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"You look like you're about to be hanged without benefit of clergy."
"What?"
"Why the long face, son?"
"Math homework, and on the weekend, too!"
"Don't worry, I'll help, you can't go outside or watch TV tonight until it's done, that way you won't have to worry about it tomorrow or Sunday."
"Thanks a lot, Dad!"
Linking up with Denise at Girlie On The Edge Blog, where she hosts Six Sentence Stories, and the cue is Benefit.
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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:
Keeping the cubs entertained
is the part of my job I like best,
they jump and squeal and burn energy
and I just lie here and rest!
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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 the Thanksgiving plans are made, food ordered, and a trip to the store for the rest of the items is already in the works.
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Today is:
Armed Forces Day -- Bangladesh
Caregiver Rights Day -- UK (with information to help carers available here)
Catholic School Principal Appreciation Day -- originally designated by the National Catholic Education Association
Fast for an Abundant World Harvest -- now unsponsored, but one way to help can be found here
Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin -- Eastern and Roman Catholic Christian (those following the Gregorian Calendar)
Festival of Madonna della Salute -- Venice, Italy
Furniture Memory Day -- an internet generated test of your memory; see if you remember where you got each piece of furniture you own, how much it cost, and how its most precious scratch came to be; you are also encouraged to dust if you want to
General Framework Agreement Day -- RS, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Gerard d'Aboville Day -- marking the day, in 1991, he arrived in Ilwaco, WA, US, after departing Japan 4 months earlier in a rowboat!
Gingerbread Day
Great American Smokeout -- save money and your life, try not to smoke today; started by the American Cancer Society
National Stuffing Day -- various dates given on many sites, so if you enjoy stuffing, celebrate them all
No Music Day -- www.nomusicday.com for the explanation
St. Gelasius' Day
Use Less Stuff Day -- a great idea! not an officially sponsored day, but you can get information about using less stuff at www.use-less-stuff.com/
World Hello Day -- recognizing the importance of communication in world peace, say hello to people you don't usually greet today
World Philosophy Day -- UNESCO
World Television Day -- UN
Anniversaries Today:
South Carolina becomes the 12 US State, 1789
Birthdays Today:
Tasha Schwikert, 1984
Ken Griffey, Jr., 1969
Troy Aikman, 1966
Bjork, 1965
Nicolette Sheridan, 1963
Cherry Jones, 1956
Cynthia Rhodes, 1956
Lorna Luft, 1952
Goldie Hawn, 1945
Harold Ramis, 1944
Marcy Carsey, 1944
Tweety Bird, 1942
Juliet Mills, 1941
Marlo Thomas, 1938
James DePreist, 1936
Laurence Luckinbill, 1934
Joseph Campanella, 1927
Stan Musial, 1920
Coleman Hawkins, 1904
Rene Magritte, 1898
Hetty Green, 1834
William Beaumont, 1785
Josiah Bartlett, 1729
Voltaire, 1694
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"I'm Gonna Make You Love Me"(Single release), 1968
"A Tale of Two Kitties"(Warner cartoon, debut of Tweety Bird), 1942
"The Relapse, or, Virtue in Danger"(Vanbrugh play), 1696
Today in History:
Judas Maccabaeus, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean family, restores the Temple in Jerusalem; this is the event commemorated each year by the festival of Hanukkah, BC164
The Pilgrims, aboard the Mayflower, reach what is now called Provincetown Harbor, Massachusetts, and sign the Mayflower Compact, 1620
Richard Johnson, a free black, is granted 550 acres in Virginia, 1654
In Paris, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent, Marquis d'Arlandes, make the first untethered hot air balloon flight, 1783
Colonel Napoléon Bonaparte is promoted to full general and appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Armies of the French Republic, 1791
First Jewish Reform congregation in US forms, Charleston, SC, 1824
Moses F Gale patents a cigar lighter, 1871
Tom Edison announces his "talking machine" invention (phonograph), 1877
Rebecca Latimer Felton of Georgia takes the oath of office, becoming the first female United States Senator, 1922
First commercial crossing of Pacific by plane (China Clipper), 1935
The Alcan Highway is completed, 1942*
The British Natural History Museum announces that the "Piltdown Man" skull is a hoax, 1953
The first permanent ARPANET link is established between UCLA and SRI, 1969
Gerard d'Aboville completes his four-month solo journey to row across the Pacific Ocean, 1991
The Dayton Peace Agreement is initialed at the Wright Patterson Air Force Base, near Dayton, Ohio, ending three and a half years of war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1995
NATO invites Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia to become members, 2002
Iran's President Ahmadinejad rejects the country's successful family planning program and tells Iranian girls they should marry at 16, 2010
The three most senior surviving members of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge regime are charged with genocide and crimes against humanity, 2011
For the second time in four months, New Zealand's Mount Tongariro volcano, on the North Island, erupts, 2012
The Alabama parole board grants posthumous pardons to three members of the Scottsboro boys, 2013
Mt Agung on the Indonesian island of Bali begins erupting, 2017
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a measles epidemic has so far killed over 5,000 people in this year, making it the world's largest and fastest moving epidemic, 2019
Raven Chacon's "Voiceless Mass" premieres at the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist in Milwaukee and becomes the first work by an Native American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music, 2022
Changpeng Zhao, founder and CEO of Binance, world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, pleads guilty to allowing customers to launder money and is ordered to pay $4.3 billion in fines to US government, 2023
*Not opened to general vehicular traffic until the next year
My father would have come up with a very similar solution.
ReplyDeleteLove your poem and the gorgeous lion.
Great story about getting the homework done. Looking through the wrought iron fence at all those potted plants, really pretty.
ReplyDeleteHomework on the weekend would really be a bummer. It's good to teach kids not to procrastinate and have something like that hanging over their head.
ReplyDeletemy parents always taught us to do homework early!!
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ReplyDeletethank god for Sunday evening!
fun Six
Great poem. Love the pics.
ReplyDeleteWhat a helpful fahter ;) I always think that homework over the weekends - and worse over the holidays - is made by child-hating teachers.
ReplyDeleteI love your poem and the lion in the photo.
That was a fun and typical Papa poem! Excellent and timely thankful too. Thanks for joining Angel Brian's Thankful Thursday Blog Hop!
ReplyDeleteMy mum always said homework should be done as soon as possible, while the day's teachings are still in your mind. My dad always said homework wasn't necessary at all and I shouldn't do it.
ReplyDeleteThat's some wise tough love.
ReplyDeleteYour thankful echoes the sound of reduced holiday stress. May your Thanksgiving Day be peaceful and filled with joy, Mimi.
Lulu: "You can always count on Dada to ... Hey wait a minute."
ReplyDeleteI love your poem this week - I think that lion IS showing off for his audience - he loves doing it and they love seeing it! Thanks for playing along with us with your wonderful poems.
ReplyDeleteHugs, Pam and Teddy
A parent who understands maths is priceless! Love your Six, Mimi.
ReplyDeleteYes, get it done and out of the way – as soon as possible (I never liked maths)😉
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