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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!
Yet another mama Muskogee duck is sitting on a nest outside the shelter. I routinely take her food and they keep water nearby for her.
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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!
Be wild sometimes
and with imagination
run to dream
of worlds
before
unknown to all.
Do not always
hold back
the inner roar
which wants
to tear lose from
stale conventions.
Go somewhere
fun and crazy
outside of
your circle
new stomping ground
be wild sometimes.
Future themes are:
June 10 wild (Today!)
June 17 bread
June 24 muse
July 1 (tentative proposed theme Canada Day or free choice day)
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Today is:
Abolition Day -- French Guiana
Alcoholics Anonymous Founders Day
Army Day -- Jordan
Ball Point Pen Day -- date, in 1943, Biro patented one of the early models of a ball point pen (it was as awful as the other early ones, though!)
Celtic Tree Month Duir (Oak) commences
Dia de Portugal e de Camoes -- Portugal (National Day)
Herbs & Spices Day
King's Birthday -- Australia (except QLD, WA); Montserrat; Norfolk Island; Papua New Guinea; St. Helena; Turks and Caicos Islands
National Black Cow Day
National Iced Tea Day
Peace of Chaco Day / Chaco Armistice Day -- Paraguay and Bolivia (commemorates the end of a war between the two)
Rape of Lidice/Lidice Memorial Day -- Czech Republic and Slovakia/New Jersey, US (in one of the most-remembered atrocities of WWII, the small town of Lidice, Czechoslovakia, was invaded by Nazi troops who murdered every man, burned every house, and sent all the women and children for "reeducation.")
Reconciliation Day -- Republic of the Congo
Sagrado Corazon -- Colombia (Sacred Heart Holiday)
St. Brigid of Ireland's Day (Patron babies/infants/newborns, blacksmiths, boatmen/mariners/sailors/watermen, cattle, children whose parents are not married, dairymaids/dairy workers, fugitives, midwives, nuns, poets, poultry farmers, printing presses, scholars, travelers; Douglas, Lanarkshire, Scotland; Ireland; Ivrea, Turin, Italy; Kildare, Ireland; Leinster, Ireland)
Where the Wild Things Are Day -- birth anniversary of Maurice Sendak
Anniversary Today:
Alcoholics Anonymous is founded, 1925
Birthdays Today:
Joey Zimmerman, 1986
Tara Lipinski, 1982
Leelee Sobieski, 1982
Hoku Ho, 1981
Shane West, 1978
Doug McKeon, 1966
Elizabeth Hurley, 1965
Linda Evangelista, 1965
Jeanne Tripplehorn, 1963
Michael Burger, 1957
John Edwards, 1953
Jeff Greenfield, 1943
F. Lee Bailey, 1933
Maurice Sendak, 1928
Nat Hentoff, 1925
Judy Garland, 1922
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, 1921
Saul Bellow, 1915
Frederick Loewe, 1904
Hattie McDaniel, 1889
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Tales from the Crypt"(TV), 1989
"Paperback Writer"(UK song release), 1966
"Tristan und Isolde"(Opera), 1865
Today in History:
Frederick Barbarossa drowns leading his troops across the Saleph River to attack Jerusalem in the Crusades, 1190
The first American log cabin is built, at Fort Christina in Wilmington, Delaware, 1639
Bridget Bishop becomes the first person hanged for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, 1692
Captain James Cook runs aground on the Great Barrier Reef, 1770
A landslide dam on the Dadu River created by an earthquake ten days earlier collapses, killing 100,000 in the Sichuan province of China, 1786
The Jardin des Plantes museum opens in Paris; a year later, it becomes the first public zoo, 1793
The first Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes place, 1829
Myall Creek Massacre in Australia: 28 Aboriginal Australians are murdered, 1838
The first class of the United States Naval Academy students graduate, 1854
Mount Tarawera in New Zealand erupts, killing 153 people and destroying the famous Pink and White Terraces, 1886
Americus Callahan of Chicago patents the window envelope, 1902
