Thursday, October 31, 2024

A Warning (Six Sentence Story), Good Fences, Sammy’s Poetry Day, Brian’s Thankful Thursday and Happy Halloween!

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They skulk, skitter and scuttle.


All are disguised, at least to a degree.


Speed is their friend.


Darkness does not deter, in fact, it enhances the experience.


They are many, but all have one agenda, and there's no need to call the police or any other agency in charge.


Tonight is The Great Neighborhood Candy Exchange, a/k/a Halloween, and the little costume wearers will be out for sweets, so beware!



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





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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:    





We know this looks quite spooky

like Normal Rockwell gone wrong,

but our friend the cat next door

asked us to come along.


He said we were to wear costumes

and he'd give us a treat,

each year he pretends to scare us

and his bacon cookies can't be beat!



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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 had an excellent talk last night at Bible study in the context of the life of Joseph about using perceptive trust.






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Cousin Itt says good-bye for another year!


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Today is:


Admission Day -- Nevada, US


Allantide -- Cornwall, England


All Hallows Eve -- Christian


Apple and Candle Night -- Wales


Books for Treats Day -- San Jose, CA, US (give gently used books to kids, not candy -- feed their brains, not their cavities!)


Chiang Kai-Shek Day -- Taiwan


Day of the Seven Billion -- day in 2011 the UN declared the world population to have reached 7,000,000,000   


Deepavali/Diwali(Festival of Lights) -- Hindu; Jain; Sikh (3rd day of the festival)

     Gai Tihar and Laxmi Puja -- Day of Cows and Laxmi (goddess of wealth; day three of the festival)


Dia de las Iglesias Evangelicas y Protestantes -- Chile (Day of Evangelical and Protestant Churches/Reformation Day)


Dias de los Muertos -- Mexico, esp. Michoacan and Oaxaca (through Nov. 2; ceremonies, sand sculptures, decorated altars, and parties through the nights in the cemetaries)


Dookie Apple Night -- Newcastle, England


Duck Apple Night -- Liverpool, England


Feast of Sekhmet Bast Ra -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)


Festival of Inner Worlds -- Pagan (fight between the old and new year)


Founder's Day -- Girl Scouts of the USA (Juliette Gordon Low's birth anniversary)


Ghostwriter's Day


Hallowe'en or Beggar's Night


Increase Your Psychic Powers Day -- originated in England in the 19th century, some celebrated on the 30th


Martyr's Day -- Burkina Faso


National Candy/Caramel Apple Day


National Knock-Knock Joke Day

     Knock, Knock

     Who's There?

     Police.

     Police who?

     Police stop telling knock-knock jokes!


National Magic Day -- Society of American Magicianswww.magicsam.com (in honor of Harry Houdini, who died on this day in 1926, and who was president of the SoAM)


National UNICEF Day


Nut-Crack Night -- England; Scotland


Old Celtic New Year's Eve


Out of the Broom Closet Day -- Pagan, Heathen, and all earth-based and ethnic religions


Punkie Night -- Hinton St George, Somerset, England (a celebration for children and adults who carry candle-lit punkies -- the best one wins a prize -- made out of mangel-wurzels, a type of beet, and sing old punkie songs asking for money or treats)


Reformation Day -- Protestant Christian (trad.)

     Official Holiday -- Germany; Slovenia


Samhain (northern hemisphere) / Beltane (southern hemisphere) -- Druids, Gaels, Welsh peoples, Neopagans, Wiccans (begins at sunset)


Scare a Friend Day -- just not so much that s/he isn't a friend any more


Senior Absurdity Day -- Horace Mann School, Bronx, NY, US (a day the kids look forward to each year)


Sneak Some of the Candy Yourself Before the Kids Start Knocking Day


St. Quentin's Day (Patron against coughs)


St. Wolfgang of Ratisbon's Day (Patron of apoplexics, carpenters, paralysed people, stroke victims; Regensburg, Germany; against apoplexy, paralysis, stomach diseases, strokes)


Thump-the-Door Night -- Isle of Mann


Trick or Treat Night


Vetmaetr -- Norse Calendar (Winter Nights; beginning of winter, the New Year, and the start of Odin leading the Wild Hunt)


Youth Honor Day -- Iowa, US




Anniversaries Today:


Mt. Rushmore is completed, 1941

Nevada becomes the 36th US State, 1864



Birthdays Today:


Robert "Vanilla Ice" Van Winkle, 1967

Adam Horovitz, 1966

Dermot Mulroney, 1963

Rob Schneider, 1963

Peter Jackson, 1961

Larry Mullen, Jr., 1961

John Candy, 1950

Jane Pauley, 1950

Deidre Hall, 1947

Stephen Rea, 1943

David Ogden Stiers, 1942

Ron Rifkin, 1939

Michael Landon, 1936

Dan Rather, 1931

Michael Collins, 1930

Barbara Bel Geddes, 1922

Dale Evans, 1912

Ethel Waters, 1896

Chaing Kai-shek, 1887

Juliette Gordon Low, 1860

John Keats, 1795

William Paca, 1740

Jan Vermeer, 1632



Debuting/Premiering Today:


