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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!
These babies were screaming until they got fed, then peace reigned.
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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 Under the Sea.
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carnival under
the sea has to have a good
for-tuna teller
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Things under the sea
can be kind of crazy,
the whales are blubbermouths
but getting kind of lazy,
not keeping up with dolphins
who create content that lasts,
they won't put in much effort
at their latest pod-casts.
They might get kind of chunky,
they love to eat, those whales,
other fish don't get fat,
they have their own scales.
The schools are getting in trouble,
the government's on a crusade
to raise academic standards,
now they're below "sea" level grades.
The turtles want to stay under
the water now for good,
it's where they can eat plenty,
on land they can't catch fast food.
And don't shell out any money,
oysters are all a churl,
they clam up when asked
to please share a pearl.
And why does the ocean roar so much,
at an answers I'll take some stabs,
the first is you'd roar, too,
if your bottom was full of crabs!
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Future themes are:
September 1 Under the Sea (Today!)
September 8 Big City
September 15 Tea Fusing
September 22 Kitchen
September 29 Snuggles
(All themes are from the 365 Days of Drawing Prompts and Other Arts Facebook group.)
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Today is:
Bahti Meskerem -- Eritrea (Revolution Day)
Bonnat Pig Fair -- Bonnat, France
Building and Code Staff Appreciation Day
Chicken Boy's Day -- the mascot of the now defunct restaurant by that name, the 22 foot statue of a boy with a chicken's head was saved from destruction and is now a pop icon in L.A. on Route 66
Constitution Day/National Day -- Slovakia
Day of Knowledge -- Estonia (an official Flag Day); Russia
Dia de Santiago Iglesias Pantin -- Puerto Rico
Disaster Prevention Day/Kanto Earthquake Memorial Day -- Japan
Ecclesiastical Year begins -- Orthodox Christian
Festival of Juno Regina and Jupiter Liber -- Ancient Roman Calendar
Ginger Cat Appreciation Day -- begun by Chris Roy, whose saving of a ginger kitten on this date in 1997 led to a life of animal welfare volunteer work
Hassaku Oshi-tsuki -- Tsuma, Oki Island, Japan (bull sumo, with bulls pushing each other out of the ring)
International Day of Awareness of the Dolphins of Taiji/Save Japan's Dolphins Day -- the drive and hunt begin today in Japan, and events are held around the world
Labor Day/Labour Day -- Bermuda; Canada; Palau; U.S. and Territories
Luxembourg City Kermesse -- Luxembourg City, Luxembourg (the capital city gets a day off to enjoy the country's biggest fun festival)
Mustaqillik Kuni -- Uzbekistan (Independence Day, 1991)
National Cherry Popover Day
National No Rhyme (Nor Reason) Day -- the day to celebrate the amazing words in the English language that do not rhyme with any other words
Nutt Day -- for Emma M. Nutt, the first female telephone operator
Oyster Season begins
Partridge's Day -- partridge hunting season begins in UK
Presidential Message Day -- Mexico
Random Acts of Kindness Day -- New Zealand
Save the Koala Month -- anyone can help by "adopting" one
Sing A Silly Song in Bed Day -- now, this one has no real rhyme or reason
St. Fiacre's Day -- Ireland and France (the rest of the church celebrates this Patron of gardeners on August 30)
St. Gideon the Judge's Day (Patron of Saint-Gedeon-de-Beauce, Canada)
St. Giles' Day (Patron of the beggars, blacksmiths, breast feeding, cancer patients, disabled/handicapped people, epileptics, forests, hermits, horses, lepers, mentally ill people, noctiphobics, paupers and the poor, rams, spur makers, woods; Edinburgh, Scotland; Toifa, Italy; against breast cancer, epilepsy, fear of the night, insanity, leprosy, mental illness, noctiphobia, sterility)
