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Monday, July 24, 2023

Dad and Son Fun (Awww Monday), Inspiring Quote of the Week and Poetry Monday

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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!


While Becca, Mr. Cal and i walked, we were passed by this father and son.  The son had a speaker attached to the handlebar of the bike playing music and he chattered away at his father.  He was having a wonderful time.









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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 Cousins.                         



Grandma and Grandpa were wonderful,

some weekends they would host

my children and my brother's kids,

six cousins, with fun engrossed.


They'd swim, run the dog ragged,

eat them out of house and home,

when the weekend was over,

they didn't want to roam.


Six cousins have fond memories

of wonderful times, and i'm glad,

they still love getting together,

they're there through good and bad.



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Today is:


Amelia Earhart Day


Children's Day -- Vanuatu


Cousins Day -- because cousins are wonderful people to have around! sponsored by Claudia Evart of New York City, who must have had great cousins


Festival of St. Eloi -- French Basque


Hurricane Supplication Day -- US Virgin Islands (churches hold special services to pray against hurricanes hitting the islands this season)


Jakaba Diena -- Ancient Latvian Calendar (beginning of St. James' [Jacob] Festival, whose day is tomorrow; the beginning of hay harvest)


Jilwalla Jinks' Jamboree -- Fairy Calendar


National Drive Through Day -- but only if you won't pass out from the heat when you roll down the window! on the founding date of Jack-in-the-Box, the first drive through burger chain


National Tequila Day -- celebrate North America's first native-born distilled spirit


Pioneer Day -- Mormon Christian


Pop a Wheelie Day -- before, not after, the tequila, please; a hospital visit is no fun


Public Opinion Day -- the first public opinion poll was published this date in 1824!


Simon Bolivar Day -- Ecuador; Venezuela


Sts. Boris and Gleb's Day (Patrons of princes; Moscow, Russia)


St. Christina the Astonishing's Day (Patron of all with mental handicaps, disorders, or illnesses, and mental health care workers, psychiatrists and therapists; against insanity and mental disorders)


St. Christina of Bolsena's Day (Patron of archers, mariners, millers)


Tell an Old Joke Day


Tenjin Matsuri -- Tenmangu Jinja, Osaka, Japan (one of Japan's 3 major festivals, through tomorrow)



Anniversary Today:


Richard Moll marries Susan Brown, 1993



Birthdays Today


Bindi Irwin, 1998

Dhani Lennevald, 1984

Anna Paquin, 1982

Summer Glau, 1981

Rose Byrne, 1979

Eric Szmanda, 1975

Jennifer Lopez, 1969

Kristin Chenoweth, 1968

Kadeem Hardison, 1965

Barry Bonds, 1964

Julie A. Krone, 1963

Lynda Carter, 1951

Michael Richards, 1949

Peter Serkin, 1947

Robert Hays, 1947

Chris Sarandon, 1942

Ruth Buzzi, 1936

Pat Oliphant, 1935

Billy Taylor, 1921

Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, 1900

Chief Dan George, 1899

Amelia Earhart, 1897

Oswald Chambers, 1874

Alexandre Dumas, pere, 1802

Simon Bolivar, 1783

John Newton, 1725 (wrote Amazing Grace)



Debuting/Premiering Today:


The Fellowship of the Ring(Publication date), 1954



Today in History


Death in Kyoto, Japan, of Kamo no Chomei (b. 1155), Japanese author, poet (waka) and essayist, critic of Japanese vernacular poetry and major figure of Japanese poetics, 1216

Citizens of Leeuwarden, Netherlands strike against a ban on foreign beer, 1487

Jacques Cartier plants a cross on the Gaspé Peninsula and takes possession of the territory in the name of Francis I of France, 1534

Mary, Queen of Scots, is forced to abdicate and replaced by her 1-year-old son James VI, 1567

Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founds the trading post at Fort Pontchartrain, which later becomes the city of Detroit, Michigan, 1701

A Spanish treasure fleet of 10 ships under Admiral Ubilla leaves Havana, Cuba for Spain; on the 31st, all ships will be lost and come to be known as the !715 Treasure Fleet, 1715

Slavery is abolished in Chile, 1823

The first opinion poll was carried out in Delaware, USA, 1824

Benjamin Bonneville leads the first wagon train across the Rocky Mountains by using Wyoming's South Pass, 1832

After 17 months of travel, Brigham Young leads 148 Mormon pioneers into Salt Lake Valley, resulting in the establishment of Salt Lake City, 1847

The first tramway opened in England, 1861

Tennessee becomes the first U.S. State to be readmitted to the Union following the American Civil War, 1866

Captain Matthew Webb, who was the first person to swim the English Channel, drowned while trying to swim the rapids above Niagara Falls, 1883

O. Henry is released from prison in Austin, Texas after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank, 1901

Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu, "the Lost City of the Incas", 1911

The passenger ship S.S. Eastland capsizes while tied to a dock in the Chicago River. A total of 844 passengers and crew are killed in the largest loss of life disaster from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes, 1915

