Thursday, February 1, 2024

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

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You can ask me to do almost any job at rEcess, our once-a-month fun nights for special needs kids so their parents can get out for an evening, and note i did say "almost."


Coordinate the meal for volunteers, pick it up, warm it or cook it, serve it, clean up after it -- sure.


Do one-on-one with a special needs child for the night, from the youngest to the oldest -- yep.


Change diapers, give meds, deal with feeding tubes and wheelchairs -- you got it.


Do the set-up before and clean-up after -- on it.


Crafts coordinator -- hold your horses, there, unless you want a glut of glitter, a glob of glue and a craft paper pile-up, trust me, it's the one job where you want to keep me far, far away as there isn't a crafting spot in me anywhere.



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





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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!


This fence is almost hidden.






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It's Angel Sammy's Poetry Day This week's image and my poem:    






I wanted a small fishing hut

away from the big tourist glut.

I located this place

put a smile on my face,

and said, "Yes, it makes the cut!"



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Angel Brian's Family 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 this week's sunshine after last week's 11 inches of rain.






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Today is:


Air Force Day -- Nicaragua


Anniversary of the Abolition of Slavery -- Mauritius


Be An Encourager Day/Inspire Your Employees to Excellence Day -- begun by ecard companies; send someone an encouraging word today


Candlemas Eve


Cross-Quarter Day of Imbolc/Sughnassad -- various celebrations through the 2nd


Dignity Action Day -- UK (aiming to ensure people who use care services are treated as individuals and are given choice, control, and a sense of purpose in their daily lives)


Federal Territory Day -- Kuala Lumpur, Labuan, and Putrajaya, Malaysia


Festival of the North -- Ketchikan, AK (month long celebration of the arts in Alaska, including a wearable art show, ballet performances, and more)


Freedom Day -- US (anniversary of the approval of the 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery)


G.I. Joe Day -- the action hero first went on sale this day in 1964


Heroes' Day -- Rwanda


Hula in The Coola Day -- sponsored by iparty.com; a day to laugh at winter doldrums and escape the cold for a bit -- warm up the house, put on your shorts and have a luau!


Independence Day -- Nauru


Kalends of February -- Ancient Roman Calendar; also

     Festival of Helernus (god of vegetables and the underworld)


National Baked Alaska Day


Robinson Crusoe Day -- anniversary of the 1709 rescue of Alexander Selkirk, whose story inspired the novel Robinson Crusoe; a day to be adventurous and self-reliant


Royal Canadian Mounted Police Day -- the Dominion Police and the North-West Mounted Police officially merged on this day in 1920 to form the "Mounties"


Solo Diners' Eat Out Week -- sooner or later, everyone faces the challenge of eating out alone, so go enjoy doing so, celebrating this lifestyle skill; sponsored by Solo Dining


Spunky Old Broads' Day (also the start of Spunky Old Broads' Month) -- a day for women over 50 to resolve to live a regret free life


St. Brigid's Day (aka St. Bridget or Saint Brighid of Kildare; Patron of babies, blacksmiths, boatmen/mariners/sailors, cattle, chicken farmers, children of unwed parents, dairy workers, fugitives, midwives, nuns, poets, printing presses, scholars, travelers; Douglas, Lanarkshire, Scotland; Ivrea, Turin, Italy; Kildare, Ireland; Leinster, Ireland)

     formerly celebrated on Feb. 2 as the Imbolc quarter day of the Irish pagan calendar


Tupperware Sculpting Day -- internet generated; take an old, worn piece of Tupperware, melt it, and sculpt something


Working Naked Day -- dedicated to those who work from home without the support system an outside work environment provides   


Ya-Ya Matsuri -- Owase, Mie Prefecture, Japan (parades, street festivals, and boys diving into the sea for purification; through the 5th)



Birthdays Today:


Lauren Conrad, 1986

Michael C. Hall, 1971

Pauly Shore, 1970

Lisa Marie Presley, 1968

Pauly Shore, 1968

Sherilyn Fenn, 1965

Brandon Lee, 1965

Princess Stephanie of Monaco, 1965

Bill Mumy, 1954

Rick James, 1948

Bob Jamieson, 1943

Terry Jones, 1942

Sherman Helmsley, 1938

Don Everly, 1937

Garrett Morris, 1937

Boris Yeltsin, 1931

Stuart Whitman, 1929

S.J. Perelman, 1904

Langston Hughes, 1902

Clark Gable, 1901

John Ford, 1894

Louis Stephen St. Laurent, 1882

Hatty Wyatt Caraway, 1878

Victor Herbert, 1859



Debuting/Premiering Today:


"Late Night with David Letterman"(TV), 1982

"Rich Man, Poor Man"(TV Miniseries), 1976

"The Secret Storm" (TV), 1954 (first TV soap opera)

"General Electric Theater"(TV), 1953

"You Are There"(TV), 1953

"La Boheme"(Puccini Opera), 1896

"The Corsair"(publication date), 1814



Today in History:


Teenaged Edward III is crowned King of England, but the country is ruled by his mother Isabella of France and her lover Roger Mortimer, 1327

The Colony of Roanoke Island is established by the landing of Sir Walter Raleigh, 1587

Alexander Selkirk, the inspiration for Robinson Crusoe, is rescued from the uninhabited archipelago of Juan Fernandez, 1709

