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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.
The prompts will be posted by Elephant's Child this month and are provided by Sean Jeating.
This week's prompts are:
- catch,
- hurry,
- panting,
- running,
- train,
and/or
- forehead,
- minutes,
- saved,
- seats,
- sweat
Charlotte (MotherOwl) has given us Pebble Grey as the colour of the month. If you can also incorporate it into your stories she (and I) will be grateful.
The SWEAT forms on your FOREHEAD just thinking about the old days on the school bus. The HURRY to CATCH it, be careful not to trip on the Pebble Gray sidewalk RUNNING for it, PANTING when you finally get on.
Then trying to get a place and most of the SEATS are taken, that one is being SAVED for a friend who gets on later, you have to rush to find a place because the bus is on a time crunch, if the driver gets caught waiting for the TRAIN, you'll all be several MINUTES late to school and he'll have to go to the office to get everyone excused so you don't get a tardy slip.
Nope, i do not miss the school bus at all.
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Today is:
Batik Day -- Indonesia (UNESCO designated Indonesian batik as a Masterpiece of Oral and Intangible Heritage)
Day of Appearance of the Primordial/Eight Great Netjers -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)
Gandhi Jayanti -- India (Mahatma Gandhi's birth anniversary)
Go for a Stroll After Dinner Night -- because it's healthy
Guardian Angels Day -- recognize and thank your own Guardian Angel
Feast of Guardian Angels -- Spain (patrons of the police force)
Independence Day -- Guinea(1958)
International Day of Non-Violence -- UN, in honor of Gandhi's birth anniversary
Mehregan -- Iran (pre-Muslim Zoroastrian festival of Persia to honor Mehr, which means friendship, affection, and love; also called Persian Festival of Autumn)
Name Your Car Day (and i hope you don't have to name it "Old Unreliable")
National Custodial Workers Day -- US
National Fried Scallops Day
Old Man's Day -- Braughing, Herts, England (in honor of a 16th-Century man's escape from premature interment; he left money for a street sweeping and celebration on this day which is still observed)
Phileas Fogg's Wager Day -- he made his famous wager, according to Jules Verne, this day in 1872
Rosh Hashanah -- Judaism (begins this evening; through the evening of the 4th)
St. Leger's Day (a/k/a Leodegar; Patron of blind people, millers; against blindness and sore eyes)
World Farm Animals Day
Anniversaries Today:
Redwood National Park is established in CA, US, 1968
Birthdays Today:
Paul Teutul, Jr., 1974
Kelly Ripa, 1970
Lorraine Bracco, 1955
Sting, 1951
Annie Leibovitz, 1949
Donna Karan, 1948
Don McLean, 1945
Rex Reed, 1938
Moses Gunn, 1929
George "Spanky" McFarland, 1928
"Sheriff John" Rovick, 1919
Alex Raymond, 1909
Graham Greene, 1904
Bud Abbot, 1895
Ruth Cheney Streeter, 1895
Groucho Marx, 1890
Cordell Hull, 1871
Mahatma Gandhi, 1869
King Richard III of England, 1452
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Moon Over Buffalo"(Play), 1995
"Ben Casey"(TV), 1961
"The Twilight Zone"(TV), 1959
"Alfred Hitchcock Presents"(TV), 1955
"The George Gobel Show"(tv), 1954
"The Jimmy Durante Show"(TV), 1954
"Comedy in Music"(Victor Borge one man musical), 1953
Peanuts(Comic strip by Charles Schultz), 1950
"Ah, Wilderness"(Play), 1933
Volkskrant(Dutch newspaper, first edition), 1919
Today in History:
Saladin takes Jerusalem from the Crusaders, 1187
Jacques Cartier discovers Mount Royal (Montreal), 1535
Kazan is conquered by Ivan the Terrible, 1552
Jan Lippershey completes a prototype of the modern reflecting telescope, 1608
George Washington transmits the Bill of Rights to the States for ratification, 1789
The Texas Revolution begins with the Battle of Gonzales against Mexican troops attempting to disarm the people of Gonzales, Texas, and meeting with stiff resistance, 1835
J Osterhoudt patents the tin can with key opener, 1866
John Logie Baird performs the first test of a working television system, 1925
The "Prelature of the Holy Cross and the Work of God", commonly known as Opus Dei, is founded by Saint Josemaría Escrivá, 1928
Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz is first published, 1950
The anthology series The Twilight Zone premieres on CBS television, 1959
Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first African-American justice of United States Supreme Court, 1967
NATO backs US military strikes following 9/11, 2001
American Samoa joins the North American Numbering Plan, 2004
NFL plays first regular season game outside United States when the Arizona Cardinals defeat the San Francisco 49ers 31-14 in Mexico City, Mexico, 2005
The parliamentary election in Georgia is determed by the OSCE to be "fair and free", 2012
Veteran broadcaster Vin Scully calls his final LA Dodgers game (7-1 loss in SF) after a record 67 MLB seasons, 2016
US scientists Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael Young are awarded the Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine for work on the body clock, 2017
A massive oil slick from a pipeline is discovered off California's Orange County coast covering 13 square miles, 2021
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for discoveries that enabled mRNA vaccine development, 2023
Love your Wordless Wednesday - and I also don't miss the school bus at all. Great use of Sean's prompts.
