We’ll Stick With the Simpler Model (Six Sentence Story), Good Fences, Sammy’s Poetry Day, and Brian’s Thankful Thursday

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In her work as a realtor, mostly for friends, family, and people to whom she is referred by friends and family and who then become friends, Ms. G comes into a lot of small appliances, items of furniture, and various tchotchkes which the seller of the property do not want to take with them.

This results in her frequently asking me if i can use such-and-such item or other, as many of them are very happy to turn over to her not only the preparing of their home for sale and the putting it on the market, but also the distribution of such items, and we have ended up with many excellent things this way which have come in handy, a small dresser i still use, a file cabinet, fans, lamps, even a room A/C unit.

Yesterday it was an appliance which at first glance looks like just another microwave oven, but which could also function as a convection oven, air fryer, and which had separate buttons for baking potatoes, popping your popcorn, warming your pizza and defrosting your frozen foods -- in short, a wonder gadget.

If there is one thing i have found about such wonder gadgets, though, it's they seldom do everything well, and many of them do nothing well because they try to do too many things.

It had been sitting on her kitchen floor for at least a month forcing me to vacuum around it when she noticed it and said she needed to get rid of it and she meant now, as she said, "The person who was supposed to take it can't because her landlord has provided her with a microwave built in and he's not going to take that one out and reinstall this one and I need to rehome it, how is your microwave, does it do all those things and can you use this?"

Because of my belief about such wonder gadgets, however, i told her truthfully we have an almost new one and we will stick with it, as we also have a good working toaster/convection oven, and an air fryer, all of which have a place in our kitchen, and almost before i finished telling her, she had found a new home for it and we were loading it in the back of her car so she could get it to its new owner this weekend.

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

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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:    

Go ahead, have kids, they said.

It'll be fulfilling, they said.

But all that's in my head,

is I want to go back to bed!

I want some candy, they cry.

Don't wanna nap, they cry.

And I just let out a sigh,

and give it another try.

Read us a story, they plead.

We will sit still if you read.

To sit is what we all need,

and from all the angst we are freed.

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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 for running water in the house and if you wonder why, read yesterday’s post.     

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Today is:

Bad Hair Day -- birth anniversary of Don King

Birth of the White Buffalo -- Lakota Native American rituals honoring the birth of the White Buffalo in 1994, signaling the return of the White Buffalo Woman (manifestation of the Star Goddess Wohpe), who gave them the sacred peace pipe

Daffodil Day -- Australia (the Cancer Council's big fundraiser) 

Dial the Phone Day -- the first rotary dial phone patent was applied for by A. E. Keith, John Erickson, and Charles Erickson on this day in 1896

Feast of Asma -- Baha'i

Independence From USSR Day -- Estonia

Lemonade Day

Moon's Birthday -- Aztec Calendar (according to some websites, but i haven't confirmed it; if you want something to celebrate, this is as good as anything else)

National Chocolate Pecan Pie Day

National Radio Day -- on the day WWJ(AM) radio first signed on in Detroit in 1920, one of the earliest news broadcast stations

Revolution Day -- Western Sahara

Revolution of the King and People -- Morocco

St. Bernard of Clairvaux's Day (Patron of bees and beekeepers, candle makers, wax refiners; Burgundy, France; Cistercians; Gibraltar; Queens College, Cambridge, England; Speyer Cathedral)

Stop and Smell Your Dog Day -- and, depending on the results, maybe even Give Your Dog a Bath Day

St. Stephen's Festival -- Budapest, Hungary (National Day for all of Hungary)

Thoth orders the healing of the Eye of Horus -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)

Virtual Worlds Day -- internet generated, as well it should be

World Mosquito Day -- commemorates the day Dr. Ronald Ross discovered the link between mosquitoes and malaria in 1897

Birthdays Today:

Amy Adams, 1975

Tara Dakides, 1975

Jan Allen, 1956

Theresa Saldana, 1955

Al Roker, 1954

Robert Plant, 1948

Connie Chung, 1946

Don King, 1931

Jim Reeves, 1924

Jacqueline Susann, 1921

Eero Saarinen, 1910

Edgar Albert Guest, 1881

H.P. Lovecraft, 1880

Eliel Saarinen, 1873

Benjamin Harrison, 1833

Bernardo O'Higgins, 1776

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"1812 Overture"(Tchaikovsky Op. 49), 1882

Today in History:

Hungary is established as a kingdom by Stephen I, 1000

The Dutch bring the first African slaves to the colony of Jamestown, VA, 1619

The Spanish establish the presidio that will be the town of Tuscon, Arizona, 1775

The Lewis and Clark "Corps of Discovery", exploring the Louisiana Purchase, suffers its only death when sergeant Charles Floyd dies, apparently from acute appendicitis 1804

Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" debuts in Moscow, 1882

Rotary Dial telephone is patented, 1896

The Big Blowup, a huge fire in the Northwestern US, burns 3 million acres, 1910

Adolphe Pegoud makes the first parachute jump from an airplane, 1913

Stainless steel is first cast, 1913

WJM,8Mk, Detroit, becomes the first commercial radio station to start daily broadcasting, 1920

UK becomes the first to use radar, 1940

Plutonium's weight determined, 1942

Launch of Voyager 2, 1977

George and Joy Adamson, the Born Free conservationists, are gunned down by poachers, 1989

The Oslo Peace Accords are signed in Norway, 1993

The Supreme Court of Canada rules that Quebec may not secede from Canada without federal government approval, 1998

As part of ongoing political reforms, the government of Myanmar announces it will end media censorship, 2012

Measles cases reach a record high in Europe with 41,000 infected in the first six months of 2018 and 37 deaths according to WHO, 2018

NASA confirms it is planning the Clipper Mission to Jupiter's moon Europa to take off in 2025 to explore the moon's oceans and find out if it can harbor life, 2019 

Misuzulu ka Zwelithini is crowned the new Zulu King at KwaKhangelamankengane Palace in KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa, 2022

In a referendum, Ecuador votes against drilling for oil in Yasuni National Park, a world biosphere reserve inhabited by indigenous groups in the Amazon, 2023