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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!
Lulu wants to make an announcement.
Everyone needs a teddy bear!
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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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Our dear friend Diane is taking a break
accommodations we must make
we miss her poetry and wit
so carry on as Poetry Monday's a hit!
Poetry Monday was started by Diane at On The Alberta/Montana Border. Charlotte/Mother Owl and i are keeping it going while she takes a blog break, we hope temporarily. Anyone else is welcome to join in the fun, just let us know!
This week the theme is Basket.
There's a pretty basket
on my dresser it does stand,
to get the things i drop there,
whatever i have at hand.
It catches change and keys,
my wallet, a book or two,
and even this month's bills
so they won't get overdue.
But when it does get overfull
and spills over to the vanity,
i give in and clear it out
so it holds my sanity!
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A wealthy man had a big basket full of trash,
old papers, fruit peels, even his old cigar ash.
In looking to get it gone and seeing no trash can,
he simply passed it off to the nearest homeless man.
The homeless man did thank him and go along his way,
but he came back to the spot on the very next day.
He'd binned the trash and given the basket a good shower
then filled it to the brim with dirt and beautiful flowers.
He gave it to the rich man who was shocked and did say,
"Why in the world would you bring this beauty to me today?"
The homeless man said, "In the world we all play our part,
and give to all the other folks whatever is in our heart."
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Future themes are:
2/5 basket (today!)
2/12 toes
2/19 spice
2/26 ants
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Today is:
Constitution Day -- Mexico
Feast Day of Jacob, Patriarch -- Catholic Christian
Kashmir Day -- Pakistan
Liberation from the Alberoni Occupation -- San Marino (also St. Agatha's Day)
Longest War in History Ends -- The Third Punic War, between Rome and Carthage, was officially ended on this date with a peace treaty signed in 1985, which is 2,131 years after the war began
Move Hollywood & Broadway to Lebanon, PA Day -- sponsored by Wellcat Holidays, and Why would they want it?
National Chocolate Fondue Day
National Weatherperson's Day -- US (mostly, though some other countries now observe it as well; in honor of the first US meteorologist, John Jeffries)
Nones of February -- Ancient Roman Calendar; also
Fornacalia -- celebration in honor of bread and the ovens used to dry grain; held any day between now and the 17th, one of Rome's few movable feasts)
Runeberg's Birthday -- Finland (National Poet)
St. Agatha's Day (Patron of bell-founders, fire prevention, jewelers, martyrs, nurses, rape victims, single laywomen, torture victims, wet-nurses; Malta; San Marino; as well as over 50 cities around the world; against breast cancer, breast disease, earthquakes, eruptions of Mt. Etna, fire, natural disasters, sterility, volcanic eruptions)
Unity Day -- Burundi
World Nutella Day
Birthdays Today:
Jeremy Sumpter, 1989
Sara Evans, 1971
Bobby Brown, 1969
Michael Sheen, 1969
Laura Linney, 1964
Jennifer Jason Leigh, 1962
Christopher Guest, 1948
Barbara Hershey, 1948
David Alan Ladd, 1947
Charlotte Rampling, 1946
Roger Stauback, 1942
Jane Bryant Quinn, 1941
David Selby, 1941
H.R. Giger, 1940
Alex Harvey, 1935
Henry "Hank" Aaron, 1934
Andrew Greeley, 1928
Red Buttons, 1919
William Burroughs, 1914
John Carradine, 1906
Adlai E. Stevenson, Jr., 1900
Andre' Citroen, 1878
Belle Starr(Myra Maybelle Shirley), 1848
Dwight Lyman Moody, 1837
Ole Bull, 1810
Robert Peel, 1788
John Witherspoon, 1723
Sanjo, Emperor of Japan, 976
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Where On Earth Is Carmen San Diego"(TV), 1994
"Hagar The Horrible"(Comic strip), 1973
"Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour"(TV), 1967
"Peter Pan"(Disney cartoon film), 1953
"Otello"(Verdi Opera), 1887
Today in History:
