Selfie! (Wordless Wednesday) and Words for Wednesday, an A to Z Challenge Post

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Linking up with Wordless Wednesday, Catsynth, Keith, and Sandee at Comedy Plus.     

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Words for Wednesday was begun by Delores and has become a moveable feast of word or picture or music prompts to encourage us to write stories, poems, or whatever strikes our fancy.    

This month, the prompts are being provided by yours truly right here.

This week’s prompts are:

sign

omission

fall

conviction

accompany

commerce

and/or this random sentence

Courage and stupidity were all we had.

Charlotte's colour of the month is Sea Green.

#2 Son and Daughter-in-Law are continuing their plans to move out of the state some time in the FALL, with a daughter who will be just over 2 and a baby boy who will be about 3 months at that time.

It reminds me of being young, when Courage And Stupidity Were All We Had.

They've bought a piece of land, with the CONVICTION they can live on it with the RV for sleeping in and a couple of extra outbuildings fitted with insulation, hooked up to water and electric, and turned into things like bathroom, kitchen, and laundry room.

I don't take it as a SIGN of insanity, but i do often wonder if they realize how much they are trying to do and if they're stretching past their limit.

Also, i'm beginning to wonder if there's an OMISSION somewhere in their plans, a hole or flaw which is going to show itself later.

Whether or no, they are adults forging their own path, and i will support them in their endeavor as much as i can.  I have even been recruited to ACCOMPANY them.  Friend Chris, who used to live here when things were bad with his family, now drives a semi-truck, having the requisite licenses, and is chomping at the bit to drive the RV.  It seems the thing has a special engine, one of the best and strongest ever made for non-COMMERCE use.

Friend Chris will drive the RV, #2 Son will drive his car, and i will drive Daughter-in-Law's car while she tends the children in the back seat of the SUV.

I've seen pictures of the property they've bought, and i'd be Sea Green with envy as it's a beautiful place, but it's just so far away and of course i cannot move as Grandma and Grandpa are here and need my help.

I'm just praying they've actually got things as well-planned as they think, with the electric hook-ups scheduled, the water hook-up done, and with putting in the septic later, right before they move.

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It's Earth Day!  Time to remember we only have one planet and we need to take good care of it and stop fouling our own nest.

Thanks to Barb Kowalik and The Cat Blogosphere for the event badge.         

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Today is:

Chemists Celebrate The Earth Day -- promoting public awareness of the important contribution of chemists

Discovery Day -- Brazil (landing of Cabral in 1500)

Earth Day

Festival of Jupiter and Juno -- Ancient Roman Calendar

Girl Scout Leader Appreciation Day -- Girl Scouts of the USA   

Granary Offering to Renenutet -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (offering to the Lady of Granaries; date approximate)

International Mother Earth Day -- UN

Lela's Holiday -- Asatru/Slavic Pagan Calendar (honoring the goddess-daughter, Lela)

National Library Outreach Day (formerly National Bookmobile Day) -- US, on the Wednesday of National Library Week

National Jelly Bean Day

Queen Isabella Day -- Spain and some US states (birth anniversary of Isabella I of Castille)

St. Epipodius of Lyon's Day (Patron of bachelors, betrayal victims, torture victims)

Thank Your School Librarian Day -- US, on the Wednesday of National Library Week

Walpurgis celebrations begin -- through May 1, Norse, Scandinavian, and Germanic celebrations (remembering the sacrifice of Odin upon the World Tree Yggdrasil

     Yggdrasil Day -- Asatru/Slavic Pagan Calendar

Yom Ha'Atzmaut -- Israel (Independence Day; through nightfall)

Birthdays Today:

Amber Heard, 1986

Francis Capra, 1983

Daniel Johns, 1979

Kim Elizabeth, 1978

Eric Mabius, 1971

Chris Makepeace, 1964

Byron Allen, 1961

Ryan Stiles, 1959

Peter Frampton, 1950

John Waters, 1946

Jack Nicholson, 1937

Glen Campbell, 1936

Aaron Spelling, 1928

Charlotte Rae, 1926

Yehudi Menuhin, 1916

Eddie Albert, 1906

Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev, 1891

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, 1870

Immanuel Kant, 1724

Queen Isabella, 1451

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"The Who's Tommy"(Rock musical), 1993

"Le Triomphe de Plutus/Money Makes the World Go Round"(Play), 1728

Today in History:

Portuguese navigator Pedro Cabral becomes the first European to sight Brazil, 1500

President George Washington attends a performance of Rickett's, the first circus in the US, 1793

Thomas Stevens sets out from San Francisco on the first round the world journey by bicycle, 1884

The Oklahoma land rush begins at noon; thousands rush to claim land, and the towns of Oklahoma City and Guthrie are formed within hours with populations of over 10,000 each, 1889

Pravda begins publication in St. Petersburg, 1912

The Germans begin using poison chlorine gas as a chemical weapon, 1915

British yachtsman Sir Robin Knox-Johnston completes the first solo non-stop circumnavigation of the world, 1969

The first Earth Day is celebrated, 1970

The Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. is dedicated, 1993

Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi apologizes for Japan's war record, 2005

Four Canadian soldiers are killed 75 kilometers north of Kandahar, Afghanistan by a roadside bomb planted by Taliban militants, the worst single day combat loss for the Canadian army since the Korean War, 2006

The Pope, Benedict XVI, becomes the first pontiff to participate in a televised interview session, 2011

The Paris Agreement on climate change is signed in New York, 2016

Sudan bans female genital mutation, making it a criminal offense, 2020

Argentina suffers a record outbreak of dengue fever with over 60,000 cases and more than forty deaths, 2023

Widespread flooding of the Bei River across southern China forces the evacuation of 110,000 people, 2024

National Geographic releases a new documentary, "Secrets of the Penguins," featuring the first drone footage in the world of penguin chicks jumping off a 50-foot cliff to take their first swim, 2025