Stuffing the Stuff (Six Sentence Story), Good Fences, Sammy's Poetry Day, and Brian's Thankful Thursday

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It wasn't supposed to rain, and Ms. G was counting on us getting stuff moved to her storage unit.

Yes, she has joined the ranks of those who now have a storage unit for all the "stuff" they can't fit in the house.

Her plan is to pay for the unit by moving stuff into it which she wants to sell online, thus getting stuff out of her house and eventually gone from her life.

Thus yesterday saw us loading the boxes she has packed in the specific order she wanted, taking them to the back of the truck and loading them in order again, and once we were ready, fly through the neighborhood, sometimes taking blind corners in the middle of the road or in the oncoming lane so as to reach the storage unit before the rain began.

Once there, she got the unit open quickly and we moved the boxes in a very light drizzle/mist, again, each having to go in the exact location she wanted, stacked in perfect order, just far enough from the wall but not out where any would be a trip hazard.

The drive back was much more sedate as the threatening rain began and we sat in the driveway, drops falling in earnest, waiting for it to slow significantly before making a dash for the door.

Linking up with Denise at Girlie On The Edge Blog, where she hosts Six Sentence Stories, and the cue is Fly.     

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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!

I've always liked this stone fence but never have a chance to catch all of it, maybe someday.

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It's Angel Sammy's Poetry Day!  This week's image and my poem:    

I really didn't mean to, mom,

and now I feel so bad!

I found out scissors really cut!

But please, do not be mad!

It's all right, my little one,

dry the tears from your cheeks,

the difference between a bad haircut

and a good one is only two weeks.

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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 our little Annie seems to have suffered no last ill effects from her bee sting Tuesday.  We will watch in the future, just to be sure, as allergies can take time to develop, but for now, all is well.

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Today is:

Act Goofy Day -- started by someone who wanted to see how far the internet could spread goofiness

Arivee de l'Evangile -- French Polynesia (Gospel Day)

Babysitter Safety Day

Celebrate Your Name Week -- Thursday:  Name Tag Day, celebrating those silly tags that say, "Hello, My Name is Illegible"!

Crispus Attucks Day*

Crufts Dog Show -- Birmingham, England (the World's Greatest Dog Show; Best in Show here is the most prestigious award in the world of dogs; through Sunday)

Custom Chief's Day -- Vanuatu

Diasia -- Ancient Greek Calendar (festival of Zeus Meilikhios; date approximate)

National Absinthe Day

National Cheese Doodle Day

Navigium Isis/Ploiaphaesia: The Festival of Navigation -- Ancient Roman Calendar/Ancient Egyptian Calendar (Sailing Festival, honoring Isis as sea goddess and goddess of sailing, on the traditional start of the sailing season)

Scouts' Day -- Taiwan (celebration of Boy Scouts and Girl Guides in Taiwan)

St. Piran's Day (Patron of miners, tin miners, tinners; Cornwall, England; Piran, Slovenia)

     St. Piran's Day Celebrations -- Cornwall, England; Kansas City, KA, US

     

Stop the Clocks Day -- another of those with-no-explanation web holidays that sounds like a good idea

Temperance Day -- North America's first Temperance Law was passed in Virginia this day in 1623

World Book Day -- UK and Ireland (most other countries celebrate this on April 23; more information is here)   

Anniversary Today:

Channel Islands National Park is established, 1980

Birthdays Today:

Jake Lloyd, 1989

Niki Taylor, 1975

Kevin Connolly, 1974

Eva Mendes, 1974

Andy Gibb, 1958

Penn Jillette, 1955

Marsha Warfield, 1954

Michael Warren, 1946

Paul Sand, 1944

Samantha Eggar, 1939

Fred Williamson, 1938

Dean Stockwell, 1936

James Noble, 1922

Rex Harrison, 1908

Zhou Enlai, 1898

Emmett J. Culligan, 1893

Heitor Villa-Lobos, 1887

Howard Pyle, 1853

James Merrit Ives, 1824

William Blackstone, 1595

Gerhardus Mercator, 1512

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"What the Butler Saw"(Play)1969

"Leningrad"/Symphony No. 7 in C major(Shostakovich Op. 60), 1942

"Mefistofele"(Opera), 1868

Today in History:

Roman Emperor Julian moves from Antioch with an army of 90,000 to attack the Sassanid Empire, in a campaign which would bring about his own death, 363

Naser Khosrow begins the seven-year Middle Eastern journey which he will later describe in his book Safarnama, 1046

English king Henry VII hires John Cabot (Giovanni Caboto) and his sons to explore unknown lands for England, 1496

Smoking tobacco is introduced in Europe by Francisco Fernandes, 1558

Copernicus' "de Revolutionibus" is placed on Catholic Forbidden index, 1616

Antonio de Ulloa, the first Spanish governor of Louisiana, arrives in New Orleans to take possession of the Louisiana territory from the French, 1766

*Boston Massacre: British troops kill 5 in a crowd, including a young boy and Crispus Attackus, the first black to die for American freedom, in an event that would contribute to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War five years later, 1770

The Dutch city of Leeuwarden forbids Jews to go to synagogues on Sundays, 1820

Samuel Colt makes the first production-model revolver, the .34-caliber, 1836

George Westinghouse Jr patents the triple air brake for trains, 1872

Nikola Tesla, in Electrical World and Engineer, describes the process of the ball lightning formation, 1904

Winston Churchill uses the phrase "Iron Curtain" in his speech at Westminster College, Missouri, 1946

The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations, 1970

Soviet probes Venera 11, Venera 12 and the American solar satellite Helios II all are hit by "off the scale" gamma rays leading to the discovery of soft gamma repeaters, 1979

America's Voyager 1 spacecraft has its closest approach to Jupiter, 172,000 miles, 1979

The Soviet probe Venera 14 arrives at the planet Venus, 1982

The graves of Czar Nicholas II and his family are found near St. Petersburg, 1995

President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, dies in office in the nation's capital, Caracas, at age 58, 2013

A survey by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights reports that about 1/3 of women in the European Union have experienced physical or sexual violence since the age of 15, 2014

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un meets with South Korean officials for the first time since taking office, hosting a dinner in Pyongyang, 2018

The journal Nature publishes a study of the second person ever cured of HIV by stem cell transplant therapy, 2019

Explorer Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance, which sank in 1915 in the Weddell Sea, Antarctica, is rediscovered in excellent condition, 2022