Mice Can Cause a Lot of Damage (Wordless Wednesday) and Words for Wednesday

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Linking up with Wordless Wednesday, Steve at BeThere2Day, Catsynth, 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  Alex J. Cavanaugh.    

This week's prompts are:

• snow
• cow
• jade
• candy
• sunglasses

 

And/Or 

• oak
• refreshed
• ornery
• music
• shells

Charlotte (MotherOwl)  has given us Pearl Opal Green as the colour of the month.  If you can also incorporate it into your stories she (and and our friend EC) will be grateful.

The time is growing short, and ever shorter.

In the Northern Hemisphere, there will be SNOW on the ground (in some places) and cold all around (or at least cooler temperatures), while the Southern Hemisphere will have SUNGLASSES out and perhaps time to go to the beach to look for SHELLS.

Up north, the COW is no longer in the meadow, but the barn and down south, the summer heat builds up.  Trees down south bud up, trees up north lose their leaves, well except for the ORNERY evergreens like the OAK, which just go on being green.

And upon all of us alike, ready or not, comes crashing the crazy holiday season, a trifecta of Thanksgiving or harvest festivals, Hanukkah, and Christmas, with their too much to do and never enough time to do it all.

Cheery holiday MUSIC greets you wherever you go until you are ready to listen to almost anything else, even music you don't care for much.

Trees and decor in every shade of green from Pearl Opal to JADE is everywhere in contrast to a whole sea of red.

People give you CANDY and sweets and invite you for parties or treats, some acting offended if you do not indulge even thought you'd give your kingdom for some broccoli and arugula salad.

You're expected to attend everything and stay up late and still be REFRESHED enough the next day to do it all over again.

Let's not even get started on having to save up for gifts.  You have been doing that all year, right?

Hang on everyone, if you haven't been able to get off this crazy train for whatever reason, or at least tone it down some, it's going to be a bumpy ride to January.

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It's World Kindness Day!  Promoting a more compassionate world, on the anniversary of the first  World Kindness Movement® conference.  

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Today is:

Ides of November -- Ancient Roman Calendar; also

     Epulum Iovis -- Festival of Feronia, Juno, Minerva, and Jupiter

     Fortuna Primigenia -- Fortune of the Firstborn

National Indian Pudding Day

National Reread Old Letters and Magazines Day -- internet generated sentimentality

Runic Half Month Nyd begins (necessity)

St. Brice of Tours' Day (Patron against stomach diseases)

St. Homobonus' Day (Patron of business people, cloth workers/garment workers/tailors, cobblers/shoemakers, merchants)

St. Stanislaus Kostka's Day (Patron of aspirants to the Oblates of Saint Joseph, last sacraments; against broken bones)

Anniversaries Today:

The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated, 1982

The Holland Tunnel opens, 1927

Birthdays Today:

Monique Coleman, 1980

Gerard Butler, 1969

Steve Zahn, 1968

Tracy Scoggins, 1959

Jimmy Kimmel, 1967

Vinny Testaverde, 1963

Chris Nth, 1957

Whoopi Goldberg, 1955

Chris Noth, 1954

Shella E. Frazier, 1948

Joe Mantegna, 1947

Jean Seberg, 1938

Gary Marshall, 1934

Madeleine Sherwood, 1922

Oskar Werner, 1922

Nathaniel Benchley, 1915

Louis Brandeis, 1856

Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850

Edwin Thomas Booth, 1833

James Clerk Maxwell, 1831

Edward John Trelawney, 1792

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"The Lion King"(Play), 1997

"As the Girls Go"(Musical), 1948

Fantasia(Disney animated film), 1940

"Grand Hotel"(Drake play), 1930

Today in History:

English king Æthelred II orders the killing of all Danes in England, known today as the St. Brice's Day massacre, 1002

Lady Jane Grey and Bishop Cranmer are accused of high treason, 1553

Patriot revolutionary forces under Col. Ethan Allen attack Montreal, Quebec, defended by British General Guy Carleton, 1775

Benjamin Franklin says, “Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” 1789

The first US anti-slavery party, the Liberty Party, convenes in New York, 1839

James Braid first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism, which leads him to study the subject and come up with what he later calls hypnosis, 1841

The Denny Party arrives at Alki Point, becoming the first settlers of what would become Seattle, Washington, 1851

The first shipment of canned pineapple leaves Hawai'i, 1895

French cyclist Paul Cornu flies the first helicopter, 1907

Russia completes development of the AK-47, one of the first proper assault rifles, 1947

