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Join us every Monday for Awww...Mondays. Post a picture that makes you say Awww... and that's it.
Make sure you get the code from Sandee's site, linked above, and leave a link to your post so we can visit you. What better way to start the week than with a smile!
Mr. Cal on the extra long walk we had last weekend.
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| Where's my treat? |
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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 to combat the negativity in this world. While she no longer blogs, i like to post an Inspiring Quote of the Week in her honor.
Usually i use the Poetry Monday topic for my Inspiring Quotes, today i am using Peace as today is Blog4Peace and my post on the subject is here.
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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 Beating Around the Bush. h
To beat around the bush
was once a hunting term,
it's how you chased the prey out
while others with nets stood firm,
and waited for, well they hoped birds
would be afraid and fly out
so the nets could be thrown over
catching supper without doubt.
The problem was you sometimes
scared out bees, wasps or dangerous prey
and then you would be for your life
quite quickly running away.
Now we use it as a way to say
you won't get to the point,
If someone wants the meaning,
you tend to disappoint.
And here's a further thought
which might seem quite absurd,
with you flapping around so much
they might think you're the bird!
Future themes are:
Nov. 4 Beating Around the Bush (Today!)
Nov. 11 Wild Goose Chase
Nov. 18 Jumping the Gun
Nov, 25 Cry Wolf
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Today is:
Chicken Lady Day -- Miami, FL, US (in honor of The Chicken Lady, whose nonprofit organization helps people get over being "chicken" about public speaking)
Citizenship Day -- Northern Mariana Islands
Community Service Day -- Dominica
Constitution Day/National Day -- Tonga
Feast of Qudrat (Power) -- Baha'i
Flag Day -- Panama
Giorno dell'Unita Nazionale e Festa delle Forze Armate and Victory Day -- Italy (National Unity and Armed Forces Day; celebration of the 1918 Treaty with Austria)
Guy Fawkes Eve -- sometimes called Mischief Night in some parts of Australia, UK, and New Zealand, although that is more appropriate to April 30/October 30
Honeymoon Day -- reminisce about your own special trip, on the birth anniversary of Art Carney
International Stress Awareness Week -- UK (International Stress Management Association; through Friday)
Job Action Day -- a day for workers and job seekers to put job or career in the forefront, make plans, and take action
King Tut Day -- his tomb was opened this day in 1922
Ludi Plebeii -- Ancient Roman Calendar (public games, through the 17th)
Marlborough Provinical Anniversary Day -- Marlborough, New Zealand
National Candy Day -- guess they're thinking you still have some left over from Halloween
National Day -- Tonga(obs.)
Recreation Day -- Tasmania, Australia
St. Charles Borromeo's Day (Patron of apple orchards, bishops, catechists, seminarians, spiritual directors/leaders, starch makers; Joliette, Quebec; Lombardy, Italy; Monterey, CA; Rocca di Papa, Italy; against abdominal pain, colic, intestinal disorders, stomach diseases, ulcers)
a Bank Holiday in Andorra
Traffic Director's Day -- Traffic Directors Guild of America (those who are Traffic Managers, Inventory Control Specialists, Revenue Managers, or many other terms in the broadcasting and mobile industries, including radio and TV traffic directors, who always schedule your favorite shows when you just can't watch, and put more and more commercials in when they can; on the Monday nearest the anniversary of the first commercial radio broadcast in Pittsburgh in 1922)
Unity Day -- Russia
Will Roger's Day -- especially in OK, US; related observance
Use Your Common Sense Day -- because "Common sense ain't all that common."
Waiting for the Barbarians Day -- internet generated, and i thought they came and took over a long time ago!
