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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.
Ms. V has a good friend who has a condo on the beach near where our family used to vacation each year.
Good friends lend you the condo for a get-away, and that's exactly what happened.
After last October's fiasco where Ms. V and Carl were supposed to go on a leaf-peeping and history tour, and she got so upset about leaving Mr. L home alone she was having panic attacks, the friend insisted on offering the condo for a short, nearby get-away where a couple of hours by car would have Ms. V back home if there was an emergency.
Ms. V, Carl, and her other son J and J's wife, M went, and Mr. L stayed home. He was invited, but realistically his travel days are done.
The sky was threatening rain when i arrived and for once, Ms. V and Carl had parked the cars just far enough apart i could squeeze my car in the carport with theirs. It was a good thing, too, because the heavens opened up soon after.
Once in the house, i ran into Ms. V's particular quirk, which is door locks. Ever since the break-in while she was home alone almost 15 years ago, if she leaves the house she locks everything. Even if she stays home, she locks most things.
The laundry room has two doors, one into the back hall. It's the door i use so i don't have to go into the main house on Monday from Carl's attached apartment to get in there.
It has a deadbolt no one has a key to as the only key lives on a hook in the laundry room, and the laundry room was locked. So were the hall doors, and Carl's door.
After several minutes of opening lock after lock with the keys i do have, i finally got into the laundry room through the other door, found the bolt key, and got that open by the hardest. As it's never used, it doesn't like to give easily.
Mr. L saw me and said, "I didn't know you were coming today!"
I commented it was a good time to come, i'd get more done with Carl out of town, and he laughed then said, "He's probably left it a worse mess than usual."
He wasn't joking.
Carl had dug this up from somewhere.
I'm sure Ms. V has had this in storage for many years, as she's frugal and throws away almost nothing which might be of any use. He was using it to water his plant.
Which i only yesterday noticed has some instructions on the side. They were simply, water well and often, drain to prevent root rot.
In spite of the mess, Carl did pack a good bit, including almost all of his shorts and both travel sizes and full sizes of all his toiletries.
Although he left the travel toiletries kit behind. Heaven knows what he put them all in.
He's also packed only one of his four sets of pajamas, and no, it wasn't a matched set. The striped bottom and the busy patterned top went on vacation together and left their partners behind. At least he'll be covered, which his sister-in-law will appreciate.
There was not much in the fridge.
I got rid of what was open, got the laundry done, and cleaned the room ready for his return on Thursday.
May they have a good vacation, i'm sure by next Monday, i'll have my work cut out helping him finish with the unpacking.
How about some funnies.
Have a blessed and beautiful Tuesday, everyone!
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Today is:
APAWS International Pooper Scooper week -- The Association of Professional Animal Waste Specialists believe every dog should have its day, but not on someone else's lawn!
April Fool's Day a/k/a Huntingowk Day or Gowkie Day in Scotland, because an April Fool is called a gowk; in England it is All Fools Day or April Noddy Day, as an April fool is a "noddy"
Azalea Festival -- Muskogee, OK, US (month long celebration with citywide events throughout)
Capture of Brielle Remembrance -- Brielle, Netherlands
Civil Service Day -- Thailand
Community Spirit Days -- an open invitation, all month long, for any town or community to involve itself in a special service project
Day of Hathor -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)
Edible Book Day -- Sponsored by the Edible Book Festival, Austin, TX, US (celebrating books and culinary creativity by making edible representations of books, then eating them)
Fossil Fools Day -- part of the conservationist movement of many organizations that want us to decrease reliance on fossil fuels and stop corporate polluters
Greek Cypriot Day -- Cyprus (EOKA Day)
International Fun at Work Day -- originally sponsored by Playfair, which encourages non-foolish humor that is non-toxic
International Tatting Day
Investiture of the New Captains Regent -- San Marino (sometimes listed as National Day)
Kalends of April -- Ancient Roman Empire; also
Festival of Fortuna Virilis -- Fortune in her role of bringing luck to women who want better relationships with men
Veneralia -- ritual yearly washing of the statue of Venus
Kha b-Nisan -- Assyrians (traditional New Year celebration)
Loki's Day -- by some calculations, but more likely it was moved to this date to celebrate the trickster of all time on the trickiest day of the year
Miyako Odori -- Kobu Kaburenjo Theatre, Kyoto, Japan ("Dance of the Old Capital", the highly anticipated geisha dance and music festival, through the 30th)
National Sourdough Bread Day
Orissa Day -- Orissa, India
One Cent Day -- no history on this, just noted on several sites
Pigasus Award Announcement Day -- by James Randi, awarded to parapsychological, paranormal or psychic frauds
Reading is Funny Day -- a day to read riddles, jokes, and fun things with kids to show them how great reading can be
School Year Begins -- Japan, most schools and universities
Sizdeh Be-dar -- Iran (Nature Day, an ancient Persian celebration to get out and joyfully spend the day outdoors)
Skagit Valley Tulip Festival -- Skagit Valley, WA, US; through the 30th
Sorry Charlie Day -- a day to recognize Charlie the Tuna, always rejected but never giving up, and anyone who has ever been rejected and lived to tell about it
St. Gilbert de Moray's Day (Patron of Caithness, Scotland)
St. Stupid's Day (First Church of the Last Laugh)
Take Down Tobacco Day (formerly Kids Kick Butts Day) -- Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids
Tree Loving Week begins -- South Korea (always the week that includes April 5, their Arbor Day)
Uzupis Day -- Uzupis District, Vilnius, Lithuania
Anniversaries Today:
Nunavut becomes Canada's third independent territory, 1999
Jim Bakker marries Tammy Faye LaValley, 1961
Birthdays Today:
Randy Orton, 1980
Jon Gosselin, 1977
Rachel Maddow, 1973
Susan Boyle, 1961
Libby Riddles, 1956
Annette O’Toole, 1953
Samuel A. Alito, Jr, 1950
David Eisenhower, 1947
Daniel Joseph “Rusty” Staub, 1944
Ali MacGraw, 1938
Gordon Jump, 1932
Debbie Reynolds, 1932
Jane Powell, 1929
Anne McCaffrey, 1926
Toshiro Mifune, 1920
Abraham Maslow, 1908
Clara "Mother" Hale, 1905
Lon Chaney, 1883
Sergei Rachmaninoff, 1873
Otto von Bismarck, 1815
William Harvey, 1578
Emperor Go-Saga of Japan, 1220
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"The Will Rogers Follies"(Musical), 1991
"General Hospital"(TV), 1963
"The Doctors"(TV), 1963
"Der blaue Engel/The Blue Angel"(Film; premier of Marlene Dietrich), 1930
Today in History:
The ruins of the city of Pompeii are found, 1748
Japan's volcano Unsen erupts, killing about 53,000, 1793
Samuel Morey patents the internal combustion engine, 1826
Cincinnati becomes the first US city to pay firefighters, 1853
Singapore, Penang & Malakka become British crown colonies, 1867
The London-Paris telephone connection is opened, 1891
The Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago, Illinois, 1891
The Royal Air Force is created by the merger of the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service, 1918
The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed, 1924
Generalisimo Frederico Franco announces the end of the Spanish Civil War, 1939
A 7.8 magnitude earthquake near the Aleutian Islands creates a tsunami that strikes Hawai'i, killing 159, 1946
The twenty-six counties of the Irish Free State become the Republic of Ireland, 1949
The Canadian government repeals Japanese Canadian internment after seven years, 1949
The BBC broadcasts the spaghetti tree hoax on its current affairs programme Panorama, 1957
Project Tiger, a tiger conservation program, is launched in the Corbett National Park, India, 1973
Apple Inc. is formed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, 1976
The Halifax Regional Municipality in Nova Scotia is created, 1996
Comet Hale-Bopp is seen passing over perihelion, 1997
Nunavut is established as a Canadian territory carved out of the eastern part of the Northwest Territories, 1999
Croatia and Albania join NATO, 2009
The world’s first smelling TV screen is unveiled in Japan, 2013
Bob Dylan receives his Nobel Prize for Literature at a private ceremony in Stockholm, 2017
The discovery of a major archaeological site on a reef in the middle of Lake Titicaca, in the Andes, and dating to the 8th and 10th centuries AD, is announced, 2019
For the first time ever, online sales in the US overtake retail brick and mortar store sales, with 11.813% online compared with 11.807% for general merchandise stores, 2019
The journal Nature Geoscience publishes a study confirming that the European Space Agency's Mars Explorer orbiter, in 2013, did discover methane on Mars, a gas usually only produced by living things, 2019
Seven democracy protestors are convicted for unauthorized assembly in Hong Kong, 2021
Houston Astros pitcher Ronel Blanco pitches a 10-0 no hitter against the Toronto Blue Jays at Minute Maid Park in Houston, 2024
Pulling an all dayer IS tough. Thanks for the smiles - and the realisation I am not alone.
ReplyDeleteGreat funnies; thanx Mimi. God bless.
ReplyDeleteWe wonder if it will be any kind of a vacation at all with Carl along as he is constant work but hopefully they will have fun. Hope you locked all the locks again on the way out, LOL!
ReplyDeleteAlway interesting situations with Carl ~ now his Mom ~ Always did pack too much myself ~ lol ~. great funnies about packing ~ hugs,
ReplyDeleteWishing you good health, laughter and love in your days,
clm ~ A ShutterBug Explores,
aka (A Creative Harbor)
I got tired reading about all the locks you needed to unlock, then there is the mess at Carl's house. Goodness. You're such a jewel.
ReplyDeleteLove all the funnies. I laughed out loud with the packing. So very true.
Thank you for joining the Happy Tuesday Blog Hop.
Have a fabulous Happy Tuesday. Love and hugs. ♥
All those locks!!!
ReplyDeleteThe funnies have brightened my day!
Oh yes, that's how it is to take a trip away
ReplyDeleteWe hope Carl and his Mom have a nice vacation and come back refreshed. And we really hope there isn't a triple mess for you to take care of next week.
ReplyDeleteGreat funnies, Mom especially chuckled at the boob sweat one:)
Woos - Misty and Timber
Oh, I loved your funnies today. I'm happy that you're doing the A-Z as well.
ReplyDeleteCarl sure wanted to make sure you weren't bored! Those were really funny funnies!
ReplyDeleteJava Bean: "Ayyy, I am going to print out that 'But What If I Need It?' one and stick it on Dada's drawer of random cables and connectors! And also his other drawer of random cables and connectors!"
ReplyDeleteCharlee: "What about his other other drawer of random cables and connectors?"
Java Bean: "There too!"
That must have been a nice treat to work without interruptions. :) I wonder how his room looks at the place they are staying? XO
ReplyDeleteI hope they have a wonderful time away. And you have time to mentally prepare yourself for when they get home and Carl unpacks.
ReplyDeleteHad to laugh at the packing for two days cartoon with the trunk and all the matching suitcases.
I have to pack for an overnight next week, I'll be taking pyjamas, undies and socks and my toothbrush. That's it.
Great funnies. Yes, even the comment about Carl making a mess, which I realize you said wasn't actually a joke.
ReplyDeleteLove the funnies.
ReplyDeleteI like the funnies too.
ReplyDeleteHow nice that you could get the house all ready for their return--there's nothing better than returning to a clean house after being gone! The funnies made me laugh!
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