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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 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
Uh-Oh, I hope that marker doesn't take too long to wash off. I love the post and rail fences.
ReplyDeleteOH, 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!
ReplyDeleteThe 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.
ReplyDeleteThe 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.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful blog
ReplyDeletePlease read my post
ReplyDeleteThat 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.
ReplyDeleteJava 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!"
ReplyDeleteNicely done with the tax form (but shivering)
ReplyDeletewow! glad you made some easy money ~ you deserve it and great fence photos and great thankful too ~ hugs,
ReplyDeleteWishing you good health, laughter and love in your days,
A ShutterBug Explores,
aka (A Creative Harbor)
That was very great good deed you did!
ReplyDeleteWhat a tremendous help you were!
ReplyDeleteThat 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!
ReplyDeleteExcellent use of prompt word! Don't hear that expression... ever!
ReplyDeleteLittle kids + permanent markers is an automatic "NO!"
Wonderful thankful.
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.
ReplyDeleteOnce again, you've helped somebody. As for the picture and poem - so funny!
ReplyDeleteI love that you were able to help this person so easily and quickly. Everyone needs a friend like you, Mimi.
ReplyDeletehey!! wait up!! don't close the doors yet!
ReplyDeleteaiyyee the train she is already chuffing!
Fun Six (shouted from the platform at the receding locomotive)
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" !!!!!
ReplyDeleteHugs, Pam