Something Worth Doing (Six Sentence Story), Good Fences, and Brian’s Thankful Thursday

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There are days when i work for Ms. G when we stand in a small room sorting things, or even a bigger room sorting things, and i get sleepy enough to nod off with simply being bored as she works very slowly.

Then there are days like yesterday, where there is something bigger than both of us worth doing.

Because there are neighborhood feral cats where she lives and several people put out feeding stations for them, they are all fixed, ear tipped, and given a rabies vaccine, others who want to get rid of their cats simply dump cats in the neighborhood figuring "someone" will care for the animals.

One such poor guy was chased up a tree by a neighborhood bully cat (yes, some owned cats are allowed to roam as well, not good for them but it can't be stopped) and was high enough up there he needed a rescue, but Mr. Rudy the rescue guy could not get his equipment into the tree because a smaller tree grew right next to it and interfered with every shot to get his ropes up there.

Thus Ms. G and i spent yesterday removing a very large crepe myrtle which should never have been allowed to grow right in the roots of a water oak, cutting it into pieces and dragging it to piles where it will be picked up by trash collection people in a few days, and in between doing that, we took a break for Ms. G to go get the wheelchair from storage to lend it to someone while i went to deliver snacks to Ms. Fiona, who has been craving banana flavored Moon Pies.

Once the crepe myrtle was down, Mr. Rudy came, got the cat, and Ms. G took charge of it, it will get neutered today and since it is friendly, will go up for adoption to a good home, much better than the one it came from.

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

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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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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 Mr. Rudy was able to rescue the cat, who is friendly, and he goes in for a neuter today and to be placed up for adoption.  Also, Ms. Fiona has her Moon Pies.

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It's Remember Me Thursday!  Shining the spotlight on the pets still in shelters waiting for their forever homes.

Thanks to Barb Kowalik and The Cat Blogosphere for the event badge.

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Today is:

Amilcar Cabral's Birthday/Independence Day/National Day -- Guinea Bissau(1973)

Armed Forces Day -- Peru

Constitution Day/Recoronation of King Norodom Sihanouk -- Cambodia

Do Impressions of Famous People Around the Office Day -- again, i wonder about the intentions of those who start these things

Feast of Our Lady of Mercy -- Catholic Christian

     Lady of Mercedes Day -- Dominican Republic

     La Merce -- Barcelona, Spain

Festival of the Latest Novelties -- an internet generated holiday to celebrate everything from traditional whoopie cushions to some of the more modern and weird novelty gifts out there; a great day for practical jokers

Gallbladder Good Health Day -- seems unsponsored, but there's information about keeping your gallbladder healthy here 

Going Forth of Isis -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)

Haustmánuðr -- Icelandic Calendar (beginning of traditional Autumn Month, during which all the summer chores are finished, including livestock rounded up, before winter begins)

Heritage Day -- South Africa

Lady of Mercedes Day -- Dominican Republic

Mahidol Day -- Thailand (commemorates the passing of Prince Father Mahidol Adulyadej, the "Father of Thai Modern Medicine")

Moose Day -- the day Bullwinkle J. Moose, from Frostbite Falls, MN, US, and his pal Rocky the Flying Squirrel (Rocket J. Squirrel) debuted in 1959

National Bluebird of Happiness Day -- US (and no one knows why, but it's supposed to be a day to go spread some happiness)

National Cherries Jubilee Day

National Punctuation Day® -- US, but good punctuation matters everywhere!  make sure you are using those punctuation marks correctly! Jeff Rubin can help   

New Caledonia Day -- New Caledonia

Republic Day -- Trinidad and Tobago

Santa Cruz Day -- Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia

Schwenkfelder Thanksgiving -- Pennsylvania Dutch followers of Silesian Reformation theology

St. Gerard's Day (Patron of Hungary)

St. Rupert's Day (Patron of Salzburg, Austria, where it is an official school and government holiday)

Transatlantic Telephone Day -- the first cable across the Atlantic was completed on this day in 1956

World Maritime Day -- UN and IMO (this year's theme is “From Policy to Practice: Powering Maritime Excellence")   

World School Milk Day -- UN

Birthdays Today:

Morgan Hamm, 1982

Paul Hamm, 1982

Nia Vardalos, 1962

Kevin Sorbo, 1958

Alan Colmes, 1950

Gordon Clapp, 1948

Phil Hartman, 1948

Linda McCartney, 1941

Jim Henson, 1936

Anthony Newley, 1931

Sheila MacRae, 1924

Jim McKay, 1921

F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1896

John Marshall, 1755

Horace Walpole, 1717

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"Nevermind"(Album release), 1991

"No More Lonely Nights"(McCartney single release), 1984

"The Love Boat"(TV), 1977

"60 Minutes"(TV), 1968

"Daniel Boone"(TV), 1964

"The Munsters"(TV), 1964

"Love of Life"(TV), 1951

"Once in a Lifetime"(Play), 1930

Today in History:

