Finally, a Rugged Faucet (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, River is providing the prompts on her blog.

This week's words/prompts are: 

1.conviviality  

2.adoration  

3.willpower  

4.mellow  

5.gentle  

6.guitar

As an additional prompt you may wish to use, Charlotte(MotherOwl) has chosen Beauty Berry Purple as the color of the month.

Have fun, don't use all the words if you can't, there's no pressure here.

I was in the house listening to a GENTLE GUITAR ballad on my computer as i read and commented on blogs when out of the corner of my eye i noticed #2 Son, Daughter-in-Law and our little Annie walked through the yard toward the side of the house where there is an overhang, nothing unusual.

What was unusual was the CONVIVIALITY of the evening was suddenly disturbed by what sounded like glass breaking, hardly a MELLOW sound.

Then, before i could decide whether to go out there and offer to help, thinking they'd dropped something on their way to the cars in the front, it sounded again, and then again.

That was all it took, i don't have enough WILLPOWER to stay in when i hear mischief afoot with #2 Son, even if he is grown and married.

I peeked out of the back door to see him standing over the cement jumping up and down on something, causing the breaking noises, while Daughter-in-Law and Annie looked on, the latter laughing her sweet giggle which makes all of us swoon with ADORATION.

I gently asked if everything was okay and #2 Son responded with, "Yeah, this is just some cheap ceramic stuff from the thrift store, I'm breaking it so she can do art with it."

"I'm going to do a mosaic," Daughter-in-Law said.

Smiling, i watched as he stomped with his steel-toe boots and then dropped bricks on the larger pieces to make them smaller, old plates and bowls in blue and yellow and Beauty Berry Purple being smashed to make something new and pretty, rather like a rebirth of sorts.

After watching a moment longer i went inside and they gathered up the pieces, ready for use.

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Today is:

Armed Forces Day -- Taiwan

Cromwell's Day -- The Cromwell Association holds a service at his statue on his death date

Day to Mourn All Manifestations of Sexism -- in honor of passage of the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women

Feast of San Marino and the Republic -- San Marino (A/K/A National Day)

Flag Day -- Australia

Macchina di Santa Rosa -- Viterbo, Italy (St. Rose, patron of the city, celebration begins this evening at 9pm sharp)

Merchant Navy Remembrance Day -- Canada

National Welsh Rarebit Day

National Wilderness Day -- US (commemorates passage of The Wilderness Act in 1964)

Skyscraper Day -- birth anniversary of Louis H. Sullivan in 1856, architect credited with some of the first skyscrapers

St. Gregory the Great's Day (Inventor of Gregorian Chant; Patron of choir boys, educators, masons, musicians, papacy, Popes, schoolchildren, singers, stone masons, stonecutters, students, teachers; England; Kercem, Malta; Legazpi, Philippines; Montone, Italy; San Gregorio nelle Alpi, Italy; West Indies; against gout and plague)

St. Marinus' Day (Patron and founder of San Marino; also Patron of bachelors, deacons, and falsely accused people)

Tokehega Day -- Tokalau (remembrance of the Treaty of Tokehega)

Birthdays Today:

Shaun White, 1986

Kiran Desai, 1971

Charlie Sheen, 1965

Valerie Perrine, 1943

Pauline Collins, 1940

Eileen Brennan, 1937

Alison Lurie, 1926

Anne Jackson, 1926

Mort Walker, 1923

Kitty Carlisle Hart, 1914

Alan Ladd, 1913

Edward Albert Filene, 1860

Louis Henry Sullivan, 1856

John Humphrey Noyes, 1811

Prudence Crandall, 1803

Anna, Duchess of Bedford, 1783 (in 1840, she began the tradition of afternoon tea)

Nicolo Amati, 1596

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"Search for Tomorrow"(TV), 1951

"Poppy"(Musical), 1923

"Funf Orchestrerstucke/Five Pieces for Orchestra"(Schoenberg Op. 16), 1913

"What Every Woman Knows"(Play), 1908

The New York Sun(Newspaper, first of what was to become the Penny Press newspapers), 1833

"Uncle Sam"(Image first used), 1813

Today in History:

Sextus Pompeius, son of Pompey, is defeated in the Battle of Naulochus by Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, admiral of Octavian, which ends the resistance to the Second Triumvirate, BC36

Saint Marinus founds San Marino, one of the smallest nations in the world and the world's oldest republic still in existence, 301

Consecration of Pope Gregory the Great, 590

King Richard I (the Lionheart) crowned, and 30 Jews are massacred as part of the celebration, 1189

Richard Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of England, 1658

The first large group of Swiss and German colonists reach the shores of North and South Carolina areas, 1709

The Flag of the United States is flown in battle for the first time, 1777

Signing of the Treaty of Paris, end of the US Revolutionary War, 1783

John Dalton, English scientist begins using symbols to represent different atomic elements, 1803

The first daily newspaper, a "penny paper", that actually succeeded, The Sun (New York), begins publication, as well as employing the first paper boys, 1833

Outbreak of the Greek revolution against the autocratic rule of King Otto, 1843

William, Prince of Albania, leaves the country after six months because of opposition to his rule, 1914

Sir Malcolm Campbell reaches a speed of 304.331 miles per hour on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, becoming the first person to drive an automobile over 300 mph, 1935

68th and final transport of Dutch Jews, including Anne Frank and her family/friends, leaves for Auschwitz, 1944

Wally Gator premiers, 1962

Dagen H in Sweden: traffic changes from driving on the left to driving on the right overnight, 1967

The Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars, 1976

Russia and the People's Republic of China agree not to target each other with nuclear weapons, 1994

An 87-automobile pile-up happens on Highway 401 freeway just East of Windsor, Ontario, Canada after an unusually thick fog from Lake St. Clair, 1999

Iran's Parliament approves the first woman minister in 30 years, confirming the appointment of Marzieh Vahid Dastjerdi as Minister of Health, 2009

The mobile division of Nokia is purchased by Microsoft for $7.2billion, 2013

Chris the sheep breaks the world record for biggest shorn fleece (40kg / 88lb) near Canberra, Australia, 2015

A 1.4 ton WWII bomb is defused in Frankfurt, Germany with 60,000 people evacuated beforehand as a precaution, 2017

Curators at St. John's College, Annapolis, announce the discovery of a previously unknown text by John Locke, "Reasons for tolerating Papists equally with others," an argument for religious tolerance, 2019

Mackenzie Scott, philanthropist and ex-wife of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, becomes world's richest woman worth $68 billion, 2020

Typhoon Haikui makes landfall in eastern Taiwan, forcing the evacuation of 400,000 people, 2023

The City of Phoenix, Arizona reaches a high temperature of at least 100°F (37.8°C) for the 100th consecutive day, 2024