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Thursday, March 21, 2024

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

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While working yesterday, Ms. D, my every-other-Monday lady, called me for help.  


She hadn't gotten a paper she needs for her taxes, and was very worried, her accountant told her to create an online profile with the website of the agency and request a replacement, and she was so she hadn't slept much the night before wondering how she was going to do that.


After i was finished with everything else, i ran by her house (just up the block from me, which is why i tell her to call me and i'll come over any time once i'm home).


Within 15 minutes we got on the site, created her account, and before she could blink, i'd printed out the document she needed right then so she could take it to the accountant, no requesting it in the mail, no waiting, no fuss.


I'm thankful i was able to relieve her burden and get her paper for her, and all for only a few minutes at a keyboard.


Over my protests, she paid me $50, which i tried to refuse; it's not often i make bank for so little effort.



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





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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:    




There once was a boy named Parker

whose Mom overlooked just one marker.

He colored away

and had a field day

making his sister's face darker!


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child will soon learn that

mom makes loud noises about

indelible ink



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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 a break in my work schedule yesterday which allowed me to go to our church mid-week Lent service for the first time in a few years.  I've missed them!






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Today is:


Absolutely Incredible Kid Day -- Camp Fire USA encourages everyone to send a note or letter to a young person today, telling him/her exactly what an incredible kid s/he is!


Aizu Higan Shishi/Sanbiki Shishimai -- Aizu Wakamatsu, Japan (lion dances to mark the end of winter)


Back Badge Day -- Gloucestershire Regiment, British Army


Birth of Benito Juarez, a Fiestas Patrias -- Mexico (trad.)


Companies That Care Day -- national event that encourages employers to highlight and expand their employee and community initiatives, and recognize the people who make their companies successful


Fragrance Day and Flower Day -- the first full day of spring


Harmony Day -- Australia (managed by the Department of Immigration and Citizenship)


Human Rights Day -- South Africa


Independence Day -- Namibia(1990)


International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination -- UN


Memory Day -- internet based, to examine the use of memory aids throughout history


Mother's Day -- most Arabic nations


National Common Courtesy Day -- commonly listed on this day on many sites, with no origin given, but i guess it's not so common any more, someone had to declare a holiday to try to foster a come back


National French Bread Day


National Single Parent Day -- US (by Presidential designation in 1984)


National Tree Planting Day -- Lesotho


Paper Dress Day -- the paper dress was introduced as part of an ad campaign by the Scott Paper Co. on this day in 1966


Purim -- Judaism (begins at sundown, through sundown Monday but excludes Saturday/Sabbath)


Single Parents' Day -- sponsored by Parents Without Parners, on the date of their inception in 1957


St. Nicholas of Flue's Day (Patron of councilmen, difficult marriages, large families, magistrates, parents of large families, Pontifical Swiss Guards, separated spouses, Switzerland)


World Down Syndrome Day -- UN


World Forest Day/International Day of Forests and the Trees -- UN


World Puppetry Day  


World Poetry Day -- UNESCO


Youth Day -- Tunisia



Birthdays Today:


Ronaldinho, 1980

Kevin Federline, 1978

Matthew Broderick, 1962

Rosie O'Donnell, 1962

Ayrton Senna da Silva, 1960

Gary Oldman, 1958

Eddie Money, 1949

Timothy Dalton, 1944

Peter Brook, 1925

Julio Gallo, 1910

John D Rockefeller III, 1906

Bascom Lamar Lunsford, 1882

Florenz Ziegfeld, 1867

Modest Mussorgsky, 1839

James Jesse "King Strang" Strang, 1813

Benito Juarez, 1806

Francis Lewis, 1713

Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685



Debuting/Premiering Today:


"Annie"(Film), 1982

"Stop the Music"(Radio show), 1948



Today in History:


The Byzantine emperor Heraclius restores the "True Cross" to Jerusalem, 630

Accession to the throne of Japan by emperor Antoku, 1188

3,000 Jews are killed in the Black Death riots in Efurt, Germany, 1349

n Oxford, Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer is burned at the stake, 1556

