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In theory, it makes perfect sense for him to have his motorcycle to use most of the time, and his car for when the weather is bad or he has to carry more than he can fit in a backpack.
In fact, it works great, except when you move.
#2 Son is moving, so he used his car and a friend's truck to take his stuff to his new place.
Then came figuring out how to get both of his vehicles to his new place, since he can only use one at a time.
Of course, my name is "mommy" and so i am elected, he left his car here, i drove him back to his old place, he came back with the motorcycle and stored it here, taking his car with him.
After he gets off work tomorrow, guess who gets elected to pick him up from his new place and bring him here to get his motorcycle?
Linking up with Denise at Girlie On The Edge Blog, where she hosts Six Sentence Stories, and the cue is Theory.
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Gosia at Looking for Identity has taken over Good Fences, and it's now Good Fences Around The World. Post a picture of a fence or gate, link back to her blog, and go visit other blogs to see what interesting fences there are out in this big world.
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It's Angel Sammy's Poetry Day! This week's image and my haiku poem:
What are you saying!
I really can't go driving
'Til I am sixteen!?!
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Brian 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 i've got all of my tax stuff ready to go to Grandpa's CPA, who does all of our taxes. It's something i dread, but last year i kept a month by month list of everything, and today it only took me about two hours to get everything ready. Yes, i'm doing the list again this year, so next year might go even faster.
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Today is:
Charter Day -- St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada (1881)
Courageous Follower Day -- because leaders have to have someone to lead, and it can take as much courage to follow a great leader as to be the leader
Feast of Ra in His Barge at Heliopolis -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)
Holy Experiment Day -- try something religious today
Hug a GI Day -- just don't get in trouble sneaking on base to do it
International Scrapbooking Industry Day -- can't find proof the industry actually set this day, but if you love scrapbooking, celebrate
March Dryads' Festival -- Fairy Calendar
March Forth - Do Something Day
National Grammar Day -- sponsored by The Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar on March 4th, which is both a date and an imperative
National Poundcake Day
St. Casimir's Day (Patron of bachelors, kings, princes, single layment; Lithuania; Poland; against plague)
Tavern Day -- US (the first tavern in the US, a Puritan public house in Boston, MA, opened this date in 1634)
Toy Soldier Day -- Dr. Steel's Army, building a utopian playland and embarking on a worldwide mission of fun
University Mental Health and Wellbeing Day -- UK (to focus on ensuring the positive wellbeing of people with mental health difficulties)
Waltz Day -- some say National Waltz Day, and some Dance the Waltz Day, but no one says why this day; i say, waltz if you want to
World Book Day -- UK and Ireland (most other countries celebrate this on April 23; more information is here)
Anniversaries Today:
Hot Springs National Park is established, 1921
Vermont becomes the 14th US state, 1791
Birthdays Today:
Patsy Kensit, 1968
Jason Curtis Newsted, 1963
Stephen Weber, 1961
Patricia Heaton, 1958
Catherine O'Hara, 1954
Emilio Estefan, 1953
Kay Lenz, 1953
Chris Squire, 1948
Mary Wilson, 1944
Paula Prentiss, 1938
Miriam Makeba, 1932
Joan Greenwood, 1921
Charles Rudolph Walgreen, Jr., 1906
Knute Rockne, 1888
Garrett Morgan, 1877
Casimir Pulaski, 1747
Antonio Vivaldi, 1678
Prince Henry the Navigator, 1394
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"People Magazine"(Publication), 1974
"The Dick Cavett Show"(TV), 1968
"Nosferatu"(Horror Film), 1922
"Pénélope"(Fauré Opera), 1913
"Swan Lake"(Tchaikovsky Op. 20), 1876
Today in History:
Croatian Duke Trpimir I issued a statute, a document with the first known written mention of the Croats name in Croatian sources, 852
Ramathibodi becomes King of Siam, 1351
Christopher Columbus arrives back in Lisbon, Portugal, from his first voyage, 1493
Hernan Cortez arrives in Mexico in search of Aztec gold, 1519
The Massachusetts Bay Colony is granted a royal charter, 1629
John Flamsteed is appointed the first Astronomer Royal of England, 1675
France is divided into 83 départements, which cut across the former provinces in an attempt to dislodge regional loyalties based on noble ownership of land, 1790
The first Jewish member of the US Congress, Israel Jacobs of Pennsylvania, takes office, 1791
A Constitutional Act is introduced by the British House of Commons in London which envisages the separation of Canada into Lower Canada (Quebec) and Upper Canada (Ontario), 1791
In the first ever peaceful transfer of power between elected leaders in modern times, John Adams is sworn in as President of the United States, succeeding George Washington, 1797
In the Castle Hills Rebellion, in New South Wales, Australia, Irish convicts (some of whom had been involved in Ireland’s Battle of Vinegar Hill in 1798) lead the colony’s only significant convict uprising, 1804
Carlo Alberto di Savoia signs the Statuto Albertino that will later represent the first constitution of the Regno d'Italia, 1848
The day without a US president -- Zachary Taylor refuses to be sworn in on the Sabbath (Sunday), so there is, technically, no president on this day, 1849
The longest bridge in the Great Britain, the Forth Bridge (railway) (1,710 ft) in Scotland is opened, 1890
The great fire of Shanghai damages over 1,000 buildings, 1894
Victor Berger of Wisconsin becomes the first socialist congressman in the U.S., 1911
Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first female member of the United States House of Representatives, 1917
Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia's renunciation of the throne is made public, and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia publicly issues his abdication manifesto, 1917
Frances Perkins becomes the United States Secretary of Labor, the first female member of the United States Cabinet, 1933
Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, announces the first successful kidney transplant, 1954
The S&P 500 stock market index is introduced, replacing the S&P 90, 1957
The United States Atomic Energy Commission announces that the first atomic power plant at McMurdo Station in Antarctica is in operation, 1962
The first Cray-1 supercomputer is shipped to the Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, 1976
Nationalist leader Robert Mugabe wins a sweeping election victory to become Zimbabwe's first black prime minister, 1980
Bertha Wilson is appointed the first woman to sit on the Supreme Court of Canada, 1983
The Soviet Vega 1 begins returning images of Comet Halley and the first images ever of its nucleus, 1986
The Supreme Court of the United States rules that federal laws banning on-the-job sexual harassment also apply when both parties are the same sex, 1998
No response is received in the final attempt to contact Pioneer 10 by the Deep Space Network, 2006
Approximately 30,000 voters take advantage of electronic voting in Estonia, the world's first nationwide voting where part of the votecasting is allowed in the form of remote electronic voting via the Internet, 2007
The Papal Conclave begins to select the successor of Pope Benedict XVI, 2013
The Italian government sets aside 2 million euros for repairs to the ancient city of Pompeii after damage caused by heavy rains highlights the general decay of this World Heritage site, 2014
