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"I wish I were an ice cream cone."
"Why in the world do you wish that?"
"Because then I'd be cold instead of so blastedly melty hot."
"But then you'd melt and be worse off than before, why not just wish for an ice cream cone."
"You're right, I wish I had an ice cream cone, or a big ol' sundae, or, wait, where are you going?"
"We're going to the ice cream shop, it's too hot today to do anything else!"
Linking up with Denise at Girlie On The Edge Blog, where she hosts Six Sentence Stories, and the cue is Cone.
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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:
C'mon, little buddy, let's run away,
go and have ourselves a day.
We'll splash in puddles and make a mess,
if they wanna know where we are, make 'em guess!
When we get too warm and need to beat the heat,
we'll head to the ice cream shop for something sweet!
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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 i had an eye doctor appointment this past Tuesday, and he said my cataracts are finally ready to come out!
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Today is:
Advice-to-the-Lovelorn-Day -- date, in 1896, the New Orleans Picayune first published the advice column of Dorothy Dix, Mother Confessor to Millions; it eventually ran in 300 papers for 55 years
All American Pet Photo Day
Bonfire Night -- Northern Ireland (precursor to The Twelfth a/k/a Orangemen's Day)
Bowdler's Day
China National Maritime Day -- People's Republic of China
Convenience Store Day -- the first Seven Eleven opened on this day in 1927 in Dallas, TX; it was open 7am to 11pm, thus the name
Day of the Flemish Community -- Flemish community of Belgium, commemorates the Battle of the Golden Spurs of 1302
Feast of Theano, Philosopher, Mathmatician, wife of Pythagoras, patron of vegetarianism (date approximate, supposedly when she was born)
Feast of Min -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)
Free Slurpee Day at Seven-Eleven -- if you have these stores where you live, stop by between 11am and 7pm to get a free 11.7oz. Slurpee (TM) today
Imamat Day -- Ismailism
Naadam Festival -- Mongolia (a/k/a Revolution Day/National Day, traditional sporting events nationwide, but best at Ulaanbaatar, through the 13th)
National Blueberry Muffin Day
National Cheer Up The Lonely Day -- begun by Francis Pesek of Detroit, Michigan; he chose to spend his birthday as a day to promote kindness, especially the forgotten at nursing homes and shut ins who have no visitors
National Culture Day and Uniwaine / Unaine Day -- Kiribati (Senior Citizens' Day, specifically Elderly Men's Day / Elderly Women's Day)
Oregon Trail Days -- Gering, NE, US (the oldest continuing celebration of the Oregon Trail; through Sunday)
Reading Guilt Day -- the day you are supposed to start reading that book you only read the Cliff's Notes on in school
St. Benedict's Day (Patron of agricultural workers, cavers/speliologists/spelunkers, civil engineers, coppersmiths, farm workers/farmers, Italian architects, monks, people in religious orders, people who are dying, school children, servants who have broken their masters belongings, students; Europe; Heerdt, Germany; Norcia, Italy; Subiaco, Italy; against erysipelas, fever, gall stones, inframmatory diseases, kidney disease, nettle rash, poison, temptations, and witchcraft)
World Population Day -- UN
Birthdays Today:
David Henrie, 1989
Marie Sernehold, 1983
Michael Rosenbaum, 1972
Justin Chambers, 1970
John Henson, 1967
Greg Grunberg, 1966
Rod Strickland, 1966
Al MacInnis, 1963
Lisa Rinna, 1963
Richie Sambora, 1960
Richie Sambora, 1959
Suzanne Vega, 1959
Mark Lester, 1958
Sela Ward, 1956
Leon Spinks, 1953
Stephen Lang, 1952
Bonnie Pointer, 1951
Beverly Todd, 1946
Giorgio Armani, 1934
Tab Hunter, 1931
Harold Bloom, 1930
Yul Brynner, 1920
E.B. White, 1899
John Quincy Adams, 1767
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Space Oddity"(Single release), 1969
"The Newlywed Game"(TV), 1966
To Kill A Mockingbird(Publication date), 1960
Today in History
Admiral Zheng He sets sail on his first exploratory expedition for the Ming Dynasty, 1405
Samuel de Champlain returns to Quebec, 1616
Jews are expelled from Little Russia, 1740
Halifax, Nova Scotia is almost completely destroyed by fire, 1750
Captain James Cook begins his third voyage, 1776
Jacques Necker is dismissed as France's Finance Minister sparking the Storming of the Bastille, 1789
