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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.
Zillions is the title of my final A to Z Post because it is Little Girl's birthday and we love her zillions and zillions.
She is officially engaged to her sweetheart and in school and it looks like things are coming together for her after several ups and downs. She's most precious to us.
Yesterday was a wet weather day, after all this is a swamp and it's to be expected. Carl was awake and stirring when i arrived, but said he wanted to rest more and he had plenty of time to do so.
I took the pillow slip off his pillow and got a fresh one so i could wash the other and sent him to nap. That lasted all of ten minutes and he was back already. Poor guy, he's had an early schedule for so long, he can't sleep in now!
He started asking about his raincoat, and we did our best, but it eludes us. I checked every corner of the car, the closet, everything.
I did find the missing matching hand towel. It's been so long since he stuffed dirty clothes in the top of his closet i've been forgetting to look up.
While searching the car for the raincoat that might be anywhere on the planet by now, i did find what must be a gift. Whether he bought it for his mom for Mother's Day or for the young lady he sometimes takes out to dinner is as yet a mystery to me.
He supervised his lunch packing closely this time. It seems I have been minding his mother's dictum that he shouldn't be having too many sweets, and he wants one piece of candy in his lunch. It seems he can't give it up entirely (and who can blame him?).
I arrived at Ms. D's house after Carl's to see she had moved her car out from under her carport. Because she's single, she usually parks in the middle of the carport to make sure there's no room for someone with nefarious intent to pull in and make it look like s/he should be there. You can't be too careful when you are 87.
As i walked in, i asked if she'd moved the car for me, as she sometimes does when it's wet or very hot, but then she usually simply moves it over. If she had moved it for me, i told her she didn't have to leave it out in the rain, she knows there's plenty of room for two cars.
"I wanted it in the rain," she said. "It's so dirty and dusty I want the rain to start washing it and I'm going to finish. I'm tired of paying so much for carwashes!"
Well, alrighty then.
We proceeded to knock several items off her list. I recaulked the part of the shower where it was leaking. I helped her sign in to her MyChart to check the message from her doctor. We went over her medicine regimen and made sure she had the list for the doctor appointment tomorrow. I vacuumed the floors and cleaned out the ice cube bin at the bottom where many of the cubes had fused into a solid mass, then brought the garbage can up from the street and put it away.
Yes, i live up to my job description of "anything legal and moral you can train me to do."
How about some funnies.
Have a blessed and beautiful day, everyone, and Happy Birthday Little Girl!
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Today is:
Armed Forces Day -- Georgia
Birthday of the King / Konungens födelsedag -- Sweden (HM King Carl XVI Gustav; an official flag day)
Bugs Bunny Day -- while some consider his debut to have been in "A Wild Hare," released in July two years later, others say that Bugs was the rabbit in "Porky's Hare Hunt," released this date in 1938
Camarón Day -- French Foreign Legion
Carnival Day -- Sint Maarten
Consumer Protection Day -- Thailand
Díá De Los Niños/Díá De Los Libros -- American Library Association (Children Day/Book Day; a celebration that emphasizes the importance of literacy for children of all linguistic and cultural backgrounds)
Dia de Rincon -- Rincon, Bonaire
El Dia del Nino -- Mexico (Children's Day)
Faeriae Latinae -- Ancient Roman Calendar (Feast of the Latin League, a festival to honor Jupiter)
International Jazz Day -- UNESCO (originated with the New Jersey Jazz Society and sanctioned by the United Nations Jazz Society, the American Federation of Jazz Societies, and the Sacramento Traditional Jazz Society)
Liberation/Reunification Day -- Vietnam
May Eve -- eve of the first day of summer in many traditions, including
Beltane/Samhain Eve -- Pagan traditions
Carodejnice -- Czech Republic; Slovakia
Maitag Vorabend -- Switzerland
Mange les Morts -- Haiti (festival of the dead)
Salus -- Portugal; Spain (festival of the dead)
Valborgsmässoafton -- Sweden
Walpurgis Night -- Ancient Celtic/Nordic Calendars
Mr. Potato Head Day -- the classic toy went on sale this day in 1952, and you used your own potato
National Adopt a Shelter Pet Day -- US (can't find a sponsoring organization, but it's not a bad idea)
National Honesty Day -- including Honest Abe Awards (Abies) and dishonorable mentions for those who have been particularly publicly egregious; celebrated today because we began the month with April Fooling and lies, so today is to celebrate the opposite*
