Laid Back Cat (Feline Friday), Friendly Fill-Ins, and Nature Friday

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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 has entrusted 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!

McKenna is one laid back cat.

McKenna, before i opened her catio door.

McKenna, after i opened the catio door to her litter box.

McKenna, while i cleaned her litter box.

McKenna, when i opened her main catio door.

McKenna, finally realizing someone is cleaning her catio.

McKenna, trying to get up and be a little hospitable.

McKenna, wondering if getting up is worth it this early.

McKenna, sniffing the food to see if i've put anything different from the usual.

McKenna, after realizing the food is the same.

McKenna, after receiving scritches.

McKenna, settling in to make biscuits.

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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!      

Here are this week's statements with my responses underlined:

1. My plans for June include ____________ and ____________________.

2. __________________ is the bravest thing I have ever done.

3. I swear by _________ as a cure for _________.

4. As if _________ wasn’t bad enough, _________.

1. My plans for June include   working   and   not much else.

2. Becoming a parent   is the bravest thing I have ever done.

3. I swear by   gargling with warm salt water   as a cure for   a mild sore throat.

4. As if _________ wasn’t bad enough, _________.   I'm not even going to try this one, it's like inviting something bad to happen!

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Nature Friday is hosted by LLB in Our Backyard.  Simply post a picture of the natural world, and link up!   

More crepe myrtles are blooming.  It's as if they are doing it a few at a time to keep the show going.

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Today is:

15th Khordad National Uprising -- Iran (1963)

Apple II Day -- the Apple II first went on sale today in 1977

     note that some historians say it went on sale June 10, others say the first models were shipped out that day

 

Arbor Day -- New Zealand

Festival of Popular Delusions Day -- begun as this was the last day before D-Day that the Germans could delude themselves that they could win; thus a day to question your own assumptions and try to align your beliefs with facts and reality

Grundlovsdag -- Denmark and the Faroe Island (Constitution Day)

Indian Arrival Day -- Suriname (marking the arrival of indentured laborers from the Indian subcontinent)

Labour Day / Sir Randol Fawkes Day -- Bahamas

Liberation Day -- Seychelles

Natalicio de Oblang Nguema Mbasogo -- Equatorial Guinea (President's Day)

National Attitude Day -- if this is really a day to celebrate, try to have a positive one

National Donut Day -- US (successor to the original Donut Day begun by the Salvation Army in 1938 to honor the women who served doughnuts to soldiers during WWI and as a fundraiser in Chicago, and it is still used as a fundraiser there for Salvation Army projects; look for a doughnut shop to give out freebies near you)

National Gingerbread Day

National Moonshine Day -- with its own sponsor     

Nones of June -- Ancient Roman Calendar; related observance

     Festival of Semo Sancus -- god of loyalty, honesty and oaths (one of the oldest Roman cults, probably Etruscan or Oscan originally)

Senior Race Day -- Isle of Man 

St. Boniface's Day (Patron of brewers, file cutters, tailors; Fulda, Germany; Germany; Saint-Boniface, Manitoba, Canada)

World Environment Day -- UN (this year's theme, "Connecting People to Nature") 

Birthdays Today:

Chad Allen, 1974

Mark Wahlberg, 1971

Brian McKnight, 1969

Kenny G, 1956

Jill Biden, 1951

Suze Orman, 1951

Ken Follett, 1949

Spalding Gray, 1941

Margaret Drabble, 1939

Bill Moyers, 1934

Tony Richardson, 1928

Richard McClure Scarry, 1919

William "Hopalong Cassidy" Boyd, 1895

Panco Villa, 1878

Adam Smith, 1723 (O.S. Date)

Thomas Chippendale, 1718

Pu Songling, 1640

Today in History:

Traditional date for the sinking of Atlantis, 8498BC

Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem in the Siege of Jerusalem, 70

Kraków, Poland receives city rights, 1257

The first Great Lakes steamer, the Frontenac, is launched, 1817

Houston, Texas is incorporated by the Republic of Texas, 1837

Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy, 1849

Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery serial, Uncle Tom's Cabin or, Life Among the Lowly starts a ten-month run in the National Era abolitionist newspaper, 1851

Denmark amends its constitution to allow women's suffrage, 1915

Elvis Presley introduces his new single, "Hound Dog", on The Milton Berle Show, scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip movements, 1956

The first government of the State of Singapore is sworn in, 1959

The Apple II, the first practical personal computer, goes on sale, 1977

Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi orders an attack on the Golden Temple, the holiest site of the Sikh religion, 1984