St. Simeon Stylites' Day -- Eastern Orthodox Christian
Teacher's Day -- Singapore
Umhlanga -- Eswatini (Swaziland) (Reed Dance Public Holiday and final day, culmination of the Reed Dance Celebration begun last week and sponsored by the Royal Family)
Wattle Day -- Australia
Anniversary Today:
Benjamin Franklin marries Deborah Read, 1730
Birthdays Today:
Timothy Duane "Tim" Hardaway, 1966
Gloria Estefan, 1957
Dr. Phil McGraw, 1950
Barry Gibb, 1946
Lily Tomlin, 1939
Alan Dershowitz, 1938
Don Stroud, 1937
Seiji Ozawa, 1935
Conway Twitty, 1933
"Boxcar" Willie, 1931
Rocky Marciano, 1923
Yvonne DeCarlo, 1922
Vittorio Gassman, 1922
Walter Philip Reuther, 1907
Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1875
Englebert Humperdinck. 1854 (composer, esp of opera Hansel and Gretel)
Johann Pachelbel, 1653
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Art Linkletter's House Party"(TV), 1952
"Androcles and the Lion"(Play), 1913
Today in History:
Rabbi Moses Ben Nachman establishes a Jewish community in Jerusalem, 1267
Adi Granth, now known as Guru Granth Sahib, the holy scripture of Sikhs, was first installed at Harmandir Sahib, 1601
The first yacht race is held, between England's King Charles I and his brother James, 1661
Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa forms in California, 1772
Juno, one of the largest main belt asteroids, is discovered by German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding, 1804
Narcissa Whitman, one of the first white women to settle west of the
Rocky Mountains, arrives at Walla Walla, Washington, 1836
The first Pullman sleeping car is put into service, 1859
The Solar Superstorm/Carrington Event: a huge solar sunspot and solar flare storm that disrupted telegraphy and allowed the Aurora Borealis to be seen as far south as the Caribbean occurs, 1859
Joseph Lister performs the first antiseptic surgery, 1865
Robert T. Freeman becomes the first African American to graduate from the Harvard Dental School, 1867
The first underground rapid transit system in North America, the Boston Subway, opens, 1897
One of the first science fiction films ever, A Trip To The Moon, opens in France, 1902
Alberta and Saskatchewan become the 8th and 9th Canadian provinces, 1905
Martha, the last passenger pigeon, dies at the Cincinnati Zoo, 1914
The United States, Australia and New Zealand sign a mutual defense pact, called the ANZUS Treaty, 1951
In ReykjavÃk, Iceland, American Bobby Fischer beats Russian Boris Spassky and becomes the world chess champion, 1972
Canada adopts the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms as part of its Constitution, 1982
A joint French-American expedition locates the wreckage of the RMS Titanic, 1985
Luxembourg becomes the first nation to complete the transition to all digital tv broadcasting, 2006
After four Israeli settlers are shot at the Israeli settlement Beit Hagai, the Palestinian Authority arrested 250 members of Hamas, 2010
To avoid further fighting, Libya's Transitional Council extends the deadline to surrender for tribal leaders in Sirte, 2011
U.S. National Park officials notify 3,100 recent visitors of an outbreak of Hantavirus sourced to tent cabins in Yosemite National Park, 2012
In southwestern China, at least four people are killed by a 5.9-magnitude earthquake, 2013
Stock markets around the world fall after China reports a low value for its purchasing managers' index, suggesting that the nation's economy is slowing, 2015
Hurricane Dorian makes landfall on Elbow Cay in the Abaco Islands, northern Bahamas, as a category five storm with winds of 180mph (285km/h), 2019
Mongolians protest against moves to teach school subjects in Mandarin instead of Mongolian in their schools, 2020
South America's second-longest river, the Paraná, hits its lowest levels in 77 years due to drought, 2021
Record rain is recorded in Central Park, New York (7.13 inches) and Newark, New Jersey (8.41 inches) from remnants of Hurricane Ida, 2021
