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Linking up with Wordless Wednesday, BeThere2Day, and Sandee at Comedy Plus.
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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 Elephant's Child.
This week's prompts are:
- Memories
- Thanks
- Running
- Grave
- Collected
And/or
- Clover
- Regrets
- Marvelous
- Enchanted
- Clock
Charlotte (MotherOwl) has selected clay brown as the colour of the month.
The CLOCK is RUNNING toward the time of year most dreaded -- Tax Time.
Ah, Tax Time, a MARVELOUS, ENCHANTED time of year when we all get to collectively pull our hair out as they ask us to jog our MEMORIES and check with every institution we've ever done business with and tally up all our totals so they know how much we need to pay for our fair share of the money the government needs to have COLLECTED in order to keep running.
Running from what? Us, of course, but i digress to try to make a funny, a GRAVE mistake when it comes to taxes, where you want no mistakes and where there is no sense of humor involved.
Just REGRETS, over what you earned -- where in the world did it all go? Over how much you spent on things you didn't need -- that's where it went!
I spent a good chunk of my time yesterday totaling up our charitable giving for deductions. I'm in CLOVER, THANKS to keep a running tally in my Clay Brown notebook, along with the total of what i earned last year.
This means all i need to do now is wait for some summaries to come in the mail and get the nice lady at the office of the financial advisor to print up a page.
When the time comes for me to sit down and put it together for Grandpa's tax advisor, who does our stuff too, it shouldn't take long at all.
Remind me of that when the packet comes, somebody. Please, so i won't put it off but get it out of my hands as early as possible.
It doesn't take the sting out of the process, but does shorten the duration of the dread.
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Today is:
Feast of St. Geraint -- Wales (legendary Welsh hero who fought King Arthur)
Majority Rule Day -- Bahamas
National Bittersweet Chocolate Day
National Cut Your Energy Costs Day
Peculiar People Day -- an internet generated day to celebrate all the strange and peculiar people in your life, including me!;)
St. Peter Orseolo's Day
Sturdy Flat-Heeled Shoes Appreciation Day -- listed on many sites, and since i appreciate them, i included it
Vaudoun Day -- Benin (Traditional Religions Day, with a huge festival in the seaside town of Ouidah)
Where's The Beef? Day -- the Wendy's slogan premiered this day in 1984
Anniversaries Today:
Princess Margriet of the Netherlands weds Pieter van Vollenhoven, 1967
UN General Assembly first meeting, 1946
Uniform Penny Post (the reformed postal system) starts in the UK, 1840
Birthdays Today:
Pat Benatar, 1953
Bonnie Hellman, 1950
George Foreman, 1949
Rod Stewart, 1945
Jim Croce, 1943
Sal Mineo, 1939
Bill Toomey, 1939
Gisele MacKenzie, 1927
Johnnie Ray, 1927
Paul Henreid, 1908
Ray Bolger, 1904
Robinson Jeffers, 1887
Grigori Rasputin, 1869 (O.S.)
Mary Ingalls, 1865
George Washington Carver, 1864
Charles Ingalls, 1836
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Masterpiece Theater"(TV), 1971
"That Was The Week That Was"(TV, US version), 1964
"Finian's Rainbow"(Musical), 1947
"Arsenic and Old Lace"(Play), 1941
"Pete the Tramp"(Comic strip), 1932
"Street Scene"(Play), 1929
"Rosalie"(Musical), 1928
Today in History:
Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, begins a civil war, BC46
"Common Sense" by Thomas Paine is published, 1776
Napoleon divorces Josephine, 1810
Poets Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning begin their correspondence, 1845
The first underground railway opens in London, 1863
John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil, 1870
The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas, 1901
The League of Nations is established, 1920
The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts Project Diana, bouncing radio waves off the moon and receiving the reflected signals, 1946
The United States and the Vatican establish full diplomatic relations after 117 years, 1984
Torrential rain in the Lockyer Valley region of South East Queensland, Australia causes severe flash flooding, killing 9 people, 2011
Indonesia's Mount Sinabung erupts again, with pyroclastic flows streaming down the volcanic slope, causing the evacuation of about 22,000 people, 2014
Commercial space company SpaceX successfully launches its Falcon 9 rocket, which releases the Dragon cargo ship into orbit to the International Space Station and then returns to Earth with a rough landing, 2015
Jeff Bezos becomes the second man worth over $100 billion, 2018
Canadian astronomers at the CHIME observatory, British Columbia, report fast radio bursts (FRBs) of probable extragalactic origin, one repeating six times, 2019
The US Mint issues quarter coins commemorating poet Maya Angelou, making her the first black woman to be depicted on a US coin, 2022