They’re Going to Need It (Six Sentence Story), Good Fences, Sammy’s Poetry Day and Brian’s Thankful Thursday

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They have a restricted key like millionaires put on their houses, which means the key cannot be copied unless you move Heaven and Earth to get special permission from the company that authorized and registered it, or even to get the locks repaired.

They also have hidden cameras, the kind only the most highly sophisticated of burglars will even know about, much less be able to avoid and or foil somehow.

She arrived at the house yesterday to find someone had obviously tried to break in, and as is being done in that area now, upon being stymied in the attempt, used glue in all the locks so she was unable to get a key in.

Ms. G was, as always, booked up to the wazoo and expecting us to get a lot done, in between her other appointments, and her day went sideways with the call from the friend, as Ms. G is one of the few people authorized to have a spare key for the house and was the one who told them how to make arrangements to have such a system put in to begin.

Ms. G, breathing fire at her day being once again sidetracked by something that should never have happened, left out of the house immediately to help her file a police report which will be the first step to getting authorization for the company which installed the locks to come out and fix the mess, and after that Ms. G had a doctor appointment, and so of course it meant our day working together was cut way short.

The next step is going to be reviewing the film to see who did this, and then with Ms. G being this peeved about the whole thing, she's going to insist on them pursuing this to the full extent of the law, and someone is going to need bail money to post bond.

Linking up with Denise at Girlie On The Edge Blog, where she hosts Six Sentence Stories, and the cue is Bond.      

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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:    

I always joke my kids monkey around

but the damage here is quite profound,

I might end with no clothes for vacation

and this isn't a nudist location!

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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 my clients sometimes let me tweak my schedule.  It means this week and the next two will be stark, raving nuts, but i'm thankful all the bases should be covered as long as i hold up.

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Today is:

Bon Om Touk -- Cambodia (a/k/a The Water Festival, it is Cambodia's largest party, always held for two days around the time of the full moon in November)

Children's Day -- India

Day of the Colombian Woman -- Colombia

Equorum Probatio -- Ancient Roman Empire (official cavalry parade of the equites)

International Girls Day -- sponsored by Kappa Delta Sorority 

Leftover Trading Day -- internet generated; trade your leftovers for the much more interesting ones in your neighbor's fridge

Loosen up, Lighten Up Day -- to remind us of the benefits of joy and laughter, begun by Stephanie West Allen of Denver, CO, US

National Pickle Day/Pickle Appreciation Day

National Spicy Guacamole Day -- as opposed to National Guacamole Day back in September    

National Teddy Bear Day -- US (anniversary of the day in 1902 that Theodore Roosevelt refused to shoot a cornered and tied bear, because it was unsportsmanlike)

Operating Room Nurse Day -- US, but feel free to celebrate those dedicated nurses around the world

Readjustment Movement's Day -- Guinea-Bissau

Spirit of NSA Day -- members of the National Speakers Association are encouraged to focus on giving back and mentoring     

St. Dubricus' Day (the saint who crowned King Arthur)

St. Lawrence O'Toole's Day (Patron of the Archdiocese of Dublin, Ireland)

World Diabetes Day -- UN (learn more about diabetes here)   

Anniversaries Today:

Princess Anne of the UK marries Captain Mark Phillips, 1973

Birthdays Today:

Joseph "Run" Simmons, 1964

Laura San Giacomo, 1962

D.B. Sweeney, 1961

Condoleezza Rice, 1954

Yanni, 1954

Prince Charles, 1948

King Hussein of Jordan, 1935

McLean Stevenson, 1929

Boutros Boutros-Ghali, 1922

Brian Keith, 1921

Veronica Lake, 1919

Barbara Hutton, 1912

Rosemary DeCamp, 1910

Joseph McCarthy, 1909

Harrison Salisbury, 1908

William Steig, 1907

Louise Brooks, 1906

Dick Powell, 1904

Aaron Copland, 1900

Mamie Dowd Eisenhower, 1896

Jawaharlal Nehru, 1889

Claude Monet, 1840

Robert Fulton, 1765

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"Black or White"(Music video), 1991

"Murphy Brown"(TV), 1988

"Good Evening"(Revue), 1973

"Der Tapfere Soldat/The Chocolate Soldier"(Operetta), 1908

"The Girl of the Golden West"(Play), 1905

Today in History:

Conquistadors from Spain under the leadership of Francisco Pizarro arrive in Cajamarca, Inca empire, 1533

Samuel Pepys reports on the first blood transfusion (between dogs), 1666

Loius Timothee is hired in Philadelphia to be the first professional librarian in the US, 1732

Captain George Vancouver is the first Englishman to enter San Francisco Bay, 1792

John Mason debuts the first horse-drawn streetcar in NYC, with a route between Prince and 14th on 4th Ave., 1832

Herman Melville publishes "Moby Dick", 1851

The St. Andrews Golf Club, in Yonkers, NY, opens with 6 holes, 1888

New York World reporter Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) began her attempt to surpass fictitious journey of Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg by traveling around world in less than 80 days; She succeeded, finishing the trip in January in 72 days and 6 hours, 1889

Albert Einstein presents his quantum theory of light, 1908

The first airplane flight from the deck of a ship takes place in Norfolk, Virginia, 1910

The BBC begins radio service in the United Kingdom, 1922

The first regular UK singles chart published by the New Musical Express, 1952

NASA launches Apollo 12, the second manned mission to the surface of the Moon, 1969

After German reunification, the Federal Republic of Germany and the Republic of Poland sign a treaty confirming the Oder-Neisse line as the border between Germany and Poland, 1990

The last direct-current electrical distribution system in the United States is shut down in New York City by Con Edison, 2007

Scientists discovery the closest known rogue planet to Earth, about 100 light years away, 2012

Archaeologists announce the discovery of the remains of the ancient Greek city of Tenea near Corinth, the city supposedly founded by captives from Trojan War, 2018

An impact crater 31 km wide from an iron meteorite is identified under the Hiawatha Glacier in Greenland, 2018

Archaeologists announce finding the earliest evidence ever of humans cooking food, 780,000 years ago, in fish remains found at Gesher Benot Ya’aqov in northern Israel, 2022

The world's first protected area for endangered sperm whales is set up off the coast of the Caribbean island of Dominica, 2023