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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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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!
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
That bush is VERY interesting. As always your poem made me smile. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteTime for apple pie.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
Abby is a good dog, she knows how to keep a secret evidently.
ReplyDeleteMaybe some critters live in that bush but they were not home at the time?
ReplyDeleteAwww Abby ~ you make a good detective with your diligence ~ sweet photos ~ hugs, and great sparks too.
ReplyDeleteWishing you good health, laughter and love in your days,
clm ~ A ShutterBug Explores,
aka (A Creative Harbor)
Awww, Abby knows there is something in that bush. What a pretty girl she is.
ReplyDeleteLove your take on Apple. Well done as always.
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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
ReplyDeleteMarvelous Marv, Kozmo, Jo Jo Nutmeg (and Mom Barb)
Abby sure has terrific investigative skills! That was a good poem!
ReplyDeleteI 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.
ReplyDeleteThat 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.
ReplyDeleteWoos - Misty and Timber
Nice sparks and poem. I wonder what Abby was sniffing.
ReplyDeleteJava 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 ..."
ReplyDeleteAbby might have just been scratching an itch on those leaves.
ReplyDeleteYour 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.
Great pics of Abby. I'm always wondering what they find so interesting.
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