But Dogs Can't Read and I Gotta Go! (Wordless Wednesday) and Words for Wednesday

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Linking up with Wordless Wednesday, Keith, 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.    

This month, Wisewebwoman is providing the prompts and they will appear on River's blog.

This week's words/prompts are:

1.luscious  

2.motel  

3.wheelbarrow  

4.jogging trail

and/or:

1.suspicion  

2.speedboat  

3.graveyard  

4.iris

Charlotte's colour of the month is Thrash Pink, if you choose to use it.

use either list or both, or mix and match, just have fun.

“I can’t believe Gramps died doing something as mundane as having a heart attack pushing his WHEELBARROW out to the barn.”

“Me, either.  I always expected him to go out on the JOGGING TRAIL through the woods, getting eaten by a bear or a cougar.”

“As dangerously as he liked to live, that wouldn’t have surprised me, either.  I had my SUSPICION it would be going to the racetracks and paying to drive those race cars.  Say, what was the idea behind going with IRISes instead of roses for the flowers?”

“You know how much Gramps loathed roses.  Besides, these were such a LUSCIOUS shade of purple I couldn’t resist, you know how he and I both loved purple.  Although I used to threaten him with ordering Thrash Pink roses and burying him with a spray in his hands if he ever stepped out on me.”

“Grams, you didn’t!”

“I did.  He wasn’t the only one who could tease.  Well, we’d best get back up to the MOTEL and meet up with the others.  The SPEEDBOAT we’ve hired should be at the docks soon.”

“Did he really want his ashes scattered at sea from the fastest boat we could get?”

“He did, if there was anything he loathed more than roses it was a nursing home or a GRAVEYARD, and he wanted to be ‘put to rest in style’ as he told me.  His going so quickly was a blessing in disguise, in a way.  I’m going to miss him, and his teasing.”

“Me, too, Grams.  Me, too.”

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Today is International Animal Rights Day!

Thanks to Barb Kowalik and The Cat Blogosphere for the event badge.        

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Today is:

Anniversary of the Victory over Daesh/ISIS -- Iraq

Chief Red Cloud Day -- marking the Sioux leader's death in 1909; defender of Native rights, son of Lone Man and Walks As She Thinks

Constitution Day -- Thailand

Dewey Decimal System Day -- anniversary of Melvil Dewey's birth

Do Something Wild and Crazy with Velveeta Day -- guess they mean besides turn it into Hillbilly Hor d'oeuvres (melted with Rotel and served with chips)

International Human Rights Day -- anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948

Jane Addams Day -- Hull House Museum, Chicago, IL, US (sponsored by the American Association of University Women-Illinois) 

Lux Mundi -- Ancient Roman Calendar (honoring Libertas as the bringer of light into the world)

Namibian Women's Day -- Namibia

National Lager Day

Nobeldagen -- Sweden (Alfred Nobel Day, presentations of the Nobel Prizes at the Stockholm Concert Hall)

     Nobel Peace Prize Award Ceremony -- Oslo City Hall, Oslo, Norway

Sister-Friend Day -- internet generated, but if you have a sister who is a good friend to you, it's worth celebrating

St. Eulalia of Merida's Day (Patron of runaways, torture victims, widows; Merida, Spain; Oviedo, Spain)

Whirling Dervishes Festival -- Konya, Turkey (through the 17th)

Anniversaries Today:

Mississippi becomes the 20th US State, 1817

Birthdays Today:

Raven-Symone, 1985

Bobby Flay, 1964

Kenneth Branagh, 1960

Susan Dey, 1952

Gloria Loring, 1946

Dan Blocker, 1928

Harold Gould, 1923

Dorothy Lamour, 1914

Chet Huntley, 1911

Hermes "Pan" Panagiotopolous, 1909

Mary Norton, 1903

Melvil Dewey, 1851

Emily Dickinson, 1830

Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, 1787

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"Wings Over America"(Album release), 1976

Lawrence of Arabia(Film), 1962

"The Mighty Mouse Playhouse" (TV), 1955

Grand Ole Opry (first radio broadcast), 1927

Today in History:

Martin Luther publicly burns the papal edict demanding that he recant, 1520

Isaac Newton's paper De Motu Corporum in Gyrum, containing the derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, is read to the Royal Society by Edmund Halley, 1684

The Massachusetts Bay Colony becomes the first American Colonial government to borrow money, 1690

The metric system is formally established in France, 1799

The first traffic lights are installed outside the Palace of Westminster in London, 1868

