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Awww Monday is hosted by Sandee at Comedy Plus.
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!
I met Rosa a couple of weeks ago, she's 14 and a very sweet old girl.
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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!
This week the theme is Jumping the Gun.
He told me he'd invented
something to make him a hero,
I thanked him before finding out
he'd invented the number zero.
That's when i realized
I'd once again jumped the gun
by thanking him for "nothing"
and writing a terrible pun!
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jumping the gun is
not so bad as jumping jacks
in my old gym class
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Someone asked the source
of minerals in my collection.
I gave the specimen type origins
to the best of my recollection.
Seems i jumped the gun
giving the geologic source,
'cause while geology rocks,
geography's where it's at, of course.
Future themes are:
Nov. 18 Jumping the Gun (Today!
Nov. 25 Cry Wolf
(tentative:
Dec. 2 Beans
remainder of December TBA)
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Today is:
Constitution Day -- South Africa (the 1993 Constitution, granting blacks the right to vote, was approved)
Dan sjecanja na žrtve Domovinskog rata i Dan sjecanja na žrtvu Vukovara i Škabrnje -- Croatia (Remembrance Day for Homeland War Victims and for the Sacrifice of Vukovar and Škabrnja)
Day of Ardvi Sura (Aredvi Sura Anahita), Mother of the Stars -- Ancient Persian Calendar (date approximate)
European Antibiotic Awareness Day -- ECDC (because prudent use of antibiotics can help stop antibiotic resistance)
Feast of the Virgen de Chiquinquirá -- Maracaibo, Venezuela
Global Entrepreneurship Week begins www.genglobal.org/gew
Independence Day -- Morocco(1956); Western Sahara(1975)
Married to a Scorpio Support Day -- remembering those married to Scorpios and suffering because of it, and encouraging them too hide the flow charts and assert themselves today; sponsored by Wellcat Holidays
National Day -- Oman
National French Vichyssoise Day
Ned Ludd Memorial Machine-Smashing Day -- internet generated, but enjoy! i know i will
Proclamation of the Republic -- Latvia (1918)
Push-Button Phone Day -- launched this day in 1963
Revolution Day -- Mexico (obs.)
St. Odo of Cluny's Day (Patron of needed rain)
Total Disregard for Taste Day -- marking the debut of Howard Stern's radio show on this day in 1985
Vertieres Day -- Haiti (Battle of Vertieres and Army Day)
William Tell Day -- the famed apple-off-his-son's-head shot was today in 1307
Birthdays Today:
Owen Wilson, 1968
Elizabeth Perkins, 1960
Sinbad, 1956
Katy Sagal, 1956
Kevin Nealn, 1953
Andrea Marcvicci, 1948
Jameson Parker, 1947
Wilma Mankiller, 1945
Susan Sullivan, 1944
Linda Evans, 1942
Brenda Vaccaro, 1939
Margaret Eleanor Atwood, 1939
Mickey Mouse, 1928
Alan Shepard, Jr., 1923
John Herndon "Johnny" Mercer, 1909
Imogene Coca, 1908
George Gallup, 1901
Eugene Ormandy, 1899
Clarence Shepard Day, 1874
Dorothy Dix (Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer), 1861
Ignacy Jan Paderewski, 1860
James Edward Sullivan, 1860
Sir William Schwenck Gilbert, 1836
Asa Gray, 1810
Louis-Jacques Daguerre, 1787
Sojourner Truth, 1787
Carl Maria von Weber, 1786
Debuting/Premiering Today:
Star Trek: Generations(Film), 1994
Malcolm X(Film), 1992
Calvin and Hobbes(Comic strip), 1985 (in this first strip, Calvin catches Hobbes in a tiger trap baited with a tuna sandwich)
"See It Now"(TV), 1951
"Skin of Our Teeth"(Wilder play), 1943
Steamboat Willie (a/k/a Mickey Mouse), 1928
US Uniform Time Zone Plan, 1883 (on this date, the railroads adopted the current uniform time zone plan; it wasn't legally mandated until 1918)
Today in History:
Old St. Peter's Basilica is consecrated, 326
The Japanese Emperor Kammy relocates the residence of Nara to Kioto, 794
William Tell shoots the apple off his son's head, 1307
The Holland/Zealand dikes break during a storm, resulting in thousands of deaths, 1421
The first English printed book, "Dictes & Sayengis of the Phylosophers", is published, 1477
