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Wednesday, May 1, 2024

Spring Sunshine Finds Door Peephole (Wordless Wednesday) and Words for Wednesday

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Linking up with Wordless Wednesday, BeThere2Day, and Sandee at Comedy Plus.     






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Words for Wednesday was begun by Delores and has become a moveable feast of word or picture or music prompts to encourage us to write stories, poems, or whatever strikes our fancy.    


This month, the prompts are being provided by Elephant's Child 


This week's prompts are:

 

  1. Least
  2. Fundamental
  3. People
  4. Satisfaction
  5. Excited


and/or


  1. Natural
  2. Trashed
  3. Profligacy
  4. Fragile
  5. Future


An additional prompt from Charlotte (MotherOwl) is to include Bright Red Orange in your take on the prompts.


Have fun. 



"You don't have to know everything, but you do have to at LEAST have an acquaintance with the FUNDAMENTAL principles."


He was in one of his pontificating moods, and of all the PEOPLE you don't want to be around, he's one of them, at least when he's in that mood.


It's seldom he can get a good impromptu lecture going, as most of those he knows make themselves scarce when he starts, so when he can trap someone and start his lecture mode, it gives him great SATISFACTION.  In fact, if he wasn't such a stoic, I might even say it got him EXCITED.


His lecturing followed a NATURAL course, although he never saw it.  First, he TRASHED the PROFLIGACY of those who were supposed to be doing everything both differently and correctly, meaning his way.  Then he'd go into how FRAGILE the system is (whatever the system happens to be which brought about his current rant) and what the FUTURE will bring if it is not changed.


As he was truly warming to his subject, I suddenly jumped up and said, "I'm so sorry, my phone timer is on vibrate and it just went off, I must see to the biscuits I have in the oven," and I ran toward the kitchen.


"Oh, well, yes, uh, mustn't let those burn, must we..."


He trailed off as I got to the kitchen and opened the oven, got the biscuits out, set them on the rack to cool, then opened the back door and stepped out.


The beautiful sunset, a Bright Red Orange fireball setting the clouds glowing in a delightful spectacle, helped me pause and take a breath and reestablish my good humor.  After all, there's only so much of him one can take at a time, as you'll find if you ever happen to meet him.



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Today is:


Agriculture Day and Labor Day -- Haiti


Amtrak Day -- the train service began this day in 1971


Anxiety Disorders Screening Day -- if you have symptoms, get checked, there is help   


Beltaine / Samhain -- Wiccan/Pagan


Bladder Cancer Awareness Month  http://www.bcan.org/


Calends of May -- Ancient Roman Calendar; related observances

     Day sacred to Maia

     Feast for Lares Praestites (household gods)


Childhood Stroke Awareness Month -- also called Pediatric Stroke Awareness Day, because kids can have strokes, too   


Chimney Sweeps Day -- the boys as young as 4 trained to help master sweeps got Mayday off each year


Constitution Day / National Day -- Marshall Islands


Executive Coaching Day -- a reminder, on what is most countries' Labor Day, that workers deserve great leaders


Feast of Our Lady of Peace and Good Voyage -- Antipolo, Rizal, Philippines (pilgrimages to the shrine of Nuestra Sra de la Paz y Buen Viaje; through the month)


Festival of Matsu/Mazu -- Southern China and Taiwan (Taoist goddess of the sea who protects fishermen and sailors; often worshiped in sea-faring areas surrounding China as well, although some local dates will vary)

     Ma Zu, Goddess of the Sea’s Birthday -- Buddhism; Taoism


Festival of Saint Efisio -- Cagliari, Italy (one of the most colorful religious festivals anywhere in the world; through the 4th)


Garland Dressing -- Charlton on Otmoor, England (a wooden cross is bedecked with yew and box leaves)


Global Love Day -- sponsored by The Love Foundation 


Go Fetch! National Food Drive for Homeless Animals -- PALS Foundation 


Great American Grump Out Day -- encouraging everyone to avoid grumpiness and rudeness for 24 hours; who knows, you might enjoy it so much it will stick!


