Playtime! (Awww Monday), Thought-Provoking Quote of the Week, and Books! (Poetry Monday)

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It was another day of fun for Lulu and Coda this past Saturday at Grandma and Grandpa's house.  They dirty it up as fast as we can clean it, but that's okay, it's job security!  They also wore each other out.

Too fast for the camera!

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Sparks, the brainchild of Annie of McGuffy's Reader, is on hiatus, so here's a Thought-Provoking Quote of the Week in her honor.

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Poetry Monday was started by Diane at On The Alberta/Montana Border.  Jenny at Procrastinating Donkey has temporarily bowed out due to her husband's health, please visit and leave her an uplifting message.   Charlotte/Mother Owl almost always participates, too.  This week the theme is Books, and i have a few poems because i couldn't stop myself.  After all, you can't write about books too much, just as you can't read too many.                    

In my reading brain

Heaven is a library

Reading evermore

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The teachers ask a question

Each year the first day of school,

This year will be no different,

I'm prepared, I'm nobody's fool.

This year I have an answer

When she asks I'll keep it real,

"How many books did you finish this summer?"

"None! My brother my crayons did steal!"

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For my birthday, Mother

As truly as I live,

A very bad, and very cheap

Dictionary did give.

Still I had to thank her for

Her gift, however absurd,

But to thank her I quite simply

Could not find the words!

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There's a crisis at the library,

I just went to the reference desk

And asked for books on Houdini,

Not meaning to be a pest.

The librarian, her eyes open wide

Told me it's a fact,

All the books on good ol' Harry

Have pulled a disappearing act!

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Books, A Love Song

Booksbooksbooksbooksbooks

booksbooksbooksbooksbooks

How I love booksbooksbooksbooksbooks!

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I'm ready to read

Always hunting for a book

As long as I breathe

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Are you reading again? asked my Mother.

Am I breathing? I asked in reply.

If you didn't want my nose e'er in my books

Why'd you teach me so young? I did sigh.

I taught you quite young, it is true, she did say.

And now I do realize quite late

While I wanted you ready even before school,

I a super book-worm did create!

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Such wonderful things are good books!

I keep them on shelves and in crooks,

There's books up and down

Everywhere you look 'round,

In each of my crannies and nooks!

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(To be sung to the tune of Frere Jaques)

I'm a book-worm,

I'm a book-worm,

See me read!

See me read!

Morning, noon and evening,

Morning, noon and evening,

Guaranteed!

Guaranteed!

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No matter how many books I have

For more I always troll,

It's very true that I simply

Have no shelf-control!

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Today is:

Battle of San Jacinto Day -- Nicaragua

Cochabamba Day -- Cochabamba, Bolivia (festival of the founding of the city)

Eat a Hoagie Day

Eleven Days of Global Unity -- Day 4, Economic Justice (sponsored by We, the World) 

Feast of the Triumph of the Cross/Elevation of the Life Giving Cross/Holy Cross Day -- Christian

Festivals and Matsuri of Japan -- several throughout Japan, today and for the next several, most as harvest festivals or traditional horseback archery rituals)

       including the O Sannomiya Autumn Festival, Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Festival, Tono Matsuri, Kishiwada Danjiri Matsuri, Tsurugaoka-hachimangu Reitasai, Yachi Donga Festival, and Furusato Hyappei Festival

Jeans for Genes Week -- UK (convince your school or workplace to let you pay for the privilege of wearing jeans one day this week, with the money going toward research of genetic diseases)   

National Cream-Filled Doughnut Day

Nutting Day -- British Isles tradition, the hazelnuts are supposed to be perfectly ripe on this day

Pilgrimage to the Black Madonna of Einsiedeln -- Switzerland

St. Notburga's Day (Patron of agricultural workers, husbandmen, peasants, restaurant servers)

Unclear Ideas Display -- Fairy Calendar (Imps celebration)

Birthdays Today:

Amy Winehouse, 1983

Dan Cortese, 1967

Faith Ford, 1964

Wendy Thomas, 1961 (Namesake of Wendy's Hamburgers)

Mary Crosby, 1959

Sam Neill, 1947

Joey Heatherton, 1944

Nicol Williamson, 1938

Walter Koenig, 1936

Kate Millett, 1934

Harve Presnell, 1933

Zoe Caldwell, 1933

Constance Baker Motley, 1921

Clayton Moore, 1914

Stanley Ketchel, 1886

Margaret Higgins Sanger, 1879

Ivan Pavlov, 1849

James Wilson, 1742

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"The Golden Girls"(TV), 1985

"The Waltons"(TV Series), 1972

"Ironside"(TV), 1967

"Have Gun Will Travel"(TV), 1957

"The Turn of the Screw"(Opera), 1954

Today in History:

Domitian becomes emperor of Rome upon the death of his brother Titus, 81

Harun al-Rashid beomes Abbasid Caliph upon the death of his brother, al-Hadi, 786

The first lighthouse in the US, in Boston, is lit, 1716

George Frederick Handel finishes "Messiah" oratorio, after working on it non-stop for 23 days, 1741

Napoleon occupies Moscow; fires begin that will not be fully extinguished for 5 days, 1812

Francis Scott Key witnesses the battle which inspires him to write "The Defense of Fort McHenry", later retitled "The Star Spangled Banner", 1814

George K Anderson of Memphis, Tennessee patents typewriter ribbon, 1886

President of the United States William McKinley dies after an assassination attempt on September 6, and is succeeded by Theodore Roosevelt, 1901

Groundbreaking for the United Nations headquarters in New York City, 1948

The Soviet probe Luna 2 crashes onto the Moon, becoming the first man-made object to reach it, 1959

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is founded, 1960

The first American saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton, is canonized by Pope Paul VI, 1975

President-elect of Lebanon, Bachir Gemayel, is assassinated, 1982

Joe Kittinger becomes the first person to fly a hot air balloon alone across the Atlantic Ocean, 1984

The Toronto Blue Jays set a record for the most home runs in a single game, belting 10 of them, 1987

Kiribati, Nauru and Tonga join the United Nations, 1999

Historic National Prayer Service held at Washington National Cathedral for victims of the September 11 attacks; a similar service is held in Canada on Parliament Hill, the largest vigil ever held in the nation's capital, 2001

In a referendum, Estonia approves joining the European Union, 2003

NASA reveals the Space Launch Program to replace the Space Shuttle program, 2011

The Bodleian Library confirms that the earliest evidence of the zero symbol found to date is a Bakhshali (Pakistani) manuscript that carbon dating puts as coming from the 3rd or 4th century, 2017