The Surgery Cart's an Odd Place for a Grocery List (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. 

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

This week's prompts are:

• Tennis   
• Turkish 
• Delight     
• Melon    
• Brook 

 

And/or

• Officers
• Steps     
• Conclusion      
• Earliest   
• Pan      
• Asparagus

 

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.

The trip to the museum was fun.  We got to ride on a train and go over the big river, not just the little BROOK we passed on the way from our small town to Grandmama's town.

Once there, we passed the club TENNIS courts on the walk from the station to the museum, and we also walked past the Governor's Mansion, with OFFICERS on the STEPS to keep people out who didn't have an appointment to see His Sufficiency.

(At least, that's what my papa calls the Governor, His Sufficiency.  He always says it with a funny face, and I think he doesn't like the Governor much.)

The new museum had artifacts from the EARLIEST Indian settlements they'd found in the area, and a visiting art gallery display, and some weird bones Edgar wanted to look at all day long.  Best of all, some Egyptian tomb had been opened and we got to see some of what had been in it.

Once we'd toured in the museum and were getting tired, Grandmama surprised us by taking us to a restaurant!  She'd told Cook not to make supper for us.  One thing Grandmama believes is parents these days do not strictly emphasize the importance of table manners so every summer at her house dinner time is a lesson in being on our best behavior.

Now, she told us, she wanted us to practice what she'd been teaching in a public place.

First, they served us MELON in the prettiest little glass dishes I'd ever seen.  The PAN seared ASPARAGUS was served on an Iris Yellow platter which just matched my hat, I was so surprised.  We had a salad course and a clear soup, and the main dish was some kind of fish.  I didn't find any bones, but Edgar did and he used his manners, removing it and not saying anything about it just as we'd been taught.

Best of all, they brought around a dessert tray and we each got to choose.  I got my favorite, TURKISH DELIGHT, it was so good.

On the train ride home we were very sleepy and Grandmama asked what we'd thought of our first time in a restaurant.  I told her I'd come to the CONCLUSION I liked restaurants and would want to eat in one often when I grow up, and she laughed, even though I meant it.

It was a really good day.

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Today is:

Arrephoria -- Ancient Greek Calendar (ceremony for the two girls chosen to weave the new robe for Athena's Statue and care for her sacred olive tree during the next year; date approximate)

Corn on the Cob Day

Fandens Fodselsdag(The Devil's Birthday) -- Denmark (traditional date when contracts between masters and servants expired, making them free to renew or renegotiate or sever ties; it was also considered The Devil's Birthday because taxes and rents came due!)

Full Strawberry Moon / Rose Moon; related observances

     Ancient Celtic month Equos (horse-time) begins

     Nayon Full Moon -- Mayanmar

     Poson Full Moon Poya Day -- Sri Lanka

Hug Holiday -- some internet sites have this one, and since hugs are good for mental health, indulge!

King Kamehameha Day -- Hawaii, US

Lord Buddha's Parinirvana -- Bhutan

National German Chocolate Cake Day

National Time Out Day -- US, sponsored by The Association of Operating Room Nurses, which wants everyone involved in surgeries to take time out before the procedure to verify the surgery site, type, and patient and decrease OR errors  

Rites of Matralia -- Ancient Roman Calendar (honoring of Mater Matua, goddess of dawn and childbirth, by women who had been married once) related observance:

     Day Sacred to Fortuna Virgo (Fortune the Virgin, the day marriage robes of girls were dedicated to this goddess)

St. Barnabas the Apostle's Day (Patron of Antioch; Cyprus; Marbelia, Costa del Sol, Spain; Marino, Italy; invoked as a peacemaker; against hailstorms) a/k/a Barnaby Bright Day or Long Barnaby*

*Under the Julian calendar, June 11, St. Barnabas' Day, was the longest day of the year --

Barnaby Bright, Barnaby Bright,

The longest day

And the shortest night

Anniversaries Today:

Henry VIII marries Catherine of Aragon, 1509

Birthdays Today:

Shia LeBeouf, 1986

Joshua Jackson, 1978

Caroline Quentin, 1961

Dr. Mehmet Oz, 1960

Hugh Laurie, 1959

Joe Montana, 1956

Peter Bergman, 1953

Adrienne Barbeau, 1945

Jackie Stewart, 1939

Chad Everett, 1936

Prince Henrik of Denmark, 1934

Gene Wilder, 1933

William Clark Styron, Jr., 1925

Vince Lombardi, 1913

Jacques Cousteau, 1910

Jeannette Pickering Rankin, 1880

Richard Georg Strauss, 1864

John Constable, 1776

Ben Jonson, 1572

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"American Idol"(TV), 2002

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial(Film), 1982

"Main Street Electrical Parade"(Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World in Florida), 1977

"Rock 'n' Roll Music"(Beatles' UK album release), 1976

A Day at the Races(Marx Brothers film), 1937

Today in History:

Troy is sacked and burned, according to calculations by Eratosthenes, BC1184

Philip II recognizes the rights and privileges of the local nobles and chieftains in the Philippines, which paves way to the creation of the Principalía, 1594

The Continental Congress appoints Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston to the Committee of Five to draft a declaration of independence, 1776

Russian  explorer Gerasim Izmailov reaches Alaska, 1788

The first American stove patent is granted to Robert Haeterick, 1793

The Limelight Department, one of the world's first film studios, is officially established in Melbourne, Australia, 1892

New Zealand annexes the Cook Islands, 1901

Sir Barton wins the Belmont Stakes, becoming the first horse to win the Triple Crown, 1919

Frank Morris, John Anglin and Clarence Anglin become the only prisoners to escape from the prison on Alcatraz Island, 1962

Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington become the first women to receive the rank of general in the U.S. Army, 1970

Cassini-Huygens makes its closest flyby of the Saturn moon Phoebe, 200

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper makes an official apology to Canada's First Nations for residential school abuse that isolated native children from their homes, families, and cultures for a century, 2008

Ancient Korean royal books looted by French troops in 1866 are returned to South Korea; 1,000 officials and locals celebrate the return of the 297-volume 'Oegyujanggak' books, 2011

Winds in southwestern Western Australia of up to 140km/h batter the area and leave more than 170,000 homes without power, 2012

Japan passes a law that will allow Emperor Akihito to abdicate, 2017

“The New York Times” reveals that the fire on the back lot of Universal Studios in Los Angels eleven years earlier had destroyed over 500,000 original master recordings, including many by Chuck Berry, Louis Armstrong, and Ella Fitzgerald, 2019

A US lobsterman survives being swallowed by a humpback whale off the coast of Provincetown, Massachusetts, 2021

Estonian Biobank opens its portal allowing 200,000 Estonians to access their genetic information, including disease risk and ancestry markers, 2024