Prophet Muhammad completes his hijra from Mecca to Medina, 622

The last Emperor of the Komnenian restoration of the Byzantine Empire, Manuel I Komnenos, dies; the empire slips into terminal decline, 1180

The Dutch Republic surrenders New Amsterdam to England, 1664

The first autopsy and coroner's jury verdict is recorded in the state of Maryland, 1657

John Jay is appointed by George Washington as the first Chief Justice of the then six-person Supreme Court, which was instituted by the Federal Judiciary Act passed that same day, 1789

US Attorney General Office is created, 1789

The Northern Daily Times becomes the first provincial daily newspaper in London, 1853

Alexander Dey patents a dial time recorder, 1889

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints officially renounces polygamy, 1890

U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower in Wyoming as the nation's first National Monument, 1906

Cathay Pacific Airways is founded in Hong Kong, 1946

The Honda Motor Company is founded, 1948

Forest fires black out the sun over portions of Canada and New England, and a Blue moon (in the astronomical sense) is seen as far away as Europe, 1950

Camp Nou, the largest stadium in Europe, is opened in Barcelona, 1957

President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends 101st Airborne Division troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation, 1957

The United States court of appeals orders the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith, 1962

Swaziland joins the United Nations, 1968

Compu-Serve launches the first consumer internet service, which features the first public electronic mail service, 1979

Periodic Great White Spot observed on Saturn, 1990

Hurricane Rita devastates Beaumont, Texas, southwest Louisiana, and finishing off some of the parts of New Orleans and southeast Louisiana that Katrina missed, 2005

The G20 Summit in Pittsburgh, PA, US, marks the first use of LRAD for crowd control in the US, 2009

Nigeria's government opens two swollen dams and displaces about two million people, 2010

Plastic polystyrene rubbish is discovered for first time only 1,000 miles from the north pole by an international team of scientists, 2017

Spain's Supreme Court rules the body of Francisco Franco can be removed from the Valley of the Fallen to a municipal cemetery, 2019

The "post-tropical storm" remnant of Hurricane Fiona makes landfall near Whitehead, Nova Scotia, with sustained wind speeds of 165 km/h (103 mph); the strongest low-pressure system in Canadian history, 2022

NASA's OSIRIS-REX mission to retrieve a space rock from the asteroid Bennu successfully returns to earth, landing in Utah, 2023

Twenty-three miners trapped for two days in a collapsed gold mine shaft in Segovia, Antioquia, Colombia, are rescued alive, 2025

Foil and Foiled (Six Sentence Story), Good Fences, and Brian's Thankful Thursday

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(Two Sixes for the price of one today.)

Ms. G is out of town this week, trying to convince her niece to take her expert advice on a real estate deal before the niece makes a huge mistake, and Ms. G is the kind of real estate agent who generally knows exactly what she is talking about.

It was most convenient as i'd told her a few weeks ago i would not be able to work on that day anyway, as Bigger Girl, our eldest daughter, was coming in from Seattle for a few days and we'd be spending it at Grandma and Grandpa's house with her and as many other family members as could make it.

Getting to see and hug her in person was a delight, and almost as soon as i arrived she and i left to go by the bank where she's had an account since she was knee high to a grasshopper to get her debit card replaced and change her mailing address to Seattle so i no longer have to get her mail here and then resend it to her.

Then we went to an independently owned grocery we both like and she picked up ingredients to cook a meal for all of us, accommodating my vegetarian tastes and making sure she did not even look at the pepper shaker when cooking Grandma's portion.

She cooked, i tended Grandma and cleaned up the kitchen after, #2 Son, Daughter-in-Law, Annie and Little Ben came to enjoy the feast and make sure Bigger Girl could finally meet her niece and nephew, we all feasted and talked and had a great time, and a portion was set aside for #1 Son, who will go visit today as he couldn't get off work yesterday.

For a finish, she pulled out flavored chocolate bars in very fancy foil wrappers, espresso, chocolate truffle, and maple bourbon, a fitting sweet end to a lovely visit.

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Yesterday's post was of a car sporting a funny bumper sticker which read, "Got Blinker Fluid?"

For those who don't understand, the people around here very often do not and will not bother to use their "blinkers," or turn indicators, on their cars in order to signal to others their intent to turn or to change lanes.

In yesterday's comments, Java Bean pointed out, "It's like they think it's leaking secrets to the enemy or something," and sometimes it can feel like it actually is if you put on your blinker to move over and the person already in the lane surges forward to foil you and not allow you in.

I understand the spirit behind the question, though, it is simply asking people what in the world is wrong with using the doggone things and since it's so simple, why don't you just do it.

It's a tongue-in-cheek reminder you don't need to maintain them or keep them up, just use them, the bulbs last a long time and are easy to replace if one burns out, which seldom happens (especially as seldom as they are used here).

If you drive, and don't use yours, i leave it to you to answer the question, "Got Blinker Fluid?"

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!

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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 a wonderful day spent with Bigger Girl.

