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It's time once again for a random and happy Tuesday, linking up with Stacy's Random Thoughts at Stacy Uncorked and Sandee at Comedy Plus.
With some clients, they prefer to make their own beds. Others want it done for them.
Then, there's Ms. V.
Ms. V is frugal. Very frugal. She's generous, she and her husband donate to worthy causes and are quick to offer hospitality if he's feeling up to it, but growing up in a family where every penny was counted and then her own time as the wife of a struggling graduate student ingrained a frugality in her which is almost superhuman.
She once went almost 3 weeks with no kitchen sink because she didn't want to have to pay a plumber, who would charge more to change a faucet than a simple handyman and she didn't have enough recommendations yet to hire the right handyman.
Yes, she knows a good plumber, but he's only for emergencies, and having to wash all the dishes by hand in the laundry room sink isn't an emergency.
Back to sheets. She and Mr. L have one bottom sheet. Well, they have a second, but it is flannel material and Mr. L hates it because it is hot, so it is not to be used. The one we do use is not quite the right size for their bed, but it can be forced to fit.
She will not buy another until this one wears out because it will not be frugal to do so.
Same with pillowcases. Hers are threadbare and we've had to retire several. There now aren't enough to go around until after the laundry is done. Until we have even fewer, no more will be purchased.
On to Ms. D. She does let me make beds, and she had plenty of sheets, some even in the right size. We have a hard time remembering which sheets are the right size for which bed. Yes, it gets straight eventually.
Ms. D once asked me if any clients ever ask me to iron. I told her one used to have me iron clothes, and another had me iron sheets and pillowcases.
She said, "I used to iron my pillowcases, too, but I cured myself of that, I threw away the ironing board!"
I wasn't sure how to respond, so i simply said, Well, that's one way to take care of it.
How about some funnies.
Have a blessed and beautiful Tuesday, everyone!
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Today is
Coldest Day Ever -- the lowest natural temperature ever recorded on Earth was -89.2 *C (-128.6 *F; 184.0 *K) at the Soviet Vostok Station in Antarctica on this day in 1983
Feast of Damo -- Ancient Greek Calendar (keeper of secrets of philosophy; daughter of Greek sages, Pythagoras and Theano, date approximate)
Hemingway Birthday Celebration -- Hemingway Museum, Oak Park, IL, US
Independence Day / National Day -- Belgium(1830)
Kazanskaya -- Russia (Feast of Our Lady of Kazan)
Lakota Sun Dance -- Lakota Native Americans (festival of the sun god Wi, with offerings to Maka (mother earth) and Haokah (father sky), both aspects of Creator Tukaskanskan; dating approximate, as outsiders are usually no longer allowed at these multi-day ceremonies)
Liberation Day -- Guam (1944; from Japan)
Lucaria -- Ancient Roman Calendar ("Feast of Clearings", with prayers said as land was cleared for planting)
National Junk Food Day
No Pet Store Puppies Day -- ASPCA sponsored this day in previous years, and while i can't find a confirmation of another campaign, you can still Take The Pledge to not shop at any pet store that sells puppies, because they are almost certainly from puppy mills nopetstorepuppies.com/
Racial Harmony Day -- Singapore
Sapporo Summer Festival -- Odori Park, Sapporo, Japan (through Aug. 20, the park becomes a beer garden)
Schoelcher Day -- French West Indies; Martinique (Schoelcher worked for abolition)
^*St. Lawrence of Brindisi's Day (Patron of Brindisi, Italy)
St. Praxedes' Day (Patron of single laywomen)
Tug-Of-War Tournament Day -- if you have a problem with someone today, solve it with an old-fashioned tug-of-war!
Birthdays Today
Hatty Jones, 1988
Josh Hartnett, 1978
Justin Bartha, 1978
Lance Guest, 1960
Matt Mulhern, 1960
Jon Lovitz, 1957
Michael Connelly, 1956
Robin Williams, 1951
Garry Trudeau, 1949
Cat Stevens, 1948
Kenneth Starr, 1946
Tony Scott, 1944
Edward Herrmann, 1943
Janet Reno, 1938
Norman Jewison, 1926
Don Knotts, 1924
Kay Starr, 1922
Isaac Stern, 1920
Marshall McLuhan, 1911
Ernest Hemingway, 1899
John Joseph "Johnny" Evers, 1881
Today in History
Herostratus sets fire to the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World, BCE 356
A tsunami devastates the city of Alexandria, Egypt, 365
The first landing of French troops on the coast during the French invasion of the Isle of Wight, 1545
Twenty-four-year-old Scottish physician and explorer Mungo Park became the first European to see the Niger River, the third longest river in Africa, 1796
In the market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shoots and kills Davis Tutt in what is regarded as the first true western showdown, 1865
At Adair, Iowa, Jesse James and the James-Younger Gang pull off the first successful train robbery in the American Old West, 1873
Louis Rigolly, a Frenchman, becomes the first man to break the 100 mph (161 km/h) barrier on land, driving a 15-liter Gobron-Brille in Ostend, Belgium, 1904
In Dayton, Tennessee, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes is found guilty of teaching evolution in class and fined $100, 1925
Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin become the first men to walk on the Moon, during the Apollo 11 mission, 1969
After 11 years of construction, the Aswan High Dam in Egypt is completed, 1970
The world's lowest temperature is recorded at Vostok Station, Antarctica at -82.9*C (-129*F), 1983
The fully restored USS Constitution (aka "Old Ironsides") celebrates her 200th birthday by setting sail for the first time in 116 years, 1997
NASA's Space Shuttle program ends with the landing of Space Shuttle Atlantis on mission STS-135, 2011
India scraps a proposed tax on feminine sanitary products after a campaign by activists, 2018
Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed announces the completion of Stage 1 of the controversial filling of the Blue Nile River dam, 2020
In the largest decline since WWII, life expectancy in the US falls by 1.5 years overall (3 years for Hispanic Americans. 2.9 for Black Americans), 2021
A 2,000-year-old stone used for grinding spices and still smelling of nutmeg is unearthed in Óc Eo, south Vietnam, the earliest evidence of the use of curry in Mainland Southeast Asia, 2023
US President Joe Biden abandons his campaign for reelection and endorses Kamala Harris, 2024
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