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Ms. G is always a whirlwind with more on her plate than anyone can handle and can talk a blue streak.
Yesterday i arrived at her place while she was taking one of her clients to an appointment, which meant i was able to get down to business. The cats were tended, the outdoor critters got food and water (birds and squirrels), the diet drinks and water bottles in the fridge were replenished and i was almost halfway through with the vacuuming when she rolled in.
As per her usual she sat down at her computer to tend her business and while she was still occupied i managed to finish all the vacuuming.
Because she had another appointment in the afternoon, there really wasn't much more we could do and thus she decided to pay me for that day's work, plus the critter care from the week before when she was out of town.
While writing the check, she decided to tell me, in detail, about her week out of town, and she proceeded to keep me there for almost an hour after i'd finished working; as much as i enjoy talking to her and enjoy her company, she was going down so many rabbit trails and the story was getting so complicated, i was never so happy to hear her phone ring as i was then, because it meant she had to finally let me leave work!
Linking up with Denise at Girlie On The Edge Blog, where she hosts Six Sentence Stories, and the cue is Ring.
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While Good Fences Around the World seems to have gone the way of the dodo bird, i still enjoy looking for and posting interesting fences, so i will!
Ms. S and Mr. D had an old, falling down chain link fence which they kept because the neighbor was a good friend, Ms. S and Neighbor used to chat over it and share muffins or other goodies. Now the neighbor is deceased so they went ahead and replaced the fence.
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It's Angel Sammy's Poetry Day! This week's image and my poem:
(Two poems today, one a haiku, the other loosely inspired by the song, "Up a Lazy River.")
Admire this man for
he must go and he uses
whatever he can
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Up a lazy river I gotta go,
up a lazy river, takin' it slow,
up this lazy river's where I need to be,
so I'll get there when I get there, lazily!
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Angel Brian's Family of Brian's Home - Forever hosts the Thankful Thursday Blog Hop. It's time to share something for which i am thankful.
Today i am thankful we had a fabulous last Bible study of the semester, and we've got the topic for January set, best of all, we'll be meeting at the same house again in the spring semester, it's just around the corner from here which is why i can keep going.
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Today is:
Absurdity Day -- an internet generated absurd holiday
Africa Industrialization Day -- UN
Air Your Dirty Laundry Day -- internet generated, and be careful with this one!
Caregiver Rights Day -- UK (with information to help carers available here) www.carersuk.org
Catholic School Principal Appreciation Day -- originally designated by the National Catholic Education Association
Clean the Cat Hair Out of the Vacuum Cleaner Day -- internet generated, and always tops on my chore list
Dia de la Soberania Nacional -- Argentina (Sovereignty Day)
Day of Sekhmet and the Purifying Flame -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)
Day of National Sovereignty -- Argentina (commemorates the Battle of Vuelta de Obligado)
Dia da Consciencia Negra -- Brazil (Black Consciousness Day)
Fast for an Abundant World Harvest -- now unsponsored, but one way to help can be found here
Globally Organized Hug A Runner Day aka G.O.H.A.R.D
Great American Smokeout -- save money and your life, try not to smoke today; started by the American Cancer Society
Name Your PC Day -- mine is Ol' Bessy, a/k/a Old Crankypants; sponsored by Wellcat Holidays
National Peanut Butter Fudge Day
Praetextatus and Paulina's Day -- Ancient Roman Calendar (Guardians of the Eleusinian Mysteries, pagan activists and devotees who tried to save Roman religions; date approximate)
Revolution Day -- Mexico (traditional)
St. Edmund the Martyr's Day (Patron of kings, torture victims, wolves; East Anglia, England; against plagues)
Teachers' Day -- Vietnam
Transgender Day of Remembrance -- memorial for those who have been killed because of transphobia
Universal Children's Day -- UN
Use Less Stuff Day -- a great idea! not an officially sponsored day, but you can get information about using less stuff at www.use-less-stuff.com/
World Philosophy Day -- UNESCO
Zumbi Day -- Brazil (death anniversary of Zumbi dos Palmares, a day of Afro-Brazilian consciousness, as he was a hero and freedom fighter)
