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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:
- desert,
- dream,
- machos,
- planet,
- treatment,
and/or
- bags,
- behind,
- four,
- infinity,
- walk
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.
"I do loathe going shopping in the rain," she said, with a glare at the Pebble Grey sky that seemed to stretch on to INFINITY. "Sometimes I think it would be nice to live in a DESERT."
"I'm not sure you'd want to schlep all these BAGS in the heat, either," her husband said. Then he added, "It probably doesn't help to carry FOUR or five of them at a time."
"I want to make fewer trips," she almost growled as they went through the kitchen to the pantry, "and a girl can DREAM for a minute, can't she?"
He wisely said nothing and they started putting things away. A few minutes later she said, "I really shouldn't grouse, but having to be out in the rain is one of my least favorite things. I know it could be worse."
"Yeah, I could be one of those MACHOS who makes his wife WALK BEHIND him or something," he smirked, "and didn't help with the groceries."
"Huh, I'd ditch you so fast your head would spin. It's hard to believe such TREATMENT of women still exists on our PLANET in this day."
"I know. How about, since we're both about done with this day, I dig the two pizzas out of the chest freezer and we just heat those for supper, easier than cooking."
"You have pizzas hidden in the chest freezer?"
"Of course. How else would I prepare for a 2am pizza emergency?"
"You're nuts, but you're on. And don't forget to replace the pizzas on the way home from work tomorrow. Pizza emergencies don't just happen to guys, you know."
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Today is:
Abolition Day -- Saint Barthelemy
Bring Your Teddy Bear to Work Day -- at your own risk! sponsored by Susan E. Schwartz of "Teddies Are The Answer"
Cephalopod Awareness Days: Nautilus Night -- celebrating the most intelligent invertebrates in the world; today, celebrate all of the lesser-known extant cephalopods
Community Day -- Valencia, Spain
Emergency Nurses Day
Establishment of the Samitinget in Norway -- Sami People's Parliament
Feast of Abraham the Patriarch -- Christian
Festival for Fausta Felicitas -- Ancient Roman Calendar (goddess of good luck and joy)
Festival for Venus -- Ancient Roman Calendar
Give Peace a Chance Day / Instant Karma Day -- in honor of the birth of John Lennon
Guayaquil Independence Day -- Ecuador
Independence Day -- Uganda(1962)
Korean Alphabet Day -- Korea (Hangul Nal)
Leif Erickson Day -- Iceland; Norway; Minnesota and Wisconsin, US
Messenger Appreciation Day -- 10/9 in radio talk is a request to repeat information
Moldy Cheese Day (sorry, but i do not like the stinky, moldy cheeses, at least not the heavier ones; if you enjoy them, then by all means you may have my share!)
Mop Fair -- Tewkesbury, England (through tomorrow; festival dating back to the 12th century, originally a fair in which prospective employers came to find laborers, now two days of fun, fairgrounds rides, traditional games and sideshows, and more)
National Chess Day -- US (declared by President Ford in 1976)
National Day of Honor -- Peru (sometimes translated as Day of Dignity; commemorates the nationalization of the countries' oil fields)
National Pet Obesity Awareness Day -- because about half of pets in the US are overweight or obese
National Stop Bullying Day -- use #NationalStopBullyingDay to post on social media (begun in 2009 by eighteen 6th grade students at St. Stanislaus Kostka School, now a nationwide movement)
National Submarine/Grinder/Hoagie/Hero/PoBoy/Pierogi Day -- each of these has its own special day, but today you get to pick which one you want
SAVE Today -- US (Stop America's Violence Everywhere, a day created in 1995 by the American Medical Association Alliance)
St. Denis' Day (Patron of possessed people; France; Paris, France; against frenzy, headaches, rabies, and strife)
St. Dionysius the Areopagite's Day (considered the first Bishop of Athens, mentioned in Acts 17; Patron of Zakynthos Island, Greece; against headaches and the devil)
St. Louis Bertrand's Day (Patron of Caribbean vicariates; Columbia; Dominican novices)
Takayama Matsuri Autumn Festival -- Takayama, Japan (ancient, elaborate floats parade through the old city; through tomorrow)
Tavistock Goose Fair -- Tavistock, Devon, UK (known locally as the Goosey, dating back to 12th-century Michaelmas fairs, this orginal livestock fair is now mostly a fun festival)
World Post Day / Universal Postal Union Day -- UN
Ziua Nationala de Comemorare a Holocaustului -- Romania (National Day of Commemorating the Holocaust)
Anniversaries Today:
Mission San Francisco de Asis, the oldest building in the city of San Francisco and now called Mission Delores, is founded, 1776
King Louis XII of France marries Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VIII of England, 1514
Birthdays Today:
Zachary Ty Bryan, 1981
Brandon Routh, 1979
Eddie Guerrero, 1967
David Cameron, 1966
Michael Pare, 1959
Mike Singletary, 1958
Tony Shalhoub, 1953
Scott Bakula, 1954
Sharon Osbourne, 1952
Robert Wuhl, 1951
Jackson Browne, 1948
John Entwistle, 1944
Brian Lamb, 1941
Joe Pepitone, 1940
John Lennon, 1940
Russell Myers, 1938
Donald Sinden, 1923
Jacques Tati, 1908
Bruce, Catton, 1899
Alfred Dreyfus, 1859
Camille Saint-Saens, 1835
Mary Ann Shadd Cary, 1823 (with her husband, the first black newspaper publishers in the US)
