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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!
Sometimes you just have to look at life from a different perspective:
Especially when your brother is sitting on you:
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Sparks, the brainchild of Annie of McGuffy's Reader, is on hiatus, so here's an Inspiring Quote of the Week in her honor.
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Delores and her friend Jenny are taking turns providing a theme for Poetry Monday, and i am trying my hand at participating. This weeks theme is Things That Cool You Down.
Ice cream
Brain freeze
Stay cool in the pool
Wet towel
Electric fan
Cold soup for the group
Lawn sprinkler
Slip-n-slide
Got it made in the shade
Best idea
I've heard
Stay indoors in your drawers!
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Today is:
Aphrodisia -- Ancient Greek Calendar (bathing festival of Aphrodite and Peitho [Persuasion]; through tomorrow)
Casual Pi Day / Pi Approximation Day (22nd day of month 7; 22/7 is the approximation of Pi)
Experimental Aircraft Association Airventure -- Wittman Regional Airport, Oshkosh, WI, US (world's largest sport aviation event, through Sunday)
Festival of Boredom and Reverie -- Fairy Calendar
Hammock Day -- don't know who came up with this one, but at the height of the dog days, it seems appropriate; on some sites listed as Summer Leisure Day
Hurricane Supplication Day -- US Virgin Islands (churches hold special services to pray against hurricanes hitting the islands this season)
International Childbirth Education Awareness Day -- can't find confirmation on this, but if you're going to have a kid, it's not a bad idea to get educated about what to expect!
King Father's Birthday -- Swaziland
La Guelaguetza a/k/a Los Lunes del Cerro -- Oaxaca, Mexico (folk dance, music and costumes, an extension of the celebrations of the Lady of Carmel, which used to be the feast of Xilonen, goddess of tender corn; now celebrated on two consecutive Mondays)
National Penuche Fudge Day
Ratcatcher's Day -- celebrated by the British dating of the Pied Piper story; celebrated June 26 in Hamelin, Germany
Revolution Day -- The Gambia
Soma-Nomaoi Festival -- Haramachi City, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan (Wild-Horse Chasing, a four day festival in which a thousand horsemen, clad in ancient armor, compete for possession of three shrine flags, and along the Hibarigahara Plain, men clad in white costumes attempt to catch wild horses)
Spooners Day (Spoonerism -- Named for William Archibald Spooner, English cleric and scholar who once fussed at a student because "You hissed my mystery lesson," told a groom it was "kisstomery to cuss the bride," and once accidentally referred to Queen Victoria as "the queer old Dean.")
St. Mary Magdalene's Day (Patron of apothecaries, contemplative life and contemplatives, converts, druggists, glove makers, hairdressers and hair stylists, penitent sinners, penitent women, people ridiculed for their piety, perfumeries and perfumers, pharmacists, reformed prostitutes, tanners, women; Anguiano, Spain; Atrani, Salerno, Italy; Casamicciola, Italy; Elantxobe, Spain; Foglizzo, Italy; La Magdaleine, Italy; against sexual temptation)
Stilt Dance Day -- Anguiano, Spain (a special stilt dance performed on the Feast of the city's patron, St. Mary Magdalen)
Birthdays Today:
George Alexander Louis Windsor, His Royal Highness Prince of Cambridge, 2013
Madison Pettis, 1998
Selena Gomez, 1992
Scott Dixon, 1980
Daniel Jones, 1973
Rufus Wainwright, 1973
Irene Bedard, 1967
Rhys Ifans, 1967
Shawn Michaels, 1965
David Spade, 1964
John Leguizamo, 1964
Rob Estes, 1963
Keith Sweat, 1961
Willem Dafoe, 1955
Alan Menken, 1949
Albert Brooks, 1947
Don Henley, 1947
Danny Glover, 1946
Estelle Bennett, 1944
Bobby Sherman, 1943
Kay Bailey Hutchison, 1943
Alex Trebek, 1940
Terrence Stamp, 1939
Louise Fletcher, 1934
Oscar De la Renta, 1932
Orson Bean, 1928
Bob Dole, 1923
Amy Vanderbilt, 1908
Alexander Calder, 1898
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, 1890
