The Danger of Doing Arts and Crafts in Bed (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, Sean Jeating  is providing the prompts and they will appear on River's blog.

This week's words/prompts are:

1.technique  

2.think  

3.taught  

4.way  

5.completely

and/or:

1.learn  

2.write  

3.exist  

4.reading  

5.lost

Charlotte's colour of the month is Heavenly Blue.

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

   Grandma and Grandpa (my parents, my children's grandparents, simply called by these names on my blog for the sake of brevity and consistency) have had one killer cough-and-cold going on.

Grandpa got it first, of course, since Grandma is housebound unless Uncle J (my brother) and i pick her up and put her in a car.

Grandpa goes to church, to the store, to meetings, to lunch with friends...

Grandpa can't EXIST without being involved in helping someone with something, so he's out of the house being exposed to the germs and brings them home to Grandma.

Grandma, being housebound and almost bedridden, also keeps Grandpa hopping, so it wasn't LOST on me he wasn't getting better because of it.  I spent two nights down there letting him sleep and helping her every time she wanted more ice, or to "use the facilities," or got a craving for toast with lots of butter at 11pm.

Yes, her sleep schedule is off, and two nights of him not having to get up with her over and over helped him tremendously.

Meanwhile, Grandma is still wanting to do her arts and crafts, from her bed since she can't make it to her art table any longer.

She's always READING about a new TECHNIQUE, or trying to LEARN how to use a different style, or something, in the art she creates.  If someone can THINK of a new WAY to turn a cereal box into a creative storage solution, or whatever it is, and they WRITE it up with lots of pictures, or do a video, she wants to know about it.

When she was younger and my children were younger, she TAUGHT them a lot about art.

Of course, now Grandma can only see out of one eye and her glasses are not new, so sometimes she cannot COMPLETELY tell what she is doing, or what her scissors are cutting.

Thus the Wordless Wednesday photo above, with the nice hole in her nice gray-blue blanket.  She hasn't cut the brighter Heavenly Blue one yet.

Yes, blue is her favorite color.

Yes, it's worth letting her go ahead and do her art.

Although we all wish she would get back on a more normal sleep schedule.

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Today is:

A&W Rootbeer Mug Day -- see if you can frost your mug like they did at the old A&W stores

Birth of Baha'u'llah -- Baha'i

Birth of Sun Yat-Sen, Doctors Day, and Cultural Renaissance Day -- Taiwan

Chicken Soup for the Soul Day -- "Changing the world, one story at a time."

Constitution Day -- Azerbaijan

Dia del Cartero -- Mexico (Postman's Day; postal carriers are shown appreciation with small gifts left in mailboxes)

Fancy Rat and Mouse Day -- the American Fancy Rat and Mouse Association wants you to know these little critters can give you a lot of love 

Journee Nationale Maore -- Comoros (Admission to the UN Day)

Khalkeia -- Ancient Greek Calendar (festival of smiths, associated with Hephaists and Athena; date approximate)

National Pizza with the Works Except Anchovies Day

National Youth Day -- East Timor

St. Emillian's Day (Patron of Spain, finding lost objects)

St. Josaphat's Day (Patron of Edmonton, Alberta; Toronto, Ontario; Ukraine)

Tewa Buffalo Dance -- Native American Tewa of the Tesuque Pueblo rites on the feast day of their Patron, San Diego, to honor Mother Earth, Father Sky, the four directions, and the elements; through the 15th

Tori No Ichi -- Japan (the first "rooster day" of November, so called because it is held on the two or three days of the rooster this month, in which to wish good luck and prosperity at temple and shrine ceremonies around the country, and celebrate with a fair)

World Animal Enrichment Day -- bored animals are not happy animals, see RuffleSnuffle® for details  

World Pneumonia Day -- because we lose a million children a year to this preventable illness 

Anniversaries Today:

The Arches National Park established, 1971

Ellis Island closes, 1954

Birthdays Today:

Anne Hathaway, 1982

Ryan Gosling, 1980

Sammy Sosa, 1968

Michael Moorer, 1967

David Schwimmer, 1966

Nadia Comaneci, 1961

Megan Mullally, 1958

Neil Young, 1945

Al Michaels, 1944

Wallace Shawn, 1943

Grace Kelly, 1929

Jo Stafford, 1918

Harry A. Blackmun, 1908

Sun Yat-sen, 1866

Auguste Rodin, 1840

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1815

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"Grand Hotel"(Musical), 1989

"Irma la Douce"(Musical), 1956

"Paint Your Wagon"(Musical), 1951

Song of the South(Disney film), 1946

The first Sunday American-style football game is held in Philadelphia, 1933

Today in History:

Tibetan troops occupy Chang'an, the capital of the Chinese Tang Dynasty, for fifteen days starting today, 764

Plymouth, England, becomes the first town incorporated by the English Parliament, 1439

Sir James Young Simpson, a British physician, is the first to use chloroform as an anaesthetic, 1847

Jules Leotard performs 1st Flying Trapeze circus act (Paris); he also designed garment that bears his name, 1859

World's Fair in Paris opens, 1900

The first movie stunt: man jumps into Hudson river from a burning balloon, 1910

Norway holds a referendum in favor of monarchy over republic, 1905

Robert Scott's diary & body are found in Antarctica, 1912

Austria becomes a republic, 1918

The first underwater tunnel, the Holland Tunnel connecting NY to NJ opens, 1927

The first photo of whatever is in Loch Ness is taken, 1933

Morocco, Sudan and Tunisia join the United Nations, 1956

Equatorial Guinea joins the United Nations, 1968

The Comoros joins the United Nations, 1975

The NASA space probe Voyager I makes its closest approach to Saturn and takes the first images of its rings, 1980

The Space Shuttle Columbia becomes the first time a manned spacecraft launched into space twice, 1981

Crown Prince Akihito is formally installed as Emperor Akihito of Japan, becoming the 125th Japanese monarch, 1990

Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web, 1990

Shanghai Transrapid sets up a new world speed record (501 kilometres per hour (311 mph)) for commercial railway systems, 2003

The Comparative Toxicogenomics Database is launched on the web and revolutionizes chemical-gene-disease information for research scientists, 2004

Philippine volcano Mount Bulusan erupts again, 2010

The European Space Agency's Rosetta lands the Philae probe on the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko,2014

For the first time since his mother became Queen, Prince Charles lays the wreath to Great Britain's war dead, instead of Queen Elizabeth, 2017

Five hundredth anniversary of the birth of Guru Nanak, founder of the Sikh religion, 2019

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos gives his "Courage and Civility Award" of $100million to Dolly Parton, to distribute to charities of her choice, 2022