Arceneaux (Feline Friday) and Friendly Fill-Ins

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Feline Friday was started by Steve, The Burnt Food Dude, and i'm going to believe it's because he likes cats.

He has handed hosting duties off to Sandee, of Comedy Plus, and it's simple to join, just follow the link to Sandee's page for the rules and the code.

Arceneaux at the shelter looks a lot like our Dansig:

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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 favorite Peanuts character is ______________________.

2. I knew I was no longer a child when ____________________.

3. I was shocked when I learned that _________.

4. I always feel frustrated when I try to _________.

1. My favorite Peanuts character is Snoopy.  Snoopy for President!

2. I knew I was no longer a child when i stepped into a voting booth for the first time.

3. I was shocked when I learned that i was pregnant the first time.  The doctors had said, “No way.”

4. I always feel frustrated when I try to understand some people.  There are a few that there’s just no fathoming what they are doing and why.

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Today is:

Be Kind to Humankind Week:  Forgive Your Foe Friday 

Blackpool Illuminations -- The Promenade, Blackpool, Lancashire, England (five miles of spectacular lighting; through Nov. 3)

Chatter Champion Announced -- Fairy Calendar

Constitution Day -- Kazakhstan

Day of Satisfying the Hearts of the Ennead (Nine Major Gods) -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)

Festival of Charisteria -- Ancient Roman Calendar (a day to give thanks)

Frankenstein Day -- in honor of Mary Shelley (Interesting, when juxtaposed to the next entry.)

Huey P. Long Day -- Louisiana, US

International Day of the Disappeared -- Latin American Federation of Associations for Relatives of Detained-Disappeared

International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances -- UN

International Whale Shark Day -- WiseOceans has more information 

National College Colors Day -- US (win money for your favorite college by sporting your colors today and following the rules on this site) 

National Holistic Pet Day -- celebrating the growing interest in natural/holistic medicine for animals

National Toasted Marshmallow Day

Popular Consultation Day -- East Timor

Puyallup Fair -- Puyallup, WA, US (one of the top ten fairs in attendance in the world; through Sept. 22nd)

Santa Rosa de Lima -- Peru

St. Fiacre's Day (Patron of box makers, cab drivers, costermongers, florists, gardeners, hosiers, pewterers, taxi drivers, tile makers; against barrenness, fistula, haemorrhoids, piles, sterility, syphilis, venereal disease)

Talk Intelligently Day -- holiday thought up by someone tired of non-intelligent conversations (maybe with co-workers?)

Victory Day -- North Cyprus; Turkey

    Turkey's Hellespont Swim -- one of the world's busiest shipping lanes is closed so that over 300 participants can swim the Hellespont from Europe to Asia, a Victory Day commemoration of winning the Turkish War of Independence in 1922 against the Greeks

Wisconsin State Cow Chip Throw And Festival -- Prairie du Sac, WI, US (come try to break the state record of 248 feet; through tomorrow)

World Championship BBQ Goat Cook-Off -- Brady, TX, US (through Sunday)

Zucchini Festival -- Obetz, OH, US (family fun and zucchini; through Monday)

Labor Day, shmabor day!

What a dumb day!

You hire some jerk,

Then send him away,

To celebrate work,

By playing all day!

~ Garfield the Cat

While i may not agree with his assessment of the importance of Labor Day, Garfield is right in that this weekend has become a time for play, as evidenced by the following celebrations that always occur on this weekend around the US*:

