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Mr. Cal, are you supposed to be on the furniture?
Ms. A now says she can't keep him off the furniture totally, so he's allowed on the chair if he stays on the blanket.
He wins!
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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 Moonshine.
His wife decided
to become a moonshiner
but he loved her still
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She was looking for a statue
to set in her garden green
and she came across an ugly one,
the ugliest she'd ever seen.
She struggled to make sense of it
so misshapen and in garish hues,
she looked for a nursery worker
to ask him for some clues.
"Oh, the owner makes those Odd Pods,"
the worker did explain.
"Believe it or not, they sell out!"
That really made her head strain.
"They don't look great in daylight,
although that may sound absurd.
They're meant to be seen by moonshine,
and you don't have to take my word.
"He keeps one here behind the fence
where it can be seen from the street.
You can drive by this evening
and feast your eyes on the treat."
She thought he was just joking,
but decided to give it a try,
it couldn't hurt to drive past
and she what she could espy.
When she came back that evening,
she noticed there was a crowd
gathered around and looking,
still she wasn't prepared to be wowed.
Arriving at the fence she peeked
and couldn't believe what she saw,
the beautiful, shimmering statue
it left her quite in awe.
"I really can't believe it!"
she was heard to say.
"Put that ugly thing in the moonshine and
the difference is night and day!"
And just for fun:
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Today is:
Assyrian Martyrs Day -- various Assyrian communities
August Bank Holiday -- ACT, NSW, Australia; Ireland; UK
August Monday/Culturama -- Saint Kitts and Nevis
Battle of Boyaca Day -- Colombia
British Columbia Day -- British Columbia, Canada
Carnival Monday -- Anguilla (August Monday); Antigua and Barbuda (J'ouvert); British Virgin Islands (Festival/Emancipation Monday)
Civic Holiday -- Canada
Emancipation Day -- Bahamas; Dominica; Granada; Montserrat; Turks and Caicos Islands (Obs.)
Farmer's Day -- Zambia
Frídagur verslunarmanna -- Iceland (Commerce Day)
Harvest Holiday -- Slavic Pagan Calendar (reaping ceases for a few hours in honor of Volos' beard; bread is eaten and offerings given to Mother Earth and Volos for a bountiful harvest)
Independence Day / National Day -- Cote d'Ivoire(1960)
Kadooment Day -- Barbados (huge carnival celebration of the end of the Crop Over festival, celebrating the end of the sugar cane harvest)
National Children's Day -- Tuvalu
National Lighthouse Day -- US (American Lighthouse Foundation)
National Raspberries in Cream Day
New Brunswick Day -- New Brunswick, Canada
Particularly Preposterous Packaging Day -- sponsored by Wellcat Holidays, and especially the kind no one can open without a machete, what's with that!
Picnic Day -- NT, Australia
Purple Heart Day -- US (originally instituted this day in 1782 by George Washington)
Say "Cheese" Day -- begun by ecard companies looking for something to celebrate; in my family, we do not say "Cheese", we say "Chicken Lips!" Try it some time when walking past tourists who are trying to get a good photo, and watch them smile genuine smiles and come up with a good picture.
