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Feline Friday was originally started by Steve, The Burnt Food Dude (may he rest in peace), and i'm going to believe it's because he liked 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!
It starts as a trickle and ends in a flood.
Kitten season is upon us, and we see more every week at the shelter.
Please spay and neuter your pets, adopt if you can and want to share your home with a pet, and spread the word. We do what we can, but we can't do everything alone.
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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. I ____________ but not ________________.
2. Just because I __________ doesn’t mean ___________________.
3. Am I the only one who _________?
4. I used to _________, but then I learned _________.
1. I try to work hard but not so hard as to injure myself or burn out.
2. Just because I eat a weirdo vegetarian diet doesn’t mean i won't come to your house for dinner, i'll just bring along something i can have that we can all share if you'd like to try it.
3. Am I the only one who never, ever catches up on blog reading and sleeping?
4. I used to just use a pumice stone to descale a toilet, but then I learned about using drywall sanding screen and Ring King. Now i use all three until one of them works!
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This week, I'm participating in Nature Friday hosted by LLB In Our Backyard. Just post a nature photo and link up!
Flowers from Ms. SE's garden.
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Today is:
Bona Dia -- Ancient Roman Calendar (a women's festival)
Constitution Day -- Poland
Constitution Memorial Day -- Japan (Part of the Showa Golden Week Festivities)
Dia de la Cruz -- Mexico (Day of the Holy Cross, a festive day for construction workers, with parties and a flower decorated cross placed on every piece of new construction through the country)
Florae -- Ancient Roman Calendar (ceremony at the temple of Flora)
Garden Meditation Day -- let go your concerns and center your attention on your garden
Holy Friday/Good Friday -- Orthodox Christian
Hug Your Cat Day -- sponsored by Apricat
International Space Day -- UN
Lumpy Rug Day -- the tongue-in-cheek day to tease bigots about shoving unwanted facts under the rug, sponsored by Robert L. Birch of Puns Corps
Magic Dragon Street Meet -- Historic Bagnell Dam Strip and Prewitt's Point, MO, US (if you like car shows, this is the place for you! through tomorrow)
National Raspberry Popover Day / National Raspberry Tart Day
National Specially-Abled Pets Day --US
National Two Different Colored Shoes Day -- celebrate your uniqueness, take a risk, and step outside of your routine today
No Pants Day -- first Friday in May, and not to be confused with the annual No Pants Subway Ride in NYC
Paranormal Day -- i have enough trouble with normal, thank you
Pregnancy Fitness Awareness Day -- can't confirm this is still sponsored by Karen Bridson
St. James the Lesser's Day (Patron of apothecaries, druggists, the dying, fullers, hatters and hatmakers, milliners, pharmacists; Frascati, Italy; Monterotondo, Italy; Nemi, Italy; Uruguay; Venegono Inferiore, Italy)
St. Phillip the Apostle's Day (Patron of hatmakers and hatters, milliners, pastry chefs; Luxembourg; Monterotondo, Italy; Nemi, Italy; San Felipe Indian Pueblo; Uruguay; Venegono, Inferiore, Italy)
Wordsmith Day
World Press Freedom Day -- International/UN
Birthdays Today:
Joseph Addai, 1983
Christine Hendricks, 1975
Dule Hill, 1974
Christopher Cross, 1951
Mary Hopkin, 1950
Doug Henning, 1947
Greg Gumbel, 1946
Frankie Valli, 1937
Engelbert Humperdinck, 1936
James Brown, 1933
Sugar Ray Robinson, 1921
Pete Seeger, 1919
Bing Crosby, 1903
Golda Meir, 1898
Niccolo Machiavelli, 1469
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Bent"(Play), 1979
"All Things Considered"(National Public Radio Network first broadcast), 1971
"The Most Happy Fella"(Musical), 1956
"CBS Evening News"(TV), 1948
Today in History:
Christopher Columbus first sights Jamaica (Santiago), 1494
Francis Bacon is charged with bribery, 1621
A royal charter is granted for Connecticut, 1662
The last total solar eclipse to be observed from London for the next 900 years occurs as predicted by Edmund Halley; called Halley's eclipse as he predicted it to within 4 minutes accuracy and described its path to within 30km, 1715
The Constitution of May 3 (the first modern constitution in Europe) is proclaimed by the Sejm of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1791
Washington, D.C., is incorporated as a city, 1802
The Canterbury and Whitstable Railway is opened. It is the first steam hauled passenger railway to issue season tickets and include a tunnel, 1830
The Hudson's Bay Company gives up all claims to Vancouver Island, 1867
The Great Fire of 1901 in Jacksonville, Florida, destroys 1,700 buildings, 1901
Raja Harishchandra the first full-length Indian feature film is released, marking the beginning of the Indian film industry, 1913
The poem In Flanders Fields is written by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, 1915
Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first woman to head the United States Mint, 1933
Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind is awarded the Pulitzer Prize, 1937
The Kentucky Derby is televised for the first time, 1951
Lieutenant Colonels Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict of the United States land a plane at the North Pole, 1952
The Anne Frank House opens in Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1960
The first "spam" email is sent by a Digital Equipment Corporation marketing representative to every ARPANET address on the west coast of the United States, 1978
The strongest tornado ever recorded, one of 66 tornadoes recorded that day,with winds of up to 313mph, strikes Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 1999
The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet, 2000
New Hampshire's famous Old Man of the Mountain collapses, 2003
New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art announces it will return two statues from northern Cambodia's archeological site Koh Ker, 2013
The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences members vote to expel Bill Cosby and Roman Polanski, 2018
Kilauea volcano on Big Island, Hawaii begins erupting forcing the evacuation of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park and residential areas, 2018
The US Environmental Protection Agency takes a significant step against climate change by announcing new limits on hydrofluorocarbons, 2021
I have always neutered my pets and my cats have mostly been the adopted kind.
