Try Telling Mr. Cal He's Not Allowed on the Furniture (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.    

Huge thanks to Hilary Melton-Butcher for providing the prompts last month. 

The prompts this month will again be posted by Elephant's Child and are provided by Charlotte (MotherOwl)        

This week's prompts are:

• Ferry
• Determined
• Box
• Convey
• Paste
• First

And/or

• Family
• Astonish
• Obtain
• Avoid
• Magnificent

An additional prompt from Charlotte (MotherOwl) is to use her colour of the month in your take on the prompts.  In honor of how much we all love to write, this month's color is Writing Pleasure Purple.

Have fun.

It's not true my FAMILY annoys me when they come to visit each summer.

Let's just say it's a bit hard on this unmarried lady of a certain age who went out of her way to AVOID romantic entanglements and is DETERMINED to live her life to the full as she and The Good Lord think best.

No, I don't dislike them and I do go visit them each year at the holidays, we stay in touch, we send birthday cards and have a family Zoom meeting once a month, but having them here once a year is as hospitable as I like to get.

Writing is my Passion, I'm an author after all, and I love the color Purple, so my house has a lot of it in my decor and it always causes some commentary.  I take it in stride, liking what I like and I am careful to BOX up some treasures as the younger family members are not very careful.

Maybe that will CONVEY the crux of it there.  As MAGNIFICENT as it is to have family and people you love and care about and people to turn to in a crisis, some of us want them, but don't want them too close for too long at a time.

While they're here, too, things get a little different and I don't mind admitting I'm a bit more set in my ways.  Yes, I can adapt for a week.  I always OBTAIN their favorite foods and they never cease to ASTONISH me with just how much they can eat.  I'm sure to have extra toiletries here as we once almost ran out of toothPASTE and the fuss made over such a minor thing was silly.  I even make sure they have a good time, the FIRST order of business on the first morning after they arrive is a FERRY ride to the island, where they do "all the things" as they like to say.

They don't annoy me, I love them, and I can do for them for a week.

Just remember it takes me at least two weeks to recover and I won't be ready to do it again until next year.

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Today is:

Adonia -- Ancient Roman Calendar (date approximate, but always in July, a ritual to honor Adonis)

Flag & Anthem Day -- Curacao

Freedom From Fear of Public Speaking Day -- as proposed by Beverly Beuermann-King, because you don't want to blow it when your big opportunity comes because you are afraid to speak out!

I Forgot Day (the day to celebrate birthdays, anniversaries, or other special days that you forgot during the first half of the year)

National Anisette Day

Palio di Provenzano -- Siena, Italy (horse race and pageant, named after the Madonna di Provenzano, whose church is in Siena)

Remember to Feed the Hummingbirds Day -- internet reminder to be nice to these beautiful creatures

St. Swithin's Day (Patron against drought; of Stavenger, England; Winchester, England)

Try to Find Your Slinky Day -- the weird holiday of the day!

Violin Lovers' Day

World UFO Day -- unfortunately, a real day observed by many around the world (on the "anniversary" of the UFO crash in Roswell, if such a thing even happened, which i doubt*)

*i believe that if there's life elsewhere, it shows its intelligence by staying away from us!

Anniversary Today:

Prince Albert of Belgium marries Paola Ruffo di Calabria, 1959

Birthdays Today:

Lindsay Lohan, 1986

Ashley Tisdale, 1985

Johnny Weir, 1984

Jose, Jr., and Ozzie Canseco, 1964

Jimmy McNichol, 1961

Ron Silver, 1946

Vicente Fox Quesada, 1942

Richard Petty, 1937

Polly Holiday, 1937

Dave Thomas, 1932

Medgar Evers, 1925

Dan Rowan, 1922

Ken Curtis, 1916

Thurgood Marshall, 1908

Jean René Lacoste, 1904

Hermann Hesse, 1877

Thomas Cranmer, 1489

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"The Andy Williams Show"(TV), 1957

"The Lawrence Welk Show"(TV), 1955

"Finlandia"(Sibelius' Op. 26), 1900

Today in History:

Thomas Savery patents the first steam engine, 1698

Vermont  becomes the first American territory to abolish slavery, 1777

Charles J. Guiteau shoots and fatally wounds U.S. President James Garfield, who eventually dies from an infection on September 19, 1881

Twenty miles off the coast of Cuba, 53 rebelling African slaves led by Joseph Cinque take over the slave ship Amistad, 1893

Italian scientist Guglielmo Marconi obtains patent for radio in London, 1897

The first zeppelin flight takes place on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany, 1900

Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan are last heard from over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first equatorial round-the-world flight 1937

The first Wal-Mart store opens for business in Rogers, Arkansas, 1962

North and South Vietnam, divided since 1954, reunite to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, 1976

The AbioCor  self contained artificial heart is first implanted, 2001

Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo around the world nonstop in a balloon, 2002

Planetoid Pluto's fourth and fifth moons officially receive the names Kerberos and Styx from the International Astronomical Union, 2013

British Petroleum agrees to compensate the US government and states bordering the Gulf of Mexico $18.7 billion for the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, 2015

British divers discover 12 boys and their coach alive in Tham Luang Nang Non cave, Thailand, after being trapped for 9 days by monsoon flooding, 2018

A newly rediscovered Lewis chess piece sells at auction for £735,000 in London, 2019

The British Darts Organisation’s commercial arm, BDO Enterprises Ltd, goes into liquidation due to lack of sponsorship, 2020

Excavations at burials near Tel Yehud in Israel from the 14th century BC reveal the earliest known evidence of the use of opium, 2022

Sierra Leone bans marriage for those under 18, aiming to protect the 1/3 of girls who are forced to marry before adulthood, 2024