Splash Pads and Swamp Birthdays, a Random and Happy Tuesday Post

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It's time once again for a random and happy Tuesday, linking up with Stacy's Random Thoughts at Stacy Uncorked and Sandee at Comedy Plus.  

Carl likes using dryer balls to help the clothes dry faster and more evenly, and we were up to six of them.

Apparently, they can disintegrate when he loses one and it gets in the washer.

He'd just gotten up and a peek in the closet showed he'd had a hard week.

Usually the laundry baskets are upright and there are at least a few things in them, but not today.

He looked sleepy and said he'd not slept well, so he took his pillow and blanket and headed for the sleep chair.  Instead of his usual ten minutes and done, though, he set the timer on the microwave and didn't move for almost an hour.

As i was gathering and straightening, i noticed fewer shoes than usual.

Ms. V seems to have gotten him at least two new pair.  This time, though, instead of keeping all the old ones because it's frugal, most were nowhere to be found.

In the case of some of them, that was a very good thing.  Carl's line of work is hard on shoes.

He's also hard on hats.

That one ended up in the trash.

Once Carl got up and showered, he and i chatted as he ate breakfast and got ready and i got cleaning done.

"The swamp had a birthday!" he said.

It took a moment for me to figure out what he meant so he added, "I saw it online."

Oh, the local swamp where you can take tours, i noted.  Yes, they're celebrating an anniversary of opening the nature center.

"Yes," he said, then changed gears with, "how's church?"

Church?

"Yeah, how's church?"

We had a good service yesterday, i told him.

When Mr. L isn't well enough to go, Carl and Ms. V don't drive all the way down to the church where they sing in the choir with my Sweetie, but instead go to a closer one.  To-may-to, to-mah-to.

He then started talking about camouflage clothes, something that sounded like "Shriver day," and sports.  Since he often mumbles or trails off, it can be hard to follow what he's saying, although i do try.

One thing he did say clearly was, "Are you going to throw out all my receipts?"

No, i told him.  If it has any writing or notes on it, i keep it for you.  The others i throw away.

Then i showed him where any receipt with writing on it would be when he got home.

He's like my Sweetie, a ton of notepads and writing paper in the house and every time he wants to write something down, he grabs whatever is handy, usually bill, receipt or piece of mail or envelope.

"I have a phone number..." he trailed off.  Yes, i saved anything with writing on it  Whether the number was there or not, i'm not in charge of that.

As i headed to the laundry room, i noticed the day's newspaper in Carl's room, behind the TV.  When i asked, he said he'd brought it in.  Why he put it there instead of on the kitchen table where it always goes, well, there's no telling.  I took it to the table.

Mr. L had gotten up and was having breakfast when i brought the newspaper and he started reading it, and Carl kept chatting with me or his dad as i went about making his lunch.  At one point, Carl asked a question, then looked up and his dad had left the room.  I asked what his question was and he said, "No, I want to talk to my dad about it."

Fair enough.  Sometimes a man needs to ask another man, especially his dad.

Getting him out the door took some doing as he brought his ice packs for the vest, but i had to run the vest itself out there to him.  Once i thought he was gone he popped back in and said, "Splash pad!"

To my questioning look he said, "There's a splash pad, after work, need shorts, t-shirt, towel..."

I quickly gathered all 3 and got him out the door in plenty of time to get to work.

Then i opened his fridge.

What surprises were in the bags this time?  One shell and pit from an avocado, not pictured as i threw it away, and the following.

So much for Ms. V banning sugar from his diet.

Weird find of the day:

A piece broken off of one of his belts, complete with sharp edge.  The belt itself was in the garbage, and of course the garbage bag was in the bottom of the can with all the stuff on top of it again.  Every time he takes out the trash, he misplaces the clips to hold the bag in place.  This time, they were easily found on the counter, but sometimes they are gone and i wonder if he shipped them to Abu Dhabi or something.

How about some funnies, a few about church, swimming (since i couldn't find any good splash pad memes) and others.

Have a blessed and beautiful day, everyone!

 

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Today is:

American Red Cross Founder's Day -- established by Clara Barton on this date in 1881

Anastenarides Feast -- Greece (feast to St. Constantine and St. Helen)

Battle of Las Piedras Day -- Uruguay

Circassian Day of Mourning -- Circassians

Día de la Afrocolombianidad -- Columbia (Afro-Colombian Day; commemorates Columbia's abolition of slavery on this date in 1851)

Dia De Las Glorias Navales -- Chile (Navy Day)

Festival for Vevodus -- Ancient Roman Calendar (god of the dead, swamps, and volcanic movements, and sometimes regarded as the king of the Di Manes)

Honvédelem Napja -- Hungary (Day of Patriots and Military)

Independence Day -- Montenegro

"I Need A Patch For That" Day -- sponsored by Wellcat Holidays, which notes that since everything else has a patch, why shouldn't you?

