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Ms. G is, as always, busy as a one armed paper hanger with everything and everyone, so much so she can't do what she wants, which is take her boat out and float the day away; she just can't swing it.
For now, though, she is all business as she works on getting a house cleared out and ready for the closing date. The seller (her client) is the son of an old friend who died, and as part of the pay for her getting the house ready to sell for him, she is being given a good many items from the house.
Yesterday we made three trips over there to load up her truck and move those things into her storage unit. A few of them will go to her new place in the country where she hopes to retire one day.
The rest, well, "when things slow down" she plans to sell them online along with a lot of the contents of her house so she can retire and move, but at her pace i can't see her packing her bags any time soon, she's too busy with clients to get to her own stuff.
Linking up with Denise at Girlie On The Edge Blog, where she hosts Six Sentence Stories, and the cue is Swing.
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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 beauty strikes me every time
I come home for a short stay
and makes me wonder why
I ever moved away.
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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 realized Slow-Moe was low on oil in time and no damage seems to have ensued.
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Today is:
Absolutely Incredible Kid Day -- Camp Fire USA encourages everyone to send a note or letter to a young person today, telling him/her exactly what an incredible kid s/he is!
Commemoration of the Victory over Kadhafi -- Libya
Companies That Care Day -- national event that encourages employers to highlight and expand their employee and community initiatives, and recognize the people who make their companies successful
Corn Dog Day -- some sites say the 20th
Eid al Fitr -- Islam (celebration of the end of Ramadan; begins at sundown, and runs through sundown on the 5th, but local dates and official government observances may vary)
Greater Dionysia -- Ancient Greek Calendar (largest festival to Dionysus, lasting five days; date approximate
Hindu New Year -- Hindu (local custom/date may vary)
Hari Raya Nyepi Tahun Baru -- Indonesia (New Year in the Balinese Saka calendar)
Nyepi Day -- Bali, Indonesia (Day of Silence, Balinese New Year/Saka New Year celebration on which everything is closed, even the international airport)
Ougadi -- Mauritius and some regions of India (the Telugu New Year)
Ramayana -- Hindu (local customs/celebratory dates may vary)
is often with Hindu New Year, but sometimes starts a day later
International Read to Me! Day -- a day for children to remind the adults in their lives to read to them often
Kashubians' Unity Day -- among Kashubians in northern Poland
Let's Laugh Day -- a holiday spread by ecard companies, because any day is a good day for a laugh
Mojoday -- Discordianism
National Chocolate Caramel Day
Oil Nationalization Day -- Iran
Pet Passport Day -- today in 2000, the UK passed the pet passport law, allowing pets into Great Britain without quarantine if they met certain criteria
Poultry Day -- a day to honor the role poultry plays in our lives
Quinquatria -- Roman Empirical Calendar (celebration of Minerva and Mars, especially the birthday of Minerva today; through the 23rd)
Ramazan Bayrami Eve -- Turkey
See If You Can Find Someone Who Remembers Honey West Day -- internet generated trivia question
Swallows Return to San Juan Capistrano Day -- despite what you think, the bird you saw there yesterday was not a swallow, the natives will tell you
St. Joseph's Day (Patron of bursars, cabinetmakers, carpenters, civil engineers, confectioners, craftsmen, dying people, emigrants, expectant mothers, families, fathers, happy death, holy death, house hunters, immigrants, interior souls, laborers, married people, Oblates of St. Joseph, people in doubt, people who fight communism, pioneers, protection of the church, social justice, travelers, unborn children, wheelwrights, workers; Universal Church; over 50 cities, diocese, and countries; against doubt and hesitation)
As Patron of fathers, his day is also Father's Day in Belgium, Bolivia, Honduras, Italy, Portugal, and Spain.
Valencia, Spain has it's biggest day of the Las Fallas Festival today, with the fireworks.
