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Note: A few weeks ago, my six was about a lost cat. I finally got an update, the cat went into one of the traps set nearer the building and was returned to her owner safely. For the one who asked about why the cat wasn't in a carrier in the car, she had been, but the owner let her out "just for a few minutes." That's all it takes for a skittish cat to get away.
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Ms. G is one of those people with a lot of stuff, much of it prettily displayed in her home and a good bit of it out for daily use but a lot more of it crammed into bags and boxes in back rooms and closets, or in cram-full kitchen cabinets or linen cupboards.
She's always talking about "getting shed of some of this crap" but "I'm never home to do it," she has so many irons in the fire, so many projects, appointments, and emergencies to deal with, and she's always heading out to do something for someone.
Yesterday, she got home after i'd been there about an hour, getting the usual chores done, and she decided she needed to clean out the "cat cabinet," a large cabinet in her kitchen; as she said, "This isn't what I was planning to do with my day, but I almost never get to do what I'd planned to do with my day, so that's just how it goes."
It seems Mr. Gray cat got angry with April cat and "left his mark" somewhere in the house; we can smell it but cannot see it, and somewhere in the cat cabinet was an old black light which she wanted to use once it was good and dark at night to try to find the exact place so she could use the enzyme cleaner and get it gone.
Thus we spent an hour pulling every single item out of the cabinet, with her deciding if she was going to keep it, give it away, or throw it away; one white garbage bag was mostly full by the end to go to the trash can outdoors, and another large bag had donations to go to one of the dog rescues she knows can use the items, but most of it went right back into the cabinet, which is less crowded now, but still has plenty in it.
Yes, we did find the black light, but the batteries were dead, which meant trying to find batteries, which meant heading to the tool room/litter box room to try to straighten the area where she keeps the battery tester and batteries...
Linking up with Denise at Girlie On The Edge Blog, where she hosts Six Sentence Stories, and the cue is Shed.
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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!
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It's Angel Sammy's Poetry Day! This week's image and my poem:
We came to see Santa but he's not here,
it seems he left us some Christmas cheer!
I'll take the cookies and you the cream,
and this fulfills our Christmas dream!
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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 things are working out for me to go to Pilgrimage this coming Sunday evening so i can take care of Becca while her mama sings. Usually i would be with our little Annie, but that's also Luminaries night in our neighborhood, so #2 Son and Daughter-in-Law will take her around to see all the lights.
Don't think my Sweetie and i at Pilgrimage will miss all the fun back home, either, because we get home by 7pm and Luminaries go until 8!
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Today is:
Agonalia -- Ancient Roman Empire; also observed
Festival for Diva Palatua -- guardian of Palatine Hill
Septimonia -- to honor the Seven Hills of Rome
Feast of Sekhmet, Bast, and Ra -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (goddess of warfare, feline goddess, and sun god; date approximate)
Fourth Republic Day -- Madagascar
International Mountain Day -- UN
Jashan-e Sadeh / Adar-Jashen -- Zoroastrian/Parsi (a mid-winter fire ceremony for purification; date approximate)
National Day / Republic Day -- Burkina Faso (also called Proclamation of Independence Day)
National Noodle Ring Day
Pampanga Day -- Pampanga Province, Philippines
Remembrance Day of Llywelyn II -- Wales (death anniversary of Llywelyn the Last, the last native-born Prince of Wales, killed in battle in 1282)
St. Damasus' Day (Patron of archaeologists)
St. Pens' Day (Patron of Llanberis, Wales)
Tango Day -- Buenos Aires, Argentina (birth anniversary of both Julio de Caro and Carlos Gardel)
Anniversaries Today:
Unicef is established, 1946
Edward VIII abdicates, 1936
Indiana becomes the 19th US State, 1816
Birthdays Today:
Rider Strong, 1979
Mos Def, 1973
Mo'Nique, 1967
Gary Dourdan, 1966
Curtis Williams, 1962
Jermaine Jackson, 1954
Ken Wahl, 1953
Susan Seidelman, 1952
Teri Garr, 1949
Brenda Lee, 1944
John Kerry, 1943
Donna Mills, 1943
David Gates, 1940
Tom Hayden, 1940
Rita Moreno, 1931
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1918
Carlo Ponti, 1913
Naguib Mahfouz, 1911
Marjorie H. Buell, 1904
Fiorello LaGuardia, 1882
Annie Jump Cannon, 1863
Robert Koch, 1843
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"City of Angels"(Musical), 1989
"Magnum, PI"(TV), 1980
Today in History:
Honoratus, the first known Prefect of the City of Constantinople, takes office, 359
Llewelyn the Last (born c. 1228) the last native Prince of Wales, is killed at Cimeri, 1282
The Aurora Borealis is seen from New England by English settlers for the first time, 1719
The first newspaper on Curacao is published, the Curacao Gazette & Commercial Advertiser, 1812
Nitrous oxide is used in dental work for the first time in Hartford, Connecticut, 1844
Boston's Bijou Theatre becomes the first American theater lit exclusively by electricity, premiering Gilbert and Sullivan's "Iolanthe" as its first performance, 1882
The New Zealand Parliament Buildings are almost completely destroyed by fire, 1907
Color moving pictures are demonstrated in Madison Square Garden, 1909
The Boll Weevil Monument is dedicated in Enterprise, Alabama, 1919
The British Parliament enacts the Statute of Westminster 1931, establishing legislative equality between the self-governing dominions of the Commonwealth of Australia, the Dominion of Canada, the Irish Free State, Dominion of Newfoundland, the Dominion of New Zealand, and the Union of South Africa, 1931
Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, takes his last drink and enters treatment for the last time, 1934
Arthur Lucas, convicted of murder, is the last person to be executed in Canada, 1962
Apollo 17 becomes the sixth and last Apollo mission to land on the Moon, 1972
The Kyoto Protocol opens for signature, 1997
The People's Republic of China joins the World Trade Organization, 2001
In Taipei, protesters demand foreign live-in caregivers have the right to a day off each week, 2011
Pope Francis is named Time Magazine's "Person of the Year," 2013
A landmark trial for Huntington's disease in London announces positive results, the first time a drug has been able to slow an incurable brain disorder, 2017
India passes its controversial Citizenship Amendment Bill, clearing the way for citizenship for immigrants from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan as long as they are not Muslim, 2019
The journal Nature publishes details of the earliest figurative artwork found in the world to date, 43,900-year-old depictions of part animal, part human figures in a cave in Sulawsi, Indonesia, 2019
NASA's Orion spacecraft returns to earth after completing the Artemis I test flight around the moon in 25.5 days, a record distance traveled by a spacecraft designed to carry humans, 2022
At some point you must admit you are working for the cats
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