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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!
Why isn't my bed made? The answer speaks for itself. Or maybe meows for herself is the better way to put it.
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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. If you looked in my closet, you'd see a lot of _________.
2. When I'm having a bad day, I like to _________.
3. _________ is the best remedy for _________.
4. It's no secret that I _________.
1. If you looked in my closet, you'd see a lot of my standard cleaning uniform, jeans and t-shirts.
2. When I'm having a bad day, I like to pray.
3. Doing something nice for someone else is the best remedy for a light case of the blues. (Please note, i am not talking about depression, which is a different critter.)
4. It's no secret that I really enjoy going to church on Sunday.
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Today is:
Apple Howling Day -- Henfield, West Sussex (Held at Gill Orchard, always on Epiphany Eve, horn blowing and howling at the trees is said to wake them up and yield a good crop.)
Armenian Christmas Eve -- Armenia (Old Christmas Day in the West)
Can Opener Day -- one of the earliest forms of can opener was patented this date in 1858 by Ezra Warner of CT, US (tin cans had been around for over 50 years by then, usually opened with a knife or hammer and chisel)
Epiphany Fair -- Piazza Navona, Rome, Italy (toys, sweets, and presents among the beautiful Bernini Fountains)
Get on the Computer Day -- obviously dates back to a time when people didn't have to check email daily or get inundated
Guru Gobindh Singh Birthday -- Sikh
Joma Shinji Festival -- Kamakura, Japan (ceremony and festival to keep evil spirits away)
Mungday -- Discordianism (festival of St. Hung Mung)
National Bird Day -- US (National Association of Audubon Societies incorporated today in 1905)
National Whipped Cream Day
Nones of January -- Ancient Roman Calendar; also
Festival of Vica Pota (ancient goddess of victory)
St. Gerlac of Valkenberg's Day (Patron of domestic animals)
St. Simeon Stylites' Day (The original and most maniacal of the "Pillar Saints")
Take the Cake Day -- a day to do something, anything, over the top, just because
Trettondagsafton -- Sweden (Epiphany Eve)
Twelfth Day of Christmas -- and thus, Twelfth Night (Although by some reckonings, this is actually only the 11th day of Christmas, and thus Twelfth Night Eve. Take your pick.)
Ume Matsuri -- Atami, Japan (celebrating the ume -- plum -- at one of the most famous plum viewing spots in the country; through early to mid-March)
Anniversaries Today:
George Washington marries Martha Dandridge Custis, 1759
Birthdays Today:
January Jones, 1978
Bradley Cooper, 1975
Warrick Dunn, 1975
Carrie Ann Inaba, 1968
Pamela Sue Martin, 1953
Diane Keaton, 1946
Charlie Rose, 1942
Juan Carlos I, King of Spain, 1938
Umberto Eco, 1932
Alvin Ailey, 1931
Robert Duvall, 1931
Walter Mondale, 1928
George Reeves, 1914
George Dolenz, 1908
Jeannette Ridlon Piccard, 1895
King Camp Gillette, 1855
Edmund Ruffin, 1794
Constanze Mozart, 1762 (wife of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
Pietro Filippo Scarlotti, 1679
Shah Jahal, 1592 (Mughal emperor of India, built the Taj Mahal)
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"All My Children"(TV), 1970
"Bozo the Clown"(TV), 1959
"The Member of the Wedding"(Play), 1950
"Pepe LePew"(cartoon character, in "Odor-able Kitty"), 1945
Today in History:
Edward the Confessor dies with no heir, leading to a succession crisis that ends with the Norman Conquest, 1066
Felix Manz, a leader of the Anabaptist congregation in Zürich, is executed by drowning, 1527
Pope Clemens VII forbids English king Henry VIII to re-marry, 1531
A petition in Recife, Brazil leads to closing of their 2 synagogues, 1638
Anne Clarke of the Massachusetts Bay Colony is granted the first divorce in the colonies, from her absent and adulterous husband, Denis Clarke, by the Quarter Court of Boston, Massachusetts, 1643
The first Swedenborgian temple in the US holds its first service, in Baltimore, 1800
