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Join us every Monday for Awww...Mondays. Post a picture that makes you say Awww... and that's it.
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This guy was just too amazing for me to pass up the photo-op.
And even better:
He was wearing doggy crocs! |
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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!
We all love eating pizza,
so often pizza we get.
Which kind? We're inde-SLICE-ive,
one of each is our safest bet!
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Our local pizzeria gets business
with specials each week, you know.
They always have something different,
and of course they knead the dough.
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We're so glad pizza can't talk,
the why is very easy.
Anything a pizza has to say
would probably be quite cheesy.
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The crowded pizza place was slow,
my hunger did abound.
When I asked if my pizza'd be long,
the waiter said no, it'd be round.
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"You don't pepper-own me!"
said the pizza in a voice quite bossy.
The delivery guy responded,
"Now, don't you be so saucy!"
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Future themes are:
May 20 pizza (Today!)
May 27 politics
June 3 egg
June 10 wild
June 17 bread
June 24 muse
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Today is:
Be a Millionaire Day - now we all can go for that
Blue Jeans Day -- Levi Strauss and David Jacobs received the patent for their denim pants with riveted pockets on this day in 1873
Discovery Day -- Cayman Islands
Eliza Doolittle Day* -- in honor of Shaw and his famous fictional character, to encourage proper use of one's native language
Emancipation Day -- Florida, US
Festival of Mjollnir -- Ancient Norse Calendar (feast of Thor's Hammer, date approximate)
Flying Solo Day -- Lindberg began his historic flight on this day in 1927
Frigga Blot -- Slavic Pagan/Asatru (honoring Frigga)
Grudie Rosnoe -- Slavic Pagan/Asatru (ten days of sacrifices to Rod for rain and good harvests)
Hari Kebangkitan Nasional Indonesia -- Indonesia (Indonesian National Awakening Day)
Independence Day -- East Timor(2002)
Mecklenburg Day -- North Carolina, US (commemoration of the signing of a declaration of independence from England by the citizens of Mecklenburg County on this day in 1775)
National Day -- Cameroon
National Quiche Lorraine Day
Norman Rockwell Day -- his first Saturday Evening Post cover appeared this day in 1916
Pick Strawberries Day
St. Bernadine of Siena's Day (Patron of advertising and advertisers, communications personnel, compulsive gamblers/gambling addicts, public relations work and personnel; Italy; Aquila, Italy; Capri, Italy; Castelspina, Italy; Trevignano, Italy; the diocese of San Bernardino, California; against compulsive gambling, chest, lung, and respiratory problems and hoarseness of the throat)
St. Ives' Day (an honest lawyer; in the Anglican tradition, Patron of abandoned children and orphans, advocates, canon lawyers, judges, lawyers, and notaries; in the Roman Catholic tradition, Patron of Saint Ives, Cambridgeshire, England)
T'veer Chong Kamhaeng -- Cambodia (Day of Remembrance, anniversary of Khmer Rouge regime takeover in 1975, a day to remember all who died at their hands and work for peace)
Victoria Day -- Canada
Weights and Measures Day / World Metrology Day -- anniversary of the treaty in 1875 which established the International Bureau of Weights and Measures in Sevres, France
Whit Monday/Pentecost Monday
Dicing for Bibles -- All Saints Church, St. Ives, Huntingdonshire, England (a ceremony dating back to a bequest in 1675 that provides Bibles for poor children of the parish; they play a dice game, in which they try to win one of the 6 Bibles provided)
World Autoimmune Arthritis Day -- The International Foundation for Autoimmune Arthritis sponsors an online virtual convention in all time zones around the world from today through Wednesday
*"One evening the King will say, "Oh, Liza, old thing,
I want all of England your praises to sing,
Next week on the twentieth of May,
I proclaim Liza Doolittle Day."
