Thursday, September 26, 2024

Rough Job (Six Sentence Story), Good Fences, Sammy’s Poetry Day, Brian’s Thankful Thursday and Remember Me Thursday

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Ms. G's assignment yesterday was a tough one, clean out a house to make it move-in-ready for the new occupants.


It was not an absolute wreck, far from it, but after weeks of painters and flooring people and repairpersons of all sorts the toilets and kitchen sink were in rough shape, the tubs full of dust and grot and as always, the painters are supposed to clean up those spots but they never quite do.


The previous occupants had also left their fingerprints, splashes and splotches on cabinets and the child had gone to town on leaving hand prints all over one particularly hard to clean glass window (there were child safety latches on the lower cabinets of the kitchen and the prints were small, telling me at least one toddler aged person had lived there).


We dusted, and swept, and scrubbed, and mopped, and i about sandblasted those toilets into submission and they are now sanitary enough for anyone.


The worst part was the paint spots on the floors, all of which had to be scraped up by hand, one at a time, along with a few other things which had gotten stuck to the floors and would not come up without the very careful use of a metal scraper.


It took me and Sweetie about 6 hours of teamwork to make it happen and if this kind of work doesn't kill me, it will probably make me strong enough to reach 100+.




Linking up with Denise at Girlie On The Edge Blog, where she hosts Six Sentence Stories, and the cue is Wreck.      





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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, mom, that stuff is rank!

If it's gone, it's you I'll thank,

then, if you really wanna give me a break

have dad cook us a really big steak!



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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 we don't have a really tough cleaning job every week!






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Today is #RememberMeThursday, a day to shine the light on all the shelter pets that won't make it to a forever home.  Let's all spay and neuter our pets and #ShineALight on pet adoption.



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Today is:


Bureflux -- Discordian Calendar


Dia de la Bandera Nacional -- Ecuador (Day of the National Flag)


Dominion Day -- New Zealand (trad.)


European Day of Languages -- European Union


Festival of Venus Genetrix -- Ancient Roman Calendar


Haustmánuðr -- Icelandic Calendar (beginning of traditional Autumn Month, during which all the summer chores are finished, including livestock rounded up, before winter begins)


International Tool Day -- internet generated, now gladly embraced by toolmakers


Johnny Appleseed Day -- birth anniversary of John Chapman


Love Note Day -- take pen and paper and send that special someone a love note today, the idea of Leona Hamel of QC, Canada


Mesothelioma Awareness Day -- bringing to light this cancer caused by asbestos exposure 


National Pancake Day


Old Holy Rood Day -- OS calendar (the day blackberries become unsafe for picking) related observance

     Mid-Autumn Day -- Scottish Highlands (traditional; considered the day harts begin to mate and a weather prognostication day)


Search for Your Baseball Cards Again Day -- on lots of trivia sites; recommended because you never know


September Revolution Day -- Yemen (a/k/a First Revolution Day)


Stanislav Petrov Day -- remembering the day in 1983 when Comrade Petrov was given the order to return nuclear fire due to a faulty alarm system; he defied the order for hours, refusing to return fire believing it was a false alarm, which indeed was correct, and his disobedience saved the world!


Sts. Cosmas and Damian's Day (Patrons of apothecaries/druggists/pharmacists, barbers, blind people, chemical industry/manufacturers, doctors/physicians/surgeons, hairdressers, midwives, people with hernias; Alberobello, Italy; Ossimo, Italy; against blindness and pestilence) related observance:

     Begin now to lay in supplies for your Michaelmas supper on the 29th


United States Postal Service Day -- US (the first postmaster general under the current constitution, Samuel Osgood, was appointed this day in 1789)


World Contraception Day -- International


World Maritime Day -- UN and IMO (this year's theme is “Navigating the Future:  Safety First")       



Birthdays Today:


Serena Williams, 1981

Lawrence Leritz, 1962

Melissa Sue Anderson, 1962

Linda Hamilton, 1956

Jane Smiley, 1949

Mary Beth Hurt, 1948

Olivia Newton-John, 1948

Lynn Anderson, 1947

Brian Ferry, 1945

Anne Robinson, 1944

Kent McCord, 1942

Julie London, 1926

Jack LaLanne, 1914

George Gershwin, 1898

T.S. Eliot, 1888

Edmund Gwenn, 1877

John "Johnny Appleseed" Chapman, 1774

St. Francis of Assisi, 1181



Debuting/Premiering Today:


George(Magazine), 1995

"Knight Rider"(TV), 1982

"The Brady Bunch"(TV), 1969

"Hawaii Five-O"(TV), 1968

"Gilligan's Island"(TV), 1964

"The Beverly Hillbillies"(TV), 1962

"West Side Story"(Musical), 1957

"Lucia di Lammermoor"(Opera), 1835

"The Gladiator"(Play), 1831



Today in History:


