Find the Keys and Talk Change, 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.  

There had obviously been an accident with the newspaper the day before, and it is very likely Carl had something to do with it.

The clothes in the dryer were wet, it's obvious he still doesn't quite get the settings mean it will dry the clothes for 20 minutes, not necessarily in 20 minutes.

I'd been wondering where the missing pair of shorts went.  He'd obviously tried to hang them up and missed.

He ran out of sunglasses, and has apparently bought his own, quite colorful pair.

I also made a mistake with the laundry this week and missed one of the many tissues he often leaves in his pockets.  Extra time was spent removing a shredded tissue from the washer.

On the positive side, his keys were missing when i arrived and a careful sorting of laundry brought them to light.  Everything, and i do mean everything, goes in his pockets.

And he has ants in the bathroom again.  He keeps leaving the tops off his gummy vitamins, and when he notices them he panics  and tries to wipe them away with a towel.  It never works, but he keeps trying.

Once Carl was up, showered and (mostly) dressed, he started asking what was up at church as he usually does.  It's funny, since he goes to the late service most weeks and has a program with the announcements, he still asks me what's going on.

Somehow i doubt he even knows there are announcements on the backs of the programs.

He spent his breakfast time talking about his weekend while eating.

"I went to a fest...was in the zone...there was a robot, with arms, it was real small but cool...someone there was selling a Minecraft card game!  But $20, that's a lot..."

He'd been chattering as i was packing his lunch and i was following along as best i could when he asked, "Should I be planning to go to the festival in June?"

It depends on when and where, i told him.  He nodded seriously and then got up from breakfast and started searching for a pen.  He wanted to take notes as he'd found a list of some sort online of things to do in our area in June.

Once he was done with that, he told me he needed a new working card, or some cash.  I reminded him he had over $50 in change and if he'd take it to the bank, he could get cash.

"How does that work?" he asked.

Take it to the bank, i told him, and hand them the coins in the rolls and tell them you want cash for the coins.

"Can't do it now, before work..." he said, looking at me uncertainly.

No, they don't open before nine, they keep banker's hours, but you could after work, especially if you take the coins with you one day and go right after work.

He thought about that, and nodded solemnly, and maybe one day he will do it, but he didn't yesterday.

How about some funnies?

Have a blessed and beautiful Tuesday, everyone!

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Today is:

Arlington National Cemetary Day -- US (the first serviceman to be interred here was Private William Henry Christman, on this date in 1964

Bun Bung Fai (Rocket Festival) -- Yasothon, Thailand (through the 14th, teams compete to build the highest flier, with no regard for safety!)

Celtic Tree Month Huath (hawthorn) commences

Frog Jumping Day -- original date for celebrating Twain's short story

Garland Day -- Abbotsbury, Dorset, England

King Norodom Sihamoni's Birthday -- Cambodia

Lemuralia -- Ancient Roman Empire (third day)

Leprechaun Day -- spread around the internet, presumably by the little people themselves, as since St. Patrick gets a day, so should they!

National Apple Pie Day

National Fruit Cocktail Day

Pilgrimage to Fatima -- Fatima, Portugal (procession, mass, and etc. to commemorate the first appearance of the Virgin of the Rosary to the three shepherd children on this day in 1917)

St Julian of Norwich's Day (Author of what is believed to be the first book written by a woman in the English language, Sixteen Revelations of Divine Love, around 1393)

St. Servatus' Day (3rd Ice Saint, Patron for success; against foot problems, lameness, leg problems, mice, rats, rheumatism, vermin)

Birthday Today:

Debby Ryan, 1993

Robert Pattinson, 1986

Samantha Morton, 1977

Darius Rucker, 1968

Darius Rucker, 1966

Stephen Colbert, 1964

Julianne Phillips, 1962

Dennis Rodman, 1961

Frances Barber, 1957

Stevie Wonder, 1950

Bobby Valentine, 1950

Franklyn Ajaye, 1949

Tim Pigott-Smith, 1946

Mary Wells, 1943

Ritchie Valens, 1941

Harvey Keitel, 1939

Beatrice Arthur, 1923

Joe Louis, 1914

Arthur Sullivan, 1842

Maria Theresa, 1717

Debuting/Premiering Today;

Let It Be(Film), 1970

"Paint It Black"(Single release), 1966

"The Pajama Game"(Musical), 1954

Schelomo: Rhapsodie Hébraïque for Violoncello and Orchestra (Bloch concerto), 1917

"Apollo et Hyacinthus"(opera, Mozart K 38), 1767

Today in History:

The forces of Mary, Queen of Scots, are defeated by a confederacy of Scottish Protestants under James Stewart, Earl of Moray, her half-brother, 1568

A major earthquake in Santiago, Chile, kills 1/3 of the population, 1643

Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England  with eleven ships full of convicts (First Fleet) to establish a penal colony in Australia, 1787

Ecuador  gains its independence from Gran Colombia, 1830

The first performance of Finland's national anthem, 1848

Queen Victoria declares Britain neutral in the US Civil War, 1861

The Great Comet of 1861 is discovered by John Tebbutt of Windsor, New South Wales, Australia, 1861

Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway, 1880

The Royal Flying Corps (now the Royal Air Force) is established in the United Kingdom, 1912

Igor Sikorsky becomes the first man to pilot a four-engine aircraft, 1913

The first commercial FM radio station in the United States (WDRC-FM) is launched in Bloomfield, Connecticut, 1939

Winston Churchill makes his "blood, toil, tears, and sweat" speech to the House of Commons, 1940

The trade mark Velcro is registered, 1958

The Free Speech Movement is born at UC Berkeley, 1960

Dr. Zakir Hussain becomes the third President  of India and the first Muslim President of Indian Union, 1967

Large groups of students occupy Tiananmen Square and begin a hunger strike, 1989

Johnny Carson makes his last television appearance on Late Show with David Letterman, 1994

A 33 years old British mother Alison Hargreaves, became the first woman to conquer Everest without oxygen or the help of sherpas, 1995

Star Trek: Enterprise broadcasts its final show in the U.S., 2005

Construction of the Calafat-Vidin Bridge between Romania and Bulgaria begins, 2007

In Belize, a construction company requiring road fill gravel destroys a 2,300 year-old Mayan pyramid, 2013

A 22 year old UK blogger halts the spread of a global ransomware cyber-attack by accidentally identifying its "kill switch", 2017

Undersea explorer Victor Vescovo makes the deepest dive ever to the bottom of the Mariana Trench at 10,927m (35,849ft), and finds plastic waste, 2019

The journal Nature Geoscience publishes a study showing the moon is shrinking because of moonquakes as it cools, 2019

The Ronne Ice Shelf in Antarctica calves the world's largest iceberg, named 'A-76,' at 1,667-square-miles (4,320 square km) , 2021