Benton Neighbor Day -- Benton, MO

Britt Draft Horse Show -- Britt, IA

Bumbershoot: Seattle's Music & Arts Festival -- Seattle, WA

Cal Farley's Boys Ranch Rodeo -- Boys Ranch, TX

Central City Rock 'n' Roll Cruise-in & Concert -- Central City, KY

Cleveland National Air Show -- Cleveland, OH

Clothesline Fair -- Prairie Grove, AR

Colombia River Cross Channel Swim -- Hood River, OR

Colorado Balloon Classic -- Colorado Springs, CO

Commonwheel Labor Day Weekend ARts and Crafts Festival -- Manitou Springs, CO

Daniel Boone Pioneer Days -- Winchester, KY

Eastern Idaho State Fair -- Blackfoot, ID

Fort Bridger Rendezvous -- Fort Bridger, WY

Great Bathtub Race -- Nome, AK

Great Grove Bed Race -- Coconut Grove, FL

Harvest Wine Celebration -- Livermore, CA

Hog Capital of the World Festival -- Kewanee, IL

Hoisington Celebration -- Hoisington, KS

Hopkinton State Fair -- Contoocook, NH,

Iroquois Arts Festival -- Howes Cave, NY

Johnson City Field Days -- Johnson City, NY

Jubilee Days Festival -- Zion, IL

Lifelight Outdoor Music Festival -- Worthing, SD

Mackinac Bridge Walk -- St. Ignace, MI

National Championship Chuckwagon Races -- Clinton, AR

National Hard Crab Derby and Fair -- Crisfield, MD

National Sweetcorn Festival -- Hoopeston, IL

Oatmeal Festival -- Bertram/Oatmeal, TX

Odyssey - A Greek Festival -- Saint Barbara Greek Orthodox Church, Orange, CT

Old Threshers Reunion -- Mount Pleasant, IA

On the Waterfront -- Rockford, IL

Oregon Trail Rodeo -- Hastings, NE

Payson Golden Onion Days -- Payson, UT

Pennsylvania Arts & Crafts Colonial Festival -- Greensburg, PA

Santa-Cali-Gon Days Festival -- Independence, MO

Scandinavian Fest -- Budd Lake, NJ

Sta-Bil Nationals Championship Lawn Mower Race -- Delaware, OH

Snake River Duck Race -- Nome, AK

Taste of Colorado -- Denver, CO

Taste of Madison -- Madison, WI

Totah Festival -- Farmington, NM

Waikiki Roughwater Swim -- Waikiki Beach, Honolulu, HI

West Virginia Italian Heritage Festival -- Clarksburg, WV

Westfest Czech Heritage Festival -- West, TX

Wisconsin State Cow-Chip Throw -- Prairie du Sac, WI

Woodstock Fair -- Woodstock, CT

World Championship Barbecue Goat Cook-Off and Arts & Crafts Fair -- Brady, TX

*Note:  Some of these begin today, some begin Saturday or Sunday, and all go through US Labor Day, this upcoming Monday.

Birthdays Today:

Cameron Diaz, 1972

Michael Michele, 1966

Michael Chiklis, 1963

David Paymer, 1954

Timothy Bottoms, 1951

Lewis Black, 1948

Peggy Lipton, 1947

Frank "Tug" McGraw, 1944

Jean-Claude Killy, 1943

Elizabeth Ashley, 1939

Warren Buffett, 1930

Kitty Wells, 1919

Ted Williams, 1918

Fred MacMurray, 1908

Roy Wilkins, 1901

Shirley Booth, 1898

Huey P. Long, 1893

Claire Straith, M.D., 1891

Ernest Rutherford, 1871

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, 1797

Debuting/Premiering Today:

Twelve Years a Slave(Film), 2013

"Anna Lucasta"(Play), 1944

Today in History:

European leaders, in an attempt to end war "for all time", outlaw the crossbow, 1146

One of the largest naval battles in history, during the last decade of the ailing, Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty, begins between the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders, 1363

Capture of the entire Dutch fleet by British forces under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell, 1799

Founding of Melbourne, Australian, 1835

Founding of Houston, Texas, 1836

Hubert Cecil Booth patents the vacuum cleaner, 1901

The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway in south Louisiana, the longest bridge over water (continuous, not aggregate) that is not also a viaduct, opens, 1956

The Hotline between the leaders of the U.S.A. and the Soviet Union goes into operation, 1963

Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the United States Supreme Court, 1967

Guion Bluford becomes the first African American astronaut in space, 1983

NATO launches Operation Deliberate Force against Bosnian Serb forces, 1995

A commercial expedition to raise part of the sunken British luxury liner Titanic ended in failure, 1996

Harley-Davidson celebrates its 100th anniversary in Milwaukee with a parade of 10,000 motorcycles, 2003

India and Pakistan agree to release hundreds of fishermen and other civilians in each other's jails as part of their ongoing attempts to negotiate peace between their nations, 2005

Sumatra's Sinaburg volcano continues to erupt, two people are killed and 21,000 are evacuated from the vicinity, 2010

In Chile, 33 miners trapped half a mile beneath the surface make contact with their families for the first time in three weeks since the incidentally, 2010

Late author Terry Pratchett’s unfinished works are destroyed as per his request, 2017