Monday, September 30, 2024

Lots to Smell (Awww Monday), Inspiring Quote of the Week, and Poetry Monday: Feedback

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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!


Mr. Cal does some intense sniffing on our walks.  I did manage to get two good pictures, one i'll post today and if i remember, i'll do the other as next week's Sunday selfie.
















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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 Feedback.                       


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"Leave feedback" they always say,

but i sigh, put it off for another day

it's hard to take the time just now

and then i'm busy and forget somehow.


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It was late, i was tired and hungry

and pulled into a place

to grab a bit of something,

life's always a hectic pace


they served an all day breakfast

it really sounded great

supposed to be hot and fresh

delights upon a plate


the chef must have been from

the prison cooking school

it was simply awful

and i'm not picky as a rule


they had a customer card

and feedback i could leave,

i decided to have my say

and my feelings relieve


i said the bacon was soggy

the hash browns very bland

the eggs were overcooked,

the biscuits obviously canned


the worst was the biscuit gravy

i couldn't take two bites,

i told them in needed improvement

or better yet, last rites!


(Years before i became vegetarian or there was an internet, i really did leave this feedback at a restaurant!)


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Future themes are:


Sept. 30 feedback (Today!)

Oct. 7 shower

Oct. 14 island

Oct. 21 apple

Oct. 29 small


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Today is:


Agricultural Reform Day -- Sao Tome and Principe


Ask A Stupid Question Day -- teachers wanted to get students asking more questions, so they started this day, telling them to ask even if the questions were stupid; now, it's a holiday on the last school day of September each year! 


Celtic Tree Month Gort begins (Ivy)


Day of Liberation of the Republic of Abkhazia -- Abkhazia (disputed territory on the Black Sea)


Do Something Wacky With A Grandparent Day -- just not the monkey bars, please; old bones don't knit fast enough; whatever you do, take some pictures!


Eleusinian Mysteries -- Ancient Greek Calendar (the Greater Mystery Rites, date approximate; mystery rites of Demeter and Persephone at Eleusis, one of the most sacred times of their year)


Independence Day -- Botswana


International Translation Day -- International Federation of Translators 


Kokkeisetsu -- Chinatown, Yokohama, Japan (Chinese National Founding Day in the largest Chinatown in Japan; through tomorrow)


Medetrinalia -- Ancient Roman Calendar (festival fruits offer to the goddess of medicine)


Monkey Bars Day -- a day to go see if you can still do tricks on the monkey bars, because the internet wants to kill us and let the machines that would never do anything so silly take over


National Hot Mulled Cider Day


National Mud Pack Day -- give yourself a facial


St. Gregory the Enlightener (or Illuminator; Patron of Armenia)


St. Jerome's Day (Patron of archaeologists, archivists, Biblical scholars, librarians, libraries, school children, students, translators; Saint-Jerome, Quebec) 

     also an Apache celebration of Geronimo, the Native American who was named after this saint


Truth and Reconciliation Day -- Canada




Anniversary Today:


Haleakala National Park is established in Maui, Hawaii, 1960



Birthdays Today:


Dominique Moceanu, 1981

Marion Cotillard, 1975

Jenna Elfman, 1971

Crystal Bernard, 1964

Eric Stoltz, 1961

Fran Drescher, 1957

Deborah Allen, 1953

Victoria Tennant, 1953

Marilyn McCoo, 1943

Z.Z. Hill, 1935

Johnny Mathis, 1935

Angie Dickinson, 1931

Elie Wiesel, 1928

W. S. Merwin, 1927

Truman Capote, 1924

Deborah Kerr, 1921

Buddy Rich, 1917

William Wrigley, Jr., 1861

Rumi, 1207



Debuting/Premiering Today:


Millie's Book: As Dictated to Barbara Bush(Publication date), 1990

"Murder, She Wrote"(TV), 1984

"Cheers"(TV), 1982

"Love Child"(Single release), 1968

"The Flintstones"(TV), 1960

"Tea and Sympathy"(Play), 1953

"The Red Skelton show"(TV), 1951

"Porgy and Bess"(Opera), 1935

Little Women(Publication date), 1868

"Les pecheurs de perles/The Pearl Fishers"(Bizet opera), 1863

"Die Zauberflote/The Magic Flute"(Mozart opera, K. 620), 1791

The Gutenberg Bible(first section, publication date), 1452



Today in History:


Rambam (Maimonides) authorizes Samuel Ibn Tibbon to translate the Guide of the Perplexed from Arabic into Hebrew, 1199