The Ohio legislature passes the first laws restricting the movement of free blacks, 1804
Davy Crockett arrives in Texas, just in time for the Alamo, 1836
The US House of Representatives votes to stop sharing the Oregon Territory with the UK, 1846
The first US school of librarianship opens at Columbia University, 1887
An Austrian newspaper makes the first public report on Wilhelm Roentgen's discovery of xrays, 1896
The National Association of Audubon Society incorporates, 1905
Colombia recognizes Panama's independence, 1909
The Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and a minimum wage of $5 for a day's labor, 1914
British premier Lloyd George issues a demand for a unified peace, 1918
Nellie Taylor Ross is sworn in as governor of Wyoming, the first woman governor of a US state, 1925
Mao Tse-tung writes "A Single Spark Can Start A Prairie Fire," 1930
FM radio is demonstrated to the Federal Communications Commission for the first time, 1940
The Daily Mail becomes the first transoceanic newspaper, 1944
Warmest reliably measured temperature in Antarctica of +59°F (+15°C) recorded at Vanda Station, 1974
Eris, the largest known dwarf planet in the solar system, is discovered, 2005
The tomb of an Egyptian queen, Khentakawess III, is discovered by a team of Czech archaeologists; the queen lived during the Fifth Dynasty and was likely the wife of Pharaoh Neferefre, 2015
The Orthodox Church of Ukraine is granted independence from the Russian Orthodox Church by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, 2019
Chinese professor Zhang Yongzhen publishes the first SARS-CoV-2 genome map online, allowing health professionals worldwide to identify COVID-19, 2020
Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards pardons Homer Plessy for buying a whites-only train ticket in 1892 (resulted in U.S. Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson 1896), 2022
Our cats really like to 'help' us make the bed. Cat fashion.
ReplyDeleteLove your fill in answers.
I always used to have the same problem about making the bed.
ReplyDeleteLOL that made me smile :-)
ReplyDeleteHave a bedmakingtastic weekend and thanks for hosting 👍
Well there is no doubt that that kitty in the photo is too comfy for some human to make it move.
ReplyDeleteNice photo of the cat.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
Kitty has it made even if the bed isn't. Happy Mew Year to efurryone at your end. Here's to Mew Beginnings!
ReplyDeleteMaking beds can be very difficult sometimes :) Have a great weekend!
ReplyDeleteYes, must not disturb the kitty! Those were good fill-in answers!
ReplyDeleteA bad day and prayer go well together.
ReplyDeleteSissycat is a cutie. Thanks for hosting Feline Friday and for participating in the fill-ins, great answers. Helping others definitely makes one feel better. XO
ReplyDeleteSo funny about the bed. The rule here is last one up makes the bed...but as my husband used to say that did not apply to Madi she could stay al day.
ReplyDeleteHugs Cecilia and thanks for hosting FF
Oona: "Oona helped make the bed just yesterday! First she crawled under the fitted sheet, then after Dada got her out of there she crawled under the top sheet, then she crawled under the blankets ..."
ReplyDeleteCharlee: "Yeah that sounds like top-notch helping all right."
I always thought it was funny that it took so long to make a can opener after the can was invented!
ReplyDeleteAs far as the closets... In mine, you'd see... Too much stuff!
I have had that sort of assistance with my kitty for a long while now.
Cat
#3, sleep is the best rememdy for just about anything.
ReplyDeleteIn winter I often have the same reason for not making the bed. In summer I can only blame myself if it doesn't get done.
Your answers were really good, Mimi. As for why the bed is not made, that makes purrfect sense!
ReplyDeleteSupurr fill ins and definitely #2! We hope mew are having a pawesome weekend, and just for the record, we have the bedmaking issue too, and it's usually Fudge and Melvyn who have made themselves a little nest while the bed is turned down! MOL
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