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Linking up with Wordless Wednesday, Keith, Catsynth, 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.
Elephant's Child is supplying the words this month.
This week's prompts are:
- Extra
- Wisdom
- Memories
- Corner
- Imposing
And/or
- Dark
- Shoulder
- Femininity
- Strength
- Manners
Charlotte (MotherOwl) has selected Missing Green as the colour of the month
As always, have fun.
Every year, the title of my final A to Z is Zillions for one simple reason: It is my Little Girl’s birthday, and we love her zillions. The photo for Wordless Wednesday above is her with foster kittens from years ago.
She was my EXTRA bonus baby, the one i should not have had.
Looking at the list of Wednesday’s words this week, there are plenty of MEMORIES i could talk about but i will choose a few.
There were DARK times, like when she was a wee tyke and had been badly bitten by mosquitoes, then gotten impetigo, then had an allergic reaction to the antibiotic and was covered with hives on top of the bites and impetigo. When i couldn’t hold her because i had to cook or clean, she would huddle in a CORNER, just whimpering.
Then when she was 12, her brother built a bike ramp and enticed her to use it, resulting in breaking her arm near her SHOULDER. The sweet baby started her first period the next day. Talk about some misery!
The same STRENGTH which saw her through harder times also got her through boot camp and as an Army medic, she was quite IMPOSING. During the early Covid days, her unit was stationed at a testing site and med school students were assisting who didn’t know how to properly put on and take off their PPE (personal protective equipment).
She pitched a fit, but more she had the WISDOM to make them all come to a class she developed to teach them what to do, and received a special citation for it.
While she does look stern in a uniform, whether camouflage (which i’m sure has Missing Green in it, it has several shades) or dress blues, she also has FEMININITY and charm and is beautiful when all dressed up. If you don’t believe me, ask her fiancé. He’s as smitten as we are.
She's going to be graduating soon and they're planning the wedding for October. We can all hardly wait.
Do i really need to say she knows how to use her MANNERS?
We love you, our (Not So Little Any More) Little Girl, happy birthday.
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Today is National Adopt a Shelter Pet Day in the US.
It's also National Tabby Cat Day in the US.
Thanks to Barb Kowalik and The Cat Blogosphere for the event badges.
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Today is:
Administrative Professionals Day -- US
Armed Forces Day -- Georgia
Birthday of the King / Konungens födelsedag -- Sweden (HM King Carl XVI Gustav; an official flag day)
Bugs Bunny Day -- while some consider his debut to have been in "A Wild Hare," released in July two years later, others say that Bugs was the rabbit in "Porky's Hare Hunt," relased this date in 1938
Camarón Day -- French Foreign Legion
Carnival Day -- Sint Maarten
Consumer Protection Day -- Thailand
Díá De Los Niños/Díá De Los Libros -- American Library Association (Children Day/Book Day; a celebration that emphasizes the importance of literacy for children of all linguistic and cultural backgrounds)http://dia.ala.org/content/about-d%C3%ADa
Dia de Rincon -- Rincon, Bonaire
El Dia del Nino -- Mexico (Children's Day)
Faeriae Latinae -- Ancient Roman Calendar (Feast of the Latin League, a festival to honor Jupiter)
International Guide Dog Day
International Jazz Day -- UNESCO (originated with the New Jersey Jazz Society and sanctioned by the United Nations Jazz Society, the American Federation of Jazz Societies, and the Sacramento Traditional Jazz Society, this year's live concert will be broadcast from Dubai)
Liberation/Reunification Day -- Vietnam
May Eve -- eve of the first day of summer in many traditions, including
Beltane/Samhain Eve -- Pagan traditions
Carodejnice -- Czech Republic; Slovakia
Maitag Vorabend -- Switzerland
Mange les Morts -- Haiti (festival of the dead)
Salus -- Portugal; Spain (festival of the dead)
Valborgsmässoafton -- Sweden
Walpurgis Night -- Ancient Celtic/Nordic Calendars
Mr. Potato Head Day -- the classic toy went on sale this day in 1952, and you used your own potato
National Honesty Day -- including Honest Abe Awards (Abies) and dishonorable mentions for those who have been particularly publicly egregious; celebrated today because we began the month with April Fooling and lies, so today is to celebrate the opposite*
National Military Brats Day -- US (Military Brats, Inc., wants the US Congress to set aside a day to recognize the sacrifices of the children of military service men and women)
