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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
Good poem for that photo - haven't we all had that one?
ReplyDeleteI like that stonewall too, but moving crates, ugh, I don't like!
Your poem for Sammy's poetry challenge is absolutely ON TARGET. Thankfully hair DOES grow back quickly and soon that little girl's adventure with scissors will be a distant memory!!! Thanks for having poetic fun with us!
ReplyDeleteHugs, Pam and Teddy
I'm here trough Six Sentences Stories - yours was definitely relatable, and I totally understand Ms G's propensity towards order!
ReplyDeleteI'm laughing because I had to look at the picture in the poem twice to make sure that wasn't Annie. I had a friend who ended up renting two spaces for all of her things. She rented them both for 10 years and when she finally emptied them because she thought her children would like all the moldy mildew furniture she found out they certainly did not want any of it. I love the stone wall by the way. Great picture.
ReplyDeleteIs anyone placing bets on if she will ever get around to selling stuff or if it will just become a crammed full storage unit? The idea is great but we doubt she will follow through with her plan from what we know about her. People have way too much stuff. Have you noticed how many storage facilities have popped up in the recent years? If it doesn't fit at home, you probably don't need it, right?
ReplyDeleteWhat is with American's and their 'stuff'. I know I am an American- but I am not a gluttonous consumer- and the very idea of having to pay additional monies to store 'stuff' I do not need just makes no sense to me. But if that is what Mrs. G wants- then I say that is what she shall have.
ReplyDeleteViolet; it isn't just Americans..
DeleteOoh, ‘storage wars’, perhaps? But no, she’s much too sensible to do that, I’m thinking.
ReplyDeleteGlad to hear Annie is well ~ and sweet poem ~ hugs,
ReplyDeleteQuin ensurt en veure la foto, pensava que era l'Annie! Encara que els cabells creixin, el disgust no li treu ningú. ;-)
ReplyDeleteEstic contenta que l'Annie evolucioni bé.
Les tanques de pedra per aquí es veuen sovint i són ben maques.
Petonets, Mimi.
Cute poem.
ReplyDeletethe games afoot!!
ReplyDelete(no, don't really know what that Sherlock Holmes reference was supposed to mean...lol)
I suspect that the sequence will reduce the labor when it comes time to sell the...stuff
Poor little kid with the scissors! I love stone fences too.
ReplyDeleteAt least Mrs G plans to sell some of her things and I hope that happens. I know some people who have houses crammed to the rafters, plus big sheds in their yards also crammed full. My own shed is fullish, but not crammed and has seasonal things I still use, but they don't fit in my tiny one bedroom flat. With winter soon coming here I will soon have to get down there and bring back the heater I use to warm the bathroom so I can shower in comfort, and the extra blankets for the bed.
Oh those darned storage units for rent. We have them here, too.
ReplyDeleteHooray for getting the stuff moved to storage just in time. That was a cute poem and a terrific thankful. Sometimes those sting allergies kick in on the second sting. Thanks for joining Angel Brian's Thankful Thursday Blog Hop!
ReplyDeleteStorage units are expensive so I hope she is able to sell things. Glad little Annie is OK. Hope she never gets ahold of the scissors like the poem girl. XO
ReplyDeleteI'm glad the moving of the boxes was in light drizzle/mist. Moving in the rain is not pleasant!
ReplyDeletePoor Annie. To be stung when she's just a baby (well, not so much anymore, lol). Good news she's none the worse from her bee encounter.
Your poem was absolutely perfect. Happy Annie is okay as well. Mom says she would call that more of a wall than a fence, but it is definitely nice! She'd rather have that anyway. XOCK, angels Lily Olivia, Mauricio, Misty May, Giulietta, Fiona, Astrid & Sawyer, Lisbeth, Calista Jo, Cooper Murphy, Kizmet, Audrey, Raleigh, Gibbs & Tali
ReplyDeleteFantastic poem
ReplyDeleteI could do with a storage unit, thanks for reminding me! I like the poem.
ReplyDeleteA very moving six (see what I did there?). And I remember cutting my own hair at about age 5 (so satisfying to hear & feel), ushering in a decade of pageboy cuts!
ReplyDeleteLulu: "One of Mama and Dada's friends used to have one of those storage units and she spent at least a year working on getting it cleaned out so she could finally stop renting it. Now her storage unit is her garage I think ..."
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