A Vest Can Cover a Multitude of Sins, a Random and Happy Tuesday Post (Plus Wednesday’s Words)

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It's time once again for a random and happy Tuesday, linking up with Stacy's Random Thoughts at Stacy Uncorked and Sandee at Comedy Plus.  

While Carl was asleep when i arrived, he later told me, "Monday was hard, the managers couldn't agree on what they wanted me to do, then they called me in Friday."

Any change in his routine is not easy, and it shows in how messy his room gets.  Yesterday, it showed.

Once again i was following a floss trail.  He has a very hard time with floss, and of course, the dental picks are worse as he spills and leaves them all over.

His bachelor's fridge.  Carl is keeping less and less in his own refrigerator as he takes all his meals in the big kitchen.

I was surprised and gratified to find not only are all five of the dryer balls still hanging around (it's uncanny), Carl had done a load of laundry on the correct setting and it hadn't been sitting in the washer long enough to spoil.

It felt like he'd hit a home run.

He got up twice, once to brush his teeth and then go back to snooze more, and then later to take his morning meds.  While he was doing so, i asked if he was ready to get up, even though it was only 9am and he usually wants to snuggle in until 9:15.

For once, he was ready and as he passed the laundry room, i made him give me his pj's so they could go in the last laundry load, then he went for his shower.

We talked about the weather and he agreed, since the little rain we were getting would be over before he left and the afternoon would be warm, he'd wear shorts.

He's actually down to only 2 pair of work shorts, but since he's moving in a few weeks and will be turning in his notice, they should get him through.

I'd found one of his two aprons (the green one is now AWOL) and got it on him, but he never fully tied it.  While i didn't check to see if he got any food on the side of his shirt, i've realized since he has to wear the safety vest on the job, the vest really can cover a multitude of sins, or food spills.

This week, though, i had to go to the car to find the safety vest, and that's where i found his winter bathrobe (the summer one was in the wash).

Once done with the shower, we chatted while he ate and i packed lunch, which really means he chats and i try to follow as sometimes he's a bit hard to understand.

"My friends want to see the movie," he noted, although i never figured out which movie.  "We'll try this weekend, last Saturday we went to the park..."

Carl talked about one of the programs at the park, it might have been a nature hike as he does enjoy those, especially if he can get a friend to go with him.

I asked him about the robe being in the car.

"It was in the car?  Oh, yeah, it was cold in the morning and I couldn't find my jacket..."

Carl, what have we told you about not wearing your bathrobe in public? i asked him.

"But it was cold!"

Then keep looking for your jacket, i told him.  Then i gave up and left, just shaking my head.  He will use whatever is handy, it's just part of who Carl is.

Getting him out of the house to head to work wasn't very hard, i'd had glasses and a hat waiting, and he'd brought home some gloves so had those.

Some days it just happens.

How about some funnies.

Have a blessed and beautiful Tuesday, everyone!

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It's my month to provide the prompts for Words for Wednesday.  Since it becomes Wednesday in some parts of the world while it is still Tuesday here, i am providing the prompts early, so you can work on them and post them when it's Wednesday where you are, or put your story in the comments here tomorrow.

This week's prompts are:

great

harmony

attraction

reach

subject

delicate

Charlotte's colour of the month is Sea Green.

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Today is:

Bunsen Burner Day -- on the birth anniversary of its inventor, Robert Wilhelm Eberhard von Bunsen, in 1811

Buy Some New Socks Day -- because all the websites that list it agree you are worth it

Cesar Chavez Day -- Arizona, California, Colorado, Michigan, New Mexico, Texas, Utah,& Wyoming, US

Culture and Traditions Day -- Micronesia

Eiffel Tower Day -- inaugurated this day in 1889

Festival for Luna -- Ancient Roman Calendar (moon festival)

Hot Guitar Day -- the day Jimi Hendrix first set fire to his guitar in 1967

Jum il-Helsien (Freedom Day) -- Malta

King Nangklao Memorial Day -- Thailand

Mahavir Jayanti -- Jain (honoring Lord Mahavira on the founder's birth anniversary; local dates may vary)

National Clams on the Half Shell Day

Oranges and Lemons Day -- St. Clement Danes Church, London, England (traditional children's service based on the rhyme that begins "Oranges and lemons/say the bells of St. Clement's)

"She's Funny That Way" Day -- pay tribute to the women in your life, and how they keep you laughing; sponsored by Brenda Meredith of Dahomey Publishing, Inc.

