It Doesn't Look Empty to Me (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, the prompts are being posted by Elephant’s Child and are being provided by David M. Gascoigne.  

This week's prompts are:

 

• Villain
• Visit
• Bone
• Stork
• Memory  

And/or

 

• Imprinted
• Human
• Kink
• Spring
• Faithful 
  

 Charlotte (MotherOwl)  has selected Pretty Flower Pink as the colour of the month.

Have fun.

There's really no VILLAIN in this story, because nature isn't a bad guy, it's just nature, how things happen.

The STORK isn't a bad guy, either, I have no BONE to pick with him about what he did, he was just hungry and big hungry birds sometimes manage to catch a mouse.  Sometimes it's even a mother mouse.

It's not often I VISIT that part of the bogs, either, but I happened to be there, for it was SPRING and there were some flowers in my favorite Pretty Flower Pink color growing around there and I went to pick them.

That's where I saw the stork dart after something, heard a squeal, and when the bird had taken its prize and gone I walked nearby after more flowers.  It was a wonder I saw them, two baby nestling mice in a tiny hollow not far from where the mama was caught and I almost stepped on them by accident.

That threw a KINK in my plans for the day.  It shouldn't have, I know, it makes me both soft hearted and soft headed, but the poor mama.  Anyway, I knew they were just little mice, I didn't have to worry if they IMPRINTED on a HUMAN, and they'd have no MEMORY of their mama once they grew up.

"Don't worry, little guys, I'll do my best for you," I told them, and FAITHFUL to my promise I brought them home, found a dropper and made an ersatz formula from instructions I found online, and when they got big enough to be scrabbling around in the shoebox I'd put them in, went to a pet store and bought them a veritable mouse castle of cages with tunnels, and the toys and a wheel and all the stuff you do for pet mice which I did for a pet hamster once and it bit me.

They never bit me, though, and lived happily a couple of years (mice don't live that long) and they must have either been two brothers or two sisters because there were never any babies, thank goodness.

I kind of miss them, but not enough to go get more mice.

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Today is:

Araw ng Watawat -- Philippines (Flag Day)

Armed Forces Day -- Croatia

Contemplate Your Vicissitudes Day -- no, i still don't know who thinks up this stuff, i can think of much better things to contemplate, thank you

Downfall of the Dergue Day/National Day -- Ethiopia

National Brisket Day

National Hamburger Day

National Senior Health and Fitness Day -- US (don't let age get in the way of staying healthy!) 

Republic Day -- Armenia; Azerbaijan

Slugs Return From Capistrano Day -- where they spent the winter, so don't go out on the patio barefoot until the first frost; sponsored by Wellcat Holidays

St. Bernard of Montjoux's Day (Founder of Alpine hospices; Patron of Alpinists, the Alps, mountain climbers, mountaineers, skiers, and travelers in the mountains)

Whooping Crane Day -- US (birth anniversary of the first crane born in captivity; because those born in captivity refused to breed after they grew up, the attempt to restore numbers this way was discontinued, but these are beautiful birds worth saving)

Women in Trousers Day -- US (on this day in 1923, the US Attorney General announced his determination that it was indeed legal for women to wear trousers anywhere)

World Hunger Day -- The Hunger Project      

World Otter Day -- International Otter Survival Fund

Anniversary Today:

Amnesty International is founded, 1961

Sierra Club is founded, 1892

Birthdays Today:

Joseph Cross, 1986

Carey Mulligan, 1985

Jesse Bradford, 1979

Sicily Yoder, 1969

Kylie Minogue, 1968

Glen Rice, 1967

Christa Miller, 1964

Sondra Locke, 1947

John Fogerty, 1945

Rudolph Guiliani, 1944

Gladys Knight, 1944

Annette, Cecile, Emilie, Marie, and Yvonne Dionne , 1934

Carroll Baker, 1931

Barry Commoner, 1917

Ian Fleming, 1908

Jim Thorpe, 1888

Louis Agassiz, 1807

William Pitt, 1759

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"The Magic Show"(Musical), 1974

"Lock Up Your Daughters"(Musical), 1959

Melody(Disney cartoon film, first ever in 3-D), 1953

"Zoo Parade"(TV), 1950

"Louisiana Purchase"(Musical), 1940

"Mathis der Maler / Matthias the Painter"(Opera), 1938

"L'Arianna / Ariadne"(Opera), 1608

Today in History:

A solar eclipse occurs, as predicted by Greek philosopher and scientist Thales, while Alyattes is battling Cyaxares in the Battle of the Eclipse; this leads to a truce and becomes one of the cardinal dates from which other dates can be calculated, BC585

James IV of Scotland and Margaret Tudor are married according to a Papal Bull by Pope Alexander VI and a Treaty of Everlasting Peace (which lasted 10 years) between Scotland and England is signed, 1503

The Spanish Armada, with 130 ships and 30,000 men, sets sail from Lisbon heading for the English Channel (it will takes until May 30 for all of the ships to leave port), 1588

In the first engagement of the French and Indian War, Virginia militia under 22-year-old Lieutenant Colonel George Washington defeat a French reconnaissance party, 1754

Big Ben is drawn on a carriage pulled by 16 horses from Whitechapel Bell Foundry to the Palace of Westminster, 1859

In San Francisco, California, John Muir organizes the Sierra Club, 1892

In the Russo-Japanese War, the Battle of Tsushima ends with the destruction of the Russian Baltic Fleet by the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1905

John B Gruelle patents Raggedy Ann doll, 1915

The US Attorney General says it is legal for women to wear trousers, 1923

The first all color talking picture, "On With the Show", is shown in NYC, 1929

The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California, is officially opened, 1937

Neville Chamberlain becomes British Prime Minister, 1937

The women of Greece are given the right to vote, 1952

The Palestine Liberation Organization is formed, 1964

Fifteen West African countries sign the Treaty of Lagos, creating the Economic Community of West African States, 1975

Eritrea and Monaco join the United Nations, 1993

NATO declares Russia a limited partner in the Western alliance, 2002

The Mars Odyssey finds signs of large ice deposits on the planet Mars, 2002

The first meeting of the Constituent Assembly of Nepal formally declares Nepal a republic, ending the 240-year reign of the Shah dynasty, 2008

'Le Monde' reports the Assad regime in Syria continues to use chemical weapons, 2013

The Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) has banned 11 people after an ethics investigation; the banned officials have recently or previously been indicted for corruption by the U.S. Justice Department, 2015

The discovery of a mass grave with the remains of 215 children at the former site of Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia, Canada is announced, 2022

Surgeons at NYU Langone Health complete the world's first whole eyeball transplant with a partial facial transplant, for a US veteran, 2023