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He was born to try to rattle cages.
#2 Son adores adventure, from making his own fishing pole, catching fish and then cooking them over an open fire to bike stunts to snake hunts.
I became accustomed to hearing things like, "Hey, mom, I was at the creek today and caught seven snakes and only got bit twice!" and not batting an eye.
A line did have to be drawn at keeping a water moccasin downstairs overnight, but mostly i just let him enjoy his adventures, including learning to golf by standing on the roof and hitting the balls into the field across the street.
Now he's married and a loving, very hands on father who knows the joy of every baby's favorite game, drop my rattle toy and watch the grown-up pick it up.
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| Little Annie, holding her favorite rattle toy. |
He can hardly wait until she is old enough to go on adventures with him, he has plans.
Linking up with Denise at Girlie On The Edge Blog, where she hosts Six Sentence Stories, and the cue is Rattle.
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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! I really enjoy picket fences.
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It's Angel Sammy's Poetry Day! This week's image and my poem:
My kid won't mow the lawn
wants to play online all day
until he does his chore,
he's going to play this way,
With grass up to his armpits,
with skeeters and ants and fleas,
and if that doesn't get him moving,
wait 'til temps hit ninety degrees!
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Angel Brian's Family of Brian's Home - Forever hosts the Thankful Thursday Blog Hop. It's time to share something for which i am thankful.
Today i am thankful we got rain yesterday and didn't have to water the garden. It's always better for the plants that way.
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Today is:
Ambivalence Day -- a holiday to tell your friends about, or not
Concord Day -- Niger
Feast of Eros -- Ancient Greek Calendar (date approximate)
Genocide Remembrance Day / Martyrs' Day-- Armenia
Harpa Month Begins -- Traditional Icelandic Calendar (Harp, dedicated to young women as last month was dedicated to young men)
#Sumardagurinn Fyrsti -- first day of summer, a legal holiday
Kapyong Day -- Australia (Battle of Kapyong, 1951)
Loktantra Diwas -- Nepal (Democracy Day, celebrating the restoration of the Nepali Congress on this date in 2006)
National Teach Children to Save Day -- sponsored by the American Banking Association
Pigs in a Blanket Day
Spring Cat Cleaning Day -- because someone, somewhere, thinks you need to bathe your cat; ask the cat, he will refuse, and if you become insistent, be careful
St. Ives' Day (Patron of St. Ives, Cambridgeshire, England)
St. Mark's Eve*
World Day for Animals in Laboratories
Yom HaShoah -- Judaism (Holocaust Remembrance Day; began sunset yesterday, ends at sunset today)
*A young lady may eat a boiled dove's egg sprinkled with salt and place
a tulip, sacred to St. Mark, in a vase next to her bed, and so she will
dream of the man she will marry.
Anniversaries Today:
Mary, Queen of Scots marries Dauphin of France, François, at Notre Dame de Paris, 1558
Birthdays Today:
Courtnee Draper, 1985
Kelly Clarkson, 1982
Eric Balfour, 1977
Chipper Jones, 1972
Cedric the Entertainer, 1964
Djimon Hounsou, 1964
Michael O’Keefe, 1955
Eric Bogosian, 1953
Jean-Paul Gaultier, 1952
Doug Clifford, 1945
Barbra Streisand, 1942
Richard M. Daley, 1942
Sue Grafton, 1940
Jill Ireland, 1936
Shirley MacLaine, 1934
Stanley J. Kauffmann, 1916
Robert Penn Warren, 1905
Michael J. Dady, 1850
George N. Bascom, 1836
Anthony Trollope, 1815
Robert Bailey Thomas, 1766
Edmund Cartwright, 1743
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Dancing at Lughnasa"(Play), 1990
"Die Jahreszeiten/The Seasons"(Oratorio, Haydn H 21/3), 1801
The Boston News-Letter(Newspaper), 1704 (first successful newspaper in the British colonies)
Today in History:
Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Egypt, although power effectively shifts to Hatshepsut, BC1479
Traditional date for the Greeks entering Troy using the Trojan Horse, BC1184
The appearance of Halley's Comet causes monks in England to predict evil happenings, 1066
"La Marseillaise" is composed by Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle, 1792
The Boston "News-Letter" becomes the first successful newspaper in the colonies, 1704
The Library of Congress is established, 1800
A patent is granted for the first soda fountain, 1833
William Price of the Washington Star becomes the first reporter to be specifically assigned to the White House, 1897
The fathometer, which measures underwater depth, is patented, 1928
Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II, 1953
Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies in Soyuz 1, the first person to die during a space mission, 1967
Mauritius becomes a member state of the United Nations, 1968
The first Chinese satellite, Dong Fang Hong I, is launched, 1970
Gruinard Island, Scotland, is officially declared free of the anthrax disease after 48 years of quarantine, 1990
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as the 265th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church taking the name Pope Benedict XVI, 2005
Snuppy, the world's first cloned dog is born in South Korea, 2005
Iceland announces that Norway will shoulder the defense of Iceland during peacetime, 2007
Scientists in Kamchatka, Russia, report sighting the first adult white orca to be seen in the wild, 2012
Suffragist Millicent Fawcett is the first woman to have a statue erected in Parliament Square, London, England, 2018
According to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, streaming music services overtake worldwide sales of CDs and vinyl for the first time, 2018
India surpasses China as the worlds most populous country according to UN estimates, 2023
Yay for #2 son and the adventures he has had and those he will have.
ReplyDeleteLove your poem too.
Ah ... a wooden fence.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
That looked to be a cute little cottage with a small fence. I bet your son does not let your granddaughter get bit by a snake, lol.
ReplyDeleteMom won't do anything with snakes. She has seen one here and there on walks over the years and we never walk by that spot again. She is terrified of them. Love that desk in the grass, if that would work to teach the kid, it would be wonderful.
ReplyDeleteAww, he's so sweet!! Love the poem too.
ReplyDeletewhat is young is old, that the old might recapture what is young
ReplyDeletegood Six yo
Only bit twice! His Water Moccasin down in the basement. Having had three sons, I know whatcha mean, girl.
ReplyDeleteThe baby is just glowing and beautiful! And she has a wonderful hands on Daddy XXOO
ReplyDeleteAnnie is so adorable ~ sweet photo ~ glad you got some rain ~ hugs,
ReplyDeleteWishing you good health, laughter and love in your days,
A ShutterBug Explores ~ clm
aka (A Creative Harbor)
Love the poem!
ReplyDeleteAnnie is such a cutie. How sweet that your son is such a good dad. Fun poem. XO
ReplyDeleteThat was such a terrific story! I liked your poem and thankful too. Thanks for joining Angel Brian's Thankful Thursday Blog Hop!
ReplyDeleteWhat a great take on the photo - loved the poem. And little Annie alway makes us smile.
ReplyDeleteWoos - Misty and Timber
Good parenting comes from having good parents. He’ll be brilliant, I’m sure.
ReplyDeleteJava Bean: "Ayyy, is there anything better than going on adventures with your Mama and Dada? I think not!"
ReplyDeleteCharlee: "I vote for sleeping in Dada's lap instead."
A lovely picture of little Annie! The picture and poem are perfect!
ReplyDeleteLove your Six, Mimi. Annie has no idea the adventures that await!
ReplyDeleteNothing like rainwater to make all things grow.
The photo and poem are good together. Tall grass hides snakes and other critters.
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