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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 River.
This week's words/prompts are:
1. owls
2. chess
3. telephone
4. crinkle
5. blustery
6. what have you done this time?
Also include Charlotte's colour of the month if you can: Orient Red
Have fun.
Granny was in the wicker rocker again, and still knitting. She'd finished the Orient Red scarf, and having some of the yarn left over, was working it in with a cheerful green to make a pair of Christmas mittens.
It was a BLUSTERY day in late fall, the kind where you hear the OWLS hoot starting earlier and earlier, and the CRINKLE of the fallen leaves under your feet was like an accompanying sound track to any walk in the park.
Dad wasn't expected home from work for another ten minutes or so and mom was in the kitchen getting dinner started when the TELEPHONE came to life with a loud jangle. Granny was closest, which was probably lucky for the two curly haired moppets as they'd struck again.
"Hello? Oh, hello Pastor Brooks...they what!" At this point, Granny stifled a laugh with a cough and said, "I see. Well, make them undo it and send them home, we'll make sure it doesn't happen again."
Mom came into the room looking anxious as Granny started to laugh. "What did they do this time?" mom finally had to burst out.
"Wrapped the pastor's whole car in plastic wrap!" she gasped out. "Those two are geniuses! Trying to figure out where they'll break out next is like trying to stay ahead in a CHESS game, you'd have to think several steps ahead of the person you're playing and I never could do that, but lawsey, those two!"
Dad came in just about the same time as the children and saw Granny shaking her head but smiling and mom standing with her serious look and with a sigh he said, "What have you done this time?"
The whole story came out, there'd been a game at the children's summer picnic at church, prizes had been wrapped in plastic wrap and you had to unwrap it and everybody had 20 seconds and then the next person got to try and prizes fell out as you got to them and they'd been trying to figure out a way to unwrap faster and they knew the church kitchen had the big things of plastic wrap for after the church meals for wrapping leftovers, and they'd decided instead of wrapping prizes they'd wrap a car because it would be funny, and the pastor's car was there in a corner by itself that day...
"Enough," dad finally said. "No desserts and no TV for a week, you have to come straight home from school every day, apologize to the pastor, and this Saturday will be spent washing his car. And don't you ever fool with anyone's car ever again!"
The pastor, of course, saw the humor in it eventually, and they kept to not ever fooling with cars again. Boats, however, were another matter...
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Today is:
Armed Forces Day -- Mozambique
Banned Websites Awareness Day -- sponsored by the American Association of School Librarians
International Ataxia Awareness Day -- highlighting the difficulties of living with the many forms of ataxia
Kamarampaka Day -- Rwanda (Republic Day, marks the 1961 abolition of the monarchy)
Math Storytelling Day -- the brainchild of Maria Droujkova
National Comic Book Day -- internet generated, but go read one, they are fun
National Crabmeat Newberg Day
National Day of Remembrance for Murder Victims -- US
National Food Service Employees Day -- because everyone wants to eat out once in a while
National One-Hit Wonder Day -- US, remembering those who had only one hit on the rock charts
National Psychotherapy Day -- US (a day to wear turquoise and encourage education about how psychotherapy can help people)
National Women's Health and Fitness Day -- US, sponsored by Fitness Day
National Youth Day -- Nauru
Old Holy Rood Eve -- OS calendar Holy Cross Eve, the last day to pick blackberries (after this, the devil poisons them because when he fell from heaven, he landed in a blackberry bush)
St. Cadoc's Day (Patron of the deaf; against cramps, deafness, glandular disorders, scrofula)
St. Finbarr's Day (Patron of Barra, Scotland; Cork, Ireland)
World Ataxia Awareness Day
World Pharmacists Day -- International Pharmaceutical Federation; this year's theme is "Pharmacists: Caring for you."