Women's suffrage is granted in Wyoming Territory, the first in the US, 1869

Women are granted suffrage in Tasmania, 1902

The 10,000,000th Model T Ford is assembled, 1915

The Grand Ole Opry makes its radio debut, in Nashville, Tn, 1927

UN General Assembly adopts the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948

Ralph J Bunche becomes the first black to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, 1950

The United Nations General Assembly approves Pakistan's proposal for establishing nuclear free-zone in South Asia, 1981

The last shift leaves Wearmouth Colliery in Sunderland; the closure of the 156-year-old pit marks the end of the old County Durham coalfield, which had been in operation since the Middle Ages, 1993

An archive documenting the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda is revealed in the capital city of Kigali, 2010

Mary Barra of General Motors becomes the first female CEO of a major automotive company, 2013

Governor Jerry Brown tours Southern Californian wildfires and declares them "the new normal", 2017

The first fully electric commercial plane, a retrofitted seaplane, completes its test flight in Vancouver, 2019

Rare December tornadoes strike four American states, 2021

Playing Musical Recliners and Taping Car Lights, 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.  

You could easily tell the cold weather has played havoc with Carl, as it always does.  Yes, he has winter clothes.  No, he doesn't pull them out, he just wears double of his summer things, until i pull his winter things out from the back of the closet.  Yes, of course, he could do it himself, but he won't.  If he did, he'd never lose thing any more.

You can also easily tell it is now officially The Season.  He will be worked a lot.

His mother had told him to take out his trash.  She neglected to tell him to put in another bag.  You have to be specific.  Also, she neglected to specify which can the garbage goes in.  It was in the recycle bin.  It has been rehomed to the correct bin.

Carl was not actually in his sleep chair, and his father was in the chair he usually occupies.  Carl tried to get into his father's electric recliner, but i directed him to the other recliner (yes, there are 3), and for a good hour they played musical recliners, each moving from one to the other, until his father gave up and went to the bed.

After i'd barely gotten started he came in very concerned.  "Do I need to move the phone?" he asked.

Confused, i asked which phone.

"It's charging, on the kitchen counter, are you cleaning?  Should I move it?"

I clean your room today, i reminded him.  Leave the phone.

He went back to his nap with a relieved grin.  He's really a very considerate fellow, when he thinks of these things.

The bathroom was clean and his clothes were ready when it was time for him to shower, and we had the usual discussion about what to wear.

For once, he did not come out after the shower having changed his mind and wanting to grab other clothes.  He did come out having powdered his feet, the floor, and his pants from kneeling on the floor to put his shoes on those powdered feet.

While he was having breakfast and i was packing both a lunch and a dinner for him (he works late and wants a Lean Cuisine along with the usual lunch fare), he kept up a steady stream of chatter.

"They had crafts at the library...and a movie, with different flavors of lemonade!  I brought some home (note:  yes, he had, in a cup without a lid, which had sloshed a little when he put it in his fridge).

"Parks are having Trail Blaze Days, but I can't go to the big one.  I'll go...and I went to the party at Rob's place, we had cookies."

Cookies are always a cause for a big grin.

"I took Sam!"  That's the girl he's sweet on.

"And I played mumblemumble, but I got bounced."

Sorry to hear that, i told him.

"It's the restaurant's 50th anniversary!  (Note:  i did not catch which restaurant.)  I want to get the t-shirt!"

Oh, goody, more clothes, i thought but did not say.  He loves souvenirs.

Once he was about on his way, he started the usual:

"Gloves?" I handed them to you.

"Water?"  There's no bottled water in the house, you need to buy some.  "Shoot!"

Eventually, he made it out the door, and so did i, to go to Ms. D, whose toaster was once again full of crumbs and a piece of bread.  I showed her the pictures from last time, and she has now promised to be more mindful of her toaster.

When i asked her what was on her agenda, she said, "Well, ever since the other car and mine tapped each other in the parking lot incident, there's a crack and one of my headlights now wiggles a bit.  Is there a way we can tape it?"

I mentioned it would have to be heat-resistant tape, as the headlight might get hot and she said, "Oh, I don't drive at night at all any more, remember?"

Yes, i did remember, and she got the keys and the tape.  I was able to run several pieces and secure the headlight from the inside and the outside.  She was quite pleased, only a small bit of tape shows on the outside, it makes the one spot look like it has a little white bandage on it.

And her toaster is clean.

How about some funnies.

Have a blessed and beautiful Tuesday, everyone!

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Today is Christmas Card Day!  The first commercial card went on sale on this day in 1843.

Thanks to Barb Kowalik and The Cat Blogosphere for the event badge.        