A severe heat wave across Pakistan and India reaches its peak, as temperatures exceed 50°C (122°F) in the region, 2003

The planet Venus makes its last transit of the 21st century beginning at 22:09 UTC June 5, and ending 4:49 UTC June 6, 2012

The Swiss vote to reject the referendum to give each citizen a guaranteed income of $2,500 Swiss francs per month, 2015

Puerto Rico declares its Zika virus outbreak to be over, 2017

Montenegro joins NATO, becoming its 29th member, 2017

The science journal Environmental Science and Technology publishes a study which estimates that the average person ingests 50,000 pieces of microplastic each year, and breathes in a similar amount, 2019

At least 50  worshipers are killed by gunman armed with explosives at St Francis Catholic Church, Owo, south-western Nigeria, 2022

Kathleen Folbigg of NSW, Australia, is pardoned after 20 years in prison for the murder of her four children after new genetic research shows evidence of genetic disorders which could have caused their deaths, 2023

The Przewalski's Horse, the world's only surviving species of wild horse, is returned to the Golden Steppe of Kazakhstan for the first time in over 200 years, 2024

It's Hard to Make Up a Foggy Mind (Six Sentence Story), Good Fences, Sammy's Poetry Day, and Brian's Thankful Thursday

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Ms. G had let me know she would not be at her house when i arrived but since i have a series of tasks to do whether she's there or not, it wasn't going to be a problem; the day's real problem was defined when she arrived soon after and told me there was an emergency, she had to go to the hospital to see someone and it wasn't a good situation, so could i please help her unload the car and do a few things and she had to run and probably wouldn't be back before i was finished.

Her sinus infection is mostly gone but she's been left with a cough and sometimes a brain fog which was in evidence as we emptied some things to go to the house and she chose what to put back and leave in the car and which items i was to run to Ms. Fiona for her.

We went in, then she asked where the cleaners were, which were some of the things we'd left, so i went back to the car for the cleaners to take them out in the back yard to be used when cleaning some things she'd left out there for me to tend, and then she said, "Well, you should probably use bleach, where's the spray bottle from the car?"

We'd also left the new spray bottles in the car, so i went to get one, coming back in to find her with the bleach and a spray bottle saying, "Well, I found a spray bottle so we won't need that one, just leave it on the table, and I think I left a loaf of bread in the car since I can't find it in her with the stuff we brought in, could you go get it?" and thus after a third trip back to the car and a fruitless search for the bread i came in and told her it was not in the car and she said, "Oh, that's right, I decided not to buy that."

Then she gave me specific instructions to tell Ms. Fiona she'd see her as soon as she stopped coughing (no need to take a cough, contagious or not, into a nursing home), and although she forgot to specify how i was to clean the objects she'd left outdoors for me although she was very forceful in telling me i should do it as soon as i got back so it wouldn't get to hot to be outdoors, and when she finally left, it gave me space to breath and get Ms. Fiona's stuff to my car.

I had a quick run to Ms. Fiona and then got to come back to clean the outdoor items, all of which will be put in the shed to get dirty again, but that's how we roll, and then i got to the regular list which was going well until she called to start asking for details (how much cat hair are you getting up, she's trying to gauge whether Sassy is almost finished spring shedding); she suddenly got a call with meant she hung up with me and by the time we crossed paths again she was coming home in the pouring rain and i was leaving as it was all done, which was fine by me.

Linking up with Denise at Girlie On The Edge Blog, where she hosts Six Sentence Stories, and the cue is Table.     

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While Good Fences Around the World seems to have gone the way of the dodo bird, i still enjoy looking for and posting interesting fences, so i will!

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It's Angel Sammy's Poetry Day!  This week's image and my poem:    

Oh de weather in Louisiana

tryin' to wash us away,

we are bruised and battered,

but here we gonna stay.

We love our old bayou

an' we're not gonna stray,

dey's jes' somethin' 'bout these swamps.

De water table's low an' den

de water table's high,

sometimes it rain so much

clo'es on de line don' dry,

when de hurricane's a comin'

dere's no blue up in de sky,

dey's jes' somethin' 'bout these swamps.

We gotta stick it out 'cause

dis jes be where we be,

an' when a place is home to you

dat's all you gotta see,

an' out here it be wild

an' we be's free,

dey's jes' somethin' 'bout these swamps.

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Angel Brian's Family of Brian's Home - Forever hosts the Thankful Thursday Blog Hop.   It's time to share something for which i am thankful.  

