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It started with the phone call to Ms. G from the inspector at the house she's helping to sell, saying the A/C was making a terrible noise and the fan wasn't working, should he shut it off, while she was in between 3 doctor appointments.
By the time i got to her house, she was at the 3rd appointment so i did what i know she likes done, or as much of it as possible before she got back; meanwhile, between those doctor visits and the time she got back to the house, she'd gone to shut the A/C down and found out the bookcase in the hall there prevents the attic from being opened properly for any A/C people to get up in there.
The homeowner was driving in from the next town to help move the bookcase and we'd meet him there to help as it was a honking big one and full, and three different A/C people had been called for bids and times they could come out and inspect and see if this 19-year-old unit was on its last legs and what would it take to replace it.
Until the homeowner got there to help, Ms. G and i got work done at her place and she took us to lunch, and we arrived at the house for sale and systematically unloaded the bookcase so it could be reloaded the exact same way, as it had already been set up for perfect presentation when showing the house.
The homeowner arrived, figured out the A/C wasn't working because of a stick which had jammed the fan which he removed and got it started again, and then thank heaven for those "moving men" disks with the special foam to help slide furniture while protecting both the furniture and the floor, and for being able to shimmy the honking big bookcase into a place where it could be wiggled and turned and leaned and eventually worked into the room where it would stay until the final move out.
Then all that remained was reloading with all the books and stuff, and once again a day with Ms. G proved that with her life, there's always something unusual waiting to be done just around the next bend.
Linking up with Denise at Girlie On The Edge Blog, where she hosts Six Sentence Stories, and the cue is Foam.
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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:
You mean you want me to send
my beloved car to just be scrap?
Yes, i know my car's dented
and looks rather like a rattletrap.
But i like my cars and i hate to
think of them ending up this way,
I wish we could do something better
than just throw them all away.
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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 Ms. G kept us busy yesterday, but fed me nicely and i was most appreciative.
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Today is:
Be Late For Something Day -- sponsored by the Procrastinators' Club of America, Inc. (if they can get around to mentioning it in their newsletter, of course)
Genesia -- Ancient Greek Calendar (a day of the dead; date approximate)
Hassaku-sai -- Matsuo-taisha Shrine, Kyoto, Japan (rituals to ask the gods for mild weather, good harvests and safe homes)
International Day of Charity -- UN
Jeune Genevois -- Geneva, Switzerland (Genevan fast, dates back to the 16th century; now a flower and garden show also)
Jupiter Stator Festival -- Ancient Roman Calendar (commemorates that Jupiter helped Romulus to stop the Sabine invasion under Titus Tatius)
Jury Rights Day -- marking the decision by a jury, in 1670, to not convict William Penn of laws which they considered unjust which would have prohibited him from the practice and preaching of his religion to a peaceably assembled congregation; this decision became the basis of the First Amendment to the Constitution of the US
National Cheese Pizza Day
St. Laurence Gustiani's Day (First Patriarch of Venice)
St. Teresa of Calcutta's Day (Mother Teresa); related:
Dia e Lumturimit te Nene Terezes -- Albania
Sts. Zechariah and Elisabeth's Day -- Anglican and Eastern Orthodox Churches
Teacher's Day -- India
Anniversaries Today:
John Travolta marries Kelly Preston, 1991
Birthdays Today:
Kim Yu-Na, 1990
Rose McGowan, 1973
Dweezil Zappa, 1969
Kristian Alfonso, 1964
Cathy Guisewite, 1950
Dennis Dugan, 1946
Raquel Welch, 1940
William Devane, 1939
Carol Lawrence, 1934
Bob Newhart, 1929
Arthur C. Nielsen, 1923
John Cage, 1912
Arthur Koestler, 1905
Darryl F. Zanuck, 1902
Morris Carnovsky, 1897
Jesse James, 1847
Johann Christian Bach, 1735
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon for Muscular Dystrophy"(TV), 1966
"No Mother To Guide Her"(Play), 1905
Today in History:
Peter the Great of Russia imposes a tax on beards, in an attempt to Westernize his people, 1698
The First Continental Congress is assembled in Philadelphia, 1774
The French National Convention initiates the Reign of Terror, 1793
Napoleon surrenders Malta to Great Britian, 1800
Sam Houston is elected as the first president of the Republic of Texas, 1836
The First Opium war begins in China, 1839
James Glaisher, pioneering meteorologist and Henry Tracey Coxwell break world record for altitude whilst collecting data in their balloon, 1862
Sioux Chief Crazy Horse is killed, 1877
The First Labor Day Parade is held in NYC, 1882
The first gasoline pump is delivered to a gasoline dealer in Ft. Wayne, Indiana, 1885
The first legal forward pass in American football is thrown by Bradbury Robinson of St. Louis University to teammate Jack Schneider in a 22–0 victory over Carroll College (Wisconsin), 1906
The French Upper Volta is broken apart between Ivory Coast, French Sudan, and Niger, 1932
The first conference of the Non Aligned Countries is held in Belgrade, 1961
A Palestinian terrorist group called "Black September" attack and take hostage 11 Israel athletes at the Munich Olympic Games. 2 die in the attack and 9 die the following day, 1972
Voyager 1 is launched after a brief delay, 1977
The St. Gotthard Tunnel opens in Switzerland as the world's longest highway tunnel, 1980
The current international treaty defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, came into force, 1991
Tuvalu joins the UN, 2000
For the first time, a browsable, analysable overview of four million functional elements of the human genome discovered to date are made available to the public, 2012
The World Health Organization estimates that 1,900 people have died from the Ebola virus out of 3,500 infected in Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, and Sierra Leone, 2015
Erramatti Mangamma of Hyderabad, India, becomes the world's oldest living mother giving birth to twins at age 74, 2019
A 6.6-magnitude earthquake strikes the Chinese city of Chengdu while under lockdown, killing 65 people, 2022
An extratropical cyclone in Brazil's southern state of Rio Grande Sul claims at least 31 lives, as extensive flooding affects 60 cities, 2023
