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Ms. G had gotten back in town from the funeral and hit the ground running, having not even had time to scoop litter boxes or do much of anything else around her own house in the past two days.
Not only was she in the midst of re-readying a house for the market (the expected closing did not happen), she was also in the midst of setting out to right a wrong, one of her favorite activities.
Upon finally deciding to kick her boyfriend of over 30 years out of the house, a woman up the street had also made the rush decision to sell her house simply to get away from the memories and had engaged the services of a realtor.
Said realtor had convinced the woman, "sell it to me [for a ridiculously low bargain price] and I'll repair and flip it and you won't have to worry about doing anything," which was really low of her and unfortunately for her, Ms. G found out and loathes when such things are perpetrated on clients by a fellow realtor.
Swinging into action, she'd gotten the client to give her a copy of the contract, which she'd been silly enough to sign, and there, between lines 97 and 99 was something which Ms. G could use to help the woman legally get out of the contract, as the realtor in question had not met one tiny condition.
Ms. G had also convinced the woman to use her home's equity to update and pretty it and stay in it, saving herself a ton of trouble selling and moving as well as keeping her payment on the house lower than an apartment rental; said scummy realtor got a lot more than she bargained for when Ms. G took up the client's cause.
Linking up with Denise at Girlie On The Edge Blog, where she hosts Six Sentence Stories, and the cue is Sign.
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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:
When preacher Dwight L Moody
on his deathbed did lay,
with his last breath he looked up,
and to his wife did say:
I see the gates of Heaven opening.
I never did it justice.
(True story.)
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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 figured out the problem with the water bill. Someone was a little too generous in leaving the water dripping during all the freezes last month, and i'm very thankful that's all it was.
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Today is:
Ayyám-i-Há -- Baha'i (intercalary days, devoted to service and gift giving; through Mar. 1)
For Pete's Sake Day -- Wellcat Holidays asks us, who is Pete, and why do things for his sake? think about that as you celebrate this today
Intercalary Days -- Baha'i (through Mar. 1)
Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day -- some student programs at universities are set for this weekend, as encouraged during National Engineers Week
Levi Strauss Day -- his birth anniversary
Liberation Day -- Kuwait
National Personal Chef Day -- heaven knows we all have one of those; some websites list it today, some on July 16
National Pistachio Day
Rooks Nesting Day -- Olde England (12 days after Candlemas on the Julian Calendar)
St. Alexander's Day (Patriarch of Alexandria)
St. Isabella of France's Day (Patron of the sick)
Tell a Fairy Tale Day -- shouldn't this have been two days ago, on Wilhelm Grimm's birth anniversary?
The Man In Black Day -- Johnny Cash's birth anniversary
Thriller Day -- Michael Jackson's album "Thriller" hit #1 today, and stayed there for 37 weeks
Anniversaries Today:
Grand Teton National Park is established, 1929
Grand Canyon National Park is established, 1919
Birthdays Today:
Marshall Faulk, 1973
Erykah Badu, 1972
Mark Dacascos, 1964
Michael Bolton, 1953
Johnny Cash, 1932
Fats Domino, 1928
Betty Hutton, 1921
Tony Randall, 1920
Jackie Gleason, 1916
Margaret Leighton, 1922
Tex Avery, 1908
Madeleine Carroll, 1906
Jean Vercors, 1902
William Frawley, 1887
Herbert Henry Dow, 1866
John Harvey Kellog, 1852
William "Buffalo Bill" Cody, 1846
Levi Strauss, 1829
Honore Daumier, 1808
Victor Hugo, 1802
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Jerome Robbins' Broadway"(Musical), 1989
"Deathtrap"(Play), 1978
Today in History:
Origin of the Epoch of Ptolemy's Nabonassar Era, BC747
An earthquake in Lisbon leaves 20,000-30,000 dead, 1531
Christiansborg Castle, Copenhagen burns down, 1794
The Bank of England issues its first banknotes, 1797
Vice-admiral William Bligh ends the siege of Fort Amsterdam, Willemstad, 1804
Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from Elba, 1815
In New York City a demonstration of the first pneumatic subway opens to the public, 1870
HMS Britannic, sister ship to the Titanic, is launched at Harland \& Wolff, Belfast, 1914
The Original Dixieland Jass Band records the first jazz record, for the Victor Talking Machine Company in New York, 1917
Robert Watson-Watt carries out a demonstration near Daventry which leads directly to the development of RADAR in the United Kingdom, 1935
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill announces that his nation has an atomic bomb, 1952
Vincent Massey is sworn in as the first Canadian-born Governor-General of Canada, 1952
National Public Radio incorporates as a non-profit corporation, 1970
Egypt and Israel establish full diplomatic relations, 1980
The Sandinistas are defeated in Nicaraguan elections, 1990
On Baghdad Radio Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein announces the withdrawal of Iraqi troops from Kuwait, 1991
In New York City, a truck bomb parked below the North Tower of the World Trade Center explodes, killing 6 and injuring over a thousand, 1993
The United Kingdom's oldest investment banking institute, Barings Bank, collapses, 1995
Mount Hekla in Iceland erupts, 2000
Republic of Macedonia President Boris Trajkovski is killed in a plane crash near Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2004
After winning a Liberal Party of British Columbia ballot, Canadian politician Christy Clark becomes the second woman to be Premier of British Columbia, 2011
Scientists in Illinois announce they've developed stretchable batteries that can power a new generation of flexible electronics, 2013
The Global Seed Vault in Svalbard, Norway, receives its 1 millionth seed on its 10 year anniversary, 2018
The city of Venice, Italy, introduces a day visitor tax, 2019
Scientists publish research about a possible "lost continent," Balkanatolia, that may have linked southern Europe with Asia, providing passageway for animal migrations 35 to 38 million years ago, 2022
Winter storm deposits snow in parts of southern California for the first time in decades, 2023
The US has its first measles death in over 20 years when a child dies in Texas during an outbreak affecting 124 people, 2025
Whoa, what a sneaky realtor that was. Glad Ms G wasa able to get the frauded lady out of the nasty contract.
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