Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Someone is a Tad Bit Possessive (Wordless Wednesday) and Words for Wednesday

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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.    


The prompts this month will again be posted by Elephant's Child and are provided by Charlotte (MotherOwl)        



This week's prompts are:

  • Include
  • Lick
  • Saunter
  • Hand
  • Berry
  • Apples


And/or


  • Respect
  • Elbow
  • Fork
  • Measure
  • Knife
  • Dream


An additional prompt from Charlotte (MotherOwl) is her colour of the month to use (or not) in your take on the prompts. The colour for July is "Writing Pleasure Purple." 



#2 Son and Daughter-in-Law have a DREAM, and it does not INCLUDE living in an area so crowded you stick out your ELBOW and bump into other people.


They have their sites set on a place in the country, up further north where you get snow most winters which you MEASURE in feet, not inches.


Both of them have a great deal of RESPECT for nature and have spent a lot of time camping, she grew up exploring the wilds of Alaska, he out in the swamps here in south Louisiana.


They want to live where they can grow fruit trees like pear, plum and APPLE, where the BERRY bushes are wild, where they can hunt and mostly put their own game on the table, not store bought meat.


They envision a kitchen garden, a salt LICK to attract the deer, maybe even a creek on the banks of which you can SAUNTER HAND in hand, or stop to catch fish if you've a mind to, a piece of land where you always carry your hunting KNIFE and you know every FORK of every path and still find surprises sometimes.


This isn't just a Purple pie in the sky dream.  Daughter-in-Law's uncle has such a place, and knows his neighbor who will be looking to sell his land in the next couple of years and doesn't want it to go to people who wouldn't care for it well.


To this end they are living well below their means, socking away the savings, preparing in every way they can.


As much as it would be difficult to see them go, i do hope they get there.



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Today is:


Birthday of Emperor Haili Selassi I -- Rastafari


Flag Day -- Abkhazia


Gorgeous Grandma Day -- a day to celebrate those who age, date, and mate in style!   


Hot Enough For Ya Day -- sponsored by Wellcat Holidays as the only day on which you may utter these words; any other day, and you will get high fived on the back of the head!;)


Mayan Sun Festival -- honoring Ahau Kin, the sun god, date approximate


National Vanilla Ice Cream Day


Neptunalia and Salcia -- Ancient Roman Calendar (god and goddess of the ocean and wide seas, celebrates Neptune in his role as god of irrigation)


Private Eye Day -- internet generated


Remembrance Day -- Papua New Guinea


Renaissance Day -- Oman (celebrates the accession of Qaboos bin Said Al Said, 14th Sultan of Oman)


Revolution Day -- Egypt


St. Apollinaris' Day (Patron against epilepsy, gout; of Aachen, Germany; Burtscheid, Germany; Düsseldorf, Germany; Ravenna, Italy; Remagen, Germany)


St. Bridget of Sweden's Day (Patron of widows; Europe; Sweden)


St. Phocas the Gardener's Day (Patron of agricultural workers, boatmen, farm workers, farmers, field hands, gardeners, husbandmen, mariners, market-gardeners, sailors, watermen)


Sumarauki -- Iceland (their traditional calendar's extra days added to take into account the "drift" of the calendar from the moon phases)


Warei Shrine Summer Festival -- Warei Shrine, Uwajima City, Japan (through tomorrow, includes "bull-sumo", a non fatal type of bull fighting, where the bulls try to push each other out of the ring)



Anniversaries Today


Prince Andrew, Duke of York marries Sarah Ferguson, 1986

Coronation of King Mohammed VI of Morocco, 1999



Birthdays Today


Daniel Radcliffe, 1989

Michelle Williams, 1980

Omar Epps, 1975

Nomar Garciapara, 1973

Marlon Wayans, 1972

Charisma Carpenter, 1970

Philip Seymour Hoffman, 1967

Eriq La Salle, 1962

Woody Harrelson, 1961

Lamont "ShowBoat" Robinson, 1961

Edie McClurg, 1951

Belinda Montgomery, 1950

Don Imus, 1940

Nicholas Gage, 1939

Ronny Cox, 1938

Anthony M. Kennedy, 1936

Don Drysdale, 1936

Bert Convy, 1933

Arata Isozaki, 1931

Gloria DeHaven, 1925

Amalia Rodrigues, 1920

Harold "Pee Wee" Reese, 1918

Arthur Treacher, 1894

Haile Selassie I, 1892

Raymond Chandler, 1888

Samuel Augustus Maverick, 1803



Debuting/Premiering Today:


"They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha! Ha!"(Single release), 1966

"The Gene Autry Show"(TV), 1950



Today in History


William Austin Burt patents the Typographer, a precursor to the typewriter, 1829

The Province of Canada is created by the Act of Union, 1840

The Federation Internationale de Gymnastique, the world's oldest international sport federation, is founded, 1881

