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Awww Monday is hosted by Sandee at Comedy Plus.
Join us every Monday for Awww...Mondays. Post a picture that makes you say Awww... and that's it.
Make sure you get the code from Sandee's site, linked above, and leave a link to your post so we can visit you. What better way to start the week than with a smile!
Binx says there's no need to get out of bed/hammock to have a meal.
His brother Alex disagrees and got out of the hammock to wait for his turn.
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Sparks is the brainchild of Annie of McGuffy's Reader, who wanted us to post something positive and uplifting at the start of the week. While she no longer blogs, i like to post an Inspiring Quote of the Week in her honor.
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Our dear friend Diane is taking a break
accommodations we must make
we miss her poetry and wit
so carry on as Poetry Monday's a hit!
Poetry Monday was started by Diane at On The Alberta/Montana Border. Charlotte/Mother Owl and i are keeping it going while she takes a blog break, we hope temporarily. Anyone else is welcome to join in the fun, just let us know!
This week the theme is Funeral.
I gotta tell a story,
it really will explain
why there will be a sign
though it will look quite insane.
It'll be at Grandma's funeral
which we hope is none too soon,
but we'll have to tell the story so
you won't take us all for loons.
Several years go when Grandma's
best friend's mother died,
Grandma was at the wake
and lots of tears were cried.
Then Grandma and her friend
were at the casket looking down
when the friend said some words
which often get thrown around.
"Doesn't she look good?"
Were the words Ms. Claudia said,
and Grandma's response popped out,
"No, Claudia, she looks dead!"
Well. Grandma put her hand over
her lips and about passed out
in horror of what had slipped,
but Claudia laughed with a shout!
"Oh, thank you so much!"
Claudia said with glee,
"You have no idea, this has
done such good for me.
"What you said has cheered
me up to no end,
thanks for telling the truth
and being such a friend!"
Ms. Claudia wasn't angry
and Grandma made a rule,
over her casket none will stand
and say those words so uncool.
Over her body will be a sign
by her order and design:
The Deceased Does Not Want You to Stand Over Her and Say, "Doesn't She Look Good?" The Deceased Wishes to Inform You, She Does Not Look Good, She Looks Dead!
(True story!)
Future themes are:
November 3 Funeral (Today!)
November 10 Dismembered
November 17 In a Cave
November 24 Pot of Tea for Two
December 1 Mole's Eye View
(All themes are from the 365 Days of Drawing Prompts and Other Arts Facebook group.)
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Today is:
Apaturia -- Ancient Greek Calendar (a three day meeting of the clans and welcoming newcomers and children into the community; date approximate)
Betcha Festival -- Onomichi, Japan (men in costume "beat" children with bamboo whisks to prevent them getting ill in the coming year)
Bunka no hi -- Japan (Culture Day)
Cliche Day -- get them all out of your system today; sponsored by Wellcat Holidays
Cuenca Day -- Cuenca, Ecuador
Housewives' Day -- birth anniversary of Roseanne Barr
Independence Day -- Dominica(1978); Federated States of Micronesia(1986); Panama (also called Separation Day, separating from Colombia in 1903)
International Stress Awareness Week -- UK (International Stress Management Association; through Friday)
Job Action Day -- a day for workers and job seekers to put job or career in the forefront, make plans, and take action
Let Someone Have the Last Word Day -- internet generated, probably so you will quit with the cliches
Marlborough Provincial Anniversary Day -- Marlborough, New Zealand
National Day -- Tonga(obs.)