A 150-mph tropical cyclone hits the densely populated Ganges Delta region of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), killing an estimated 500,000 people in one night. This is regarded as the 20th century's worst natural disaster, 1970

The Double Eagle V becomes the first hot air balloon to make it across the Pacific Ocean, 1981

Xavier Suarez is sworn in as Miami, Florida's first Cuban-born mayor, 1985

The High Court of Australia rules in Dietrich v The Queen that although there is no absolute right to have publicly funded counsel, in most circumstances a judge should grant any request for an adjournment or stay when an accused is unrepresented, 1992

In a referendum voters in Sweden decide to join the European Union, 1994

NASA announces that water has been discoved on the moon, 2009

Medical textbooks require rewriting after 39-year-old Canadian Scott Routley becomes the first person believed to be in a vegetative state to tell scientists he isn't in any pain, 2012

A total solar eclipse occurs over parts of Australia and the South Pacific, 2012

The Vatican announces that restrooms being remodeled in St. Peter's Square will include showers for the homeless, and encourages other churches to do the same, 2014

Evidence of the world's earliest winemaking is uncovered from Khramis Didi Gora, Georgia, in clay pots from 6,000BC, 2017

Venice, Italy is hit by its worst flooding in 50 years, 2019

The rediscovered painting "Lucretia" by female baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi sells for $4.1 million at auction in Paris, 2019

The Glasgow Climate Pact agreement at COP26 commits countries to a "phasedown" of "unabated" coal, and end deforestation by 2030 and to cut methane emissions by 30% by 2030, 2021

Kenya holds its first national tree planting holiday, aiming to plant 100 million trees as a part of its climate change initiative to plant 15 billion trees by 2032, 2023

What’s Behind the TV This Week? A Random and Happy Tuesday Post

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It's time once again for a random and happy Tuesday, linking up with Stacy's Random Thoughts at Stacy Uncorked and Sandee at Comedy Plus.  

Arriving at Carl's yesterday, i was concerned.

Carl loves holidays.  Carl applies for days off at all holidays.  If it's a Federal or State holiday, he wants the day off.  I once asked him why, when the store he works at is open and other people he works with are at work and he said, "But, it's a holiday!"

I guess that's a good a reason as any, but i work holidays, and when i told him that, he looked at me like i'd grown a third eye and we haven't brought it up since.

This time, though, it looks like Veterans Day managed to fly by under his holiday radar and he did have work, which makes cleaning his room much easier, as you can imagine.

He got up when i arrived and went to his sleep chair, setting the timer for 58 minutes.  It always makes me wonder how he chooses exactly how long to sleep.  It also amuses me if he gets up and still has, say 2 1/2 minutes on the timer, how he will hop back in the chair, pull up the blanket and close his eyes blissfully for that 2 1/2 minutes.

Meanwhile, i checked out the situation in the laundry room.  He'd partially dried a load, but even the dried clothes smelled like old french fry grease, if you can imagine that smell, and everything got rewashed.

He'd also washed his good ice vest, and left it nice and wet in the washer.  That meant trying to find enough cold packs for the other one, as it's mid-November and the temps here are still in the mid-80's.

The room reminds me of this.

He'd crammed so much stuff that belongs in the medicine cabinet into a drawer he couldn't close the drawer and had used all his towels.  I still got him set up to take a shower as soon as he woke, then started sorting clothes, making sure nothing dirty was hanging in the closet, and all the other stuff.

He did, however, have his keys on the counter.  The last several times i've been, including last Thursday, his keys have been left in the pockets of dirty pants, thus necessitating a search.

I also could hear something in his room, very faint, and tracked it to his phone, which he'd left on playing music, possibly all night.  This in spite of two radio clocks in the room.

The problem with this is he has to have his phone to clock in at work, and where, oh where is the charge cord?  Nowhere to be found, and he has to leave soonish.  I'm glad i carry a charge cord, and that i found his phone.

He's been working on his pumpkin from Halloween.

No, i haven't a clue what he's doing, but he must.

Then i looked behind his TV.

Where he dug up a cellophane bag from last Christmas is anyone's guess, but i'm sure it's been hiding in his room all along.

As for this:

Ah, it's an Itsy Bitsy Spider!  He's terrified of real spiders, but that didn't stop him at craft time from making one, probably back at Camp Sunny Day a few weeks ago.

