Quirky Art (Wordless Wednesday) and Words for Wednesday

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Linking up with Wordless Wednesday, 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.   

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

This week's prompts are:

• Purposeful      
• Solar    
• Hog     
• Trail     
• Discouraging

And/or

 

• Chute      
• Punt      
• Oval      
• Records         
• Patient

She has also been very generous and given us some additional words to play with.

 

• Hinders     
•  Origin     
•  Camping     
• Wrinkle    
• Sprout

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 surviving the drought in her Frog pond, the colour of June is "Surviving Iris Yellow" 

Have fun.

(My muse would only cooperate on three such sets of disparate words if i would let her write 3 stories.

Story #1

They laughed, but I was determined.  There were just too many wild pigs on the property for life or safety and they were causing damage, they'd have to be culled.  It's too DISCOURAGING for words when you work so hard on a farm and have it ruined by the critters and you get no good out of it.

I chose the Yellow Iris bed, or what survived of it, and it was PURPOSEFUL.  It was right next to the HOG TRAIL and with the SOLAR powered trail cam on night and day, I'd be able to know when they were on the move in the area, letting me hunt at the most effective times.

Story #2

"Miranda, this is the new trainee, Dannie, could you bring her up to speed on how to quickly ID and reroute PATIENT RECORDS?

"Sure!  Hello, Dannie, I'm Miranda.  It's pretty straightforward, we use these OVAL removable stickers on the charts to show where they go.  Green goes into this little CHUTE right here for the nurse to pick up when she calls the name.  Iris Yellow means the chart comes to me for processing back to the stacks, and red means there's a problem and we PUNT them back to the business office.  Just set those in the box with a red decal over there."

Story #3

Nothing HINDERS the idea of CAMPING out like having a family of ORIGIN that believed roughing it was a hotel without room service.

If you ever catch me planning such a trip, know the universe has a WRINKLE in it and all pigs are about to SPROUT some Iris Yellow wings!

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Today is:

Arbor Day -- Philippines

Color TV Day -- CBS broadcast the first program in color on this day in 1951

Day of the Seafarer -- The International Maritime Organization (this year’s theme is “Seafarers in the Front Line”)   

Feast of the Optional Holiday -- pick one, and celebrate it or don't, your option!

Festival of Ranting and Vaporing -- sponsored by The Daily Bleed

Global Beatles Day -- read about the meaning of this day, and why this date was picked, here

Gotanshin Sai -- Kitano Tenmangu, Kyoto, Japan (festival to commemorate the birth of Lord Sugawara, with ceremonies to ward off summer infections)

Hijri -- Islam (Islamic New Year Begins at the viewing of the new moon crescent this evening, so exact time/date varies by location)

Independence Day -- Mozambique(1975)

Leon Day -- Noel spelled backward, the turning point on the calendar when Christmas starts getting closer; those who make Christmas/Noel gifts need to start thinking about their projects

Ludi Taurii -- Ancient Roman Calendar (Games of the Bull, a two day festival held once every five years)

National Catfish Day

National Fried Okra Day

National Strawberry Parfait Day

Sense of Humor in Bed Appreciation Day -- i'm not touching this one

Slovenian Sovereignty Day / National Day -- Slovenia

Statehood Day -- Croatia

St. Eurosia's Day (a/k/a Orosia; Patron of Jaca, Spain; against bad weather)

     Fiesta de Santa Orosia -- Jaca, Spain

St. Molaug's Day (Patron of Argyll, Scotland; against mental illness)

Anniversaries Today:

Virginia becomes the 10th US State, 1788

Birthdays Today:

Scott Terra, 1987

Linda Cardellini, 1975

Dikembe Mutombo, 1966

George Michael, 1963

Ricky Gervais, 1961

Sonia Sotomayor, 1954

Jimmie Walker, 1949

Phyllis George, 1949

Carly Simon, 1945

Willis Reed, Jr., 1942

June Lockhart, 1925

Sidney Lumet, 1924

Anne Revere, 1903

George Orwell, 1903

Henry Harley "Hap" Arnold, 1886

Rose Cecil O'Neill, 1874

Debuting/Premiering Today:

Het Achterhuis. Dagbrieven van 14 juni 1942 tot 1 augustus 1944(First publication of excerpts from Anne Frank's diaries), 1947

"It Pays To Be Ignorant"(Radio), 1942

Today in History:

The Book of Concord or Concordia, the historic doctrinal standard of the Lutheran Church, is published, 1580

Elena Cornaro Piscopia is the first woman awarded a doctorate of philosophy, from the University of Padua, 1678

Maria Theresa of Austria is crowned Queen of Hungary, 1741

Lucien B. Smith of Ohio patents the first version of barbed wire, 1867

Battle of the Little Bighorn and the death of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer, 1876

Dr. Douglas Hyde is inaugurated the first President of Ireland, 1938

The Diary of Anne Frank is published, 1947

The Berlin airlift begins, 1948

The Korean War begins with the invasion of South Korea by North Korea, 1950

CBS broadcasts the first color television signal, 1951

First live global satellite television programme – Our World, 1967

Mozambique achieves independence, 1975

Microsoft  is restructured to become an incorporated business in its home state of Washington, 1981

Croatia and Slovenia declare their independence from Yugoslavia, 1991

Kim Campbell is chosen as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada and becomes the first female Prime Minister of Canada, 1993

An unmanned Progress spacecraft collides with the Russian space station Mir, 1997

The Soufrière Hills volcano in Montserrat erupts resulting in the death of 19 people, 1997

The Harvard School of Health Study concludes that since 1980 the number of adults with diabetes has doubled, 2011

A portion of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which protects minority voting rights, is struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court, ruling that Congress has not taken into account the nation's racial progress when singling out certain states for federal oversight, 2013

The US Supreme Court rules that police cannot examine the digital contents of a cell phone without a court order, 2014

Motorcycle maker Harley-Davidson announces it plans to move some production abroad in response to EU retaliatory tariffs, 2018

Mirazur on the French Riviera is crowned the world's best restaurant at a ceremony in Singapore, 2019

The WHO declares the Ebola outbreak in the Congo over, after 2,280 deaths in two years, 2020

Scientists publish findings surrounding the 30,000-year-old intact remains of a baby wooly mammoth found frozen in permafrost in Klondike gold fields in the Yukon, Canada, 2022

China’s Chang’e 6 mission becomes the first to return samples to the Earth from the far side of the moon, 2024