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Feline Friday was originally started by Steve, The Burnt Food Dude (may he rest in peace), and i'm going to believe it's because he liked cats.
He handed hosting duties off to Sandee at Comedy Plus, and now she's entrusting it to me.
Feline Friday is simple to join. All you have to do is: Post a picture, drawing, cartoon or video of a cat (they may be silly or cute). Then add your link!
One thing for sure is this is a fun and easy meme to do. So come and join us in Feline Friday.
What better way to start the weekend than with a feline!
When i saw the names Purrlock Holmes and Dr. Whiskers i had to get photos, although they were not cooperative and these could have been saved for a couple of weeks to double as photo fails!
Purrlock is the blue, Dr. Whiskers the black and white.
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Friendly Fill-Ins are easy to do. There are four statements: the first two statements are provided by Ellen of 15AndMeowing, and the final two are offered by Lorianne The Menagerie Mom of Four-Legged Furballs. They try to make sure the statements will be fun to both answer and share. The linky will be posted at or about 12:00 AM on Friday. Please head over to one of their sites, link up, and share your thoughts!
First a head's up to Ms. Ellen, i have been trying to comment on your blog for 3 days and getting a 503 error. I promise i am not ignoring you!
Here are this week's statements with my responses underlined:
1. I'll never buy _________ from _________ again.
2. It's all fun and games until _________.
3. I once got lost _________.
4. _________ is the most normal thing about me.
1. I'll never buy anything from door-to-door salespeople again. (Exceptions for Girl Scouts selling cookies, those I will buy.)
2. It's all fun and games until the janitor tells you she's not going to clean it for you because you did it on purpose!
3. I once got lost in San Antonio, but i stopped for directions.
4. My hair is the most normal thing about me. It's gray, like it should be at my age.
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Nature Friday is hosted by LLB in Our Backyard. Simply post a picture of the natural world, and link up!
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Flashback Friday is hosted by FiveSibes. Come hop along memory lane with us!
A few photos from when i was not working full time and got to bottle feed kittens.
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Today is:
Apple Wassailing Day -- Carhampton, England (ancient tradition to bless the trees, waking the tree spirits and scaring away bad spirits)
Arbor Day -- Florida and Louisiana, US
Blessing of the Animals -- Hispanic Christian (in association with St. Anthony's Day)
Ditch Your New Years Resolutions Day -- no info on origin, but probably someone who gave up; will you?
Felicitas -- Ancient Roman Calendar (honoring the goddess of good luck)
Festival of Janus -- Ancient Roman Calendar (main festival for the god of beginnings, endings, and doorways)
Hot Heads Chili Day -- no clue what this one means, but i guess we can have chili for dinner
Kid Inventors' Day -- celebrating how inventive kids are; on the birth anniversary of Ben Franklin, who invented swim fins at age 12
Lee-Jackson Day -- Virginia, US
Liberation Day -- Poland (liberation from the Nazis in 1945)
Make Your All-Time Top Ten Favorite TV Characters List -- because nothing says you can't make your own top ten lists
National Hot Buttered Rum Day
Patras Carnival -- Patras, Greece (the town crier announces the opening ceremony, with festivities through Clean Monday)
Patrice Lumumba -- Democratic Republic of the Congo (Heroes' Day)
Popeye Day -- The Sailor Man debut in the comics this date in 1929
Professional Boxer's Day -- Ali's birth anniversary
Santos Tour Down Under -- Adelaide, Australia (professional cycling's first event of the UCI World Tour for this year; through the 21st)
