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Thursday, December 14, 2023

His Dream (Six Sentence Story), Good Fences, Sammy’s Poetry Day and Brian’s Thankful Thursday

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He'd always dreamed of a place he could call his own, a bit of land for a farm, some cattle, a couple of pigs, a shop where he could tinker to his heart's content, and a small lake, but big enough for him to canoe and fish.


He raised his family in the city but bought his piece of land and went out there as often as he could, building a shop and barn, fixing up the old house, and sometimes taking the time for fishing.


After he retired and the kids were gone, he bought cattle and a couple of pigs, planted the fields and moved out there with his wife.


He took care of her until her death, and then remarried a widow who agreed to live out there with him, for he would be nowhere else.


His small holding brought him great joy, although it was never a big operation it was just right for him, tending the stock and growing some crops and tinkering in his workshop, and fishing on his own lake, canoeing on his lake, always loving his lake.


The place has long since been sold away, but i have very fond memories of Papa's little slice of heaven, which he called, "Lake Me Own."



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





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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:    






Santa knows no boundaries

he belongs to every child,

he'll get to any who believe

in ways ordinary or wild.


Sometimes he needs a little help

and many work together

to make sure he gets to everyone

no matter what the weather.



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Brian's Family of Brian's Home hosts Angel Brian's Thankful Thursday Blog Hop.   It's time to share something for which i am thankful.  


Today i am thankful we got to Ms. G's shelves yesterday before they collapsed.  She's had some overloaded shelving drawers in her "cat room" (litter box room) which is also the storage room and which we knew were not long for this world.  Yesterday we spent almost 6 hours offloading, cleaning the cat litter dust, putting together a huge, heavy duty shelving unit, and getting those now useless shelves out the door.






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Today is:


Ako Gishi sai -- Ako, Japan (traditional dances and warrior parades honoring the 47 Ronin)


Buy a Tree Day / Deck the Halls Day -- internet generated, and if you are going to decorate, why did you wait this long?


Christmas Bird Count begins -- sponsored by the National Audubon Society (through Jan. 5; since 1900, the longest-running wildlife census to assess the health of bird populations)


Free Shipping Day -- snoop around online to find retailers who are offering free shipping today and get some of those gifts you've been putting off    


Halcyon Days begin -- a time of calm and tranquility (beginning seven days before the winter solstice, lasting until December 28, seven days after the solstice; named for an ancient, fabled kingfisher bird [or halcyon], which hatches and raise her young during this time)


Icelandic Yuletide Lad of the Day, Stufur -- Shorty, who is also known as Ponneskefill, the pan-scraper, who will scrape food scraps from the pans left out


Khoiak Ceremony for Ploughing the Earth -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)


Monkey Day -- unofficial, by animal groups, to draw attention to the plights of simians kept in labs and as pets monkeyday.org


National Bouillabaisse Day


National Energy Conservation Day -- India


Precalentines Day -- an unofficial holiday for math lovers begun by a precalculus class at a Nova Scotia high school


South Pole Discovery Day -- thank you, Roald Amundsen


St. John of the Cross' Day (Patron of contemplative life, contemplatives, mystical theology, mystics, Spanish poets; Ta' Xbiex, Malta)


St. Spyridon's Day (Patron of Corfu, Greece, and potters)


 

Anniversaries Today:


Alabama becomes the 22nd US State, 1819

Princess Mary Stuart is crowned Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542



Birthdays Today:


Samantha Peszek, 1991

Vanessa Hudgens, 1988

Paul "Beakman" Zaloom, 1951

Bill Buckner, 1949

Dee Wallace Stone, 1948

Patty Duke, 1946

Jane Birkin, 1946

Ernie Davis, 1939

Leonardo Boff, 1938

Lee Remick, 1935

Charlie Rich, 1932

Don Hewitt, 1922

Shirley Jackson, 1919

Morey Amsterdam, 1914

Spike Jones, 1911

Margaret Madeline Chase Smith, 1897

James Harold Doolittle, 1896



Debuting/Premiering Today:


Saturday Night Fever(Film), 1977

Diamonds are Forever(Film), 1971

"Il Trittico"(Puccini opera), 1918



Today in History:


Osman ibn Affan is appointed the third kalief of Islam, 644

The Zuider Zee seawall collapses, 50,000 lives are lost in the floods that follow, 1287

The first artificial pearls, made of gypsum pellets covered with fish scales, are manufactured by M Jacquin in Paris, 1656

The Montgolfier brothers' first balloon lifts off on its first test flight, 1782

David Wilkinson of Rhode Island patents a machine that cuts nuts and bolts, 1798

The American Academy of Political and Social Science is organized in Philadelphia, 1889

The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from Ocean Beach, San Francisco to Honolulu, Hawaii, 1902

Norwegian Roald Amundsen becomes the first to reach the South Pole, 1911

Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Laos, Libya, Nepal, Portugal, Romania, Spain and Sri Lanka join the United Nations, 1955

The United Republic of Tanzania joins the United Nations. 1961

NASA's Mariner 2 becomes the first spacecraft to fly by Venus, 1962

Kiribati, Nauru and Tonga join the United Nations, 1999

The Millau viaduct, the tallest bridge in the world, near Millau, France is officially opened, 2004

China's first lunar rover, the Yutu, lands successfully on the Moon, 2013

The Vatican announces it has rediscovered the lost last paintings of Rafael, painted around 1520, in the Vatican Museum, 2017

The Walt Disney Company buys most of 21st Century Fox for $52.4 billion, 2017

The 85th Heisman Trophy is awarded to Joe Burrow of Louisiana State University; Burrow received the highest percentage of first place votes ever with 90.7%, 2019

A total solar eclipse is visible over parts of Chile and Argentina, 2020

15 comments:

  1. Love your six sentence story - and well done for your work at Ms G.'s.

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  2. Very good story. And very good poem. You're a good writer. What a long Garland there is on that fence.

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  3. What a great story about following your dream. Dreams may not come true over night, but they are all the more special if you have to work on them for years.

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  4. I'm celebrating Halcyon Days this year, I think. Lovely idea. And thank goodness you took care of Ms G's shelves in time!

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  5. That six sentence story was lovely, Mimi!

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  6. Love your Six! Santa's sleigh seems to have had a bit of an update!

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  7. Charlee: "Ooh, a Christmas bird count? How can we get involved in that? Also, we're allowed to snack on them while we're counting them, right?"
    Java Bean: "Wrong."
    Charlee: "Oh. Never mind then."

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  8. Nice story and poem. Good thankfuls too.

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  9. That was a good story and a very cute poem. A most excellent thankful too. Thanks for joining Angel Brian's Thankful Thursday Blog Hop!

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  10. Beautifully written story, Mimi. Loved it.
    No truer words than in your poem 😊

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  11. Lovely story, I like the name "Lake Me Own" . Great little poem too and I'm glad Ms. G now has sturdier shelves.

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  12. "Lake Me Own"... heartstrings plucked.

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  13. Such a TOTALLY perfect and sweet poem Mimi....Santa has access to all kinds of magic AND the United States Air Force too to get him where he needs to be.

    Hugs, Pam (and Teddy)

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  14. I really enjoyed both your poem and your little story. Have a great weekend.

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