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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!
When i arrived for my shift at the shelter Wednesday morning, i saw this.
Who did it, and also, how did they manage to move their whole food bowl partially on top of the water bowl? Bert and Ernie, that's who.
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| Ernie |
Bert played hard to get.
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| Is that a nose i see peeking out from under there? |
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| Now i see a paw or two. |
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| There he is. |
They were both mum about how.
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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. I am glad I live near __________________________.
2. I am glad I don’t live near _______________________________.
3. I didn’t _________ until I was _________.
4. _________ made me truly laugh.
1. I am glad I live near the highway so it's easy to get to.
2. I am glad I don’t live near the dump, a nuclear waste site, my in-laws... (the last is a joke, we don't live far from Brother-in-Law and their parents have been gone for years).
3. I didn’t really start cooking a lot until I was married.
4. Old comedy shows made me truly laugh.
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Nature Friday is hosted by LLB in Our Backyard. Simply post a picture of the natural world, and link up!
While most of the geese now stay here all year, we do see them flying this time of year in formation, not because they are heading back here from further north but just because they fly from pond to lake to pond.
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Pet Photo Fails is hosted by Melissa's Mochas, Mysteries & Meows.
Eventually, Bert came out from under the cave Ernie was occupying and i thought i might get a better photo.
I was wrong, as he immediately wedged himself here.
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Today is:
Armed Forces Day -- Mozambique
Hug a Vegan Day / Hug a Vegetarian Day -- i'm open! please note that several dates are given on many websites for this "event," and i've chosen the final Friday of September which seems to be the original as sponsored by PETA
Indra Jatra -- Kathmandu Valley, Nepal (the biggest religious street festival in Kathmandu, celebrating of the founding of Kathmandu, with several days of chariot processions, masked dances, and tableau; today is the municipal day off for the festival)
International Ataxia Awareness Day -- highlighting the difficulties of living with the many forms of ataxia
Kamarampaka Day -- Rwanda (Republic Day, marks the 1961 abolition of the monarchy)
Love Note Day -- take pen and paper and send that special someone a love note today, the idea of Leona Hamel of QC, Canada; here are some good ideas on keeping romance alive
Manit Day -- Marshall Islands (Culture Day)
Math Storytelling Day -- the brainchild of Maria Droujkova
National Comic Book Day -- internet generated, but go read one, they are fun
National Crabmeat Newberg Day
National Day of Remembrance for Murder Victims -- US
National Doodle Day -- UK (fundraiser for Epilepsy Action)
National Food Service Employees Day -- because everyone wants to eat out once in a while
National One-Hit Wonder Day -- US, remembering those who had only one hit on the rock charts
National Psychotherapy Day -- US (a day to wear turquoise and encourage education about how psychotherapy can help people)
National Schnauzer Day -- begun in the UK, now celebrated internationally
National Youth Day -- Nauru; Turks and Caicos Islands
Native American Day 2026 -- US (begun in California, a day to honor all Native Americans, always celebrated the fourth Friday in September)
Old Holy Rood Eve -- OS calendar Holy Cross Eve, the last day to pick blackberries (after this, the devil poisons them because when he fell from heaven, he landed in a blackberry bush)
Sport Purple For Platelets Day(sm) -- Platelet Disorder Support Association
St. Cadoc's Day (Patron of the deaf; against cramps, deafness, glandular disorders, scrofula)
St. Finbarr's Day (Patron of Barra, Scotland; Cork, Ireland)
Sukkot -- Judaism (begins at sundown, through nightfall Oct. 2)
World Ataxia Awareness Day
World Pharmacists Day -- International Pharmaceutical Federation; this year's theme is “Think Health, Think Pharmacist”
World's Biggest Coffee Morning -- UK (Macmillan Cancer Support fundraiser, host or attend a Coffee Morning gathering or go to M&S Cafe, the official partner in the event!)
Zhong Qui Jie -- China (mid-Autumn festival)
Birthdays Today:
Lee Norris, 1981
Catherine Zeta-Jones, 1969
Will Smith, 1968
Scottie Pippen, 1965
Tate Donovan, 1963
Aida Turturro, 1962
Heather Locklear, 1961
Michael Madsen, 1959
Jamie Hyneman, 1956
Christopher Reeve, 1952
Mark Hamill, 1951
Cheryl Tiegs, 1947
Michael Douglas, 1944
Robert Walden, 1943
Juliet Prowse, 1936
Glenn Gould, 1932
Barbara Walters, 1931
Shel Silverstein, 1930
Phil Rizzuto, 1918
Dmitri Shostakovich, 1906
Walter Wesley "Red" Smith, 1905
William Faulkner, 1897
Jean Phillippe Rameau, 1683 (baptismal date, as actual birth anniversary is unknown)
Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, 1358 (Japanese Shogun)
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Beauty and the Beast"(TV), 1987
"Stepping Out"(Play), 1984
"Winterset"(Play), 1935
"Dorothy"(Comic opera), 1886
Today in History:
St. Ferment is beheaded in Amiens, France, after voyaging there to preach the gospel, 303
The Battle of Stamford Bridge marks the end of the Anglo-Saxon era, 1066
Columbus begins his second voyage, with 17 ships, 1493
Vasco Nunez de Balboa becomes the first European to see the Pacific Ocean from the west coast of the Americas, 1513
The first printing press in the Americas begins operations, 1639
Old Style date; two very accurate clocks are set in motion at the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, England, the start of Greenwich Mean Time, 1676
Ethan Allan, American Revolutionary War hero, is captured, 1775
Benedict Arnold joins the British, 1780
The first all-black university in the US, Howard University, is created by Congress, 1867
Yosemite National Park is established by Congress, 1890
Charles Follis becomes the first black to play professional American football, 1904
Birth of the remote control -- Leonardo Torres Quevedo successfully demonstrates the invention of the "Telekino" and guides a boat from the shore in the port of Bilbao, 1906
Jimmy Doolittle performs the first blind flight from Mitchel Field proving that full instrument flying from take off to landing is possible, 1929*
Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated by the use of United States Army troops, 1957
In a referendum, the people of Norway reject membership of the European Community, 1972
Belize joins the United Nations, 1981
The last of the Magdalene Asylums closes in Ireland, 1996
The Vitim event, a possible bolide (comet nucleus) impact in Siberia, Russia, 2002
China launches the spacecraft Shenzhou 7, 2008
The Wildlife Authority of Uganda announces that, since 1999, the population of some of the animals in the country's game reserves have doubled in population, 2010
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia announces that women will now be able to vote and run in municipal elections, 2011
Singapore closes schools due to hazardous levels of air pollution from fires in Indonesia, 2015
World's largest radio telescope at 500m wide in Guizhou Province, China begins operating, 2016
For the first time ever, a woman graduates from the US Marine Corps' Infantry Officer Course, 2017
Hazzaa AlMansoori becomes first Emirati in space and first Arab astronaut to travel to the International Space Station, travelling on Russian Soyuz-MS 15 spacecraft, 2019
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the first woman to lie in state in the US Capitol in Washington D.C., 2020
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