The first insulin treatment is carried out, on a six-year-old girl, at St Guy's Hospital, London, 1925

The Kellogg-Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, goes into effect, 1929*

The dust bowl heat wave reaches its peak, sending temperatures to 109°F (44°C) in Chicago and 104°F (40°C) in Milwaukee, 1935

During an official state visit to Canada, French President Charles de Gaulle declares to a crowd of over 100,000 in Montreal: Vive le Québec libre! ("Long live free Quebec!"), 1967

The Quietly Confident Quartet of Australia wins the Men's 4 x 100 metre medley relay at the Moscow Olympics, the only time the United States has not won the event at Olympic level, 1980

Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the last Tsar of Bulgaria when he was a child, is sworn in as Prime Minister of Bulgaria, becoming the first monarch in history to regain political power through democratic election to a different office, 2001

Lance Armstrong wins his 7th consecutive Tour de France, 2005

Over half of the country of Peru enters a state of emergency as a result of unusually cold weather, 2011

The scientific theory of supersymmetry is challenged after experiments with the Large Hadron Collider yield an incredibly rare particle decay event, 2013

After being reintroduced to Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada, the first bison is born there in 140 years, 2018

The US Federal Trade Commission hands down it’s largest fine ever, $5 billion, to Facebook for violating consumer privacy, 2019

In Yamaguchi City, Japan, a series of wild monkey attacks on people lead to the police carrying tranquilizer guns, 2022

17 comments:

  1. I have never known any of my cousins. I was in my fifties before I knew I had any, and they live on another continent.

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  2. I never met my cousins, I know I had two, but they lived in Europe. my children and grandchildren have cousins galore.
    There is a Father/Son team in my suburb who ride their bikes together, the son follows the father who calls out the road rules as they go and teaches the son the names of the streets and where to turn, where to watch out for pedestrians etc. Last time I saw them, the father was asking questions, where do we turn from here? etc and the son was answering.

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  3. Cousins are like a house with an extension.

    God bless.

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  4. It was a fun thing to see a father and a son having a good bicycle ride together. We just need to see more of that with parents today and their young kids.

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  5. Dear mimi,
    I'm an only child, but have lots of cousins, a pair of which grew together with me and became as brothers to me.
    To treasure cousins' love is far important indeed!
    Have a blessed new week
    X Daniela @ ~ My little old world ~ (Dany)

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  6. Mom has a small family and most of the relatives live in upstate New York, so she has never been very close to those cousins. She is close to her one cousin who is also our navigator. They have been like sisters most of their lives.

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  7. How sweet dad and son exercising together. That's a nice way to spend time and it promotes a healthy lifestyle. I hope the little boy doesn't become a cough potato like many other kids do as they get older.

    I am the oldest cousin on my mother's side. My first cousin born I think is about 4 years younger and the youngest cousin is 16 years younger than me. That's quite the age difference. Because of this, I didn't spend a lot of time with them unless I was baby sitting. When my grandparents were alive they'd have big gatherings but I don't believe I attended a single one. My parents hosted the event a few times since but still I haven't gone. I hate that I didn't do that. Maybe next time there's a family reunion, we can go. Have an awwwesome Monday, my friend. ;)

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  8. Wish I had been close to my cousins, but family rifts did not allow. That father and son time is golden and will be a perfect memory down the road.

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  9. Awww, love the dad and son. You made me smile.

    You're right about cousins. So very true.

    Thank you for joining the Awww Mondays Blog Hop.

    Have a fabulous Awww Monday and week. Love and hugs. ♥

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  10. Sweet photos of Dad and son having a wonderful time ~ Xo

    Wishing you good health, laughter and love in your days,
    A ShutterBug Explores
    aka (A Creative Harbor)

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  11. It would seem that Twitter and Facebook have made every day National Opinion Day...in my humble opinion.

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  12. Hellooooooo Anybody in there??? How ya doin' today my friend? Hopefully really good!!! Ahhhhh YES! COUSINS are the best. Right now all my aunts & uncles are gone, but I have dozens of cousins and one imparticular is my best friend since we were little. I love having the same memories too about the family! She's the best & I love her. She's the sister I never had! God bless her & you my friend!!!! Have a great day!

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  13. How sweet that they are spending time together.

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  14. Nice spark and poem. So true about cousins.

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  15. Great Spark. Cousins were some of my earliest memories, always there!

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  16. My cousin Joanne is a favorite cousin and so is her daughter Sissy who just retired from the Sheriff's Office as a deputy. Joanne and I once traveled on the Greyhound bus from Colorado to Alabama with our moms and some homemade fried chicken. I don't think we were two hours from home when Joanne and I polished off all that chicken.We were going to our cousin Tommy's wedding. We always laugh about that chicken. Great Sparks and always I love everything you share.

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  17. I love that picture! Nothing beats watching a parent...parenting!
    Cousins are precious! I have dozens. We all grew up together but now, I'm sad to say, there are many I haven't' seen in decades.

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