Anniversaries Today:
The Princess Elizabeth (now Queen Elizabeth II) marries Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten at Westminster Abbey in London, 1947
The first municipal airport in the US opens, in Tucson, AZ, 1919
Birthdays Today:
Sabrina Lloyd, 1970
Ming-Na Wen, 1967
Sean Young, 1959
Bo Derek, 1956
Steve Dahl, 1954
Richard Masur, 1948
Duane Allman, 1946
Judy Woodruff, 1946
Veronica Hamel, 1943
Joe Biden, 1942
Dick Smothers, 1939
Don DeLillo, 1936
Richard Dawson, 1932
Estelle Parsons, 1927
Kaye Ballard, 1926
Robert F. Kennedy, 1925
Nadine Gordimer, 1923
Gene Tierney, 1920
Robert Byrd, 1917
Alistair Cooke, 1908
Chester Gould, 1900
Edwin Hubble, 1889
Karl von Frisch, 1886
Kenesaw Mountain Landis, 1866
Selma Lagerlof, 1858
Sir Wilfred Laurier, 1841
Thomas Chatterton, 1752
Oliver Wolcott, 1726
Susanna Wesley, 1669 (mother of John, Charles, and 17 other children)
Peregrine White, 1620 (born on the Mayflower)
Maximinus, Roman Emperor, 270
Debuting/Premiering Today:
Beatles Anthology 1(album release), 1995
The Day After(TV movie), 1983
"A Soldier's Play"(Fuller Pulitzer winning play), 1981
"Cabaret"(Musical), 1966
"The Seven Year Itch"(Play), 1952
"The Children's Hour"(Play), 1934
"The Goldbergs"(Radio), 1929
The Sheik(Film, with Rudolph Valentino), 1921
"Das Lied von der Erde/The Song of the Earth"(Mahler symphony), 1911
"The Doctor's Dilemma"(Play), 1906
"Fidelio"(Opera, Beethoven Op. 72), 1805
Today in History:
Bögü, Khan of the Uyghurs, conquers Lo-Yang, capital of the Chinese Empire, 762
Zumbi, the last leader of the Quilombo dos Palmares of Brazil, is executed, 1695
New Jersey becomes the first state to ratify the US Bill of Rights, 1789
Curacao's government forbids slave work on Sunday, 1795
Howard University is founded in Washington, D.C., 1866
US State Department starts requiring photographs for passports, 1914
The first municipally owned airport in US opens, in Tucson Az, 1919
In response to the Soviet Union agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba, U.S. President John F. Kennedy ends the quarantine of the Caribbean nation, 1962
The SETI Institute is founded, 1984
Microsoft Windows 1.0 is released, 1985
The number of protesters assembled in Prague, Czechoslovakia swells from 200,000 the day before to an estimated half-million, 1989
In England, a fire breaks out in Windsor Castle, badly damaging the castle and causing over £50 million worth of damage, 1992
The first module of the International Space Station, Zarya, is launched, 1998
The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level in eleven years, 2008
NATO agrees to begin handing over Afghanistan's security to the Afghan military, 2010
The UN World Meteorological Organization announces the 2011 greenhouse gasses reached record levels, 2012
A vote of the General Synod of the Church of England approves women to be ordained bishops beginning the next year, 2013
Atlanta's Georgia Dome, once the world's largest covered stadium, is destroyed in a controlled implosion, 2017
The Oxford Dictionary word of the year is "climate emergency," 2019
New York state activates the National Guard to assist with historic snow levels of up to 6 1/2 feet around the Buffalo area, 2022
The world's tallest woman, Rumeysa Gelgi from Turkey, at 7 ft 0.71 in (215.16 cm), meets the world's shortest woman, Jyoti Amge from India, at 2 ft 0.7 in (62.8 cm), at the Savoy Hotel in London, to celebrate Guinness World Records Day, 2024
The art of gracefully ending a conversation has also been on my mind recently ;)
ReplyDeleteUp the lazy river indeed! Nice poems. I hope he gets there.
I fear it might be ME that is Now Ms G in the talking thing. I am so desperate for conversation I tend to talk without stopping and it gets out of control. You did good to listen to Ms G... I will try to remember your story to make me shut up when I get started... I can't even write a comment like this that is short. ha ha
ReplyDeleteVery pretty fence and that's one gigantic generator. The ones we have up here in our area or big enough to run refrigerators and furnace and turn on a few lights. But they're not that big. It is interesting how some people do get carried away with the story. Most of the time I do find that they are interesting.
ReplyDeleteThere are some people like that who don't seem to realize they are going on and on and the other person has different things to do and needs to get going.
ReplyDeleteDe vegades la gent pensa que no tens res més que fer, això sol passar amb les persones que viuen solas.
ReplyDeleteBons poemes i boniques tanques.
Petonets!
I like your lazy river poem, and I'm glad you were able to make an escape when the phone rang, lol!
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