Recreation Day -- Tasmania, Australia
Sandwich Day -- birth anniversary of John Montague, Fourth Earl of Sandwich and reputed inventor of the food item which bears his name; make yourself a really good one in his memory
SOS Day -- on this date in 1906 the Second International Radio Telegraphic Conference at Berlin, Germany, proposed it as the new wireless distress signal to replace CQD (Come Quick, Danger)
St. Hubert's Day (Patron of archers, dogs, forest workers, furriers, hunters and hunting, machinists, mathematicians, metal workers, opticians, precision instrument makers, smelters, trappers; Liege, Belgium; Saint-Hubert, Belgium; against dog bites, hydrophobia/rabies)
St. Martin de Porres' Day (Patron of African-Americans, bargers/hair stylists, inter-racial justice, hotel-keepers/innkeepers, paupers, persons of mixed race, poor people, public education, public health, public schools, race relations/racial harmony, social justice, state schools, television; Biloxi, MI, US; Peru)
St. Pirminius' Day (Patron of Monsheim, Germany; against poisoning, snake bite)
St. Winifred's Day (Patron of incest victims, martyrs; Gwytherin, Wales; Holywell, Wales; Shrewsbury, England)
Traffic Director's Day -- Traffic Directors Guild of America (those who are Traffic Managers, Inventory Control Specialists, Revenue Managers, or many other terms in the broadcasting and mobile industries, including radio and TV traffic directors, who always schedule your favorite shows when you just can't watch, and put more and more commercials in when they can; on the Monday nearest the anniversary of the first commercial radio broadcast in Pittsburgh in 1922)
Tunnel Day -- NY, NY, US (anniversary of the start of the first subway tunnel in 1900)
Victory Day -- Maldives
Birthdays Today:
Gemma Ward, 1987
Evgeny Plushenko, 1982
Dolph Lundgren, 1959
Phil Simms, 1956
Adam Ant, 1954
Kathy Kinney, 1954
Kate Capshaw, 1953
Dennis Miller, 1953
Roseanne, 1952
Steve Landesberg, 1945
Ken Berry, 1933
Michael Dukakis, 1933
Monica Vitti, 1933
Charles Bronson, 1921
Bob Feller, 1918
Bronislau "Bronko" Nagurski, 1908
Edward Douglass White, 1845
William Cullen Bryant, 1794
Stephen Fuller Austin, 1793
Thomas Kyd, 1558
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Diff'rent Strokes"(TV), 1978
"Good Morning America"(TV), 1973
Play Misty for Me(Film, NYC release date), 1971
"The Unsinkable Molly Brown"(Musical), 1960
"A Connecticut Yankee"(Musical), 1927
Today in History:
Umar ibn al-Khattab, the second Muslim caliph, is killed by a Persian slave in Medina, 644
Christopher Columbus first sights the island of Dominica in the Caribbean Sea, 1493
The English parliament accepts the Act of Supremacy, declaring Henry VIII to be the leader of the Church of England, 1534
Great Patent is granted to Plymouth Colony, 1620
A great panic occurs in Europe over the close approach of a comet, 1679
Spain acquires Louisiana, 1762
The Bank of Montreal, Canada's oldest chartered bank, opens in Montreal, Quebec, 1817
The Times of India, the world's most widely circulated English language daily broadsheet newspaper, is founded as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce, 1838
John W. Menard, of Louisiana, becomes the first African-American elected to Congress, 1868
"Black Bart the Poet", stagecoach robber, commits his last robbery, leaving behind a clue that leads to his capture, 1883
J.H. Hunter patents a portable weighing scale, 1896
Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market, 1911
The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2. On board is the first animal to enter orbit, a dog named Laika, 1957
NASA launches Mariner 10 toward Mercury; it would later become the first probe to reach that planet, 1973
Dutch and British astronomers find spiral nebula Dwingeloo 1, 1994
Pervez Musharraf declares emergency rule across Pakistan, suspending the Constitution, 2007
US Border Patrol discovers a sophisticated tunnel used by drug smugglers from Tijuana, Mexico to Otay Mesa, California, 2010
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon calls for global action on climate change after warning from scientists, 2014
New York's 104-storey One World Trade Center officially opens 13 years after the September 11 attacks, 2014
Air pollution levels in Delhi, India reach such high levels that authorities declare a public health emergency, 2019
South African writer Damon Galgut wins literature's Booker Prize for his novel "The Promise", 2021
Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki erupts on Flores Island in eastern Indonesia, 2024
