Cheap Bathroom Air Freshener (Wordless Wednesday) and Words for Wednesday

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Linking up with Wordless Wednesday, Keith, Catsynth, and Sandee at Comedy Plus.     

(For those with no clue what this is, it's a dryer sheet attached to the window blinds.)

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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.    

Huge thanks to David M. Gascoigne for providing the prompts last month. 

The prompts this month will again be posted by Elephant's Child and are provided by Hilary Melton-Butcher.        

This week's prompts are:

 

• Almanac 
• Vegetables     
• Smoke     
• Rocky    
• Pursuit

And/or

 

• Tides         
• Data           
• Pearly         
• Block       
• Hedge 

An additional prompt from Charlotte (MotherOwl) is to use her colour of the month in your take on the prompts.  In honour of her yellow irises survivng the drought in her Frog pond, the colour of June is "Surviving Iris Yellow" 

 Have fun.

Gray SMOKE from the chimney fire rose up to blend with the PEARLY gray sky.   Clouds, I thought to myself as I turned from the window with a sigh, don't just BLOCK the sun, they blot out most of the fun, too.

We were at Grandmama's house for our requisite two weeks visit each summer, Edgar and I, and it started out dull as a tomb.  None of the usual running down to the ROCKY beach shore to see the TIDES and take a dip, and we'd bought new bathing costumes, too!  No chasing around the HEDGE in PURSUIT of the creatures that live there, they are all such fun to watch.

No, the dull, rainy time this year left me with little to do but peruse the old ALMANAC, and I had no interest in the DATA on when it was best to plant your VEGETABLES in various growing zones.

Suddenly Edgar came running in excitedly.  He'd been in the kitchen, begging Cook for a treat as always, when Grandmama had come in and said, "It's time I got the children out of the house, no matter the weather.  Edgar, go find Sarah and tell her to put on her hat, the Iris Yellow one, and you grab your cap.  We're going to take a ride on the train to the city and visit the new museum.  That's something we can do even if there is rain."

Edgar had sped posthaste to find me, and I was thrilled.  Finally, we'd get to do something fun! 

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Today is:

Audacity to Hope Day -- to encourage all to have the audacity to keep hope

Clean Air Day -- Canada

Emancipation Day -- Tonga (trad.)

Festival for Hercules Custos -- Ancient Roman Calendar (Hercules the Custodian)

Flag Day -- Estonia

Flag Day -- Finland (Armed Forces observe the birth anniversary of Carl Gustaf Mannerheim)

Global Running Day   

International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression -- UN

Jarila's Day -- Asatru/Slavic Pagan Calendar (Festival of Jarila, god of the sun and fertility)

Lassie Day -- the first dog to play the role of Lassie, in the movie Lassie, Come Home, was born this day in 1940

National Cheese Day -- not to be confused with Cheese Lover's Day earlier in the year

National Cognac Day

National Frozen Yogurt Day -- not to be confused with the Frozen Yogurt Day celebrated on Feb. 6 in Los Angeles, where the temperatures make such a thing possible

National Unity Day -- Hungary

Old Maid's Day -- supposedly established after WWII, when there were so many eligible young ladies who weren't getting any younger

Plynteria -- Ancient Greek Calendar (festival in Athens in honor of Athena; date approximate)

St. Petroc's Day (Patron of Cornwall and Wales, as well as many locations in Cornwall, Wales, and England, and Saint-Meen, France)

Tailor's Day -- the first Wednesday of June is noted on many sites as the day to thank your tailor

Turtle Races -- Nisswa, MN, US (Wednesdays through August 13th, go race a turtle, it's only $5 to adopt a turtle for the race and get a participation racing button, and you might even win a cool prize!

Birthdays Today:

Evan Lysacek, 1985

Russell Brand, 1975

Angelina Jolie, 1975

Noah Wyle, 1971

James Callis, 1971

Scott Wolf, 1968

Cecilia Bartoli, 1966

Sam Harris, 1961

Eldra DeBarge, 1961

Keith David, 1956

Parker Stevenson, 1953

George Noory, 1950

Bettina Gregory, 1946

Michelle Phillips, 1944

Joyce Meyer, 1943

Freddy Fender, 1937

Bruce Dern, 1936

John Drew Barrymore, 1932

Dr. Ruth Westheimer, 1928

Dennis Weaver, 1924

Robert Merrill, 1919

Rosalind Russell, 1907

George III, 1738

Aesop, BCE620 (not certain, but close enough)

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"Born in the USA"(Album release), 1984

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan(Film), 1982

"Cavalcade of Stars"(TV), 1949

Today in History:

Chinese astronomers make the first recording of a solar eclipse, BC781

Sir Walter Raleigh establishes the first English colony on Roanoke Island, old Virginia (now North Carolina), 1584

Forces under the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu take Osaka Castle in Japan, 1615

New England planters arrive to claim land in Nova Scotia, Canada taken from the Acadians, 1760

A transit of Venus is followed five hours later by a total solar eclipse, the shortest such interval in history, 1769

The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their montgolfière (hot air balloon), 1783

Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for the Kingdom of Great Britain, 1792

The Ottoman Empire cedes Cyprus to the United Kingdom but retains nominal title, 1878

Henry Ford test drives his first prototype automobile, the Ford Quadricycle, 1896

Massachusetts becomes the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage, 1912

A patent for the ATM is granted to Donald Wetzel, Tom Barnes and George Chastain, 1973

The Tiananmen Square protests are violently ended in Beijing by the People's Liberation Army, 1989

Solidarity's victory in the first (somewhat) free parliamentary elections in post-war Poland sparks off a succession of peaceful anti-communist revolutions in Eastern Europe, 1989

Falcon 9 Flight 1 was the maiden flight of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket,2010

Negotiations break down between Greece's leftist Syriza government and the European Union regarding issuance of additional bailout funding, 2015

A State of Emergency is declared after 20,000 tonnes of diesel oil spills near the Russian city of Norilsk, Siberia within the Arctic Circle, 2020

Nepalese Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli makes a desperate plea for vaccines amid his country's devastating COVID-19 second wave, 2021