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Happy Canada Day!!! Greetings and blessings to all of our friends from Canada, i hope it's a wonderful celebration today.
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Join us every Monday for Awww...Mondays. Post a picture that makes you say Awww... and that's it.
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There is no happy like sleeping cat happy:
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| Abigail, as content as she can be. |
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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 Drone.
What is that weird sound over there?
Something strange is flying through the air.
Out in the field that's across the street
A half a dozen people have agreed to meet.
They've set up hoops and what looks like a post
The neighbors are staring like they've seen a ghost.
It's a drone flying contest for which they prepare
They send their strange birds flying with care.
The drones whiz and whir and make such an odd sound,
As they do their fun tricks, then land on the ground.
Soon they take all their gear, they are ready to race,
Let's hope they have fun and win first place!
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Today is:
Canada Day -- Canada
Caricom Day -- Guyana; Saint Vincent and Grenadines
Cherokee Green Corn Ceremony -- honoring maize goddess Selu with thanksgiving for the maize harvest; date approximate, as many towns set their own times to celebrate
Constitution Day -- Cayman Islands
Creative Ice Cream Flavors Day -- a great way to start off Ice Cream Month; try a new one and you just might find a new favorite.
Day to Celebrate All the World's Creatures -- commemorates the day in 1975 that endangered species became internationally protected.
Distressed Elves Day -- Fairy Calendar
Doctors' Day -- India
Eastport Fourth of July and "Old Home Week" -- Eastport, ME, US (bounded on all sides by the Bay of Fundy and Canadian islands, the celebration runs through the 4th)
Emancipation Day -- Sint Maarten
Halfway Point of the Year Day -- related observance
Half-Year Day -- China
Hampton Court Palace Flower Show -- Hampton Court Palace, East Molesey, Surrey, England (the world's largest flower show; through Sunday)
Heroes Day -- Zambia
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Establishment Day -- Hong Kong
Hug a Cowboy Day -- always on Canada Day
Independence Day -- Burundi(1962); Rwanda(1962)
Intact Day -- celebrating genital integrity, as far as possible from the Feast of the Circumcision on Jan. 1
International Chicken Wing Day -- some sites say the 2nd, celebrate today or tomorrow, your choice
International Joke Day -- as declared by many internet sites, but i can't find out why today; then again, why not today?
International Tartan Day -- anniversary of the repeal, in 1782, of the Act of Proscription which banned the wearing of Tartans; celebrated especially by Scottish diaspora in Australia; New Zealand
July Morning -- Bulgaria (dates back to the '70s, young and old people hitchhike to the Black Sea in late June to greet the dawn of July 1 with Uriah Heep's hit song July Morning; began as a suble anti-communist protest, now in memory of the fall of communism and to celebrate the start of summer vacation)
Keti Koti -- Suriname (Emancipation Day)
Lawn Tennis Championships at Wimbledon -- Wimbledon, England (through July 14)
Madeira Day -- Madeira
Memorial Day -- Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Mount Fuji Official Climbing Season begins -- Japan (through Aug. 31)
Moving Day -- Quebec, Canada
National Boating Day -- US
National Ducks and Wetlands Day -- US (presidential designation in 1990)
National Financial Freedom Day -- can't find how this one started, but it's as good a day as any to take a good look at your finances, and start learning how to better manage them.
National Gingersnap Day
Republic Day -- Ghana; Somalia
Royal Nova Scotia International Tattoo -- Halifax, NS, Canada (through the 8th)
Sagrado Corazon — Colombia (Sacred Heart Holiday)
Skiraphoria -- Ancient Greek Calendar (festival of cutting and threshing the grain)
Sir Seretse Khama Day -- Botswana
St. Serf of Culross' Day (patron of the Orkney Islands)
Sts. Cosmas and Damian's Day -- Eastern Catholic Churches
Holy Healers' Day -- Bulgaria (a special festival for the two saints/brothers who were healers; celebrated especially by all healers, fortune-tellers, witches, sorceresses and herbalists)
Territory Day -- British Virgin Islands
U.S. Postage Stamp Day -- first US postage stamp issued this day in 1847
Yukon Gold Panning Championships -- Dawson City, YT, Canada
Zip Code Day -- US (inaugural anniversary in 1963; when you mail that letter, zip it up! no zip, slow trip; wrong zip, long trip)
Anniversaries Today:
Prince Albert II of Monaco marries Charlene Whittstock, 2011
Haleakala National Park established, HI, US, 1961
Mammoth Cave National Park established, KY, US, 1941
Dwight D. Eisenhower marries Mamie Geneva Dowd, 1916
Birthdays Today:
Hilary Burton, 1982
Liv Tyler, 1977
Ruud Van Nistelrooy, 1976
Missy Elliott, 1971
Pamela Anderson, 1967
Andre Braugher, 1962
Princess Diana, 1961
Carl Lewis, 1961
Michelle Wright, 1961
Alan Ruck, 1956
Dan Aykroyd, 1952
Deborah Harry, 1945
Karen Black, 1942
Genevieve Bujold, 1942
Twyla Tharp, 1941
Jamie Farr, 1934
Jean Marsh, 1934
Leslie Caron, 1931
Farley Granger, 1925
Olivia DeHavilland, 1916
William James "Willie" Dixon, 1915
Estee Lauder, 1906
Charles Laughton, 1899
Thomas Andrew Dorsey, 1899
Louis Charles Joseph Blériot, 1872
Ignaz Semmelweis, 1818
George Sand, 1804
Debuting/Premiering Today:
CourtTV(Network, now TruTV), 1991
"Nick at Nite"(TV), 1985
"The Liberace Show"(TV), 1952
"Mama"(TV), 1949
NBC(Network, first scheduled TV broadcast ever), 1941
Today in History