The inaugural service for the United Church of Canada, a union of Presbyterian, Methodist, and Congregationalist churches, is held in Toronto Arena, 1925
Dr. Robert Smith takes his last drink, and Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio, United States, by him and Bill Wilson, 1925
Six-Day War ends: Israel and Syria agree to a cease-fire, 1967
Apple ships its first Apple II personal computer, 1977
The Spirit Rover is launched, beginning NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission, 2003
Twenty inches of rainfall in Escambia County, Florida damages roadways and bridges, and leaving parts of the Florida Panhandle and coastal Alabama under water, 2012
German authorities are forced to evacuate 10 villages as heavy rains swell the Elbe River, breaching its banks, 2013
Heavy monsoon rains cause the collapse of a partially-finished building on a residential block in Mumbai, India, 2013
Juan Felipe Herrera, age 66, is named by U.S. Congress as this year's national poet laureate, the first Latino to be given the title, 2015
According to a DNA study published in the science journal “Nature Plants”, grapes grown for some types of wine in modern France are genetically similar and, in some cases identical to grapes grown 900 years ago, 2019
The European Space Agency announces a new probe, the EnVision, to study Venus, 2021
I hope all the ducklings hatch and you get to watch them learn to follow mama duck.
ReplyDeleteEchoing River - and hooray for being a bit wild from time to time.
ReplyDeleteWild duck?
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
I can plainly see the eggs under her. Can't wait to see your baby ducklings.
ReplyDeleteGood luck on the eggs. We are glad we don't have a duck with eggs this year as it was too sad when she marched them off and they all fell into the sewer drain. Great sparks. We love conquering the challenges we are given.
ReplyDeleteThe mama duck appears to have a nice sunny spot to nest. Good sparks!
ReplyDeleteThat's such a cute duck! I like your Sparks and your poem too!
ReplyDeleteBless you for taking care of her and her nest. You all rock.
ReplyDeleteLove your Sparks. Going wild is a good thing now and then.
Thank you for joining the Awww Mondays Blog Hop.
Have a fabulous Awww Monday and week. Hugs, my friend. ♥
Yet another one you are caring for ~ you are an angel ~
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to the babies ~ great photos and fun quotes about wild things ~ fun poetry too ~ hugs,
Wishing you good health, laughter and love in your days,
A ShutterBug Explores,
aka ( A Creative Harbor)
We had ducks in our pool!
ReplyDeleteThose Muskogee ducks are cool! We only have Canada Geese and other boring ducks on our river and they are just passing through. Mimi, we are so happy to read your posts, they make our hearts sing! And Thanks for visiting us! Keep being awesome! Purrs Marvelous Marv, Kozmo, Jo Jo, Cinnamon and Mom Barb
ReplyDeleteThose are not the best-looking ducks, but their ducklings are very cute.
ReplyDeleteThe duck is a cutie.
ReplyDeletePretty duck and great poem.
ReplyDeleteJava Bean: "Ayyy, I wonder how we could get one of those ducks. Usually we have to go to the park to see ducks, and then Mama and Dada won't let us chase them, but we could chase them around our own yard, right? Right ... ?"
ReplyDeleteLulu: "Somehow I think not ..."
Quack! Haven't seen any ducks here, but we have to keep an eye out for Killdeer, they pick idiotic places to nest. They are also protected species. Which might be good, because they make chickens look like Einstein!
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I'm a wild one! I dared to pitch a game of baseball with my 6 year old grandson, Reggie Jackson world Series hitter! hahaha He hit a line drive into my left knee. The ice helped and now I see a tiny bruising. And... that is why we only have plastic bats and balls in the yard. I am not Ron Guidry "Louisana Lightening" or Cat Fish Hunter. Amen!
ReplyDeleteOh, I like your poems. I want to be wild just reading them!
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