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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!
Mr. Gray, Ms. G believes, was left behind when his family moved away from her neighborhood, just a couple of blocks over.
She noticed more "community cats" and kittens being born, and having worked with TNR for a good 30 years, set about trapping and fixing everyone, including Mr. Gray, which she did.
Mr. Gray was shy, possibly having been spooked by the actual feral cats in the area and he was wary of people, no wonder after what happened.
He started coming to the feeding station for ferals just up the street from Ms. G then started hanging at her house, and during the coldest part of winter, moved in and made himself at home.
Mr. Gray goes in and out, but despite her protests of, "I don't need another cat!" Mr. Gray seems to be a part of the family.
Now even i'm accepted, and petting is mandatory.
He's at home.
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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 kryptonite.
2. _________ is the thing I misplace the most often.
3. _________ was when I realized _________.
4. I wish I had learned _________ sooner.
1. Sugar is my kryptonite. It's almost irresistible, and it's so bad for me, i just have to stay totally away.
2. My mind is the thing I misplace the most often. Keys, wallet and phone all have a place, it's my mind i'm looking for all day long.
3. After i started my cleaning business was when I realized i should have stayed in college and gotten a degree which would let me get a desk job.
4. I wish I had learned Spanish sooner. It's rather slow going for me now.
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Nature Friday is hosted by LLB in Our Backyard. Simply post a picture of the natural world, and link up!
We have flowers everywhere right now.
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Flashback Friday is hosted by FiveSibes. Come hop along memory lane with us!
Here's a flashback photo of Mr. Gray back when he was still very wary of all of us.
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Today is:
Aizu Higan Shishi/Sanbiki Shishimai -- Aizu Wakamatsu, Japan (lion dances to mark the end of winter)
Back Badge Day -- Gloucestershire Regiment, British Army
Birth of Benito Juarez, a Fiestas Patrias -- Mexico (trad.)
Fragrance Day and Flower Day -- the first full day of spring
Harmony Day -- Australia (managed by the Department of Immigration and Citizenship)
Human Rights Day -- South Africa
Independence Day -- Namibia(1990)
International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination -- UN
Memory Day -- internet based, to examine the use of memory aids throughout history
Mother's Day -- most Arabic nations
National Common Courtesy Day -- commonly listed on this day on many sites, with no origin given, but i guess it's not so common any more, someone had to declare a holiday to try to foster some
National French Bread Day
National Single Parent Day -- US (by Presidential designation in 1984)
National Tree Planting Day -- Lesotho
Paper Dress Day -- the paper dress was introduced as part of an ad campaign by the Scott Paper Co. on this day in 1966
Single Parents' Day -- sponsored by Parents Without Partners, on the date of their inception in 1957
St. Nicholas of Flue's Day (Patron of councilmen, difficult marriages, large families, magistrates, parents of large families, Pontifical Swiss Guards, separated spouses, Switzerland)
World Down Syndrome Day -- UN
World Forest Day/International Day of Forests and the Trees -- UN
World Poetry Day -- UNESCO
Youth Day -- Tunisia
Birthdays Today:
Ronaldinho, 1980
Kevin Federline, 1978
Matthew Broderick, 1962
Rosie O'Donnell, 1962
Ayrton Senna da Silva, 1960
Gary Oldman, 1958
Eddie Money, 1949
Timothy Dalton, 1944
Peter Brook, 1925
Julio Gallo, 1910
John D Rockefeller III, 1906
Bascom Lamar Lunsford, 1882
Florenz Ziegfeld, 1867
Modest Mussorgsky, 1839
James Jesse "King Strang" Strang, 1813
Benito Juarez, 1806
Francis Lewis, 1713
Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Annie"(Film), 1982
"Stop the Music"(Radio show), 1948
Today in History:
The Byzantine emperor Heraclius restores the "True Cross" to Jerusalem, 630
Accession to the throne of Japan by emperor Antoku, 1188
3,000 Jews are killed in the Black Death riots in Efurt, Germany, 1349
n Oxford, Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer is burned at the stake, 1556
Czar Peter the Great begins his tour through West, 1697
Fire destroys 856 buildings in New Orleans, Louisiana, 1788
With the church leadership driven out of Rome during an armed conflict, Pius VII is crowned Pope in Venice with a temporary papal tiara made of papier-mâché, 1800
Code Napoléon is adopted as French civil law, 1804
The Bahá'í calendar begins, 1844
An earthquake in Tokyo, Japan kills over 100,000, 1857
The Zoological Society of Philadelphia, the first in the US, is incorporated, 1859
Journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his trek to find the missionary and explorer David Livingstone, 1871
Loretta Walsh becomes the first female US Navy Petty Officer, 1917
Charles Lindbergh is presented the Medal of Honor for his first trans-Atlantic flight, 1928
Shah Reza Pahlavi formally asks the international community to call Persia by its native name, Iran, which means 'Land of the Aryans,' 1935
Alan Freed presents the Moondog Coronation Ball, the first rock and roll concert, in Cleveland, Ohio, 1952
Martin Luther King Jr. leads 3,200 people on the start of the third and finally successful civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, 1965
The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto, 1970
Canadian paraplegic athlete and humanitarian Rick Hansen begins his circumnavigation of the globe in a wheelchair in the name of spinal cord injury medical research, 1985
Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon, 1999
The first full face transplant is performed by surgeons at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, 2011
Australia's Prime Minister Julia Gillard formally apologizes to people affected by forced adoptions during the 1950s through 1970s, 2013
Dave Patterson and John Hennessy win computings' Turing Award for RISC computer chips, 2018
A Bangladeshi woman with two uteruses safely gives birth to twins 26 days after giving birth to another child, 2019
As large crowds descend on the area for spring break, Miami imposes a state of emergency and a curfew, 2021
A 6.5-magnitude earthquake strikes Afghanistan's north-east near the border with Pakistan, 2023
