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Monday, August 21, 2023

Staging a Rescue (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!


For those who don't like reptiles, skip the pictures, it's another anole.


The other day, i was surprised to see a movement out of the corner of my eye in the kitchen sink.  On further inspection, it was time for a rescue to be staged.


















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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.  (I usually try to do an inspiring quote based on the poetry theme for poetry Monday, but i could not find any quotes from sea monsters, just land monsters, sorry.)

     






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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 Sea Monsters.                        


Sea monster loves the

Open mic comedy night

Always Kraken jokes


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Two sea monsters were talking

about their weekend plan,

one for going to Neptune's palace

to hear a cool new band.


The other wanted to head up

To Ireland's beautiful shore,

he said it was the best place

to snack and snack some more.


The first one asked what kind of snacks

which could make him smack his lips,

he answered, "They export potatoes,

and there's nothing like potato ships!"


The first decided this sounded good,

and this was their lucky week,

it wasn't just one ship sailing,

it was the big potato ship fleet.


The friend who'd brought him out there

didn't wait 'til they were done,

with the first before starting a second,

"Well, no one can eat just one!"


The monster whose idea it was

at ship after ship did spring,

and when he'd done his comment was,

"I can't believe I ate the hull thing!"


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When we were little children

our family would go to the shore,

we'd have a joyous time with

the beach right beside our door.


And when we got in the water

we had to careful be,

in order to avoid him,

the monster of the sea!


He'd tickle at our toesies

or an ankle he might nip,

we'd jump up to avoid him,

or maybe do a flip.


But then he would run out of breath,

come up, and we would see,

the fun, playful sea monster was

only our own daddy!




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Today is:


Aquino Day -- Philippines


Buhe -- Ethiopian Orthodox Church (Christian remembrance of the Transfiguration.)


Cadillac Day -- the first Caddy was built this day in 1902


Consualia -- Ancient Roman Calendar (festival of Consus, god of grain and silos)


Crazy Day -- go crazy, in honor of Patsy Cline recording Willie Nelson's song Crazy on this date in 1961


Fete de la Jeunesse -- Morocco; Western Sahara (Youth Day, on the Birthday of HM Mohammed VI)


Gospel Day -- Kosrae, Micronesia


National Pecan Torte Day


National Senior Citizens Day -- US


National Spumoni Day


Poet's Day -- a day to celebrate the poet in you, and share special thoughts about poets and poetry


Senior Citizens Day -- US (by Presidential proclamation in 1988)


Stay at Home With Your Kids Day -- begun by Work at Home Moms ezine in 1999, to encourage and support parents who work from home


St. Pius X's Day (Patron of first communicants, pilgrims; Des Moines, Iowa, US; Great Falls-Billings, Montana, US; Kottoyam, India; Santa Lucija, Malta; Springfield-Cape Girardeau, MO, US; Zamboanga, Philippines)


Yukon Discovery Day -- YT, Canada



Anniversaries Today


Seminole Tribe of Native Americans is legally established and recognized, 1957

Hawai'i becomes the 50th US state, 1959



Birthdays Today


Ozma, Queen of Oz, year unconfirmed

Hayden Panettiere, 1989

Usain Bolt, 1986

Brody Jenner, 1983

Alicia Witt, 1975

James Robert "Jim" McMahon, 1959

Steve Case, 1958

Kim Cattrall, 1956

Jackie DeShannon, 1944

Peter Weir, 1944

Clarence Williams III, 1939

Kenny Rogers, 1938

Wilt Chamberlain, 1936

Melvin Van Peebles, 1932

Shimon Peres, 1923

Christopher Robin Milne, 1920

Friz Freleng, 1906

Count Basie, 1904

Aubrey Vincent Beardsley, 1872

William Murdoch, 1754

Francis de Sales, 1567



Debuting/Premiering Today:


"La Cage Aux Folles"(Musical), 1983



Today in History


Minamoto Yoritomo becomes Seii Tai Shogun and therefore de facto ruler of Japan, 1192

Pueblo Indians capture Santa Fe from Spanish during the Pueblo Revolt, 1680

James Cook formally claims eastern Australia for Great Britain, naming it New South Wales, 1770

