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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!
Some of you may not realize Pepper Jack, from the shelter, has this name for a reason. Check out his snazzy new collar.
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| Nice, isn't it. There's another side, just like him. |
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| You can see part of the word "Caution" on this collar. |
He's usually sweet, until he nips or swats, but we love him anyway and are still trying to find him a good home where they will work with him.
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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 Pot of Tea for Two.
Put the kettle on
we'll have a spot of tea
and a little gossip
just you and me.
We'll keep it very cozy
maybe a cookie or three
solve the world's dilemmas
just you and me.
When we've had our fill
I think we'll both agree
we're feeling much more cheerful
just you and me.
Future themes are:
November 24 Pot of Tea for Two (Today!)
December 1 Mole's Eye View
December 8 Peace
December 15 Coconuts
December 22 Fungi
(All themes are from the 365 Days of Drawing Prompts and Other Arts Facebook group.)
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Today is:
Brumalia -- Byzantine Empire celebration of Dyonisus and New Wine Festival; until the solstice
Celebrate Your Unique Talent Day -- there used to be a website associated with this day, but it closed; that's no reason for you not to celebrate your uniqueness!
Celtic Tree Month Ruish (Elder) begins
D.B. Cooper Day -- anniversary of the 1971 hijacking
Discovery Day -- Tasmania (by Abel Tasman in 1642)
Evolution Day -- On the Origin of Species published this day in 1859
Feast of the Martyrs of Vietnam -- Roman Catholic Church
Guru Tegh Bahadur Martyrdom - Sikh
Icelandic Calendar Month Ylir (Whiner) begins -- named after the whining winter wind
Lachit Divas -- Assam, India
Learn When To Start Thawing the Turkey Day -- US (USDA "Let's Talk Turkey" hotline 800-535-4555; Butterball "Turkey Talk-Line" 800-323-4848)
National Military Families Recognition Day -- US (by Presidential Proclamation in 1993, the Monday before Thanksgiving Day)
National Sardines Day
Persephone Day (a/k/a Kore -- Ancient Greek Calendar (celebration of her as wheel goddess of the underworld; date approximate, but she is often associated with St. Catherine)
Ragtime Day -- birth anniversary of Scott Joplin
St. Colman of Cloyne's Day (Patron of Cloyne, Ireland)
St. Joachim Ho's Day -- a Martyr of China
St. Mary of Cordoba's Day (Patron of martyrs)
Teacher's Day -- Turkey
Tori No Ichi -- Japan (the second "rooster day" of November, so called because it is held on the two or three days of the rooster this month, in which to wish good luck and prosperity at temple and shrine ceremonies around the country, and celebrate with a fair)
Use Even If Seal is Broken Day -- internet generated; observe at your own risk, always!
Birthdays Today:
Katherine Heigl, 1978
Brad Sherwood, 1964
Stanley Livingston, 1950
Rudy Tomjanovich, 1948
Dwight Schultz, 1947
Oscar Palmer Robertson, 1938
William F. Buckley, Jr., 1925
Howard Duff, 1913
Charles "Lucky" Luciano, 1897
Dale Carnegie, 1888
Erich von Manstein, 1887
Alben William Barkley, 1877
Scott Joplin, 1868
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1864
Bat Masterson, 1853
Frances Hodgson Burnett, 1849
Bram Stoker, 1847
Zachary Taylor, 1784
Laurence Sterne, 1713
Charles Theodore Pachelbel, 1690
Baruch Spinoza, 1632(O.S. date)
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Guys and Dolls"(Musical), 1950
Softball, as a sport, invented this day as a spur of the moment game at the Farragut Boat Club in Chicago, IL, US, 1887
Today in History:
Theodosius I makes his formal entry into Constantinople, 380
Rabbi Nathan ben Yehiel of Rome completes his Talmudic dictionary, 1105
The Thames River freezes, 1434
First observation of transit of Venus occurred (only 2, record event), 1639
Abel Janzoon Tasman becomes the first European to see Van Damien's Land, later renamed Tasmania, 1642
First Lutheran pastor ordained in America, Justus Falckner at Philadelphia, 1703
Mt. Vesuvius erupts, 1759
Charles Darwin publishes "On the Origin of Species", 1859
Luik-Visé-Maastricht railway opens, 1861
Joseph F Glidden patents his improved barbed wire, 1874
The first US absentee voting law enacted by Vermont, 1896
Clyde Coleman of NYC patents automobile electric starter, 1903
Radio Belgium makes its first transmission, 1923
The first woman pilot on a transcontinental air flight, Miss Ruth Nichols (Mineola, NY to Calif), in a Lockheed-Vega, took 7 days, 1930
In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens, 1932
Lee Harvey Oswald is murdered by Jack Ruby, 1963
During a severe thunderstorm over Washington state, a hijacker calling himself Dan Cooper (AKA D. B. Cooper) parachutes from a Northwest Orient Airlines plane with $200,000 in ransom money, and is never seen again, 1971
A national speed limit is imposed on the Autobahn in Germany due to the 1973 oil crisis; it lasts only four months, 1973
The communist party resigns in Czechoslovakia, 1989
By a margin of only 50.28% t 49.72%, Ireland votes to end the 70 year old ban on divorce, 1995
Ireland presents its austerity package to the European Union and IMF, 2010
Palestinian officials announce their plan to exhume the body of Yasser Arafat too determine if he was poisoned, 2012
An international research team publishes their discovery of 1,500 new viruses found in invertebrates, 2016
Former First Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa is sworn in as President of Zimbabwe, replacing ousted dictator Robert Mugabe after a 30-year tenure, 2017
Hong Kong’s pro-democracy candidates overwhelmingly win the district council elections in a strong rebuke to Hong Kong leaders, 2019
Scotland's Parliament passes a law making it the first nation to guarantee period products free to all women who cannot afford them, 2020
The Guinness Book of World Records declares Flossie, a cat in Great Britain, to be the world's oldest feline at age almost 27, 2022
A23a, world's biggest iceberg at 4,000 sq km (1,500 sq miles), begins to move again after being grounded in the Wendell Sea for more than 30 years, 2023
Amid criticism it isn't enough, a $300 billion climate deal is agreed to at COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, to help poorer countries deal with the effects of climate change, 2024
