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Feline Friday was originally started by Steve, The Burnt Food Dude (may he rest in peace), and i'm going to believe it's because he liked cats.
He handed hosting duties off to Sandee at Comedy Plus, and now she's entrusting it to me.
Feline Friday is simple to join. All you have to do is: Post a picture, drawing, cartoon or video of a cat (they may be silly or cute). Then add your link!
One thing for sure is this is a fun and easy meme to do. So come and join us in Feline Friday.
What better way to start the weekend than with a feline!
Our little Annie was munching blueberries, helping herself and then running around, so i put them on the chair where she could reach them.
This did not "sit well" (pun intended) with Link Linker the Stinker, as that's his chair, and he went in a huff to the rocker to sulk.
Eventually i found another place for the berries, so he got his chair and then Annie tried to make peace by offering him a blueberry.
He was not impressed!
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Friendly Fill-Ins are easy to do. There are four statements: the first two statements are provided by Ellen of 15AndMeowing, and the final two are offered by Lorianne The Menagerie Mom of Four-Legged Furballs. They try to make sure the statements will be fun to both answer and share. The linky will be posted at or about 12:00 AM on Friday. Please head over to one of their sites, link up, and share your thoughts!
Here are this week's statements with my responses underlined:
1. ______________________is my favorite Christmas song.
2. ________________________________is a Christmas decoration that I treasure.
3. Though ’tis the season for _________, I much prefer _________.
4. If I could create a new Christmas tradition, it would be _________.
1. O Holy Night is my favorite Christmas song. That is, as far as serious songs go. When it comes to the silly, funny ridiculous songs, i'm partial to I'm Gettin' Nuttin' For Christmas.
2. The Musical Ferris Wheel is a Christmas decoration that I treasure. Ours no longer plays the music, but since it's a music box inside, i hope to be able to get it repaired someday.
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| photo from Ebay, as ours is packed away in the closet |
3. Though ’tis the season for sweets and treats, I much prefer fruits and veggies.
4. If I could create a new Christmas tradition, it would be only giving gifts to children under 12, everyone over this age would have a donation to a good cause made in their honor, or a gift bought for someone in need, instead of us getting one more thing to stuff in our already crowded houses.
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Nature Friday is hosted by LLB in Our Backyard. Simply post a picture of the natural world, and link up!
Ms. D has a big, beautiful Christmas cactus. A few years ago, the formerly all-white blooms turned pink on only one branch and have bloomed pink there ever since.
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Today is:
Bonza Bottler Day™
Constitution Day -- Russia (constitution approved in nationwide referendum 1993)
Feast of Masa'il (Questions/Mystery) -- Baha'i
Fetes de l'Escalade -- Geneva, Switzerland (Scaling, or Climbing Day; celebrating the defeat of the Duke of Savoy's troops; through Sunday)
Gingerbread House Day -- because today is as good a day to start making one as any
Hovercraft Day -- the first prototype of a hovercraft was patented this day in 1955 by British engineer Christopher Cockerell
Human Rights and Peace Day -- Kiribati
Independence Day -- Kenya (Jamhuri)(1953)
Miracle of the Roses / Our Lady of Guadalupe -- Catholic Christian; related celebrations
Fiesta del Virgin de Guadalupe -- Mexico
Las Mananitas -- Puerto Rico
National Ambrosia Day
National Cocoa Day
National Ding-A-Ling Day -- an unofficial day on which to honor all the ding-a-lings you know, and even act like one yourself if you wish
National Salesperson's Day -- US (begun by Maura Schreier-Fleming, and listed on various days depending on whom you ask)
Neutrality Day/National Day and Student Youth Day -- Turkmenistan
Official Lost and Found Day -- the day to take inventory of what you've lost or found over the year, and step up your efforts to find things which are still missing
Poinsettia Day -- death anniversary of Joel Roberts Poinsett
St. Finnian of Clonard's Day (Father of Irish Monasticism; going to bed without supper tonight means you risk being carried away by the fairies)
St. Lucy's Eve -- Austria (night of the shining that some use to predict the future)
Yuletide Lads begin arriving -- Iceland (Jolasveinar trolls, children of Gryla and Leppaludi, who come one each day to bring gifts and mischief from now until Christmas)
Yuletide Lad of the Day, Stekkjarstaur -- Sheepfold Stick, who will try to drink the milk from the farmers' ewes
Anniversaries Today:
Jerry Lee Lewis marries his cousin Myra Gale Brown, 1957
Pennsylvania becomes the 2nd US State, 1787
Birthdays Today:
Mayim Bialik, 1975
Rey Mysterio, Jr., 1974
Madchen Amick, 1970
Jennifer Connelly, 1970
Tracy Austin, 1962
Sheila E. 1957
Cathy Rigby, 1952
Robert Lindsay, 1949
Tom Wilkinson, 1948
Emerson Fittipaldi, 1946
Dionne Warwick, 1941
Connie Francis, 1938
Robert Lee "Bob" Pettit, Jr., 1932
Edward Irwin Koch, 1924
