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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!
Grandma keeps asking if Annie still loves our little Ben, her brother, as sometimes small children get jealous of the new baby.
So far, she seems to do just fine 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
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 Beach Huts.
colorful beach huts
lined up as strand sentinels
bring back memories
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He said, "I'll be a beach bum
and build a nice beach hut!
I'll use a lot of driftwood
and live on coconuts!"
His beach hut he did build
of wood and many palm leaves,
and he had lots of fun there,
but in the end, he grieves,
Since he was only seven
he had to leave it untended
when his parents took him home
as their vacation ended.
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Future themes are:
Sept 14 Beach Huts (Today!)
Sept 21 Solstice
Sept 28 Bonfire
Oct 5 Rocket
Oct 12 Contents of the Safe
(All themes are from the 365 Days of Drawing Prompts and Other Arts Facebook group.)
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Today starts Adopt a Less Adoptable Pet Week. Petfinder.com wants you to remember just because a pet has some more unique needs doesn't mean s/he won't make a great companion. Remember, every age, disability or breed of pet can make your life fuller than you ever imagined. Our Tripod SissyCat did!
Thanks to Barb Kowalik and The Cat Blogosphere for the event badge.
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Today is:
Battle of San Jacinto Day -- Nicaragua
Cochabamba Day -- Cochabamba, Bolivia (festival of the founding of the city)
Eat a Hoagie Day
Eleven Days of Global Unity -- Day 4, Economic Justice (sponsored by We, the World)
Feast of the Triumph of the Cross/Elevation of the Life Giving Cross/Holy Cross Day -- Christian
Festivals and Matsuri of Japan -- several throughout Japan, today and for the next several, most as harvest festivals or traditional horseback archery rituals)
including the O Sannomiya Autumn Festival, Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Festival, Tono Matsuri, Kishiwada Danjiri Matsuri, Tsurugaoka-hachimangu Reitasai, Yachi Donga Festival, and Furusato Hyappei Festival
Hari Taika/Haritalika (Teej) -- CG, India; Nepal (Women's Festival, and in Nepal, a special holiday for Female Employees Only, to celebrate marriage)
Hug a Crabby Stranger Day -- okay, as long as i don't end up on the evening news
Jeans for Genes Week -- UK (convince your school or workplace to let you pay for the privilege of wearing jeans one day this week, with the money going toward research of genetic diseases)
National Cream-Filled Doughnut Day
Nutting Day -- British Isles tradition, the hazelnuts are supposed to be perfectly ripe on this day
Pilgrimage to the Black Madonna of Einsiedeln -- Switzerland
San Jacinto Day -- Nicaragua
St. Notburga's Day (Patron of agricultural workers, husbandmen, peasants, restaurant servers)
Tzom Gedaliah -- Judaism (Fast of Gedalia, a dawn to dusk day of fasting to lament the assassination of Gedalia the righteous governor of Judea)
Birthdays Today:
Amy Winehouse, 1983
Dan Cortese, 1967
Faith Ford, 1964
Wendy Thomas, 1961 (Namesake of Wendy's Hamburgers)
Mary Crosby, 1959
Sam Neill, 1947
Joey Heatherton, 1944
Nicol Williamson, 1938
Walter Koenig, 1936
Kate Millett, 1934
Harve Presnell, 1933
Zoe Caldwell, 1933
Constance Baker Motley, 1921
Clayton Moore, 1914
Stanley Ketchel, 1886
Margaret Higgins Sanger, 1879
Ivan Pavlov, 1849
James Wilson, 1742
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"The Golden Girls"(TV), 1985
"The Waltons"(TV Series), 1972
"Ironside"(TV), 1967
"Have Gun Will Travel"(TV), 1957
"The Turn of the Screw"(Opera), 1954
Today in History:
Domitian becomes emperor of Rome upon the death of his brother Titus, 81
Harun al-Rashid becomes Abbasid Caliph upon the death of his brother, al-Hadi, 786
The first lighthouse in the US, in Boston, is lit, 1716
George Frederick Handel finishes "Messiah" oratorio, after working on it non-stop for 23 days, 1741
Napoleon occupies Moscow; fires begin that will not be fully extinguished for 5 days, 1812
Francis Scott Key witnesses the battle which inspires him to write "The Defense of Fort McHenry", later retitled "The Star-Spangled Banner", 1814
George K Anderson of Memphis, Tennessee patents typewriter ribbon, 1886
President of the United States William McKinley dies after an assassination attempt on September 6, and is succeeded by Theodore Roosevelt, 1901
Groundbreaking for the United Nations headquarters in New York City, 1948
The Soviet probe Luna 2 crashes onto the Moon, becoming the first man-made object to reach it, 1959
The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is founded, 1960
The first American saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton, is canonized by Pope Paul VI, 1975
President-elect of Lebanon, Bachir Gemayel, is assassinated, 1982
Joe Kittinger becomes the first person to fly a hot air balloon alone across the Atlantic Ocean, 1984
The Toronto Blue Jays set a record for the most home runs in a single game, belting 10 of them, 1987
Kiribati, Nauru and Tonga join the United Nations, 1999
Historic National Prayer Service held at Washington National Cathedral for victims of the September 11 attacks; a similar service is held in Canada on Parliament Hill, the largest vigil ever held in the nation's capital, 2001
In a referendum, Estonia approves joining the European Union, 2003
NASA reveals the Space Launch Program to replace the Space Shuttle program, 2011
The Bodleian Library confirms that the earliest evidence of the zero symbol found to date is a Bakhshali (Pakistani) manuscript that carbon dating puts as coming from the 3rd or 4th century, 2017
Astronomers report a possible sign of life on Venus, after detecting phosphine in the planet's atmosphere by telescope, 2020
The US records its lowest level of poverty since records began in 1967, at 9.1%, 2021
A NASA probe into UFO sightings is inconclusive due to lack of what they call "good data," while not completely dismissing the possibility, 2023
The US Navy commissions its first mixed-gender submarine, the USS New Jersey, 2024