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Today is:

Birthday of Crown Prince Tupouto'a 'Ulukalala -- Tonga

Citizenship Day -- US

Eleven Days of Global Unity -- Day 7, Women (sponsored by We, the World) 

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

Fundacion de Melilla -- ML, Spain

Hummer/Bird Celebration -- Rockport and Fulton, TX, US (ruby-throated hummingbirds and other avian species are the stars of this show; through Sunday)

International Country Music Day

National Apple Dumpling Day

National Heroes Day -- Angola

National Teach Ag Day -- US (streamed live from CHS Inc. headquarters)  

Niketeria -- Ancient Greek Calendar (date approximate)

Operation Market Garden Remembrance -- Netherlands

Pledge Across America Day -- US (beginning of Constitution Week, every school is invited to join a synchronized Pledge of Allegiance across the whole nation, from 8am Hawaiian time to 2pm Eastern; schools are also encouraged to have an exercise of some kind about the US Constitution)

     on the anniversary of the ratification of the U.S. Constitution on Sept. 17, 1787, or on the school day nearest if it's a weekend

Responsible Dog Ownership Day -- sponsored by the AKC    

Stigmata of St. Francis' Day

St. Hildegard von Bingen's Day (author of treatises on natural healing and the first musical composer whose biography is known)

St. Lambert's Day (Patron of Middelaar, Netherlands)

Thimphu Tsechu / Thimphu Drubchen -- Thimphu, Bhutan (three-day Drukpa Buddhism tshechu festival, sacred masked dances dedicated to Bhutan's protective spirit which tourists may watch but are strictly prohibited from taking pictures; this is Bhutan's largest tshechu and has been held every year since 1867)

Time's Up Day -- created by Wellcat Holidays; time's up on holding that grudge, you need to make amends with people today, since you aren't guaranteed a tomorrow

VFW Ladies Auxiliary Day -- anniversary of founding in 1914

Anniversaries Today:

The Constitution of the United States is signed, 1787

American Professional Football League (later the NFL) founded (a/k/a the Swallowing Up of Weekends), 1920

Birthdays Today:

Patrick Mahomes, 1995

Chuck Liddell, 1969

Kyle Chandler, 1965

Rita Rudner, 1956

Cassandra "Elvira" Peterson, 1951

John Ritter, 1948

David H. Souter, 1974

Ken Kesey, 1935

Maureen Conolly, 1934

Anne Bancroft, 1931

Roddy McDowall, 1928

George Blanda, 1927

Hank Williams Sr., 1923

Chaim Herzog, 1918

Warren E. Burger, 1907

Jerry Colonna, 1904

John Willard Marriot, 1900

Andrew "Rube" Foster, 1879

Baron Friedrich Von Steuben, 1730

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"Home Improvement"(TV), 1991

"Head of the Class"(TV), 1986

"M*A*S*H"(TV), 1972

"McMillan and Wife"(TV), 1971

"Mission: Impossible"(TV), 1966

"Bewitched"(TV), 1964

"The Fugitive"(TV), 1963

"Car 54 Where are You?"(TV), 1961

"Outward Bound"(Play), 1923

Today in History:

The Battle of Thermopylae, fought between 300 Spartans, led by their king, Leonidas, and the Achaemenid Empire begins, BC480

Arabs conquer Alexandria, and destroy its library for the last time, 642

Netherland sailors discover Mauritus, 1598

Massachusetts Bay Colony gets a new charter, 1691

Presidio of San Francisco is founded in New Spain, 1776

US Constitution is adopted by the Philadelphia convention, 1787

Sprinkler system for extinguishing fires is patented by Phillip W. Pratt, 1872

The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes killing Selfridge, who becomes the first airplane fatality, 1908

The first transcontinental airplane flight, from New York to Pasadena, is completed after 82 hours 4 minutes, 1911

The Okeechobee Hurricane strikes southeastern Florida, killing upwards 

of 2,500 people, the third deadliest natural disaster in United States history, behind the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, 1928

The Canadian steamship SS Noronic burns in Toronto Harbour with the loss of over 118 lives, 1949

Television is first broadcast in Australia, 1956

Malaysia joins the United Nations, 1957

Bangladesh, Grenada and Guinea-Bissau join the United Nations, 1974

The first Space Shuttle, Enterprise, is unveiled by NASA, 1976

The Camp David Accords are signed by Israel and Egypt, 1978

Vanessa Williams becomes the first black Miss America, 1983

Estonia, North Korea, South Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, the Marshall Islands and Micronesia join the United Nations, 1991

The first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) is released to the Internet, 1991

Fourpeaked Mountain in Alaska erupts, marking the first eruption for the long-dormant volcano in at least 10,000 years, 2006

A drill finally reaches the 33 Chilean miners trapped after the Aug. 5 Copiapó mining accident, 2010 

In an attempt to curb child marriages, Indonesia raises the legal marriage age of females to 19, the same as males, 2019

Seventy years after they were declared extinct in India, cheetahs are re-introduced to India from Namibia at the Kuno National Park in Madya Pradesh state, 2022

Aided by tax rebates, Norway becomes the first country to have electric vehicles outnumber petrol vehicles, 2024