He Has It In the Bag (Feline Friday), Friendly Fill-Ins, and Nature Friday

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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 has entrusted 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!

Link Linker the Stinker says he has it in the bag.

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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. The older I get, the _________ I get.

2. I frequent _________.

3. Back in my day, we _________ at school.

4. I _________ during these last few weeks of summer.

1. The older I get, the   uglier   I get.

2. I frequent   church and church meetings.

3. Back in my day, we   minded our manners   at school.

4. I   work and sweat   during these last few weeks of summer.

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Nature Friday is hosted by LLB in Our Backyard.  Simply post a picture of the natural world, and link up!   

Just after sunrise in the swampy area.

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Today is:

Anniversary Day -- Tristan da Cunha

Assumption Eve -- France; Holy See

Day of Peace between Horus and Set -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)

Faradda di li candareri (Descent of the Candlesticks) -- Sassari, Sardinia (beginning of the celebration of the Assumption)

Festival for Fortuna Equestris -- Ancient Roman Calendar

Gals Night Out 2026 -- single or married, you need a night out!

Independence Day -- Pakistan(1947)

International Nagging Day -- ignore this one if you have any sense, the founder was smart enough to leave no trace

La Torta dei Fieschi -- Lavagna, Italy (this city on the Italian Riviera comes to life with dance and music every year to commemorate the wedding, on this day in 1230, of Bianca de Bianchi and Count Opizzo Fiechi, as he had invited everyone in town to share the 30ft. high cake he had made for the occasion)

Liberty Tree Day -- Massachusetts, US

Mantoro Lantern Lighting -- Kasuga Taisha, Japan (through tomorrow; 3,000 lanterns light the shrine, and the main hall is open for visitors, with Bugaku and Kagura performed in the apple garden)

National Creamsicle Day

National Day -- Maldives

National Financial Awareness Day -- can't find the history on who started this for which country, but it's wise to become financially literate no matter where you live

National Navajo Code Talkers Day -- Navajo Nation; US

Oued Ed-Dahab Day -- Morocco; Western Sahara (celebrating the recovery of this area from Spanish occupation in 1979)

Pramuka Day -- Indonesia (Scouting Day)

St. Maximillian Kolbe's Day (Patron of families, imprisoned people, journalists, political prisoners, prisoners, recovering drug addicts, the pro-life movement; against drug addictions)

St. Werenfrid's Day (Patron of vegetable gardeners; Arnheim, Netherlands; Elst, Netherlands; Westervoort, Netherlands; against gout and stiff joints)

Wiffle Ball Day -- the wiffle ball was introduced this day in 1953

Anniversaries Today:

Jackie Mason marries Jyll Rosenfeld, 1991

V-J Day, 1945

Birthdays Today:

Tim Tebow, 1987

Terin Humphrey, 1986

Mila Kunis, 1983

Spencer Pratt, 1983

Jay Manuel, 1972

Catherine Bell, 1968

Halle Berry, 1966

Earvin "Magic" Johnson, 1959

Marcia Gay Harden, 1959

Gary Larson, 1950

Danielle, Steel, 1947

Antonio Fargas, 1946

Susan Saint James, 1946

Steve Martin, 1945

Lynne Cheney, 1941

David Crosby, 1941

Arthur Betz Laffer, 1940

Alice Ghostley, 1926

Buddy Greco, 1926

Russell Baker, 1925

John Ringling North, 1903

Ernest Everett Just, 1883

Ernest Lawrence Thayer, 1863

Doc Holiday, 1851

H.C. Oersted, 1777

Emperor Hanazono of Japan, 1297

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"The Front Page"(Play), 1928

Today in History

The young Emperor Antoku and three sacred treasures are taken by Taira no Munemori and the Taira clan, fleeing to western Japan to escape pursuit by the Minamoto clan, 1183

Kublai Khan's invading fleet disappears in a a typhoon near Japan, 1281

Three years after Gutenberg, the oldest known exactly dated printed book is published, 1457

Queen Elizabeth I refuses sovereignty of the Netherlands, 1585

Great Britain annexes Tristan da Cunha (remotest occupied island), 1816

Second Seminole War ends, with the Seminoles forced from Florida to Oklahoma, 1842