Today i am thankful we still have GusGus die Fledermaus, our Ford, for #1 Son to use while his car is being repaired.  I'm also thankful to know how to do both rooms and cages at the cat shelter, as someone had signed up for cages yesterday and i was able to just do the rooms instead, easy.

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Today is Hug Your Cat Day!  There are several such days noted for this on various websites; if you celebrate all of them, your cat will be well hugged! 

Thanks to Barb Kowalik and The Cat Blogosphere the event badge.

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Today is:

Audacity to Hope Day -- to encourage all to have the audacity to keep hope

Corpus Christi -- Catholic Christian

Emancipation Day -- Tonga (trad.)

Fardagar -- Traditional Icelandic Calendar (time when farm workers moved from one farm to another, the time to settle debts, and until the 20th Century, the day to start the fiscal year; always the Thursday through Sunday of the 7th week of summer)

Festival for Hercules Custos -- Ancient Roman Calendar (Hercules the Custodian)

Flag Day -- Estonia

Flag Day -- Finland (Armed Forces observe the birth anniversary of Carl Gustaf Mannerheim)

International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression -- UN

Jarila's Day -- Asatru/Slavic Pagan Calendar (Festival of Jarila, god of the sun and fertility)

Lassie Day -- the first dog to play the role of Lassie, in the movie Lassie, Come Home, was born this day in 1940

National Cheese Day -- not to be confused with Cheese Lover's Day earlier in the year

National Cognac Day

National Frozen Yogurt Day -- not to be confused with the Frozen Yogurt Day celebrated on Feb. 6 in Los Angeles, where the temperatures make such a thing possible

National Unity Day -- Hungary

Old Maid's Day -- supposedly established after WWII, when there were so many eligible young ladies who weren't getting any younger

Plynteria -- Ancient Greek Calendar (festival in Athens in honor of Athena; date approximate)

St. Petroc's Day (Patron of Cornwall and Wales, as well as many locations in Cornwall, Wales, and England, and Saint-Meen, France)

Birthdays Today:

Evan Lysacek, 1985

Russell Brand, 1975

Angelina Jolie, 1975

Noah Wyle, 1971

James Callis, 1971

Scott Wolf, 1968

Cecilia Bartoli, 1966

Sam Harris, 1961

Eldra DeBarge, 1961

Keith David, 1956

Parker Stevenson, 1953

George Noory, 1950

Bettina Gregory, 1946

Michelle Phillips, 1944

Joyce Meyer, 1943

Freddy Fender, 1937

Bruce Dern, 1936

John Drew Barrymore, 1932

Dr. Ruth Westheimer, 1928

Dennis Weaver, 1924

Robert Merrill, 1919

Rosalind Russell, 1907

George III, 1738

Aesop, BCE620 (not certain, but close enough)

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"Born in the USA"(Album release), 1984

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan(Film), 1982

"Cavalcade of Stars"(TV), 1949

Today in History:

Chinese astronomers make the first recording of a solar eclipse, BC781

Sir Walter Raleigh establishes the first English colony on Roanoke Island, old Virginia (now North Carolina), 1584

Forces under the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu take Osaka Castle in Japan, 1615

New England planters arrive to claim land in Nova Scotia, Canada taken from the Acadians, 1760

A transit of Venus is followed five hours later by a total solar eclipse, the shortest such interval in history, 1769

The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their montgolfière (hot air balloon), 1783

Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for the Kingdom of Great Britain, 1792

The Ottoman Empire cedes Cyprus to the United Kingdom but retains nominal title, 1878

Henry Ford test drives his first prototype automobile, the Ford Quadricycle, 1896

Massachusetts becomes the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage, 1912

A patent for the ATM is granted to Donald Wetzel, Tom Barnes and George Chastain, 1973

The Tiananmen Square protests are violently ended in Beijing by the People's Liberation Army, 1989

Solidarity's victory in the first (somewhat) free parliamentary elections in post-war Poland sparks off a succession of peaceful anti-communist revolutions in Eastern Europe, 1989

Falcon 9 Flight 1 was the maiden flight of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, 2010

Negotiations break down between Greece's leftist Syriza government and the European Union regarding issuance of additional bailout funding, 2015

A State of Emergency is declared after 20,000 tonnes of diesel oil spills near the Russian city of Norilsk, Siberia within the Arctic Circle, 2020

Nepalese Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli makes a desperate plea for vaccines amid his country's devastating COVID-19 second wave, 2021

Google signs an agreement with Chile to build the first submarine fiber-optic cable connecting South America and Australia, 2025