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Yesterday, i arrived at Ms. G's place while she was out getting a haircut, so i started in with the usual, litter boxes, reload the cold drinks in the spare fridge, do the vacuuming.
When she came in, she said, "Let's go play at Costco," so we went. Her timing was perfect as she snagged a rotisserie chicken fresh off the spit.
The next job on her list was cramming all the out-of-season bedding in the top of the spare room closet, which got temporarily preempted by her dizzy spell from having her arms above her head for too long.
A short recovery on the couch with a cold cloth on her face and a bottle of water, and she had us back at it.
Not much phases her, she's going to get it done or die trying, whatever the task.
Linking up with Denise at Girlie On The Edge Blog, where she hosts Six Sentence Stories, and the cue is Task.
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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:
I can't quite tell if I got one,
they melt so fast, you see,
but I'm not going to stop
'cause this kind of fun is free!
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Angel Brian's Family 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 Brother-in-law ran an errand for my Sweetie yesterday while he was at choir practice, saving me from having to go out after i got home from work.
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Today is:
American Historical Association Annual Meeting -- San Francisco, CA, US (137th annual, with over 300 sessions covering a wide range of scholarly topics; through Sunday)
Day of the Fallen against the Colonial Repression -- Angola
Day To Mourn Racism -- anniversary of the day ethnic discrimination was outlawed worldwide in 1969
Dimpled Chad Day -- if you have to ask, you wouldn't understand; sponsored by Wellcat Holidays
Eleventh Day of Christmas
Feast of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton (1st US-born Saint; Patron of Apostleship of the Sea, people ridiculed for their piety, widows; Shreveport, LA; against in-law problems, the death of children, the death of parents)
Festival of Fufluns -- Etruscan (god of wine, also of spring and rebirth; date approximate)
Independence Day -- Myanmar(1948)
Martyrs' Day -- Democratic Republic of the Congo
National Spaghetti Day
Ogoni Day -- Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People of the Niger River
Pop Music Chart Day -- Billboard magazine published the first one today in 1936
St. Pharaildis' Day (Patron of difficult marriages, victims of abuse, widows; Bruay, France; Ghent, Belgium; against childhood diseases)
Trivia Day -- celebration of those who have a doctorate in uselessology, sponsored by PunsCorp
World Braille Day -- birth anniversary of Louis Braille
World Hypnotism Day -- to remove myth and misconception, and promote the truths and benefits of hypnotism
Anniversaries Today:
Utah becomes the 45th US state, 1896
Birthdays Today:
Julia Ormond, 1965
Dave Roley, 1962
Michael Stipe, 1960
Matt Frewer, 1958
Ann Magnuson, 1956
Grace Bumbry, 1937
Dyan Cannon, 1937
Floyd Patterson, 1935
Don Shula, 1930
Barbara Rush, 1927
Jesse White, 1917
Jane Wyman, 1914
Sterling Holloway, 1905
Charles "Tom Thumb" Stratton, 1838
Louis Braille, 1809
Jakob Grimm, 1785
Benjamin Rush, 1746
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Night Court"(TV), 1984
"Blondie"(TV), 1957
The Pop Music Charts in Billboard Magazine, 1936
"Academic Festival Overture"(Johannes Brahms Op. 80), 1881
Today in History:
Titus Labienus is defeated by Julius Caesar in the Battle of Ruspina, BC 46
Columbus leaves the "New World" on return from his first voyage, 1493
Spanish viceroy Alva banishes Zutphen City's only physician, Joost Sweiter, "because he is a Jew", 1570
Most of the Palace of Whitehall in London, the main residence of the English monarchs, is destroyed by fire, 1698
Andre Méchain discovers M80, the globular cluster in Scorpio, 1781
Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the United States government, 1847
4 wheeled roller skates patented by James Plimpton of NY, 1863
The New York Stock Exchange opens its first permanent headquarters at 10-12 Broad near Wall Street in New York City, 1865
Sofia is emancipated from Ottoman rule, 1878
The last known sighting of an eastern cougar, in Ontario, 1884
Dr W W Grant of Iowa, performs the first appendectomy (on Mary Gartside, 22), 1885
Thomas Stevens is the first man to bicycle around the world (SF-SF); his itinerary accounts "DISTANCE ACTUALLY WHEELED, ABOUT 13,500 MILES", 1887
The Scout Association is incorporated throughout the British Commonwealth by Royal Charter, 1912
The first elected Jewish governor, Moses Alexander, takes office in Idaho, 1915
Sputnik 1 reenters the atmosphere and burns up, 1958
Luna 1 becomes the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon, 1959
Rose Heilbron becomes the first female judge to sit at the Old Bailey in London, 1972
Elizabeth Ann Seton becomes the first American-born saint, 1975
Spirit, a NASA Mars Rover, lands successfully on Mars at 04:35 UTC, 2004
The 110th United States Congress convenes, electing Nancy Pelosi as the first female Speaker of the House in U.S. history, 2007
The Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building is officially opened, 2010
Eleven-year-old Kathryn Gray, of Canada, becomes the youngest person in the world to discover a supernova, 2011
The world's largest ever blue star sapphire at 1404.49 carats, found in a Sri Lankan mine in August 2015, is finally certified by Colombo's Gemology Institute, 2016
South Korea, the country with world's lowest birth rate, records more deaths than births for the first time, 2021
The Canadian government announces a settlement to compensate for the Indigenous child welfare system, 2022