In Person (Six Sentence Story), Good Fences, Sammy's Poetry Day, and Brian's Thankful Thursday

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Ms. G hadn't seen Ms. Fiona in person for at least three weeks, partly because she had been ill and didn't want to take her sinus infected self to the retirement home, contagious or not, and partly because it has become an option to just send me instead, which is what she will be planning for next week.

Yesterday she could put it off no longer and we hied ourselves out to The Meadows retirement and rehabilitation home, with more cheese and peanut butter crackers for Ms. Fiona's snack stash.

We met Ms. Fiona coming down the hall to go to the dining room as it was almost time for lunch, and  Ms. G pushed her back to her room so we could visit a few minutes.

Ms. G rather treats Ms. Fiona the way a daughter would treat her aged mother, which makes sense because, although they are not related, Ms. G likes to manage and boss people and Ms. Fiona has no living relatives near enough to help her and she has given Ms. G legal permission to do everything for her you'd expect her son to do if he even spoke to his mother any longer, which now she has no money to give him, he does not.

Thus they went back and forth over whether she was comfortable in those socks, and let me take your other pair of slippers home to wash them, and show me your arms, how's your rash, oh, good, it's gone, your orchids are lovely, what is this, here, mimi, this vase is dirty please wash it for us and other such things.

Finally, it was time to wheel her to the dining area and say good-bye, and Ms. G and i were off to shop at the bulk club and then go home to do various and sundry chores since Ms. G will be busy next week and is sending me to help Ms. Fiona sort out her mountains of laundry, probably with her on the phone the whole time to direct the process.

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

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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:    

Celebrate life!

Don't slow down!

Kick up your heels!

Get out of town!

Go do something!

Make it count!

Making life worthwhile

is paramount!

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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 the Ford Focus, called GusGus die Fledermaus, is finally running properly!  No A/C still, but #2 Son replaced the fuel valve whatchamacallit which was keeping the check engine light on all of the time and making it run rough and threaten to not start after putting gas in it.  Now we can get it inspected!  Also, he changed the cabin air filters in GusGus and Lawrence (the Honda) and a relay in Slow-Moe (the Pontiac).  It's such a blessing to have a child who is mechanically inclined.

Extra note to Mr. Terry at Brian's Home - Forever:  i have tried commenting on the blog and it keeps telling me my nonce is invalid, whatever that means.  If i don't get to comment, i am not ignoring you, i just don't know how to get that nonce to behave itself, much less where it is hiding right now.

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Today is:

Arrephoria -- Ancient Greek Calendar (ceremony for the two girls chosen to weave the new robe for Athena's Statue and care for her sacred olive tree during the next year; date approximate)

Career Nursing Assistants' Day -- and the start of CNA Week 

Corn on the Cob Day

Fandens Fodselsdag(The Devil's Birthday) -- Denmark (traditional date when contracts between masters and servants expired, making them free to renew or renegotiate or sever ties; it was also considered The Devil's Birthday because taxes and rents came due!)

Hug Holiday -- some internet sites have this one, and since hugs are good for mental health, indulge!

King Kamehameha Day -- Hawaii, US

National German Chocolate Cake Day

Rites of Matralia -- Ancient Roman Calendar (honoring of Mater Matua, goddess of dawn and childbirth, by women who had been married once) related observance:

     Day Sacred to Fortuna Virgo (Fortune the Virgin, the day marriage robes of girls were dedicated to this goddess)

St. Barnabas the Apostle's Day (Patron of Antioch; Cyprus; Marbelia, Costa del Sol, Spain; Marino, Italy; invoked as a peacemaker; against hailstorms) a/k/a Barnaby Bright Day or Long Barnaby*

*Under the Julian calendar, June 11, St. Barnabas' Day, was the longest day of the year --

Barnaby Bright, Barnaby Bright,

The longest day

And the shortest night

Anniversaries Today:

Henry VIII marries Catherine of Aragon, 1509

Birthdays Today:

Shia LeBeouf, 1986

Joshua Jackson, 1978

Caroline Quentin, 1961

Dr. Mehmet Oz, 1960

Hugh Laurie, 1959

Joe Montana, 1956

Peter Bergman, 1953

Adrienne Barbeau, 1945

Jackie Stewart, 1939

Chad Everett, 1936

Prince Henrik of Denmark, 1934

Gene Wilder, 1933

William Clark Styron, Jr., 1925

Vince Lombardi, 1913

Jacques Cousteau, 1910

Jeannette Pickering Rankin, 1880

Richard Georg Strauss, 1864

John Constable, 1776

Ben Jonson, 1572

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"American Idol"(TV), 2002

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial(Film), 1982

"Main Street Electrical Parade"(Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World in Florida), 1977

"Rock 'n' Roll Music"(Beatles' UK album release), 1976

A Day at the Races(Marx Brothers film), 1937

Today in History:

Troy is sacked and burned, according to calculations by Eratosthenes, BC1184

Philip II recognizes the rights and privileges of the local nobles and chieftains in the Philippines, which paves way to the creation of the Principalía, 1594

The Continental Congress appoints Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston to the Committee of Five to draft a declaration of independence, 1776

Russian explorer Gerasim Izmailov reaches Alaska, 1788

The first American stove patent is granted to Robert Haeterick, 1793

The Limelight Department, one of the world's first film studios, is officially established in Melbourne, Australia, 1892

New Zealand annexes the Cook Islands, 1901

Sir Barton wins the Belmont Stakes, becoming the first horse to win the Triple Crown, 1919

Frank Morris, John Anglin and Clarence Anglin become the only prisoners to escape from the prison on Alcatraz Island, 1962

Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington become the first women to receive the rank of general in the U.S. Army, 1970

Cassini-Huygens makes its closest flyby of the Saturn moon Phoebe, 200

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper makes an official apology to Canada's First Nations for residential school abuse that isolated native children from their homes, families, and cultures for a century, 2008

Ancient Korean royal books looted by French troops in 1866 are returned to South Korea; 1,000 officials and locals celebrate the return of the 297-volume 'Oegyujanggak' books, 2011

Winds in southwestern Western Australia of up to 140km/h batter the area and leave more than 170,000 homes without power, 2012

Japan passes a law that will allow Emperor Akihito to abdicate, 2017

“The New York Times” reveals that the fire on the back lot of Universal Studios in Los Angels eleven years earlier had destroyed over 500,000 original master recordings, including many by Chuck Berry, Louis Armstrong, and Ella Fitzgerald, 2019

A US lobsterman survives being swallowed by a humpback whale off the coast of Provincetown, Massachusetts, 2021

Estonian Biobank opens its portal allowing 200,000 Estonians to access their genetic information, including disease risk and ancestry markers, 2024