Clever Stuffie (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 week's words/prompts are:

1.peach  

2.granola 

3.bowl  

4.idea  

5.wood  

6.sad

and/or:

1.turn  

2.scarecrow  

3.flowers  

4.cauldron  

5.hot  

6.bubble

Charlotte's colour of the month is Jade Green.

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

She'd put the CAULDRON on to boil, but as soon as the contents got HOT enough for her breakfast, she ladled out a dipperful and put it in the Jade Green BOWL, added her homemade GRANOLA, and sliced a PEACH into it for good measure.

Then she added more WOOD to the fire so the mixture would BUBBLE nicely.  It was time to make this year's SCARECROW, and she kept to the old ways, making sure it had enough magic in it to do the job properly.

She timed it so as soon as she took the last bite of her breakfast, it was ready for the FLOWERS she'd picked the day before, the ones she knew would work best, boiled in her special mixture, then fished out and dried, and stuffed in with the straw.

Not bothering to TURN when he came in, she knew he would be glancing at her with a smile, a rather patronizing one as he had an IDEA what she was doing.  It made her SAD he did not keep to the old ways.  She would as long as she could, and he didn't stop her, so there was that.   He allowed her to make her special mixture, which she used for her meals and her magic, as she claimed it kept her young, although he wouldn't touch it.  

Soon the new scarecrow was done, and it worked as well as had the one before.  Yes, she'd keep to those old ways, they worked for her and it was enough.

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Today is:

Celtic Tree Month Tinne begins (Holly)

Feast of St. Sunniva (Ancient Norse solar maiden Sunna's worship around this time of year was merged with the story of this medieval saint; Patron of Bergen, Norway and the Norwegian west coast)

Math 2.0 Day -- celebrating the intermingling of math with technology 

Nagoya Sumo Tournament -- Nagoya, Japan (one of the 6 major tournaments; through the 22nd)

National Milk Chocolate with Almonds Day

Old Crafts Day -- it's listed in a few places, but i can't find the history; Old time crafts, or old crafts you've had sitting around the house and never gotten done? If you have the latter, do them or toss them!

Olive Branch Petition Day -- the final attempt, by the 13 Colonies, to avoid a complete break with England in 1775

SCUD Day (Savor the Comic, Unplug the Drama) -- a good habit, on every day

Sts. Aquila and Prisca's Day

St. Kilian's Day (Patron of people with gout or rheumatism, whitewashers; Bavaria, Germany; Paderborn, Germany; Tuosist, Ireland; Wurzburg,Germany)

Video Games Day -- do they really need a day?

Vitulatio -- Ancient Roman Calendar (when Vitula was given the first fruits of the earth)

Ziegfeld Follies Day -- his first "Follies of 1907" opened on this day

Anniversary Today:

Prince Richard of Gloucester marries Birgitte Eva van Deurs, 1972

Birthdays Today

Jaden Smith, 1998

Sophia Bush, 1982

Milo Ventimiglia, 1977

Kathleen Robertson, 1973

Beck Hansen, 1970

Billy Crudup, 1968

Toby Keith, 1961

Kevin Bacon, 1958

Christopher G. Moore, 1952

Marianne Williamson, 1952

Anjelica Huston, 1951

Wolfgang Puck, 1949

Kim Darby, 1948

Raffi, 1948

Cynthia Gregory, 1946

Jeffrey Tambor, 1944

Steve Lawrence, 1935

Marty Feldman, 1933

Roone Arledge, 1931

Billy Eckstine, 1914

Nelson Rockefeller, 1908

Louis Thomas Jordan, 1908

Philip Cortelyou Johnson, 1906

Alfred Binet, 1857

John D. Rockefeller, 1839

Ferdinand von Zeppelin, 1838

Etienne De Silhouette, 1709

Today in History

Vasco da Gama sets sail on first direct European voyage to India, 1497

Charles II of England grants John Clarke a Royal Charter to Rhode Island, 1663

Battle of Restigouche – British defeat French forces in last naval battle in New France, 1760

The Olive Branch Petition is drafted by the Second Continental Congress as the Congress' last attempt to get King George III of Great Britain to reason with them, 1775

The Declaration of Independence has its first public reading, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and the Liberty Bell is rung, 1776

Chippewas turn over huge tract of land in Ontario to the United Kingdom, 1822

Commodore Perry sails into Tokyo Bay, 1853

The initial force of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police begin their March West, 1874

The first issue of the Wall Street Journal is published, 1889

St. John's, Newfoundland is devastated in the Great Fire of 1892

The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level of the Great Depression, bottoming out at 41.22, 1932

The United States Air Force accepts its first female recruits into a program called Women in the Air Force (WAF), 1948

Richard Nixon delivers a special congressional message enunciating Native American Self-Determination as official US Indian policy, leading to the Indian Self-Determination Act, 1970

The Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe creates the office of High Commissioner on National Minorities, 1992

NATO invites the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland to join the alliance, membership to become effective in two years, 1997

The Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched in the final mission of the U.S. Space Shuttle program, 2011

Pope Francis condemns the 'global indifference' to the plight of immigrants who have drowned trying to reach Europe, 2013

The mission of the NASA Curiosity Mars rover begins, 2013

UNESCO declares Asmara, capital of Eritrea, a world heritage site for its Art Deco buildings, 2017

Eritrea and Ethiopia announce the re-establishment of diplomatic ties between the two countries after almost 20 years, 2018

According to new genomic study in "Nature", people from eastern Polynesia had DNA from indigenous Colombia, showing Americans and Polynesians made contact around 1200 A.D., 2020

Japan says the Olympics will be held without spectators as Tokyo announces state of emergency due to a surge in COVID-19, 2021

Sir Elton John completes the final concert of his farewell tour, 2023

Bulgaria's request to adopt the euro as the country's official currency is approved by the European Parliament and Council, 2025