Sea Serpent Day -- no one knows why today, just enjoy
Smartest Leprechaun Eisteddfod -- Fairy Calendar
St. Albert of Trapani's Day (Patron of Carmelite schools; Messina, Italy; Trapani, Italy)
St. Cajetan's Day (Patron of job seekers and the unemployed)
Take Last Winter's Snowballs Out of the Freezer and Have a Fight Day -- in the northern hemisphere, it's certainly hot enough
Birthdays Today:
Charlize Theron, 1975
Harold Parrineau, 1963
DeLane Matthews, 1961
David Duchovny, 1960
Alberto Salazar, 1957
John Glover, 1944
Garrison Keillor, 1942
B.J. Thomas, 1942
Abebe Bikila, 1932
"The Amazing" James Randi, 1928
Carl "Alfalfa" Switser, 1927
Stan Freberg, 1926
Ralph Johnson Bunche, 1903
Rudolf C. Ising, 1903
William Boyd McKechnie, 1886
Billie Burke, 1884
Mata Hari, 1876
Nathanael Greene, 1742
Today in History:
Battle of Crannon between Athens and Macedon, following the death of Alexander the Great, BC322
Construction of the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore begins in Florence, 1420
Coup again the Tianshun Emperor by the Ming Dynasty Chinese military general Cao Qin, 1461
Francis Drake's fleet returns to Plymouth, 1573
The first documented performance of Macbeth, at the Great Hall at Hampton Court, 1606
Sieur de La Salle's brigantine Le Griffon becomes the first ship to sail the upper Great Lakes, 1679
Cherokee Indians take Ft. Loudon, Tennessee, 1760
George Washington creates the Order of the Purple Heart, 1782
Simon Bolivar triumphs over the Spanish at the Battle of Boyaca, 1819
The long simmering tension between the Hatfields and the McCoys on the Kentucky/West Virginia border erupts into full scale violence on election day, 1882
The Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York, 1927
IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I), 1944
Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7,000 kilometres (4,300 mi) journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America, 1947
Explorer 6 transmits the first TV photo of Earth from space, 1959
The "artistic crime of the century" occurs when Philippe Petit of France, after months of planning and smuggling in materials, makes an illegal tightrope walk between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, 1974
Viking 2 enters orbit around Mars, 1976
The Washington Star ceases all operations after 128 years of publication, 1981
Takao Doi, Mamoru Mohri and Chiaki Mukai are chosen to be Japan's first astronauts, 1985
Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants breaks baseball great Hank Aaron's record by hitting his 756th home run, 2007
Australia's Sally Pearson sets a new Olympic record when she wins the 100 metres hurdles in 12.35 seconds at the 2012 Summer Olympics, 2012
The Mendocino Fire becomes the largest recorded fire in California's history, at 290,600 acres, overtaking The 2017 Thomas Fire, 2018
The US Senate passes an Inflation Reduction Act in an attempt to help stabilize the economy, 2022
Thanks for the smiles. I would like to see that statue.
ReplyDeleteOur fur-babies!!! It's so amazing to watch them while they're together!
ReplyDeleteThank you for this lovely and interesting post, and for hosting, as well, I'm wishing you a wonderful Awww Monday
Daniela @ ~ My little old world ~ (Dany)
Awwww cute puppy! Wow, I have a pic of my dog today too! Have a great day my friend! HUGS!
ReplyDeleteFurniture has "fur" in the name, so it is supposed to have those with fur on it. We were not allowed on furniture but when Bailie came to the family, she insisted on being on the furniture and eventually, Mom caved in.
ReplyDeleteMr Cal has his way finally. Hmm, hand sanitizer. Bet it tastes like corn, lol.
ReplyDeleteLove the approach you took to the poem. And I recommend neither drinking the hand sanitizer nor the moonshine!
ReplyDeleteSo glad you win Mr. Cal ~ you are one precious doggie ~ Xo ~ Great spark too ~
ReplyDeleteWishing you good health, laughter and love in your days,
A ShutterBug Explores,
aka (A Creative Harbor)
Awww, Mr. Cal is most adorable. I'd let him on the chair with our without the blanket. So cute.
ReplyDeleteLove your Spark and love your poem. Hand sanitizer. You made me laugh out loud.
Thank you for joining the Awww Mondays Blog Hop.
Have a fabulous Awww Monday and week. Love and hugs. ♥
Your poem goes along with this week's music theme - opposites with your closing sentence. :) What a clever wordsmith you are! Mr. Cal looks awfully comfortable on the chair. :) Have an awwwesome week, my friend!
ReplyDeleteMr. Cal is a cutie. Glad he won. :) Nice poem and spark. I want to see this statue. XO
ReplyDeleteWay to go Mr. Cal! That was a fun Spark and a good poem too.
ReplyDeletePets always win. I would like to see that moonshine statue too.
ReplyDeleteAny pet as cute as Mr Cal will always win in the end. Love your poem.
ReplyDeleteMr. Cal is so cute. Of course he wins :)
ReplyDeleteMr. Cal! You rascal!
ReplyDeleteGREAT poems! (Night and day! *snort*)