Man of Many Talents, 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.  

As always, I arrived at Carl's and found my first clues in the laundry room.

Carl is again gathering his dirty clothes in the sink instead of piled all around the clothes bins in his room, and Ms. V forgot to deal with the cleaning rags and cloths last Thursday, leaving them to Carl's  not-so-tender mercies.

I met Carl coming out of his room for his next round of sleep in the sleep chair.  He just doesn't want to get up until the very last second no matter what.

Once in his room i noticed his poor plant.

I keep meaning to ask a friend what kind it is and what it needs, but have been so busy it is out of my brain on the rare occasion i do see her.

He is finally out of cotton swabs!  They were all over the floor.  At least, he's out temporarily.

The good coat we finally found in the car trunk (boot) last week now has this.

A nice tear.

And while i'm used to him putting things in odd places, this was new.

Baby powder in the drawer.

The powder usually only gets left on the floor.  What possessed him to pick it up and put it in a drawer no one knows but him, and as always, i'd be afraid to ask.

I do know why he puts a shirt and pants together on a hanger, he thinks it's going to save him time in the morning having them like this, but he forgets and grabs new everything every time.

The laundry was sorted and the room much tidier when he got up to come shower.  He had to have a discussion with me about the clothes I'd gone ahead and put in the bathroom for him.

"Why..." he started, then stopped, looking askance at the shirt i'd chosen.

"Why is it stained?" he said, sniffing to be sure it was a clean shirt.  It was.

It's stained because you don't treat it before you wash and dry it, and the dryer makes those spots permanent, i told him.

"Oops," was his reply.

 Would you like this one instead? i asked, handing him a long sleeve t-shirt with the store logo on it.

He nodded and i pointed out he had everything in there, including his belt, asked him to throw his dirty pajamas out for me so i could start the laundry, and left him to it.

Carl actually remembered to throw the clothes out, saying something i didn't catch.

Later he opened the door talking about his friend and the Call of Duty game.  "Never did figure out that level," he said.

Then he grabbed the shoes, socks and powder i'd left in the bathroom where he's supposed to use them and came to the middle of the floor, getting powder all over.

Carl, i told him, do you see all the powder on the floor?  One of us might slip some day, which is why your mom wants you to use it in the bathroom on your rug.

"Oh," he said, then, "well, I'll clean it" and he grabbed the apron he is supposed to wear at breakfast to try to swish the powder even further afield.

No, i told him, cleaning it is my job, i'm just letting you know it's safer if you don't get powder all over.

He nodded and put the apron over his head and wandered off, and i ran behind him to tie it so it would actually do him some good as i followed him down the hall to the kitchen.

"I need to work on my fitness more," he said and started doing arm exercises as he gathered his breakfast things.  He pulled four different cereal boxes out of the pantry, lined them up on the counter, and by grabbing the two end boxes tightly enough to hold the middle two in, got all four of them to the table together.  He's a man of many talents, that one.

Including the talent to only grab the applesauce cups which are at the outer end of the containers.  I guess it would take more time to pick up the whole thing to grab the ones in the middle.

As i packed his lunch, i saw this.

There's no way it belonged to either Ms. V or Mr. L, and she doesn't allow uncovered food in the fridge, so i asked him about it.

"Yes, it's mine, did it go bad?"

It's going to, i said, it will get hard and stale in the fridge.

"It needs to be covered...plastic wrap!" he noted.

Then i asked him, if you knew that, why didn't you cover it before?

"I didn't bother!" he said.  Then he added, "You can wrap it!" 

Well, at least he's honest about it.   Instead of wrapping it, i put it in a zip bag and packed it with his lunch.

With his special needs, he really is just a big kid.

He still loves to color Sunday school pages.

Carl also asked about parades, and i told him about the only one which would be fit for him to attend, a family centered one that evening.  I pulled up the map and time and showed him.

I guess we'll find out next week if his mom let him go on a work night.

Also, his plant.

He moved it to get some sun and the dirt felt damp.  He's trying.

Happy Mardi Gras everyone!  How about some funnies.

Have a blessed and beautiful Tuesday, and if you celebrate,, remember tomorrow:

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Today is:

Celebrate Your Name Week -- Tuesday:  Unique Names Day, a day to appreciate friends, acquaintances, and loved ones with unique names

Charter Day -- St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada (1881)

Courageous Follower Day -- because leaders have to have someone to lead, and it can take as much courage to follow a great leader as to be the leader

Feast of Ra in His Barge at Heliopolis -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)

International Pancake Day

Holy Experiment Day -- try something religious today

Hug a GI Day -- just don't get in trouble sneaking on base to do it

International Scrapbooking Industry Day -- can't find proof the industry actually set this day, but if you love scrapbooking, celebrate

March Forth - Do Something Day

Mardi Gras -- Fat Tuesday, Carnival, the last day to feast before the Lenten fast begins tomorrow, greeted with revelry in many parts of the world; related observances and names:

     Scotland, Fasten's E'en or Bannocky Day

     Portuguese, Terça-feira Gorda

     Italian, Martedì Grasso

     Swedish, Fettisdagen

     Norwegian, Fastelavens

     Estonian, Vastlapäev

     Spanish, Martes de Carnaval

     German, Faschingsdienstag

     Hawaiian, Malasada Day

     Lithuanian, Uzgavenes

     Icelandic, Sprengidagur (literally, Bursting Day)

     also Pancake Day or Bursting Day, the day to eat the last of the eggs and butter in the form of some kind of fried cakes, and to eat until bursting

