Tiny! (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 Hilary Melton-Butcher and can be found right here at River's blog.

This week's words/prompts are:

1.livestock  

2.scheduled  

3.structure  

4.target  

5.folklore

and/or:

1.accessible 

2.lichen  

3.cheese  

4.cushion  

5.facts

use either list or both, or mix and match, just have fun.

Charlotte's colour of the month is Razzmatazz.

Standing at the CHEESE making table, she looked at the clock and realized she had probably SCHEDULED herself into a bit of a bind again.  

The STRUCTURE of her days seemed to get away from her.  Although she always tried to give herself a CUSHION of extra time, it seemed to be eaten up by the demands from tending LIVESTOCK, tending the kitchen garden, and making the specialty dairy items they shipped out.  After all, they had a production TARGET and needed to meet it to continue getting orders.

Farm life had never been easy in any generation, but she knew the FACTS and the reason she tried hard not to complain was because previous generations had it much harder.  Her grandmother had told her tales of her grandmother's generation finding ways to cook and eat certain types of LICHEN when times were hard and food was scarce.  Those stories weren't just FOLKLORE, either.

Neither were the stories from the days when there was no bridge across the branch of the river nearest them to take goods to the closest town.  It wasn't a big river, but during a spring flood could become big enough wagons couldn't ford it and town was not ACCESSIBLE for several weeks.

She continued working, trying to go at a little faster pace, as she thought of her grandmother, in the kitchen in her Razzmatazz pink apron, making supper for farm hands while managing to keep the grandchildren busy and making it all look so easy.

Grandmother, how did you do it? she asked herself, and with a smile, answered herself in her mind in her grandmother's voice, "Child, just don't let the grass grow under your feet."

I won't, she thought.

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Just a note:  Blogger doesn't seem to be updating my reading list, and I follow too many blogs to go try to hunt them all down each day to see if there is a new post.  I will try to get to all of them in turn, but if I don't show up for a day or two, kindly let me know in comments and I'll come visit.  Thanks.

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Today is:

Bake Your Own Bread Day -- it's really not that hard

Bunker Hill Day -- Suffolk County, MA, US (actual date)

Dia del Padre -- El Salvador; Guatemala (Father's Day)

Eat All of Your Vegetables Day / Fresh Veggies Day 

Hijra -- Islam (New Year, began last night at the first viewing of the new moon crescent)

Independence Day/National Day -- Iceland

International Violin Day -- Stravinsky's birth anniversary

King's Birthday -- Papua, New Guinea

National Apple Strudel Day

Okinawa Day -- Japan/US (remembrance of signing the treaty, in 1971, to return Okinawa to Japan)

Pirate Radio Day -- no actual pirate (i.e., unlicensed) radio stations will admit to declaring this a holiday, but what do you expect?

Soviet Occupation Day -- Latvia

St. Botulph of Ikanhoe's Day (Patron of agricultural and farm workers, sailors, travelers; Bossal, England; Boston, England; Boston, MA, US; Botesdale, England; Botolph Bridge, Huntingdonshire, England; Botolph's Bridge, Kent, England; Botolph, Sussex, England)

St. Herve's Day (Patron of the blind; against eye diseases and problems)

Vice President's Remembrance Day -- not officially, just a day to see how many vice presidents you remember

World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought -- UN

Anniversaries Today

Orpheus marries the nymph Eurydice, Ancient Greek traditional date

Birthdays Today:

Mark Walker, 1999

Lee Ryan, 1983

Venus Williams, 1980

Will Forte, 1970

Dan Jansen, 1965

Greg Kinnear, 1963

Thomas Haden Church, 1960

Mark Linn-Baker, 1953

Joe Piscopo, 1951

Barry Manilow, 1946

Art Bell, 1945

Newt Gingrich, 1943

Gene De Paul, 1919

John Richard Hersey, 1914

Ralph Bellamy, 1904

Sammy Fain, 1902

M.C. Escher, 1898

Igor Stravinsky, 1882

William Hooper, 1742

John Wesley, 1703

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"Oh! Calcutta!"(Revue), 1969

"Barney Google and Snuffy Smith"(Comic strip), 1919

Today in History:

Vlad III the Impaler (a/k/a Vlad Dracul or Count Dracula) attempts to assassinate Mehmed II (The Night Attack) forcing him to retreat from Wallachia, 1462

Matsunaga Hisahide assassinates the 13th Ashikaga shogun, Ashikaga Yoshiteru, 1565

Sir Francis Drake claims a land he calls Nova Albion (modern California) for England, 1579

Mumtaz Mahal dies during childbirth; her husband, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I, then spends more than 20 years building her tomb, the Taj Mahal, 1631

The Battle of Bunker Hill, 1775

In the Kingdom of Hawaii, Kamehameha III issues the Edict of toleration which gives Roman Catholics the freedom to worship in the Hawaiian Islands, 1839

1,500 Sioux and Cheyenne led by Crazy Horse beat back General George Crook's forces at Rosebud Creek in Montana Territory, 1876

The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor, 1885

The College Board introduces its first standardized test, the forerunner to the SAT, 1901

 "Barney Google" cartoon strip, by Billy De Beck, premieres, 1919

Iceland declares independence from Denmark and becomes a republic, 1944

The Wooden Roller Coaster at Playland, which is in the Pacific National Exhibition, Vancouver, Canada opens; it is still open today, 1958

The New Democratic Party of Canada is founded with the merger of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) and the Canadian Labour Congress, 1961

Five White House operatives are arrested for burglarizing the offices of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate Hotel, 1972

With the death of the last individual, the Dusky Seaside Sparrow becomes extinct, 1987

The South African Parliament repeals the Population Registration Act, which had required racial classification of all South Africans at birth, 1991

Australian scientists report that they have "teleported" a laser beam, breaking it up and reconstructing it in another location, 2002

The first condemnation of discrimination against gays, lesbians and transgender people is issued by the United Nations Human Rights Council, 2011

The Incredibles 2 sets a box office record for an animated release, earning $180 million its opening weekend, 2018

Greece signs a historic deal with Macedonia ending years of dispute over its name; after this, it will be called North Macedonia, 2018

China launches its Shenzhou-12 spacecraft with three astronauts arriving at its new space station Tiangong six and a half hours later, 2021