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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!
These Muskogee ducks live in a pond near the cat shelter and hang out there as old cat food is used to feed them. They live a charmed life and are quite happy to block the parking lot, or sometimes even the street.
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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 Carousel.
The country's dictator
was quite contrary,
banned carousels
as revolutionary.
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No way I'm getting on the carousel
no matter how this may sound,
the last time I caught a cold there,
something was going around!
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the carousel is
the best ride at the state fair
the most horse power
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I once tried to talk to my date
on the carousel but had to wait,
we kept going 'round
with no sense, only sound,
and such talking in circles I hate!
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Future themes are:
February 9 Carousel (Today!)
February 16 Plants With Berries
February 23 Doughnut
(All themes are from the 365 Days of Drawing Prompts and Other Arts Facebook group.)
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Today is:
Clean Out Your Computer Day -- always the second Monday of February
Feast of Apollo -- Ancient Roman Calendar
Just Say No to Powerpoint® Week begins -- please, use something else, like communicating with your audience! begun by Nancy Stern
Love a Mensch Week begins -- because mensches are decent and responsible men and women, and we should appreciate how they enhance our lives; begun by Robin Gorman Newman
Narvik Sun Pageant (Vinterfestuka) -- Norway (annual festival held since ancient times to honor the sun goddess)
National Bagels and Lox Day
National DAV (Develop Alternative Vices) Day -- internet generated, in hopes that bad habits will be altered to positive coping mechanisms
National Read in the Bathtub Day -- just don't try it with a digital book, please
Oatmeal Monday -- Scotland (traditionally, at universities in Scotland, the day the students were allowed to go home and get more "meal", or oatmeal, and other supplies, as they had to provide their own food and fuel for the fires while in school)
Pizza Pie Day
Remembrance for Eyvind Kinnrifi -- Asatru/Slavic Pagan (martyr)
Royal Hobart Regatta Day -- Tasmania, Australia
St. Apollonia's Day (Patron of dentists; Achterbos, Belgium; Ariccia, Italy; Cuccaro Monferrato, Italy; against toothaches, tooth disease)
St. Maroun's Day -- Lebanon (Syriac Maronite Church of Antioch, an Eastern Catholic Church)
Toothache Day -- and someone thought this needed a day because...? Okay, I guess because there is a patron saint for it. Or against it. However that works.
Weather Day -- US (founding of the US Weather Service)
Birthdays Today:
David Gallagher, 1985
Ziyi Zhang, 1979
Mena Suvari, 1979
Shakira, 1977
Travis Tritt, 1963
Charles Shaughnessy, 1955
Judith Light, 1949
Mia Farrow, 1945
Alice Walker, 1944
Joe Pesci, 1943
Carole King, 1942
Janet Suzman, 1939
Roger Mudd, 1928
Brendan Behan, 1923
Kathryn Grayson, 1922
Bill Veeck, 1914
Gypsy Rose Lee, 1914
Ernest Tubb, 1914
Carmen Miranda, 1909
David Dean Rusk, 1909
Ronald Colman, 1891
Amy Lowell, 1874
William Henry Harrison, 1773
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Falstaff"(Verdi Opera), 1893
"Venice Preserv'd"(Otway Play), 1682
Today in History:
The Synod of Breslau orders Jews of Silesia to wear special caps, 1267
The first recorded race meet in England in Roodee Fields, Chester, 1540
The British ex-premier Walpole becomes the Earl of Oxford, 1742
After no presidential candidate receives a majority of electoral votes in the election of 1824, the United States House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams President of the United States, 1825
The U.S. Weather Bureau is established, 1870
The first Japanese immigrants arrive in Hawaii, 1885
The Davis Cup competition is established, 1900
The first forestry school is incorporated at Kent, Ohio, 1909
Snow falls on Mauna Loa, Hawaii, 1922
Brazil becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty, 1922
Year-round Daylight saving time is re-instated in the United States as a wartime measure to help conserve energy resources, 1942
Joanne Woodward receives the first star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, 1960
Jamaica becomes an independent nation within the Commonwealth of Nations, 1962
The Beatles make their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing before a "record-busting" audience of 73 million viewers, 1964
First test flight of the Boeing 747, 1969
Satchel Paige becomes the first Negro League player to be voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, 1971
Space Shuttle astronauts Bernard A. Harris, Jr. and Michael Foale become the first African American and first Briton, respectively, to perform spacewalks, 1995
A storehouse of thirty Egyptian mummies is unearthed inside a 2,600-year-old tomb, 2009
Australian National University scientists discover the oldest known star at 13.6 billion years old, 2014
Storm Ciara has the unintended consequence of causing the fastest supersonic journey from New York to London by a British Airways Boeing 747-436; the plane reached speeds of 1,327 km/h / 825 mph and the trip took only 4 hours, 56 minutes, 2020
United Arab Emirates is the fifth entity to successfully orbit a probe around Mars, 2021
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa declares a National State of Emergency over the country's electricity crisis, 2023