ReplyDeleteGood story. We never had school buses where I went to school, kids either walked or rode their bikes, it was a small town with three primary schools spaced out to serve the suburbs and one highschool. Years later a second highschool was built.
ReplyDeleteLOL too many birthday candles heheh! :-)
ReplyDeleteHave a candlelesstastic week mimi 👍
Best wishes and God bless you always, Mimi.
ReplyDeleteI would be afraid to have the full amount of birthday candles too!
ReplyDeleteThe cut off point for getting the school bus was 3 miles and I lived within a few yards of that so walked every day. Back then we thought nothing of it, but I know there are people in the village who get the car out for the 1/4 mile drive to the local infant school. It would do the parent and child good to walk that very short distance.
What a great sign for a birthday! Gramma had 80 candles on her cake when she turned 80. It was crazy!
ReplyDeleteNever put birthday candles on my birthday cake again. There would definitely be enough to set off a fire extinguisher.
ReplyDeleteI have the same problem with the fire risk. You made me laugh out loud.
ReplyDeleteWhat a fond memory. You made me think of my bus ride to school each morning and afternoon. It was a very long ride for me. We lived about 12 miles from my high school.
Thank you for joining the Wordless Wednesday Blog Hop.
Have a fabulous Wordless Wednesday. Hugs, my friend. ♥
I'd need a pretty big cake for my lot! My secondary school was 16 miles away, so I know all about school busses!
ReplyDeleteFun post and photo ~ yep too many candles sometimes ~ hugs,
ReplyDeleteWishing your good health, laughter and love in your days,
clm ~ A ShutterBug Explores,
aka (A Creative Harbor)
I always lived close enough to school that I didn't have to ride a school bus. LOL about the birthday candles.
ReplyDeleteI like the moveable feast idea. Having a word to build upon is quite intriguing.
ReplyDeleteThat brought back ad memories- I don't miss the bus at all either. My little nieces have assigned seats. XO
ReplyDeleteThat must have been quite the fiery hot party:)
ReplyDeleteMom is glad she never had to ride the school bus - too much drama:)
Woos - Misty and Timber
Mom didn't have to ride the school bus a lot but enough to never wish it on anyone. I wonder if Spanky is still living?
ReplyDeleteYes, we know all about too many birthday candles LOL! Good story. I never road a school bus, I always walked to school back in the day.
ReplyDeleteImagine! Taking the bus/train or even walking to school.
ReplyDeleteRecently, the cute little ones have to be driven 250 metres to school themselves so that they arrive safely.
Good one, Mimi!
Haha. That's true about the candles! We had to ride the city bus, as the school bus didn't come by our house.
ReplyDeleteJava Bean: "Ayyy, stand back and light 'em up!"
ReplyDeleteToo many birthday candles ... we solved this by using bigger ones counting for 10 years each, and then smaller for each single year after that.
ReplyDeleteSchool buses were not a thing where I lived at all, You walked or rode your bike to school. I read about school buses in faraway countries ;)