayle, 1913

Elia Kazan, 1909

Michael E. DeBakey, 1908

Grandma Moses, 1860

Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533



Debuting/Premiering Today:


"The Flying Nun"(TV), 1967

"Truth or Consequences"(TV), 1950



Today in History:


Traditionally, the solar eclipse date that marks the birth of Heracles of Thebes (Latin Hercules), BC1251

The Roman army under Titus occupies and plunders Jerusalem, 70

In the world's first submarine attack, the American submersible craft Turtle attempts to attach a time bomb to the hull of British Admiral Richard Howe's flagship HMS Eagle in New York Harbor, 1776

The "Troy Post" of NY first uses "Uncle Sam" to refer to the US, 1813

Last hold-up of Jesse James, 1881

Edith Eleanor McLean becomes the first baby in the US to be put in an incubator for premature infants, 1888

The Boxer Rebellion in China officially ends with the signing of the Boxer Protocol, 1901

Eugene Lefebvre (1878–1909), while test piloting a new French-built Wright biplane, crashes at Juvisy, France when his controls jam. Lefebvre dies, becoming the first 'pilot' in the world to lose his life in a powered heavier-than-air craft, 1909

The first day of the first Miss America Pageant is held in Atlantic City, NJ, 1921

Philo T. Farnsworth demonstrates the first use of television in San Francisco, 1927

The last surviving member of the thylacine species, Benjamin, dies alone in her cage at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania, 1936

Integration begins in Washington, D.c. and Baltimore, MD public schools, 1954

Desmond Tutu becomes the first black man to lead the Anglican Church in South Africa, 1986

A 5.9 magnitude earthquake rocks Athens, rupturing a previously unknown fault, 1999

Hurricane Ivan, a Category 5 hurricane, hits Grenada, killing 39 and damaging 90% of its buildings, 2004

The first presidential election is held in Egypt, 2005

The US Government takes control of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two largest mortgage financing companies, 2008

Canada closes its Iranian embassy and expels the Iranian diplomatic staff from their country, 2012

Tony Abbott becomes Prime Minister of Australia after the Liberal-National Coalition wins the election, 2013

Asteroid 2014RC makes a close approach to Earth, coming within 39,900km/24,800mi, 2014

British archaeologists announce the discovery of a Neolithic "superhenge" under three feet of earth at Durrington Walls, 2015

The 15th Summer Paralympics opens in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2016

The Indian Space Agency loses contact with its Chandrayaan-2 moon lander just 2 km from landing on the Moon's surface, 2019

El Salvador becomes the first country to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender, 2021

The journal "Nature" publishes about the discovery of the earliest evidence of surgery, a 31,000-year-old skeleton with an amputated lower leg, found in a cave in East Kalimantan, Borneo, 2022

21 comments:

  1. Love your cute poem.
    Am still thinking about the six sentence story...

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  2. That Spanish style home with that beautiful fence makes me wonder what kind of tropical garden is in the backyard.

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  3. Now we really have heard everything. Maybe if you lived in a place where it was likely you would need a mask at the drop of a hat, but otherwise, I think not.

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  4. Loved every fact! I always do. Now! I LOVED the invention! PERFECT! May it happen! :-) Seriously, got me laughing, still am. xx

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  5. A great six, and your poem is really sweet!

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  6. To slightly paraphrase your protagonist, "Now I've read everything ".
    Lol
    Fun Six

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  7. In Danish we have a saying: "You have to hear a lot before your ears drop off" (Meaning roughly the same as Now I've heard everything). I'll have to hold on to mine after reading this :)
    You wrote a sweet poem to the two pandas.

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  8. Great story and the poem is so cute.

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  9. Wonderful panda poem ~ adorable ~ xo

    Wishing you good health, laughter and love in your days,
    A ShutterBug Explores,
    aka (A Creative Harbor)

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  10. The picture of the panda riding a toy horse is adorable, and your poem complements it beautifully.

    I hope I didn't cause any offense in my last comment to you. I've been having a hard time health-wise and sometimes feel overwhelmed. I will be publishing the two Memes I did for you, tomorrow. I hope you like them, and won't hesitate to send a picture my way every now and then.

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  11. That was quite the interesting story and a good invention. Darn cute poem too and a very pleasant thankful. Thanks for joining our Thankful Thursday Blog Hop!

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  12. Great story- that is a good idea. And a very cute poem. XO

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  13. The corners of my mouth have not yet returned from their expedition to my ear-lobes.

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  14. Appreciate the link, Mimi. Seeing is believing!
    Pandas are the cutest.
    Carnations always create a bright spot.

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  15. Is that six for real?
    The panda is super-cute!

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  16. Fun Six, Mimi, and the pandas are so cute 🐼🐼

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  17. A totally sweet poem for Angel Sammy's Poetry Day - pandas just SCREAM "fun" and "adorable" don't they!!

    Hugs, Pam

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  18. I had to Google those bras! Amazing! And such a cute, cute picture and poem! Whenever I think of wooden horses (or something similar) I think of my Dad singing, "Two Little Boys". I LOVED that song! I can hear him singing it still...

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