William Archibald Spooner, 1844
Gregor Johann Mendel, 1822 (Note: some sources say July 20)
Debuting/Premiering Today:
Plan 9 From Outer Space(Film), 1959
Today in History
King Edward I of England and his longbowmen defeat William Wallace and his Scottish schiltrons outside the town of Falkirk, 1298
The Swiss decisively defeat the Imperial army of Emperor Maximilian I in the Battle of Dornach, 1499
A second group of English settlers arrive on Roanoke Island off North Carolina to re-establish the deserted colony, 1587
Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean becoming the first Euro-American to complete a transcontinental crossing of Canada, 1793
In the Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Rear Admiral Nelson is wounded in the arm, and part of it is amputated, 1797
Death of Josef Strauss, Austrian composer, 1870
First ever motorized racing event is held in France between the cities of Paris and Rouen. The race is won by comte Jules-Albert de Dion, 1894
Wiley Post becomes the first person to fly solo around the world traveling 15,596 miles in 7 days, 18 hours and 45 minutes, 1933
Dezik and Tzygan become the first of Russia's Space Dogs, making a sub-orbital flight, which they both survived, 1951
Japan completes its last reparation to the Philippines for war crimes committed during WWII, 1976
Martial law in Poland is officially revoked, 1983
The second Blue Water Bridge opens between Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario, 1997
The Stonehenge World Heritage Site announces the discovery of a possible new henge, the biggest discovery at a major monument in over 50 years, 2010
Norway is the victim of twin terror attacks, on government buildings in Oslo and a youth camp at Utoya, 2011
Scientific studies reveal that dolphins have unique names for one another, much like humans do, 2013
The Brain Kids, a team of robots from Japan's Chiba Institute of Technology, wins this year's RoboCup, a robotic soccer tournament started 18 years ago to encourage new developments in the robotics field, 2015
Haha! that made me smile :-)
ReplyDeleteI liked the quote too :-)
Have a quotetastic Monday :-)
Staying inside works for me. When your skin is too hot you are in trouble though.
ReplyDeleteTwo little cuties to start my day.
ReplyDeleteHappy Monday!
Hammock Day needs to be made a national holiday.
ReplyDeletejust sayin'...
We love the motivation quote. Sometimes it is so frustrating we do want to quit, but we keep going, and it makes us feel better, and we will eventually succeed.
ReplyDeleteMimi,
ReplyDeleteYep, that's what I want to do these days...stay indoors in my drawers! It's too blooming hot to go outside! Well...it's probably a whole lot hotter there than here because of the humidity which sucks the life out of you and leaves you sopping wet. UGH!! July is ending soon, so you know this season has its days numbered. It'll all fade away faster than we can keep up, so it's best to live in the moment instead of wishing our days away. Stay cool and have a boogietastic week, my friend!
Awww on the kitties. So adorable.
ReplyDeleteLove the Spark. Great rules indeed.
Love the poem and I'll stay indoors in my drawers.
Thank you for joining the Awww Mondays Blog Hop.
Have a fabulous Awww Monday, my friend. ♥
ewe wee kittenz iz price lezz !! :) ♥♥♥
ReplyDeleteWow! That is quite visually confusing, with cats and depictions of cats, and funny angles.... no wonder the kitties also look a bit confused! Have a good week.
ReplyDeleteSuch cute kittens. Great spark and poem too.
ReplyDeleteThose kittens are SO adorable!! And clearly filled with wisdom!
ReplyDeleteI love the cat photos. :) (I love cats...an open secret...I have two of my own...two who believe they are the bosses around here!) :)
ReplyDeletethose kitty photos are precious and captions are sweet!
ReplyDeleteHappy Day to you,
A ShutterBug Explores,
aka (A Creative Harbor)
Those kittens are adorable in their little hammock!
ReplyDeleteGood treatment of the topic this week, Mimi - I stay indoors a lot in the hot weather :)