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He'd always dreamed of a place he could call his own, a bit of land for a farm, some cattle, a couple of pigs, a shop where he could tinker to his heart's content, and a small lake, but big enough for him to canoe and fish.
He raised his family in the city but bought his piece of land and went out there as often as he could, building a shop and barn, fixing up the old house, and sometimes taking the time for fishing.
After he retired and the kids were gone, he bought cattle and a couple of pigs, planted the fields and moved out there with his wife.
He took care of her until her death, and then remarried a widow who agreed to live out there with him, for he would be nowhere else.
His small holding brought him great joy, although it was never a big operation it was just right for him, tending the stock and growing some crops and tinkering in his workshop, and fishing on his own lake, canoeing on his lake, always loving his lake.
The place has long since been sold away, but i have very fond memories of Papa's little slice of heaven, which he called, "Lake Me Own."
Linking up with Denise at Girlie On The Edge Blog, where she hosts Six Sentence Stories, and the cue is Farm.
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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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It's Angel Sammy's Poetry Day! This week's image and my poem:
Santa knows no boundaries
he belongs to every child,
he'll get to any who believe
in ways ordinary or wild.
Sometimes he needs a little help
and many work together
to make sure he gets to everyone
no matter what the weather.
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Brian's Family of Brian's Home hosts Angel Brian's Thankful Thursday Blog Hop. It's time to share something for which i am thankful.
Today i am thankful we got to Ms. G's shelves yesterday before they collapsed. She's had some overloaded shelving drawers in her "cat room" (litter box room) which is also the storage room and which we knew were not long for this world. Yesterday we spent almost 6 hours offloading, cleaning the cat litter dust, putting together a huge, heavy duty shelving unit, and getting those now useless shelves out the door.
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Today is:
Ako Gishi sai -- Ako, Japan (traditional dances and warrior parades honoring the 47 Ronin)
Buy a Tree Day / Deck the Halls Day -- internet generated, and if you are going to decorate, why did you wait this long?
Christmas Bird Count begins -- sponsored by the National Audubon Society (through Jan. 5; since 1900, the longest-running wildlife census to assess the health of bird populations)
Free Shipping Day -- snoop around online to find retailers who are offering free shipping today and get some of those gifts you've been putting off
Halcyon Days begin -- a time of calm and tranquility (beginning seven days before the winter solstice, lasting until December 28, seven days after the solstice; named for an ancient, fabled kingfisher bird [or halcyon], which hatches and raise her young during this time)
Icelandic Yuletide Lad of the Day, Stufur -- Shorty, who is also known as Ponneskefill, the pan-scraper, who will scrape food scraps from the pans left out
Khoiak Ceremony for Ploughing the Earth -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)
Monkey Day -- unofficial, by animal groups, to draw attention to the plights of simians kept in labs and as pets monkeyday.org
National Bouillabaisse Day
National Energy Conservation Day -- India
Precalentines Day -- an unofficial holiday for math lovers begun by a precalculus class at a Nova Scotia high school
South Pole Discovery Day -- thank you, Roald Amundsen
St. John of the Cross' Day (Patron of contemplative life, contemplatives, mystical theology, mystics, Spanish poets; Ta' Xbiex, Malta)
St. Spyridon's Day (Patron of Corfu, Greece, and potters)
Anniversaries Today:
Alabama becomes the 22nd US State, 1819
Princess Mary Stuart is crowned Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542
Birthdays Today:
Samantha Peszek, 1991
Vanessa Hudgens, 1988
Paul "Beakman" Zaloom, 1951
Bill Buckner, 1949
Dee Wallace Stone, 1948
Patty Duke, 1946
Jane Birkin, 1946
Ernie Davis, 1939
Leonardo Boff, 1938
Lee Remick, 1935
Charlie Rich, 1932
Don Hewitt, 1922
Shirley Jackson, 1919
Morey Amsterdam, 1914
Spike Jones, 1911
Margaret Madeline Chase Smith, 1897
James Harold Doolittle, 1896
Debuting/Premiering Today:
Saturday Night Fever(Film), 1977
Diamonds are Forever(Film), 1971
"Il Trittico"(Puccini opera), 1918
Today in History:
Osman ibn Affan is appointed the third kalief of Islam, 644
The Zuider Zee seawall collapses, 50,000 lives are lost in the floods that follow, 1287
The first artificial pearls, made of gypsum pellets covered with fish scales, are manufactured by M Jacquin in Paris, 1656
The Montgolfier brothers' first balloon lifts off on its first test flight, 1782
David Wilkinson of Rhode Island patents a machine that cuts nuts and bolts, 1798
The American Academy of Political and Social Science is organized in Philadelphia, 1889
The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from Ocean Beach, San Francisco to Honolulu, Hawaii, 1902
Norwegian Roald Amundsen becomes the first to reach the South Pole, 1911
Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Laos, Libya, Nepal, Portugal, Romania, Spain and Sri Lanka join the United Nations, 1955
The United Republic of Tanzania joins the United Nations. 1961
NASA's Mariner 2 becomes the first spacecraft to fly by Venus, 1962
Kiribati, Nauru and Tonga join the United Nations, 1999
The Millau viaduct, the tallest bridge in the world, near Millau, France is officially opened, 2004
China's first lunar rover, the Yutu, lands successfully on the Moon, 2013
The Vatican announces it has rediscovered the lost last paintings of Rafael, painted around 1520, in the Vatican Museum, 2017
The Walt Disney Company buys most of 21st Century Fox for $52.4 billion, 2017
The 85th Heisman Trophy is awarded to Joe Burrow of Louisiana State University; Burrow received the highest percentage of first place votes ever with 90.7%, 2019
A total solar eclipse is visible over parts of Chile and Argentina, 2020