French astronomer Jean-Louis Pons made his first comet discovery (he discovered 36 over the next 27 years, more than any other person), 1801
Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr mortally wounds former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton in a duel, 1804
Waterloo railway station in London opens, 1848
Tijuana, Mexico, is formally founded, 1889
The Lumière brothers demonstrate film technology to scientists, 1895
Babe Ruth makes his Major League debut, 1914
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is first published, 1960
The first U.S. space station, Skylab, is destroyed as it re-enters the Earth's atmosphere over the Indian Ocean, 1979
According to the UN, the Earth's population crosses the 5,000,000,000 mark, 1987
The United States announces it will reestablish full diplomatic relations with Vietnam, 1995
Colton Harris-Moore, the so-called "Barefoot Bandit", is caught in the Bahamas after a 2 year manhunt, 2010
Neptune completes its first orbit since its discovery on September 23, 1846, 2011
Pluto's fifth moon is discovered, 2012
The oldest stone tools outside of Africa are discovered in Lantian country, western China, estimated to be 2.12 million years old, 2018
Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft lands on the Ryugu asteroid 300km (185 miles) from earth for a second time to collect samples, 2019
The final Volkswagen Beetle cars roll off the assembly line in Pueblo, Mexico, ending worldwide production of the vehicle after 80 years, 2019
Rare mass anti-government protests in Cuba because of economic hardship and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic lead to widespread arrests, 2021
NASA reveals the first image from the Webb Space Telescope, cluster of galaxies called SMACS 0723 four billion light-years away, 2022
I love your poems, wonderfully hot and sunny - but oh, they make me long for real summer and icecream cones. We're two weeks into the Summer holidays and past summer solstice, for heavn's sake, but we STILL have measly 17 degress, cloudy and drizzle.
ReplyDeleteWe should be outside moaning a bit in the heat, collecting sunrays and memories against the coming winter.
On a more positive note: Gratz on soon having your cataracts out!
You just can't beat ice cream no matter what time of the year it is!
ReplyDeleteBIG smiles, both at your six sentence story and your poem.
ReplyDeleteStatistics on ice cream consumption in summer? Don't make me laugh! (half the fun is eating it before it melts, lol)
ReplyDeleteVery cute poem and lastly...yay! You'll have "new" eyes.
Mom was a huge ice cream fan until she changed her diet. Now she loves a bowl of cold fruit just as much. Eating something cold on a hot day is so nice.
ReplyDeleteWooden fence meets brick wall and go on a date. They have splinters.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
Ice Cream! What fun here today. And talk about a catio fence! No worry about Precious in that.
ReplyDeletefun Six! (in answer to the perennial question), "No, it is not!"
ReplyDeleteBecause I will be cold in about a month and a half and stay that way until this time next year.
Take me with you!
ReplyDeleteYum, yum, yum! Anytime is fine, although it's rather chilly in South Africa at the moment!
ReplyDeleteMOL our poem ended up with ice cream too!
ReplyDeletethankful for you and your talented writing skills ~ hugs
ReplyDeleteWishing you good health, laughter and love in your days,
A ShutterBug Explores,
aka (A Creative Harbor)
Cute story and poem. Sorry you need your cataracts removed, but things will be clearer after. XO
ReplyDeleteLots of ice cream fun today. I wish I could have ice cream, I miss it. Fun poem too and a great thankful, seeing clearer is amazing. Thanks for joining Angel Brian's Thankful Thursday Blog Hop!
ReplyDeleteIce cream sounds like a great idea to us. C'mon, Mom. Let's get the vanilla out right now
ReplyDeleteWoos - Misty and Timber
Now I want some ice cream! Nice story and poem.
ReplyDeleteIce cream... Yes! Yum!
ReplyDeleteGood thoughts for a quick repair and recovery on your cataracts.
Cat
Java Bean: "Ayyy, did somebody say ice cream?!"
ReplyDeleteLast summer I gave up icecream in favour of cold water, next summer I'm going back to ice cream.
ReplyDeleteI'm suddenly craving ice cream!
ReplyDeleteGood idea!
ReplyDeleteYou have such a wonderful way with wonderful poetry.....thanks for joining us - I look forward to seeing what your imagination has cooked up every week!
ReplyDeleteHugs, Pam (and Teddy too)