How about some nursery rhyme inspired memes, plus a couple of others which struck me as funny,

Have a blessed and beautiful Tuesday, everyone!

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Today is:

A&W Rootbeer Mug Day -- see if you can frost your mug like they did at the old A&W stores

Birth of Baha'u'llah -- Baha'i

Birth of Sun Yat-Sen, Doctors Day, and Cultural Renaissance Day -- Taiwan

Chicken Soup for the Soul Day -- "Changing the world, one story at a time."

Constitution Day -- Azerbaijan

Dia del Cartero -- Mexico (Postman's Day; postal carriers are shown appreciation with small gifts left in mailboxes)

Fancy Rat and Mouse Day -- the American Fancy Rat and Mouse Association wants you to know these little critters can give you a lot of love 

Journee Nationale Maore -- Comoros (Admission to the UN Day)

Khalkeia -- Ancient Greek Calendar (festival of smiths, associated with Hephaists and Athena; date approximate)

National Pizza with the Works Except Anchovies Day

National Youth Day -- East Timor

St. Emillian's Day (Patron of Spain, finding lost objects)

St. Josaphat's Day (Patron of Edmonton, Alberta; Toronto, Ontario; Ukraine)

Tewa Buffalo Dance -- Native American Tewa of the Tesuque Pueblo rites on the feast day of their Patron, San Diego, to honor Mother Earth, Father Sky, the four directions, and the elements; through the 15th

World Pneumonia Day -- because we lose a million children a year to this preventable illness 

Anniversaries Today:

The Arches National Park established, 1971

Ellis Island closes, 1954

Birthdays Today:

Anne Hathaway, 1982

Ryan Gosling, 1980

Sammy Sosa, 1968

Michael Moorer, 1967

David Schwimmer, 1966

Nadia Comaneci, 1961

Megan Mullally, 1958

Neil Young, 1945

Al Michaels, 1944

Wallace Shawn, 1943

Grace Kelly, 1929

Jo Stafford, 1918

Harry A. Blackmun, 1908

Sun Yat-sen, 1866

Auguste Rodin, 1840

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1815

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"Grand Hotel"(Musical), 1989

"Irma la Douce"(Musical), 1956

"Paint Your Wagon"(Musical), 1951

Song of the South(Disney film), 1946

The first Sunday American-style football game is held in Philadelphia, 1933

Today in History:

Tibetan troops occupy Chang'an, the capital of the Chinese Tang Dynasty, for fifteen days starting today, 764

Plymouth, England, becomes the first town incorporated by the English Parliament, 1439

Sir James Young Simpson, a British physician, is the first to use chloroform as an anaesthetic, 1847

Jules Leotard performs 1st Flying Trapeze circus act (Paris); he also designed garment that bears his name, 1859

World's Fair in Paris opens, 1900

The first movie stunt: man jumps into Hudson river from a burning balloon, 1910

Norway holds a referendum in favor of monarchy over republic, 1905

Robert Scott's diary & body are found in Antarctica, 1912

Austria becomes a republic, 1918

The first underwater tunnel, the Holland Tunnel connecting NY to NJ opens, 1927

The first photo of whatever is in Loch Ness is taken, 1933

Morocco, Sudan and Tunisia join the United Nations, 1956

Equatorial Guinea joins the United Nations, 1968

The Comoros joins the United Nations, 1975

The NASA space probe Voyager I makes its closest approach to Saturn and takes the first images of its rings, 1980

The Space Shuttle Columbia becomes the first time a manned spacecraft launched into space twice, 1981

Crown Prince Akihito is formally installed as Emperor Akihito of Japan, becoming the 125th Japanese monarch, 1990

Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web, 1990

Shanghai Transrapid sets up a new world speed record (501 kilometres per hour (311 mph)) for commercial railway systems, 2003

The Comparative Toxicogenomics Database is launched on the web and revolutionizes chemical-gene-disease information for research scientists, 2004

Philippine volcano Mount Bulusan erupts again, 2010

The European Space Agency's Rosetta lands the Philae probe on the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko,2014

For the first time since his mother became Queen, Prince Charles lays the wreath to Great Britain's war dead, instead of Queen Elizabeth, 2017

Five hundredth anniversary of the birth of Guru Nanak, founder of the Sikh religion, 2019

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos gives his "Courage and Civility Award" of $100million to Dolly Parton, to distribute to charities of her choice, 2022