The Ford Motor Company sells its first car, 1903

Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film, 1926

Telstar  relays the first publicly transmitted, live trans-Atlantic television program, featuring Walter Cronkite, 1962

The International Whaling Commission decides to end commercial whaling within 4 years, 1982 *

Air Canada Flight 143 runs out of fuel and makes a deadstick landing at Gimli, Manitoba, 1983

Comet Hale-Bopp is discovered, 1995

Cape Verde becomes the 153rd member of the World Trade Organization, 2008

Patent law disputes between Samsung and Apple deadlock as the dispute addresses valuation of each other's patents, 2012

NASA's Kepler mission announces the discovery of the most Earth-like planet yet - Kepler-452b, 1,400 light years from Earth, 2015

Japan records its highest ever temperature at 41.1 degrees (105.98F) in Kumagaya, 2018

China launches its first mission to Mars, Tianwen-1, a combined orbiter, lander and rover, 2020

The XXXII Summer Olympic Games officially open at the Olympic Stadium, Tokyo, Japan, 2021

Greece evacuates 19,000 tourists and residents from the path of wildfires on the island of Rhodes amid the country's hottest July in 50 years, 2023

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Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Back to Business As Usual, a Random and Happy Tuesday Post

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It's time once again for a random and happy Tuesday, linking up with Stacy's Random Thoughts at Stacy Uncorked and Sandee at Comedy Plus.  


Carl is back to work and back to his usual hours after the prior two weeks, one with early hours and then last week off.


He wore every item of his work clothes, with very few exceptions, on his week off.  Why?  Habit.  He has no executive function, but once he is in a habit, try breaking him of it.  Or better yet, don't, use it to help him do something positive and useful.




The laundry room was in quite a state and none of the clothes smelled right, everything washed had to be rewashed.


He was in the bathroom when i arrived and as he headed for his sleep chair, he was picking up all the pajama tops he likes to use over his pillowcases and sniffing them.  He wasn't very pleased and i reminded him they hadn't been washed since the prior Monday.  He chose one anyway and said, "Um, timer?"


How long do you want to sleep? i asked and he answered, "About an hour."


I mentioned he should set the timer on the microwave and he said, "Broken."


Going to the big kitchen, i messed with it and something was wrong, but after hitting the cancel button a few times and opening and closing the door once, i finally got it to cooperate, set it for 60 minutes, and went to start sorting all those clothes.




Also, i noticed all the accumulated paper.  It's been building up for a while and i consolidated it all into one box, then pointed it out to his mom.  Getting him to go through it and get rid of most is up to them.


Oat circle cereal piece in the bed.


I asked later about the food in his bed and he said, "It fell off my pajamas."  I certainly hope so, he doesn't need to be eating in bed.



Mushed gummy vitamin. very sticky.


This is why his gummy vitamins and i do not get along.  He's out of them for the moment, thank goodness.


Once he was up and showered he told me about his weekend.  "There was a pool party for the church...international students."


Oh, yes, i told him, they were supposed to have a party last Friday evening how'd it go?


"We had fun.  My other friend is sick, though, and couldn't come."


I told him i was sorry and hoped the friend would be better soon, and asked about some other items.






Where, i asked, was the nerf and water pistol war?


He looked surprised and i told him he'd left his ammo and water pistol lying around.  He grinned his little boy grin and said, "Fun weekend."  Then he decamped for breakfast and i turned my attention to lunch and his ice vest.





The fridge did not look promising at first but did have a sandwich hiding in the back.  I gathered the rest of the things for him to take and packed it all.


He kept wandering in looking for things, CDs, his vest, asking me if he should throw some things out.  I told him going through the papers and throwing some of them away might be a good idea.  He look carefully at three of them, folded them in half and put them in the trash, then went back for more breakfast.


Just before he left, he told me, "My friend has some summer ideas so we can, you know, live life, not just work, he says we could volunteer, or put on a talent show..."


What would your talent be? i asked.


"Singing and dancing!" he said with a huge smile.  I don't know about the singing part, but he does love to dance.





And do crafts at the Sunday school class for special needs adults.  He's a big kid and that's fine by us.


How about some funnies.













Have a blessed and beautiful Tuesday, everyone!



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Today is:

Aphrodisia -- Ancient Greek Calendar (bathing festival of Aphrodite and Peitho [Persuasion]; through tomorrow)


Casual Pi Day / Pi Approximation Day (22nd day of month 7; 22/7 is the approximation of Pi)


Hammock Day -- don't know who came up with this one, but at the height of the dog days, it seems appropriate; on some sites listed as Summer Leisure Day


International Childbirth Education Awareness Day -- can't find confirmation on this, but if you're going to have a kid, it's not a bad idea to get educated about what to expect!


