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While Becca, Mr. Cal and i were walking yesterday morning, the still quiet was suddenly disturbed by a duck taking off from the water. It landed on a signpost by the waterside and proceeded to take a bath, or maybe more of an after bath comb out. I got as close as i dared as i didn't want him to fly off, although most of the ducks at these ponds are quite used to people and often beg for bread crusts.
He was quite the contortionist, as you will see.
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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 Teaching.
My best fun was teaching
cooking at home-school group,
we made everything ourselves
even stock for the soup.
The best part of it all of course
was before the class was done,
we got to eat our creations,
and we did, every crumb!
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Time is the greatest at teaching,
each moment with lessons it fills,
it's sad to say when it's all done,
each student it also kills!
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Future themes are:
Sept. 23 teaching (Today!)
Sept. 30 feedback
Oct. 7 shower
Oct. 14 island
Oct. 21 apple
Oct. 29 small
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Today is:
Al-Yaom Al-Watany -- Saudi Arabia (National Day/Founding of the Kingdom)
Augustalia -- Roman Empire (birthday of Caesar Augustus, still the traditional New Year's Day in Constantinople and in the Eastern Orthodox Church)
Canterbury South Provincial Anniversary Day -- Canterbury South, New Zealand
Checkers Day/Dogs in Politics Day -- thanks to Mr. Nixon; and i'm tempted to further comment, but this one is too easy
Citua -- Ancient Inca Empire (feast to the Moon, and to banish disease, in the month of Coyaraimi, date approximate)
Dominion Day -- New Zealand (Obs.)
El Grito de Lares -- Lares, Puerto Rico (anniversary of the first uprising against Spanish rule in 1868)
Family Day - A Day to Eat Dinner with Your Children(TM) -- US (sponsored by The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University, encouraging everyone to have a meal with the family, because all the studies show it's good for you!)
Innergize Day -- the day to take time for yourself! always on the day after the equinox, so usually either the 23rd or 24th, depending on where you live
International Restless Legs Syndrome Awareness Day -- on the birth anniversary of Professor Karl-Axel Ekborn, the neurologist who first described it
King's Birthday Holiday -- WA, Australia
National Great American Pot Pie Day
Neptune Day -- planet discovered this day in 1846 by Johann Galle of Germany
Organ Donation Week begins -- UK (join the organ donor registry, when you don't need your parts any more, someone else will!)
St. Adamnan's Day (Patron of Donegal, Ireland; Raphoe, Ireland)
St. Padre Pio's Day
Thrue Bab -- Bhutan (Blessed Rainy Day)
Anniversaries Today:
The University of Alberta in Alberta, Canada, is founded, 1908
Birthdays Today:
Anthony Mackie, 1979
Ani DiFranco, 1970
Elizabeth Pena, 1961
Jason Alexander, 1959
Bruce Springsteen, 1949
Mary Kay Place, 1947
Paul Petersen, 1945
Julio Iglesias, 1943
Tom Lester, 1938
Ray Charles, 1930
John Coltrane, 1926
Mickey Rooney, 1920
Walter Pidgeon, 1897
Friedrich Paulus, 1890
Walter Lippman, 1889
Victoria Woodhull, 1838
William H. McGuffey, 1800
Kublai Khan, 1215
Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus, BC63
Euripides, BC480
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Marcus Welby, M.D."(TV), 1969
"The Jetsons"(TV), 1962
"Threni: id est Lamentatines Jeremiae Prophetae"(Stravinsky dodecaphonic work), 1958
Today in History:
Concord of Worms, 1122
The first major battle of the Wars of the Roses, at Blore Heath in Staffordshire, 1459
First commencement exercises of Harvard College in Cambridge, Mass., 1642
Liechtenstein declares its independence from the German Empire, 1719
John Paul Jones' "Bon Homme Richard" defeats the HMS Serepis, 1779
Lewis and Clark arrive back in St. Louis from their explorations, 1806
The Knickerbockers Baseball Club, the first baseball team to play under the modern rules, is founded in New York, 1845
