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They were happy and excited to set up their new waterbed!
The day prior to delivery, he'd stopped at the hardware place and bought a hose, and now it was set up and they gladly screwed it to the outdoor faucet, through a window and across the bedroom to attach it to the bed's filling port.
Once it was in place, she turned it on and they went about their business, cooking supper.
They'd been told it would take over an hour to fill, so after an hour he decided to check the progress.
His yelps brought her running, and that's when they found out there is more than one type of garden hose.
A soaker hose, which seeps out water all along its length, not just out of the business end, so as to water the whole garden, is a bad choice for filling a waterbed, especially when it crosses the whole length of your carpeted bedroom.
Linking up with Denise at Girlie On The Edge Blog, where she hosts Six Sentence Stories, and the cue is Type.
(Based on a true story. No, not us, we've never had a waterbed.)
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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:
My ex was trolling my Facebook
asked if these were relatives of mine,
I responded they were my ex-in-laws,
and his family reunion went fine!
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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 i got paid for work i did a couple of weeks ago.
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Today is:
Alex Kivi Day a/k/a Kivi Day -- Finland (The Day of Finnish Literature)
Arbor Day -- Poland
Bonza Bottler Day
Cephalopod Awareness Days: Squid Day/Cuttlefish Day -- celebrating the most intelligent invertebrates in the world; today, celebrate the tentacular species
Curacao Day -- Curacao
Double Tenth Day/National Day -- China; Taiwan (In remembrance of the revolution against the Imperial Manchu Dynasty.)
Festival for Juno Moneta -- Ancient Roman Calendar (Juno as goddess of money)
Independence Day / Deed of Cession Day -- Fiji(1970)
Journee Nationale de la Femme Marocaine -- Morocco (National Women's Day)
Kruger Day -- South Africa
KWP Foundation Day -- North Korea (1945)
Maroons Day -- Suriname (celebration of indigenous peoples)
Moi Day -- Kenya
National Angel Food Cake Day
National Cake Decorating Day -- some websites say today, some say the 17th
National Depression Screening Day® 2024 -- US (find out where to get screened or help others get screened)
National Handbag Day -- started by www.PurseBlog.com
Naval Academy Day -- US
St. Francis Borgia's Day (Patron of Portugal; Rota, Marianas; against earthquakes)
St. Paulinus of York's Day (Patron of Rochester, England)
Tag der Volksabstimmung -- Austria (Referendum Day)
War of Independence Anniversary -- Cuba
World Day Against the Death Penalty -- International
World Homeless Day -- no one should be homeless
World Mental Health Day -- International
World Porridge Day -- celebrating Scotland's traditional national dish
World Sight Day -- International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (#LoveYourEyes)
Anniversaries Today:
Edward M. Kennedy, Jr., marries Katherine Anne "Kiki" Gershman, 1993
Richard Burton marries Elizabeth Taylor, 1975 (second time)
The United States Naval Academy opened with 50 midshipmen and 7 professors, 1845
Birthdays Today:
Adrian Grenier, 1976
Bob Burnquist, 1976
Dale Earnhardt, Jr., 1974
Mario Lopez, 1973
Brett Favre, 1969
Daniel Pearl, 1963
Tanya Tucker, 1958
David Lee Roth, 1955
Nora Roberts, 1950
Jessica Harper, 1949
Charles Dance, 1946
Ben Vereen, 1946
Harold Pinter, 1930
Richard Jaeckel, 1926
Thelonious Monk, 1917
Edward D. Wood, Jr., 1924
Helen Hayes, 1900
Giuseppe Verdi, 1813
Henry Cavendish, 1731 (discovered hydrogen)
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Upstairs, Downstairs"(TV), 1971
"The Bob Newhart Show"(TV), 1962
"Milk and Honey"(Musical), 1961
"Porgy and Bess"(Folk opera), 1935
"Die Chinesische Mauer/The Great Wall of China"(Play), 1946
The Tuxedo, 1886 (introduced at The Tuxedo Club in New York)
Today in History:
The Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000 to 30,000 in the Carribean, 1780
The first non-Native American settlement is founded in Oklahoma, 1802
William Lassell discovers Neptune's moon Triton, 1846