Oregon Territory created, 1848

Magazine "Field and Stream" begins publication, 1873

Construction of Cologne Cathedral in Cologne, Germany, is completed, 1880

Japan issues its first patent, for rust-proof paint, 1885

A recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan's The Lost Chord, one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison's phonograph in London, 1888

France begins requiring motor vehicle registration, 1893

The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21, 1901

Mt. Rushmore project first proposed, 1925

United States Social Security Act passes, creating a government pension system for the retired, 1935

British troops are deployed in Northern Ireland, 1969

Longest game in softball history begins, as The Gager's Diner team takes on the Bend'n Elbow Tavern; the game was played to raise money for a new softball field in Monticello, NY, went to 365 innings over two days, and the Gagers won 491-467, 1976

Lech Walesa leads strikes at the Gdansk, Poland shipyards, 1980

Widescale power blackout in the northeast United States and Canada, 2003

More than 2,000 people found in Poland's largest mass grave during World War II are reburied in a military cemetery, 2009

As a sponsored event of the IOC, the 2010 Summer Youth Olympic Games, first ever Youth Olympics for athletes age 14-18, officially starts in Singapore, 2010

North and South Korea agree to reopen the jointly-operated Kaesong Industrial Region, 2013

Jamaican sprint star Usain Bolt becomes the first man to win the coveted 100m Olympic gold medal three times, with a win at the Rio Olympics, 2016

According to a survey published by the US Department of the Interior and the US Geological Survey, 90% of rain samples taken in Colorado have plastic in them, 2019

Stephanie Frappart of France becomes the first woman to referee a major men's football/soccer match in a European men's tournament, 2019

Spain records its highest ever temperature of 47.2C (117F) in Montoro, Córdoba, 2021

July 2023 is the warmest month in 174 years "by a long shot" according to NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 2023

If the House is on Fire (Six Sentence Story), Good Fences, Sammy's Poetry Day, and Brian's Thankful Thursday

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When i told Ms. G i was on my way yesterday, she responded she was on the freeway with Patience the camper on the way back home, and said she would call me soon.

Some may remember last week she was gone because she was championing Ms. Fiona up at the care home, the final outcome of spending all the time up there was Ms. G, on Thursday, fell seriously ill with whatever virus it was which had made Ms. Fiona so ill and was one sick lady until Monday morning.

This is what she told me when she called me back, giving me a blow by blow of how her week had gone, how if the neighbor had not had some prescription meds left over for "gastric distress" she would have had to go to the ER, how she had finally been able to start eating on Monday night when a bit of macaroni and cheese didn't cause any trouble, and then leaving Tuesday to go meet the electrician at her retirement house in the country with plans to come home with the camper the same day but she was too tired and had to wait overnight.

She then asked me to park at the neighbor's house and have the green cart at the front for her when she got there and gave me detail by detail what was going on and what we were going to get out of the truck when she got back, including asking me to immediately get the sandwich she had with her and get it to the fridge so it would not spoil.

Once she arrived, she went over all the details again as we unhooked the camper and emptied everything out of the truck, telling me place by place where each item should go and yes, i got the sandwich before anything else and she made sure to enquire closely as to whether or not it was still cool when i grabbed it from the cab of the air conditioned truck (it was).

While all this is going on, i was thinking i hope she never has a fire, as by the time she finishes telling me everything which has transpired to cause the situation and that there is, indeed, a fire and we need to flee, it might be too late to get out of the building.

Linking up with Denise at Girlie On The Edge Blog, where she hosts Six Sentence Stories, and the cue is Fire.     

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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:    

Son, quit pretending

I am choking you unless

you want to be grounded

for the weekend with no redress.

We're going to get this photo

for the Christmas family letter,

just be glad I didn't make you

wear the jingle bell sweater!

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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 for trash pick-up service.  Every once in so often, i talk to a friend who has to take her trash to the dump herself where she lives, and i'm reminded how blessed we are, even if we do have to pay for it.

