It's Hard to Make Up a Foggy Mind (Six Sentence Story), Good Fences, Sammy's Poetry Day, and Brian's Thankful Thursday

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Ms. G had let me know she would not be at her house when i arrived but since i have a series of tasks to do whether she's there or not, it wasn't going to be a problem; the day's real problem was defined when she arrived soon after and told me there was an emergency, she had to go to the hospital to see someone and it wasn't a good situation, so could i please help her unload the car and do a few things and she had to run and probably wouldn't be back before i was finished.

Her sinus infection is mostly gone but she's been left with a cough and sometimes a brain fog which was in evidence as we emptied some things to go to the house and she chose what to put back and leave in the car and which items i was to run to Ms. Fiona for her.

We went in, then she asked where the cleaners were, which were some of the things we'd left, so i went back to the car for the cleaners to take them out in the back yard to be used when cleaning some things she'd left out there for me to tend, and then she said, "Well, you should probably use bleach, where's the spray bottle from the car?"

We'd also left the new spray bottles in the car, so i went to get one, coming back in to find her with the bleach and a spray bottle saying, "Well, I found a spray bottle so we won't need that one, just leave it on the table, and I think I left a loaf of bread in the car since I can't find it in her with the stuff we brought in, could you go get it?" and thus after a third trip back to the car and a fruitless search for the bread i came in and told her it was not in the car and she said, "Oh, that's right, I decided not to buy that."

Then she gave me specific instructions to tell Ms. Fiona she'd see her as soon as she stopped coughing (no need to take a cough, contagious or not, into a nursing home), and although she forgot to specify how i was to clean the objects she'd left outdoors for me although she was very forceful in telling me i should do it as soon as i got back so it wouldn't get to hot to be outdoors, and when she finally left, it gave me space to breath and get Ms. Fiona's stuff to my car.

I had a quick run to Ms. Fiona and then got to come back to clean the outdoor items, all of which will be put in the shed to get dirty again, but that's how we roll, and then i got to the regular list which was going well until she called to start asking for details (how much cat hair are you getting up, she's trying to gauge whether Sassy is almost finished spring shedding); she suddenly got a call with meant she hung up with me and by the time we crossed paths again she was coming home in the pouring rain and i was leaving as it was all done, which was fine by me.

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

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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:    

Oh de weather in Louisiana

tryin' to wash us away,

we are bruised and battered,

but here we gonna stay.

We love our old bayou

an' we're not gonna stray,

dey's jes' somethin' 'bout these swamps.

De water table's low an' den

de water table's high,

sometimes it rain so much

clo'es on de line don' dry,

when de hurricane's a comin'

dere's no blue up in de sky,

dey's jes' somethin' 'bout these swamps.

We gotta stick it out 'cause

dis jes be where we be,

an' when a place is home to you

dat's all you gotta see,

an' out here it be wild

an' we be's free,

dey's jes' somethin' 'bout these swamps.

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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 still have GusGus die Fledermaus, our Ford, for #1 Son to use while his car is being repaired.  I'm also thankful to know how to do both rooms and cages at the cat shelter, as someone had signed up for cages yesterday and i was able to just do the rooms instead, easy.

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Today is Hug Your Cat Day!  There are several such days noted for this on various websites; if you celebrate all of them, your cat will be well hugged! 

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

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Today is:

Audacity to Hope Day -- to encourage all to have the audacity to keep hope

Corpus Christi -- Catholic Christian

Emancipation Day -- Tonga (trad.)

Fardagar -- Traditional Icelandic Calendar (time when farm workers moved from one farm to another, the time to settle debts, and until the 20th Century, the day to start the fiscal year; always the Thursday through Sunday of the 7th week of summer)

Festival for Hercules Custos -- Ancient Roman Calendar (Hercules the Custodian)

Flag Day -- Estonia

Flag Day -- Finland (Armed Forces observe the birth anniversary of Carl Gustaf Mannerheim)

International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression -- UN

Jarila's Day -- Asatru/Slavic Pagan Calendar (Festival of Jarila, god of the sun and fertility)

Lassie Day -- the first dog to play the role of Lassie, in the movie Lassie, Come Home, was born this day in 1940

National Cheese Day -- not to be confused with Cheese Lover's Day earlier in the year

National Cognac Day

National Frozen Yogurt Day -- not to be confused with the Frozen Yogurt Day celebrated on Feb. 6 in Los Angeles, where the temperatures make such a thing possible

National Unity Day -- Hungary

Old Maid's Day -- supposedly established after WWII, when there were so many eligible young ladies who weren't getting any younger

Plynteria -- Ancient Greek Calendar (festival in Athens in honor of Athena; date approximate)

St. Petroc's Day (Patron of Cornwall and Wales, as well as many locations in Cornwall, Wales, and England, and Saint-Meen, France)

Birthdays Today:

Evan Lysacek, 1985

Russell Brand, 1975

Angelina Jolie, 1975

Noah Wyle, 1971

James Callis, 1971

Scott Wolf, 1968

Cecilia Bartoli, 1966

Sam Harris, 1961

Eldra DeBarge, 1961

Keith David, 1956

Parker Stevenson, 1953

George Noory, 1950

Bettina Gregory, 1946

Michelle Phillips, 1944

Joyce Meyer, 1943

Freddy Fender, 1937

Bruce Dern, 1936

John Drew Barrymore, 1932

Dr. Ruth Westheimer, 1928

Dennis Weaver, 1924

Robert Merrill, 1919

Rosalind Russell, 1907

George III, 1738

Aesop, BCE620 (not certain, but close enough)

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"Born in the USA"(Album release), 1984

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan(Film), 1982

"Cavalcade of Stars"(TV), 1949

Today in History:

Chinese astronomers make the first recording of a solar eclipse, BC781

Sir Walter Raleigh establishes the first English colony on Roanoke Island, old Virginia (now North Carolina), 1584

Forces under the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu take Osaka Castle in Japan, 1615

New England planters arrive to claim land in Nova Scotia, Canada taken from the Acadians, 1760

A transit of Venus is followed five hours later by a total solar eclipse, the shortest such interval in history, 1769

The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their montgolfière (hot air balloon), 1783

Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for the Kingdom of Great Britain, 1792

The Ottoman Empire cedes Cyprus to the United Kingdom but retains nominal title, 1878

Henry Ford test drives his first prototype automobile, the Ford Quadricycle, 1896

Massachusetts becomes the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage, 1912

A patent for the ATM is granted to Donald Wetzel, Tom Barnes and George Chastain, 1973

The Tiananmen Square protests are violently ended in Beijing by the People's Liberation Army, 1989

Solidarity's victory in the first (somewhat) free parliamentary elections in post-war Poland sparks off a succession of peaceful anti-communist revolutions in Eastern Europe, 1989

Falcon 9 Flight 1 was the maiden flight of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, 2010

Negotiations break down between Greece's leftist Syriza government and the European Union regarding issuance of additional bailout funding, 2015

A State of Emergency is declared after 20,000 tonnes of diesel oil spills near the Russian city of Norilsk, Siberia within the Arctic Circle, 2020

Nepalese Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli makes a desperate plea for vaccines amid his country's devastating COVID-19 second wave, 2021

Google signs an agreement with Chile to build the first submarine fiber-optic cable connecting South America and Australia, 2025