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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!
These
are now these
It's fun to watch them grow.
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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!
bee sting pain goes to
show it is true the devil
is in the bee tails
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My brother's in the ER
his head is hurting today,
and he's getting stitches,
it happened in this way.
A bee had landed on him,
he's allergic to their sting,
he said, "You have to help me
get clear of this thing!"
I looked around and saw
something really dandy,
it killed the bee, he's lucky
there was a shovel handy.
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Future themes are:
June 9 Sting (Today!)
June 16 Possible
June 23 Uniform
June 30 Scramble
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It's Meezer's Colors Day, celebrating the many colors of "meezer" (Siamese) cats.
Thanks to Barb Kowalik and The Cat Blogosphere for the event badge.
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Today is:
Accession Day -- Jordan (King Abdullah's accession to the throne in 1999)
King's Birthday -- Australia (except QLD, WA); Cocos (Keeling) Islands
Community Day -- LO, MU, Spain
Donald Duck Day -- his screen debut was today in 1934
La Rioja Day -- La Rioja, Spain
National Heroes Day -- Uganda
National Strawberry Rhubarb Pie Day
Profess Your Love Day -- promoted by ecard companies which think you need to say "I love you" more often
Purple People Eater Day -- Sheb Wooley's hit reached #1 this date in 1958
Remembrance for Sigurd the Dragonslayer -- Asatru/Slavic Pagan (in some traditions called Siegfried)
Sjalvstyrelsedagen -- Aland Islands (Self-Governing Day)
St. Columbia of Iona's -- Celtic Christian, today is one of the luckiest days of the year to superstitious Highland Scots, especially propitious if it's a Thursday (Apostle to the Picts; Patron of bookbinders, poets; Ireland; Scotland; Pemboke, Ontario, Canada; against floods)
St. Ephraem's Day (creator of hymns; Patron of spiritual directors, spiritual leaders; Syria)
Whit Monday/Pentecost Monday -- Orthodox and Western Churches
Dicing for Bibles -- All Saints Church, St. Ives, Huntingdonshire, England (a ceremony dating back to a bequest in 1675 that provides Bibles for poor children of the parish; they play a dice game, in which they try to win one of the 6 Bibles provided)
World APS Day -- spreading awareness of Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome
Anniversaries Today:
Japan's Crown Prince Naruhito marries Masako Owada, 1993
Nero marries Claudia Octavia, 53
Birthdays Today:
Natalie Portman, 1981
Johnny Depp, 1963
Michael J. Fox, 1961
Dick Vitale, 1940
Jackie Mason, 1928
Les Paul, 1915
Robert Cummings, 1910
Cole Porter, 1891
Debuting/Premiering Today:
Congo(Film), 1995
What's Love Got To Do With It(Film), 1993
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier(Film), 1989
Today in History:
Roman Emperor Nero commits suicide, 68
Odo of Aquitaine defeats the Moors in the Battle of Toulouse, 721
Jacques Cartier is the first European to discover the Saint Lawrence River, 1534
The Harvard Corporation is established as the first corporation in the Americas, 1650
James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of Georgia, 1732
The Congress of Vienna, forerunner of the League of Nations and the UN, ends with much of Europe's borders redrawn and settled, Switzerland's neutrality confirmed, and free navigation guaranteed on many rivers, 1815
Five hundred Mormons leave Iowa City, Iowa and head west for Salt Lake City carrying all their possessions in two-wheeled handcarts, 1856
Alexandra Palace in London burns down after being open for only 16 days, 1873
China agrees to lease Hong Kong to Britain for 99 years, 1898
Alice Huyler Ramsey, a 22-year-old housewife and mother from Hackensack, New Jersey, becomes the first woman to drive across the United States, 1909
Queen Elizabeth II officially opens London Gatwick Airport, 1958
Israel captures the Golan Heights from Syria, 1967
Secretariat wins the Triple Crown, 1973
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) opens its priesthood to black males after 148 years, 1978
The British lease of Hong Kong expires, 1997
The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and NATO sign a peace treaty, 1999
In Riyadh, Saudia Arabia, six women were arrested for practicing driving in an empty car lot; women are banned from driving on the road, 2011
The World Health Organization suggests women delay pregnancy in areas where the Zika virus is very active, 2016
In the largest ever protest in the city of Hong Kong, over one million people gather to take a stand against new laws regarding extradition to mainland China, 2019
General Charles Q. Brown becomes the first African American to lead a US Armed Forces branch when the US Senate confirms him as the Air Force Chief of Staff, 2020
Conjoined twins with a fused brain are successfully separated with help of virtual reality in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2022
Forty days after it crashed in the Colombian jungle with three adult and four child passengers, a plane is found with all four children still surviving, 2023