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Today is:

Anna's Day -- Sweden and Finland (commemorates the conception of the Virgin Mary by St. Anne, celebration for all females named Anne or Anna, and the day to start the processing of the Christmas Eve lutefisk.)

Christmas Gift Memory Day -- the day to reminisce about your all time favorite Christmas gift

Feast of the Conception of the Most Holy Theotokos by St. Anne -- Orthodox Church

International Anti-Corruption Day -- UN

National Heroes Day / Vere Cornwall Bird, Sr., Day -- Antigua and Barbuda

National Pastry Day

Remembrance for Egill Skallagrimsson -- Asatru/Norse Pagan Calendar (Viking Age poet, warrior, and rune magician)

Republic Day -- Tanzania

Search High and Low For Your Gingerbread Recipe Day -- or just give up and go to the internet for a new one, that's where i found this "holiday"

St. Leocadia's Day (Patron of Toledo, Spain)

Weary Willie Day -- birth anniversary of Emmet Kelley, Sr.

Yuri's Day in the Autumn -- Russian Orthodox Church (a celebration of St. George, as following the Gregorian Calendar)

Anniversaries Today:

Petrified Forest National Park, AZ, US, established, 1962

Christmas Seals first sold, in Wilmington, DE, US, 1907

"Charge of the Light Brigade" published, 1854

YMCA opens in Montreal, QC, CA (first in North America), 1851

Birthdays Today:

Jesse Metcalfe, 1978

Reiko Aylesworth, 1972

David Kersh, 1970

Kara DioGuardi, 1970

Jakob Dylan, 1969

Kurt Angle, 1968

Felicity Huffman, 1962

David Anthony Higgins, 1961

Joe Lando, 1961

Donny Osmond, 1957

John Malkovich, 1953

Joan Armatrading, 1950

Michael Nouri, 1945

Dick Butkus, 1942

Beau Bridges, 1941

Judy Dench, 1934

Buck Henry, 1930

Dick Van Patten, 1928

Dina Merrill, 1925

Redd Foxx, 1922

Kirk Douglas, 1916

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., 1909

Grace Hopper, 1906

Margaret Hamilton, 1902

Emmet Kelley, Sr., 1898

Clarence Birdseye, 1886

Joel Chandler Harris, 1848

John Milton, 1608

Edwin Sandys, 1561

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"A Charlie Brown Christmas"(TV special), 1965

"Coronation Street"(TV), 1960

"Salome"(Opera), 1905

"Charge of the Light Brigade"(Publication date, in The Examiner), 1854

Today in History:

The Byzantine General Belisarius enters Rome while the Ostrogothic garrison peacefully leaves the city, returning the old capital to its empire, 536

New York City's first daily newspaper, the American Minerva, is established by Noah Webster, 1793

The Republic of Texas captures San Antonio, Texas, 1835

The first Young Men's Christian Association in the Americas is founded, in Montreal, 1851

Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback becomes governor of Louisiana for 35 days, becoming the first black US governor, 1872

Levant Richardson patents the ball-bearing skate, 1884

Statistician Herman Hollerith installs his computing device at the United States War Department, 1888

The Norwegian parliament vote unanimously for female suffrage, 1903

The first broadcast of "Coronation Street" on British ITV, 1960

Barbados joins the United Nations, 1966

NLS (a system for which hypertext and the computer mouse were developed) is publicly demonstrated for the first time in San Francisco, 1968

The United Arab Emirates join the United Nations, 1971

The eradication of the smallpox virus is certified, 1979

Phoenix, Arizona, US, gets 3 inches of snow, 1985

Lech Walesa wins the presidential election in Poland, 1990

In Australia, thieves broke into a home and stole two 300-year-old etchings by Rembrandt. The 4-by-4-inch etchings, a self-portrait and a depiction of the artist's mother, were valued around $518,000, 2003

Pakistan's media publish fake WikiLeaks cables attacking India, 2010

China creates a new "Confucius Peace Prize" to honor its former Taiwanese Vice President, Lien Chan, who refused to collect it, 2010

The NASA Mars rover Curiosity has returned images from the red planet's Gale Crater showing evidence of sediment deposits, suggesting that lakes and rivers potentially existed across the planet millions of years ago, 2014

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is named Time Magazine's Person of the Year, for her handling of debt and refugee crises, 2015

Whakaari volcano, a tourist attraction in New Zealand, erupts killing 16, 2019

More than 40 camels are disqualified from the King Abdulaziz Camel Festival beauty contest after Botox injections and other cosmetic enhancements were discovered, 2021

Google unveils a new quantum computer, capable of performing a mathematical calculation in 5 minutes that the most powerful supercomputers could not complete in 10 septillion years, 2024