The Ottoman sultan orders the capture of his unwelcome guest, King Charles XII, resulting in the Kalabalik i Bender (Tumult in Bender), 1713

The first US steamboat patent is issued, by Georgia, to Briggs & Longstreet, 1788

The capital of Upper Canada is moved from Newark to York, 1796

The American Insurance Company of Philadelphia opens, the first such company managed by blacks, 1810

Volcano Mayon on Luzon, Philippines erupts killing 1,200, 1814

Slavery is abolished in Mauritius, 1835

The first US dental school, the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, is incorporated, 1840

Auburn University is chartered as the East Alabama Male College, 1856

Morris Raphall of NYC becomes the first rabbi to open the House of Representatives, 1860

Julia Howe publishes the "Battle Hymn of the Republic," 1862

Jefferson Long of Georgia is the first black to make an official speech in the House of Representatives (opposing leniency to former Confederates), 1871

The first volume of A New English Dictionary, A to Ant,later called the Oxford English Dictionary, A-Ant, is published, 1888

Thomas Edison completes the world's first movie studio, in West Orange, N.J., 1893

The first auto insurance policy is issued, by The Travelers Insurace Co., 1898

China's empress Tzu-hsi forbids binding woman's feet, 1902

The first US federal penitentiary is completed, at Leavenworth, Kansas, 1906

Russia adopts the Gregorian Calendar, 1918

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police forms as Royal Northwest Mounted Police merge with Dominion Police, 1920

The United States Army launches Explorer 1, 1958

Four black students stage the first of the Greensboro sit-ins at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, 1960

The Hamilton River in Labrador, Canada is renamed the Churchill River in honour of Winston Churchill, 1965

Canada's three military services, the Royal Canadian Navy, the Canadian Army and the Royal Canadian Air Force, are unified into the Canadian Forces, 1968

Director Roman Polanski skips bail and flees the United States to France after pleading guilty to charges of engaging in sex with a 13-year-old girl, 1978

The Ayatollah Khomeini is welcomed back to Tehran, Iran after nearly 15 years of exile, 1979

Lillian E. Fishburne becomes the first female African American to be promoted to rear admiral, 1998

Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates during reentry into the Earth's atmosphere, killing all seven astronauts aboard, 2003

Johanna Siguroardottir is elected as the first female Prime Minister of Iceland, 2009

Myanmar's first freely elected parliament in 50 years has its opening session in Nay Pyi Taw, 2016

Archaeologists announce that the discovery of thousands of previously undetected structures in Mayan lowland civilization in Guatemala, using Lidar technology, which suggests there was a population of about 10 million, 2018

January 2019 was Australia's hottest month on record according to Australia's Bureau of Meteorology, 2019

Locusts swarm across East Africa, leading Somalia to declare their largest national emergency in 25 years, 2020

Wisdom the Albatross, age 70, becomes the world's oldest known bird to hatch a chick at the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, 2021

The Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, considered the 'Nobel Prize for Engineering,' is awarded to Masato Sagawa for inventing the neodymium-iron-boron (Nd-Fe-B) magnet, 2022

17 comments:

  1. You are funny this morning about the glitter in the crafting while you are so willing to do all the other work, lol. And I see that Vince barely peeking out behind those shrubs, and when they turn green you'll never see the fence.

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  2. The small fishing hut is so cute. Can you imagine going in there? It doesn't even look safe, but it does look fun.

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  3. What fun with the glue and glitter. Meanwhile, I'd love to go to the tiny island.

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  4. Java Bean: "Some casitas need fences, and some casitas don't."
    Lulu: "You mean like the little casita in the middle of the lake doesn't need one?"
    Java Bean: "Sí. It has got a very large moat instead."

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  5. Agreed! Crafts at those sorts of events just seem... sticky!

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  6. Yay for that hut on a rock and your wonderfiul limerick!
    You would find me in the crafting stations on such a nigth ;)

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  7. That was a terrific story and what a blessing you all are to those parents. That was a fun poem and a great thankful, that was sure a lot of rain. Thanks for joining Angel Brian's Thankful Thursday Blog Hop!

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  8. A camouflaged fence is still a fence; unless it is a hedge, in which case it is a hedge and not a fence; or unless it is made of bricks, in which case it is a wall pretending to be a fence or a camouflages hedges.

    God bless.

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  9. Great fence photo ~ fun craft story and grateful for sun but not much seen yet in New England ~ another cloudy day here ~ hugs,

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


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  10. I wish I lived near you. I would love to run the craft part of REcess. Nice poem. XO

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  11. Oh, my... If I lived closer, I could be happy helping with crafts. I have helped with a few of the other things, but craft stuff is my wheelhouse. (Although I tend to avoid glitter, that dang stuff goes EVERYWHERE!!!)
    I love your poem, too!
    Cat

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  12. thecontemplativecat here National Naked work day? I would love to have a Tupperware art day.

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  13. I don't have a crafting spot in me either, though I can make a mess easily enough.

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  14. What an interesting Six! I want that hut...

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  15. LOVE your poem - and while it would be the perfect getaway for someone wanting to do some peaceful fishing......it sure wouldn't work for a family wanting a vacation! LOL

    Hugs, Pam and Teddy

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  16. I'm confident there's no one thinks twice about not asking you to coordinate the crafting, lol
    How cool - a perfect fishing hut!
    A huge thankful - 11 inches! May the sun continue.

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