Um, Grandpa, How Long Has This Been a Problem? (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, River is providing the prompts on her blog.

This week's words/prompts are:

1.bowed  

2.snoring  

3.barefoot  

4.tears  

5.memory  

6.swamped

and/or:

1.taped  

2.cream  

3.moonlit  

4.beach 

5.soft  

6. salty

Charlotte's colour of the month is Vivid Tangerine.

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

Once again i find myself starting my Wednesday story with, you can't make up this stuff.  In fact, i think that line needs to be TAPED and simply played back almost every day of my life.

Things have been SWAMPED around this part of the swamp, and yesterday the plan was for me to go to the ladies' circle meeting, then come home and take care of Annie and proceed from there.

It started well, the meeting was attended and was very good, everyone enjoyed seeing everyone else and we had new members join us for the start of our new book.

When i arrived home, #2 Son texted me Annie was up early and so was taking an early nap, he'd bring her over later, or maybe bring Ben and let Annie spend some time with her mama.  Either way, i'll watch either or both, and it means now i can have a little feets up time (although i should be catching up online, i'm so sorry i'm missing many posts i usually read, but really, i needed a few minutes).

Anyway, while i knew i wouldn't be sleeping (or SNORING), i thought i could doze a while and dream of being BAREFOOT on a MOONLIT BEACH, no need for sun CREAM, with a soft blanket under me and the SALTY tang of the air and the sound of the waves...

When the phone rang, i BOWED to the inevitable and answered.  It was my Sweetie, who was supposed to be on his way somewhere, and i knew when i saw he was calling it couldn't be good news.

No, i did not shed any TEARS when he told me the front passenger tire fell off his car during a turn as he tried to get off the road after hitting something someone had dropped in the road, but it was close.

It brought back the MEMORY of the time #2 Son's car had this happen.  I texted #2 Son, he grabbed Annie (who wasn't asleep quite yet) and his car jacks and we went to find him.

A tow truck was called as two lugs had snapped off and the other lugs were mostly stripped.  The spare was put on the three remaining lugs and the set of lug nuts #2 Son keeps in his car were put on as tight as they could go, not tight enough to drive on, but tight enough to keep the car on the tire to be pulled onto the tow truck, which didn't take long to arrive and was easy to spot, being dark blue with Vivid Tangerine lettering.

Slow-Moe the Pontiac was taken to Kevin and Lenny's, they will look at it tomorrow and tell us if it can be repaired (we think there's a hole in the oil pan from when it hit the ground).

We're in a pickle if it costs too much to fix, but that's a story for another day.  Meanwhile, if you haven't seen me visiting your blogs much, please know, i'm trying, it's just getting harder every day to keep up.

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Today is:

Bison-Ten-Yell Day -- celebrating the imaginary Native American Bison-Ten-Yell, inventor of 10 battle yells now used as American football signals

Celtic Tree Month Muin (Vine) begins

Feast of Osiris -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)

Independence Day -- Transdniestria

National Blueberry Popsicle Day

National Day -- Vietnam

Sacrifice to Hekate and Artemis -- Ancient Greek Calendar (date approximate)

Sedantag -- Germany

St. Agricola of Avignon's Day (Patron of rain -- for or against, whichever you need! -- of good weather and storks; Avignon, France; against misfortune and plague epidemics)

VJ Day -- Surrender Ceremony took place on this date aboard the USS Missouri

Anniversary Today:

Beginning of the Marathon Runs during the Persian War, Sept. 2-9, 490BC

Birthdays Today:

Cynthia Watros, 1968

Salma Hayek, 1966

Lennox Lewis, 1965

Keanu Reeves, 1964

Linda Purl, 1955

Jimmy Connors, 1952

Mark Harmon, 1951

Eric Dickerson, 1950

Christa McAuliffe, 1948

Nathaniel “Tiny” Archibald, 1948

Terry Bradshaw, 1948

Peter Victor Ueberroth, 1937

Marge Champion, 1923

Cleveland Amory, 1917

Lili'uokalani, 1838

James Forten, 1766

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"Rose-Marie"(Operetta), 1924

"East of Suez"(Play), 1922

Ordinance on the Danish Church(Publication Date), 1637

Today in History:

Cicero's first Philippic (oratorical attack) on Marc Antony, BC44

Pharaoh Cleopatra VII of Egypt declares her son co-ruler as Ptolemy XV Caesarion, BC44

Octavian's troops win the Battle of Actium which ends the Final war of the Roman Republic, BC31

The Great Fire of London breaks out and burns for three days; it ends with 8 dead and 13,000 houses destroyed, 1666

Great Britain adopts the Gregorian calendar, nearly two centuries later than most of Western Europe, 1752

US Treasury Dept. is established by Congress, 1789

The solar super storm continues to affect electrical telegraph service, 1859

Theodore Roosevelt adivses the US to "Speak softly, and carry a big stick." 1901

President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam becomes the first foreign head of state to make a state visit to Australia, 1957

The Principality of Sealand is established, ruled by Prince Paddy Roy Bates, 1967

Swissair Flight 111 crashes near Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia; all 229 people on board are killed, 1998

Pope Benedict hosts an eco-festival, "Save Creation Day," in Loreto, Italy, to encourage Catholics to live an eco-friendly lifestyle, 2007

Ending a 50-year ban on veiled female news presenters, Egypt's state television gives its female presenters a choice of wearing, or not wearing, a veil, 2012

Swimmer Diana Nyad makes history, becoming the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage, 2013

The public learns about AT&T's The Hemisphere Project, which gives telephone call data to law enforcement agencies, including the DEA, 2013

Earth's trees number just over 3 trillion according to study published in "Nature" by Thomas Crowther of Yale University, 2015

A major fire at the National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro destroys most of its 20 million artifacts, 2018

The attempted assassination of Argentina's vice-president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner fails when the assassin's gun jams, 2022

India successfully launches its first spacecraft to study the sun, Aditya-L1, 2023