The Nat Turner slave revolt in Virginia leaves 55 dead, 1831

Mighty Casey (Dan Casey) is struck out! In a game against the N.Y. Giants, 1887

William S Burroghs patents the adding machine, 1888

Oldsmobile is incorporated as a division of General Motors Corp., 1897

Arthur Rose Eldred becomes the first Boy Scout to earn the rank of Eagle Scout, 1912

Physicist Harry K. Daghlian, Jr. is fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1945

James Anderson, Jr., posthumously receives the first Medal of Honor to be awarded to an African American U.S. Marine, 1968

Philippine opposition leader Benigno Aquino, Jr. is assassinated at the Manila International Airport, 1983

Carbon dioxide gas erupts from volcanic Lake Nyos in Cameroon, killing up to 1,800 people within a 20-kilometer range, 1986

Coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev collapses, 1991

The Red Cross announces the famine in Tajikistan and calls for international aid there and in Uzbekistan, 2001

Hurricane Dean becomes the first storm to make landfall as a Catagory 5 since Hurricane Andrew, 2007

After 108 years, a "message in a bottle" put in the sea by the UK Marine Biological Association is announced found on a beach in Amrum, Germany, 2015

Big Ben, the bell in London's parliament clock, chimes for the last time before a four-year restoration process for its tower starts, 2017

The discovery of water-ice on the Moon by India's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft is published, 2018

Nigeria goes three years without a case of polio, a landmark toward eradication of the disease, 2019

Masai Graham wins funniest joke at Edinburgh Fringe with "I tried to steal spaghetti from the shop, but the female guard saw me and I couldn't get pasta," 2022

20 comments:

  1. Thank you for your rescue - and the poems that have me smiling broadly.

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  2. The cookie monster is always good and funny and we love the laughter instead of screams!

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  3. Tiny little rescue. Glad you spotted it. Cute cartoons, give me a cookie to silence my brain Screams, lol

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  4. That looks like a baby gator or some prehistoric creature of sorts. Good golly, I'd be freaking out big time IF I saw even one so tiny! HaHa!! I glad you got it out of the house and outside where it belongs. Your poems are so cute and the first one made me smile which I really needed this morning. I'm asking friends to keep my daddy in prayer. He had a heart attack on Saturday and yesterday they did the cauterization surgery. He's not in the best of shape and it sounds scary. I'm trusting this all in God's hands. We plan to travel southwest VA for the day visit later in the week. Thanks, dear friend. Have an awwwesome Monday and a boogietastic week!

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  5. That last joke there about pasta! BIG laugh here and those others...about potato ships...oh yes!

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  6. I love your rescue. We do the same thing. They are so precious.

    Love your Sparks.

    I love your sense of humor this morning. You made me smile and laugh out loud.

    Thank you for joining the Awww Mondays Blog Hop.

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

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  7. Aww. What a cute little critter. Most people wouldn't have taken the time to rescue him. Good for you!

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  8. Definitely a cute 'tiny' critter and great Sparks and poem ~ you are so talented ~ Xo

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

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  9. Senior Citizens Day? Why didn't we get the memo? Maybe we did and I just forgot. It doesn't appear that the news considers it a very big event.

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  10. Your sink anole is much cuter than my bathtub spider ;) but both deserve a rescue (no photos, I forgot). I love your poems the Haiku is FUN! The sea monster / daddy one is sweet, and the second one is hilarious, though I'm happy I visited Diane's blog first as else the Potato ships would have left me behind.

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  11. Great job on the poems. Hull thing- LOL. :) I would scream if that was in my kitchen.

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  12. That was a good save! Those are fun Sparks and fun poems too.

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  13. I love the cookie monster meme and am borrowing it for future use; hope you don't mind? The puns in your poems are great :)

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  14. The quotes and poems are great. I've done the rescue thing a few times when living in other states, we'd get skinks or geckos inside or sometimes those big hairy spiders that don't do any harm and geckos inside are supposed to be lucky, but we trapped and took outside anyway, we usually let them go somewhere shady.

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  15. Well saved, I'm sure it was grateful! Poems - brilliant.

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  16. What a cutie!
    Your poems are brilliant! Amazing how we zeroed in on the same topic! ;) I love the 'Daddy Monster' poem!

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