Gujarat Day / Maharashtra Day -- MH, India


Journée Internationale de la Guérilla Tournesol / International Sunflower Guerrilla Gardening Day -- begun in Belgium, now celebrated worldwide, guerrilla gardeners are encouraged to plant sunflowers (or an appropriate plant for their climate) in a neglected public place or shabby flower bed


Keep Kids Alive! Drive 25 Day -- 20-25mph in school zones, please   


Kevadpuha -- Estonia (Spring Day)


Law Day, USA -- US, by Presidential Proclamation


Lei Day -- Hawai'i (where you celebrate Mayday with a lei instead of mayflowers)


Loyalty Day -- US


May Day / Labor Day / Worker's Day -- International; celebrated as the beginning of summer in some places, as a Labor Day in others


Mother Goose Day -- as declared by the Mother Goose Society 


National Chocolate Parfait Day


National Day to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy -- US   


National Love Day -- Czech Republic (couples flock to the memorial of the poet Karel Hynek Mácha in Prague and kiss)


National Purebred Dog Day -- US (as proposed on this page)


New Homeowner's Day -- can't find confirmation on this one, listed at a few sites but no history or records of why this day


'Obby 'Oss (Hobby Horse) Parade -- Padstow, Cornwall, England (every May 1 since 1502, if the records are correct)


Play of St. Evermaar -- Belgium (annual performance of a mystery play, in its original form from over 1,000 years ago, by the village)


Riding of the Bounds -- Berwick-upon-Tweed, Casey, England (riders scour the countryside to be sure the Scots have not encroached upon English soil in this 5 century old tradition)


Rodonitsa -- Asatru/Slavic Pagan Calendar (day to offer feasts to the ancestors, named for Rod, god of family and the cosmos)


Santacruzan / Flore de Mayo -- Philippines (lasts through the month, with the biggest celebratory days being May 26-27 this year)


Save the Rhino Day / Rhino Mayday -- International


School Principal's Day -- since teachers get a day, so should the principal


Silver Star Day -- US (to honor all military who have earned a Silver Star) 


SOS Radio Week -- UK (The Royal National Lifeboat Institution keeps the seas safer, and Radio Amateurs help them raise funds www.sosradioweek.org.uk; it used to be a week, and though that's still the name, it now lasts the whole month of May)          


Stepmother's Day -- sponsored by secondwivesclub.com


St. Joseph the Worker's Day -- Holy See(Vatican City)


St. Peregrine Laziosi's Day (Patron of AIDS patients, cancer patients, and the sick; against cancer, open sores and skin diseases)


St. Walpurga's Canonization Day (The saint who banishes the evil from Walpurgis night.)


Swieta Panstwowe -- Poland (National Day)


Tammany's Day / St. Tamenend -- US soldiers in the Revolution wanted a patron saint to rival St. George of the British Army, and chose Delaware Indian chief and wise man Chief Tamenend, also called Tammany


Upper Canada Village -- Morrisburg, ON, Canada (through early October, various programs that let visitors and students enter the world of the 1860s)


Unity Day -- Kazakhstan


Virgen de Chapi Festival -- Peru


Yotaka Matsuri -- Fukuno, Toyama, Japan (enjoy floats, paper lanters, and mock battles in this two day festival)


Zuni Green Corn Dance -- Zuni Native Americans (welcoming back the Corn Maidens who fled during the winter; dating approximate as many Native ceremonies are closed to outsiders)



Anniversaries Today:


Cheerios go on sale, 1941

Empire State Building Ribbon Cutting, 1931



Birthdays Today:


Wes Anderson, 1969

Tim McGraw, 1967

Charlie Schlatter, 1966

Steve Cauthen, 1960

Ray Parker, Jr., 1954

Paul Teutul, Sr., 1949

Rita Coolidge, 1945

Bobbie Ann Mason, 1940

Judy Collins, 1939

Sonny James, 1929

Charles "Chuck" Bednarik, 1925

Terry Southern, 1924

Jack Paar, 1918

Glenn Ford, 1916

Archie Williams, 1915

Kate Smith, 1909

Mark Clark, 1896

Leo Sowerby, 1895

Calamity Jane (Martha Jane Burke), 1852

Mary Harris "Mother" Jones, 1837

King Kamehameha I of Hawai'i, 1738

Joseph Addison, 1672



Debuting/Premiering Today:


"My One and Only"(Musical), 1983

Citizen Kane(Film), 1941

"Batman"(Detective Comics #27), 1939

"Buffalo Bill's Wild West"(touring Western show), 1883

"Le nozze di Figaro/The Marriage of Figaro"(Mozart Opera, K492), 1786



Today in History:


The Wars of Scottish Independence end with a treaty recognizing the Kingdom of Scotland as a separate entity, 1328

The Act of Union joins the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland to form the Kingdom of Great Britain, 1707

Species Plantarum is published by Linnaeus, marking the formal start date of plant taxonomy adopted by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, 1753

Josiah Wedgwood founds the Wedgwood  pottery company in Great Britain, 1759

Jesuit-taught Adam Weishaupt establishes the Illuminati in Ingolstadt (Upper Bavaria), 1776

