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The dingy duck was walking in the street, and sometimes people drive through here as if it's a race track, not a neighborhood. We gently encouraged it to get up on the grass.
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| What a ducky day! |
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| What? Out of the street? Why? |
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| Must I? |
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| Humph! |
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| Really? |
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| Oh, all right, I'll stay here. |
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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!
Let me tell you, honey,
there's nothing really funny
about the stuff the bees work hard to make.
It just might get all runny
on a day that's hot and sunny,
but its purity and goodness you can't fake!
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My kids think M-O-M
stands for Made of Money,
and I think I can find some bees
and "cell" off all their honey.
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They entered Tutankhamen's tomb
for fame and glory and money,
and found, along with scads of gold
pots filled with still good honey!
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Future themes are:
Aug. 5 honey (Today!)
Aug. 12 cabinet
Aug. 22 market
Aug. 29 instrument
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Today is:
August Bank Holiday -- ACT, NSW, Australia; Ireland; UK
August Monday/Culturama -- Saint Kitts and Nevis
Barsi Bhagat Puran Singh -- Sikhism
Bogota Carnival -- Bogota, Colombia (celebrating the city's Hispanic founding; through tomorrow)
British Columbia Day -- British Columbia, Canada
Carnival Monday -- Anguilla (August Monday); Antigua and Barbuda (J'ouvert); British Virgin Islands (Festival/Emancipation Monday)
Celtic Tree Month Coll (Hazel) commences
Civic Holiday -- Canada
Constitution Day -- Cook Islands
Damn the Torpedoes, Full Speed Ahead Day -- uttered this day by Admiral Farragut at the Battle of Mobile Bay in 1864
Emancipation Day -- Bahamas; Dominica; Granada; Montserrat; Turks and Caicos Islands (Obs.)
Farmer's Day -- Zambia
Frídagur verslunarmanna -- Iceland (Commerce Day)
Hanakasa Matsuri -- Yamagata City, Japan (10,000 costumed dancers perform; through the 7th)
Independence Day / Republic Day -- Burkina Faso (former Upper Volta)(1960)
Kadooment Day -- Barbados (huge carnival celebration of the end of the Crop Over festival, celebrating the end of the sugar cane harvest)
National Blackmail Day -- according to mostly ecard sites, with suggestions to send a card to the friend who has told you his/her secrets, with the notice that you plan on celebrating this date!
National Children's Day -- Tuvalu
National Underwear Day -- sponsored by www.freshpair.com, which encourages people to rethink their underwear style, make sure they have the right fit
National Waffle Day
New Brunswick Day -- New Brunswick, Canada
NOMS (Not of My Species) Day -- celebrating animal friendships between animals of differing species
Nuestra Senora de Africa -- CE, Spain (Day of Our Lady of Africa, also called Fiestas Patronales)
Oyster Day
Picnic Day -- NT, Australia
Sacrifice to Salus -- Ancient Roman Calendar (goddess of health, associated with Greek Hygeia)
St. Afra of Augsburg's Day (Patron of converts, martyrs, penitent women; Augsburg, Germany)
St. Oswald of Northumbria's Day (Patron of Zug, Switzerland)
Victory and Homeland Thanksgiving Day and the Day of Croatian defenders -- Croatia
Work Like a Dog Day -- different from work-a-holics, people who work like a dog work hard while they are at it, and rest when they aren't
Youth and Children's Day -- Kiribati
Birthdays Today:
Jonathan Silverman, 1966
Patrick Aloysius Ewing, 1962
Maureen McCormick, 1956
Erika Slezak, 1946
Loni Anderson, 1946
Ja’net DuBois, 1938
John Saxon, 1936
Neil Armstrong, 1930
Sydney Omarr, 1926
Raoul Wallenberg, 1912
John Huston, 1906
Conrad Potter Aiken, 1889
Joseph Merrick, 1862
Guy de Maupassant, 1850
Thomas Lynch, Jr., 1749
John Eliot, 1604
Joseph Justus Scaliger, 1540
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Revolver"(Beatles Album, release date), 1966
"Eleanor Rigby" & "Yellow Submarine"(Beatles singles, A & B side respectively, release date), 1966
"American Bandstand"(TV, national premiere), 1957
"Andy Capp"(Comic strip), 1957
"Little Orphan Annie"(Comic strip), 1924
Today in History
The last outpost of Bar Kockba, Betar, falls to Rome, 135
Penda of Mercia defeats and kills Oswald of Northumbria at the Battle of Maserfield, 642
