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Friday, July 7, 2023

Playtime! (Feline Friday) and Friendly Fill-Ins

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Feline Friday was originally started by Steve, The Burnt Food Dude (who no longer blogs), and i'm going to believe it's because he likes cats.

He handed hosting duties off to Sandee at Comedy Plus, and now she's entrusting it to me.  


Feline Friday is simple to join.  All you have to do is: Post a picture, drawing, cartoon or video of a cat (they may be silly or cute).  Then add your link!


One thing for sure is this is a fun and easy meme to do.  So come and join us in Feline Friday.


What better way to start the weekend than with a feline!


Mr. BA's new Little Buddy loves to play with Ruthless, and this mess of photos is what happened when i tried to catch them in action all around the room.













Of course, when the fun is over, the kitten is full stop.









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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. I am never without _________.


2. My favorite place for fast food is _________.


3. I feel like I'm naturally good at _________.


4. I would probably benefit from _________ lessons.



1. I am never without   my sense of humor, or at least, i try not to be (and let's face it, anything not an actual part of you can be left behind, even by accident).


2. My favorite place for fast food is   Chipotle, as they have a lot of vegan options.


3. I feel like I'm naturally good at   scrubbing things.


4. I would probably benefit from   singing  lessons.   Until and unless that happens, i promise to only sing alone in the car, or in the church balcony with Becca because i sing softly and she doesn't complain.



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Today is:


Action Mesothelioma Day -- UK (bringing "meso" cancer into the spotlight)


Aphrodisia -- Ancient Greek Calendar (bathing festival of Aphrodite and Peitho [Persuasion]; date approximate)


Bonza Bottler Day™


Chocolate Day -- no one knows why today, so why not?  Enjoy chocolate cereal with chocolate milk for breakfast, some chocolate covered raisins and nuts as a midmorning snack, chocolate milk with lunch, chocolate truffles as a midafternoon snack, chocolate liquer before dinner, chocolate cake for dessert, and sip chocolate coffee any time through the day!


Eid-e-Ghadir -- Iran


Global Forgiveness Day -- encouraging "citizens of this global village" to forgive and be forgiven; sponsored by the CECA


Father-Daughter Take a Walk Together Day -- encouraging fathers to take some special time out with their girls today


Fishermen's Day -- Marshall Islands


Independence Day / National Day -- Solomon Islands(1978)


Macaroni Day -- it goes with more than just cheese!


National Strawberry Sundae Day


Nones of July -- Ancient Roman Calendar; celebrations on this day included:

     Festival of Feriae Ancillarum -- "Feast of the Serving Women", when female servants dressed up and "attacked" men of free birth with fig boughs; in honor of the serving women who helped free the city of Rome from the Gauls

     Nonae Caprotinae -- "Nones of the Wild Fig", honoring Juno Caprotina with a sacrifice under a wild fig tree

     Parilia -- festival for Pales, god of the herds


Saba Saba Day -- Tanzania (literally "Seven Seven" Day, a/k/a Peasants' Day or Workers' Day, and the biggest day of the Dar es Salaam International Trade Fair)

     Maonyesho ya Saba Saba -- Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (Dar es Salaam Trade Fair, through July 8)


St. Willibald's Day (Patron of Eichstatt, Germany)


Tanabata -- Japan (star festival, 7th day of 7th month; some areas go by lunar calendar, but most larger cities celebrate by the Gregorian Calendar now)


Tell The Truth Day -- a yearly challenge from Kepa Freeman of Teens Express to go the whole day without telling a lie or saying or doing anything misleading or dishonest


Unity Factory Day -- Yemen (all workers are encouraged to play at work today, to build team and national unity)




Anniversaries Today


James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr., marries Eleanor Rosalynn Smith, 1946



Birthdays Today


Michelle Kwan, 1980

Cree Summer, 1969

Jorga Fox, 1968

Billy Campbell, 1959

Shelley Duvall, 1949

Ringo Starr, 1940

Doc Severinsen, 1927

Pierre Cardin, 1922

Gian Carlo Menotti, 1911

Robert Heinlein, 1907

Satchel Paige, 1906

Marc Chagall, 1887



Debuting/Premiering Today:


"Ryan's Hope"(TV), 1975

"All You Need is Love"(Single release), 1967

Waverly(Novel, publication date), 1814

"Utrecht Te Deum and Jubilate"(Canticles, HWV 278 & 279), 1713



Today in History


A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death, 1456

Raid of the Redeswire, the last major battle between England and Scotland, 1575

United States begins first military draft; exemptions cost $300, 1863

An International Railway trolley with an extreme overload of 157 passengers crashes near Queenston, Ontario, killing 15, 1915