Kamehameha, the king of Hawai'i defeats Kalanikupule and establishes the Kingdom of Hawai'i, 1785

The British colonies abolish slavery, 1834

The Penny Black, the first official adhesive postage stamp, is issued in the United Kingdom, 1840

The first wagon train leaves from Independence, MO, bound for California, 1841

Hong Kong Police Force, the world's second, Asia's first modern police force is established, 1844

Queen Victoria opens the Great Exhibition in London, 1851

The Empire of Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay sign the Treaty of the Triple Alliance, 1865

The Folies Bergère opens in Paris, 1869

Moses Fleetwood Walker becomes the first black person to play in a professional baseball game in the United States, 1884

The RMS Lusitania departs from New York City on her two hundred and second, and final, crossing of the North Atlantic, 1915

The first cooked meals on a scheduled flight are introduced on an Imperial Airways flight from London to Paris, 1927

The dwarf planet Pluto is officially named, 1930

The Empire State Building is dedicated in New York City, 1931

The Summer Olympics are cancelled due to war, 1940

The Salk vaccine is made available to the public, 1956

Fidel Castro proclaims Cuba a socialist nation and abolishes elections, 1961

Amtrak is formed to take over the U.S. passenger rail service, 1971

Pope John Paul II beatifies Edith Stein, a Jewish-born Carmelite nun who was gassed in the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz, 1987

On the same day, Rickey Henderson of the Oakland A's sets the record for stolen bases (his 939th), and Nolan Ryan of the Texas Rangers pitches his 7th career no-hitter, breaking his own record, 1991

Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia join the European Union, , 2004

Same-sex marriage is legalized in Sweden, 2009

Pope John Paul II is beatified by his successor, Pope Benedict XVI, 2011

The U.N. Human Rights Office determine it is a violation of international law to force-feed hunger strikers at the U.S. Guantanamo Bay prison, 2013

Scotland becomes the first country in the world to introduce a minimum price on alcohol, 2018

Naruhito officially succeeds his father Akihito as the Emperor of Japan after the latter abdicated the day before due to ill health, 2019

New York City officially names a street "Sesame Street" in honor of the show's 50th anniversary, 2019

Scotland becomes the first country in the world to introduce a minimum price on alcohol, 2018

Naruhito officially succeeds his father Akihito as the Emperor of Japan after the latter abdicated the day before due to ill health, 2019

New York City officially names a street "Sesame Street" in honor of the show's 50th anniversary, 2019

Cognitive psychologist and computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton, known as "the Godfather of AI," resigns from Google to begin speaking out about the dangers of artificial intelligence, 2023

22 comments:


  1. This is great - and fresh biscuits and a sunset are the perfect reset buttons.

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  2. Your delightful story reminded me of a housemate I had in my younger days. I wonder who's putting with him now!

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  3. The photo looks like having your own personal total eclipse!

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  4. Next time I watch "Mary Poppins", and I will at my age, I will think about 4 year old boys and even up to 16 being put to work in chimney cleaning! Life is better now for more children here. Love the photo!

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  5. Not sure how you got that photo of the sun, it is quite interesting and not like the sun we usually see.

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  6. That's a good capture well timed too well done 👍
    Have a sunnytastic week 👍

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  7. Great photo, Mimi. Well done.

    God bless.

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  8. It is great to learn this is Global Love Day

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  9. We all need those sunsets now and then, the ones to make us pause. :-)

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  10. What a unique shot. Goes right along with your prompts.

    Thank you for joining the Wordless Wednesday Blog Hop.

    Have a fabulous Wordless Wednesday. Love and hugs. ♥

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  11. Such a fun share and love that shot! You are a great story teller. Always a pleasure to be here, Happy May Day!

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  12. Ya gotta take the sunshine where you can find it! That was a really nice story!

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  13. Great story and great ' peephole' photo ~ hugs,

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

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  14. What a special photo!! Wonder what we might see through the peephole?

    Woos - Misty and Timber

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  15. Good story. As long as one can cook, you can put up with some things. :)

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  16. I love the story -- especially the part about the porch and the sunset providing a good reset. That photo is very creative!

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  17. Well I hope I never meet him! Great story.

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  18. We thought it was the Eclips🙈😸Double Pawkisses for a Happy Day🐾😽💞

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  19. In certain situations, it is almost essential to have biscuits in the oven, isn't it? ;-)
    Another fine story, Mimi. Thanks.

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  20. Oona: "Oona would totally jump for that little round rainbow!"

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