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"Are you ready?"
"Ready as I'll ever be."
"This isn't a game, we go live today."
"Yeah, don't remind me."
"That doesn't sound promising."
"It's okay, this isn't my first rodeo, shoot, I've got season tickets."
Linking up with Denise at Girlie On The Edge Blog, where she hosts Six Sentence Stories, and the cue is Game.
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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:
Cut me some slack please
I'm a short order cook who
needs some more practice
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I just got to flipping
it got a bit wild,
I'll bet this never happened
to Julia Child!
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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 Brother-in-Law's taxes are done for another year.
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Today is:
Boy Scout Day -- celebrates the birthday of Scouting in the US
Cowtown's Last Old West Gunfight -- White Elephant Saloon, Fort Worth, TX, US (annual reenactment of the last gunfight in what was then Cowtown, between White Elephant Saloon owner Luke Short and former marshal T.I. “Longhaired Jim” Courtright on this date in 1887)
Feast of the Incappucciati -- Gradoli, Italy (members of the Confraternity of Purgatory make the rounds of the town gathering food for the souls in Purgatory, which is served at a banquet next week on Ash Wednesday)
Fettiger Donnerstag -- Swabia, Germany ("greasy Thursday", so called because of the greasy Kuchli cakes and pastries made today to use during carnival before the Lent fast)
Hari Kuyo -- Sensouji Temple, Japan (Festival of Broken Needles, in which all of the worn or broken sewing needles from the previous year are put in a sacred resting place.)
Hold Onto Your Head Day -- invented by someone for people like me, because heaven knows i'm losing mine!
Lailat al Miraj -- Islam (observance of Mohammed's night journey from Mecca to Jerusalem; begins at sundown, local customs and dates may vary)
Laugh and Get Rich Day -- a day to recognize the power of laughter
Love May Make the World Go 'round, But Laughter Keeps Us from Getting Dizzy Week -- annually, the week before and including Valentine's Day; dedicated to Victor Borge’s notion that “Laughter is the shortest distance between two people” and Joel Goodman’s notion that “Seven days without laughter makes one weak.”
National Molasses Bar Day
Preseren's Day -- Slovenia (Honors their national poet, France Preseren, often called Day of Slovenian Culture)
Rebel Day -- birth anniversary of James Dean
St. Jerome Emilani's Day (Patron of orphans; Taos Indian Pueblo)
Tako-ichi -- Kita-ku, Tokyo, Japan (kite fair dating back to the Edo period)
Weiberfastnach -- Cologne, Germany (Women's Carnival, the day the women run the pre-Lent celebration)
Anniversary Today:
Founding of Universiteit Leiden, with the motto Praesidium Libertatis, 1575
Birthdays Today:
Josh Keaton, 1979
David "Phoenix" Farrell, 1977
Seth Green, 1974
Alonzo Mourning, 1970
Gary Coleman, 1968
Claudette Pace, 1968
Vince Neil, 1961
John Grisham, 1955
Mary Steenburgen, 1953
Brooke Adams, 1949
Robert Klein, 1942
Nick Nolte, 1941
Ted Koppel, 1940
John Williams, 1932
James Dean, 1931
Jack Lemmon, 1925
Audrey Meadows, 1924
Freddie Blassie, 1921
Lana Turner, 1921
Elizabeth Bishop, 1911
Lyle Talbot, 1902
William Tecumseh Sherman, 1820
Jules Verne, 1828
Samuel Butler, 1612
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Good Times"(TV), 1974
"RCA Victor Show Starring Dennis Day"(TV), 1952
"Danses Concertantes"(Stravinsky Ballet), 1942
"Two for the Show"(Musical), 1940
"The Plough and the Stars"(Play), 1926
"The Stars and Stripes"(US Armed Forces Newspaper), 1918
"The Birth of a Nation"(Film), 1915
"Boris Godunov"(Mussorgsky Opera), 1874
"Flora; or the Hob in the Well"(Cibber's Opera, first opera performed in the Colonies), 1735
Today in History:
Mary, Queen of Scots, is executed on suspicion of having been involved in the Babington Plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I, 1587
