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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!
We love rocks, and this is why we can’t stay clean on a walk.
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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 Lily.
lily doing her
job of bringing cheer and joy
felt quite flowerful
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The lily fell hard in love with a rose,
she was quite blooming mad,
and so she asked quite shamelessly,
"Want to see my lily pad?"
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"Sir," the doctor told him,
"I have some most grim news,
which of your bad pot habit
should make you change your views.
"You now have lung cancer
from smoking so much weed,
you're facing a grim prognosis
if you don't change your ways indeed."
"I don't get how it happened,"
the patient did reply.
"It's such a natural substance,"
and he heaved a heavy sigh.
"Natural doesn't mean safe,"
the doctor did respond.
"Cyanide's a natural poison,
natural with safe doesn't correspond.
"I also grow something natural
right in my own back yard,
If you sat under it ten minutes,
you'd end in a graveyard."
"What in the world could that be?"
he asked, "It sounds quite silly!"
"I promise it's true," said the doc,
"if you sat under my water lily!"
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Future themes are:
June 22 Lily (Today!)
June 29 Northern Lights
July 5 Moody
July 12 Bonsai Tree
July 19 Telescope
(All themes are from the 365 Days of Drawing Prompts and Other Arts Facebook group.)
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Today starts Take Your Pet to Work Week®! It's also Take Your Cat to Work Day®, as Pet Sitters International®, the same people who started Take Your Dog to Work Day® (coming up on Friday) believes this #MeowMonday is the perfect kickoff.
Thanks to Barb Kowalik and The Cat Blogosphere for the event badge.
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Today is:
Anti-Fascist Resistance Day -- Croatia
Bouphoria -- Ancient Greek Calendar (sacrifice of an ox to symbolize social order dissolving and being restored; date approximate)
Dairy Queen Day -- the first Dairy Queen® opened this day in 1940 in Joliet, Illinois
Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Great Patriotic War -- Belarus
Festival of 1 Lithe -- Hobbit Calendar
June Holiday -- NL, Canada (formerly Discovery Day)
King's Birthday -- Anguilla
National Chocolate Eclair Day
National Onion Rings Day
Soap Microphone Day -- grab your soap in the shower and pretend you are on stage! (promise i won't tell)
Solennität -- Morat, Switzerland (on Morat Commemoration Day, a Youth festival remembering the pivotal role this tiny town played in winning a battle in 1476)
Sólmánuðr -- Icelandic calendar, Sun Month, with the midnight sun dominating the time of year
St. Nicetas' Day (Patron of Romania)
St. Thomas More's Day (Patron of adopted children, civil servants, difficult marriages, large families, lawyers, politicians/politicos/statesmen, step-parents, widowers; Arlington, VA; Ateneo de Manila Law School; Pensacola-Tallahassee, FL; University of Malta; University of Santo Tomas Faculty of Arts and Letters)
Stupid Guy Thing Day -- included under protest; "guy things" aren't necessarily stupid, it should just be Guy Thing Day; sponsored by Wellcat Holidays, who want all women to just not count anything against guys today, but chalk it up to being a Stupid Guy Thing
Teacher's Day -- El Salvador
Anniversary Today:
Harry Houdini marries Wilhelmina Beatrice "Bess" Rahner, 1894
Birthdays Today:
Eric Stretch, 1980
Donald Faison, 1974
Carson Daly, 1973
Mary Lynn Rajskub, 1971
Kurt Warner, 1971
Amy Brennenman, 1964
Dan Brown, 1964
Randy Couture, 1963
Tracy Pollan, 1960
Freddie Prinze, 1954
Cyndi Lauper, 1953
Todd Rundgren, 1948
Meryl Streep, 1949
Lindsay Wagner, 1949
Pete Maravich, 1947
Klaus Maria Brandauer, 1944
Ed Bradley, 1941
Michael Lerner, 1941
Kris Kristofferson, 1936
William Ralph "Bill" Blass, 1922
Joseph Papp, 1921
Billy Wilder, 1906
Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1906
John Dillinger, 1903
Captain George Vancouver, 1757
Debuting/Premiering Today:
The Rescuers(Animated film), 1977
Lady and the Tramp(Animated film), 1955
Today in History:
Ptolemy IV of Egypt defeats Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid kingdom, BC217
Bilbo Baggins returns to his home at Bag End, (Shire Reconning), 1342
The Jewish quarter of Prague is burned and looted, 1559
Galileo Galilei is forced by Inquisition to "abjure, curse, & detest" his Copernican heliocentric views, 1633
A poisonous cloud from Laki volcanic eruption in Iceland reaches Le Havre in France, 1783
The British Parliament abolishes feudalism and the seigneurial system in British North America, 1825
Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee procession in London, 1897
The Flag of Sweden is adopted, 1906
The Flag of the Faroe Islands is raised for the first time, 1919
Erwin Rommel is promoted to Field Marshal after the capture of Tobruk, 1942
The Cuyahoga River catches fire, which triggers a crack-down on pollution in the river, 1969
The Canadian House of Commons abolishes capital punishment, 1976
Charon, a satellite of the dwarf planet Pluto, is discovered, 1978
The largest hailstone ever recorded falls in Aurora, Nebraska (7inch diameter, 18.75 inch circumfrence), 2003
Eastman Kodak Company announces that it will discontinue sales of the Kodachrome Color Film, concluding its 74-year run as a photography icon, 2009
UNESCO officially names Mount Fuji a World Heritage Site, 2013
An article in the Journal of the American Medical Association's Internal Medicine Journal claims that obese Americans now outnumber those who are merely overweight, 2015
Eurozone countries agree to a debt relief deal for Greece, signaling end to the country's economic crisis, 2018
The Russian volcano Raikoke erupts for the first time in 95 years from its 700m-wide-crater; the eruption is seen from International Space Station, 2019
The Japanese supercomputer Fugaken produced by the Riken Institute is declared the world's fastest and most powerful, 2020
UNESCO proposes Australia's Great Barrier Reef be put on the list of World Heritage Sites that are "in danger", 2021
Scientists note the first recognized use of a medicinal plant by an animal when a Sumatran orangutan male is seen treating a cheek wound with a poultice made of leaves, 2022
Beijing records its hottest June day since record keeping began in 1961 with a temperature of 41.1C (105.9F), 2023
