Monday, October 21, 2024

What's In There, Pup? (Awww Monday), Inspiring Quote of the Week and Poetry Monday, Apple

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Abby kept wanting to go outside Saturday and put her nose in this bush.













She never would tell me what she found so interesting in there, but at times she had almost her whole head plunged into it!






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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 Apple.                       


I chose the theme of apple

for poetry Monday day,

now i can't remember why,

seem to have lost my way.


So i will ask why apples

at the gym are such a bore?

When talking about their workout,

it's always only about their core.


When they dress up to go out

for a night on the town,

it's always for the Gala,

the party of renown.


To get out of a rut

and go on a vacation,

they tend to go to Fuji

it gives them much elation.


Or else they brag about a trip

when around work's water fountain

about their most recent trek

to the Apple-lachian Mountains.


They have a favorite relative

all love to gather with,

and it should not surprise you

it's their favorite Granny Smith.


An apple and an evergreen

decided to run away,

it shouldn't surprise you

they're a pineapple today.


I'll end this bit of zaniness

with one last bit of laughter,

when the apple couple got married

they lived apple-y ever after!




Future themes are:


Oct. 21 apple (Today!)

Oct. 29 small


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Today is:


Apple Day -- U.K. (to inspire local orchard revival and celebrate local varieties)


Antillean Day -- Bonaire; Curacao; Saba; St. Eustatius


Armed Forces Day -- Honduras (Dia de las Fuerzas Armadas; traditional date, now usually celebrated earlier in the month as part of Morazanica Week)


Babbling Day -- an internet generated day for Blatherskites


Caramel Apple Day -- US (leave it to the US to add sugar to a delicious, nutritious snack!)


Clean Your Virtual Desktop Day -- actually a good idea


Count Your Buttons Day -- whoever came up with this one needs to count his marbles maybe?


Egyptian Naval Day -- Egypt


Garbanzo Bean Day


Global Iodine Deficiency Disorder Prevention Day


Humble Yourself By Having Your Picture Made Wearing A Bicycle Helmet Day -- no comment


Hurricane Bebe Day -- Funafuti, Tuvalu (commemoration of the destruction by this hurricane in 1972)


Hurricane Thanksgiving Day -- US Virgin Islands (only celebrated if no major storms have come through that year)


Independence Day -- Marshall Islands(1986)


International Adjust Your Chair Day -- because you need to check at least once a year to make sure your chair has you in an ergonomically correct position


International Day of the Nacho -- Mexico; U.S.


Jailhouse Rock Day -- Elvis' song hit #1 today in 1957


National Heroes Day -- Jamaica


National Nurses Day -- Thailand


National Pumpkin Cheesecake Day


Overseas Chinese Day -- Taiwan (Republic of China)


President Ndadaye Day -- Burundi


Reptile Awareness Day -- hooray for snakes and turtles!  and lizards, don't forget lizards, and gators, and...


St. John of Bridlington's Day (Patron against complications in childbirth)


St. Ursula's Day (Patron of educators/teachers, holy death, schoolchildren, students; British Virgin Islands; Catholic education, especially of girls; Cologne, Germany; University of Paris)


Trafalgar Day -- British Empire (noted, but no longer an officially holiday)



Anniversaries Today:


Juan Peron marries actress Evita (María Eva Duarte), 1945



Birthdays Today:


Jeremy Miller, 1976

Ken Watanabe, 1959

Carrie Fisher, 1956

Benjamin Netanyahu, 1949

Elvin Bishop, 1942

Judge Judy Sheindlin, 1942

Frances Fitzgerald, 1940

Ursula K. LeGuin, 1929

Edward Charles "Whitey" Ford, 1928

Celia Cruz, 1925

Joyce Randolph, 1925

Dizzy Gillespie, 1917

Georg Solti, 1912

Edwin Myers "Ted" Shawn, 1891

Will Carleton, 1845

Alfred Nobel, 1833

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772



Debuting/Premiering Today:


"Butterflies are Free"(Play), 1969

"Orphee aux enfer/Orpheus in the Underworld"(Offenbach operetta), 1858



Today in History:


Sultan Kilidj Arslan of Nicea defeats 1st Crusaders, 1096

Martin Luther joins the theological faculty of the University of Wittenberg., 1512

Ferdinand Magellen arrives at Tierra Del Fuego (Pacific Ocean), 1520

Sea battle at Dunes, Lt Admiral Maarten Tromp defeats Spanish Armada under De Oquendo, 1639

First display of the word "Liberty" on a flag, raised by colonists in Taunton, Massachusetts and which was in defiance of British rule in Colonial America, 1774

US Navy frigate Constitution, Old Ironsides, launched in Boston, 1797

Battle of Trafalgar, Adm Nelson defeats French & Spanish fleet & dies, 1805

The Penang Free School is founded in George Town, Penang, Malaysia, by the Rev Hutchings. It is the oldest English-language school in Southeast Asia, 1816

Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement (Yorkshire England), 1824

Thomas Edison perfects carbonized cotton filament light bulb, 1879

First transatlantic radiotelephone message, Arlington, Va to Paris, 1915

Women are allowed to vote in France for the first time, 1945

Comet Ikeya-Seki approaches perihelion, passing 450,000 kilometers from the sun, 1965

The European Patent Institute is founded, 1977

The metre is defined at the seventeenth General Conference on Weights and Measures as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second, 1983

Images of the dwarf planet Eris are taken and subsequently used in its discovery by the team of Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz, 2003

The European Parliament awards Cuban Dissident Guillermo Farinas the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, 2010

Kateri Tekakwitha is canonized as the first Native American saint by Pope Benedict XVI, 2012

The Parliament of Canada confers Honorary Canadian citizenship on women's rights and education activist Malala Yousafzai, 2013

Oscar Pistorius is sentenced to five years in prison for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, 2014

The Spanish government suspends Catalonia's autonomy in the face of a deepening political crisis over the region's push for independence, 2017

Excavations at an 8,000-year-old site at Marawah Island, near Abu Dhabi, UAE, uncover the world's oldest natural pearl, 2019

14 comments:

  1. That bush is VERY interesting. As always your poem made me smile. Thank you.

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  2. Abby is a good dog, she knows how to keep a secret evidently.

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  3. Maybe some critters live in that bush but they were not home at the time?

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  4. Awww Abby ~ you make a good detective with your diligence ~ sweet photos ~ hugs, and great sparks too.

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

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  5. Awww, Abby knows there is something in that bush. What a pretty girl she is.

    Love your take on Apple. Well done as always.

    Thank you for joining the Awww Mondays Blog Hop.

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

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  6. Awww Pup! You are adorable! Do you like apples? Our Nutmeg LOVES them! She is furry excited that it is apple day! Mimi we love how you make our Peep laugh! Keep being awesome
    Marvelous Marv, Kozmo, Jo Jo Nutmeg (and Mom Barb)

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  7. Abby sure has terrific investigative skills! That was a good poem!

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  8. I love the poetry-- and that verse about the apple and the pine...becoming a pineapple was one that is making me continue smiling the entire time of reading everything.

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  9. That poem about Apple was just so very good. Now Mom is hungry for an apple:). Abby must have smelled some critter who had been visiting those shrubs. Our neighbors have a honeysuckle bush with lots of red berries that Mom says are toxic for us. But the birds seem to love them. The bluejays try to hog them all for themselves so the smaller birds like the sparrows hide in our shrubs and watch for a safe moment to grab some berries when the mean bluejays aren't around.

    Woos - Misty and Timber

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  10. Nice sparks and poem. I wonder what Abby was sniffing.

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  11. Java Bean: "Ayyy, I like to stick my nose into the bushes and weeds, too, but ever since the rattlesnake incident Mama and Dada get all concerned when I do it and make me stop ..."

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  12. Abby might have just been scratching an itch on those leaves.
    Your apple poem is very funny. I love apples but these days I have to cook them since chewing them is a bit difficult with the false teeth.

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  13. Great pics of Abby. I'm always wondering what they find so interesting.

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