Sliced bread is sold for the first time by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri; it is described as “the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was wrapped", 1928

Alleged and disputed Roswell UFO incident, 1947

Venus occults the star Regulus. This rare event is used to determine the diameter of Venus and the structure of the Venusian atmosphere, 1959

In Canada, the Official Languages Act is adopted making the French language equal to the English language throughout the Federal government, 1969

Sharia is instituted in Iran, 1980

Samantha Smith, a U.S. schoolgirl, flies to the Soviet Union at the invitation of Secretary General Yuri Andropov, 1983

The Western Black Rhinoceros is declared extinct due to poaching, 2006

In efforts to avoid food shortages and political oppression, South Korea begins work on a new facility to house North Korean refugees, 2011

Tesla Motors produces its first mass-market car, the Model 3, 2017

Nigeria, Africa' biggest economy, joins the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), in attempt to create world's largest free trade area, 2019

The world's biggest sandcastle, standing 21.16m (69.4 feet) high, using nearly 5,000 tons of sand, is completed in Blokhus, Denmark, 2021

Scientists in the US begin the search for dark matter with a device in a former gold mine in Lead, South Dakota, 2022

23 comments:

  1. Smiling at the feline fun - and loving your fill-ins.

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  2. They are so cute playing! I am with you on the singing lessons. In church. I look as if I am singing at full gusto, but I am actually miming to save everybody's ears!

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  3. Aww! cute pics I do love watching kitties playing very comical :-)

    Have a funtastic weekend and thanks for hosting 👍

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  4. Such fun for the kitties and we love how the kitten is to into the game and then just flops over and sleeps. Happy Friday!

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  5. Those kitties were sure having fun and Little Buddy is big on cuteness! Those were fun fill-in answers too!

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  6. Cute photos. I am glad they get along. Thanks for hosting Feline Friday and for participating in the fill-ins, great answers. I should have chosen singing lessons too. :) Have a nice weekend. XO

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  7. I love when kitties play with each other. Those two look like my Oreo and Cookie playing. Great fill ins. I haven't tried Chipotle yet. I'll have to check it out. Have a great weekend!

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  8. LOL. I have a lot of blurry cat photos. I don't eat fast food often, but I agree Chipotle is a good choice. :)

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  9. I love your photos, even the blurry ones of Mr. BA playing with Little Buddy. It's so darling when the little one is trying to find his playmate. I had a tuxy, who is now an angel, and they are ferocious little beasts. Tenacious they are.

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  10. I had to laugh as I went through your list. I've never been to Chipotle, and am not good at scrubbing. Although I would benefit from singing lessons, I doubt any teacher would take me on after hearing what they'd have to work with.

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  11. I love how cats can go from racing to a full stop and be asleep instantly. I wish I could do the same, but racing is not a good idea these days. The full stop is easy!

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  12. Cute cat pictures. What a sweet kitten that is all curled up and sleeping. You couldn't give me enough singing lessons to get something out of my vocal cords that sounds like anything other than a screech. I admire those who can carry a tune or play a piano. My mom used to play a piano and I was sorry when she had to get rid of it at one point when we move from one house to another and my father refused to take it with him.

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  13. wonderful captures of the crazy cats! Very fun! xoxo

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  14. Cats can be really crazy! But then they sleep, how is that possible??? hahaha Thanks for hosting and sharing. Have a great weekend.

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  15. Those are very rambuctious playmates! Sometime I hear what sounds like the running of the bulls but it is actually one C A T running through my house late at night. hahaha

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  16. Ohh what fun they are having ~ sweet photos of action ~ Xo

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

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  17. Fancatstic fill-ins in today, and the P.A. can really relate to #3! MOL Happy Caturday sweeties and we hope your weekend is totally furbulous!

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  18. Feline frenzy! Where would we be without our sense of humour?

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  19. Haha. I love it! Kittens have two speeds -- go and sleep.

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  20. It warms my heart so very much to see the pics of Little Buddy and Ruthless.

    My apologies for being so slack of late in responding to posts...

    Take good care.

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  21. Just now, looking at those pictures of the kitten playing, I'm reminded suddenly of my Husby playing with the grandkids. Except that HE'S the one asleep after the encounter! Yep. I never want to be without a sense of humour!

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