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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.
The senior living apartments where Ms. S lives has a resident cat. Sometimes you find her outdoors, and sometimes in.
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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. ___________________ creep (s) me out.
2. I could use a refresher class in __________________.
3. Life would be much simpler if _________.
4. I would like to _________, but first I have to _________.
1. Ugh!bugs (roaches) creep (s) me out.
2. I could use a refresher class in pretty much everything i learned in school! CPR, too, i need a refresher in that.
3. Life would be much simpler if unplanned stuff never happened, but then again, that stuff is life!
4. I would like to visit a lot of places and see them for myself, both at home and abroad , but first I have to earn the money to do it, and retire.
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Today is:
Audacity to Hope Day -- to encourage all to have the audacity to keep hope
Emancipation Day -- Tonga (trad.)
Festival for Hercules Custos -- Ancient Roman Calendar (Hercules the Custodian)
Flag Day -- Estonia
Flag Day -- Finland (Armed Forces observe the birth anniversary of Carl Gustaf Mannerheim)
Hug Your Cat Day -- yet another date for this noted on many sites; if you celebrate all of them, your cat will be well hugged!
International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression -- UN
Jarila's Day -- Asatru/Slavic Pagan Calendar (Festival of Jarila, god of the sun and fertility)
Labour Day / Sir Randol Fawkes Day -- Bahamas
Lassie Day -- the first dog to play the role of Lassie, in the movie Lassie, Come Home, was born this day in 1940
National Cheese Day -- not to be confused with Cheese Lover's Day earlier in the year
National Cognac Day
National Donut Day -- US (successor to the original Donut Day begun by the Salvation Army in 1938 to honor the women who served doughnuts to soldiers during WWI and as a fundraiser in Chicago, and it is still used as a fundraiser there for Salvation Army projects; look for a doughnut shop to give out freebies near you)
National Frozen Yogurt Day -- not to be confused with the Frozen Yogurt Day celebrated on Feb. 6 in Los Angeles, where the temperatures make such a thing possible
National Unity Day -- Hungary
Old Maid's Day -- supposedly established after WWII, when there were so many eligible young ladies who weren't getting any younger
Plynteria -- Ancient Greek Calendar (festival in Athens in honor of Athena; date approximate)
St. Petroc's Day (Patron of Cornwall and Wales, as well as many locations in Cornwall, Wales, and England, and Saint-Meen, France)
Birthdays Today:
Evan Lysacek, 1985
Russell Brand, 1975
Angelina Jolie, 1975
Noah Wyle, 1971
James Callis, 1971
Scott Wolf, 1968
Cecilia Bartoli, 1966
Sam Harris, 1961
Eldra DeBarge, 1961
Keith David, 1956
Parker Stevenson, 1953
George Noory, 1950
Bettina Gregory, 1946
Michelle Phillips, 1944
Joyce Meyer, 1943
Freddy Fender, 1937
Bruce Dern, 1936
John Drew Barrymore, 1932
Dr. Ruth Westheimer, 1928
Dennis Weaver, 1924
Robert Merrill, 1919
Rosalind Russell, 1907
George III, 1738
Aesop, BCE620 (not certain, but close enough)
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Born in the USA"(Album release), 1984
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan(Film), 1982
"Cavalcade of Stars"(TV), 1949
Today in History:
Chinese astronomers make the first recording of a solar eclipse, BC781
Sir Walter Raleigh establishes the first English colony on Roanoke Island, old Virginia (now North Carolina), 1584
Forces under the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu take Osaka Castle in Japan, 1615
New England planters arrive to claim land in Nova Scotia, Canada taken from the Acadians, 1760
A transit of Venus is followed five hours later by a total solar eclipse, the shortest such interval in history, 1769
The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their montgolfière (hot air balloon), 1783
Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for the Kingdom of Great Britain, 1792
The Ottoman Empire cedes Cyprus to the United Kingdom but retains nominal title, 1878
Henry Ford test drives his first prototype automobile, the Ford Quadricycle, 1896
Massachusetts becomes the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage, 1912
A patent for the ATM is granted to Donald Wetzel, Tom Barnes and George Chastain, 1973
The Tiananmen Square protests are violently ended in Beijing by the People's Liberation Army, 1989
Solidarity's victory in the first (somewhat) free parliamentary elections in post-war Poland sparks off a succession of peaceful anti-communist revolutions in Eastern Europe, 1989
Falcon 9 Flight 1 was the maiden flight of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, 2010
Negotiations break down between Greece's leftist Syriza government and the European Union regarding issuance of additional bailout funding, 2015
A State of Emergency is declared after 20,000 tonnes of diesel oil spills near the Russian city of Norilsk, Siberia within the Arctic Circle, 2020
I like your fill-ins. Yuks, I too don't like bugs. This lockdown helps us to save money for our holidays but its the pandemic that is blocking our plans.
ReplyDeleteInside or outside that is one comfortable cat.
ReplyDeleteI hope you do get to travel. I too could do with refreshers - in lots of things.
I'm with you on the travelling. I liked your fill-ins.
ReplyDeleteI bet the residents love having the cat in the building!
ReplyDeleteI see the resident has grabbed her own chair heheh!
ReplyDeleteI hate bugs too Mimi I run lol
Have a bugfreetastic weekend 👍
Refresher course in Math on my Blog today.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
Cute kitty and loved the fill-ins.
ReplyDeleteIt's good to have a resident cat. Good looking kitty too.
ReplyDeleteLove your fill-ins. I hope you get to do #4.
Thank you for joining the Feline Friday Blog Hop.
Have a purrfect Feline Friday and weekend. Big hug. ♥
The resident cat looks pretty sweet. Those were good answers too.
ReplyDeleteWhat a sweet Tabby resident! Good fill-ins- and number 4 will eventually be accomplished!
ReplyDeletewavez two ewe kitty who lookz like mackerull :) ~~~
ReplyDeleteand YAY for donutz; we will eat sum in yur honor Aesop witha happee 34,921st birth day two ewe ;) ♥♥☺☺
That is a nice looking cat.
ReplyDeleteI don't like bugs either. We have a big woodpile in the barn and dust keeps coming out of it. The other day some flying bugs were there so I sprayed the wood with cockroach spray. It was like a nightmare. Hundreds, and I mean like 5 or 6 hundred bugs came out of the wood. Thankfully the spray worked and most died. I reckon I will need to spray it again in a couple of weeks to be sure.
Such a cute kitty. Thank you for participating in the fill-ins, great answers. One thing you don't need a refresher in is writing- you are one of the best writers I know. XO
ReplyDeleteI've never seen a cat with a single white star on her back. Resident cats here are supposed to live inside, it's the law, but some still can be seen roaming the gardens.
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful 'resident kitty' ~ great photos ~
ReplyDeleteand fill-ins too,
Living moment by moment,
A ShutterBug Explores,
aka (A Creative Harbor)
What a cutie!
ReplyDeleteI am always amazed at the different answers for the friendly fill-ins each week!
What a gorgeous kitty! I bet she makes the residents at the apartment so happy. And thank you for joining in on the Friendly Fill-Ins! I'm with you on bugs being more than a tad bit creepy. My worst enemy is the spider, though I try not to kill them. I usually try to get them outside, or to recruit someone else to take them outside for me. I hope you're having a wonderful week!
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