Quite the Pair (Awww Monday), Inspiring Quote of the Week, and Poetry Monday, Superhero, an A to Z Challenge Post

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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!

A nice, wiggly puppy came for a visit, and our little Annie got to play with him.  They were quite a pair the time they were together, with the dog getting his first lessons in chasing a car (her toy car) and eventually she even got him on the snout with a green paint marker!

Annie and the pup with heads together -- in the grass!

It's tiring work keeping up with a toddler.

This pic and the next two you can just see the paint splotch.

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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 Superhero.               

Please fathers, try to be superheroes

to your children as much as you can,

try hard to choose a good one,

and not The Invisible Man.

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He had a superhero tchotchke collection,

she threatened divorce unless,

he got rid of all that junk from the house,

which she wanted to be Marvel-less. 

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bit my tongue often

it's a superhero now

yes my tongue is Thor

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Future themes are:

April 20 Superhero (Today!)

April 27 Plaid

(All themes are from the 365 Days of Drawing Prompts and Other Arts Facebook group.)

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Today is:

Ancestors' Day -- Russian Christians; Belarus (Radunitsa, a Slavic tradition after Thomas Sunday)

     Day after the Octave of Easter by the Orthodox Calendar

Basava Jayanti -- KA, India (birth anniversary of 12th century philosopher Basavanna)

Chinese Language Day -- UN   

Emancipation Day -- Washington, D.C., US

Harvest Offering to Renenutet -- Ancient Egypitian Calendar (offering to the Lady of the Fertile Fields; date approximate)

Jose de Diego's Birthday -- Puerto Rico (Father of the Puerto Rican Independence Movement, a/k/a Dia de Reafirmacion del Idioma Espanol)

Lima Bean Respect Day

National Alternative Fuel Vehicle Day 

National Look-Alike Day

National Pineapple Upside-Down Cake Day

National Take a Break to Reset Your Mind Day -- because everyone needs a day like this

Paştele Blăjinilor -- Moldova (Memory/Parent's Day)

Patriot's Day -- US (in observance of the first battles of the Revolutionary War; not to be confused with Patriot Day on Sept. 11)

Ridvan begins -- Baha'i (begins at sunset)

St. Caedwalla of Wales' Day (Patron of converts, repentant murderers)

St. George's Day -- NL, Canada (obs.)

Yom HaZiKaron -- Israel (Memorial Day; begins at sunset, through nightfall tomorrow)

Birthdays Today:

Danny Granger, 1983

Joey Lawrence, 1976

Carmen Electra, 1972

Shemar Moore, 1970

Crispin Glover, 1964

Don Mattingly, 1961

Clint Howard, 1959

Luther Vandross, 1951

Jessica Lange, 1949

David Leland, 1947

Steve Spurrier, 1945

Ryan O'Neal, 1941

George Takei, 1937

Nina Foch, 1924

Ernesto Antonio "Tito" Puente, 1923

John Paul Stevens, 1920

Lionel Hampton, 1908

Harold Lloyd, 1893

Joan Miró i Ferrà, 1893

Holland McTyeire "Howlin' Mad" Smith, 1882

Daniel Chester French, 1850

Debuting/Premiering Today:

Annie Hall(Film), 1977

"Your Hit Parade"(Radio), 1935

Today in History:

The last naval battle in Byzantine history, 1453

Jews are expelled from Orange Burgundy, 1505

Jacques Cartier begins the voyage in which he will claim Canada and Labrador for France, 1534

Freedom of religion is granted to the Jews of New Amsterdam, 1657

Admiral Robert Blake destroys a Spanish silver fleet under heavy fire at Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 1657

Captain Cook arrives in New South Wales, 1770

René Caillié becomes the first non-Muslim to enter Timbouctou, 1828

Edgar Allan Poe's Murder in the Rue Morgue becomes the first detective story ever published, 1841

Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard complete their first pasteurization tests, 1862

Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride, 1902

Manfred von Richthofen, aka The Red Baron, shoots down his 79th and 80th victims marking his final victories before his death the next day, 1918

Western Electric and Warner Bros. announce Vitaphone, a process to add sound to film, 1926

Apollo 16, commanded by John Young, lands on the moon, 1972

Pianist Vladimir Horowitz performs in his native Russia for the first time in 61 years, 1986

Danica Patrick wins the Indy Japan 300 becoming the first female driver in history to win an Indy car race, 2008

The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion kills 11 and causes rig to sink, initiating a massive oil discharge in the Gulf of Mexico, 2010

Tens of thousands of people demonstrate in Tahrir Square against continuing military rule in Egypt, 2012

The Pulitzer Prize is awarded to Anthony Doerr for his novel "All the Light We Cannot See" and to Elizabeth Kolbert for "The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History", 2015

The Commonwealth countries decide that Prince Charles will succeed Queen Elizabeth as the next head of the Commonwealth, 2018

Online streaming service Netflix suffers its first subscriber loss in a decade, 2022

Parts of Western Australia experience a total solar eclipse, 2023

NASA engineers successfully repair and recode Voyager 1 from 15 billion miles away after five-month gap in not receiving data, 2024