National Oatmeal Cookie Day
National Raisin Day
National Therapy Animal Day
St. Adjutor of Vernon's Day (Patron of drowning victims, sailors, swimmers, yachtsmen; Vernon, France; against drowning)
St. James the Great's Day -- Orthodox Christian
Teacher's Day -- Paraguay
Walk @ Lunch Day -- founded and encouraged by Blue Cross / Blue Shield
Yom Ha'Atzmaut -- Israel (Independence Day; through nightfall)
*to nominate someone for an Abie or a dishonorable mention, contact M. Hirsh Goldberg, founder and author of The Book of Lies, mhgoldberg@comcast.net)
Anniversaries Today:
Pele marries Assiria Seixas Lemos, 1994
The Organization of American States is founded, 1948
Louisiana becomes the 18th US state, 1812
Birthdays Today:
Dianna Agron, 1986
Kirsten Dunst, 1982
Johnny Galecki, 1975
Jeff Timmons, 1973
Carolyn Dawn Johnson, 1971
Adrian Pasdar, 1965
Michael Waltrip, 1963
Isiah Thomas, 1961
Stuart Mathis, 1960
Stephen Harper, 1959
Jane Campion, 1954
Perry King, 1948
Carl XVI Gustav, King of Sweden, 1946
Michael J. Smith, 1945
Jill Clayburgh, 1944
Burt Young, 1940
Gary Collins, 1938
Willie Nelson, 1933
Cloris Leachman, 1926
Queen Juliana of the Netherlands, 1909
Eve Arden, 1908
Ellis Wilson, 1899
Louise Dilworth Beatty Homer, 1871
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Barnum"(Musical), 1980
"The Dresser"(Play), 1980
"Inside U.S.A."(Musical revue), 1948
"Arthur Godfrey Time"(Radio), 1945
"Pelleas et Melisande"(Opera), 1902
"Dmitri Donskoi"(Opera), 1852
"Love for Love"(Play), 1695
Today in History:
Supernova SN 1006, the brightest supernova in recorded history, appears in the constellation Lupus, 1006
Orbital calculations suggest that on this day, Pluto moved inside Neptune's orbit until July 23, 1503, 1483
Columbus is given a royal commission to equip his fleet, 1492
On the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York City, George Washington takes the oath of office to become the first elected President of the United States, 1789
The United States purchases the Louisiana Territory from France, 1803
Nicaragua declares independence from the Central American Federation, 1838
Casey Jones dies in a train wreck in Vaughn, Mississippi, while trying to
make up time on the Cannonball Express, 1900
Honolulu, Hawaii becomes an independent city, 1907
Peru becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty, 1920
Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford become the first celebrities to leave their footprints in concrete at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood, 1927
The animated cartoon short Porky's Hare Hunt debuts in movie theaters, introducing Happy Rabbit (a prototype of Bugs Bunny, 1938
In Bogotá, Colombia, the Organization of American States is established, 1948
The Bristol Bus Boycott is held in Bristol to protest the Bristol Omnibus Company's refusal to employ Black or Asian bus crews, drawing national attention to racial discrimination in the United Kingdom, 1963
Communist forces gain control of Saigon and the Vietnam War formally ends, 1975
Accession of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, 1980
CERN announces World Wide Web protocols will be free, 1993
Cambodia joins the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, 1999
Two skeletal remains found near Ekaterinburg, Russia are confirmed by Russian scientists to be the remains of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia and one of his sisters, 2008
Chrysler automobile company files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, 2009
Hailed as the largest World's Fair in history, Expo 2010 opens in Shanghai, China, 2010
Born without a trachea, a 2-year-old Korean-Canadian child is the youngest patient in history to receive a bioengineered organ made from stem cells; she received the transplanted organ at the Children's Hospital of Illinois, 2013
Willem-Alexander becomes the first male Monarch of Netherlands in 123 years, following the abdication of his mother, Queen Beatrix, 2013
The MESSENGER spacecraft is intentionally deorbited and destroyed, 2015
A new species of water beetle from the Malaysian Borneo’s Maliau Basin is named after actor Leonardo DiCaprio, 2018
The world's oldest known spider, a female trapdoor in Western Australia, dies at the age of 43 after being stung by a wasp, 2018
Japan’s Emperor Akihito declares his abdication, effective the next day, 2019
Captain Tom Moore, who raised more £30 million for the National Health Service by walking in his garden, turns 100 and is made an honorary colonel by the Queen, 2020
After surviving Ewing's sarcoma and receiving a prosthetic leg, Jacky Hunt-Broersma sets a world record by running 104 consecutive marathons in 104 days, 2022