The first "Dinner Jacket" is worn to the Autumn Ball at Tuxedo Park, NY, 1886
President Woodrow Wilson triggers the explosion of the Gamboa Dike thus ending construction on the Panama Canal, 1913
Ho Chi Minh enters Hanoi after the French pull out of the city, 1954
U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologizes to the finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he is refused service in a Dover, Delaware restaurant, 1957
The Windscale fire in Cumbria, U.K. is the world's first major nuclear accident, 1957
The opening ceremony at The 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, is broadcast live in the first Olympic telecast relayed by geostationary communication satellite, 1964
The Outer Space Treaty, signed on January 27 by more than sixty nations, comes into force, 1967
In Montreal, Quebec, a national crisis hits Canada when Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte becomes the second statesman kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group, 1970
Sold, dismantled and moved to the United States, London Bridge reopens in Lake Havasu City, Arizona, 1971
After having closed borders for about two hundred years, Armenia and Turkey sign protocols in Zurich, Switzerland to open their borders, 2009
Pope Benedict XVI adds Arabic to the languages in which the weekly Vatican address is broadcast, 2012
The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi for their work in advocating children's rights; 17-year-old Yousafzai, who was shot by Taliban in retaliation for her activism, is the youngest recipient in history, 2014
For the first time since the Islamic revolution, 3,500 women in Iran are allowed to attend a football match for a World Cup qualifier in Tehran, 2019
The Nobel Prize for Economics is awarded to Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig for discoveries which can improve how society deals with financial crises, 2022
Loved the poem (laughed at the ending) and oh my goodness ... a soaker hose!
ReplyDeleteOuch. Water disaster at its worst.
ReplyDeleteYour poem is evil, but so fun!
Certainly wouldn't want to have to fill the waterbed but that kind of hose, lol. Love the picture of the fence and the headstones, someone must be trying to fence in Halloween.
ReplyDeleteOh my goodness! They don't even look alike! What a mess that would be!
ReplyDeleteWe took our water-bed whilst camping. It sunk when we tried to float down the river.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
Oh no! A soaker hose!
ReplyDeleteThat was quite the story, yikes! Funny poem, really funny! That's a perfect thankful too. Thanks for joining Angel Brian's Thankful Thursday Blog Hop!
ReplyDeletelol!
ReplyDelete(btw a very good misdirect on the 'punchline)... having always had a waterbed, thought (as I read a bad habit I must admit) that they would find the bed overfilled (or as in the 'real' world unusable for at least three days due to how long it takes to heat that much water to comfortable sleeping temperature)
Oh, oh, oh... dreadful (I would never try one of those waterbeds)😲
ReplyDeleteOh you do write so well ~ don't know how you do all you do ~ thanks, great fence photos too ~ hugs,
ReplyDeleteWishing you good health, laughter and love in your days,
clm ~ A ShutterBug Explores,
aka (A Creative Harbor)
Funny story. I would never want a waterbed- especially with all my cats with claws. :) Funny poem too. XO
ReplyDeleteOh dear, what a mess that must have been. Mom has never had or wanted a water bed because the bedrooms have always been on the second floor in the houses she has lived in. She was always afraid the bed would burst and water water everywhere:)
ReplyDeleteLove the graveyard.
Woos - Misty and Timber
Not just a water bed, a water carpet too! Poem - brilliant!
ReplyDeleteHappily the fence behind us that blew down in Hurricane Beryl just got replaced. It's pretty ordinary, but I'm happy it is up.
ReplyDeleteLulu: "That's a big whoops on the soaker hose!"
ReplyDeleteCharlee: "When our Dada was in college, one of his roommates had a waterbed and started filling it with a hose from the sink and then forgot about it. By the time somebody checked on it, it was bulging like a blimp! Fortunately it didn't explode or they would have had quite a mess to clean up ..."