Czar Peter the Great begins his tour through West, 1697

Fire destroys 856 buildings in New Orleans, Louisiana, 1788

With the church leadership driven out of Rome during an armed conflict, Pius VII is crowned Pope in Venice with a temporary papal tiara made of papier-mâché, 1800

Code Napoléon is adopted as French civil law, 1804

The Bahá'í calendar begins, 1844

An earthquake in Tokyo, Japan kills over 100,000, 1857

The Zoological Society of Philadelphia, the first in the US, is incorporated, 1859

Journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his trek to find the missionary and explorer David Livingstone, 1871

Loretta Walsh becomes the first female US Navy Petty Officer, 1917

Charles Lindbergh is presented the Medal of Honor for his first trans-Atlantic flight, 1928

Shah Reza Pahlavi formally asks the international community to call Persia by its native name, Iran, which means 'Land of the Aryans,' 1935

Alan Freed presents the Moondog Coronation Ball, the first rock and roll concert, in Cleveland, Ohio, 1952

Martin Luther King Jr. leads 3,200 people on the start of the third and finally successful civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, 1965

The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto, 1970

Canadian paraplegic athlete and humanitarian Rick Hansen begins his circumnavigation of the globe in a wheelchair in the name of spinal cord injury medical research, 1985

Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon, 1999

The first full face transplant is performed by surgeons at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, 2011

Australia's Prime Minister Julia Gillard formally apologizes to people affected by forced adoptions during the 1950s through 1970s, 2013

Dave Patterson and John Hennessy win computings' Turing Award for RISC computer chips, 2018

A Bangladeshi woman with two uteruses safely gives birth to twins 26 days after giving birth to another child, 2019

As large crowds descend on the area for spring break, Miami imposes a state of emergency and a curfew, 2021

A 6.5-magnitude earthquake strikes Afghanistan's north-east near the border with Pakistan, 2023

19 comments:

  1. Uh-Oh, I hope that marker doesn't take too long to wash off. I love the post and rail fences.

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  2. OH, WOW, do we love the things that happened on this day all over the world. MERCI for the info, and thank you for helping a neighbor!

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  3. The fence reminds me of some that I saw in Montana years ago on ranches. Beautiful pictures. And it's lucky that you are so good on the computer that you could help someone so quickly. And she appreciated it very much I am more than sure.

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  4. The tech world is a wonderful thing but for many older folks or less fortunate, it is a nightmare they can't navigate and there is no one to help. We have this problem with Gramma a lot. You are so nice to help her as it is easy for most of us and a little helping out goes a long way in the heart.

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  5. That was so nice that you were able to help get the tax form. The tech world can be a difficult thing to navigate for some people.

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  6. Java Bean: "Ayyy, our Dada helps out his older relatives and friends with their computers too, and some of them insist on paying him. He has given up on saying no at this point!"

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  7. Nicely done with the tax form (but shivering)

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  8. wow! glad you made some easy money ~ you deserve it and great fence photos and great thankful too ~ hugs,

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

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  9. That was a really good story and a funny poem. Hooray for that nice thankful too. Thanks for joining Angel Brian's Thankful Thursday Blog Hop!

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  10. Excellent use of prompt word! Don't hear that expression... ever!
    Little kids + permanent markers is an automatic "NO!"
    Wonderful thankful.

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  11. Love, love your poem. Also it was very good of you to help out Denise with her computer problem. Your fences are quite beautiful and serve to enhance the countryside. Would love to see Abigail up close one day. Love the colours in her coat.

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  12. Once again, you've helped somebody. As for the picture and poem - so funny!

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  13. I love that you were able to help this person so easily and quickly. Everyone needs a friend like you, Mimi.

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  14. hey!! wait up!! don't close the doors yet!
    aiyyee the train she is already chuffing!
    Fun Six (shouted from the platform at the receding locomotive)

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  15. Great poem - everyone is hoping that those markers were washable and if their Mom is smart they are the only markers allowed in the house! Little Van Gogh certainly did create a "MESSTERPIECE" !!!!!

    Hugs, Pam

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