Robert de Sorbon, 1201 (founded Sorbonne University, Paris)
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"High Button Shoes"(Musical), 1949
"The Iceman Cometh"(Play), 1946
"June Moon"(Play), 1929
"Topaz"(Play)1928
Today in History:
Leif Ericson discovers "Vinland" (somewhere in New England or Nova Scotia, possibly?), 1000
Leif Ericson lands in L'Anse aux Meadows, Canada, a definitive European landing in the "New World", 1003
The Korean Hangual alphabet is devised, 1446
Founder of Rhode Island Roger Williams is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony as a religious dissident after he speaks out against punishments for religious offenses and giving away Native American land, 1635
Collegiate School of CT (Yale University) is chartered in New Haven, 1701
Father Francisco Palou founds Mission San Francisco de Asis in what is now San Francisco, California, 1776
City of Hobart, Tasmania, founded, 1804
Official opening of the University of Ghent, 1817
Isaac Singer patents the sewing machine motor, 1855
Joshua Stoddard of Worcester, Mass., patents the first Calliope, 1855
The first US underground pipeline for carrying oil is laid in Pennsylvania, 1865
Aaron Montgomery starts the mail order business that will later become Montgomery Ward, 1872
The Universal Postal Union is created as part of the Treaty of Berne, 1874
The first 2-way telephone conversation over outdoor wires occurs, 1876
Washington Monument opens to the public, 1888
Woodrow Wilson becomes the first US president to attend a World Series Game, 1915
National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) forms, 1926
Hoover Dam begins transmitting electricity to L.A., 1936
A day after being captured, Marxist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia, 1967
The Khmer Republic is proclaimed in Cambodia, 1970
Abolition of capital punishment in France, 1981
A 13 kilogram (est.) fragment of the Peekskill meteorite lands in the driveway of the Knapp residence in Peekskill, New York, destroying the family's 1980 Chevrolet Malibu, 1992
North Korea allegedly tests its first nuclear device, 2006
First lunar impact of the Centaur and LCROSS spacecrafts as part of NASA's Lunar Precursor Robotic Program, 2009
Women's rights and education activist Malala Yousafzai is shot three times by a Taliban gunman as she tried to board her school bus in Swat district of northwest Pakistan, 2012
Producer Harvey Weinstein is fired from The Weinstein Company after allegations of sexual abuse, 2017
The Nobel Prize for Chemistry is awarded to John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino for their work with lithium-ion batteries, Goodenough becoming the oldest-ever Laureate at the age of 97, 2019
The brightest cosmic explosion ever seen, a gamma ray burst 2.4 billion light years away, is thought to be a massive star collapsing to form a black hole, 2022
A world record is set for the heaviest pumpkin, a jack-o’-lantern gourd weighing 2,749 pounds, grown by Travis Gienger from Anoka, Minnesota, weighing enough for 687 pies, 2023
That is a great car sticker - and I love your use of Sean's challenging prompts.
ReplyDeleteGod bless always, Mimi.
ReplyDeleteI want that sticker heheh!
ReplyDeleteHave a stickertastic week mimi and thanks for linking up 👍
I guess this sticker was definitely referring to ET call home.
ReplyDeleteThat is a good sticker, and a nice down to earth story.
ReplyDeleteThat sticker is out of this world!
ReplyDeleteI wonder how we know that today is the day Leif Ericson landed in the New World. Lol
ReplyDeleteThat's a great sticker nanu nanu🛸Double Pawkisses for a Happy Day🐾😽💞
ReplyDeleteI love that sticker and I love your use of the prompts. Need to get some pizzas to hide. You made me smile.
ReplyDeleteThank you for joining the Wordless Wednesday Blog Hop.
Have a fabulous Wordless Wednesday. Love and hugs, my friend. ♥
Great use of the 'prompts' and great car sticker too ~ hugs,
ReplyDeleteWishing you good health, laughter and love in your days,
clm ~ A ShutterBug Explores,
aka (A Creative Harbor)
That really is a cool sticker! I enjoyed your story too!
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading this. Especially the "schlep" let me smile. I didn't know that the German verb "schleppen" has made it into American English.
ReplyDeleteThat car sticker is great!
ReplyDeleteGreat car sticker. Mom says the husband in your story should be happy he isn't asked to carry HER purse:). BOL
ReplyDeleteWoos - Misty and Timber
Cool sticker and fun story. XO
ReplyDeleteCute sticker. I like your story and am glad she has a husband who helps and keeps emergency pizzas handy. I wonder if a small pull-along wagon might help with the bags of groceries instead of carrying so many at once.
ReplyDeleteMOL!! I absolutely LOVE the car sticker. I need that on my motorbike!
ReplyDeleteMarjorie and Toulouse
DashKitten.com
That sticker is so much fun! Great use of prompts, too. You always tell the best stories, Mimi.
ReplyDeleteOh, I want that sticker too - but I do not own a car to stick it on, it would be a bit out of place on my bike, maybe.
ReplyDeleteWell told story. "Pizza emergency" is a new word for a well-known concept, I too hate shopping in the rain, but will have to today, as the tail end of a tropical storm (former hurricane Kirk) is giving us all-day rain-and-showers.
Java Bean: "Ayyy, that must be where the dilithium crystals go!"
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