Birthdays Today:
Lee Norris, 1981
Catherine Zeta-Jones, 1969
Will Smith, 1968
Scottie Pippen, 1965
Tate Donovan, 1963
Aida Turturro, 1962
Heather Locklear, 1961
Michael Madsen, 1959
Jamie Hyneman, 1956
Christopher Reeve, 1952
Mark Hamill, 1951
Cheryl Tiegs, 1947
Michael Douglas, 1944
Robert Walden, 1943
Juliet Prowse, 1936
Glenn Gould, 1932
Barbara Walters, 1931
Shel Silverstein, 1930
Phil Rizzuto, 1918
Dmitri Shostakovich, 1906
Walter Wesley "Red" Smith, 1905
William Faulkner, 1897
Jean Phillippe Rameau, 1683 (baptismal date, as actual birth anniversary is unknown)
Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, 1358 (Japanese Shogun)
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Beauty and the Beast"(TV), 1987
"Stepping Out"(Play), 1984
"Winterset"(Play), 1935
"Dorothy"(Comic opera), 1886
Today in History:
St. Ferment is beheaded in Amiens, France, after voyaging there to preach the gospel, 303
The Battle of Stamford Bridge marks the end of the Anglo-Saxon era, 1066
Columbus begins his second voyage, with 17 ships, 1493
Vasco Nunez de Balboa becomes the first European to see the Pacific Ocean from the west coast of the Americas, 1513
The first printing press in the Americas begins operations, 1639
Old Style date; two very accurate clocks are set in motion at the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, England, the start of Greenwich Mean Time, 1676
Ethan Allan, American Revolutionary War hero, is captured, 1775
Benedict Arnold joins the British, 1780
The first all-black university in the US, Howard University, is created by Congress, 1867
Yosemite National Park is established by Congress, 1890
Charles Follis becomes the first black to play professional American football, 1904
Birth of the remote control -- Leonardo Torres Quevedo successfully demonstrates the invention of the "Telekino" and guides a boat from the shore in the port of Bilbao, 1906
Jimmy Doolittle performs the first blind flight from Mitchel Field proving that full instrument flying from take off to landing is possible, 1929*
Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated by the use of United States Army troops, 1957
In a referendum, the people of Norway reject membership of the European Community, 1972
Belize joins the United Nations, 1981
The last of the Magdalene Asylums closes in Ireland, 1996
The Vitim event, a possible bolide (comet nucleus) impact in Siberia, Russia, 2002
China launches the spacecraft Shenzhou 7, 2008
The Wildlife Authority of Uganda announces that, since 1999, the population of some of the animals in the country's game reserves have doubled in population, 2010
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia announces that women will now be able to vote and run in municipal elections, 2011
Singapore closes schools due to hazardous levels of air pollution from fires in Indonesia, 2015
World's largest radio telescope at 500m wide in Guizhou Province, China begins operating, 2016
For the first time ever, a woman graduates from the US Marine Corps' Infantry Officer Course, 2017
Hazzaa AlMansoori becomes first Emirati in space and first Arab astronaut to travel to the International Space Station, travelling on Russian Soyuz-MS 15 spacecraft, 2019
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the first woman to lie in state in the US Capitol in Washington D.C., 2020
They wrapped an entire car? oh boy! those two sure are mischevious. Great story.
ReplyDeleteWell done Mimi - clever moppets ... delightful story - cheers Hilary
ReplyDeleteThis is wonderful. I can't wait to read what they got up to with boats...
ReplyDeleteIroning boards never do the ironing. You still have to do it yourself. God bless.
ReplyDeleteWe are surprised by how many people don't iron anymore. Some things must be ironed to look right. Love wrapping the car in plastic, great prank even if they got into trouble.
ReplyDeleteThat is the fanciest one I ahve seen lol
ReplyDeleteHave a creaselesstastic week mimi 👍
Wrapping a car, lol. I do not have an ironing board any longer. I never ever liked ironing, and as my mother taught me how with my father's hankerchiefs and his boxers. Onto pillow cases , etc.
ReplyDeleteI suppose, if it hangs on the wall it's a piece of interior decor but I have never put much thought into the pattern of our ironing board cover.
ReplyDeleteThat is some fancy cover and a really fun story too.
ReplyDeleteOh the kids are a hoot. They bring us such wonderful laughs. I love your use of the prompts. You always make me smile.
ReplyDeleteThank you for joining the Wordless Wednesday Blog Hop.
Have a fabulous Wordless Wednesday. Love and hugs. ♥
What poppets those moppets are! Your story creased me up, thank goodness for the ironing board!
ReplyDeleteLOL cute story.
ReplyDeleteWe desperately need a new ironing board cover. We iron the impressions in the metal into our clothes now.
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like you need eyes in the back of your head for those children! It doesn't matter how fancy the ironing board is, it just does the same job.
ReplyDeleteI iron so little that in 32 years I have never had to replace my board cover. :) Great story-is it based on your husband and his brother? XO
ReplyDeleteWow. That's pretty fancy. What the heck is a turbo zone?
ReplyDeleteChaplin: "Hmm, that's an interesting-looking scratching post ..."
ReplyDeleteGreat use of the prompts and fun photo of an 'ironboard' ~ hugs,
ReplyDeleteWishing you good health, laughter and love in your days,
clm ~ A ShutterBug Explores,
aka (A Creative Harbor)