Tag Ms. G (Six Sentence Story), Good Fences, Sammy's Poetry Day and Brian's Thankful Thursday

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When there's a problem with lost, stray, or neglected animals anywhere in this area, sooner or later someone is going to tag Ms. G and say, "She will help."

She's got her contacts in the low cost spay/neuter community, works with rescue and trapping, a little of everything, and when a lady was passing through town the other day and her cat got out of the car at the gas station and ran in a panic, of course Ms. G was contacted.

The very skittish cat had run to the back of the gas station parking lot, near the fence by the freeway, and gone down into the storm drain where the water goes as it runs off of the parking lot.

Once i arrived at Ms. G's for work yesterday, our mission was to take one of Ms. G's live traps and a host of other items, make a shelter and set the trap, and leave it in the hopes the cat would be enticed to come up from the drain and end up caught so she could go home.

With this contraption set up, the cat could climb up out of the drain, attracted to the light coming through the hole in the top and we also hoped attracted by the smell of the sardines with which the live trap was baited, have no way to go but into said trap for the food, and it would all be over but the contacts in charge of this whole operation setting up how to get her back to her owner, who lives elsewhere.

Thus again while there were a dozen things to do at her house, Ms. G was caught up in the middle of someone else's drama, we're hoping the poor cat didn't get lost in the maze of drains down there and maybe by the time you are reading this has already come up and is in custody of people she may be afraid of, but who will see to it she's returned safely.

Linking up with Denise at Girlie On The Edge Blog, where she hosts Six Sentence Stories, and the cue is Tag.      

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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!

The holiday fences are here.

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It's Angel Sammy's Poetry Day!  This week's image and my poem:    

Come, my pretty,

let's run away,

we'll have our own

celebration today!

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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 for family, friends, blog friends, and for Grandma agreeing we can't cook a meal today with no kitchen, so we're having take-out for Thanksgiving.  Thus i'm also thankful we're making a funny memory for the future!  Also, i'm thankful for those who work on the holiday.

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It's Thanksgiving Day in the USA and Territories!  A blessed and beautiful  Happy Thanksgiving to all who are celebrating, and a blessed and beautiful Happy Thursday to those who are not.

Thanks to Barb Kowalik and The Cat Blogosphere for the event badge.        

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Today is:

Anniversary of Cerro de Pasco -- Peru (founding of the city and its silver mine)

Electric Guitar Day -- birth anniversary of Jimi Hendrix

Feast of Ullr and Skadi -- Asatru/Norse Pagan (celebrating craftsmen)

Freckle Pride Day -- show your spots, you are beautiful!

Khoiak Ceremonies -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (ceremonies surrounding the stories of the death of Osiris, date approximate)

Lancashire Day -- Lancashire, England (celebrating their first elected representative in Parliament in 1295)

Maaverar Naal -- Tamil Eelam, Sri Lanka (Tamil Heroes' Day)

National Bavarian Cream Pie Day

National Family Health History Day -- US (a call from the Department of Health and Human Services to get info about your family, especially health history, while everyone is together for the holidays)

Pie in the Face Day -- internet generated, and supposed to be a virtual one, so no mess to clean

Pins and Needles Day -- celebrating the 1937 opening of the Pins and Needles Music Revue

St. James Intercisus' Day (Patron of lost vocations, torture victims)

St. Virgilius of Salzburg's Day (Patron of Salzburg, Austria; Slovenes)

Thanksgiving Day -- Interfaith, US and Territories

     National Day of Mourning -- Native Americans   

Turkey-Free Thanksgiving -- sponsored by the Vegetarian Awareness Network

Anniversaries Today:

William Shakespeare marries Anne Hathaway, 1582

Birthdays Today:

Jaleel White, 1976

Samantha Harris, 1973

Brooke Langton, 1970

Robin Givens, 1964

Fisher Stevens, 1963

Caroline Kennedy, 1957

Rick Rockwell, 1956

Kathryn Bigelow, 1951

Jimi Hendrix, 1942

Eddie Rabbit, 1941

Bruce Lee, 1940

Gail Henion Sheehy, 1937

Alexander Dubcek, 1921

"Buffalo" Bob Smith, 1917

Chick Hearn, 1916

James Agee, 1909

L. Sprague de Camp, 1907

Forrest Shaklee, 1894

Chaim Weizmann, 1874

Charles A. Beard, 1874

Bat Masterson, 1853

Robert R. Livingston, 1746 (O.S. date)

Anders Celsius, 1701

Emperor Xiaozong of China, 1127

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"Magical Mystery Tour"(Beatles album release), 1967

"Never Too Late"(Play), 1962

"The Dinah Shore Show"(TV), 1951

Today in History:

The first elected representatives from Lancashire were called to Westminster by King Edward I to attend what later became known as "The Model Parliament", 1295

The first Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed in the Great Storm of 1703

The Portuguese Royal Family leaves Lisbon to escape from Napoleonic troops, 1807

Adoption of Constitution of the Kingdom of Poland, 1815

NY Times dubs baseball "The National Game", 1870

Alfred Nobel establishes the Nobel Prize, 1895

In New York City, the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held, 1924

The Soviet space program's Mars 2 orbiter releases a descent module; it crashes, but still becomes the first man-made object to be on Mars, 1971

The left-wing Labour Party takes control of the New Zealand government with leader Helen Clark becoming the first elected female Prime Minister in New Zealand's history, 1999

A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet, 2001

The Canadian House of Commons endorses Prime Minister Stephen Harper's motion to declare Quebec a nation within a unified Canada, 2006

Icelanders vote for their own constitution after using a modified Danish constitution for 66 years, 2010

The Nissan Leaf self-driving car completes its first test in Japan, on the Sagami Expressway, 2013

The wreck of the San Jose, considered the "Holy grail" of shipwrecks, sunk 1708, is confirmed found by an international team off the coast of Colombia, 2015

Pope Francis begins a three-day trip to Myanmar, amid the Rohingya refugee crisis, 2017

Mauna Loa, the world's largest active volcano, erupts for the first time in nearly 40 years on Hawaii Island, 2022