National Military Brats Day -- US (Military Brats, Inc., wants the US Congress to set aside a day to recognize the sacrifices of the children of military service men and women)
National Oatmeal Cookie Day
National Raisin Day
National Tabby Cat Day
National Therapy Animal Day
Pesach/Passover -- Judaism (ends at sundown tonight)
St. Adjutor of Vernon's Day (Patron of drowning victims, sailors, swimmers, yachtsmen; Vernon, France; against drowning)
St. James the Great's Day -- Orthodox Christian
Teacher's Day -- Paraguay
Tortie Cat Appreciation Day
*to nominate someone for an Abie or a dishonorable mention, contact M. Hirsh Goldberg, founder and author of The Book of Lies, mhgoldberg@comcast.net)
Anniversaries Today:
Pele marries Assiria Seixas Lemos, 1994
The Organization of American States is founded, 1948
Louisiana becomes the 18th US state, 1812
Birthdays Today:
Dianna Agron, 1986
Kirsten Dunst, 1982
Johnny Galecki, 1975
Jeff Timmons, 1973
Carolyn Dawn Johnson, 1971
Adrian Pasdar, 1965
Michael Waltrip, 1963
Isiah Thomas, 1961
Stuart Mathis, 1960
Stephen Harper, 1959
Jane Campion, 1954
Perry King, 1948
Carl XVI Gustav, King of Sweden, 1946
Michael J. Smith, 1945
Jill Clayburgh, 1944
Burt Young, 1940
Gary Collins, 1938
Willie Nelson, 1933
Cloris Leachman, 1926
Queen Juliana of the Netherlands, 1909
Eve Arden, 1908
Ellis Wilson, 1899
Louise Dilworth Beatty Homer, 1871
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Barnum"(Musical), 1980
"The Dresser"(Play), 1980
"Inside U.S.A."(Musical revue), 1948
"Arthur Godfrey Time"(Radio), 1945
"Pelleas et Melisande"(Opera), 1902
"Dmitri Donskoi"(Opera), 1852
"Love for Love"(Play), 1695
Today in History:
Supernova SN 1006, the brightest supernova in recorded history, appears in the constellation Lupus, 1006
Orbital calculations suggest that on this day, Pluto moved inside Neptune's orbit until July 23, 1503, 1483
Columbus is given a royal commission to equip his fleet, 1492
On the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York City, George Washington takes the oath of office to become the first elected President of the United States, 1789
The United States purchases the Louisiana Territory from France, 1803
Nicaragua declares independence from the Central American Federation, 1838
Casey Jones dies in a train wreck in Vaughn, Mississippi, while trying to
make up time on the Cannonball Express, 1900
Honolulu, Hawaii becomes an independent city, 1907
Peru becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty, 1920
Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford become the first celebrities to leave their footprints in concrete at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood, 1927
The animated cartoon short Porky's Hare Hunt debuts in movie theaters, introducing Happy Rabbit (a prototype of Bugs Bunny, 1938
In Bogotá, Colombia, the Organization of American States is established, 1948
The Bristol Bus Boycott is held in Bristol to protest the Bristol Omnibus Company's refusal to employ Black or Asian bus crews, drawing national attention to racial discrimination in the United Kingdom, 1963
Communist forces gain control of Saigon and the Vietnam War formally ends, 1975
Accession of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, 1980
CERN announces World Wide Web protocols will be free, 1993
Cambodia joins the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, 1999
Two skeletal remains found near Ekaterinburg, Russia are confirmed by Russian scientists to be the remains of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia and one of his sisters, 2008
Chrysler automobile company files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, 2009
Hailed as the largest World's Fair in history, Expo 2010 opens in Shanghai, China, 2010
Born without a trachea, a 2-year-old Korean-Canadian child is the youngest patient in history to receive a bioengineered organ made from stem cells; she received the transplanted organ at the Children's Hospital of Illinois, 2013
Willem-Alexander becomes the first male Monarch of Netherlands in 123 years, following the abdication of his mother, Queen Beatrix, 2013
The MESSENGER spacecraft is intentionally deorbited and destroyed, 2015
A new species of water beetle from the Malaysian Borneo’s Maliau Basin is named after actor Leonardo DiCaprio, 2018
The world's oldest known spider, a female trapdoor in Western Australia, dies at the age of 43 after being stung by a wasp, 2018
Japan’s Emperor Akihito declares his abdication, effective the next day, 2019
Captain Tom Moore, who raised more £30 million for the National Health Service by walking in his garden, turns 100 and is made an honorary colonel by the Queen, 2020
After surviving Ewing's sarcoma and receiving a prosthetic leg, Jacky Hunt-Broersma sets a world record by running 104 consecutive marathons in 104 days, 2022
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