Must Be (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.shipwreck  

2.hook  

3.unexpected  

4.buttermilk  

5.white-knuckled  

6.buggy

Charlotte's colour of the month is Beauty Berry Purple if you wish to include it.

It was as UNEXPECTED as getting a mouthful of BUTTERMILK when you put the cup to your lips and were expecting sweet milk instead.

I was in the RV taking care of our little Annie and I'd set my phone on the couch next to me on one side, by the cabinet, while stretching her out on the other side of me to get her to settle in for a nap.

As i leaned nearer to pat her back and sing to her, i heard the thunk which could mean the modern equipment equivalent of an old time SHIPWRECK.  It was the sound of my phone slipping past the couch cushions with their swirly pattern in lovely blues and Beauty Berry Purple on a beige background, and hitting the floor under the built-in couch.

Built-in, as in, can't be moved.

Yes, you can fold the bottom of the couch up a short distance to pull it out and lower the whole couch into a bed, but would it come up far enough to be able to reach under and grab the phone?

And, of course, the  baby is now asleep, so it has to wait for her to wake, and meanwhile, daughter-in-law is at an appointment so i am stuck in the RV with the baby, no phone and no way to get it or to reach out in case of an emergency.

I WHITE-KNUCKLED the time until daughter-in-law got back, knowing by HOOK or crook i had to get the phone back.  I even wondered if i was going to have to fashion some kind of hooking device to get it.

The baby woke just about 3 minutes before her mama walked in and after she hugged her little bundle of delight, i explained what happened.

"I did the same thing this morning!" she told me.

She opened the cabinet next to the couch as it seems there's a sizable gap you can reach through.

Turning on her phone flashlight, she said, "Yes, I see it, mine was even further in and it's a little BUGGY up under there, but not really bad.  Here!"

She had indeed fished the modern lifeline of our technology out and handed it to me, no worse for wear on anything but my nerves.

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Today is:

Dia del Nino -- Honduras (Children's Day)

National Day -- Gibraltar

Saint George's Caye Day -- Belize (National Day)

Sewing Machine Day -- date of issuance of an early sewing machine patent, to Elias Howe; some sites call this "Sew Be It! Day"

Swap Ideas Day -- Robert L. Birch of Puns Corp wants people to explore ways in which their ideas can be put to work to benefit all humanity and develop incentives to encourage using our creative imaginations

St. Finian's Day (Patron of Ulster, Irland)

St. Nicholas of Tolentino's Day (Patron of animals, baby, dying people, mariners/sailors, sick animals; Albi, Italy; Cabanatuan, Philippines; Guimbai, Philippines; Lambuna, Philippines; Mati, Philippines; Tandag, Philippines; Toentino, Italy)

Teacher's Day -- China

TV Dinner Day

World Suicide Prevention Day -- a great resource is here www.stopasuicide.org

Birthdays Today:

Clark Johnson, 1964

Randy Johnson, 1963

Colin Firth, 1960

Amy Irving, 1953

Joe Perry, 1950

Judy Geeson, 1948

Jose Feliciano, 1945

Stephen Jay Gould, 1941

Karl Lagerfeld, 1938

Charles Kuralt, 1934

Roger Maris, 1934

Arnold Palmer, 1929

Rin Tin Tin, 1918

Fay Wray, 1907

Adele Astaire, 1896

Elsa Schiaparelli, 1890

Franz Werfel, 1890

Ian Fleming, 1888

Isaac Kauffman Funk, 1839

Marie Laveau, 1801

Carter Braxton, 1736

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"The X Files"(TV), 1993

"Gentle Ben"(TV), 1967

"The Road Runner Show"(TV), 1966

"Gunsmoke"(TV), 1955

"Benvenuto Cellini(Berlioz opera), 1838

Today in History:

The Battle of Marathon takes places between the forces of the Persian Empire and those of Athens, BC490*

An earthquake known as "The Lesser Judgment Day" hits Istanbul, 1509

John Smith is elected president of Jamestown, Va., Colony Council, 1608

Nathan Hale answers the call of George Washington for a volunteer spy, 1776

Simón Bolívar is named President of Peru, 1823

Elias Howe is granted a patent for the sewing machine, 1846

George Mary Searle discovers the asteroid 55 Pandora, 1858

Lincoln Highway, the first paved coast-to-coast road in the US, opens, 1913

Austria and the Allies sign the Treaty of Saint-Germain recognizing the independence of Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, 1919

20 African-American students enter public schools in Alabama, 1963

Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by guillotine in France, 1977

Switzerland, traditionally a neutral country, joins the United Nations, 2002

The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland, 2008

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres makes an urgent call for a climate change conference saying "climate change is moving faster than we are," 2018

Researcher Martin Hairer wins Breakthrough prize for mathematics for work on stochastic analysis, 2020

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres visits and calls for global support for flood-ravaged Pakistan, where 33 million people are displaced, 2022

The Shem Tov Bible, completed by Rabbi Shem Tov Ibn Gaon in Soria, Spain, in 1312 and which combines Jewish, Christian, and Islamic artistic traditions, sells at auction for $6.9 million, 2024

*actual date disputed, but it was the 9th day of the 9th moon on their calendar