King Father's Birthday -- Swaziland


National Penuche Fudge Day


Ratcatcher's Day -- celebrated by the British dating of the Pied Piper story; celebrated June 26 in Hamelin, Germany


Revolution Day -- The Gambia


Soma-Nomaoi Festival -- Haramachi City, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan (Wild-Horse Chasing, a four day festival in which a thousand horsemen, clad in ancient armor, compete for possession of three shrine flags, and along the Hibarigahara Plain, men clad in white costumes attempt to catch wild horses)


Spooners Day (Spoonerism -- Named for William Archibald Spooner, English cleric and scholar who once fussed at a student because "You hissed my mystery lesson," told a groom it was "kisstomery to cuss the bride," and once accidentally referred to Queen Victoria as "the queer old Dean.")


St. Mary Magdalene's Day (Patron of apothecaries, contemplative life and contemplatives, converts, druggists, glove makers, hairdressers and hair stylists, penitent sinners, penitent women, people ridiculed for their piety, perfumeries and perfumers, pharmacists, reformed prostitutes, tanners, women; Anguiano, Spain; Atrani, Salerno, Italy; Casamicciola, Italy; Elantxobe, Spain; Foglizzo, Italy; La Magdaleine, Italy; against sexual temptation)

   Stilt Dance Day -- Anguiano, Spain (a special stilt dance performed on the Feast of the city's patron, St. Mary Magdalen)



Birthdays Today:


George Alexander Louis Windsor, His Royal Highness Prince of Cambridge, 2013

Madison Pettis, 1998

Selena Gomez, 1992

Scott Dixon, 1980

Daniel Jones, 1973

Rufus Wainwright, 1973

Irene Bedard, 1967

Rhys Ifans, 1967

Shawn Michaels, 1965

David Spade, 1964

John Leguizamo, 1964

Rob Estes, 1963

Keith Sweat, 1961

Willem Dafoe, 1955

Alan Menken, 1949

Albert Brooks, 1947

Don Henley, 1947

Danny Glover, 1946

Estelle Bennett, 1944

Bobby Sherman, 1943

Kay Bailey Hutchison, 1943

Alex Trebek, 1940

Terrence Stamp, 1939

Louise Fletcher, 1934

Oscar De la Renta, 1932

Orson Bean, 1928

Bob Dole, 1923

Amy Vanderbilt, 1908

Alexander Calder, 1898

Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, 1890

William Archibald Spooner, 1844

Gregor Johann Mendel, 1822 (Note:  some sources say July 20)



Debuting/Premiering Today:


Plan 9 From Outer Space(Film), 1959



Today in History


King Edward I of England and his longbowmen defeat William Wallace and his Scottish schiltrons outside the town of Falkirk, 1298

The Swiss decisively defeat the Imperial army of Emperor Maximilian I in the Battle of Dornach, 1499

A second group of English settlers arrive on Roanoke Island off North Carolina to re-establish the deserted colony, 1587

Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean becoming the first Euro-American to complete a transcontinental crossing of Canada, 1793

In the Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Rear Admiral Nelson is wounded in the arm, and part of it is amputated, 1797

Death of Josef Strauss, Austrian composer, 1870

First ever motorized racing event is held in France between the cities of Paris and Rouen. The race is won by comte Jules-Albert de Dion, 1894

Wiley Post becomes the first person to fly solo around the world traveling 15,596 miles in 7 days, 18 hours and 45 minutes, 1933

Dezik and Tzygan become the first of Russia's Space Dogs, making a sub-orbital flight, which they both survived, 1951

Japan completes its last reparation to the Philippines for war crimes committed during WWII, 1976

Martial law in Poland is officially revoked, 1983

The second Blue Water Bridge opens between Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario, 1997

The Stonehenge World Heritage Site announces the discovery of a possible new henge, the biggest discovery at a major monument in over 50 years, 2010

Norway is the victim of twin terror attacks, on government buildings in Oslo and a youth camp at Utoya, 2011

Scientific studies reveal that dolphins have unique names for one another, much like humans do, 2013

The Brain Kids, a team of robots from Japan's Chiba Institute of Technology, wins this year's RoboCup, a robotic soccer tournament started 18 years ago to encourage new developments in the robotics field, 2015

India's lunar mission, Chandrayaan-2, successfully takes off from Satish Dhawan Space Center, Sriharikota aiming to make India the fourth nation to soft-land on the moon, 2019

The French submarine Minerve, which disappeared in 1968 with a crew of 52, is  rediscovered off coast of Toulon, France, 2019

Droupadi Murmu is the first tribal politician to be elected President of India (head of state, without executive powers), 2022

The United States Postal Service issues a commemorative stamp in honor of Alex Trebek, long-time host of Jeopardy, 2024

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