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Feline Friday was originally started by Steve, The Burnt Food Dude (may he rest in peace), and i'm going to believe it's because he liked cats.
He handed hosting duties off to Sandee at Comedy Plus, and now she's entrusting it to me.
Feline Friday is simple to join. All you have to do is: Post a picture, drawing, cartoon or video of a cat (they may be silly or cute). Then add your link!
One thing for sure is this is a fun and easy meme to do. So come and join us in Feline Friday.
What better way to start the weekend than with a feline!
While October 20 is the official Tock-Tober Day, my kitties want to share theirs one at a time. Today, Dansig the Round.
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| Tocks with a tail dangle. |
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Friendly Fill-Ins are easy to do. There are four statements: the first two statements are provided by Ellen of 15AndMeowing, and the final two are offered by Lorianne The Menagerie Mom of Four-Legged Furballs. They try to make sure the statements will be fun to both answer and share. The linky will be posted at or about 12:00 AM on Friday. Please head over to one of their sites, link up, and share your thoughts!
Here are this week's statements with my responses underlined:
1. I would love to find an easier way to _________.
2. My October list includes _________, _________, and _________.
3. I know better than to _________.
4. _________ should be illegal.
1. I would love to find an easier way to make a living.
2. My October list includes work, church, and all the usual suspects.
3. I know better than to say "never," because as soon as i do, whatever it was is something i end up having to do!
4. Declawing cats should be illegal. When i was a kid, it's just what everyone i knew did when they got a cat, to protect the furniture. Now we know how awful it is and it's time for the practice to end.
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Nature Friday is hosted by LLB in Our Backyard. Simply post a picture of the natural world, and link up!
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It's World Animal Day!
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Today is:
Children's Day -- Singapore
Festival of Hathor -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)
Golf Lovers' Day -- internet generated, enjoy if you love golf
Ieiunium Cereris -- Ancient Roman Calendar (fast for the goddess Ceres)
Improve Your Office Day -- and water that plant while you are at it!
Independence Day -- Lesotho(1966)
International Toot Your Flute Day -- an internet generated day for shameless self promotion
Kanelbullens Dag -- Sweden (cinnamon roll day)
Lee National Denim Day -- US (but i'm sure they want this one celebrated anywhere jeans are sold and worn! proceeds from the day go to fight breast cancer)
National Diversity Day -- US (vow to treat everyone with kindness, compassion, and respect, and embrace how differences make the world a better place)
National Ship in a Bottle Day -- another one i can't find a source for, but it's listed everywhere
National Taco Day
National Vodka Day
Nihonmatsu Lantern Festival -- Nihonmatsu, Japan (one of Japan's 3 largest lantern festivals; through the 6th)
Peace and National Reconciliation Day -- Mozambique
Rosh Hashanah -- Judaism (ends today at evening)
St. Francis of Assisi's Day (Patron of animal welfare societies, animals, birds, ecologists, ecology, environment and environmentalists, families, lace makers/lace workers, merchants, needle workers, peace, tapestry workers, zoos; Italy, especially Assisi, as well as several other cities around the world; against dying alone, fire)
Blessing of the Animals Day -- at many Catholic Churches, in honor of the Saint
St. Petronius' Day (Patron of Bologna, Italy)
10-4 Day (C.B.'ers) -- fourth day of the tenth month, ten-four, good buddy, etc.
Tewa Deer Dance -- Tewa Native Americans (celebrating the cosmic duality of the feminine and masculine, and honoring male and female ancestors; through the 7th)
World Smile Day -- do one act of kindness, help one person smile, in honor of Harvey Ball, who created the Smiley face
some sites tag this as Send A Smile Day, or have it on different days
World Space Week begins -- International
Anniversaries Today
The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1, 1957
The Soviet Union launches Luna 3, 1959 (first satellite to photograph the moon's distant side)
Birthdays Today:
Rachael Leigh Cook, 1979
Alicia Silverstone, 1976
Abraham Benrubi, 1969
Christoph Waltz, 1956
Anita DeFrantz, 1952
Armand Assante, 1949
Susan Sarandon, 1946
Clifton Davis, 1945
Anne Rice, 1941
Jackie Collins, 1937
Alvin Toffler, 1928
Charlton Heston, 1924
Buster Keaton, 1895
Damon Runyon, 1884
Edward Stratemeyer, 1862
Frederic S. Remington, 1861
Rutherford B. Hayes, 1822
Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, 1807
Debuting/Premiering Today
"The Alvin Show"(TV), 1961
Cello Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major(Shostakovich Op. 107), 1959
"Leave It To Beaver"(TV), 1957
Snoopy, in the Peanuts Comic strip, 1950
Dick Tracy(Comic strip), 1931
Today in History:
One of the largest naval battles in history, the Battle of Lake Poyang, ends when the Chinese rebel forces of Zhu Yuanzhang defeat Chen Youliang, 1363
The first full English translation of the Bible, sometimes called the Matthew Bible, which contained the work of translators William Tyndale and Miles Coverdale, is printed in Switzerland, 1537
Pope Gregory XIII's calendar adjustment that bears his name takes effect, with tomorrow being not Oct. 5, but Oct. 15, 1582
Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts drafts its first code of law, 1636
Peter Stuyvesant establishes America's first volunteer fire department, 1648
Christian Huygens patents the pocket watch, 1675
The state of Belgium is created after separation from the Netherlands, 1830
The New Orleans Tribune becomes the first black daily newspaper, 1864
The Orient Express, linking Turkey to Europe by rail, makes its first run, 1883
Norman Rockwell's Willie Gillis character debuts on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post, 1941
The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty is opened for signature, 1991
The Rome General Peace Accords ends a 16 year civil war in Mozambique, 1992
NATO confirms invocation of Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty, 2001
SpaceShipOne wins Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight, by being the first private craft to fly into space, 2004
What is believed to be the oldest high-altitude human settlement is found in Kokoda, Papua New Guinea, 2010
Nissan unveiled the NSC-2015 electric car prototype at the Ceatec 2012 show in Tokyo; the car drove and parked itself, 2012
The Nobel Prize for Chemistry is awarded to Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson for their work on cryo-electron microscopy, 2017
The Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine is awarded to David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian for discovering receptors for temperature and touch, 2021
The Noble Prize for Physics is won by Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger for their groundbreaking experiments using entangled quantum states, 2022
Dansig the round is a handsome cat. I agree that declawing should be illegal. I would never do such a thing and before I discovered blogland I didn't even know about this horrific practice.
ReplyDeleteLove your cats - and your celebration of nature. And a big YES to making declawing cats illegal.
ReplyDeleteDansig the Round is handsome. Declawing was made illegal in the UK in 2006 and I really can't understand why the US and other countries are so far behind in banning this evil and cruel practice.
ReplyDeleteMom has also learned to never say never as it always happens after you say it. As a kid Mom always had cats declawed. When she got older and didn't get them declawed she was amazed at how they didn't ruin anything if you give them places to scratch that are for them. They got their claws trimmed too every week like we dogs do.
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