Anniversaries Today:
Taking of the US Embassy in Teheran, Iran -- 1979
Discovery of King Tut's Tomb -- 1922
Abraham Lincoln marries Mary Todd, 1842
Mary II of England marries William, Prince of Orange, 1677 (ruled jointly as William and Mary)
Birthdays Today:
Sean "Diddy" Combs, 1970
Matthew McConaughey, 1969
Andrea McArdle, 1963
Ralph Macchio, 1962
Jeff Probst, 1962
Kathy Griffin, 1960
Markie Post, 1950
Laura W. Bush, 1946
Robert Mapplethorpe, 1946
Loretta Swit, 1937
Doris Roberts, 1930
Martin Balsam, 1919
Art Carney, 1918
Walter Cronkite, 1916
Will Rogers, 1879
Augustus Montague Toplady, 1740 (wrote the hymn "Rock of Ages")
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Crimes of the Heart"(Henley play), 1981
"One Man's Family"(TV), 1949
"Prince Igor"(Borodin opera), 1890
Symphony No. 1 in C minor(Brahms Op. 68), 1876
Today in History:
The Flood of the Arno River causes massive damage in Florence, Italy, 1333
Joan of Arc liberates Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier, 1429
Thomas Wolsey, English cardinal, arrested, 1529
Mozart's Symphony No. 36 is performed for the first time in Linz, Austria, 1783
The Erie Canal is completed with Governor DeWitt Clinton performing the Wedding of The Waters ceremony in New York Harbor, 1825
Benjamin Palmer patents an artificial leg, 1846
Dentist John Beers of San Francisco patents the gold crown, 1873
Tonga adopts a constitution, 1875
James Ritty patents the cash register, to combat the pilfering of the till by the bartenders in his Ohio saloon, 1879
London's first deep-level tube railway opens between King William Street and Stockwell, 1890
The Italian unknown soldier is buried in the Altare della Patria (Fatherland Altar) in Rome, 1921
Nellie Tayloe Ross is elected the first female US State governor, in Wyoming, 1924
The rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopens with a performance of Beethoven's Fidelio, 1955
Two-thirds of Florence, Italy is submerged as the River Arno floods; together with the contemporaneous flood of the Po River in northern Italy, this leads to 113 deaths, 30,000 made homeless, and the destruction of numerous Renaissance artworks and books, 1966
Genie, a 13-year-old feral child is found in Los Angeles, California having been locked in her bedroom for most of her life, 1970
The Netherlands experiences the first Car Free Sunday caused by the oil crisis, as the highways are deserted and are used only by cyclists and roller skaters, 1973
First conference that focuses exclusively on the subject of the commercial potential of the World Wide Web, in San Francisco, 1994
Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated by an extremist Orthodox Israeli, 1995
Chinese authorities arrest cyber-dissident He Depu for signing a pro-democracy letter to the 16th Communist Party Congress, 2002
Barak Obama is elected President of the United States, 2008
In Australia's Northern Territory in the lands of the Jawoyn people, archaeologists discover what is believed to be the world's oldest example of a stone ax, estimated at 35,500 years old, 2010
The body of the last missing victim is found on board the wrecked Costa Concordia, during its dismantling in Genoa, 2014
Tim Scott, a Republican from South Carolina, becomes the first African-American Senator from the south since the Reconstruction, 2014
Justin Trudeau is sworn in as Canadian Prime Minister with a cabinet split equally between men and women, 2015
Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri resigns in a shock TV broadcast from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, amid concerns he is being forcibly detained, 2017
According to the International Energy Agency, the COP26 climate pledges, if kept, could help limit the global average increase in temperature to 1.8 °C above pre-industrial averages, 2021
Astronomers announce the discovery of what they now believe is the closest known black hole to Earth, just 1,600 light-years away and 10x more massive that our sun, 2022
Mr. Cal looks like he is enjoying his long walk - and as always your poem made me smile. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteIf the whole world would just be at peace it would be a miracle. And a grateful one. It looks to me that Mr Cal was taking somebody else on a long walk, lol.
ReplyDeleteI got tickled at Mr. Cal lifting his leg at the one sign and thought what if he didn't something else instead. Wouldn't that be ironic? lol Your Sparks' quotes are excellent. We all need to hold onto peace, especially the kind that only Jesus gives. Have a blessed and awwwesome week, Mimi!
ReplyDeleteAwww Mr. Cal ~ you are a little sweetie and what a great walk you had ~ lovely peace sparks too ~ hugs,
ReplyDeleteWishing you good health, laughter and love in your days,
clm ~ A ShutterBug Explores,
aka (A Creative Harbor)
What a lovely long walk!!
ReplyDeleteA very interesting walk. Yes where's the treat. Mr. Cal did a great walk and needs his treat.
ReplyDeleteLove your take on beating around the bush. Well done.
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Mr. Cal sure was having a fun out n' about. Those are wonderful Sparks for today and a darn good poem too.
ReplyDeleteWe bet Mr. Cal enjoyed his "long" walk in so many ways. We really enjoyed your two memes, especially the second one - oh , so very true.
ReplyDeleteWoos - Misty and Timber
Mr. Cal is a cutie. Nice poem and spark. XO
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