C'mon, Friend, What's Taking So Long? (Awww Monday), Inspiring Quote of the Week, and Poetry Monday

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Many crows hang out near Grandma and Grandpa's house and i often see them when i'm arriving in the early morning.

"C'mon, friend, what's taking so long?"

"Where are you?"

"What's going on?"

Puff, puff, "I'm here, I'm here!"

"Sorry, my bath took longer than usual this morning!"

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Sparks is the brainchild of Annie of McGuffy's Reader, who wanted us to post something positive and uplifting at the start of the week.  While she no longer blogs, i like to post 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.  Charlotte/Mother Owl participates, and now Karen at Baking in a Tornado is jumping in at least once a month, too.  Anyone else is welcome to join in the fun, just let Diane know!

This week the theme is Kissing.                        

About three-quarters of husbands

kiss their wives good-bye

when they leave the house each day,

no need to ask them why.

About ninety percent of men,

when they get a divorce,

they find they give a good-bye kiss

to their house, of course.

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A wife was rather tired of

her husband being blasé,

she wanted a bit more romance,

and decided to have her say.

She thought she'd drop a little hint,

and when her husband got back

from his day of labor she thought

she'd try a subtle tack.

"I've noticed that our neighbor,"

she said as he crossed the floor,

"Kisses his wife good-bye each day

as she sees him out the door.

"Does that give you any ideas?"

she asked, but quickly she could tell,

he was confused and then he said,

"But, I don't know her that well!"

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Four people in the carriage of

an unlit railway car

were glad their trip was rather short,

the accommodation was subpar.

A woman and her lovely daughter

occupied the bench on one side,

an old general and his sergeant

were also on that ride.

As they went through a tunnel

the car was completely dark,

you couldn't see a single thing,

of light there wasn't a spark.

Suddenly there was a kissing sound

and before anyone could act,

came quite unmistakable,

the sound of someone getting a smack!

The mother thought, "That young sergeant,

well, he is quite a cad!

He kissed my girl and she, very rightly,

slapped him back with all she had!"

The general thought, "My sergeant

kissed the young lady, and then she,

in trying to fend him off has missed

and she instead slapped me!"

The sergeant thought, "Oh, goody!

I kiss my own hand and then,

I get to slap the general,

and here comes a tunnel again!"

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Today is:

Asatru Alliance Founding Day -- Asatru/Slavic Pagan

Birthday of José Gervasio Artigas / "Never Again" Day -- Uruguay (Dia del Nunca Mas)

Butterfly Day -- an ecard holiday; if you know someone who loves butterflies, send an ecard, let them know you are thinking of them

Day of the Independent Hungary -- Hungary (a memorial day for those martyred in 1958, and for the end of Soviet occupation)

Festival for Minerva -- Ancient Roman Calendar (goddess of arts, crafts, skill, war, and intelligence)

Festival of the Coming Ice Age -- can't find out anything about this one, but it sounds hilarious

Garfield the Cat Day (his birthday/comic strip premier)

International Box Day -- if you do not understand this one, you do not have a cat

Juneteenth -- US, celebrates the news of freedom on the day it came to slaves on Galveston Island, Texas

King's Birthday -- Anguilla; Cayman Islands; Gibraltar; Turks and Caicos Islands

Labour Day -- Trinidad and Tobago

National Heroes' Day -- Bermuda

National Martini Day -- some sites specify a dry martini

New Church Day -- Swedenborgian Christian

Organic Act Day -- US Virgin Islands (commemorates the organization of how the islands are governed)

Ride to Work Day -- ride your motorcycle or scooter!  if you don't have one, watch out for those who do   

Rusalka's Week begins -- Asatru/Slavic Pagan Calendar (week long festival to honor the divinity of rivers)

Sagrado Corazon -- Colombia (Sacred Heart Holiday)

Sólmánuðr -- Icelandic calendar, Sun Month, with the midnight sun dominating the time of year

Spooky Stories Appreciation Night -- because someone thought it would be a good night to tell a few scary tales

St. Boniface of Querfurt's Day (Patron of Prussia)

