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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!
Kittens look every which way but at the camera.
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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 learned _________ the hard way.
2. I am overdue for _________.
3. I used to _________, but now I _________.
4. _________ is the strangest thing I _________.
1. I learned everything the hard way. At least it seems that way, it's as if my stubborn noggin needs a lot of hard lessons.
2. I am overdue for some blood work with the doctor, but it has to wait until December as this month is booked.
3. I used to have time to juice my own veggies and fruits, but now I work late and have less time and cannot do it, and i miss it.
4. Arugula and apple is the strangest thing I ever juiced together, and it was good!
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Nature Friday is hosted by LLB in Our Backyard. Simply post a picture of the natural world, and link up!
The cat whisker plant is blooming.
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Flashback Friday is hosted by FiveSibes. Come hop along memory lane with us!
Coda loved having a good roll in the grass.
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Today is:
American Enterprise Day -- US (a project of Future Business Leaders of America, Phi Beta Lambda Chapter)
America Recycles Day -- US http://americarecyclesday.org/
Canterbury Provincial Anniversary Day -- Canterbury, New Zealand
Christchurch Show Day -- Canterbury, NZ
Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day -- this reminder comes from the folks at CooksInfo.com, where they think you need to get rid of USO's (unidentified shriveled objects)
Day of the German-speaking Community of Belgium -- German-speaking Community of Belgium
Don't Try To Do Everything At Once Day -- internet generated, and a blow to us multitaskers
Ennead Feast in the House of Ra, Horus, and Osiris -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)
Full Beaver Moon / Full Frosty Moon
Guru Nanak Jayanti -- India; Nepal (celebration of the birth anniversary of Sikh Guru Nanak)
Ill Full Moon Poya Day -- Sri Lanka
Palden Lhamo Festival -- Tibet (protectress of Tibet, celebrated mostly by women)
Loy Krathong -- Thailand (Floating of the Lamps festival; to appease the water spirits, dedicated to Mae Kongkha, Goddess of Rivers)
Tazaugmone/Thasaung Mong Full Moon -- Myanmar (Festival of Lights begins)
That Luang Festival -- Laos (Ventiane's most important Theravada Buddhist festival)
George Spelvin Day/More Than One Role Day -- date of first use, in 1886, of this name for an actor playing two roles in one play; George and Georgette Spelvin have since acted in over 10,000 roles on Broadway
Holiday Lights on the Lake -- Altoona, PA, US (51 acres of lights, animations, gift shops, food, model train displays, and more; through the Sunday after New Year's Day)
I Love to Write Day -- encouraging everyone to write something, begun by John Riddle
Inasa Puppet Festival -- Hamamatsu, Japan (a rarity in Japan, 3 days of performances by professional puppeteers from around Japan)
King's Feast / Dynasty Day -- Belgium
National Bundt Pan Day -- yes, really, celebrating the pan itself
National Donor Sabbath Weekend -- US, through Sunday, an initiative to encourage people of all faiths to consider organ donation
National Peace Day -- Cote d'Ivoire
National Philanthropy Day® -- Association of Fundraising Professionals
National Raisin Bran Cereal Day
National Spicy Hermit Christmas Cookie Day
Nativity Fast begins a/k/a Winter Lent (through Dec 24) -- Orthodox Christian
Pack Your Mom's Lunch Day -- in honor of all the times she packed yours; combine it with I Love to Write Day and include a note telling her how special she is
Republic Day -- Turkish Republic of North Cyprus
Republic Proclamation Day -- Brazil
Rock Your Mocs Day -- Indigenous Americans (begun by Jessica Jaylyn Atsye, a Laguna Pueblo, to encourage all Native Americans to wear the one item they all have in common, hand-made moccasins, with pride)
Safety Razor Day -- King Gillette was granted the patent for his style of safety razor on this day in 1904, changing how men shaved each day
Shichi-Go-San (Shrine Visiting Day)/Seven-Five-Three Festival -- Japan (picturesque festival in which 3-year-old children of either sex, five-year-old boys, and seven-year-old girls go to shrines dressed in their best; guardian spirits are thanked for the health of the children and prayers said for their future to be equally bright)
Sing in Your Car Day -- they need a day for this?