Time Zone Day -- US Congress passed the Standard Time Act to sort out the fact that different states and cities used different times, with no rhyme or reason
Birthdays Today:
Michael Bergin, 1969
Bruce Willis, 1955
Glenn Close, 1947
Clarence "Frogman" Henry, 1937
Ursula Andress, 1936
Phyllis Newman, 1935
Renee Taylor, 1935
Phillip Roth, 1933
Ornette Coleman, 1930
Patrick McGoohan, 1928
Brent Scowcroft, 1925
John Joseph Sirica, 1904
Earl Warren, 1891
Edith Nourse Rogers, 1881
Charles M. Russell, 1864
William Jennings Bryan, 1860
Albert Pinkham Ryder, 1847
Wyatt Earp, 1848
Sir Richard Burton, 1821
David Livingstone, 1813
Thomas Mckean, 1734
William Bradford, 1590
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Kate and Allie"(TV), 1984
"A Child of Our Time"(Oratorio), 1944
"Amos and Andy"(Radio), 1928
"Faust"(Opera), 1859
"Die Braut von Messina"(Schiller Play), 1803
Today in History:
A Mongolian victory in the Battle of Yamen ends the Song Dynasty in China, 1279
Explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle, searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River, is murdered by his own men, 1687
The SS Georgiana, said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, is destroyed on her maiden voyage with a cargo of munitions, medicines and merchandise then valued at over $1,000,000, 1863
Pluto is photographed for the first time but is not recognized as a planet, 1915
Eight American planes take off in pursuit of Pancho Villa, the first United States air-combat mission in history, 1916
The U.S. Congress establishes time zones and approves daylight saving time, 1918
Willie Mosconi sets a world record by running 526 consecutive balls without a miss during a straight pool exhibition at East High Billiard Club in Springfield, Ohio. The record still stands today, 1954
Gumby makes his debut, 1957
The wreck of the SS Georgiana, valued at over $50,000,000 and said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, is discovered by then teenage diver and pioneer underwater archaeologist E. Lee Spence exactly 102 years after its destruction, 1965
Texas Western becomes the first college basketball team to win the Final Four with an all-black starting lineup, 1966
India and Bangladesh sign a friendship treaty, 1972
The United States House of Representatives begins broadcasting its day-to-day business via the cable television network C-SPAN, 1979
Argentinian forces land on South Georgia Island, precipitating the Falklands War with the United Kingdom, 1982
Zimbabwe is suspended from the Commonwealth on charges of human rights abuses and of electoral fraud, following a turbulent presidential election, 2002
A cosmic burst, GRB 080319B, that is the farthest object visible to the naked eye is briefly observed, 2008
After two decades of being closed due to civil war, the Somali National Theater reopens in Mogadishu, 2012
The papal inauguration ceremony for Pope Francis is held in St. Peter's Square, 2013
The world's last male northern white rhino, 45-year-old Sudan, dies in Kenya, 2018
American Karen Uhlenbeck becomes the first woman to win mathematics' Abel Prize, 2019
The Icelandic volcano Fagradalsfjall erupts for the first time in 800 years, 2021
In a deal brokered by the Swiss government, Switzerland's largest bank, UBS, agrees to buy its rival Credit Suisse to help ease global financial panic, 2023
Finland is ranked the happiest country in the world by the UN for the seventh year in a row, 2024
New data on dark energy from the DESI telescope further upends scientific belief that the universe is constantly expanding, its results show it has instead weakened, 2025
we love the poem... and we love corn dogs...
ReplyDeleteLove the image and poem, I would love a view like that and a room of books. Mrs G is a force of nature.
ReplyDeleteGood job on the poem - if I had that view I'd have a terrible time leaving it even for a day. It looks like I imagine heaven to be.
ReplyDeleteHugs, Pam
you sure do find interesting fences. if I ever get out again I might try finding one or two. When I first started in 2009 I did the Friday Fences thing. What a super idea to sell/use the items to help her retire. with her energy levels she might never retire. I sold RE for 4 years in 1990's and one of the women in our office was 82 and going strong
ReplyDeleteGood luck to Mrs g. Of course I always like the fence pictures that I see this one is decorated with some kind of symbol or family name. Good poem. Happy Thursday
ReplyDeleteThe way she keeps going, one day she will fall over and then there will be storage units full of stuff for someone else to take care of. She needs to take a break, relax, and start working on her projects that are already there, not start new ones.
ReplyDeleteIf that was my room, I would not have left! Good poem.
ReplyDeleteLovely poem! Good Six too (but dear Ms G don't work so hard... eh?)
ReplyDeleteAnother good fence.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
Lulu: "The sign says 'welcome' in French, right? But the fence kind of says 'keep out' ..."
ReplyDeleteYou are always so busy ~ glad Slo Mo was taken care of with the oil ~ Hugs ~ ^_^
ReplyDeleteCrec que en aquest pas, la Sra. G no es jubilarà mai.
ReplyDeleteBona tanca, reserva la intimitat.
Què bé que el teu cotxe no es quedés sense oli!, a mi em va passar una vegada que no va funcionar el pilot i es va cremar el motor.
Petonets, Mimi.
an old saying, "Want something done right away, give it to a busy person"
ReplyDeleteHaving done that (oversee the clear-out of a formerly occupied home) I can appreciate how much work it can be!!
I am so happy my life has slowed down to a comfortable crawl!
ReplyDeleteNice poem. Glad there was no damage to Slow-Moe.
ReplyDeleteMs G certainly keeps you on the hop! I hope she appreciates all you do for her.
ReplyDeleteMs. G. is as busy as you are on Carl Day! Good poem and an excellent Thankful. Thanks for joining Angel Brian's Thankful Thursday Blog Hop!
ReplyDeleteNice thankfuls and great poem. XO
ReplyDeleteWhat a terrific story! And I LOVE your Poem! Mimi, you always make my day! I love reading you words (almost) everyday! Sorry I don't comment more often! Barb
ReplyDeleteI loved your poem. If I lived there I would never leave
ReplyDeletesounds like Ms G needs to stop collecting, and get to selling! or maybe just take a break from it all and swing some time to float her boat!
ReplyDeleteA room with a view. What a lovely poem and picture.
ReplyDeleteIronically it reminds me the family am staying with a few days a week. They are collectors, they have so much cool stuff from around the world, little knick-knacks and such. When we were moving and the things eventually got packed... Everything felt empty and not homey. Maybe that's why she doesn't get to the selling part.
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