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Thursday, July 11, 2024

Sweet! (Six Sentence Story), Good Fences, Sammy’s Poetry Day and Brian’s Thankful Thursday

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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

22 comments:

  1. 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.
    We 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!

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  2. You just can't beat ice cream no matter what time of the year it is!

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  3. BIG smiles, both at your six sentence story and your poem.

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  4. Statistics on ice cream consumption in summer? Don't make me laugh! (half the fun is eating it before it melts, lol)
    Very cute poem and lastly...yay! You'll have "new" eyes.

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  5. 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.

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  6. Wooden fence meets brick wall and go on a date. They have splinters.

    God bless.

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  7. Ice Cream! What fun here today. And talk about a catio fence! No worry about Precious in that.

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  8. fun Six! (in answer to the perennial question), "No, it is not!"
    Because I will be cold in about a month and a half and stay that way until this time next year.

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  9. Yum, yum, yum! Anytime is fine, although it's rather chilly in South Africa at the moment!

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  10. MOL our poem ended up with ice cream too!

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  11. thankful for you and your talented writing skills ~ hugs

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

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  12. Cute story and poem. Sorry you need your cataracts removed, but things will be clearer after. XO

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  13. Lots 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!

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  14. Ice cream sounds like a great idea to us. C'mon, Mom. Let's get the vanilla out right now

    Woos - Misty and Timber

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  15. Now I want some ice cream! Nice story and poem.

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  16. Ice cream... Yes! Yum!
    Good thoughts for a quick repair and recovery on your cataracts.
    Cat

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  17. Java Bean: "Ayyy, did somebody say ice cream?!"

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  18. Last summer I gave up icecream in favour of cold water, next summer I'm going back to ice cream.

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  19. You 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!

    Hugs, Pam (and Teddy too)

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