St. Albertus Magnus' Day (Patron of medical technicians, natural sciences, philosophers, schoolchildren, scientists, students, theology students; Cincinnati, Ohio)
St. Leopold's Day (King Leopold III, Patron of dying children, large families, step-parents; Austria)
Leopoldstag/Goose Day -- Austria (the start of the heurigen, the new wine season)
Anniversary Today:
William Shatner marries Nerine Kidd, 1997
Birthdays Today:
Jonny Lee Miller,1972
Kevin Eubanks, 1957
Beverly D'Angelo, 1954
Daniel Barenboim, 1942
Sam Waterston, 1940
Yaphet Kotto, 1937
Joanna BArnes, 1934
Petula Clark, 1932
Ed Asner, 1929
Bill "C.W. McCall" Fries, 1928
Joseph Wapner, 1919
Erwin Rommel, 1891
Georgia O'Keeffe, 1887
Forrest Clare "Fogg" Allen, 1885
F. William Herschel, 1738
William Pitt the Elder, 1708
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"A Few Good Men"(Play), 1989
Love Me Tender(Film), 1956
"Li'l Abner"(Musical), 1956
"The Planets"(Holst Op. 32), 1920
"Masse Mensch/Mass Man"(Toller play), 1920
Today in History:
Christopher Columbus notes the first recorded reference to tobacco, 1492
The NY General Assembly permits Jews to omit the phrase "Upon the faith of a Christian" from adjuration oaths, 1727
Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon begin surveying the Mason-Dixon Line between Pennsylvania and Maryland, 1763
The Articles of Confederation are adopted by the Continental Congress, 1777
Georgetown University, the first Catholic college in the US, opens, 1791
Zebulon Pike gets his first sight of Pike's Peak, Colorado, 1806
Isaac Pitman introduces his steno/shorthand system of writing, 1832
Union Major General Sherman burns Atlanta, Georgia, 1864
King C. Gillette patents the Gillette razor blade, 1904
The first telecast of an unscheduled event, a fire, takes place on W2XBT, in NY, 1938
In Columbus, Ohio, Dave Thomas opens the first Wendy's restaurant, 1969
Intel releases world's first commercial single-chip microprocessor, 1971
René Lévesque and the Parti Québécois take power to become the first Quebec government of the 20th century clearly in favour of independence, 1976
The Anglo-Irish Agreement is signed at Hillsborough Castle by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Irish Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald, 1985
An independent State of Palestine is proclaimed by the Palestinian National Council, 1988
The first Fairtrade label, Max Havelaar, is launched in the Netherlands, 1988
Cyclone Sidr hit Bangladesh, killing an estimated 5000 people and destroyed the world's largest mangrove forest, Sundarbans, 2007
Sony introduces the Playstation 4, selling a million units the first day, 2013
World leaders gather in Brisbane for the G20 Summit, which will focus on economic growth, 2014
France launches air strikes on Isis stronghold Raqqa in Syria in the wake of terror attack on Paris, 2015
Pakistan unveils the remains of 1,700 year-old sleeping Buddha in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, 2017
Art experts in England authenticate two bronzes of men riding panthers as Michelangelo’s only surviving bronze works, 2018
The SpaceX Falcon 9 is launched on its first regular flight to the International Space Station with four astronauts aboard, 2020
The world's population reaches 8billion, just 11 years after reaching 7billion (and is expected to be 9billion by 2037), 2022
Cat whisker plant! What a fenomenally apt name for a surprising plant.
ReplyDeleteI don't know the cat whisker plant and agree with Charlotte (MotherOwl). And kittens are always cute.
ReplyDeleteI also have never seen a cat whisker plant and I do like it. It is not just kittens who won't look at the camera. Eric was the same and most of his photos were taken with the zoom unless I caught him by surprise. Flynn was the opposite and a real poser.
ReplyDeleteI have my bloods done every Tuesday, two days before chemotherapy. The results are sent by a link to the NHS app and this week for the first time my potassium and more importantly magnesium were higher in the range instead of being right at the bottom. The powder supplements I have to take have started to make a difference.
What a fun looking flower that I have never heard of before. And of course the kittens know the best way to have photos taken of them is to show off all good sides. That way when somebody is browsing the picture album they can see how purrfect each one is.
ReplyDeleteThe shelter gives you plenty of scope for great cat photos, and I see you also found a cats whisker plant! Very appropriate. I'd never heard of this plant, but it's very pretty.
ReplyDeleteThe last two kitten photos are adorable! Mom had a juicer years ago and liked making juice but then forgot all about it. She too runs out of time especially now that she eats a whole food vegan diet and has to make pretty much everything from scratch. She enjoys making food but it takes soooo much time.
ReplyDeleteInteresting fill-ins a nice pictures - I want a cat's whisker plant!
ReplyDeleteAdorable kittens and quite an assortment with tabbies, a tuxie, a black and a tortie. Thanks for hosting Feline Friday and for participating in the fill-ins, great answers. I will take your word on #4 as I don't want to try it. :) Have a great weekend. XO
ReplyDeleteThose kittens are so darn cute. Those were good fill-in answers too. Coda sure was having some fun!
ReplyDeleteWhat a fun filled and interesting Friday.
ReplyDeleteThe kitties in the next to last photo posed very nicely.
Just had my blood work in October. All was well
Hugs Cecilia
Oh ~ the kitties are adorable and great photos ~ thanks and hugs,
ReplyDeleteWishing you good health, laughter and love in your days,
clm ~ A ShutterBug Explores ~
aka (A Creative Harbor)
Great fill ins...those kitten photos! So adorable.
ReplyDeleteI read every word I thought...how am I missing a Cat Whisker plant? I will keep searching.
ReplyDeleteI found it. How did I miss that? Wonder where I can get one!!!
ReplyDeleteThose kitties must have learned not to look at the camera from us. We try very hard to avoid the flashy beast, but Mom always manages to trick us.
ReplyDeleteWe have never seen a cat whisker plant - very interesting.
\Woos - Misty and Timber
I didn't know there was a cat whisker plant.
ReplyDeleteSuch precious babies!!! I'm especially in love with the tortie :)
ReplyDeleteThat cat whisker plant is super cool! And we love seeing those kittens, even if they avoided looking at the camera. :)
ReplyDeleteSupurr fill-ins, and there's nothing like juicing fresh fruit and veggies, it's the best!!! OMC, all those supurr cute kitties, they are adorable!!! 🐾🐾😻
ReplyDeleteOona: "If there is one thing kittens are good at, it is refusing to comply. Oona knows all about this."
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