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Linking up with Wordless Wednesday and Sandee at Comedy Plus. www.wordlesswednesday.blogspot.com
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Words for Wednesday was begun by Delores and has become a moveable feast of word or picture or music prompts to encourage us to write stories, poems, or whatever strikes our fancy.
This month, the prompts are being provided by David M. Gasciogne and posted by Elephant's Child.
This week's prompts are:
- Happen
- Truck
- Hollow
- Daffy
- Tired
- Joke
and/or…..
- Relationship
- Nature
- True
- Home
- Aphorism
- Dragged
Have fun.
Years ago, he'd DRAGGED what was left of a TRUCK HOME to their farm, and she thought it was a JOKE.
When he stuffed the HOLLOW shell of a vehicle into the TIRED old outbuilding he called a garage and the door had fallen off the building, she'd wondered if he'd gone DAFFY.
It's not just an APHORISM that love covers a multitude of sins, it's a deep part of the NATURE of a RELATIONSHIP.
In this case, her love for him kept her mouth closed as far as her TRUE opinion that a full restoration would never HAPPEN. She tried to stay positive for his sake, hoping against hope.
He'd worked on it off and on for years, gotten their son to help after he was born and grown big enough, never giving up his dream to get it running again.
Tonight, he'd told her, he was going to try to turn the key. It wasn't perfect, but the engine should run at least, a solid step toward getting it to move under its own power someday. In anticipation, without telling him, she'd prepared an extra special cake and ice cream dessert, with sparkler candles to put on top.
When she heard the roar of the engine, and the whoop of triumph from him and their son shouted into the evening air, she and daughter processed to the garage with cake, ice cream, sparklers lit, bowls and spoons at the ready.
It was time for a celebration.
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Today is:
Air Force Day -- Pakistan
Beer Lovers' Day -- ESPN began to broadcast on this day in 1979
Constitution Day -- Fiji
Feel the Love Day
Grandma Moses Day
Independence Day -- Brazil
Lusaka Peace Agreement Day / Victory Day -- Mozambique
National Acorn Squash Day
National Attention Deficit Disorder Awareness Day -- US (by Senate proclamation in 2004)
National Napoleon Day (the dessert, not the general)
National Threatened Species Day -- Australia
Neither Snow Nor Rain Day -- celebrates the opening of the US Post Office in NYC on this day in 1914, which building has the famous inscription on it
Salami Day -- sponsored by salamiday.com
St. Cloud's Day (a/k/a Clodoald the Confessor; Patron of nail makers; St. Cloud, Minnesota)
St. Regina's Day (Patron of poor people, shepherdesses, torture victims)
Turn A Cartwheel in Public Day -- the internet has it out for us
Welsh Fairies Bonnet-Hurling Competition -- Fairy Calendar
Anniversary Today:
Sergey Brin and Larry Page incorporate Google, 1998
Birthdays Today:
Evan Rachel Wood, 1987
Devon Sawa, 1978
Angela Gheorghiu, 1965
Michael Feinstein, 1956
Corbin Bernsen, 1954
Chrissie Hynde, 1951
Julie Cavner, 1951
Susan Blakely, 1950
Gloria Gaynor, 1949
Richard Roundtree, 1942
Cuneyt Arkin, 1937
John Phillip Law, 1937
Buddy Holly, 1936
Don Messick, 1927
Peter Lawford, 1923
Jacob Lawrence, 1917
Anthony Quayle, 1913
Elia Kazan, 1909
Michael E. DeBakey, 1908
Grandma Moses, 1860
Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"The Flying Nun"(TV), 1967
"Truth or Consequences"(TV), 1950
Today in History:
Traditionally, the solar eclipse date that marks the birth of Heracles of Thebes (Latin Hercules), BC1251
The Roman army under Titus occupies and plunders Jerusalem, 70
In the world's first submarine attack, the American submersible craft Turtle attempts to attach a time bomb to the hull of British Admiral Richard Howe's flagship HMS Eagle in New York Harbor, 1776
The "Troy Post" of NY first uses "Uncle Sam" to refer to the US, 1813
Last hold-up of Jesse James, 1881
Edith Eleanor McLean becomes the first baby in the US to be put in an incubator for premature infants, 1888
The Boxer Rebellion in China officially ends with the signing of the Boxer Protocol, 1901
Eugene Lefebvre (1878–1909), while test piloting a new French-built Wright biplane, crashes at Juvisy, France when his controls jam. Lefebvre dies, becoming the first 'pilot' in the world to lose his life in a powered heavier-than-air craft, 1909
The first day of the first Miss America Pageant is held in Atlantic City, NJ, 1921
Philo T. Farnsworth demonstrates the first use of television in San Francisco, 1927
The last surviving member of the thylacine species, Benjamin, dies alone in her cage at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania, 1936
Integration begins in Washington, D.c. and Baltimore, MD public schools, 1954
Desmond Tutu becomes the first black man to lead the Anglican Church in South Africa, 1986
A 5.9 magnitude earthquake rocks Athens, rupturing a previously unknown fault, 1999
Hurricane Ivan, a Category 5 hurricane, hits Grenada, killing 39 and damaging 90% of its buildings, 2004
The first presidential election is held in Egypt, 2005
The US Government takes control of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two largest mortgage financing companies, 2008
Canada closes its Iranian embassy and expels the Iranian diplomatic staff from their country, 2012
Tony Abbott becomes Prime Minister of Australia after the Liberal-National Coalition wins the election, 2013
Asteroid 2014RC makes a close approach to Earth, coming within 39,900km/24,800mi, 2014
British archaeologists announce the discovery of a Neolithic "superhenge" under three feet of earth at Durrington Walls, 2015
The 15th Summer Paralympics opens in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2016
The Indian Space Agency loses contact with its Chandrayaan-2 moon lander just 2 km from landing on the Moon's surface, 2019
El Salvador becomes the first country to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender, 2021