Anesthetic ether is used for the first time by Dr. William Morton, who extracted a tooth, 1846

German scientist Hermann von Meyer announces the discovery of the first fossil of an archaeopteryx, 1861

The first Portuguese immigrants arrive in Hawai'i, 1878

The world's first commercial hydroelectric power plant begins operation on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States, 1882

Hubert Cecil Booth patents the vacuum cleaner, 1901

The first manned rocket plane flight, made by auto maker Fritz von Opel, 1929

The Islamic Republic of Pakistan and Yemen join the United Nations, 1947

The World Series, featuring the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers, is televised for the first time, 1947

The U.S. Navy submarine USS Nautilus is commissioned as the world's first nuclear reactor powered vessel, 1954

James Dean is killed in a road accident, 1955

Mexican-American labor leader César Chávez founds the United Farm Workers, 1962

James Meredith enters the University of Mississippi, defying segregation, 1962

General Suharto rises to power in Indonesia after an alleged coup by communists, and massacres over a million Indonesian people suspected of belonging to the Communist Party, 1965

BBC Radio 1 is launched and Tony Blackburn presents its first show, 1967

Ethernet specifications are published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation, 1980 

The Dalai Lama unveils the Canadian Tribute to Human Rights in Canada's capital city of Ottawa, 1990

The first images of a live giant squid in its natural habitat are taken 600 miles south of Tokyo, 2004

The controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, 2005

A case of Ebola virus is diagnosed in Dallas, Texas, US, 2014

A 315-billion-ton iceberg named D28 calves from the Amery ice shelf, Antarctica, 2019

Canada observes its first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, honoring victims and survivors of residential schools for indigenous children, 2021

Land, including the world's oldest living rainforest, Daintree National Park, is returned to the Eastern Kuku Yalanji people in Far North Queensland, Australia, 2021

14 comments:

  1. I dislike leaving feedback, especially online when a single comment generates a slew of pages with questions to answer rated from dissatisfied to completely satisfied and would I recommend this service to others? it takes forever to get through all that and when it's from Australia Post after having delivered a package I'm particularly annoyed.

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  2. I try and leave positive feedback when a person or company does a good job. I will also leave negative feedback when required but rarely answer surveys seeking it.

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  3. Feedback is a good thing but it needs to be positive and negative. We dogs all enjoy experiencing the world with our noses. Sniffing tells us so much.

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  4. Sometimes feedback is hard to take but should be listened to if given in good spirit. Cal has plenty on his mind on his walk.

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  5. Mr. Cal you are too cute.
    Hugs Cecilia

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  6. Yes, monkey bars are in the rear view mirror of my life. I often think "Ask a Stupid question" is an every day celebration for me. I may not ask it out loud, but some very odd questions do come to mind. Have a blessed week.

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  7. Sweet Cal was sure having a big time out there. Those were good Sparks and good poems too.

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  8. Pups are so fun to take a walk with. They know where they want to go and the peemail they want to sniff. Adorable.

    Love your take on feedback.

    Thank you for joining the Awww Mondays Blog Hop.

    Have a fabulous Awww Monday and week. Love and hugs. ♥

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  9. Sweet Mr. Cal ~ you are adorable and glad you got to 'read the doggie newspaper' ~ important for doggies ~ hugs,

    Wishing you good health, laughter and love in your days,
    clm ~ A ShutterBug Explores ~
    aka (A Creative Harbor)

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  10. Mr. Cal is a cutie. Excellent sparks and poem. I was confused about the meat in your breakfast until I got to the end. :) XO

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  11. We LOVE the shots of Mr Cal! Nutmeg says she thinks he would make a great playmate (she's a kid and wants to play with all the other dogs) and Feedback is impawtant! Especially to young pups! I use smack paws to give the Nutcase feedback (when she smells my butt). And Today is Truth and Reconciliation Day as well as Orange Shirt Day in Canada and we are all celebrating with our orange shirts! Keep being awesome! Marvelous Marv, Kozmo, Jo Jo and Nutcase err Nutmeg

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  12. Hey Mr. Cal - we get it. There is always lots of new peemail to read and one must keep up on the daily news:)

    Woos - Misty and Timber

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  13. I wonder what feedback you'd have left at my restaurant! Mr Cal is such a cutie!

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  14. Java Bean: "Ayyy, what is a walk but an excuse to sniff? If only we could have the world go by for us to sniff while we sit and relax, everything would be perfect!"

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