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My Sweetie came in from choir practice tonight with a really peculiar look on his face.
As usual, i did not have to wait long for him to tell me what's up.
"Do you have any vinegar for cleaning out in your car?" he asked (and note, he drives my car GusGus die Fledermaus to choir practice because it's at night and Lunceford the Land Yacht has terrible headlights).
Yes, i told him, i do keep some vinegar in the car, why?
"Well, I think my sense of smell that I lost from Covid is beginning to be restored -- I could smell the vinegar on the way home!"
Of course, he didn't think about the fact that this probably also means the vinegar is now open or spilled or leaking somehow!
Linking up with Denise at Girlie On The Edge Blog, where she hosts Six Sentence Stories, and the cue is Restore.
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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 or two from my quick trip to Mobile.
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It's Angel Sammy's Poetry Day! This week, Sammy told us to pick our own photo and write a poem for it, so each one will be unique. My photo and poem:
When we would bottle raise kittens,
Our adult cats kept away,
That is until they got older,
Then they couldn't be kept at bay.
It seems the older our cats got,
The better they understood
That kittens put off a lot of heat,
As warmers they are very good!
(This is Kida, at age 16, snuggling with bottle babies. She had avoided them until she started to get old and cold, and then she'd seek the babies, they'd keep her warm, she'd keep them bathed to her standard.)
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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 we got to go to the laundromat yesterday. It always feels good to get the laundry done.
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Today is the BlogBlast for Peace, hosted by Mimi Writes, and i am joining and praying for peace, as well as committing to work for peace right where i am.
"If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone." Romans 12:18
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Today is:
Chicken Lady Day -- Miami, FL, US (in honor of The Chicken Lady, whose nonprofit organization helps people get over being "chicken" about public speaking)
Citizenship Day -- Northern Mariana Islands
Community Service Day -- Dominica
Constitution Day/National Day -- Tonga
Deepawali/Deepavali/Diwali/Divali(Festival of Lights) -- Hindu; Jain; Sikh (for the next five days; local dating customs and government holidays for this Lunar New Year/Festival of Lights can vary)
Kag Tihar/Kag Puja -- Day of the Crows (day one of the festival)
Feast of Qudrat (Power) -- Baha'i
Flag Day -- Panama
Giorno dell'Unita Nazionale e Festa delle Forze Armate and Victory Day -- Italy (National Unity and Armed Forces Day; celebration of the 1918 Treaty with Austria)
Guy Fawkes Eve -- sometimes called Mischief Night in some parts of Australia, UK, and New Zealand, although that is more appropriate to April 30/October 30
Honeymoon Day -- reminisce about your own special trip, on the birth anniversary of Art Carney
King Tut Day -- his tomb was opened this day in 1922
Ludi Plebeii -- Ancient Roman Calendar (public games, through the 17th)
Men Make Dinner Day -- BBQ is not allowed, but you can go to menmakedinnerday.com for ideas
National Candy Day -- guess they're thinking you still have some left over from Hallowe'en
St. Charles Borromeo's Day (Patron of apple orchards, bishops, catechists, seminarians, spiritual directors/leaders, starch makers; Joliette, Quebec; Lombardy, Italy; Monterey, CA; Rocca di Papa, Italy; against abdominal pain, colic, intestinal disorders, stomach diseases, ulcers)
a Bank Holiday in Andorra
Thanksgiving Day -- Liberia
Unity Day -- Russia
Will Roger's Day -- especially in OK, US; related observance
Use Your Common Sense Day -- because "Common sense ain't all that common."
Waiting for the Barbarians Day -- internet generated, and i thought they came and took over a long time ago!
Anniversaries Today:
Taking of the US Embassy in Teheran, Iran -- 1979
Discovery of King Tut's Tomb -- 1922
Abraham Lincoln marries Mary Todd, 1842
Mary II of England marries William, Prince of Orange, 1677 (ruled jointly as William and Mary)
Birthdays Today:
Sean "Diddy" Combs, 1970
Matthew McConaughey, 1969
Andrea McArdle, 1963
Ralph Macchio, 1962
Jeff Probst, 1962
Kathy Griffin, 1960
Markie Post, 1950
Laura W. Bush, 1946
Robert Mapplethorpe, 1946
Loretta Swit, 1937
Doris Roberts, 1930
Martin Balsam, 1919
Art Carney, 1918
Walter Cronkite, 1916
Will Rogers, 1879
Augustus Montague Toplady, 1740 (wrote the hymn "Rock of Ages")
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Crimes of the Heart"(Henley play), 1981
"One Man's Family"(TV), 1949
"Prince Igor"(Borodin opera), 1890
Symphony No. 1 in C minor(Brahms Op. 68), 1876
Today in History:
The Flood of the Arno River causes massive damage in Florence, Italy, 1333
Joan of Arc liberates Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier, 1429
Thomas Wolsey, English cardinal, arrested, 1529
Mozart's Symphony No. 36 is performed for the first time in Linz, Austria, 1783
The Erie Canal is completed with Governor DeWitt Clinton performing the Wedding of The Waters ceremony in New York Harbour, 1825
Benjamin Palmer patents an artificial leg, 1846
Dentist John Beers of San Francisco patents the gold crown, 1873
Tonga adopts a constitution, 1875
James Ritty patents the cash register, to combat the pilfering of the till by the bartenders in his Ohio saloon, 1879
London's first deep-level tube railway opens between King William Street and Stockwell, 1890
The Italian unknown soldier is buried in the Altare della Patria (Fatherland Altar) in Rome, 1921
Nellie Tayloe Ross is elected the first female US State governor, in Wyoming, 1924
The rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopens with a performance of Beethoven's Fidelio, 1955
Two-thirds of Florence, Italy is submerged as the River Arno floods; together with the contemporaneous flood of the Po River in northern Italy, this leads to 113 deaths, 30,000 made homeless, and the destruction of numerous Renaissance artworks and books, 1966
Genie, a 13-year-old feral child is found in Los Angeles, California having been locked in her bedroom for most of her life, 1970
The Netherlands experiences the first Car Free Sunday caused by the oil crisis, as the highways are deserted and are used only by cyclists and roller skaters, 1973
First conference that focuses exclusively on the subject of the commercial potential of the World Wide Web, in San Francisco, 1994
Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated by an extremist Orthodox Israeli, 1995
Chinese authorities arrest cyber-dissident He Depu for signing a pro-democracy letter to the 16th Communist Party Congress, 2002
Barak Obama is elected President of the United States, 2008
In Australia's Northern Territory in the lands of the Jawoyn people, archaeologists discover what is believed to be the world's oldest example of a stone ax, estimated at 35,500 years old, 2010
The body of the last missing victim is found on board the wrecked Costa Concordia, during its dismantling in Genoa, 2014
Tim Scott, a Republican from South Carolina, becomes the first African-American Senator from the south since the Reconstruction, 2014
Justin Trudeau is sworn in as Canadian Prime Minister with a cabinet split equally between men and women, 2015
Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri resigns in a shock TV broadcast from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, amid concerns he is being forcibly detained, 2017