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Monday, August 19, 2024

Summer(time) and the Living Is Easy (Awww Monday), Inspiring Quote of the Week and Poetry Monday

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Summer, one of Ms. GA's semi-feral outdoor clowder, settled down for a nap in the porch swing.














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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!


This week the theme is Market.                  

     


as i've a black thumb

i'm planting myself at the

local farm market


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I went to the farmer's market

and i really have to say

they did not kale it quits

on the corn-y jokes that day.


They said 'twas berry nice

to see me there and then,

"We have ripe avocados

to guac you're world again."


"The lettuce is just a-head,

our fresh beans are really a gas,

our apples don't fall far from trees,

just right outside in our grass."


I heard one onion say to another,

"Texas Sweet, shallot we dance?"

Their produce is in a-maize-ing shape

i could tell with just a glance.


I'll be back there tomorrow,

to explore the place a bit deeper,

they have their own hives for honey,

which means they are a keeper!


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Future themes are:


Aug. 19 market (Today!)

Aug. 26 instrument

Sept. 2 height

Sept. 9 family

Sept. 16 intention

Sept. 23 teaching

Sept. 30 feedback


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Today is:


Black Cow Root Beer Float Day -- the ice cream and root beer combination was supposedly first served on this date in 1893 by Frank J. Wisner, owner of Cripple Creek Brewing, and he named it after the local Cow Mountain   


Full Sturgeon Moon a/k/a Full Red Moon, Green Corn Moon, or Grain Moon

     Native Wild Rice Harvest -- Northern Cree, Ojibwa, and Algonkian Native Americans (celebrated during the August full moon; if there are two full moons, it is during the second)

     Nikini Full Moon Poya Day -- Sri Lanka (begins at sundown)

     Raksha Bandhan -- CG, GJ, MP, RJ, UK, & UP, India; Nepal (the Hindu festival that celebrates the the love and duty between brothers and sisters)

     Waso Full Moon -- Myanmar 


Hanawa Bayashi -- Kazuno City, Japan (parades and music in the merchant's quarter, through tomorrow)


Hot & Spicy Food Day


Ibumin Earoeni Day -- Nauru (Day of the Tribes)


Jeshen -- Afghanistan (Independence Day)


Manuel Luis Quezon Day -- Quezon City, Philippines


National Aviation Day -- US


Potato Day


Stay at Home With Your Kids Day -- begun by Work at Home Moms ezine in 1999, to encourage and support parents who work from home


St. John Eudes' Day (Patron of Baie-Comeau, Quebec, Canada)


St. Sebald's Day (a/k/a Sebaldus) (Patron of Bavaria, Germany; Nuremburg, Germany; against cold weather and freezing)


Vinalia Rustica -- Ancient Roman Calendar (Festival of Ripening Grapes)


World Humanitarian Day -- UN


World Photography Day


Yukon Discovery Day -- YT, Canada



Birthdays Today:


Snuffleupagus (year unconfirmed)

Jennifer Morrison, 1979

Matthew Perry, 1969

LeAnn Womack, 1966

Kyra Sedgwick, 1965

Kevin Dillon, 1965

John Stamos, 1963

Adam Arkin, 1956

Cindy Nelson

Peter Gallagher, 1955

Mary Matlin, 1953

Jonathan Frakes, 1952

John Deacon, 1951

Gerald McRaney, 1948

Tipper Gore, 1948

Bill Clinton, 1946

Jack Canfield, 1944

Jill St. John, 1940

Diana Muldaur, 1938

Franklin Story Musgrave, 1935

Willie Shoemaker, 1931

Don Ho, 1930

Gene Roddenberry, 1921

Malcolm Forbes, 1919

Jimmy Rowles, 1918

Ring Lardner, Jr., 1915

Philo T. Farnsworth, 1906 (forgotten inventor of television)

Ogden Nash, 1902

Coco Chanel, 1883

George Bellows, 1882

Orville Wright, 1881

John Dryden, 1631



Debuting/Premiering Today:


"Animal Clinic" and "Acrobat Ranch"(first Saturday morning children's programs, on ABC), 1950



Today in History:


The Roman Senate is compelled to elect Octavian, later Augustus Caesar, Consul, BC43

Augustus Caesar dies, 14

Crusaders defeat the Saracens in the Battle of Ascalon, 1099

Mary Queen of Scots arrives in Leith to assume the throne, 1561

Five people are executed for witchcraft in Salem, Mass., 1692

Presentation of Jacque Daguerre's new photographic process to the French Academy of Sciences, 1839

The New York Herald reports the discovery of gold in California, 1849

The first All-American Soap Box Derby is held in Dayton, Ohio, 1934

Hurricane Dianne kills 200 and does about $1 Billion in damage, 1955

Leonard Bernstein conducts his final concert, ending with Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 7, 1990

Several hundred East Germans cross the frontier between Hungary and Austria during the Pan-European Picnic, part of the events which began the process of the Fall of the Berlin Wall, 1989

A series of strong storms lashes Southern Ontario spawning several tornadoes as well as creating extreme flash flooding within the city of Toronto and its surrounding communities, 2005

A team of divers discover the wreck of a Swedish warship, part of King Erik XIV's fleet, that sank in 1564 in the Baltic Sea, 2011

The monsoon rains finally ease up in Kerala State, India, where flooding has already claimed 350 lives and left 200,000+ in relief camps, 2018

Apple becomes the first US company to be valued at $2 trillion, just 2 years after it reached the value of $1 trillion, 2020

The drought in Europe uncovers river "hunger stones" which were set in rivers in warning of famine; the one in Děčín on the Elbe River, with an inscription dating from 1417, simply says "if you see me, then weep," 2022

14 comments:

  1. A very punny poem - and a totally 'laxed cat.

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  2. Nice to see the cat enjoying the swing and it's new life. Funny spark on working in the grocery store.

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  3. Those are very good, thought provoking sparks. I bet it is a nice place for a kitty nap, despite being a hard surface.

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  4. I smiled at the pictures and laughed at your poem! Delightful.

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  5. Love that vegetable poem!

    And, yes, I agree, it's one thing to become changed (or enlightened or saved...or whatever word you want to you use for the experience) and it's another to stay that way in our world!

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  6. Summer has such pretty furs! Those were good Sparks and a fun poem!

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  7. What a good looking kitty. They are so precious when they're sleeping. Love the colors.

    Love your take on the market. Well done.

    Thank you for joining the Awww Mondays Blog Hop.

    Have a fabulous Awww Monday and week. Hugs. ♥

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  8. Charlee: "Being rocked to sleep sounds pretty nice!"

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  9. Summer is a beauty. Excellent sparks and poem. XO

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  10. Summer looks very chill :) I like your Sparks thoughts. Great haiku - clever! and fun vegetable poem :)

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  11. A totally funny Farmer's market poem. I like that, puns are funs!

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  12. Summer looks very content there. Maybe she would like someone to give the swing a gentle push:)

    Woos - Misty and Timber

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  13. Kitty looks so relaxed... Zzzz... I adore both the poems. And I don't think I have reached enlightenment at the grocery store yet... Ahem...
    Cat

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  14. Your market poem is great. I've helped people pick up dropped groceries because I know if it was me doing the dropping I'd be happy to have some help.

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