Birthdays Today:
Tahmoh Penikett, 1975
Tony Stewart, 1971
Tony Goldwyn, 1960
Bronson Pinchot, 1959
Ronald Prescott Reagan, 1958
David Paterson, 1954
Cher, 1946
Joe Cocker, 1944
Stan Mikita, 1940
Anthony Zerbe, 1936
George Gobel, 1919
Jimmy Stewart, 1908
Henri Julien Felix Rousseau, 1844
William Fargo, 1818
John Stuart Mill, 1806
Honore de Balzac, 1799
Dolly Madison, 1768
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Elegie für junge Liebende / Elegy for Young Lovers(Opera), 1961
Norman Rockwell's First Saturday Evening Post Cover, 1916
Today in History:
The first Ecumenical Council in the Christian Church, the Council of Nicea, opens, 325
An earthquake kills about 300,000 people in Syria and Antiochia, 526
John Cabot sets sail from Bristol, England, on his ship Matthew looking for a route to the west, 1497
Cartographer Abraham Ortelius issues the first modern atlas, 1570
Shakespeare's Sonnets are first published in London, 1609
Napoleon Bonaparte reinstates slavery in the French colonies, revoking its abolition in the French Revolution, 1802
Otto is named the first modern king of Greece, 1835
HMS Erebus and HMS Terror with 134 men under John Franklin sail from the River Thames in England, beginning a disastrous expedition to find the Northwest Passage in which all hands are lost, 1845
U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signs the Homestead Act into law, 1862
Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a U.S. patent for blue jeans with copper rivets, 1873
The Triple Alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy is formed, 1882
Krakatoa begins to erupt (the volcano's final and most notable explosion will occur on August 26), 1883
The first public display of Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope, 1891
Cuba gains independence from the United States, 1902
The Saturday Evening Post publishes its first cover with a Norman Rockwell painting ("Boy with Baby Carriage"), 1916
Montreal, Quebec radio station XWA broadcasts the first regularly scheduled radio programming in North America, 1920
By the Treaty of Jedda, the United Kingdom recognizes the sovereignty of King Ibn Saud in the Kingdoms of Hejaz and Nejd, which later merge to become the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 1927
At 07:52 Charles Lindbergh takes off from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, New York, on the world's first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean, 1927
Amelia Earhart takes off from Newfoundland to begin the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean by a female pilot, 1932
In a referendum in Quebec, the population rejects by a 60% vote the proposal from its government to move towards independence from Canada, 1980
First publications of the discovery of the HIV virus that causes AIDS in the journal Science by Luc Montagnier and Robert Gallo individually, 1983
The Chinese authorities declare martial law in the face of pro-democracy demonstrations, setting the scene for the Tiananmen Square massacre, 1989
In a second referendum in Quebec, the population rejects by a slight majority the proposal from its government to move towards independence from Canada, 1995
The independence of East Timor is recognized by Portugal, formally ending 23 years of Indonesian rule and 3 years of provisional UN administration (Portugal itself is the former colonizer of East Timor until 1976), 2002
Scientists at the Craig J. Venter Institute announce they have successfully created the world's first artificial lifeform by transplanting a synthesized genome into an existing cell, 2010
Some of the largest fines ever levied, totaling US$5.7bn, are handed out to the major world banks JPMorgan, Barclays, Citigroup, RBS, and USB, for manipulation of currency markets, 2015
Bangladesh imposes a 65-day ban on coastal fishing to conserve fish stocks, 2019
Israel and Hamas agree to a bilateral ceasefire in Gaza after nearly two weeks of fighting, 2021
Doggy crocs would be excellent in protecting paws from hot pavement.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the smiles your pizza poems gave me.
The pizza man asked me if I wanted my pizza cut into 6 or 8 triangles.
ReplyDeleteI said 6 because I was not that hungry to eat 8.
God bless.
A big dog puts a lot of weight on his paws. So it's a good thing he's got comfortable shoes.
ReplyDeleteWhile DH has temporary dental work in place, we've avoided having pizza and we're both missing it. Hopefully things will work out this Friday and he'll have his permanent crowns. The paw crocs made me smile. That doggie is a biggie, too.
ReplyDeleteThat's one big pups. Love the shoes too.
ReplyDeleteLove your Sparks and love you take on Pizza. Brilliant.
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Such stylish crocs!!! If only we had a pair of those for Angel Lightning, he might not have slipped so much.
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That's some fancy pup with fancy boots! Terrific sparks and fun poems too!
ReplyDeleteThat is a big dog. Cute shoes on him. Fun pizza poems and sparks. XO
ReplyDeleteWhat a handsome doggie and love the crocs ~ sweet photos ! ~ love pizza ~ hugs,
ReplyDeleteWishing you good health, laughter and love in your days,
A ShutterBug Explores,
aka (A Creative Harbor)
Ha! Pizza was our dinner this evening! A new breed, Crocodane!
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Your Pizza-poems made me smile. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteLulu: "Even a big dog likes his booties!"
ReplyDeleteThat Great Dane is wise wearing those crocs to keep his pads off the hot walkways. He's a beauty. Pizza is a good choice. YUM!
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