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“It’s been a long day, hasn’t it?”
“Yes, it has, but what made you say that?”
“Well, for one thing, you are standing here with your underwear in one hand and a frying pan in the other, looking like you don’t know what to do with either one. For another, I just looked in the refrigerator and when you put away the groceries, you put the dry dog food and the dry cat food in there, but I’m afraid to ask where the eggs ended up.”
“It’s time for a vacation.”
“I concur.”
Linking up with Denise at Girlie On The Edge Blog, where she hosts Six Sentence Stories, and the cue is Vacation.
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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.
Another fence decorated (a bit) for Mardi Gras:
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It's Angel Sammy's Poetry Day! This week's image and my poem:
Jump in, jump out
When’s my turn?
Then it was easy
The calories to burn.
When your turn’s over
Then you shout,
Period, question mark,
Comma, out!
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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.
We had great fun at the ladies’ circle meeting Tuesday night, and i am thankful i joined two groups this year so i could read and study both books. (C.S. Lewis’ book on the Psalms, and Liturgy of the Ordinary)
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Today is:
Cash Register Day -- James Ritty and John Birch were granted a patent on this day in 1883 for an early mechanical cash register
Congressional Brawl Day -- marking the first ever all out brawl in the US Congress in 1798
Draw A Dinosaur Day -- and post it to the web site
Feast of King Charles the Martyr -- Anglican
Fred Korematsu Day -- US (honoring the civil rights activist who protested the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII)
Inane Answering Message Day -- the day to change those annoying messages, sponsored by Wellcat Holidays
King's Birthday -- Jordan
Martyrs' Day -- India (assassination anniversary of Gandhi)
National Croissant Day
Pax -- Ancient Roman Calendar (Festival of Peace)
Puce and Ochre Day -- Fairy Calendar
School Day of Nonviolence and Peace -- sponsored by DENIP
St. Aldegund's Day (Patron of cancer patients; against cancer, childhood diseases, sudden death, wounds)
St. Bathilde's Day (Patron of children, sick people, widows; against bodily ills and sickness)
St. Martina of Rome's Day (Patron of nursing mothers; Rome, Italy)
Three Archbishops' Day -- Eastern Orthodox (a/k/a Holy Hierarchs' Day)
Yodel For Your Neighbors Day -- Why? Do you hate your neighbors?
Birthdays Today:
Johnathan Lee Iverson, 1976
Christian Bale, 1974
Brett Butler, 1958
Phil Collins, 1951
Charles Dutton, 1951
Steve Marriott, 1947
Marty Balin, 1942
Dick Cheney, 1941
Vanessa Redgrave, 1937
Boris spassky, 1937
Tammy Grimes, 1934
Louis Ruckeyser, 1933
Gene Hackman, 1930
Dorothy Malone, 1925
Dick Martin, 1922
Barbara W. Tuchman, 1912
Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1882
Isaiah Thomas, 1749
Thomas Rolfe, 1615 (Only child of John Rolfe and Pocahontas.)
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"The Yogi Bear Show"(TV), 1958
"Robert Montgomery Presents"(TV), 1950
"City Lights"(Chaplin Movie), 1931
Today in History:
The Jews of Freilsburg, Germany, are massacred, 1349
King Charles I of England is beheaded, 1649
Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, is ritually executed after having been dead for two years, 1661
The Forty-seven Ronin, under the command of Oishi Kuranosuke, avenge the death of their master, 1703
Henry Greathead tests the first boat intended to be specialized as a lifeboat for rescue purposes, which he invented, on the River Tyne in England, 1790
The burned Library of Congress is reestablished, with Thomas Jefferson contributing, 1815
Edward Bransfield sights the Trinity Peninsula and claims the discovery of Antarctica, 1820
The Menai Suspension Bridge, considered the world's first modern suspension bridge, connecting the Isle of Anglesey to the north West coast of Wales is opened, 1826
A fire destroys two-thirds of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, 1841
The city of Yerba Buena is renamed San Francisco, for the nearby mission of the same name, 1847
William Wells Brown publishes the first Black drama, "Leap to Freedom," 1858
The US Navy's first ironclad warship, the Monitor, is launched, 1862
The pneumatic hammer is patented by Charles King of Detroit, 1894
The Canadian Naval Service becomes the Royal Canadian Navy, 1911
The House of Lords rejects the Irish Home Rule Bill, 1913
"The Lone Ranger" begins a 21 year run on ABC radio, 1933
Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is assassinated by Pandit Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist, 1948
American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.'s home is bombed in retaliation for the Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1956
The Beatles' last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records in London. The impromptu concert is broken up by the police, 1969
Carole King's Tapestry album is released, it would become the longest charting album by a female solo artist and sell 24 million copies worldwide, 1971
Pakistan withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations, 1972
The Monitor National Marine Sanctuary was established as the first United States National Marine Sanctuary, 1975
Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program called "Elk Cloner", 1982
Peter Leko of Hungary becomes the world's youngest chess grand master at age 14, 1994
Workers from the National Institutes of Health announce the success of clinical trials testing the first preventive treatment for sickle-cell disease, 1995
Over half a million people participate in the world's largest wildlife survey after extreme cold drives exotic birds into Britain's back gardens, 2011
Peter Paul Rubens’s 1608 drawing, "Nude Study of Young Man with Raised Arms," sells for $8.2 million at auction in New York, 2019