Purple! (Wordless Wednesday) and Words for Wednesday

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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 words/prompts are supplied by jabblog and can be found here at River's blog.

This week's words/prompts are:

1.hand  

2.useful  

3.panic  

4.horse  

5.shape  

6.sharp

and/or:

1.nuisance  

2.boredom  

3.quizzical  

4.history  

5.warfare  

6.hair

and a bonus set of words:

1.notification  

2.money  

3.cotton  

4.spray  

5.clock  

6.mug

Charlotte's colour of the month is Gold.

use any of these lists, or mix and match, just have fun.

For years their family farm had survived everything their part of the world had thrown at them, from WARFARE to every NUISANCE pest invasion to some less than USEFUL farm HANDs.  

HISTORY happens, is how she thought of it, you deal with what you are handed and keep going.  If you decide to stay with the farm life, you'll always have something going on and won't die of BOREDOM.

Now there was another threat on the horizon, and never being one to PANIC, the time to tackle it, she decided, was before it got dire.

She'd set her CLOCK to get her up early, had her MUG of coffee and used some bug SPRAY.  As much as she didn't like the stuff, she knew it was better than the alternative.  She also put her HAIR up, something she rarely took the time to do, mostly just putting it in a hanging ponytail or braid.

Then she saddled her HORSE and took off to ride along the bayou.  It was her favorite thing to do when she was facing a dilemma, something about the SHAPE of the landscape, the helping guide the horse to pick out the best way in the soft ground, and the SHARP smell of the land and water itself, helped clear her head to noodle ideas like nothing else.

He woke up later, momentarily wondering about what it was that was bothering him at the back of his brain, and then he woke up fully and the whole memory came back to him, that COTTON-pickin' NOTIFICATION they'd gotten.  He heaved a sigh and got up.  Nothing was going to change it, might as well get up and have breakfast.

As yellow-Gold sunlight poured through the kitchen window and he got the eggs and bread, she came in and he looked at her QUIZZICALly.  He figured she'd been out for an early morning ride, he'd seen her do it before when there was a problem to solve, but she had a slight smile on her face he couldn't decipher.

"Here we are worrying about a problem MONEY will solve," she said, "and I've had a brainstorm on how to go about getting it!"

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Today is:

Abolition Day -- Guadeloupe; Saint Martin

Buttercup Day -- an internet holiday that just sounds fun

Cellophane Tape Day -- patented this date in 1930

Children's Day -- Nigeria (a school holiday)

Mother's Day -- Bolivia

National Grape Popsicle Day

National Senior Health and Fitness Day -- US (don't let age get in the way of staying healthy!) 

Pop-up Toaster Day -- Charles Strite applied for his patent on the first pop-up toaster on this day in 1919

St. Augustine of Canterbury's Day (Roman Catholic Church observance; Patron of England)

St. Melangell's Day (Patron of hares)

Sunscreen Protection Day -- an annual, and unsponsored, reminder to use that SPF protection, every day!

Throw the B*st@rds Out Day -- originally directed at politicians, (and if you want to do that, too, great!), and celebrated on various days on various sites, but whomever is making your life miserable, toss them out!  or at least, toss them out of your thoughts for today.

World Otter Day -- International Otter Survival Fund

Birthdays Today:

Chris Colfer, 1990

André Benjamin, 1975

Jamie Oliver, 1975

Jack McBrayer, 1973

Joseph Fiennes, 1970

Jeremy Mayfield, 1969

Todd Bridges, 1965

Pat Cash, 1965

Adam Carolla, 1964

Peri Gilpin, 1961

Richard Schiff, 1955

Bruce Weitz, 1943

Louis Gossett, Jr., 1936

Ramsey Lewis, 1935

Lee Meriwether, 1935

John Barth, 1930

Henry Kissinger, 1923

Christopher Lee, 1922

Herman Wouk, 1915

Sam Snead, 1912

Hubert H. Humphrey, 1911

Vincent Price, 1911

Dolores Hope, 1909

Rachel Louise Carson, 1907

Dashiell Hammett, 1894

Isadora Duncan, 1878

Arnold Bennett, 1867

Wild Bill Hickock, 1837

Julia Ward Howe, 1819

Amelia Bloomer, 1818

Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1794

Debuting/Premiering Today

From Russia With Love(Film). 1964

The Three Little Pigs(Disney animated short), 1933

Today in History:

Habeaus Corpus Act, codifying how the writ of habeaus corpus is to be used, passes in UK, 1679

Peter the Great founds St. Petersburg, 1703

In Bolivia, the Battle of La Coronilla, in which the women from Cochabamba fight against the Spanish army, 1812

In Canada, American forces capture Fort George, 1813

Bubonic plague breaks out in San Francisco, California, 1907

The NC-4 aircraft arrives in Lisbon after completing the first transatlantic flight, 1919

The 1,046 feet (319 m) Chrysler Building in New York City, the tallest man-made structure at the time, opens to the public, 1930

Richard Gurley Drew receives a patent for his adhesive tape, later manufactured by 3M as Scotch tape, 1930

The Walt Disney Company releases the cartoon The Three Little Pigs, with its hit song "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?", 1933

In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, , 1937

Toronto's CHUM-AM, (1050 kHz) becomes Canada's first radio station to broadcast only top 40 Rock n' Roll music format, 1957

Australians vote in favor of a constitutional referendum granting the Australian government the power to make laws to benefit Indigenous Australians and to count them in the national census, 1967

In Culpeper, Virginia, actor Christopher Reeve is paralyzed from the neck down after falling from his horse in a riding competition, 1995

Russian President Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechnyan rebels for the first time and negotiates a cease-fire, 1996

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands indicts Slobodan Milosevic and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity, 1999

The May 2006 Java earthquake strikes at 5:53:58 AM local time (22:53:58 UTC May 26) devastating Bantul and the city of Yogyakarta killing over 6,600, 2006

Scientists in Canada bring 400 year-old bryophyte specimens left behind by retreating glaciers during the Ice Age back to life, 2013

The director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Christine Lagarde calls for "tougher regulation and tighter supervision" of the banking sector, 2014

Commercial space company SpaceX is approved as a contractor to the U.S. military for satellite launches, 2015

A research team from University of York publish a study based on 711 samples from 72 countries that shows the world's rivers are widely contaminated with antibiotics, especially in Africa and Asia, 2019

Ringo Starr's fifteenth All-Starr Band debuts in concert, 2022

ASEAN announces Timor-Leste will officially join as its 11th member state, 2025