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Today is:

Day of Battle between Horus and Set; Aset gains the Horns of Hathor -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)

Festival of Aventine Diana / Nemoralia -- Ancient Roman Calendar (commemoration of the dedication of her temple; celebrated between now and the 15th, and rededicated as the Festival of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin after Christianization)

Festival of Xocotl Huetzi -- Ancient Aztec Calendar (first fruits of harvest festival; date approximate, but two weeks around the end of August)

Independence Day -- Central African Republic(1960)

International Left-Hander's Day -- sponsored by Lefthanders International

Lao Issara -- Laos (Day of the Free Laos)

Lesser Festival of Flora -- Ancient Roman Calendar

National Filet Mignon Day

National Hobo Convention -- Britt, IA (held each year since 1900, gathering for migrant workers who are proud to call themselves "hobos" and make a living through working where they choose and travelling where they want; through Sunday)

Obon -- Buddhist (celebration to revere the ancestors; celebrated at different times even within Japan, but usually the biggest dates are in mid-August)

Runic Half Month As begins (the gods)

Skinny Dipping Day -- funny t-shirt:  I no longer skinny dip. I chunky dunk!

St. Cassian's Day (Patron of students and teachers; Brixen, Italy; Comacchio, Italy; Imola, Italy; Mexico City, Mexico)

St. Concordia's day (Patron of nursing mothers and wet nurses)

St. Hippolytus' Day (Patron of horses, prison guards/officers/workers; Bibbiena, Italy)

Wall Day -- anniversary of the day in 1961 that the Berlin Wall began going up; observe it by trying to break down a wall or communication barrier somewhere in your own life

Women's Day -- Tunisia

Birthdays Today

Shani Davis, 1982

Midori Ito, 1969

Quinn Cummings, 1967

Danny Bonaduce, 1959

Dan Fogelberg, 1951

Kathleen Battle, 

Philippe Petit, 1949

Kevin Tighe, 1944

Don Ho, 1930

Pat Harrington, Jr., 1929

Fidel Castro, 1926

George Shearing, 1919

Ben Hogan, 1912

Alfried Felix Alwyn Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, 1907

Alfred Hitchcock, 1899

Bert Lahr, 1895

Annie Oakley, 1860

Lucy Stone, 1818

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"Zaire/The Tragedy of Zara"(Voltaire's "Tragedy in Verse"), 1732

Today in History

The English army under King Henry V lands at the mouth of the Seine River, 1415

Tenochtitlan of the Aztecs is conquered by the Spanish, 1521

Tenbun Hokke Disturbance, in which Buddhist monks from Kyoto's Enryaku Temple set fire to 21 Nichiren temples throughout Kyoto, 1536

John Smith submits the story of Jamestown's first days for publication, 1608

Christiaan Huygens discovers the Martian south polar cap, 1642

Founding of Litchfield, CT, 1651

Marie Antoinette and other French royals are imprisoned by Revolutionaries, 1792

Nat Turner sees the solar eclipse which he interprets as a sign from heaven to begin his ill-fated slave rebellion, 1831

Earthquake in Peru and Ecuador kills 25,000, 1868

Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his "Navigable Balloon", 1889

First production in the UK of stainless steel by Harry Brearley, 1913

Opha Mae Johnson is the first woman to enlist in the United States Marine Corps, 1918

Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW) is established as a public company in Germany, 1918

The first barbed wire fence that would become the Berlin Wall is erected, 1961

The Apollo 11 astronauts are released from a three-week quarantine to enjoy a ticker-tape parade in New York, 1969

Michael Phelps sets the Olympic record for most the gold medals won by an individual in Olympic history, 2008

Footage of the previously unseen Kawahiva tribe is released; the Kawahiva is an indigenous tribe living in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, and is thought to have had very little contact with the outside world, 2013

Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani becomes the first woman to win the Fields Medal in mathematics, 2014

Measles cases have tripled so far worldwide in 2019 according to the WHO, 2019 

Israel strikes an historic deal with the United Arab Emirates to normalize relations and suspends plans to annex parts of the occupied West Bank, 2020

Romanian swimmer David Popovici breaks the 13-year-old world record for the 100m freestyle with a time of 46.86, 2022

Canadian clothing company Gildan finalizes its purchase of Hanes Brands, 2025