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Last Thursday at Ms. SE's house, Emmie was at school for the blessing of the animals. As for Cookie, they're only allowed to bring one animal each and she went last year, so she was home with us and played hunter in the monkey grass, pouncing on what were probably the little anole lizards, as they are everywhere right now. After, it's time for a nap.
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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 Shower.
I used to have a shower addiction,
stopping my shower made me mean,
but I'm glad to say for many years now,
I've been totally clean!
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We'd been out playing sports,
came home sweaty and out of sorts,
said, "I'll take a shower" as we alit from the car,
and my wife said, "Don't take it too far!"
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I used to shampoo in the shower,
thought it a great way to save time,
then read the shampoo directions,
they stopped me on a dime.
"For extra body and volume,"
is right there on the label,
rinsing this stuff right down my body,
blaming weight gain on the dinner table!
Now the dish soap's in my shower,
and my weight gain it should resolve,
as the label says fat and grease
is something it will dissolve.
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Future themes are:
Oct. 7 shower (Today!)
Oct. 14 island
Oct. 21 apple
Oct. 29 small
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Today is:
Bathtub Day -- can't confirm this one, but it's as good a day as any to be glad you have one!
BOL Foundation Day -- Laos
Child Health Day -- US (as established by President Calvin Coolidge in 1928)
Country Inn, Bed-and-Breakfast Day
Feast Day of Ma'at -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)
If At First You Don't Succeed Day -- in honor of Frank Sinatra, whose CBS-TV musical variety show debuted on this day in 1950; it and the other two shows that followed didn't succeed, but he never gave up and had a great career
King's Birthday -- QLD, Australia
Labour Day -- ACT, NSW, & SA, Australia
Lepanto Day -- Greece
Nagasaki Kunchi -- Nagasaki, Japan (harvest festival, through the 9th)
National Education Day / World Teachers' Day -- Kiribati
National Flower Day -- US (anniversary of President Reagan signing the bill, in 1986, that made the rose the US National Flower)
National Frappe Day
Nones of October -- Ancient Roman Calendar; other observances
Festival of Juno Cutitis and Jupiter Fulgor
Victoria, Lady of Victories Day a/k/a Pallas Athena -- also celebrated by the Ancient Greeks
Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary -- Catholic Christian
Peat-Cutting Day -- Falkland Islands (Spring Holiday)
St. Justina of Padua's Day (Patron of Padua, Italy; Santa Giustina, Italy)
Territory Day -- Christmas Island
Thanksgiving Day -- Saint Lucia
Try To Start An Argument Over Which Is the Best Muppet Day -- Kermit, hands down (argue below, if you wish)(Possibly started by the International Association of People without a Life)
World Architecture Day -- International Union of Architects (this year's theme: Empowering the Next Generation in Participatory Urban Design)
World Habitat Day -- UN (Habitat for Humanity)
You Matter To Me Day -- because the phrase "you matter to me" can make a profound difference in someone's life
Anniversaries Today:
Larry King married Julie Alexander, 1989
Dow Jones makes the first report, in the Wall Street Journal, of an average of the prices of 12 industrial stocks, 1896
Birthdays Today:
Toni Braxton, 1967
Simon Cowell, 1959
Michael W. Smith, 1957
Yo-Yo Ma, 1955
Vladimir Putin, 1952
John Cougar Mellencamp, 1951
Joy Behar, 1943
Charles Dutoit, 1936
Thomas Keneally, 1935
Amiri Baraka, 1934
Bishop Desmond Tutu, 1931
Al Martino, 1927
R. D. Laing, 1927
June Allyson, 1917
Vaughn Monroe, 1911
Andy Devine, 1905
Niels Bohr, 1885
Thomas J. Wise, 1859
James Whitcomb Riley, 1849
Caesar Rodney, 1728(O.S. date)
Debuting/Premiering Today:
The Independent(Newspaper, first issue), 1986
"Cats"(Musical), 1982
"Route 66"(TV), 1960
"Your Hit Parade"(TV), 1950
"One Touch of Venus"(Musical), 1943
"Eve of St. Mark"(Play), 1942
Today in History:
The epoch of the modern Hebrew calendar (Proleptic Julian calendar), BC3761
The first public burning of books in Louvain, Netherlands, 1520
Ralph Wedgewood patents carbon paper in London, 1806
The first chartered railway in the US, the Granite Railway, begins operations, 1826
Spain abolishes slavery in Cuba, 1886
Henry Ford institutes the moving assembly line, 1913
Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland college in the infamous 222-0 football game, 1916
160 consecutive days of 100*F+ temperatures begin at Marble Bar, Australia, 1924
Beat poet Allen Ginsberg reads his poem "Howl" for the first time at a poetry reading in San Francisco, 1955
U.S.S.R. probe Luna 3 transmits first ever photographs of the far side of the moon, 1959
Nigeria joins the United Nations, 1960
Oman joins the United Nations, 1971
Cats opens on Broadway and begins a run of nearly 18 years, 1982
The Great Flood of 1993 ends at St. Louis, Missouri, 103 days after it began, 1993
Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, is found tied to a fence after being savagely beaten, 1998
The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan begins, 2001
A Southampton University research fellow discovers a long lost Antonio Vivaldi flute concerto at the National Archives of Scotland in Edinburgh, 2010
Scientists Stefan Hell of Germany and Eric Betzig and William Moerner of the U.S. share the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing 'super-resolved fluorescence microscopy'; the technology can be used to observe molecular activity in living cells, 2014
Jodie Whittaker debuts in her first full episode as the 13th and first female Doctor Who on BBC television, 2018
The Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology is awarded to Peter Ratcliffe, William Kaelin and Gregg Semenza for discovering how cells sense oxygen, 2019
Zanzibar born writer Abdulrazak Gurnah is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, 2021
The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded jointly to the Belarusian human rights advocate Ales Bialiatski, the Russian human rights organization Memorial and the Ukrainian human rights organization Center for Civil Liberties, 2022
Hamas launches a major air and ground attack on Israel from Gaza, killing over a thousand people and taking hundreds of hostages, sparking a state of war, 2023
Smiling broadly at your poem. So that is why I am getting larger...
ReplyDeleteIs that a fence I see?
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
It looks like she had a lot of fun hunting in those bushes. Mom would not like lizards around anywhere and we would not be allowed to go near them either.
ReplyDeleteThat was definitely some fun time outside.
ReplyDeleteyou would be surpized at what my baby sister would fing to bring home, "he followed me all the way home'
ReplyDeletethe poor animal was clutched firmly in her arms.
It's good to romp outside for a bit and then a good nap. Adorable.
ReplyDeleteI love your take on showers. Beautiful and fun.
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Java Bean: "Ayyy, we have those little lizards everywhere out here, but they are exceedingly hard to catch!"
ReplyDeleteOona: "Oona likes to sit at the window and watch them run by. It is quite fascinating ..."
Oh sweet doggie ~ fun for you romping and chasing lizards ~ great photos of you and wonderful sparks, Mimi ~
ReplyDeleteWishing you good health, laughter and love in your days,
clm ~ A ShutterBug Explores,
aka (A Creative Harbor)
Cute pup. Great sparks and funny poem. XO
ReplyDeleteCookie made good use of his time at home. We would love to help him search for those lizards. If they are anything like the lizards here, they are really fast.
ReplyDeleteWoos - Misty and Timber
Lots of fun lizard pouncing going on! Those were good Sparks and I liked your poems too!
ReplyDeleteLove the shampoo poem. Cookie had a great day.
ReplyDeleteGreat Cookie pictures. I need to check my shampoo label!
ReplyDeleteCute pics of Cookie.
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