Christopher Columbus first sights the island now known as Puerto Rico, 1493
Vasco da Gama reaches the Cape of Good Hope, 1497
The worst earthquake in Massachusetts Bay/Boston area, 1755
The first Unitarian Minister in the US is ordained in Boston, 1787
30 women meet at Mrs. Silas Lee's home in Wiscasset Maine, to organize the Female Charitable Society, first woman's club in America, 1805
Mark Twain's story The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is published in the New York Saturday Press, 1865
National Woman's Christian Temperance Union organizes in Cleveland, 1874
Standard time zones are formed by railroads in the US and Canada, 1883
The first newspaper Sunday color comic strip is printed, in the NY World, 1894
Britain flies its first sea plane, 1911
Lincoln Deachey performs the first airplane loop-the-loop, over San Diego, 1913
Sigma Alpha Rho, a Jewish high school fraternity, is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1917
Release of the animated short Steamboat Willie, the first fully synchronized sound cartoon, directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, featuring the third appearances of cartoon characters Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse, 1928
Off the south coast of Newfoundland in the Atlantic Ocean, a Richter magnitude 7.2 submarine earthquake, centered on Grand Banks, breaks 12 submarine transatlantic telegraph cables and triggers a tsunami that destroys many south coast communities in the Burin Peninsula, 1929
New York City's Mad Bomber places his first bomb at a Manhattan office building used by Consolidated Edison, 1940
In the United States, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is ratified, 1993
HIP 13044 b, a planet that was formed in another galaxy, is discovered in the Helmi Stream, 2010
Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria becomes the 118th Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, 2012
NASA launches the MAVEN probe to Mars, 2013
A book written by Charlotte Bronte as a child for her toys is bought by the Bronte Society for €600,000 at auction in Paris, 2019
The longest partial lunar eclipse since 1440 occurs, lasting 3 hours, 28 minutes and 23 seconds, 2021
The Leap Second, originally inserted beginning in 1972 to keep the atomic and astronomical time scales reconciled, will be dropped as of 2035 according to the International Bureau of Weights, and Measures, 2022
I always enjoy your funny punny poems.
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely dog.
ReplyDeleteGod bless you.
Sweet puppy with gray whiskers already.
ReplyDeleteRosa looks like a very sweet old lady dog. Love that spark, it is very true.
ReplyDeleteRosa is a lovely lady and appears to be aging very gracefully. Pray for my wife, she's married to a Scorpio. Have a blessed week.
ReplyDeleteRosa is a cutie pie. Old or not they are most precious.
ReplyDeleteLove your Spark. So very true.
Thank you for joining the Awww Mondays Blog Hop.
Have a fabulous Awww Monday and week. Love and hugs my friend. ♥
Oh Rosa ~ you are precious and such a cute photo of you ~ lots of hugs to you ~ Great Spark too ~
ReplyDeleteWishing you good health, laughter and love in your days,
clm ~ A ShutterBug Explores,
aka (A Creative Harbor)
Rosa! You are one beautiful dog! And I LOVE the Spark! I needed to read this one today!
ReplyDeleteKeep being AWESOME!
Marvelous Marv, Kozmo, Jo Jo, Nutmeg and Mom Barb
I love th4e spark, and I love seeing Rosa. May she stay happy always. XX
ReplyDeleteAwww, Rosa has such a sweet face for an older lady and we love her salt and pepper furs.
ReplyDeleteWoos - Misty and Timber
Rosa is a cutie. Nice spark and poem. I always hated jumping jacks. XO
ReplyDeleteAwww, sweet Rosa is a cutie girl. Good Spark and fun poems!
ReplyDeleteLulu: "Look at that sweet little sugar face! Dada says I am starting to get one, too ..."
ReplyDeleteGreat poems. Rosa is a sweetie. I used to love Jumping Jacks when I was little.
ReplyDeleteRosa, growing old gracefully! I like your poems, not the easiest of prompts!
ReplyDeleteThanks for nothing indeed - no, thanks for all your witty poems! Please keep it up!
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