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As has become usual, Ms. G had an appointment yesterday, meaning she could not stay home and do the things around the house she wanted to get done.
We did get to a few small things, and then she pothered around, left the house, and as i knew she would, came right back in.
"I have to get to this on the computer this very minute," she said as she came back in, "and now I'm going to be late."
Ms. G is such a force as a person she is into everything for everyone, all the time, and it leaves her unable to do as much of what she says she wants to do, which is declutter her own house.
Her heart, however, is always in the right place, she does help a lot of people, is a one woman cat rescue for her neighborhood, and gets things done for her clients, making sure they can sell a house for maximum value or buy for a reasonable amount.
I've seen her about work miracles, but right now the biggest thing i wish for her is what i wish for myself, the gift of time at home to put out our own fires.
Linking up with Denise at Girlie On The Edge Blog, where she hosts Six Sentence Stories, and the cue is Force.
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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:
The annual Snowman Convention
will now come to order please,
we have to make some decisions
before our assets freeze!
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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 Ms. G changed her mind yesterday and had me work. I'd missed Ms. D on Monday, it's not a good week when i miss income from two jobs canceling.
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Today is:
American Historical Association Annual Meeting -- Chicago, IL, US (138th annual, with over 300 sessions covering a wide range of scholarly topics; through Sunday)
Bubble Bath Day -- remember how much fun it was as a kid? enjoy that again today
Day Sacred to Justicia -- Ancient Roman Empire (personification of justice)
Emperor Norton Day -- E. Clampus Vitus Society puts on a party in San Francisco's Chinatown in honor of the passing on this day of Norton I, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico
Feast of Hathor and Sekhmet -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)
Feast of St. Gudula (Patron of single laywomen; Brussels, Belgium)
Grandmothers/Midwives Day -- Bulgaria (a/k/a Babin Den; celebrating Grandmothers as midwives of their grandchildren, for the role they play in the traditional family.)
Haloa -- Ancient Greek Calendar (fertility festival of Demeter and Dionysos called after the halos, or threshing floor; date approximate)
Rural Dionysia -- Ancient Greek Calendar (the fertility festival of the countryside)
It All Adds Up Day -- anniversary of Hollerith's tabulating machine patent
Kim Jong-un's Birthday -- North Korea
Male Watcher's Day -- often listed as a day for the females to get even and do a little guy ogling, but no site gives any reason behind why this day was chosen
Midwife's Day / Women's Day -- Greece (women get out and go to a cafe or shopping, and the men must stay home and do the chores and care for the children, and in some areas, men caught shirking will be stripped and drenched in cold water; on the approximate date of an ancient Greek celebration of midwives)
Gynaecocratia -- Macedonia
Milk Carton Day -- Sheffield Farms began packaging milk in paraffin lined paper cartons on this day in 1929
National Eat Something Raw Day
National English Toffee Day
National Joygerm Day -- a day to infect others with joy; begun by Joygerm Joan, whose motto is "The only thing Joygerms allow to get depressed are their tongues!"
