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Home from work at last, she was tempted to sit and take a load off her feet. She knew, though, that would mean she wouldn't get up for quite a while, and her tummy was rumbling.
Pulling out salad fixings and a few odds and ends to warm up in the toaster oven, she resisted the urge to start nibbling before the meal was assembled. A nibble here, a bite there, and soon she'd be tempted to stand at the sink and plow through the whole meal like Cookie Monster on a shortbread bender.
Instead she assembled everything, got it on a plate or in a bowl, and sat down at the table with utensils, stopping to give thanks for it all.
Eating this way did more than fill her stomach, it filled her spirit.
Linking up with Denise at Girlie On The Edge Blog, where she hosts Six Sentence Stories, and the cue is Plow.
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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.
More Mardi Gras fences:
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It's Angel Sammy's Poetry Day! This week's image and my poem:
This big thing has to be for show,
There are few roads where it can go.
It would be fun for a short ride,
Or at least to see what it's like inside.
Being famous enough to have this car,
For me that's just a bridge too far.
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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 for lidocaine pain patches for my back. They do help.
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Today is:
Armed Forces Day -- Liberia
Be Electrific Day -- Edison's birth anniversary
Don't Cry Over Spilled Milk Day -- no history on the origin, but remember we all mess up once in a while, don't take small mess ups too seriously
Evelio Javier Memorial Day -- Panay Island, Philippines
Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes/World Day of the Sick -- Roman Catholic Church (anniversary of the first appearance of Our Lady of Lourdes to Bernadette)
Feast of the Incappucciati -- Gradoli, Italy (members of the Confraternity of Purgatory make the rounds of the town gathering food for the souls in Purgatory, which is served at a banquet next week on Ash Wednesday)
Fettiger Donnerstag -- Swabia, Germany ("greasy Thursday", so called because of the greasy Kuchli cakes and pastries made today to use during carnival before the Lent fast)
Grandmother Achievement Day -- internet generated; call your grandmother, or someone's grandmother you admire, and tell her what she is doing right
Independence Day -- Vatican City (Holy See) (a/k/a Lateranensi Pact Day, for the pact that established it as an independent state)
Kenkoku Kenen-no-hi -- Japan (also called National Foundation Day or Empire Day)
Lunar New Year's Eve (year of the Ox)
Seol-nal -- South Korea (Lunar New Year Holiday begins)
Spring Festival -- China; Taiwan (Chinese New Year's Eve, start of the festival)
Tet Eve -- Vietnam
Meringue Memorial Day -- don't know who came up with it, but it's the day to see if you remember how to make meringue
National Inventors' Day -- US (Edison's birth anniversary)
National Peppermint Patty Day
National Shut-In Visitation Day -- some sites have it here, some in October; either way, with Covid isolating us more and more, give a call to someone who can't get out of the house today, or make plans to safely see them this weekend
Nelson Mandela Day -- South Africa (celebrates his release from prison)
Pro Sports Wives Day -- the annual recognition of those who truly are sports widows, wives of professional athletes, coaches, and support personnel
Satisfied Staying Single Day -- for those who aren't desperate to have someone by the 14th; sponsored by Wellcat Holidays
St. Caedmon's Day (Oldest English poet known by name.)
Weiberfastnach -- Cologne, Germany (Women's Carnival, the day the women run the pre-Lent celebration)
White Shirt Day -- a recognition of the dignity of the working class
Youth Day -- Cameroon
Anniversaries Today:
Napoleon weds Marie-Louise of Austria, 1810
The founding of London University, 1826
Birthdays Today:
Taylor Lautner, 1992
Natalie Dormer, 1982
Kelly Rowland, 1981
Matt Lawrence, 1980
Brandy, 1979
Mike Shinoda, 1977
Jennifer Aniston, 1969
Sarah Palin, 1964
Sheryl Crow, 1963
Carey Lowell, 1961
Sergio Mendes, 1941
Bobby "Boris" Pickett, 1938
Burt Reynolds, 1936
Tina Louise, 1934
Leslie Nielsen, 1926
Paul Bocuse, 1926
Eva Gabor, 1921
Sidney Sheldon, 1917
Max Baer, 1909
Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1909
Philip Dunne, 1908
Thomas Alva Edison, 1847
Lydia Marie Child, 1802
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"The French Chef"(TV, with Julia Child), 1963
"Dynamo"(O'Neill play), 1929
"Salome"(Wilde Play), 1896
"La Fille du Regiment"(Donizetti Opera Comique), 1840
Today in History:
Traditional date for the founding of the Japanese empire under Emperor Jimmu, BC660
Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus, heir to the Roman Emperorship, dies under mysterious circumstances in Rome, which clears the way for Nero to become Emperor, 55
Henry VIII of England is recognized as supreme head of the Church of England, 1531
The Pennsylvania Hospital opens, the first in the US, 1752
Religious Society of Friends, also known as Quakers, petitions U.S. Congress for abolition of slavery, 1790
Anthracite coal is burned experimentally as fuel for heating a home for the first time, by Jesse Fell in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, 1808
Robert Fulton files a patent for improvements to steamboat navigation, 1809
Massachusetts Governor Elbridge Gerry signs a redistricting bill that leads to the first use of the term "gerrymander," 1812
The first public toilet facilities for women opens in London, on Bedford Street, 1852
The Meiji constitution of Japan is adopted, 1889
Emma Goldman is arrested for lecturing on birth control, 1916
BBC Television produces the world's first ever science fiction television program, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Capek play R.U.R., which coined the term "robot", 1938
Glenn Miller is awarded the first ever gold disc for selling one million copies of "Chattanooga Choo Choo," 1941
Eighty-seven countries, including the US, UK, and USSR, sign the Seabed Treaty outlawing nuclear weapons in international waters, 1971
The People's Republic of China lifts a ban on works by Aristotle, Shakespeare and Dickens, 1978
Nelson Mandela, a political prisoner for 27 years, is released from Victor Verster Prison outside Cape Town, South Africa, 1990
The first wave of the Egyptian revolution culminates in the resignation of Hosni Mubarak, 2011
Pope Benedict XVI announces his resignation from February 28, the first pope to resign since 1415, 2013
Francesco Schettino, Captain of the Costa Concordia that ran aground 2012, is convicted of manslaughter in Grosseto and sentenced to 16 years in jail, 2015
The discovery of gravitational waves (through collision of two black holes) is announced by physicists from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (Ligo), 2016
The journal Nature Medicine publishes the results of an artificial intelligence system created to help doctors diagnose patients when it was tested against actual physician diagnoses; the AI system barely won, 2019
Brazilian Maya Ganeira, riding a 73.5ft (22.4m) wave at Nazaré, Portugal, sets the record for the largest wave ever surfed by a woman, 2020