"Car Talk"(Radio), 1987 (national debut, ten years after their start as a local show in Boston)

"Jamaica"(Musical), 1957

"Capricio Espagnol"(Rimsky-Korsakov Op. 34), 1887

"Tamerlano"(Handel opera, HWV 18), 1724



Today in History:


Ezra reads the Book of the Law to the Israelites after their return to Jerusalem from exile, BC445

First All Hallows Eve observed to honor all the saints, 834

Martin Luther posts his 95 Theses on the Wittenberg church door, marks the beginning of the Protestant Reformation, 1517

Georg Ludwig van Hannover is crowned as the English King George I, 1714

Execution of Girondins at Paris during the Reign of Terror, 1793

Sir Humphrey Davy of London patents the miner's safety lamp, 1815

A standard uniform is approved for US Postal workers, 1868

A tropical cyclone hits Bengal, about 200,000 die, 1876

John Boyd Dunlop patents the pneumatic bicycle tire, 1888

Arthur Conan Doyle publishes "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", 1892

Dedication of the Lincoln Highway, the first automobile road across United States, 1913

The Battle of Beersheba of WWI marks the last successful cavalry charge in history, 1917

The first of 160 consecutive days of 100°F + temps at Marble Bar, Australia, 1923

World Savings Day is announced in Milan, Italy by the Members of the Association at the 1st International Savings Bank Congress, 1924

Mt. Rushmore sculptures are completed, 1941

The United Kingdom and France begin bombing Egypt to force the reopening of the Suez Canal, 1956

Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated by two security guards, 1984

EgyptAir Flight 990 traveling from New York City to Cairo crashes off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts, killing all 217 on-board, 1999

Yachtsman Jesse Martin returns to Melbourne after 11 months of circumnavigating the world, solo, non-stop and unassisted, 1999

Soyuz TM-31 launches, carrying the first resident crew to the International Space Station, which has been continually crewed since, 2000

Surfer Bethany Hamilton loses her left arm and 3 liters of blood in a tiger shark attack; within a month she would be back on her board, and competing again within the year, 2003

The NYSE reopens after its first weather related shut down since the late 19th century; the two-day closure was due to Hurricane Sandy, 2012

In a landmark verdict, the Pakistani Supreme Court acquits a Christian woman of blasphemy against the prophet Mohammed after she has spent eight years on death row, 2018

A fire destroys most of the historic Shuri Castle, once seat of the Ryukyu Kingdom, on the island of Okinawa, Japan, 2019

The world's largest solar farm goes live in Sirindhorn Reservoir, Thailand, 2021

President of Kenya William Ruto holds a state dinner for King Charles III in Nairobi at which he gives a speech, stating, “the wrongdoings of the past are a cause of the greatest sorrow and the deepest regret,” 2023

18 comments:

  1. Thank you for lots of smiles towards the end of a busy and sometimes fraught day.

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  2. All the yard decorations are fabulous and I like the poem with the dogs attending the cat's party.

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  3. Itt all boils down to having a good time. Thanks for sharing your neighbourhood with us, and a very Happy Hallowe'en to all.

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  4. I love your trick-or-trick poem, and that image of the dogs wearing ghosty costumes is a joy.

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  5. Those are some Grand Halloween decorations! We will be hiding in our house tonight with the lights off so no one comes by. It is too stressful having costumed humans at our door constantly so we will help Mom pack for our trip tomorrow instead. Happy Howloween to you!

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  6. Happy Halloween and hope trick or treat is fun for the kiddies. Love the yard photos!

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  7. Love the Halloween post and the fun photos. Such a nice thankful too. Thanks for joining Angel Brian's Thankful Thursday Blog Hop!

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  8. Great poem ~ post and photos ~ Happy Halloween ~
    Hugs,

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

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  9. What a timely (and fun) Six!
    (P. works the door, I keep the k-9 serene.) lol

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  10. Cute story and poem. I love the decorating, especially Cousin Itt.

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  11. Happy Halloween, Mimi! Have fun!
    Great poem (who's not crazy over bacon cookies, lol) Always fun to see how people decorate.

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  12. So many incredible Halloween displays!!! Our doorbell is starting to ding dong a lot now as the trick or treaters are now arriving.

    Happy Halloween.

    Woos - Misty and Timber

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  13. Trick-or-treating photo is really fun, and your poem just fits the photo.

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  14. Many superb things on your post - I love the 3 dogs best though!!

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  15. Bacon cookies - I'd put a costume on and go trick or treating if the neighbors would make some bacon cookies for me!!! Mom and I love the poem!!

    Hugs, Teddy

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  16. Wonderful grab bag of Halloween treats!

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  17. Lulu: "We had a good Halloween here! As usual, Mama and Dada put out a box of candy so that the ghosts and goblins wouldn't drive us crazy at the door—"
    Java Bean: "Although I still barked at them because I knew they were out there!"
    Lulu: "—and even though somebody apparently spilled the box on the ground, there was still candy left at the end of the night. Dada says in the 15 years or so they've been doing it this way, only one year did somebody take all the candy."

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