Neptune is discovered by French astronomer Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier and British astronomer John Couch Adams, 1846
Nintendo Koppai, later known as Nintendo Company, Limited, is founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi; it produces and markets the playing card game Hanafuda, 1889
The Phantom of the Opera (original title: Le Fantome de l'Opera), a novel by French writer Gaston Leroux, was first published, 1909
The MS Princess of Tasmania, Australia’s first passenger roll-on/roll-off diesel ferry, makes her maiden voyage across Bass Strait, 1959
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos announces over television and radio the implementation of martial law, 1972
Juan Perón returns to power in Argentina, 1973
Saint Kitts and Nevis joins the United Nations, 1983
Qantas Flight 1 overruns the runway in Bangkok during a storm; some passengers only receive minor injuries, it is still the worst crash in Qantas's history, 1991
The first public version of the web browser Mozilla Firefox ("Phoenix 0.1") is released, 2002
Hurricane Jeanne strikes Haiti and leaves at least 1,070 dead, 2004
Researchers announce the identification of four genetically different types of breast cancer, 2012
Japan's space agency becomes the first to place two robotic explorers on an asteroid, Ryugu, from its Hayabusa-2 spacecraft, 2018
The 178-year-old British travel company Thomas Cook goes into liquidation, stranding 600,000 travelers worldwide, prompting largest postwar repatriation effort by UK government, 2019
Fossilized footprints 23,000-21,000 years old from White Sands, New Mexico indicate settlement by humans of North and South America earlier than previously thought, 2021
Ducks do have very flexible necks and I'm quite envious because my own is quite stiff.
ReplyDeleteI remember "teaching" when my kids were little, letters, numbers, colours and shapes, left and right. All the things they'd need to know before starting school.
I love the contortionist duck.
ReplyDeleteAnd am endlessly grateful to so many teachers - many of them (you included) are bloggers.
Donald Duck?
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
It is amazing how much a bird like that can do with their head and neck. Even cats and dogs can bend and move in ways humans can't begin to move.
ReplyDeleteI like it the duck is sitting on a no trespassing sign, lol.
ReplyDeleteI love the duck pictures! A tasty teaching poem.
ReplyDeleteOur weather has cooled off this morning, so it would be a great day to celebrate the American Pot Pie!
ReplyDeleteI only wish dogs were active in politics. It would be much better than the snakes and lizards that are running the country now. Just sayin'.
Have a blessed week.
I love water fowl. Such great shots. I'll miss seeing the water fowl at the marina we enjoy for over 20 years. I won't miss boating though. We're happy about that.
ReplyDeleteLove your take on teaching. Beautiful.
Thank you for joining the Awww Mondays Blog Hop.
Have a fabulous Awww Monday and week. Love and hugs, my friend. ♥
Awesome photos of the duck and his flexible moves ~ great sparks too ~ thanks, hugs,
ReplyDeleteWishing you good health, laughter and love in your days,
clm ~ A ShutterBug Explores,
aka (A Creative Harbor)
While my site has gone to the dogs, yours has gone to the birds. 😂😂
ReplyDeleteGreat shots of the duck. Nice sparks and poem too. When I was a tutor and a teenager was kicked out of school, one of the courses I did for him was cooking.
ReplyDeleteThat is some cool quacker. Nice Sparks and cool poems too.
ReplyDeleteThe duck taking his afterbath is just like our silly canary Dylan. First of all he takes his bath in his drinking water cup despite Mom's many attempts to give him a variety of bathtubs meant strictly for bathing. Then after he flutters around in the cold water he hops all around his cage batting his wings, then settles in one spot and does all those contortionist moves the duck does to arrange and rearrange his feathers. Glad we dogs don't have to do that.
ReplyDeleteWoos - Misty and Timber
What great pics! You did well getting them.
ReplyDeleteCharlee: "That is a very bendy duck. Maybe it's part cat?"
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