St. Balbina's Day (Patron of those with scrofulous diseases or stroma)

Thomas Mundy Peterson Day -- New Jersey, US (the first African-American to legally cast a vote in the US, this date in 1870)

Transfer Day -- US Virgin Islands

Vigil to Mourn China's Annexation of Tibet -- anniversary of the day in 1959 when the Dalai Lama fled to India

Birthdays Today:

Pavel Bure, 1971

Ewan McGregor, 1971

Marc McClure, 1957

Angus Young, 1955

Edward Francis "Ed" Marinaro, 1950

Al Gore, 1948

Rhea Perlman, 1948

Gabe Kaplan, 1945

Christopher Walken, 1943

James Earl "Jimmy" Johnson, 1938

Herb Alpert, 1935

Richard Chamberlain, 1935

Shirley Jones, 1934

John Jakes, 1932

Gordie Howe, 1928

Cesar Chavez, 1927

William Daniels, 1927

Leo Buscaglia, 1925

Henry Morgan, 1915

John "Jack" Johnson, 1878

Andrew Lang, 1844

Mary Boykin Miller Chestnut, 1823

Edward Fitzgerald, 1809

Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol, 1809

Joseph Haydn, 1732

Andrew Marvell, 1621

Rene Descartes, 1596

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"'night, Mother"(Play), 1983

"The Shadow Box"(Play), 1977

"The Best Man"(Play), 1960

"The Glass Menagerie"(Play), 1945

"Oklahoma!"(Musical), 1943

"Le Chasseur Maudit/The Accursed Huntsman"(Symphonic poem), 1883

Today in History:

Bernard of Clairvaux preaches his famous sermon in a field at Vézelay, urging the necessity of a Second Crusade; Louis VII is present, and joins the Crusade, 1146

King Ferdinand & Queen Isabella sign decree ordering Jews to convert or be expelled from Spain, 1492

Jews are expelled from Prague, 1745

Commodore Matthew Perry signs the Treaty of Kanagawa with the Japanese government, opening the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American trade, 1854

Thomas P Mundy of Perth Amboy, NJ, becomes the first African American to cast a vote, 1870

The Eiffel Tower, commemorating the French Revolution, opens, 1889

Richard Pearse allegedly makes a powered flight in an early aircraft, 1903

Serbia accepts Austrian control over Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1909

Construction begins on the RMS Titanic, 1909

Construction of the RMS Titanic is completed, 1912

The United States takes possession of the Danish West Indies after paying $25 million to Denmark, and renames the territory the United States Virgin Islands, 1917

Daylight saving time goes into effect in the United States for the first time, 1918

The Royal Australian Air Force is formed, 1921

The Dominion of Newfoundland joins the Canadian Confederation and becomes the 10th Province of Canada, 1949

Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau, 1951

In the Canadian federal election, 1958, the Progressive Conservatives, led by John Diefenbaker, win the largest percentage of seats in Canadian history, with 208 seats of 265, 1958

The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, crosses the border into India and is granted political asylum, 1959

The Soviet Union launches Luna 10 which later becomes the first space probe to enter orbit around the Moon, 1966

Explorer 1 re-enters the Earth's atmosphere after 12 years in orbit, 1970

The USS Missouri, the last active United States Navy battleship, is decommissioned in Long Beach, California, 1992

Netscape releases the code base of its browser under an open-source license agreement; the project is given the code name Mozilla and is eventually spun off into the non-profit Mozilla Foundation, 1998

Amid unrest in the Mideast, activists claim China has launched the largest crackdown on dissenters in recent years, 2011

The International Court of Justice at the U.N. agrees that Japanese whaling is conducted for commercial purposes, not scientific research; Japan accepts the order to cease all whaling activities in the Antarctic, 2014

Robert Weighton of Great Britain becomes the world's oldest man at 112 years, 2020

The first truly complete sequence of a human genome is published by the Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) consortium, 2022

SpaceX mission Fram2 launches four people aboard a Falcon 9 rocket, becoming the first crewed spaceflight to enter a polar retrograde orbit, 2025