Best Family Halloween Costume Ever (Wordless Wednesday) and Words for Wednesday

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Tarzan, Jane, Cheeta the Chimp!

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, Sean Jeating is providing the prompts and they will appear on River's blog.

This week's words/prompts are: 

1.dog  

2.night  

3.bed  

4.knowledge  

5.move 

and/or: 

1.years  

2.stupid  

3.help  

4.craftsmanship  

5.lost

use either list or both, or mix and match, just have fun.

Charlotte's colour of the month for November is Heavenly Blue

The KNOWLEDGE if you lie down at NIGHT with the DOGs you can expect to get out of BED the next day with fleas is common, but for some reason I keep ignoring it.  No, not in keeping company with people who would be a bad influence morally, but with people who want to learn what I know and just don't have the chops, and it brings me down a bit.

I'd done woodworking since I started YEARS ago as a little kid with my dad, and am considered an expert.  People are willing to pay for my pieces, too.

Of course, this means every person I know who also knows someone who wants to "get into woodworking" wants me to HELP said person, a rank beginner whose idea of CRAFTSMANSHIP is on what I call, in my own mind, level STUPID.  I've usually managed to help them at least build the bookcase or table they wanted and move on, only a little behind in my own work, but I don't like delivering late, that's the itchy flea I often end up with in these situations.

But I'm a sucker for helping, and it's not LOST on me that a few of the people I've run into this way over the years have actually been able to do decent work such that I've been able to assist them in honing this honorable and ancient craft.

There was one time I almost refused, but it would have been the dumbest MOVE of my life, although I might never have known it.

I'd reluctantly agreed to yet another trip to see someone's work and offer advice and maybe assistance and I almost backed out, I really had a project I wanted done, not looking forward to spending yet another day with a guy who thinks he probably knows it all and who might or might not take my advice.

Then I arrived and when she opened the door I was looking into the most Heavenly Blue eyes I'd ever seen in my life, framed by a pixie face and a mop of dark hair.  I froze and thought I had the wrong place, but no, and she was good, needed instruction and more years of practice of course, but even I still make mistakes and have to do things over and there's always more to learn.

The good thing is she agreed to have dinner with me when we were done, and I must admit the business is better than ever, and more fun with two.

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Today is:

Conmemoracion Patriotica en la Ciudad de Colon -- Panama

Day of the First Shout for Independence -- El Salvador

Egyptian Day -- Medieval Europe day of bad fortune (common saying on this day was, "Notwithstanding, I will trust the Lord.")

Festival of Amun -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)

Full Beaver Moon / Full Frosty Moon

     Guru Nanak Jayanti -- India; Nepal (celebration of the birth anniversary of Sikh Guru Nanak)

     Ill Full Moon Poya Day -- Sri Lanka

     Palden Lhamo Festival -- Tibet (protectress of Tibet, celebrated mostly by women)

     Loy Krathong -- Thailand (Floating of the Lamps festival; to appease the water spirits, dedicated to Mae Kongkha, Goddess of Rivers)

     Tazaugmone/Thasaung Mong Full Moon -- Myanmar (Festival of Lights begins)

     That Luang Festival -- Laos (Ventiane's most important Theravada Buddhist festival)

Guy Fawkes' Day -- Canadian province of Newfoundland & Labrador; New Zealand; UK; a/k/a Gunpowder Day, bonfires celebrate that Guy Fawkes plot did not succeed; related famous celebrations

     Burning of the Tar Barrels -- Ottery St. Mary, Devon, UK (17 barrels soaked in tar are lit outside 17 taverns and carried through the town)

     Lewes Bonfire Night -- Lewes, East Sussex, UK

     Turning the Devil's Stone -- Shebbear, Devon, UK (erratic stone, possibly from an Ice Age deposit, turned every year on this day to assure good fortune)

National Hot Sauce Day

Nones of November -- Ancient Roman Calendar

Popes Day -- US name for the remembrance of Guy Fawkes' Day

St. Elizabeth's Day and St. Zechariah's Day -- parents of John the Baptist (Elizabeth is Patron of pregnant women)

Wuwuchim Fire Ceremonies begin -- Hopi Native American (dating approximate, as these ceremonies are now mostly closed to outsiders, a celebration of Masaw, god of death, and Spider Woman, the earth mother; a 16 day festival and manhood ceremony for adolescent boys)

Anniversary Today:

George W. Bush marries Laura Welch, 1977

Birthdays Today:

Kevin Jonas, 1987

Corin Nemec, 1971

Judy Reyes, 1967

Tatum O'Neal, 1963

Tilda Swinton, 1960

Bryan Adams, 1959

Bill Walton, 1952

Peter Noone, 1947

Sam Shepard, 1943

Art Garfunkel, 1941

Elke Sommer, 1940

Geoffrey Wolff, 1937

Ike Turner, 1931

Vivien Leigh, 1913

Roy Rogers, 1911

Joel McCrea, 1905

Strom Thurmond, 1902

Raymond Loewy, 1893

Will Durant, 1885

Ida M. Tarbell, 1857

Eugene Debs, 1855

Debuting/Premiering Today

"Into the Woods"(Sondheim musical), 1987

"Fifth of July"(Wilson play), 1980

"The Nat King Cole Show, 1956

The New York Weekly Journal(first edition), 1733

Today in History:

Wu MeKuan, a collection of 48 Zen koans, compiled in China, 1228

Publication of the Catholicon in Treguier (Brittany); it is the first Breton dictionary as well as the first French dictionary, 1499

St. Felix's Flood ravages the Dutch coast and destroys the city of Reimerswaal in the Netherlands, 1530

The Gunpowder Plot, in which Catholics were trying to blow up the English Parliament, is foiled, 1605

The first post office in the Colonies is opened in the home of Richard Fairbanks, 1639

Susan B. Anthony is arrested for trying to vote in Rochester, NY, 1871

The first US patent for a gasoline driven motor car is granted to George B. Selden, 1895

Calbraith Rodgers arrives in Pasadena from Sheepshead Bay, NY, completing the first transcontinental plane flight, in 49 days, 1911

Colombia joins the United Nations, 1945

USS Rentz, USS Reeves and USS Oldendorf visit Qingdao (Tsing Tao) China — the first US Naval visit to China since 1949, 1986

André Dallaire attempts to assassinate Prime Minister Jean Chrétien of Canada, but is thwarted when the Prime Minister's wife locks the door, 1995

Saddam Hussein, former president of Iraq, and his co-defendants Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and Awad Hamed al-Bandar are sentenced to death in the al-Dujail trial, 2006

China's first lunar satellite, Chang'e 1 goes into orbit around the Moon, 2007

Collins Dictionary names "binge-watch" the word of the year, followed by "transgender", 2015

NASA's Voyager 2 probe leaves the solar system, becoming the second human-made object to reach interstellar space, 2018

The Chinese government sets new rules for gaming for young people to try to curb gaming addiction, including a legal maximum 90 minutes of gaming allowed per day, 2021

The world's first wooden satellite which will burn up on re-entry, called LignoSat and developed by Kyoto University to address space junk, is launched from Kennedy Space Center, 2024