In keeping a vow he made at the Battle of Pharsalus, Julius Caesar dedicates a temple to his mythical ancestor Venus Genetrix, BC 46

Sir Francis Drake returns to England with Spanish treasure, 1580

In a battle between Venetians and Turks in Athens, the Parthenon and Acropolis are seriously damaged, 1687

New Jersey passes a bill requiring a license to practice medicine, 1772

Thomas Jefferson is appointed the first Secretary of State of the US, 1789

Colonel Robert Gibbon Johnson proved tomatoes weren't poisonous by eating several on the steps of the courthouse in Salem, New Jersey, 1820

The Diamond Match Company patents book matches, 1892

New Zealand and Newfoundland each become dominions within the British Empire, 1907

Indonesia is admitted to the United Nations, 1950

Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in record-breaking time, 1973

The United Kingdom agrees to the handover of Hong Kong, 1984

An earthquake strikes the Italian regions of Umbria and the Marche, causing part of the Basilica of St. Francis at Assisi to collapse, 1997

Swiss pilot and inventor Yves Rossy becomes first person to fly a jet engine-powered wing across the English Channel, 2008

Georgia changes its second language from Russian to English, 2010

Saudi Arabia announces it is overturning its ban on women driving, the last country in the world to do so, 2017

108 pilot whales survive out of a total of 458 in Australia's largest mass stranding at Macquarie Harbour, Tasmania, 2020

In the first test of the planetary defense system, NASA's DART mission successfully crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos, 2022

19 comments:

  1. Love the picture and poem. I'm astonished at how some people leave their houses. We moved a lot and never ever left a house that wasn't thoroughly cleaned.

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  2. That sounds like a VERY tough cleaning job. I suspect I would feel 100 if I took it on.
    Smiling at your poem. Oh that face...

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  3. That does not seem fun at all. Mom isn't a fan of cleaning but it has to be done on a regular basis so she does it but cleaning the messes for others would not be for her. You do a wonderful job and people are lucky to have you to help them out.

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  4. You and your husband certainly had your hands full cleaning that house. I do enjoy looking at the fences. I actually don't see many around here where I live unless it's just a chain link fence in the backyard for the dog.

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  5. yeah you get every one, at least in the section that you have targeted (very wise in a strategic sense, you think) wipe it down and there! there's one! and it brought it's friends!
    ayyieee! the only more tedious than painting is cleaning up after a painter

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  6. That was sure a lot of work but I never doubted that you would get it done. Fun poem and a really good thankful too. Thanks for joining Angel Brian's Thankful Thursday Blog Hop!

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  7. Mrs G is some lucky to have you! Not so sure I'd recommend her paid help. There's nothing worse than cleaning up after contractors.

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  8. Lulu: "Our Dada says he feels sorry for whoever might have to clean up our house to make it ready for new occupants ... Hey, Dada, what?! We're not moving, are we? Oh good, he was just making an observation."

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  9. You go above and beyond for all your clients. I hope you get a bonus for all that. XO

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  10. That was one very big and difficult job you had to do. Glad Sweetie could help you. Our Mom knows the day is coming when she and Dad will need to downsize (she wants to do it now) so she keeps slowly weeding out the years and years of saved items all the while trying to keep those storage areas clean. It can be a monumental task.

    We enjoyed your poem.

    Woos - Misty and Timber

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  11. Gosh, I feel tired just reading about that cleaning job. Well done, you!

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  12. I always enjoy reading your Sixes - totally delightful.

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  13. I don't envy you that cleaning job, I don't even like cleaning my own mess! Picture/poem - perfect!

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  14. Well done, Ms G! All that clean... wow.

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  15. Happy Feline Friday! Have a wonderful weekend! :)

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  16. May that house ready job be the last of its kind!
    Poem/photo precious. Yes, if only they could talk at that age, lol
    Amen! to your thankful.

    #RememberMeThursday. An excellent reminder. There are so many animals waiting to be loved who will love you back in a way that is indescribable.

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  17. Ouchie on that cleaning job.....a lot of work! Your poem for that poor baby who obviously wasn't appreciative of Mom's choice for breakfast was PERFECT. Besides, a big old steak is good any time AT ALL but especially in exchange for some yucky pinky stuff on a spoon!

    Hugs, Pam and Teddy too

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  18. Bravo to you for getting the house clean ~ great poem and story and lovely fence photos too ~ hugs,

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

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  19. Boy, that sounds like an exhausting job, but I'm sure you two got it spic and span!

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