Bob Barker, 1923
Bob Dorough, 1923
Joe Williams, 1918
Frank Sinatra, 1915
Edward G. Robinson, 1893
Edvard Munch, 1863
Gustave Flaubert, 1821
Stand Watie, 1806
William Lloyd Garrison, 1805
John Jay, 1745 (Old Style date)
Erasmus Darwin, 1731
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"La Valse"(Ravel ballet), 1920
St. Louis Post-Dispatch(First edition), 1878
Today in History:
The Battle at Nineveh: Byzantine emperor Heraclius defeats Perzen, 627
The Order of the Dragon is created by Sigismund, King of Hungary, and his wife Queen Barbara of Celje, following the battle for possession of Bosnia, 1408
Isabella crowns herself Queen of Castile and Aragon, 1474
Jews are expelled from Schlettstadt Alsace by Emperor Frederick III, 1479
In Vienna, Ludwig von Beethoven receives his first lesson in music composition from Franz Joseph Haydn, 1792
Mexico is officially recognized as an independent nation by the US, 1822
The first Canadian coins are circulated (1 cent, 5 cent, 10 cent and 20 cent), 1858
Rudolph Dirks' first Katzenjammer cartoon strip appears in the NY Journal, 1897
Belo Horizonte, the first planned city of Brazil, is founded, 1897
George F Bryant of Boston patents the wooden golf tee, 1899
Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio signal at Signal Hill in St John's, Newfoundland, 1901
Delhi replaces Calcutta as the capital of India, 1911
Oscar Straus becomes US Secretary of Commerce, the first Jew to be a US Cabinet member, 1906
The first all metal aircraft, the Junkers J-1, is test flown in Dessau, Germany, 1915
In Nebraska, Father Edward J. Flanagan founds Boys Town as a farm village for wayward boys, 1917
The first prototype of a hovercraft is patented by British engineer Christopher Cockerell, 1955
Guinea joins the United Nations, 1958
The Russian Federation gains independence from the USSR, 1991
An asteroid named 4179 Toutatis, over 3 miles wide, passes within 4.3 million miles, or 18 lunar distances from Earth, 2012
The International Space Station suspends some of its non-critical systems after an ammonia cooling pump fails; the station and six crew members aboard were not in danger, 2013
French President Francois Hollande proposes that terminally ill patients should have the right to be sedated until death; the proposal does not suggest assisted termination of the patient's life, 2014
Bill English is sworn in as New Zealand Prime Minister, 2016
Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Sergey Prokopyev compete a complex spacewalk to fix a hole in their Soyuz spacecraft, 2018
A point of land 3.5km (11,500ft) below sea level under the Denman Glacier in Antarctica is identified as the deepest point of land on Earth, 2019
Emma Tucker becomes the first woman editor-in-chief of the Wall Street Journal, 2022
Cats never accept the first peace offering
ReplyDeleteLink Linker was glad to get his favourite chair back. It was kind of little Annie to offer him a blueberry, even though he didn't want it.
ReplyDeleteI miss our Christmas Cactus and this one is beauty. mine was the deep pink.. to funny on the blue berry offering, a cat is a cat, and nothing to be done. beau loves blueberries.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful Christmas cactus. But more beautiful to see Annie interacting with Link.
ReplyDeleteWow, that Christmas cactus is impressive. Mine is shrinking. Some years ago it hed loads of flowers, now one or two is all it can do.
ReplyDeleteYour friendly fill ins make me old and grumpy. I suppose it was not meant this way, but how people celebrate "Christmas" here in Denmark has lost almost all connection to anything Christmassy.
1. __O come all ye faithful__ is my favorite Christmas song.
2. __Our homemade nativity (and loads of other homemade stuff)___is a Christmas decoration that I treasure.
3. Though ’tis the season for __Santas and elves_, I much prefer _bells, angels, stars, and the Child in a manger (which is not to be found anymore)_.
4. If I could create a new Christmas tradition, it would be __that the shops would be fined for putting up Chrismas stuff before 15th of November. And augmenting fines for each week in advance. Week 41 is just too early_.
You see, old and grumpy me!
Mom had a big and beautiful Christmas cactus that bloomed every year in December. Then she got our late cat bro Bert and he ripped it apart. He pretty much killed all the plants Mom had in our house. We are still plantless but Mom misses that Christmas cactus a lot.
ReplyDeleteVery sweet post with Annie and Link. Thanks for hosting Feline Friday and for participating in the fill-ins, great answers. I hope you can get your Ferris wheel fixed. I like your idea about gifts, although I would make the age limit 18 instead. :) XO
ReplyDeleteWe love Annie and Link! Great fill-in answers. Our Christmas cactus turned from pink to white!
ReplyDeleteQuè curiós i bonic el cactus!
ReplyDeleteSembla que li dura molt l'enuig al teu gat. Pobra Annie!
Petonets.
That's a good compromise Link and sweet Annie! Those were good fill-in answers too!
ReplyDeleteOh Holy Night is up there with my favourites too! What a beautiful cactus.
ReplyDeleteOh Annie and the kitty are both so precious ~ and great fillins ~ like the one about gifts for 12 and under ~ perfect! Great post ~ hugs
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