ReplyDeleteI am with River. I really like your idea of taking along something you can eat to share to a dinner party. And no, you are not alone in being behind in blog reading and sleep.
ReplyDeleteThose kittens are sweet but it is a shame so many people won't neuter. Most of our cats before Eric and Flynn weren't so much adopted, but turned up looking for someone to love them. There used to be a Naval estate a couple of fields away, and when they were posted somewhere else some would just leave their pets behind.
ReplyDeleteWhat gorgeous kittens, and so many! I do hope they all find loving homes and receive the vet care they need. I'm loving those gorgeous fuschia flowers, too.
ReplyDeleteMom is quite happy with no cats right now. It is the first time since she was seven years old. If she ever gets another it will be a female calico she says. We hope all the little ones find good homes.
ReplyDeleteWhich is more lovely, flowers or kittens? But the flowers are easier to take care of and control. Out of control cats with too many kittens, that is sad. Wish people would spay and neuter. You are good to volunteer with all these lovely babies. Hope they find homes.
ReplyDeleteNo, you are not the only one who never catches up on blog reading and sleeping! There are not enough hours in the day - or night!
ReplyDeleteAww! what cuties lol @ ends in a flood :-)
ReplyDeleteHave a trickletastic week and thanks for hosting 👍
Oh those beautiful babies! I hope they all find loving homes. Like you, I never seem to be able to catch up on those things either. Happy weekend!
ReplyDeleteThose kittens are so very cute! I enjoyed your fill-in answers too!
ReplyDeleteSo much cuteness. Thanks for hosting Feline Friday and for participating in the fill--ins, great answers. sounds like some toilets are tough to clean. I would have you over for dinner. I would make lasagna, I would have a small meatless one available for you. XO
ReplyDeleteI love a flood of felines on Friday...just precious and lovely posies too
ReplyDeleteHugs Cecilia
Look at all the supurr cute furbabies, if we were closer... if only... supurr fill-ins and the roses are meautiful! Happy Friyay to mew all, and we hope your weekend is EPIC!
ReplyDeleteCharlee: "Ahh, yes, kitten season. The shelters here are all full and so are the rescues."
ReplyDeleteChaplin: "Charlee and I were early kitten season kittens. Fortunately Mama spotted us and we got out of there before things got too crowded."
Oona: "Oona never made it to the shelter because Mama intercepted her while Dada's cousin was looking after her and her brother. Lucky thing, she has heard black cats are slow to be adopted. She has no idea why that would be."
Charlee: "Neither do we. We just wish all the kitties could find good homes."
Oh so many adorable kitties and gorgeous floral photos ~ hugs,
ReplyDeleteWishing you good health, laughter and love in your days,
A ShutterBug Explores,
aka (A Creative Harbor)
We just LOVE your facts and info about the world and when things happened!!! And oh, those darling little kitties. I hope so much someone will give them a forever home!
ReplyDeleteOh, how sweet. I hope they find their furever homes soon. Have a great weekend. :)
ReplyDeleteWhat beautiful kitties, we also hope they find their furr-ever homes soon! Thanks for sharing those beautiful blooms for Nature Friday!
ReplyDeleteThey're all so cute. It's definitely kitten season here, too. One of the mommy cats that came in had NINE kittens.
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