St. Jude's Day (Patron of desperate situations, forgotten/impossible/lost causes, hospitals, hospital workers; Saint Petersburg, FL, US)

Take Your Cat To Work Day® -- Pet Sitters International®, the same people who started Take Your Dog to Work Day® (coming up on Friday) believes this #MeowMonday is the perfect kickoff to Take Your Pet To Work Week®

World Sauntering Day -- origin unknown, but perhaps begun at Grand Hotel (Mackinac Island) in Michigan during the 1970s as a response by W.T.Rabe to a growing movement toward the recreation of jogging and the idea was to encourage people to slow down and appreciate the world around them; the rules are to observe the lost art of Victorian sauntering, discouraging jogging, lollygagging, sashaying, fast walking, and trotting, but no word on meandering that i can find!

World Sickle Cell Day   

Anniversaries Today:

Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, marries Sophie Rhys-Jones, 1999

Birthdays Today:

Zoe Saldana, 1978

Poppy Montgomery, 1972

Mia Sara, 1967

Andy Lauer, 1965

Aung San Suu Kyi, 1965

Paula Abdul, 1962

Kathleen Turner, 1954

Ann Wilson, 1951

Phylicia Rashad, 1948

Salman Rushdie, 1947

Elaine "Spanky" McFarlane, 1942

Gena Rowlands, 1930

Louis Jourdan, 1919

Pauline Kael, 1919

Pat Buttram, 1915

Abe Fortas, 1910

Earl W. Bascom, 1906

Lou Gehrig, 1903

Guy Lombardo, 1902

Moe Howard, 1897

Wallis Simpson, 1896

Elbert Green Hubbard, 1856

Charles H. Spurgeon, 1834

Blaise Paschal, 1623

King James I of England and VI of Scotland, 1566

Debuting/Premiering Today:

Batman Returns(Film), 1992

"The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas"(Musical), 1978

"The Rocky Horror Show"(Musical), 1973

"Devil May Hare"(Cartoon short, Tasmanian Devil's premier), 1954

"I've Got a Secret"(TV), 1952

"Moon Mullins"(Comic strip), 1923

Today in History:

King Louis IX of France orders all Jews  found in public without an identifying yellow badge to be fined ten livres  of silver, 1269

The Earl of Pembroke's army defeats Bruce's Scottish army at the Battle of Methven, 1306

English colonists leave Roanoke Island, N.C., after failing to establish England's first permanent settlement in America, 1586

Emanuel Swedenborg reports the completion of the Second Coming of Christ in his work True Christian Religion, 1770

Battle of Seven Oaks between North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, 1816

The first officially recorded, organized baseball match was played under Alexander Joy Cartwright's rules on Hoboken's Elysian Fields (Hoboken, New Jersey)with the New York Base Ball Club defeating the Knickerbockers 23-1; Cartwright umpired, 1846

Over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, Texas, United States, are finally informed of their freedom; the anniversary is still officially celebrated in Texas and 35 other states as Juneteenth, 1865

Maximilian I of the Mexican Empire is executed by a firing squad in Querétaro, Querétaro, 1867

After all of the Southern States are formally readmitted to the United States, the Confederate States of America ceases to exist, 1870

The Herzegovinian rebellion against the Ottoman Empire begins, 1875

The first Father's Day is celebrated in Spokane, Washington, 1910

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed at Sing Sing, in New York, 1953

Kuwait declares independence from the United Kingdom, 1961

In one of the first militant attacks by Hezbollah, David S. Dodge, president of the American University in Beirut, is kidnapped, 1982

Norway ratifies the Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention of 1989, 1990

Prime ministers of several northern European nations participate in a ceremonial "laying of the first stone" at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Spitsbergen, Norway, 2006

The first full genetic study of house cats, published in "Nature Ecology and Evolution", reveals that they were domesticated about 9,000 years ago, and are all descended from one species, the African wildcat, 2017

General Electric is dropped from the Dow Jones Index, the last original member from 1907, 2018

Joy Harjo is named the first Native American US Poet Laureate, 2019