Lilies and Roses Day -- London, England (memorial of the death of Henry VI on this day in 1471; held at the Tower of London with representatives of Eton College and King's College, which he founded.)

National Memo Day -- an internet holiday with no known origin, just take a memo

National Strawberries and Cream Day

National Waitstaff Day 

Passion Play Day -- the first Oberammergau, Germany, Passion Play was staged this date in 1634

Sister Maria Hummel Day -- birth anniversary of the Franciscan nun and artist

St. Constantine's Day (Greek Orthodox Church; Patron of Greece)

St. Eugene de Mazenod's Day (Patron of dysfunctional families)

St. Helen's Day (Greek Orthodox Church; Patron of Greece)

     St. Helena Day -- St. Helena 

World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development -- UN

Anniversary Today:

Humphrey Bogart marries Lauren Bacall, 1945

Birthdays Today:

Sarah Ramos, 1991

Ashlie Brillault, 1987

Lisa Edelstein, 1966

Judge Reinhold, 1957

Mr. T, 1952

Ian McEwan, 1948

Leo Sayer, 1948

Janet Dailey, 1944

Bobby Cox, 1941

Heinz Hollinger, 1939

Peggy Cass, 1924

Andrey Dmitriyevich Sakharov, 1921

Raymond Burr, 1917

Dennis Day, 1917

Harold Robbins, 1916

Sister Maria Innocentia Hummel, 1909

Fats Waller, 1904

Armand Hammer, 1898

Glenn Hammond Curtiss, 1878

Elizabeth Gurney Fry, 1780

Alexander Pope, 1688

Albrecht Dürer, 1471

Debuting/Premiering Today:

The Empire Strikes Back(Film), 1980

"Gypsy"(Musical), 1959

"Le Fils prodigue / The Prodigal Son(Prokofiev ballet, Op. 46), 1929

"Pagliacci"(Opera), 1892

Today in History:

Syracuse, Italy is captured by the Muslim sultan of Sicily, 878

The island of Saint Helena is discovered by the Portuguese navigator João da Nova, 1502

The nobility elect John Sobieski King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, 1674

The Order of St. Alexander Nevsky is instituted in Russia by the empress Catherine I; it would later be discontinued and then reinstated by the Soviet government in 1942 as the Order of Alexander Nevsky, 1725

Mary Campbell is abducted from her home in Pennsylvania by Lenape during the French and Indian War, 1758

Slavery  is abolished in Colombia, South America, 1851

Russia declares an end to the Russian-Circassian War and many Circassians are forced into exile, 1864

French troops invade the Paris Commune and engage its residents in street fighting, 1871

The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton, 1881

The Manchester Ship Canal in England is officially opened by Queen Victoria, 1894

The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is founded in Paris, 1904

Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean, 1927

Bad weather forces Amelia Earhart to land in a pasture in Derry, Northern Ireland, and she thereby becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, 1932

Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes the first municipality in the United States to fingerprint all of its citizens, 1934

A Soviet station becomes the first scientific research settlement to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean, 1937

The National War Memorial in Canada is unveiled by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in Ottawa, 1939

Physicist Louis Slotin is fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1946

The opening of the Ninth Street Show, otherwise known as the 9th Street Art Exhibition – a gathering of a number of notable artists, and the stepping-out of the post war New York avant-garde, collectively know as the New York School, 1951

Michelangelo's Pietà in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome is damaged by a vandal, 1972

Democratic Republic of Yemen and North Yemen agree to a unity, merging into Republic of Yemen, 1990

The Ethiopian Civil War ends, 1991

Suharto, Indonesian president of 32 years, resigns, 1998

The clipper Cutty Sark is badly damaged by fire in London, England, 2007

JAXA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, launches the solar-sail spacecraft IKAROS aboard an H-IIA rocket, 2010

The most active volcano in Iceland, Grimsvotn, erupts and triggers 50 small earthquakes, 2011

The Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus performs for the last time at the Nassau Coliseum in NYC after 146 years, 2017

Nepalese Sherpa Kami Rita sets a new record for the number of climbs of Mt Everest, reaching the summit for the 24th time, 2019

Omani author Jokha Alharthi becomes the first Arabic writer to win the Man Booker International Prize for her novel Celestial Bodies along with her translator Marilyn Booth, 2019  

Scientists announce the oldest and most distant gravitational waves ever detected, from a collision of two black holes, with first intermediate-mass black hole ever discovered at 7 billion light years away, 2019

Rayyanah Barnawi of Saudi Arabia, the first female Arab astronaut, goes into space on Axiom Space's second private mission, 2023