Monday, December 9, 2024

Sleepyheads (Awww Monday), Inspiring Quote of the Week, and Poetry Monday, a Bumpy Ride

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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!


Logan and Laura were asked if they wanted to pose, and Laura said yes, but Logan was still too sleepy.









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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 A Bumpy Ride.                       



It’s a bumpy ride to Christmas,

it happens every year,

so much to do, so little time,

it wears on the Christmas cheer.


It’s a bumpy ride to Christmas,

my mind is in a whirl,

set the dinner menu,

gets toys for each boy and girl.


It's a bumpy ride to Christmas,

each house must be clean,

so many i can't get to mine,

it's not fit to be seen.


It's a bumpy ride to Christmas,

each and every year

it's happy and sad to remember those lost,

we smile as we shed a tear.


It's a bumpy ride to Christmas,

there's always one more chore,

you're dancing as fast as you can

and you never know the score.


It's a bumpy ride to Christmas,

is this what it's all about?

to run and work and stress

'til it makes you want to shout?


It's a bumpy ride to Christmas,

so i'm going to stop and pray,

read Luke 2 and remember

the reason for the day.




Future themes are:


Dec. 9  A Bumpy Ride (Today!)

Dec. 16 Recipe for Disaster

Dec.  23 Never Say Never  and/or  Christmas/Hanukkah

Dec. 30  All Done


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Today is Christmas Card Day!  The first commercial card went on sale on this day in 1843.


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Today is:


Anna's Day -- Sweden and Finland (commemorates the conception of the Virgin Mary by St. Anne, celebration for all females named Anne or Anna, and the day to start the processing of the Christmas Eve lutefisk.)


Christmas Gift Memory Day -- the day to reminisce about your all time favorite Christmas gift


Feast of the Conception of the Most Holy Theotokos by St. Anne -- Orthodox Church


International Anti-Corruption Day -- UN


National Heroes Day / Vere Cornwall Bird, Sr., Day -- Antigua and Barbuda


National Pastry Day


National Tree Planting Day -- Malawi


Remembrance for Egill Skallagrimsson -- Asatru/Norse Pagan Calendar (Viking Age poet, warrior, and rune magician)


Republic Day -- Tanzania


Search High and Low For Your Gingerbread Recipe Day -- or just give up and go to the internet for a new one, that's where i found this "holiday"


St. Leocadia's Day (Patron of Toledo, Spain)


Weary Willie Day -- birth anniversary of Emmet Kelley, Sr.


Yuri's Day in the Autumn -- Russian Orthodox Church (a celebration of St. George, as following the Gregorian Calendar)



Anniversaries Today:


Petrified Forest National Park, AZ, US, established, 1962

Christmas Seals first sold, in Wilmington, DE, US, 1907

"Charge of the Light Brigade" published, 1854

YMCA opens in Montreal, QC, CA (first in North America), 1851



Birthdays Today:


Jesse Metcalfe, 1978

Reiko Aylesworth, 1972

David Kersh, 1970

Kara DioGuardi, 1970

Jakob Dylan, 1969

Kurt Angle, 1968

Felicity Huffman, 1962

David Anthony Higgins, 1961

Joe Lando, 1961

Donny Osmond, 1957

John Malkovich, 1953

Joan Armatrading, 1950

Michael Nouri, 1945

Dick Butkus, 1942

Beau Bridges, 1941

Judy Dench, 1934

Buck Henry, 1930

Dick Van Patten, 1928

Dina Merrill, 1925

Redd Foxx, 1922

Kirk Douglas, 1916

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., 1909

Grace Hopper, 1906

Margaret Hamilton, 1902

Emmet Kelley, Sr., 1898

Clarence Birdseye, 1886

Joel Chandler Harris, 1848

John Milton, 1608

Edwin Sandys, 1561



Debuting/Premiering Today:


"A Charlie Brown Christmas"(TV special), 1965

"Coronation Street"(TV), 1960

"Salome"(Opera), 1905

"Charge of the Light Brigade"(Publication date, in The Examiner), 1854



Today in History:


The Byzantine General Belisarius enters Rome while the Ostrogothic garrison peacefully leaves the city, returning the old capital to its empire, 536

New York City's first daily newspaper, the American Minerva, is established by Noah Webster, 1793

The Republic of Texas captures San Antonio, Texas, 1835

The first Young Men's Christian Association in the Americas is founded, in Montreal, 1851

Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback becomes governor of Louisiana for 35 days, becoming the first black US governor, 1872

Levant Richardson patents the ball-bearing skate, 1884

Statistician Herman Hollerith installs his computing device at the United States War Department, 1888

The Norwegian parliament vote unanimously for female suffrage, 1903

The first broadcast of "Coronation Street" on British ITV, 1960

Barbados joins the United Nations, 1966

NLS (a system for which hypertext and the computer mouse were developed) is publicly demonstrated for the first time in San Francisco, 1968

The United Arab Emirates join the United Nations, 1971

The eradication of the smallpox virus is certified, 1979

Phoenix, Arizona, US, gets 3 inches of snow, 1985

Lech Walesa wins the presidential election in Poland, 1990

In Australia, thieves broke into a home and stole two 300-year-old etchings by Rembrandt. The 4-by-4-inch etchings, a self-portrait and a depiction of the artist's mother, were valued around $518,000, 2003

Pakistan's media publish fake WikiLeaks cables attacking India, 2010

China creates a new "Confucius Peace Prize" to honor its former Taiwanese Vice President, Lien Chan, who refused to collect it, 2010

The NASA Mars rover Curiosity has returned images from the red planet's Gale Crater showing evidence of sediment deposits, suggesting that lakes and rivers potentially existed across the planet millions of years ago, 2014

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is named Time Magazine's Person of the Year, for her handling of debt and refugee crises, 2015

Whakaari volcano, a tourist attraction in New Zealand, erupts killing 16, 2019

More than 40 camels are disqualified from the King Abdulaziz Camel Festival beauty contest after Botox injections and other cosmetic enhancements were discovered, 2021

13 comments:

  1. Logan and Laura are total charmers. Love your poem - and it certainly is a bumpy ride. Particularly for women.

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  2. Logan and Laura are so adorable, the poem is so fitting, December is always such a difficult time for so many people xxx

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  3. The kittens are so cute. Hoping their Christmas goes well and they get adopted.

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  4. Sweet little kittens! Love the bumpy ride quotes as life is indeed a bumpy ride and sometimes it almost rattles the life out of a person.

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  5. A prayer and the second Chapter of Luke is the best way to start the Christmas season and repeat the process on Christmas Eve. Meanwhile I am headed out the door to the bakery to celebrate National Pastry Day. Have a blessed week.

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  6. Awww on the kittens. So adorable.

    Love all your Sparks and the poem. Love your take on a bumpy ride.

    Tons of healing hugs on the loss of Dansig the Round.

    Thank you for joining the Awww Mondays Blog Hop.

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

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  7. 'Awww ~ sweet kitties ~ hope they have a forever home before Xmas ~ fun poem and 'sparks' ~ hugs,

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

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  8. thanks for posting the Christmas Card Day Badge! And Logan and Laura are cutie pies! Are they getting ready to climb the Catmus Tree to play with the toys? I need extra rest to get ready for that. Keep being awesome guys! Marvelous Marv (and Kozmo, Jo Jo, Nutcase er Nutmeg and Mom Barb)

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  9. Adorable pics. They are so cute.

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  10. It's a bumpy ride to Christmas - this is so true, and I think it only gets worse as we age. I really like your poem, and that you remind us what it's all about.

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  11. Those kittens are so darn cute. I like your Sparks and that is a darn good poem too.

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  12. Such cuties. Nice sparks and poem.

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  13. Two cute little kitties there. And your poem is spot on. Christmas always seems like a race to get there. We really do need to stop and think about the real reason for the season.

    Woos - Misty and Timber

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