Earthquake in Pompeii, Italy, 62
King Alfonso V orders Sicily's Jews to attend conversion sermons, 1428
A group of early Japanese Christians are killed by the new government of Japan for being seen as a threat to Japanese society, 1597
The first US livestock branding law is passed, in Connecticut, 1644
Georgia becomes the first state to abolish both entail and primogenature, 1777
Sweden recognizes US independence, 1783
Hannah Lord Montague of New York creates the first detachable shirt collar, 1825
The "Oregon Spectator" is the first newspaper published on the American West Coast, 1846
An adding machine employing depressible keys is patented in New Paltz, NY, 1850
Two innovations which helped pave the way for motion pictures are pateneted, a hand turned stereoscope by Samuel Goodale of Cincinnati, and the Kinematoscope by Coleman Sellers of Philadelphia, 1861
Four inches of snow falls in San Francisco, 1887
The loop-the-loop centrifugal railroad (a/k/a the roller coaster) is patented by Ed Prescot, 1901
Greek military aviators, Michael Moutoussis and Aristeidis Moraitinis performed the first naval air mission in history, with a Farman MF.7 hydroplane, 1913
Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith launch United Artists, 1919
Reader's Digest magazine is first published, 1922
The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal, 1924
A hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered, 1958
The so-called Big Three banks in Switzerland announce the creation of a $71 million fund to aid Holocaust survivors and their families, 1997
Danish special forces storm a ship captured by Somali pirates, freeing 25 crewmembers on board, 2010
Archaeologist and runologist K. Jonas Nordby publishes his suggestions for how to decrypt the 13th C Viking jötunvillur runic code, 2014
Computer hackers try to steal 1 billion from Federal Reserve Bank of New York, but a typo in their codes alerts authorities before they can finish, 2016
Six days before his 50th birthday, 11-time world surfing champion Kelly Slater wins his 8th Pipeline title beating 22-year-old Hawaiian Seth Moniz in the final, 2022
I really like the homeless man giving the rich man his basket filled with flowers.
ReplyDeleteGreat blog
ReplyDeleteLuLu , look the sweetest thing there with a teddy bear.
ReplyDeleteThe Earthquake in Pompeii, Italy, 62, happened yesterday if you consider the Gregorian Calendar changes.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
Your poems are always spot on with the prompt. I enjoyed both of these, especially the second one which was so sweet. Have a Awwwesome Monday! And, yes we all need a teddy! :)
ReplyDeleteGreat quotes and we love the homeless man story. Perhaps it gets the rich man to think a bit about what life is all about.
ReplyDeleteLove your inspirational quotes. Don't we all have one of those baskets?
ReplyDeleteAwww on the pup and yes we all need a teddy bear.
ReplyDeleteLove all the quotes. Beautiful.
My favorite is the rich man/poor man. So very true.
Thank you for joining the Awww Mondays Blog Hop.
Have a fabulous Awww Monday and week. Love and hugs. ♥
LuLu is adorable and sweet photos of her ~ glad she has a teddy bear ~ Great sparks ~ hugs,
ReplyDeleteWishing you good health,laughter and love in your days,
A ShutterBug Explores,
aka (A Creative Harbor)
Java Bean: "Ayyy, you cannot go wrong with a Teddy bear! Or any kind of stuffie really! My favorites are Underdog, Mr. Bill, and Woody Woodpecker, because they all shout different things when you bite them in just the right spot!"
ReplyDeleteLulu: "I have never figured out how those talking stuffies work. I can't even figure out the ones that squeak. I am stuffie-challenged I guess ..."
Teddy Bear picture is so sweet. Most definitely an "aww"! I can relate to the basket holding (what's left of) my sanity...
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Great advice Lulu. And excellent sparks and poems. XO
ReplyDeleteLOL Yes, everyone needs a teddy bear. So cute.
ReplyDeleteWonderful poms. I actually like the first one best. I think everybody can relate. "Now where did I put my sanity?"
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