Friday, February 2, 2024

Rub-a-Dub-Dub, Let's Nap After Grub (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!


These three tore up most of their grub, then settled in for a siesta.









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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. Some people make their own _________, but I prefer store-bought.


2. February is a good month to _________.


3. _________ was the best part of this week.


4. As a child I _________, but as an adult I _________.



1. Some people make their own   sourdough bread,   but I prefer store-bought   (because I haven't the time or training to make my own).


2. February is a good month to   start bracing yourself for summer and making sure you have storm supplies.


3. Church on Sunday   was the best part of this week.


4. As a child I   didn't like much spicy food,   but as an adult I   enjoy it a lot.



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Today is:


Anniversary of Treaty of Tartu -- Estonia


Bonza Bottler Day™


Bubble Gum Day -- US Schools (with the principal's permission, pay a $.50 fine and get to chew gum at school today; money is to be donated to a charity the school chooses)  www.bubblegumday.com/


Candlemas -- Christian -- or Presentation of Our Lord (f/k/a the Purification of the Virgin Mary) - commemorates the presentation of Jesus in the Temple and purification of Mary on the 40th day after the birth of Jesus. Candles have been blessed on this day since the 11th century, and this was the original forecaster, “If Candlemas is fair and clear, there’ll be two winters in the year.”

     Bank Holiday -- Liechtenstein

     Candelaria Festival -- Puno, Peru (Virgen de la Candelaria, through the 16th)

     Dia de la Candelaria/Virgin of Candelaria -- Mexico; Spain

     La Fete de la Chandeleur -- Canada; France

     Matka Boska Gromniczna (Mother of God of the Blessed Thunder Candle) -- Poland


Festival of Juno Februa -- Ancient Roman Calendar (Juno as goddess of motherly and matrimonial love)


Give Kids A Smile Day -- US (ADA sponsors dentists giving free care to children from low-income families)


Groundhog Day/Hedgehog Day/Badger Day -- what animal you looked to in order to predict the weather depended on where you lived

     Hromnice -- Czech Republic (hrom = thunder, a weather forecasting day)


Imbolc/Sughnassad -- Pagan/Wiccan (Northern Hemisphere/Southern Hemisphere)

     Brigmid -- Druid Calendar, also called Feast of Imbolc, celebrated later as St. Bridget's Day, but originally a festival for Brigid, (also known as Brighid, Bríde, Brigit, Brìd) goddess of poetry, healing, and smithcraft.  It is always halfway between Winter Solstice and Spring Equinox, so some years it is on Feb. 1 with St. Brigid's Day

     Disting/Charming of the Plough -- Asatru/Slavic Pagan (a feast of new beginnings and spring)

     Serpent Day -- Celtic (The tradition was that on this day, the Brigmid, snakes or badgers would come out of their winter dens and predict the weather; perhaps a precursor to North America's Groundhog Day.)

     Wives' Feast Day -- Northern England (ancient celebration in association with Imbolc)


Inventors' Day -- Thailand


Le Jour des Crepes -- France (Crepes Day, as crepes are traditionally served on Candlemas; if you can flip the crepe pan and catch the crepe in it with your right hand, while holding a gold coin in your left, you will become rich this year!)


National Heavenly Hash Day


National Wear Red Day -- US (wear red for women's heart health awareness)


Presentation of Christ in the Temple -- Anglican Catholic Christian


Sled Dog Day -- anniversary of the arrival, in 1925, of diphtheria antitoxin in Nome, Alaska; in memory of the sled dogs, especially lead dogs Togo and Balto, who made it possible


St. Cornelius the Centurion's Day (the Cornelius converted by St. Paul in the Book of Acts)


Veja Diena -- Ancient Latvian Calendar (day of wind, with rituals performed to assure no wind damage next summer)


World Wetlands Day -- UN (the 2024 theme is "Wetlands and Human Wellbeing") 



Anniversaries Today:


Marina Ogilvy (daughter of Princess Alexandra) weds Paull Mowatt, 1990

Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) marries Olivia Langdon in Elmira, NY, 1870



Birthdays Today:


Shakira, 1977

Michael T. Weiss, 1962

Christie Brinkley, 1954

Ina Garten, 1948

Farah Fawcett, 1947

Graham Nash, 1942

David Jason, 1940

Tom Smothers, 1937

Les Dawson, 1934

Stan Getz, 1927

Elaine Stritch, 1925

James Dickey, 1923

Liz Smith, 1923

Ayn Rand, 1905

George “Papa Bear” Halas, 1895

William Rose Benét, 1886

James Joyce, 1882

Solomon R. Guggenheim,1861

Toyotomi Hideyoshi,1536 (Japan's second "great unifier")



Debuting/Premiering Today:


"The Rich Little Show"(TV), 1975

"The Midnight Special"(TV), 1973

"And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little"(Play), 1971

"What's My Line?"(TV), 1950

"Le Dame aux Camelias"(Play, Dumas, fils), 1848

"Artaxerxes"(Opera, Thomas Arnes), 1762



Today in History:


Alaric II, eighth king of the Visigoths promulgates The Breviary of Alaric (Breviarium Alaricianum or Lex Romana Visigothorum) a collection of Roman law, 506

Pedro de Mendoza founds Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1536

New Amsterdam (later New York) is incorporated as a city, 1653

The first leopard is exhibited in the US, in Boston (admission 25 cents), 1802

Russian settlers establish the Ft. Ross trading post north of San Francisco, 1811

Jonathan Martin sets York Cathedral afire, does £60,000 damage, 1829

The first Chinese workers arrive in San Francisco, 1848

The first public men's toilet in Britain opens, on Fleet Street in London, 1852

Samuel Clemens uses the pen name Mark Twain for the first time, 1863

James Oliver invents the removable tempered steel plow blade, 1869

The SS Strathleven arrives in London with the first frozen mutton imported from Australia, 1880

The Knights of Columbus forms in New Haven, Connecticut, 1882

The first official Groundhog Day is observed in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, 1887

The bottle cap with cork seal is patented by William Painter of Baltimore, 1892

The longest boxing match under modern rules takes place in Nameoki, Illinois; 77 rounds between Harry Sharpe and Frank Crosby, 1892

The first movie close-up, of a man sneezing, is made at the Edison Studio in West Orange, NJ, 1893

The Australian Premiers' Conference held in Melbourne decides to locate Australia's capital, Canberra, between Sydney and Melbourne, 1899

Queen Victoria's funeral takes place, 1901

Musher Gunner Kaasan and his sled team, led by Balto, finish the serum run from Nenana to Nome, Alaska, delivering the much needed diphtheria medication (inspiration for the Iditarod), 1925

Leonarde Keeler tests the first polygraph machine, 1935

The Groundhog Day gale hits the north-eastern United States and south-eastern Canada, 1976

F.W. de Klerk allows the African National Congress to function legally and promises to release Nelson Mandela, 1990

Iran launches its first domestically made satellite, Omid, into orbit, 2009

All 955 miners are rescued from the Beatrix gold mine in Welkom town, South Africa, after 2 days underground, 2018

More than 40 mummies from around 323-30 BC are found at a burial site at the Tuna el-Gebel archaeological site south of Cairo, Egypt, 2019

Palindrome Day:  today's date, 02/02/2020, reads the same forward and backward, whether you are putting the order as month/day or day/month; the last time this happened was 11/11/1111, 2020

19 comments:

  1. Oh they LQQK soooo cute the grub has wore them out heheh! :-)
    Have a resttastic week & thanks for hosting 👍

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  2. What sweet kittens in a hammock together. You have to start bracing for early summer bad weather. And I'm still bracing for winter, lol.

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  3. Nothing is sweeter than a pile of kittens or puppies, so adorable!

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  4. Those sure are three wee cuties! Those were great fill-in answers too.

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  5. Those kitties are so adorable! Whew, I can't believe it's Friday. I've fallen so behind in Blogosphere this week. Some how I totally forgot to make my normal rounds. I just don't know what's wrong with my brain.

    Our daughter in Maine is having a day procedure for the the removal of non-cancerous tumors, at least that's what they think, from her spine. We wanted to go up but my dental issues kept us from doing that. Please, keep her in prayer. We are trusting God in all things. Thanks, my friend!

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  6. Such cute kittens. Thank you for hosting Feline Friday and for participating in the fill-ins, great answers. I am with you on the sour dough. :) Have a nice weekend.

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  7. Oh those three kitties...how adorable! I like spicy food, too. Have a great weekend!

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  8. What a precious trio of felines napping after GRUB!!
    OMCs years ago my mother in law gave me a started batch of yeast bread...easy she said just put it in the fridge let it do its thing. I had about as much luck with it as trying to nurture African Violets.
    YEP I like store bought bread
    Thanks for hosting
    Hugs cecilia

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  9. Chaplin: "So cute! That hammock is just the right size for three kittens! Or one Chaplin."
    Charlee: "Or two Charlees."
    Oona: "Or three Smol Oonas!"

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  10. Sequel to "Three Men in a Boat" by Jerome K Jerome; "Three Cats in a Hammock" by Mimi.

    God bless.

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  11. Adorable kitties ~ great photo ~ hugs,

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

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  12. phil, all theez yeerz later... we gotta wunder how manee timez ya saw yur self :) and wavez two ewe wee kittenz, heerz two a grate week end !! ♥♥♥

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  13. Those three little kittens are adorable. I sure hope they didn't lose their mittens! Today there is one of your pictures on Dani's blog.

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  14. The kitties look cute all snuggled together. I like to nap after eating too.

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  15. Aww, those kittens are so cute. Food coma is always more fun with buddies. :)

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  16. Furbulous fill-ins! And look at that trio of purrfection in their hammack, what little cuties! ❤️❤️❤️

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  17. Dog person here, not a cat person...but dang they are cute!

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