Isaac Newton reads his first optics paper before the Royal Society in London, 1672
French and Indian troops set Schenectady, NY, afire, 1690
A doctor in Salem Village, Massachusetts Bay Colony suggests that two girls in the family of the village minister may be suffering from bewitchment, leading to the Salem witch trials, 1692
The Supreme Privy Council is established in Russia, 1726
The first opera in the US, "Flora," opens in South Carolina, 1735
A minor earthquake shakes London, 1750
The strange phenomenon called the "Devil's Footprints" mysteriously appear in Devon, England, 1855
Martin Robinson Delany becomes the first black major in the US Army, 1865
The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce, 1910
D.W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles, 1915
The Stars and Stripes newspaper is published for the first time, 1918
Swiss men vote against women's suffrage, 1920
Radio arrives at the White House, 1922
Allende meteorite falls near Pueblito de Allende, Chihuahua, Mexico, 1969
The NASDAQ stock market index opens for the first time, 1971
After 84 days in space, the crew of the first American space station Skylab returns to Earth, 1974
The Melbourne dust storm hits Australia's second largest city. The result of the worst drought on record and a day of severe weather conditions, a 320 metres (1,050 ft) deep dust cloud envelops the city, turning day to night, 1983
The massive Internet collaboration "24 Hours in Cyberspace" takes place, 1996
A freak storm in the Hindukush mountains of Afghanistan triggers a series of at least 36 avalanches, 2010
Noriaki Kasai of Japan becomes first athlete in history to participate in 8 Winter Olympics, 2018
King Vajiralongkorn of Thailand issues a royal decree calling Princess Ubolratana's candidacy for Prime Minister for the Thai Raksa Chart political party “improper and highly inappropriate”, 2019
After 3 years with no rainy season, the Horn of Africa is declared to be in drought and on the brink of a humanitarian crisis by the UN, 2022
Wonderful photo, and the poems just fit!
ReplyDeleteI see the Christmas wreath has been replaced with a spring colored wreath. Cute poem.
ReplyDeleteThe fence with the wreath looks a bit odd. I think they could use some decorator help and tips.
ReplyDeleteOne day I hope to see a rodeo.
ReplyDeleteFun Six.
ReplyDeleteHave not ever ridden a horse or see a rodeo.
Not sure how these two are related, lol
Aaah ... A nice metal fence with lights. That's high class.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
Lulu: "Ooh, tax time! I know Mama and Dada have been doing a little bit of tax stuff on the weekends, but they don't seem to enjoy it very much ..."
ReplyDeleteGood one!
ReplyDeleteHave to chuckle, thought the little girl was cute, but it took your poem to bring my attention to the pancake oopsie! :)
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Great fence photo, story written about little girl ~ so cute and taxes done is always a big thankful ~ hugs,
ReplyDeleteWishing you good health, laughter and love in your days,
A ShutterBug Explores,
aka (A Creative Harbor)
Ha! Seasons tickets for the seasoned rodeo contestant.
ReplyDeleteThat was a fun story and cute poems too. Taxes done is always a terrific thankful. Thanks for joining Angel Brian's Thankful Thursday Blog Hop!
ReplyDeleteNice story and poems. We are trying to have our taxes done in Feb. this year. :) XO
ReplyDeleteCute Six, Mimi, as was your poem.
ReplyDeleteYes! I love reading about other people getting their taxes done early in hopes it gets me to do mine early! One of these years I will, lol
Love the photo and poem, good six sentence too.
ReplyDeleteGood one, Mimi!
ReplyDeleteOh how I love your poem - I was a dedicated watcher of Julia's program years ago....she was a real hoot. I bet she had more than her share of OOPSIES in her kitchen but WE never saw them!
ReplyDeleteHugs, Pam
Great poem and story.
ReplyDeleteAn excellnt Six, and as for the photo and poems,
ReplyDelete...I love them!
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