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Every year, when we'd go on vacation, it was time to go to the Outlet Mall and refresh our wardrobes.
Not being fashion plates but rather working stiffs who abuse their clothing with real actual hard wearing, we only bought what was needed to replace what was worn out, with an occasional nice piece for Sunday, but the latter aren't needed as often as they don't wear out quickly, if you buy right you don't need to worry about it going out of fashion.
As the family yearly vacation is a thing of the past, we'd been going to an outlet just a longish drive up the road the last couple of years and making a morning of it, finishing with lunch once we'd procured sufficient raiment.
Alas, the couple of stores there which carried the clothes most suitable to our line of work have closed and we are casting around for an alternative.
It's not that there aren't some suitable items at other local of stores, it's that finding the ones which wear the best and longest takes searching at these places, and we're thinking we will be soon forced to do the dreadful online ordering, with its attendant problems of returning for a different size, etc.
If anyone knows where a five-foot-nothing-hundred-and-ten-pound-soaking-wet gray-haired woman janitor can get decent jeans to work in, please clue me in!
Linking up with Denise at Girlie On The Edge Blog, where she hosts Six Sentence Stories, and the cue is Outlet.
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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:
The class project got out of hand
when acting class did "FairyLand."
How I got this role,
it was this or the troll.
Next semester, I'm joining the band!
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Angel Brian's Family of Brian's Home hosts the Thankful Thursday Blog Hop. It's time to share something for which i am thankful.
Today i am thankful for the simple pleasure of iced tea, so refreshing after a busy day.
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Today is:
Ballroom Dance Day -- dance with your sweetheart today in honor of the birth anniversary of Arthur Murray
Bonza Bottler Day™
Children's Day -- Taiwan
Homogenized Milk Day -- a machine to homogenize milk was patented this day in 1892 by Auguste Gaulin
Hug a Newsman/Newswoman Day -- an internet holiday, and be careful, no more fiascos like the gropings in 2009, please, just a nice hug
Independence Day -- Senegal(1960)
International Day for Mine Awareness & Assistance in Mine Action -- UN
Matsuyama Haru Matsuri -- Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, Japan (Spring celebrations incorporating the Matsuyama Castle festival and the Dogo Hot Springs festival)
Megalesia, a/k/a Festival of Magna Mater -- Ancient Roman Calendar (great mother festival for Cybele; through the 9th)
Nafels Pilgrimage -- Canton Glarus, Switzerland (commemoration of the Battle of Nafels in 1388, observed with processions, prayers, sermon, and a reading of the names of those killed in battle)
National Cordon Bleu Day
National Reading a Roadmap Day -- another internet holiday that some sites call "Learn to Read A Roadmap Day," but a good one to observe; you need to know how to read one when your GPS battery dies, after all
National School Librarian Appreciation Day
Ose Matsuri -- Ose Shrine, ShizouKa Prefecture, Japan (men dressed in women's clothes dance a lively jig on board a boat afloat in the harbour which is festooned with flags and streamers while taiko groups play drums on shore in this festival thought to date back to a wife wanting to protect her fisherman-husband by giving him a kimono)
Peace Day -- Angola
Quing Ming Jie -- China; Hong Kong; Macau; North Korea; Taiwan (Tomb Sweeping Day, last day of the Quingming Festival)(a/k/a Festival of Clear Brightness, Festival for Tending Graves, Grave Sweeping Day, Chinese Memorial Day, Tomb Sweeping Day, Spring Remembrance, and All Souls Day (not to be confused with the Roman Catholic holiday of the same name); the festival includes kite flying and rituals to call the spring rains, as well as cleaning the graves of ancestors and offering them gifts)
St. Benedict the African's Day (Patron of African missions; African-Americans; Palermo, Sicily, Italy)
St. Isidore of Seville's Day (Patron of computer technicians, computer users, computers, the Internet, schoolchildren, students)
Swedish-American Friendship Day
Tell a Lie Day -- an internet generated holiday; the only day it is acceptable! make sure, after today, to clear it up, trust me
Victims of Violence Day -- anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Vitamin C Day -- the vitamin was isolated on this day in 1932 by C.C, King at the University of Pittsburgh
Walk Around Things Day -- fun to do, it makes people look at you funny
World Rat Day -- pet rat lovers everywhere, unite and introduce your friends to your pet rats
ZAB Death Anniversary -- Pakistan (39th anniversary)
Anniversary Today:
Bill Gates and Paul Allen found Microsoft Corporation, 1975
Birthdays Today:
David Blaine, 1973
Dave Mirra, 1972
Jill Scott, 1972
Barry Pepper, 1970
Nancy McKeon, 1966
Robert Downey, Jr., 1965
David Gavurin, 1963
Gary Moore, 1952
Christine Lahti, 1950
Craig T. Nelson, 1946
Kitty Kelley, 1942
Angelo Bartlett "Bart" Giamatti, 1938
Michael Parks, 1938
Anthony Perkins, 1932
Maya Angelou, 1928
Muddy Waters, 1915
Frances Langford, 1914
Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, 1908
John Cameron Swayze, 1906
Arthur Murray, 1895
Isoroku Yamamoto, 1884
Linus Yale, Jr., 1821
Dorothea Dix, 1802
Today in History:
Francis Drake is knighted for completing a circumnavigation of the world, 1581
Sir Robert Walpole becomes First Lord of the Treasury of England, and is so influential in the Cabinet that he is considered the de facto first Prime Minister of England, 1721
Napoleon abdicates for the first time, 1814
Casparus van Wooden of Amsterdam patents chocolate milk powder, 1828
William Henry Harrison dies of pneumonia becoming the first President of the United States to die in office and the one with the shortest term served, 1841
Bryant's Minstrels debut the song "Dixie" in a blackface minstrel show, 1859
Susanna Medora Salter is elected the first US woman mayor, in Argonia, KS, 1887
Cecil Rhodes scholarship fund is established, 1902
An earthquake in India's Kangra Valley kills 20,000, destroys most of three cities, 1905
Vitamin C was first isolated by C.C. King at the University of Pittsburgh, 1932
Twelve nations sign the North Atlantic Treaty, creating NATO, 1949
Martin Luther King, Jr., is assassinated, 1968
Dr. Denton Cooley implants the first temporary artificial heart (the patient survived for 65 hours), 1969
The World Trade Center in NYC is dedicated, 1973
Bill Gates and Paul Allen form Microsoft, 1975
Space Shuttle Challenger makes its maiden voyage into space, 1983
Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark found Netscape Communications Corporation under the name "Mosaic Communications Corporation", 1994
Comet Hyakutake is imaged by the USA Asteroid Orbiter Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous, 1996
The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign a peace treaty ending the Angolan Civil War, 2002
15 British Royal Navy personnel held in Iran are released, 2007
The most distant supernova on record is found by the Hubble Space Telescope, 2013
The "Pink Star" diamond sells at an auction in Hong Kong for a record $71 million, 2017
Elon Musk buys enough Twitter stock to make him the company's largest shareholder, 2022
Finland officially joins NATO at a ceremony in Brussels, becoming its 31st member and doubling NATO's border with Russia, 2023