King Edward and Earl Aetherlred, leading the allied forces of Mercia and Wessex, defeat the last major Viking army to raid England at the Battle of Tettenhall, 910
Anti-Jewish riots in Arnstadt, Germany, 1264
Sir Humphrey Gilbert establishes first English colony in North America, at what is now St John's, Newfoundland, 1583
The Mayflower departs from Southampton, England on its first attempt to reach North America, 1620
New York Weekly Journal writer John Peter Zenger is acquitted of seditious libel against the royal governor of New York, on the basis that what he had published was true, 1735
US Army abolishes flogging, 1861
Standard Oil of New Jersey is established, 1882
The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid on Bedloe's Island in New York Harbor, 1884
Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back in the first long distance automobile trip made in her husbands invention, the first patented automobile; her journey was to publicize the invention, and she garnered attention and sales, 1888
The first electric traffic light is installed, in Cleveland, Ohio, 1914
Debut of the comic strip "Little Orphan Annie", by Harold Gray, 1924
Debut of the comic strip "Andy Capp", by Smythe, 1957
Nelson Mandela is jailed, 1962*
The United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union sign a nuclear test ban treaty, 1963
The city of Knin, a significant Serb stronghold, is captured by Croatian forces during Operation Storm, 1995
The Copiapo mining accident traps 33 Chilean miners about 2,300ft below the ground, 2010
NASA launches the Juno Space Probe to study Jupiter, 2011
The world's first bovine stem cell lab-grown burger is eaten in London, 2013
The UN Security Council votes to impose sanctions on North Korea for its continued missile program, 2017
New Zealand canoeist Lisa Carrington wins her third Olympic gold medal of the Tokyo Games and the 5th gold of her career, 2021
Volkswagen launches a prototype of its first flying car, an automated electric passenger vehicle nicknamed the "Flying Tiger", 2022
*Released in 1990
Love the quotes and poems, Love Honey and Bees too.
ReplyDeleteLove your poems - and am blown away by how long honey lasts. Thank you for saving the duck.
ReplyDeleteThat duck has lost its car keys!
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
I love everything about the bees and the honey. Great Sparks on Monday morning. So glad the duck is safe. I get so sad when I see dead animals on the road.
ReplyDeleteDucks but more often Canadian Geese don't feel the need to vacate the road and they cause a lot of traffic problems.
ReplyDeleteWe try to get the ducks to safety too but so many people just speed thru and they don't care about a mama and her ducklings. - I liked your poem. - I also like your bee pics. I'm all about dandelions and other flowers growing everywhere to keep our little bees happy.
ReplyDeleteThe duck seams very far away from home
ReplyDeleteI can see you getting the duck in a safe place. I would have been there right there helping you.
ReplyDeleteLove your take on honey. You always make me smile.
Thank you for joining the Awww Mondays Blog Hop.
Have a fabulous Awww Monday and week. Love and hugs. ♥
I really wish our ducks and geese would keep out of the street. Those were really good Sparks and a good poem too.
ReplyDeleteOh so glad you got the sweet ducky off the streets ~ great bee quotes too ~ hugs,
ReplyDeleteWishing you good health, laughter and love in your days,
clm ~ A ShutterBug Explores,
aka (A Creative Harbor)
It's nice to know I am more like a bee than I had imagined. I may celebrate National Waffle Day for dinner tonight and add a little honey instead of maple syrup.
ReplyDeleteNice sparks and poem. Cute duck. XO
ReplyDeleteMew mew mew you have "Daffy" Duckss two Miss Mimi??? Wee have Mama an PawPaw D. Duck who bring their littel Ducklin'ss across our busy street efurry yeer....iss a busy street...no Duck has efurr been hert...wee shuud have a DUCK X'ing sign up mee thinkss!!! Yore SPARK iss furabuluss!! Wee love it! Wishin all of youss' a wunderfull week! ***nose rubss*** BellaDharma an {{{hugss}}} BellaSita Mum
ReplyDeleteGreat honey bee memes. That duck would move fast if a car or truck came roaring down the road with its horn blaring. Or maybe it would be like the dumb geese that just saunter across the road at a snail's pace:)
ReplyDeleteWoos - Misty and Timber
Charlee: "Hmm, looks like ducks and dogs have something in common."
ReplyDeleteJava Bean: "Ayyy, what's that?"
Charlee: "They both need to be told to stay out of the street!"
That's not a happy duck! I like that you've featured honey on National Waffle Day - a perfect combination!
ReplyDeleteI'm always nervous when I see a duck in the middle of the street.
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