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There are plenty of dreams i've let go by the wayside over the years.
A desk job is one of them, i'm not trained enough in anything that would get me one of those that pays as much as i earn now.
Going back to Europe, and getting to Australia and New Zealand, i don't see overseas travel in my future any more, i'm just glad i got to do what i got to do when i did.
Now, a tiny house on wheels, or a mini-RV, with a truck to pull it and back roads all over the US and Canada to explore, that could still happen in limited form someday.
Not while i have aging parents to care for and a business to run, of course.
It's a dream i'm going to put a bookmark in and i hope to revisit someday.
Linking up with Denise at Girlie On The Edge Blog, where she hosts Six Sentence Stories, and the cue is Bookmark.
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While Good Fences Around the World seems to have gone the way of the dodo bird, i still enjoy looking for and posting interesting fences, so i will!
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| The brick and iron fence goes across the whole house front. |
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It's Angel Sammy's Poetry Day! This week's image and my poem:
I need a little help please,
that's if you do not mind.
I was trying to wash my hands in
the only water i could find.
It didn't work out quite as planned
and now I'm in a jam,
please just put the camera down
and give a guy a hand!
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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 a bit of sleuthing on the part of the mechanics finally got #1 Son's car alternator to misbehave, as it was the problem just like we suspected. It kept reading as good, but after several tries, it simply quit! Now there's a new one in there and #1 Son is back to having his own way to work.
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Today is:
Buffalo Soldiers Day -- US (as designated by Congress)
Day of Commemoration of the Great Upheaval a/k/a Expulsion of the Acadians Day -- Canada
Earth Overshoot Day -- according to the Global Footprint Network, this is the date on which humanity has exhausted the Earth's budget of resources for the year
Emancipation Day -- Bermuda (first day of the Cup Match)
Festival of Hedjihotep -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (goddess of weaving; date approximate)
Imp-Handling Conference -- Fairy Calendar
Independence Day -- Peru(1821)
Liberation Day / Anniversary of the Fall of Fascism -- San Marino
Nagasaki Peiron Senshuken -- Nagasaki, Japan (two-day dragon boat racing festival begun in the 17th century)
National Chili Dog Day
National Lasagna Day
National Milk Chocolate Day
Olavsokuaftan (Olavsoka Eve) and the Olai Festival -- Faroe Islands (St. Olav's Eve, the night before the opening of Parliament and the festival of St. Olav; through tomorrow)
Soma-Nomaoi -- Haramachi City, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan (three-day wild horse chase which recreates a battle from over 1,000 years ago)
St. Arduinus of Trepino's Day (Patron of Trepino, Italy)
Terry Fox Day -- born in Winnipeg on this date in 1958, he raised $24 million for cancer research by running over 3,000 miles on an artificial leg before his death in 1981 at age 23
World Hepatitis Day -- International
Anniversaries Today
The first Singing Telegram is delivered, 1933
Henry VIII marries Catherine Howard, 1540
Birthdays Today
Lori Loughlin, 1964
Terrance Stanley "Terry" Fox, 1958
Hugo Chavez, 1954
Sally Struthers, 1948
Linda Kelsey, 1946
Jim Davis, 1945
Rick Wright, 1945
Bill Bradley, 1943
Phil Proctor, 1040
Darryl Hickman, 1931
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, 1929
Jacques Piccard, 1922
Earl Tupper, 1907
Rudy Vallee, 1901
Joe E. Brown, 1892
Beatrix Potter, 1866
Thomas Heyward, Jr., 1746
Today in History
Thomas Cromwell is executed at the order of Henry VIII of England on charges of treason, 1540
Bermuda is first settled by Europeans, survivors of the English ship Sea Venture en route to Virginia, 1609
Maximilien Robespierre is executed by guillotine in Paris during the French Revolution, 1794
Welsh settlers arrive at Chubut in Argentina, 1865
The 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, guaranteeing due process and establishing citizenship for African Americans is certified, 1868
First flight of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, 1935
The Metropolitan Police Flying Squad foils a bullion robbery in the "Battle of London Airport", 1948
The Tangshan earthquake measuring between 7.8 and 8.2 moment magnitude flattens Tangshan, the People's Republic of China, killing 242,769 and injuring 164,851, 1976
Andorra joins the United Nations, 1993
Australian Ian Thorpe becomes the first swimmer to win six gold medals at a single World Championships, 2001
The Provisional Irish Republican Army calls an end to its thirty year-long armed campaign in Northern Ireland, 2005
The U-550, a sunken German U-Boat, is discovered off the cost of Massachusetts, 2012
Findings of the earliest evidence of cancer, found in a 1.7million-year-old fossil from Swartkrans Cave, South Africa, are published in "South African Journal of Science", 2016
19 year old gymnast Daiki Hashimoto of Japan becomes youngest Olympic men's artistic individual all-around champion in history at the Tokyo Games, 2021