Two Boy "Tocks" (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.

Since it's still "Tock-tober," i have two more that i managed to sneak up on.

(Please note the term "tock" for a cat's bottom was started in the Cat Blogosphere by Derby the Sassy Cat for his birthday month and is continued in his memory by his brother Ducky.)     

Mikey

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. _____________________ makes me nervous.

2. I should get rid of ____________, but I can’t because ________________.

3. My ideal home would include _________.

4. You would not find _________ in my ideal home.

1. Seeing a child who even remotely appears to be unattended in public makes me nervous.  Having been a champion child loser in my day, i am always on the lookout for lost children.

2. I should get rid of lots of books because of lack of space, but I can’t because i like them too much.

3. My ideal home would include a large library.

4. You would not find stainless steel appliances, glass stovetops, shower doors that require non-ammonia glass cleaner, or any other material that is a PITA to clean in my ideal home.

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Today is:

Alaska Day -- Alaska, US

Apple Butter Stirrin' --  Coshocton, OH, US (bluegrass music, crafts, family fun, and best of all, apple butter; through Sunday)

Anti-Slavery Day -- yes, there are still slaves in this world , find out how to help them here 

Clean Water Act Day -- US (considered by many a day to give thanks for water and open any who are grateful for clean water)

Fall Festival of Leaves -- Ross County, OH, US (celebrate the beauty of nature and of the arts of the region; through Sunday)

Fantasy Fest -- Key West, FL, US (a ten day costume party for grown-ups)

Hard Boiled Guy/B-Girl Day -- on the anniversary of the general release of The Maltese Falcon (initial release was in NYC on Oct. 3) 

Independence Day -- Azerbaijan(1991)

King Look Under Your Mattress's Unique Hiding Display -- Fairy Calendar (Finally! Proof, on the internet, that you do, indeed, need to look under the mattress!)

Magal de Touba -- Touba, Senegal (commemoration of the departure into exile of Ahmadou Bamba to Gabon, a Sufi religious festival, begins at sunset)

Mammography Day -- the third Friday of Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Missouri Day Festival -- Trenton, MO, US (parade, baby show, flea market, entertainment, and fun; through Sunday)

National Chocolate Cupcake Day

National Statistics Day -- Japan

No Beard Day -- internet generated, a day to shave, which is illogical in the northern hemisphere, with winter coming

Pandrosus Festival -- Ancient Greek Calendar (all-refreshing goddess, or all-dewy one; date approximate)

Pennsylvania Arts & Crafts Christmas Festival -- Washington County Fairgrounds, Washington, PA, US (over two hundred exhibits, plus food and entertainment; through Sunday, and next Saturday and Sunday, too)

Persons Day -- Canada (Marking the ruling that women are persons in 1929.)

Procession of the Lord of Miracles (Senor de los Milagros) -- Lima, Peru (Christian celebration of the Lord's miracles, with song, dance, prayers, and parades; through tomorrow and again on the 28th)

Stephen Foster Quilt Show and Sale -- Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center State Park, White Springs, FL, US (fun for quilters, and quilt lovers; through Sunday)

St. Luke's Day (The Evangelist; Patron of artists, bachelors/unmarried men, bookbinders, brewers, butchers, doctors/physicians/surgeons, glass makers/glasswrkers, gold workers/goldsmiths, lacemakers/lace workers, notaries, painters, sculptors, stained glass workers, Worshipful Company of Painters; Capena, Italy; Hermersdorf, Germany)

Watch a Squirrel Day -- internet generated, and different from squirrel appreciation day in January

World Menopause Day -- sponsored by the International Menopause Society

World Student Day -- International Fellowship of Evangelical Students   

Anniversaries Today:

Women in Military Service for America Memorial is dedicated, 1997

University of Heidelberg opens, 1386

Birthdays Today:

Zac Efron, 1988

Freida Pintoo, 1984

Lindsey Vonn, 1984

Vincent Spano, 1962

Wynton Marsalis, 1961

Erin Moran, 1960

Jean-Claude Van Damme, 1960

Martina Navratilova, 1956

Pam Dawber, 1951

Terry McMillan, 1951

Ntozake Shange, 1948

Joe Morton, 1947

Laura Nyro, 1947

Mike Ditka, 1939

Dawn Wells, 1938

Peter Boyle, 1935

George C. Scott, 1927

Chuck Berry, 1926

Melina Mercouri, 1923

Jesse Helms, 1921

Melina Mercouri, 1920

Anita O'Day, 1919

Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 1919

James David Brooks, 1906

A.J. Liebling, 1904

Lotte Lenya, 1900

Henri Bergson, 1859

Salomon Auguste Andree, 1854

Giovanni Antonio Canaletto, 1697

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"Once on This Island"(Play), 1990

"Roseanne"(TV), 1988

"The Girl Is Mine"(Single release), 1982

"Raisin"(Musical), 1973

The Jungle Book(Disney animated film), 1967

"The Apple Tree"(Musical), 1966

“The Yellow Kid Takes a Hand at Golf”(the first actual newspaper comic strip telling a continuing story (as opposed to a single cartoon panel, in American Humorist), 1897

"De Unges Forbund/The League of Youth"(Ibsen play), 1869

"Prometheus"(Liszt S.99), 1855

Moby Dick(Publication date), 1851

Today in History:

Pappus of Alexandria, Greek philosopher, observes an eclipse of the sun and writes a commentary on The Great Astronomer (Almagest), 320

Caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah destroys the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, 1009

Battle of Assadun (Ashingdon), Danes defeat Saxons, 1016

Basel, Switzerland is destroyed by the Basel earthquake, the most significant historic seismological event north of the Alps, 1356

Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima -- Takeda Shingen defeats Uesugi Kenshin in the climax of their ongoing conflicts in feudal Japan, 1561

The shoemakers of Boston form the first labor organization in the Colonies/US, 1648

The Mason/Dixon line is agreed upon, 1767

Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is first published as The Whale by Richard Bentley of London, 1851

The US takes formal possession of Alaska from Russia, for $7.2 million, 1867

Edison makes electricity available for household use, 1878

John Owen becomes the first formally timed person to run 100 yd dash in under 10 seconds, 1890

United States takes possession of Puerto Rico, 1898

The British Broadcasting Company (later Corporation) is founded, 1922

The Grand Ole Opry opens in Nashville, Tennessee, 1925

Texas Instruments announces the first Transistor radio, 1954

The Soviet probe Venera 4 reaches Venus and becomes the first spacecraft to measure the atmosphere of another planet, 1967

Azerbaijan becomes independent from the USSR, 1991

After 8 years in exile, Benazir Bhutto returns to her homeland Pakistan, 2007

Saudi Arabia becomes the first country to turn down a seat on the UN Security Council in protest over Syria, 2013