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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!
Some pictures of Gracie, my friend in Mobile's Small Bad Dog:
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| What do you mean, I'm not supposed to be in the laundry cart? |
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| She loves to wear her dresses. |
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| She enjoys rides in her pram. |
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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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Poetry Monday was started by Diane at On The Alberta/Montana Border. She and Jenny at Procrastinating Donkey take turns providing a theme each week. Charlotte/Mother Owl almost always participates, too. This week the theme is The Pandemic.
My doctor says to wear a mask
It's really not to much to ask,
So i do it, every day,
And this is what i have to say,
It never did occur to me,
That someday there would be
A garment i'd wear that i'd hate more
Than the bra that i abhor!
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Today is:
Anti-Fascist Resistance Day -- Croatia
Bouphoria -- Ancient Greek Calendar (sacrifice of an ox to symbolize social order dissolving and being restored; date approximate)
Dairy Queen Day -- the first Dairy Queen® opened this day in 1940 in Joliet, Illinois
Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Great Patriotic War -- Belarus
Discovery Day -- NL, Canada
Elfin Music Festival -- Fairy Calendar
Festival of 1 Lithe -- Hobbit Calendar
National Chocolate Eclair Day
National Onion Rings Day
Organic Act Day -- US Virgin Islands (commemorates the organization of how the islands are governed)
Sagrado Corazon -- Colombia (Sacred Heart Holiday)
Soap Microphone Day -- grab your soap in the shower and pretend you are on stage! (promise i won't tell)
Solennität -- Morat, Switzerland (on Morat Commemoration Day, a Youth festival remembering the pivotal role this tiny town played in winning a battle in 1476)
Solmanudor -- Icelandic calendar, Sun Month, with the midnight sun dominating the time of year
St. Nicetas' Day (Patron of Romania)
St. Thomas More's Day (Patron of adopted children, civil servants, difficult marriages, large families, lawyers, politicians/politicos/statesmen, step-parents, widowers; Arlington, VA; Ateneo de Manila Law School; Pensacola-Tallahassee, FL; University of Malta; University of Santo Tomas Faculty of Arts and Letters)
Stupid Guy Thing Day -- included under protest; "guy things" aren't necessarily stupid, it should just be Guy Thing Day; sponsored by Wellcat Holidays, who want all women to just not count anything against guys today, but chalk it up to being a Stupid Guy Thing
Teacher's Day -- El Salvador
Anniversary Today:
Harry Houdini marries Wilhelmina Beatrice "Bess" Rahner, 1894
Birthdays Today:
Eric Stretch, 1980
Donald Faison, 1974
Carson Daly, 1973
Mary Lynn Rajskub, 1971
Kurt Warner, 1971
Amy Brennenman, 1964
Dan Brown, 1964
Randy Couture, 1963
Tracy Pollan, 1960
Freddie Prinze, 1954
Cyndi Lauper, 1953
Todd Rundgren, 1948
Meryl Streep, 1949
Lindsay Wagner, 1949
Pete Maravich, 1947
Klaus Maria Brandauer, 1944
Ed Bradley, 1941
Michael Lerner, 1941
Kris Kristofferson, 1936
William Ralph "Bill" Blass, 1922
Joseph Papp, 1921
Billy Wilder, 1906
Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1906
John Dillinger, 1903
Captain George Vancouver, 1757
Debuting/Premiering Today:
The Rescuers(Animated film), 1977
Lady and the Tramp(Animated film), 1955
Today in History:
Ptolemy IV of Egypt defeats Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid kingdom, BC217
Bilbo Baggins returns to his home at Bag End, (Shire Reconning), 1342
The Jewish quarter of Prague is burned and looted, 1559
Galileo Galilei is forced by Inquisition to "abjure, curse, & detest" his Copernican heliocentric views, 1633
A poisonous cloud from Laki volcanic eruption in Iceland reaches Le Havre in France, 1783
The British Parliament abolishes feudalism and the seigneurial system in British North America, 1825
Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee procession in London, 1897
The Flag of Sweden is adopted, 1906
The Flag of the Faroe Islands is raised for the first time, 1919
Erwin Rommel is promoted to Field Marshal after the capture of Tobruk, 1942
The Cuyahoga River catches fire, which triggers a crack-down on pollution in the river, 1969
The Canadian House of Commons abolishes capital punishment, 1976
Charon, a satellite of the dwarf planet Pluto, is discovered, 1978
The largest hailstone ever recorded falls in Aurora, Nebraska (7inch diameter, 18.75 inch circumfrence), 2003
Eastman Kodak Company announces that it will discontinue sales of the Kodachrome Color Film, concluding its 74-year run as a photography icon, 2009
UNESCO officially names Mount Fuji a World Heritage Site, 2013
An article in the Journal of the American Medical Association's Internal Medicine Journal claims that obese Americans now outnumber those who are merely overweight, 2015
Eurozone countries agree to a debt relief deal for Greece, signalling end to the country's economic crisis, 2018
The Russian volcano Raikoke erupts for the first time in 95 years from its 700m-wide-crater; the eruption is seen from International Space Station, 2019
Gracie is a cutie.
ReplyDeleteAnd your poem made me smile. Thank you - we all need smiles. And some of us need bras.
Nice dog. I always got National Onion Rings day and Chocolate Eclairs day mixed up. Did not know which was which and why my eclairs tasted oniony.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
Cute dog and good poem. I'm a member of the "Mask and Bra-Abhoring Society" as well.
ReplyDeleteGrace is such a little cutie!
ReplyDeleteI don't hate my bra so much, I prefer wearing it rather than having my boobs hanging down over my ribs.
Great quote. Have the battle of being a champion is in the mind. If you don't have the right mindset, it won't happen.
ReplyDeleteGracie is a doll! Have a lovely day!
ReplyDeleteGracie indeed brings an Aww... to the lips.
ReplyDeleteI think I will head to Dairy Queen today and joing the celebration, even if it's only in the drive-thru lane. I fee a Georgia Mud Fudge Blizzard coming on, or maybe just a large soft-serve cone. Have a blessed week.
That little poem is brilliant! National chocolate eclair day...should I or should I not?
ReplyDeleteAwww, Gracie is a cutie pie and pink is her color.
ReplyDeleteLove the Spark and your poem is spot on. I feel the same way.
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What a darling little one Gracie is! I more than agree with your poem about masks - MOL!
ReplyDeleteGracie seems cute and very cheeky heheh!
ReplyDeleteI liked the quote :-)
I liked your poem quite apt too :-)
Have a safetastic day 😷😷😷
I hear you on the mask/bra situation!! Great poem, Mimi.
ReplyDeleteThe Small Bad Dog is adorable :)
That was a really good Spark and sweet Gracie is quite the cutie!
ReplyDeleteGracie is a cutie. I love the poem- so true about masks and bras :)
ReplyDeletewavez two ewe gracie !!! ewe bee one cute pup :}
ReplyDeleteand de food gurlz crackin up at de mask/bra sentence !!!!! ☺☺☺♥♥
Ugh. Bras. And I really do have a love/hate relationship with my mask as well!
ReplyDeleteMimi, your poem made me laugh - just what we need right now. If I wear my mask over both mouth and nose my specs fog up and I can't see where I'm going. Dangerous when out shopping!
ReplyDeleteDairy Queen Day???
ReplyDeletegotta run...
Gracie ~ you are a sweetie and so adorable ~ ^_^
ReplyDeleteBe Safe, Be Well,
A ShutterBug Explores,
aka (A Creative Harbor)
Mimi,
ReplyDeleteGracie is a cutie. :) I love the Sparks of encouragement!!