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Ms. G decided at the last minute yesterday we were going to her new property in Mississippi to put together the cast iron day beds she had bought, and we'd stop and get lunch to eat on the drive up with her planning to have me back in time for Bible study at 6pm.
We stopped at a place where they make an adequate salad i could eat on the road, and she got sandwich, dripping with sauce and wrapped in foil; while mine proved quite easy to eat as it was chopped up before we left with the food, hers was another story although she did very well and only a small amount of the sauce dripping from the folds of the foil wrapper.
While up in the area, she gave me the grand tour of where her grandmother's house was, where Uncle Fritz used to live but his son is there now, etc., etc., etc., and the place she bought is also on family land, we passed this cousin and that niece or nephew all along the way.
Once we got to her place, the beds gave us fits putting them together as she hadn't brought the right wrench and the spaces were very tight, it was sheer tenacity got them put up and in their places with mattresses and trundles ready under them.
Of course, between the trips down memory lane and the time spent actually doing what she wanted done, we were late heading back home and naturally we had to stop on the way home to feed the feral cat colony, all of which will be trapped and rehomed at two other locations this weekend, as Ms. Fiona will not be living there any longer to take care of them.
We pulled into Ms. G's place at 6:15 and i got to the home where the study is held to find the gate to the subdivision closed, luckily someone had just left and the exit gate was open long enough for me to slip in and though we meet at 6, study itself starts at 6:30 and i took a seat just as they were having opening prayer.
Linking up with Denise at Girlie On The Edge Blog, where she hosts Six Sentence Stories, and the cue is Foil.
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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!
The fence and view from Ms. G's place in the country.
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It's Angel Sammy's Poetry Day! This week's image and my poem:
I'm gonna win
I'm gonna get you
I'll bite your head
nothing you can do!
You can't beat me
I've got the right stuff
I'll bite right back
and never holler 'nuff!
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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 i got to Bible study just barely in time, it was a lively one as we are discussing the life of Joseph in Genesis.
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Today is International Talk Like a Pirate Day! Get your pirate mojo out and have fun.
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Today is:
Armed Forces Day -- Chile
Constitution Day/National Day -- Nepal
Cosmetic Bridge Day -- seems internet generated, but i'm sure your dentist will approve
Day of the First Appearance of the Slovak National Council -- Slovakia
Eleven Days of Global Unity -- Day 9, Freedom (sponsored by We, the World)
Hummer/Bird Celebration -- Rockport and Fulton, TX, US (ruby-throated hummingbirds and other avian species are the stars of this show; through Sunday)
Independence Day -- St. Kitts and Nevis(1983)
National Butterscotch Pudding Day
National Teach Ag Day -- US (streamed live from CHS Inc. headquarters)
St. Januarius of Naples' Day (a/k/a Gennaro of Naples; Patron of blood banks; Naples, Italy; against volcanic eruption) related observance
Feast of San Gennaro -- NYC, NY, US (began on the 13th, continues to the 23rd; one of the highlights of the festival is this, the actual Saint's day)
Women's Suffrage Day -- New Zealand
Birthdays Today:
Alison Sweeney, 1976
Jimmy Fallon, 1974
Jim Abbot, 1967
Soledad 'Brien, 1966
Trisha Yearwood, 1964
Kevin Hooks, 1958
Joan Lunden, 1950
Leslie "Twiggy" Lawson, 1949
Jeremy Irons, 1948
Randolph Mantooth, 1945
Jooe Morgan, 1943
"Mama" Cass Elliot, 1941
Bill Medley, 1940
Paul Williams, 1940
David McCallum, 1933
Mike Royko, 1932
Adam West, 1928
Duke Snider, 1926
Sir William Glding, 1911
Lewis F. Powell, Jr., 1907
Joseph Pasternak, 1901
Henry Peter Brougham, 1778
Charles Carroll, 1737
Jan Luyts, 1655
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Skylight"(Play), 1996
"ER"(TV), 1994
"The Mary Tyler Moore Show"(TV), 1970
Funny Girl(Film), 1968
"Flipper"(TV), 1964
"The Virginian"(TV), 1962
Today in History:
Edward, the Black Prince, commands the forces which defeat the French army and capture France's King John II, 1356
Giles Corey is pressed to death after refusing to plead in the Salem Witch Trials, 1692
The Continental Congress passes the first budget of the US, 1778
Ephraim Morris patents the railroad brake, 1838
Bond and Lassell discover Hyperion, moon of Saturn, 1848
New Zealand becomes the first country to grant all of its women the right to vote, 1893
Funeral of assassinated President William McKinley, 1901
Mickey Mouse makes his screen debut as Steamboat Willie, at the Colony Theater in NYC, 1928
The Council of Europe is founded following a speech by Winston Churchill at the University of Zurich, 1946
Nikita Khrushchev is barred from visiting Disneyland, 1959
Betty and Barney Hill claim that they saw a mysterious craft in the sky and that it tried to abduct them, 1961
The Solomon Islands join the United Nations, 1978
Scott Fahlman posts the first documented emoticons :-) and :-( on the Carnegie Mellon University Bulletin Board System, 1982
Ötzi the Iceman is discovered by German tourists, 1991
The BP oil well at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico was declared “effectively dead” by retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the government’s point man on the blowout disaster, 2010
A joint summit between North and South Korea ends with an agreement from North Korea to limit its nuclear program and South Korea to cooperate economically, 2018
According to a study published in the journal "Science," since 1970 the number of birds in North America has declined by 30%, 2019
British monarch Queen Elizabeth II is interned at Windsor Castle, 2022
Scientists announce the discovery of the site of the Amazon's tallest tree, an angelim vermelho at 88.5 meters (290 feet) tall and 9.9 meters (32 feet) wide, at the Iratapuru River Nature Reserve in northern Brazil, 2022
