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"What are you doing?"
"Hanging around you."
"Why?"
"Because I can."
"Are you always so annoying and obnoxious?"
"With frequency and malice aforethought!"
Linking up with Denise at Girlie On The Edge Blog, where she hosts Six Sentence StoriesSix Sentence Stories, and the cue is Frequency.
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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!
Here, a fence rebuilt.
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It's Angel Sammy's Poetry Day! This week's image and my poem:
This isn't right
packed in tight,
I'm not meant to be a sardine.
I need to go
out in the snow
where the air is crisp and clean.
I'll celebrate
the Christmas date
in a simple, quiet way.
Instead of rush,
in quiet hush,
we'll have a family day.
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Angel Brian's Family of Brian's Home Forever hosts the Thankful Thursday Blog Hop. It's time to share something for which i am thankful.
Today i am thankful i had my annual checkup with Dr. BowTie this past Tuesday. In his words, "What a dandy checkup!" Meaning i may have outlived my warranty, but I should be good for a few years yet.
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Today is:
Canadian Multiculturalism Day -- Cananda
Day of National Unity -- Tajikistan
Day of Turkmen Workers of Culture and Art -- Turkmenistan
Day Sacred to the Lares -- Ancient Roman Calendar (personal household gods); also
Festival of Jupiter Stator -- Jupiter, Stayer of the Rout, god who helped soldiers especially to stand their ground
Initium Aestatis -- three day festival for the goddess of summer, which season they saw as beginning on this day
Decide to Be Married Day -- sponsored by Barbara Gaughen-Muller; to focus on the joy of couples deciding to be married
"Happy Birthday to You" Day -- tune composed this day in 1859
Independence Day / National Day -- Djibouti
Industrial Workers of The World Day -- founded this day in 1905
Martyrdom of Joseph & Hyrum Smith -- Mormon
Mixed Races Day -- Brazil
National Bomb Pop Day -- on the Thursday in June right before US Independence Day, to kick off the celebration with the original red, white, and blue bomb pops
National Handshake Day -- US; sponsored by professional development companies on the last Thursday in June, encouraging everyone to develop a good, professional handshake
National HIV Testing Day -- US
National Indian Pudding Day
National Orange Blossom Day
National Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Awareness Day -- US (by Senate resolution)
Seven Sleepers Day (Siebenschläfertag) -- Germany (according to legend, today's weather determines the pattern for the next seven weeks)
St. Ladislaus' Day (Patron of Szekszard, Hungary)
Sunglasses Day -- a reminder to wear those shades, protect your eyes from UV damage!
Birthdays Today:
Gabi Wilson, 1997
Madylin Sweeten, 1991
Ed Westwick, 1987
Drake Bell, 1986
Tobey Maguire, 1975
J.J. Abrams, 1976
Jason Patric, 1966
Isabelle Adjani, 1955
Julia Duffy, 1951
James Daughton, 1950
Norma Kamali, 1945
Shirley-Anne Field, 1938
H. Ross Perot, 1930
Bob "Captain Kangaroo" Keeshan, 1927
Helen Keller, 1880
Patrick Lafcadio "Koizumi Yakumo" Hearn, 1850
Charles Stewart Parnell, 1846
Debuting/Premiering Today:
Live and Let Die(Film), 1973
"Dark Shadows"(TV), 1966
"Captain Video and His Video Rangers"(TV), 1949
Today in History:
General James Wolfe begins the siege of Quebec, 1759
Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and his brother Hyrum Smith, are murdered by a mob at the Carthage, Illinois jail, 1844
George Dixon becomes the first black world boxing champion in any weight class, while also being the first ever Canadian-born boxing champion, 1890
The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia, 1898
Sailors start a mutiny aboard the Russian Battleship Potemkin, denouncing the crimes of autocracy, demanding liberty and an end to war, 1905
Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lt. John P. Richter perform the first ever aerial refueling in a DH-4B biplane, 1923
The United States decides to send troops to fight in the Korean War, 1950
The world's first nuclear power station opens in Obninsk, near Moscow, 1954
The world's first ATM is installed in Enfield, London, 1967
The President of Uruguay dissolves Parliament and heads a coup d'état, 1973
U.S president Richard Nixon visits the U.S.S.R., 1974
France grants independence to Djibouti, 1977
The current international treaty defending indigenous peoples, ILO 169 convention, is adopted, 1989
Slovenia, after declaring independence two days before, is invaded by Yugoslav troops, tanks, and aircraft, starting the Ten-Day War, 1991
Bill Gates resigns from Microsoft to focus on his charity work, 2008
The first democratic election in the history of Guinea is held, 2010
Tests show radioactive cesium is present in small quantities in residents of Iitate and Kawamata, Fukushima, towns located 25 miles from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, 2011
NASA launches IRIS, the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, a space probe to observe the Sun, 2013
The European Union fines Google a record $2.7 billion for unfair competition practices, 2017
The Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa 2 arrives at asteroid Ryugu, 2018
The science journal Nature publishes an article describing carbon-based molecules, previously only seen on Earth or in meteorites, that were found by the Cassini spacecraft on Saturn's moon Enceladus, 2018
Apple's chief designer, Jony Ive, designer of the iMac and the iPhone, announces he is leaving Apple after 30 years, 2019
A locust invasion is named "Swarmageddon" by The Times of India as it reaches Delhi, 2020
NASA launches a rocket from a commercial spaceport outside the US for the first time, at Arnhem Space Centre, Northern Territory, Australia, 2022
Archaeologists in the city of Pompeii uncover a fresco which shows a flatbread with toppings, possible evidence of "pizza" style foods as early as the first century, 2023
Wonderful natural fences.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
How I feel you with the photo and poem! I would want out too!
ReplyDeleteI liked the fence best in its first stages with the open feel.
Love the poem - and it just the way I feel.
ReplyDeleteI am also very pleased your check-up was good.
Those privacy fences look great when they are brand new, but they require a lot of maintenance or they really start to look bad in a couple years. We like our chain link. It isn't really pretty, but we can see what is going on and the maintenance is basically zero. Everyone has a preference.
ReplyDeleteYou have some fences today that have their own greenery.
ReplyDeleteThat was a good story and a fun poem too. Hey, that is a dandy thankful, good for you! Thanks for joining Angel Brian's Thankful Thursday Blog Hop!
ReplyDeleteShort and funny, perfect Six!
ReplyDeleteNice pics and poem.
ReplyDeleteHa Ha - love that story. And the poem, no crowds for Mom either. But she isn't that crazy about the snow:)
ReplyDeleteWoos - Misty and Timber
Glad your checkup was good. Great poem and story.
ReplyDeleteQuick and good with that Six! Nice fence too.
ReplyDeleteWe have the same idea of what celebrating Christmas should be and it does NOT include shopping like a maniac in a mall! LOL
ReplyDeleteHugs, Pam
"Because I can". Now THAT is the perfect answer, lol
ReplyDeleteGot the heebie jeebies looking at the crowd inspiring your poetry!
Charlee: "Now our Dada is over here singing something about how he's been 'hanginaround this town on the corner'. I have no idea what he's talking about as he hardly ever even leaves the house, let alone hangs around."
ReplyDeleteThe new fence looks sturdy and protective. :)
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