St. Anthony the Great's Day (a/k/a Anthony of Egypt, Anthony the Abbot, Patriarch of the Abbots; Patron of amputees, animals/domestic animals, basket weavers, brush makers, butchers, cemetary workers/grave diggers, epileptics, hermits, monks, relief from pestilence, swine/hogs, swineherds; Hospitaliers; Burgio, Sicily, Italy; Canas, Brazil; Castrofilippo, Agrigento, Italy; Fivizzano, Italy; Fontainemore, Italy; Mook, Netherlands; Sant'Angelo Lodigiano, Italy; against eczema, epilepsy, ergotism, erysipelas, pestilence, Saint Anthony's Fire, skin diseases and rashes) related observance
Blessing of the Animals at the Cathedral -- Church of San Antonio, Mexico City, Mexico (where this saint is San Antonio Abad)
Vasant Panchami / Saraswati Puja -- Hindu (celebrating Saraswati, the goddess of knowledge)
fifth day of Magh
Zirgu Diena -- Ancient Latvian Calendar (Day of the Horses)
Anniversaries Today:
George Burns marries Gracie Allen, 1926
Octavian marries Livia Drusilla, BC38
Birthdays Today:
Kid Rock, 1971
Naveen Andrews, 1969
Michelle Obama, 1964
Jim Carrey, 1962
Susanna Hoffs, 1959
Anthony Glise, 1956
Andy Kaufman, 1949
Muhammad Ali, 1942
Maury Povich, 1939
Shari Lewis, 1934
James Earl Jones, 1931
Don Zimmer, 1931
Vidal Sassoon, 1928
Eartha Kitt, 1927
Betty White, 1922
Al Capone, 1899
Nevil Shute, 1899
Robert Maynard Hutchins, 1899
Mack Sennett, 1884
David Lloyd George, 1863
Anton Chekhov, 1860
Anne Bronte, 1820
Benjamin Franklin, 1706
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Frontline"(TV), 1983
"The Goldbergs"(TV), 1949
"Popeye the Sailor Man"(Comic character created by Elzie Segar, in the Thimble Theatre comic strip), 1929
"The Cherry Orchard"(Chekhov Play), 1904
"The Rivals"(Sheridan Play), 1775
Today in History:
Pope Gregory XI moves the Papacy back to Rome from Avignon, 1377
Cesare Borgia returns in triumph to Rome from Romagna, 1501
Giovanni da Verrazzano begins his voyage to find a passage to China, 1524
The Edict of St Germain recognizes Huguenots in France, 1562
England's Long Parliament passes the Vote of No Addresses, breaking off negotiations with King Charles I and thereby setting the scene for the second phase of the English Civil War, 1648
An avalanche destroys every building in Leukerbad, Switzerland, kills 53, 1718
Capt. James Cook becomes the first to cross Antarctic Circle (66° 33' S), 1773
The first cable car patented, by Andrew S Hallidie (begins service in 1873), 1871
Queen Liliuokalani is deposed, the Kingdom of Hawaii becomes a republic, 1893
Sir Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen, 1912
The first fully automatic photographic film developing machine patented, 1928
Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, credited with saving tens of thousands of Jews from the Nazis, is arrested by secret police in Hungary, 1945
The United Nations Security Council holds its first meeting, 1946
The Goldbergs, the first sitcom on American television, first airs, 1949
The Great Brinks Robbery - 11 thieves steal more than $2 million from an armored car Company's offices in Boston, Massachusetts, 1950
The world's first nuclear-powered submarine, the Nautilus, makes its maiden voyage, 1955
A B-52 bomber collides with a KC-135 Stratotanker over Spain, dropping three 70-kiloton nuclear bombs near the town of Palomares and another one into the sea in the Palomares incident, 1966
Harald V becomes King of Norway on the death of his father, Olav V, 1991
The Czech Republic applies for membership of the European Union, 1996
Mount Nyiragongo erupts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, displacing an estimated 400,000 people, 2002
Rioting begins between Muslim and Christian groups in Jos, Nigeria, which resulting in at least 200 deaths, 2010
Japan unveils plans to build the world’s largest wind farm near the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, 2013
Academics report that a pelvis bone discovered in 1999 may belong to King Alfred the Great or his son, Edward the Elder, 2014
WikiLeaks discloser Chelsea Manning's prison sentence is reduced from 35 to 7 years, 2017
Catherine, Princess of Wales has surgery for cancer while King Charles III has prostate cancer treatment, 2024
