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Linking up with Wordless Wednesday, 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.
While Elephant's Child takes a blog break, River is providing the prompts on her blog.
Here are this week's words:
1.gallivanting
2.curious
3.forest
4.bacon
and this picture borrowed from ArcticFox
Charlotte (MotherOwl) has selected Saint Patrick's Green as the colour of the month.
She'd always been CURIOUS about the house behind the gate.
It was at the end of a path through the FOREST, and she only knew it was there because she loved to roam beneath the trees and dream. This time of year, when spring was turning everything every shade from olive to emerald to St. Patrick's Green she would slip out there as often as she could. She felt more at home under the tree canopy than anywhere else.
The gate of the old place was rusted shut, so she knew no one went there any longer, but through the brush and overgrowth she could see a house was still there, and not a wooden one which would slowly sink back into the land like the old shed did, but a proper masonry house.
Every time she thought of asking Aunt Carol about it, she knew the kind of answer she would get. "Child, I can't go GALAVANTING all over looking into the history of old houses used to be around here. It's enough work to keep this house and bring home the BACON for the two of us."
Still, she knew, someday, she'd find a way to learn about the house, to go in it. She felt drawn to it somehow, and knew it would not let her go, so she wouldn't let it go, either.
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Today is:
Alfred Hitchcock Day -- some internet sources say March 8, and no one knows who picked either day, but he is worth celebrating
Arbor Day -- China; Taiwan
Donkey Appreciation Day -- formerly celebrated, but the lowly donkey is no longer as indispensable as he was; if you share my fondness for beasts of burden, celebrate it anyway
Girl Scouts Birthday -- US
Kronprinsessans Namnsdag -- Sweden (Name Day of HRH Crown Princess Victoria, the Heir Apparent; an official flag day)
Lesser Eleusinian Mysteries -- Ancient Greek Calendar (three day festival, dates approximate; celebrates the marriage of Kore and Dionysos)
Martyrdom of Hypatia of Alexandria -- in 415, she was murdered for the three crimes of being intelligent, female, and pagan
National Baked Scallops Day
National Day -- Mauritius (anniversary of independence in 1968)
National Decoration Day -- Liberia
Plant a Flower Day -- sponsored by the National Wildlife Federation; now's a good time to give wildlife friendly perennials a head start, starting them indoors if you have to
Registered Dietitian Nutritionist Day -- US
St. Gregory the Great's Day (Patron of choir boys, educators, masons, musicians, popes, schoolchildren, singers, stonemasons, stone cutters, students, and teachers; England; Kercem, Malta; Legazpi, Philippines; Montone, Italy; San Gregorio nelle Alpi, Italy; West Indies; against gout and plague)
note that Pope St. Gregory is also celebrated on Sept. 3, the date he was elected pope
Graekarismessa (Mass of St. Gregory) -- Torshavn, Faroe Islands (traditional day on which the oystercatcher, their symbolic national bird, returns)
Gregoru Diena -- Ancient Latvian Calendar (Gregory's Day, similar to groundhog day for weather prediction)
St. Seraphina's Day (Patron of the disabled and handicapped, and of spinners)
World Day Against Cyber Censorship -- sponsored by Reporters Without Borders and Amnesty International
Youth Day -- Zambia
Anniversaries Today:
Mick Jagger marries Bianca Perez Morena de Macias, 1971
Paul McCartney marries Linda Louise Eastman, 1969
Birthdays Today:
Frank Catalano, 1978
Aaron Eckhart, 1968
David Daniels, 1966
Darryl Strawberry, 1962
Marlon Jackson, 1957
Rob Cohen, 1949
James Taylor, 1948
Liza Minnelli, 1946
Al Jarreau, 1940
Barbara Feldon, 1933
Andrew Young, 1932
Edward Albee, 1928
Wally Schirra, 1923
Jack Kerouac, 1922
Gordon MacRae, 1921
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, 1881
Simon Newcomb, 1835
Charles Cunningham Boycott, 1832
Clement Studebaker, 1821
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Moses und Aaron"(Opera), 1954
"Fervaal"(Opera; d'Indy Op. 40), 1897
"Simon Boccanegra"(Opera), 1857
Today in History:
Martyrdom of Hypatia of Alexandria, philosopher, 415
Witiges, king of the Ostrogoths ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving the city in the hands of the victorious Roman general, Belisarius, 538
Orvieto, Italy, rules it will behead and burn Jewish-Christian couples, 1350
Jews are expelled from Syria, 1496
New Jersey becomes an English colony, 1664
The first steam engine in America installed, to pump water from a mine, 1755
Andrew Watson makes his Scotland debut as the world's first black international football player and captain, 1881
In Vicksburg, Mississippi, Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time, 1894
The first main line electric train in UK, from Liverpool to Southport, begins running, 1904
The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the United States, by Juliette Gordon Lowe, 1912
The foundation stone of the new Australian capital in Canberra is laid, 1913
Mohandas Gandhi begins 200m (300km) march protesting British salt tax, 1930
The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of Communism, 1947
The Church of England ordains its first female priests, 1994
Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO, 1999
Financier Bernard Madoff plead guilty in New York to scamming $18 billion, the largest in Wall Street history, 2009
The U.S. Census Bureau reports the world now has 7 billion people, 2012
JOGMEC becomes the first to successfully extract methane hydrate from seabed deposits, 2013
Research shows Chinese cites have decreased pollution by 32 percent on average in just four years, 2018
Tens of thousands of farmers from Indian state Maharashtra end protests over loan waivers, prices and land rights after promises from state officials and walking 167km to Mumbai, 2018
Researchers claim more births are resulting in twins than ever before in history, with almost 1 in 42 pregnancies resulting in multiples, 2021
After forming on Feb. 6, Cyclone Freddy makes landfall for a second time in central Mozambique, Madagascar and Malawi, setting records as the longest-lasting cyclone in the southern hemisphere, 2023
So funny😹Double Pawkisses for a Happy Day🐾😽💞
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That made me smile!
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Have a fabulous Wordless Wednesday. Love and hugs. ♥
You sure are a badass! Good luck with writing. I have not written anything yet either.
ReplyDeleteI always find your "Today Is".... section. I was particularly struck by Hypatia of Alexandria. What a tragic reason to die. But a melancholy satisfaction that she has not been forgotten, which is more than you can say about most people who lived in 415. AD. I looked her up and she was a philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician. You bet those who put her to death were unthinking idiots.
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Woos - Misty and Timber
That's a funny message and a really good story!
ReplyDeleteOh, I do love your story, as much as I love old houses and their history!
ReplyDeleteNice story. I hope you add to it another week. XO
ReplyDeleteI don't think we can always handle everything we are given. Sometimes everything feels like too much.
ReplyDeleteThat's great. It sometimes does feel that way, doesn't it?
ReplyDeleteLove your story and really hope she gets a chance to see inside and explore the house 😃
ReplyDeleteLove the story. When I was more mobile I would have ventured in there to look around. I used to love wandering through woods too, but unfortunately no longer able to do so.
ReplyDeleteWhat a fascinating timeline of events! It’s incredible how history is shaped by such a wide range of moments, from political shifts and scientific advancements to social changes and natural disasters. Thanks for sharing these significant milestones from across the centuries!
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Yep~ you are ~ great story too ~ hugs,
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clm ~ A ShutterBug Explores,
aka (A Creative Harbor)
Hi Messymimi - Carol has her work cut out for her ... well told - cheers Hilary
ReplyDeleteLulu: "Hmm, I guess God must think that about our Dada, too, what with some of the stuff he's gotten given ..."
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