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"I understand you are a vegetarian?"
"Yes. Well, actually, I prefer to eat a totally vegan diet, but if I'm at someone's home, and they offer me something vegetarian, I simply smile and thank them and enjoy it. After all, I don't expect the world to cater to my weirdo diet."
"You know being a vegetarian is a missed steak, right?"
"That's okay, I don't mind not having a stake in the steak industry."
Linking up with Denise at Girlie On The Edge Blog, where she hosts Six Sentence Stories, and the cue is Stake.
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While Good Fences Around the World seems to have gone the way of the dodo bird, i still enjoy looking for and posting interesting fences, so i will!
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It's Angel Sammy's Poetry Day! This week's image and my poem:
Gull Poem (Translated):
Yippee, I got it!
I knew I could!
'Cause gulls are mighty!
Be more wary, you should!
Man Poem (Free Verse, not translated)
)&*^$##^&*(___*&%C@!!!!!
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Angel Brian's Family of Brian's Home - Forever hosts the Thankful Thursday Blog Hop. It's time to share something for which i am thankful.
Today i am thankful #2 Son, Daughter-in-Law, and our little Annie are all getting over the Covid they picked up from the airport on their way home from vacation, and thankful they don't seem to have spread it around.
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Today is:
Aquino Day -- Philippines
Buhe -- Ethiopian Orthodox Church (Christian remembrance of the Transfiguration.)
Cadillac Day -- the first Caddy was built this day in 1902
Consualia -- Ancient Roman Calendar (festival of Consus, god of grain and silos)
Crazy Day -- go crazy, in honor of Patsy Cline recording Willie Nelson's song Crazy on this date in 1961
Daffodil Day -- Australia (the Cancer Council's big fundraiser)
Fete de la Jeunesse -- Morocco; Western Sahara (Youth Day, on the Birthday of HM Mohammed VI)
Gospel Day -- Kosrae, Micronesia
National Pecan Torte Day
National Senior Citizens Day -- US
National Spumoni Day
Poet's Day -- a day to celebrate the poet in you, and share special thoughts about poets and poetry
Senior Citizens Day -- US (by Presidential proclamation in 1988)
St. Pius X's Day (Patron of first communicants, pilgrims; Des Moines, Iowa, US; Great Falls-Billings, Montana, US; Kottoyam, India; Santa Lucija, Malta; Springfield-Cape Girardeau, MO, US; Zamboanga, Philippines)
Anniversaries Today
Seminole Tribe of Native Americans is legally established and recognized, 1957
Hawai'i becomes the 50th US state, 1959
Birthdays Today
Ozma, Queen of Oz, year unconfirmed
Hayden Panettiere, 1989
Usain Bolt, 1986
Brody Jenner, 1983
Alicia Witt, 1975
James Robert "Jim" McMahon, 1959
Steve Case, 1958
Kim Cattrall, 1956
Jackie DeShannon, 1944
Peter Weir, 1944
Clarence Williams III, 1939
Kenny Rogers, 1938
Wilt Chamberlain, 1936
Melvin Van Peebles, 1932
Shimon Peres, 1923
Christopher Robin Milne, 1920
Friz Freleng, 1906
Count Basie, 1904
Aubrey Vincent Beardsley, 1872
William Murdoch, 1754
Francis de Sales, 1567
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"La Cage Aux Folles"(Musical), 1983
Today in History
Minamoto Yoritomo becomes Seii Tai Shogun and therefore de facto ruler of Japan, 1192
Pueblo Indians capture Santa Fe from Spanish during the Pueblo Revolt, 1680
James Cook formally claims eastern Australia for Great Britain, naming it New South Wales, 1770
The Nat Turner slave revolt in Virginia leaves 55 dead, 1831
Mighty Casey (Dan Casey) is struck out! In a game against the N.Y. Giants, 1887
William S Burroghs patents the adding machine, 1888
Oldsmobile is incorporated as a division of General Motors Corp., 1897
Arthur Rose Eldred becomes the first Boy Scout to earn the rank of Eagle Scout, 1912
Physicist Harry K. Daghlian, Jr. is fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1945
James Anderson, Jr., posthumously receives the first Medal of Honor to be awarded to an African American U.S. Marine, 1968
Philippine opposition leader Benigno Aquino, Jr. is assassinated at the Manila International Airport, 1983
Carbon dioxide gas erupts from volcanic Lake Nyos in Cameroon, killing up to 1,800 people within a 20-kilometer range, 1986
Coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev collapses, 1991
The Red Cross announces the famine in Tajikistan and calls for international aid there and in Uzbekistan, 2001
Hurricane Dean becomes the first storm to make landfall as a Category 5 since Hurricane Andrew, 2007
After 108 years, a "message in a bottle" put in the sea by the UK Marine Biological Association is announced found on a beach in Amrum, Germany, 2015
Big Ben, the bell in London's parliament clock, chimes for the last time before a four-year restoration process for its tower starts, 2017
The discovery of water-ice on the Moon by India's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft is published, 2018
Nigeria goes three years without a case of polio, a landmark toward eradication of the disease, 2019
Masai Graham wins funniest joke at Edinburgh Fringe with "I tried to steal spaghetti from the shop, but the female guard saw me and I couldn't get pasta," 2022
That nasty covid. It never stops going around does it. I'm looking at that white picket fence and it looks like it's very long and would take a lot of paint when it needs cleaning up.
ReplyDeleteHa ha yes, steak and stake… good one! And that huge gull… no ice cream then? Naughty, isn’t he (or she)!
ReplyDeletelol
ReplyDelete(nice work with the prompt*)
*and the sentiment**
** consideration for others is not weakness
M'encanten aquests tipus de valles que hi diuen tan bé amb la casa.
ReplyDeleteEspero que la familia estigui totalment recuperada.
Petonets!
Java Bean: "Ayyy, all this talk of stakes is making Dada want to watch 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' again!"
ReplyDeleteGlad your family had a speedy recovery from the Covid ~ Fun writings here today too and great fence photo~ hugs,
ReplyDeletean artist reflects (carol and ziggy)