National Grammar Day -- sponsored by The Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar on March 4th, which is both a date and an imperative

National Poundcake Day

Shrove Tuesday -- Christian

St. Casimir's Day (Patron of bachelors, kings, princes, single laymen; Lithuania; Poland; against plague)

Tavern Day -- US (the first tavern in the US, a Puritan public house in Boston, MA, opened this date in 1634)

Town Meeting Day -- Vermont, US (giving all citizens the right to speak out about local government, an official state holiday the first Tuesday of March allows towns to have a daylong public meeting of voters to elect town officers, approve budgets, and deal with town business)

Toy Soldier Day -- Dr. Steel's Army, building a utopian playland and embarking on a worldwide mission of fun

Waltz Day -- some say National Waltz Day, and some Dance the Waltz Day, but no one says why this day; i say, waltz if you want to

Anniversaries Today:

Hot Springs National Park is established, 1921

Vermont becomes the 14th US state, 1791

Birthdays Today:

Patsy Kensit, 1968

Jason Curtis Newsted, 1963

Stephen Weber, 1961

Patricia Heaton, 1958

Catherine O'Hara, 1954

Emilio Estefan, 1953

Kay Lenz, 1953

Chris Squire, 1948

Mary Wilson, 1944

Paula Prentiss, 1938

Miriam Makeba, 1932

Joan Greenwood, 1921

Charles Rudolph Walgreen, Jr., 1906

Knute Rockne, 1888

Garrett Morgan, 1877

Casimir Pulaski, 1747

Antonio Vivaldi, 1678

Prince Henry the Navigator, 1394

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"People Magazine"(Publication), 1974

"The Dick Cavett Show"(TV), 1968

"Nosferatu"(Horror Film), 1922

"Pénélope"(Fauré Opera), 1913

"Swan Lake"(Tchaikovsky Op. 20), 1876

Today in History:

Croatian Duke Trpimir I issued a statute, a document with the first known written mention of the Croats name in Croatian sources, 852

Ramathibodi becomes King of Siam, 1351

Christopher Columbus arrives back in Lisbon, Portugal, from his first voyage, 1493

Hernan Cortez arrives in Mexico in search of Aztec gold, 1519

The Massachusetts Bay Colony is granted a royal charter, 1629

John Flamsteed is appointed the first Astronomer Royal of England, 1675

France is divided into 83 départements, which cut across the former provinces in an attempt to dislodge regional loyalties based on noble ownership of land, 1790

The first Jewish member of the US Congress, Israel Jacobs of Pennsylvania, takes office, 1791

A Constitutional Act is introduced by the British House of Commons in London which envisages the separation of Canada into Lower Canada (Quebec) and Upper Canada (Ontario), 1791

In the first ever peaceful transfer of power between elected leaders in modern times, John Adams is sworn in as President of the United States, succeeding George Washington, 1797

In the Castle Hills Rebellion, in New South Wales, Australia, Irish convicts (some of whom had been involved in Ireland’s Battle of Vinegar Hill in 1798) lead the colony’s only significant convict uprising, 1804

Carlo Alberto di Savoia signs the Statuto Albertino that will later represent the first constitution of the Regno d'Italia, 1848

The day without a US president -- Zachary Taylor refuses to be sworn in on the Sabbath (Sunday), so there is, technically, no president on this day, 1849

The longest bridge in the Great Britain, the Forth Bridge (railway) (1,710 ft) in Scotland is opened, 1890

The great fire of Shanghai damages over 1,000 buildings, 1894

Victor Berger of Wisconsin becomes the first socialist congressman in the U.S., 1911

Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first female member of the United States House of Representatives, 1917

Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia's renunciation of the throne is made public, and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia publicly issues his abdication manifesto, 1917

Frances Perkins becomes the United States Secretary of Labor, the first female member of the United States Cabinet, 1933

Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, announces the first successful kidney transplant, 1954

The S&P 500 stock market index is introduced, replacing the S&P 90, 1957

The United States Atomic Energy Commission announces that the first atomic power plant at McMurdo Station in Antarctica is in operation, 1962

The first Cray-1 supercomputer is shipped to the Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, 1976

Nationalist leader Robert Mugabe wins a sweeping election victory to become Zimbabwe's first black prime minister, 1980

Bertha Wilson is appointed the first woman to sit on the Supreme Court of Canada, 1983

The Soviet Vega 1 begins returning images of Comet Halley and the first images ever of its nucleus, 1986

The Supreme Court of the United States rules that federal laws banning on-the-job sexual harassment also apply when both parties are the same sex, 1998

No response is received in the final attempt to contact Pioneer 10 by the Deep Space Network, 2006

Approximately 30,000 voters take advantage of electronic voting in Estonia, the world's first nationwide voting where part of the votecasting is allowed in the form of remote electronic voting via the Internet, 2007

The Papal Conclave begins to select the successor of Pope Benedict XVI, 2013

The Italian government sets aside 2 million euros for repairs to the ancient city of Pompeii after damage caused by heavy rains highlights the general decay of this World Heritage site, 2014

Four tons of rocket debris crashes into the far side of the Moon, possibly the booster from China's Chang'e 5-T1 mission, in the first unintentional collision with the Moon, 2022

Most United Nations member countries agree to a new High Seas Treaty, aiming to place 30% of the seas into protected areas, 2023

US Supreme Court rules states can't bar federal candidates, including Donald Trump, from their ballots, 2024