Tiberius Julius Alexander orders his Roman legions in Alexandria to swear allegiance to Vespasian as Emperor, 69
La Noche Triste: a joint Mexican Indian force led by the Aztec ruler Cuitláhuac defeat Spanish Conquistadores led by Hernán Cortés, 1520
Lexell's Comet passed closer to the Earth than any other comet in recorded history, approaching to a distance of 0.0146 a.u., 1770
American privateers attack Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, 1782
A system of the civil registration of births, marriages and deaths is established in England and Wales, 1837
U.S. Postage stamps went on sale for the first time, 1847
In the first instance of photojournalism, a French photographer's daguerrotypes of Paris riots were turned into woodcuts so as to be published in the weekly newspaper L'Illustration Journal Universel on this date in 1848
Keti Koti (Emancipation Day) in Suriname, marking the abolition of slavery by the Netherlands, 1863
The British North America Act of 1867 takes effect as the Constitution of Canada, creating the Canadian Confederation and the federal dominion of Canada; Sir John A. Macdonald is sworn in as the first Prime Minister of Canada, 1867
The Philadelphia Zoological Society, the first US zoo, opens; admission twenty-five cents for adults and ten cents for children, 1874
The world's first international telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States, 1881
SOS is adopted as the international distress signal, 1908
Grant Park Music Festival begins its tradition of free summer symphonic music concert series in Chicago's Grant Park, which continues as the United States' only annual free outdoor classical music concert series, 1935
NBC makes the first scheduled television broadcast, 1941
Tokyo City merges with Tokyo Prefecture and is dissolved; since then, no city in Japan has had the name "Tokyo" (present-day Tokyo is not officially a city), 1943
The merger of two princely states of India, Cochin and Travancore, into the state of Thiru-Kochi (later re-organized as Kerala) in the Indian Union ends more than 1,000 years of princely rule by the Cochin Royal Family, 1949
Zip Codes are introduced for the U.S.mail, 1963
The first color television transmission in Canada takes place from Toronto, 1966
The European Community is formally created out of a merger with the Common Market, the European Coal and Steel Community, and the European Atomic Energy Commission, 1967
Sony introduces the Walkman, 1979
O Canada officially becomes the national anthem of Canada, 1980
German re-unification: East Germany accepts the Deutsche Mark as its currency, thus uniting the economies of East and West Germany, 1990
The People's Republic of China resumes sovereignty over the city-state of Hong Kong, ending 156 years of British colonial rule, 1997
Saturn orbit insertion of Cassini-Huygens begins at 01:12 UTC and ends at 02:48 UTC, 2004
Smoking is banned in all indoor public spaces in England, 2007
The oldest European remains of a white man are discovered in Australia; the Manning River Skull may belong to a man born in 1650, predating the country's history that Captain James Cook was the first to land on Australia's east coast in 1770, 2013
Croatia becomes the twenty-eighth member of the European Union, 2013
Greece becomes the first developed country to default on loans from the International Monetary Fund, 2015
Tedros Adhanom takes office as first African Director-General of the World Health Organization, 2017
Abigail is a beauty - and I thoroughly enjoyed your poem. Too often I think of 'those drones' as an invasion of privacy and a nuisance and forget the fun factor. Thank you for the reminder.
ReplyDeleteWhen I saw Abigail, for just a second I thought I was looking at my Lola, they're so alike. I'm not a fan of drones, as a toy they're okay, but there are models with cameras and others that can deliver stuff, who knows what they are looking at and reporting about?
ReplyDeleteAbigail makes me feel like getting onto my bed to take a nap. I am still amazed at drones flying over us. I hope they are used for good purposes.
ReplyDeleteThat was a great poem about drones. Not many fly them for fun here, but I have seen them help fighting fires and was amazed at their versatility.
ReplyDeleteWe try hard to run the day, but sometimes the day gets ahead and runs us! Have a great week.
ReplyDeleteI'd leave a longer comment, but I have to go look for a cowboy...
ReplyDeleteIce cream is my favorite food group, so I am more than willing to celebrate New Flavors Day. Have a blessed week.
ReplyDeleteThank you Mimi. Yes it's a special day for me, Canada Day and in three days, you will have your special day. See ya.
ReplyDeleteCruisin Paul
Awww, a sleeping kitty is indeed a wonderful thing.
ReplyDeleteI love your Spark. It's so very true.
Thank you for joining the Awww Mondays Blog Hop.
Have a fabulous Awww Monday, my friend. ♥
Enjoy your nap sweetie! I love the spark - thanks!
ReplyDeleteMimi,
ReplyDeleteGreat poem for 'drone'! Such a cool invention if not misused. Oh yeah, I forgot July is National Ice Cream month. As if I need an excuse to eat ice cream. Nope, I enjoy it anytime the mood arises or just because. I never try of it. :) Thanks for dropping by for a visit. Have a safe and happy 4th, my friend!
That is such a happy snoozy! Happy Canada Day to all of our Canadian pals!
ReplyDeleteAww! Abigail looking so cute heheh!
ReplyDeleteAww, Abigail looks very relaxed :)
ReplyDeleteGreat poem - another completely different take on the topic!
My two roomies, Remy and Shama are presently snuggled up like Abigail! :)
ReplyDeleteA drne flying contest. Now there's something I'd show up to watch. Great job.
ReplyDeleteAbigail ~ you are a beauty ~ ^_^
ReplyDeleteHappy Day to you,
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