Mom's Decor, Boy's Bathroom (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:

•  Beating
• Evidence
• Remaining
• Temperature
• Stench 
  

and/or

• Excessive
• Oppressive 
• Exposure  
• Dryland 
• Cover

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

 Have fun.

There is ample EVIDENCE the weather here in the swamps is not always pleasant.

Our humidity levels can be OPPRESSIVE, bodies of water growing too much invasive duckweed can be a bit stinky (though i wouldn’t call it a STENCH, some might) and there are times when you just can’t take COVER from the mosquitoes.

On stormy days, we can have monsoon like rain and take a BEATING from it.

To me, it still beats living in “DRYLAND,” or desert.  The TEMPERATURE there can be so EXCESSIVE, above 110 °F / 43 °C, as to cause heat sickness after even a short EXPOSURE.

I’ve heard of places in the American Desert Southwest where you have to have some kind of tram to pick you up at your car in a parking lot and take you to the door of the stores or malls so you don’t pass out in said parking lot on the way.

Deserts can be beautiful, i’m not saying i wouldn’t visit, but the number and types of flowers here in every color of the rainbow, the lushness and green everywhere, the surprise of a purple wisteria or Pretty Flower Pink azalea popping up around every corner, well, i’m all for REMAINING here and “taking the pot with the plants,” so to speak.

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Today is:

Anxiety Disorders Screening Day -- if you have symptoms, get checked, there is help   

Beaufort Wind Force Scale Day -- birth anniversary of the British Navy officer whose wind scale, in refined form

Box Camera Day -- George Eastman patented the Box Camera on this day in 1888

Day of the Soldier -- El Salvador

Experience the Awesome Stomach-Churning Wonder of a Thrill Ride Day -- internet generated, and they can have it!

Feast of St. Nicola -- Bari, Italy (celebrates the moving of the relics of St. Nicholas -- yes, later Santa Claus -- to this town, where they still are; here he is patron of orphans and pirates, and the date of his body's arrival is celebrated as a huge three-day festival with fireworks included)

Fire Escape Ladder Day -- Joseph Winters patented a wagon-mounted version on this day in 1878

Great American Grump Out Day -- encouraging everyone to avoid grumpiness and rudeness for 24 hours; who knows, you might enjoy it so much it will stick!

Hamburg Harbor Day -- Hamburg, Germany (founding of the city)

Homeland Defender's Day -- Kazakhstan

Homespun History Day -- internet holiday often exploited by Modern Drunkard Magazine as a day upon which to drink specifically so the stories will sound better

National Barrier Awareness Day -- US (declared by Presidential Proclamation in 1986)    

National Day to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy -- US   

National Roast Leg of Lamb Day

National School Nurse Day -- US (the school nurse is there to help!)  

National Walk, Bike or Roll to School Day -- US (encouraging kids to have fun, get their exercise, and get to school under their own steam by walking, biking or rolling their wheelchair to school under supervision as part of an event) 

Nones of May -- Ancient Roman Calendar

Occupational Safety and Health Professionals Day -- US (info here)    

Radio Day -- Bulgaria; Russia

St. Domitian of Huy's Day (Patron of Huy Liege, Belgium; against fever)

Zhabdrung Kuchhoe -- Bhutan (death anniversary of Zhabdrung)

Anniversaries Today:

Founding of Univerzita Karlova in Prague, the first university in Central Europe, 1348

Birthdays Today:

Owen Hart, 1965

Peter Reckell, 1955

Amy Heckerling, 1954

Tim Russert, 1950

Johnny Unitas, 1933

Teresa Brewer, 1931

Darren McGavin, 1922

Eva Peron, 1919

Gary Cooper, 1901

Archibald Macleish, 1892

Gabby Hayes, 1885

Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, 1840

Johannes Brahms, 1833

Robert Browning, 1812

Francis Beaufort, 1774

David Hume, 1711

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"Strike It Rich"(TV), 1951

Choral Symphony in D Minor(Beethoven's Ninth), 1824

Today in History:

The dome of the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople collapses, 558

Joan of Arc leads the final charge in the Battle of Orleans, 1429

Louis XIV of France inaugurates The Palace of Versailles, 1664

The city of New Orleans is founded by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, 1718

Jews are expelled from Ukraine by Empress Catherine I of Russia, 1727

Chief Pontiac begins the "Conspiracy of Pontiac" by attacking British forces at Fort Detroit, 1763

The independence of Greece is recognized by the Treaty of London, 1832

George Eastman patents the "Kodak Box Camera," 1888

In Saint Petersburg, Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention, the Popov lightning  detector — a primitive radio receiver, 1895

German  submarine  SM U-20  sinks RMS Lusitania, 1915

England lowers age of women voters from 30 to 21, 1928

Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (later renamed Sony) is founded with around 20 employees, 1946

The Council of Europe is founded during the Hague Congress, 1948

The concept of the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey W.A. Dummer, 1952

Canadian Patrick Morrow became the first person to climb each of the Seven Summits, 1986

The Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on its first mission, 1992

Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for $40 billion USD and forms DaimlerChrysler in the largest industrial merger in history, 1998

The tomb of Herod the Great is discovered, 2007

A new study reports that all Europeans are related to a small group of ancestors dating back only 1,000 years; researchers believe it's likely that everyone in the world is related over the past few thousand years, 2013

Underwater explorers discover a silver ingot of Captain William Kidd's treasure near Madagascar, 2015

Global tourism accounts for 8% of the world's carbon emissions according to a University of Sydney study, 2018

Berklee College of Music bestows honorary doctorates to Beatles drummer Ringo Starr; bassist Chuck Rainey; composer James Newton Howard; and R&B singer Lalah Hathaway, 2022