Old Hickory Day -- Andrew "Old Hickory" Jackson leads the victory in the Battle of New Orleans
Rock 'n' Roll Day -- on Elvis' birth anniversary, of course
Show and Tell at Work Day -- another Wellcat Holiday to observe carefully if at all
St. Severinus' Day (Patron of Austria and of San Severo, Italy)
Toka Ebisu Matsuri -- Osaka, Japan (Festival of Ebisu, god of business and prosperity; through the 11th)
Birthdays Today:
Ami Dolenz, 1969
Vladimir Feltsman, 1952
Don Bendell, 1947
David Bowie, 1947
Robbie Krieger, 1946
Kathleen Noone, 1946
Stephen Hawking, 1942
Yvette Mimieux, 1939
Bob Eubanks, 1938
Shirley Bassey, 1937
Elvis Presley, 1935
Charles Osgood, 1933
Soupy Sales, 1926
Ron Moody, 1924
Larry Storch, 1923
Jose Ferrer, 1912
Galina Ulanova, 1910
Wilkie Collins, 1824
James Longstreet, 1821
Nicholas Biddle, 1786
Debuting/Premiering Today:
Symphony No. 15 in A major (Opus 141, Dmitri Shostakovich), 1972
"Almira"(Handel's first opera), 1705
Today in History:
Monaco gains its independence, 1297
Genoa, Italy expels Jews, 1598
The oldest surviving commercial newspaper begins in Haarlem, Netherlands, 1675
The New York Fishing Company is the first American commercial corporation chartered, 1675
Premiere performance of George Frederic Handel's Ariodante at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 1734
US President George Washington delivers the first "State of the Union" address, 1790
Victor, the Wild Boy of Aveyron, emerges voluntarily from the wild in southern France (he had been captured and escaped before), 1800
The Battle of New Orleans, 1815
The first US music school, the Boston Academy of Music, is established, 1833
The US national debt hits $0 for the first and only time, 1835
Alfred Vail demonstrates a telegraph system using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code), 1836
French physicist Jean Foucault proves, using his "Foucault's pendulum," that the Earth rotates on its axis, 1851
Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle with the US Cavalry at Wolf Mountain in Montana Territory, 1877
Dr. Herman Hollerith receives the first US patent for a tabulating machine, considered by some to be the earliest computer, 1889
The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system, 1904
Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is exhibited in the United States for the first time, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., 1963
Soviet space mission Luna 21 is launched, 1973
The RMS Queen Mary 2, the largest passenger ship ever built, is christened by her namesake's granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II, 2004
Some scientists claim 2012 weather as the hottest year ever recorded, 2013
The previous year, 2017, is declared a record year for cost of natural disasters, coming in at $306 billion, 2018
China loosens travel restrictions and reopens its borders after 3 years, 2023
US Army veteran Henry "Robby" Robinson (98) is awarded France's Medal of Honor for his service in WWII by French Ambassador to the US in a ceremony in Las Vegas, Nevada, 2024
That's a great poem!
ReplyDeleteMs G sounds like a whirlwind!
Fun poem, I wish you more time for yourself.
ReplyDeleteSome people are just happier in a continuous state of flux. I think your Mrs G is one of them.
ReplyDeleteLove the "assets frozen" poem....HAHAHA Excellent job for sure!!!!! Big Hugs.........Pam and Teddy
ReplyDeleteI'm laughing at the poem. The Snowman make me shiver. So the Green Ivy on the fence helps make up for seeing the snowman. Mrs G certainly does have a lot on her plate evidently. And it sounds like a lot of it spills off on to yours.
ReplyDeleteAt some point she needs to just take a week or two and do things for herself but she probably never will do that. It would not only help her get things done, but it would be good for her own health.
ReplyDelete"...hard to get around to yourself." what a great title (and insight)
ReplyDeleteexcellent Six
that is truly and interesting fence, like they can't make up their mind how they want it to look. cool find,
ReplyDeleteit does sound like your client needs to find time for herself. but then she does have YOU so that is a good thing, but that also takes away from your Me Time.. this a problem. you both do so much good for others, so there is that..
Thank you for the fence. Are you kidding me? Is it a fence, a hedge, or a wall?
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
Fun post with the photos and stories ~ wishing you what you want ~ hugs,
ReplyDeleteThat was a good story and a fun poem. Hooray for getting to work the scheduled jobs, that's terrific. Thanks for joining Angel Brian's Thankful Thursday Blog Hop!
ReplyDeleteM'agraden molt les tanques de fusta.
ReplyDeleteLa Sra. G. és una gran persona, però hauria de treure temps per ella mateixa i també per a tu.
Petonets, Mimi.
Love the Snowman convention and poem. Mrs G is a whirlwind, but even they peter out now and again. I hope she gets some time for herself and you too, you work just as hard as she does.
ReplyDeleteGood story. I understand about missing jobs. When I was a tutor, I didn't get paid for cancellations and there were always a lot of them. Cute poem.
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