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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!
There's just too much cute in the shelters right now.
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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 a first world problem I have.
2. I’ll never understand why so many people enjoy ____________________________.
3. My sense of humor would be best described as _________.
4. I think schools should teach _________.
1. So much to do it's hard to find time to make healthy meals is a first world problem I have.
2. I’ll never understand why so many people enjoy mushrooms.
3. My sense of humor would be best described as a little bit warped (think Weird Al).
4. I think schools should teach penmanship. Scientists have shown the brain to hand connection, stopping to choose the right word, forming it properly, etc., is good for brain development and we are losing some skills by neglecting to teach this.
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Nature Friday is hosted by LLB in Our Backyard. Simply post a picture of the natural world, and link up!
The small neighborhood where we have our Wednesday evening Bible study is rightfully proud of their rows of oak trees. They've even removed parking areas just to preserve the trees.
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Flashback Friday is hosted by FiveSibes. Come hop along memory lane with us!
As can easily be seen in this photo from five years ago, having too much cute up for adoption is not a new problem.
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Today is:
Air Conditioner Day -- the first modern electrical air conditioning unit, invented by William Carrier, began working on this day in 1902
Constitution Day -- South Korea
Feast of St. Kenelm -- saint mentioned in "The Nun's Priest's Tale" of The Canterbury Takes
Feast of the Clockless NowEver -- can't find any confirmation on what this one is, but it sounds like fun if i don't have to bother with a clock or schedule
Festival for Victoria and Virtus -- Ancient Roman Calendar (goddess of victory and god of bravery in warfare)
Gentse Feesten -- Ghent, Belgium (a ten day music and theatre festival)
Gion Matsuri -- Yakasa Shrine, Kyoto, Japan (one of the largest and best Gion festivals)
King Letsie III's Birthday -- Lesotho
National Peach Ice Cream Day
St. Alexius Day (Patron of Alexians, beggars, belt makers, nurses, pilgrims, travelers)
Wear Crazy Socks to Work Day -- at your own risk
World Day for International Justice
Wrong Way Corrigan Day -- anniversary of the flight of Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan, who was supposedly heading for California from New York and ended up in Ireland instead
Yellow Pig Day -- mathmatics festivals at various universities, celebrating the number 17 and the yellow pig with 17 eyelashes, created by mathematicians Michael Spivak and David C. Kelly
Birthdays Today
Tash Hamilton, 1982
Alex Winter, 1965
Dawn Upshaw, 1960
Mark Burnett, 1960
Aaron Lansky, 1955
J. Michael Straczynski, 1954
David Hasselhoff, 1952
Phoebe Snow, 1952
Lucie Arnaz, 1951
Camilla Parker Bowles, 1947
Diahann Carroll, 1935
Donald Sutherland, 1934
Phyllis Diller, 1917
Art Linkletter, 1912
James Cagney, 1899
Berenice Abbott, 1898
Erle Stanley Gardner, 1889
John Jacob Astor, 1763
Elbridge Thomas Gerry, 1744
Isaac Watts, 1674
Debuting/Premiering Today:
Yellow Submarine(Animated film), 1968
Punch(Magazine, first publication), 1841
Today in History
Twelve inhabitants of Scillium in North Africa are executed for being Christians, the earliest record of Christianity in that part of the world, 180
Zhu Di, better known by his era name as the Yongle Emperor, assumes the throne over the Ming Dynasty of China, 1402
Catherine II (the Great) becomes tsar of Russia upon the murder of Peter III of Russia, 1762
Londoner Thomas Saint patented the first sewing machine, 1790
The first issue of Punch magazine was published, England, 1841
The Harvard School of Dental Medicine is established in Boston as the first dental school in the U.S, 1867
On the orders of the Bolshevik Party carried out by Cheka, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his immediate family and retainers are murdered at the Ipatiev House in Ekaterinburg, Russia, 1918
The RMS Carpathia, the ship that rescued the 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic, is sunk off Ireland by the German SM U-55; 5 lives are lost, 1918
An Armed Forces rebellion against the recently-elected leftist Popular Front government of Spain begins the Spanish Civil War, 1936
After being denied permission to make a transatlantic crossing, Douglas Corrigan takes off from Brooklyn to fly the "wrong way" to Ireland and becomes known as "Wrong Way" Corrigan, 1928
Disneyland televises its grand opening in Anaheim, California, 1955
An American Apollo and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft dock with each other in orbit marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the two nations, 1975
The opening of the Summer Olympics in Montreal is marred by 25 African teams boycotting the New Zealand team, 1976
The F.W. Woolworth Company closes after 117 years in business, 1997
A tsunami triggered by an undersea earthquake destroys 10 villages in Papua New Guinea killing an estimated 3,183, leaving 2,000 more unaccounted for and thousands more homeless, 1998
A diplomatic conference adopts the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, establishing a permanent international court to prosecute individuals for genocide, crime against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression, 1998
South Korea develops a long range cruise missile, 2010
Astronauts, Sunita Williams of the United States, Yuri Malenchenko of Russia and Aki Hoshide of Japan, arrive at the International Space Station for a three-month long mission, 2012
In an effort to curb obesity rates, the United Arab Emirates offers its citizens one gram of gold for every kilogram of weight they lose, 2013
The discovery of the oldest evidence of bread, made from wild grains, is announced by archaeologists in a dig at a 14,000-year-old site in the Black Desert, Jordan, 2018
Typhoon Talim makes landfall on China's Guandong coast, forcing the evacuation of nearly 230,000 people, 2023
US Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro officially exonerates all 258 Black sailors who protested work conditions after the 1944 Port Chicago Disaster, 2024
British government announces the voting age will be lowered to 16 years old across the UK in time for the next general election, 2025
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