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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!
Little Ben is learning life by observing, and he is always observing. He doesn’t want you to sit with him, he wants you to stand and walk around and show him things.
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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 has left it to us
and we're not going to make a fuss,
we miss her poetry and wit
but 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 Big bird.
A man came into a restaurant
an ostrich by his side
and asked for a table for two
as the staff looked on wide-eyed.
They sat and looked at a menu,
and soon the gentleman said,
"I'll have a burger and fries."
"Me, too," the bird nodded her head.
When the bill came due,
the man as if it wasn't strange
reached into his pocket
and pulled out the exact change.
This went on once a week for a month,
the bird ordering the same as the gent,
and he always paid for everything
with exact change, down to the cent.
Finally, a staffer asked him,
what in the world was the deal,
the ostrich and the money,
was all of this even real?
The man said, "I found a bottle
and you know what happened then,
I got to make three wishes,
for whatever I had a yen.
"I wished for long, healthy life,
that seemed normal enough,
but running out of money
would make a long life tough.
"I wished for just what I need
no matter what I buy,
from a stick of gum to a yacht,
I have just that much to apply.
"Of course, we know the story,
you always trip up on your third,
A chick with long legs who always agrees,
is how I got the Big Bird."
Future themes are:
Nov 2 Big bird (Today!)
Nov 9 Planes
Nov 16 Fairy tales
Nov 23 Earthquake
Nov 30 Oasis
(All themes are from the 365 Days of Drawing Prompts and Other Arts Facebook group.)
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Today is:
All Souls' Day -- Christian (celebrations in Ecuador are among the most colorful; 2nd of the Dias de los Muertos in Mexico) related observances:
Dead Relatives' Day -- Sicily
Dia de Finados -- Brazil; Portugal
Aztec Day of the Dead -- Ancient Aztec Calendar (date approximate)
Balfour Declaration Day -- Israel
Cookie Monster's Birthday -- go have a cookie to celebrate! (but only after your dinner, as Cookie Monster now points out; boy, things have changed)
Coronation of Haile Selassie -- Rastafarian
Dveselu Diena -- Ancient Latvian Calendar (day for families to gather with the spirits of their ancestors at the graveyard to celebrate the continuity of life)
Festival of Hathor -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)
Indian Arrival Day / Arrival of Indentured Laborers' Day -- Mauritius
International Day to End Impunity -- International (calling for the ending impunity for crimes against journalists and media workers)
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
Karatsu Kunchi -- Karatsu and Saga, Japan
Look for Circles Day -- internet generated, and we run in circles looking for who created it and why!
Marlborough Provincial Anniversary Day -- Marlborough, New Zealand
National Day/Constitution Day -- Tonga(obs.)
National Deviled Egg Day
Plan Your Epitaph Day -- sponsored by Dead or Alive of Arcata, CA, because a forgettable epitaph is almost a fate worse than death, so make plans to do yours right!
Practice Being Psychic Day -- but you already knew that, didn't you?
Recreation Day -- Tasmania, Australia
Refuse to Capitalize the First Letters in Your Name Day -- k.d.lang's birth anniversary
Soulcaker's Play -- Cheshire, UK
St Eustachius' Day (Patron of difficult situations, fire prevention, firefighters, hunters and hunting, torture victims, trappers; Madrid, Spain; Poli, Italy; against fire and torture)
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)
World Ballet Day
Anniversaries Today:
North Dakota becomes the 39th US State, 1889
South Dakota becomes the 40th US State, 1889
Birthdays Today:
k.d. lang, 1961
Shere Hite, 1942
Stephanie Powers, 1942
Pat Buchanan, 1938
Ray Walston, 1914
Burt Lancaster, 1913
Paul Ford, 1901
Warren G. Harding, 1865
James K. Polk, 1795
Marie Antionette, 1755
Daniel Boone, 1734
Debuting/Premiering Today:
The Spruce Goose makes its first (only) flight, 1947
KDKA Radio Pittsburgh, PA, US makes the first scheduled radio broadcast, of election results, 1920
Today in History:
The African Free School, the first free school in NYC, opens, 1787
The popular vote for US president is first recorded and Andrew "By God" Jackson (a/k/a Old Hickory) defeats John Quincy Adams, 1824
New Zealand officially adopts a standard time to be observed nationally, 1868
Johnny Campbell officially leads the crowd in cheering at a University of Minnesota football game, the official birth of cheerleading, 1898
The British newspaper the "Daily Mirror" begins publication, 1903
The Balfour Declaration proclaims British support for the "establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people" with the clear understanding "that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities", 1917
Charlotte Woodward, who attended the historic Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention of 1848, becomes the only one of the women who attended to live long enough to cast a vote in a national election, 1920
Australia's Qantas Airways begins service, 1922
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is established, 1936
In California, designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden (and only) flight of the Spruce Goose; the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built, 1947
Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the Lady Chatterley's Lover case, 1960
The Morris worm, the first internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT, 1988
The International Space Station becomes permanently staffed, 2000
China makes its first orbital docking as its unmanned Shenzhou 8 spacecraft successfully docks with the orbiting Tiangong 1 space station module, 2011
The New York Marathon is cancelled due to the damage from Hurricane Sandy, 2012
Separatists in Eastern Ukraine hold elections in Donetsk and Luhansk; Russia will recognize the elected leaders, but Ukraine and Western nations declare the elections illegitimate, 2014
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull scraps Knights and Dames from Australia's honours system, 2015
The Chicago Cubs defeat the Cleveland Indians in the World Series, ending the longest MLB championship drought at 108 years, 2016
The government of Ethiopia and Tigrayan authorities reach a peace agreement after two years of talks in South Africa, 2021
Apple Records releases the last Beatles song "Now and Then;” the song was built from an unfinished John Lennon demo and created using AI technology, 2023
Kemi Badenoch becomes the first black woman to lead a major British political party when elected leader of the Conservative Party, 2024
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