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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!
Just in time, Link Linker the Stinker got a Chewy box. He pretended indifference to it until i was in the other room. When i came back, it was just in time to see him jump out! Then he decided to nap.
He'll probably play in it all night, though, but he's not going to let us know!
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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. Let’s bring back ______________________.
2. _______________is the new ______________________.
3. I appreciate that my local area _________.
4. _________ is my least favorite part about where I live.
1. Let’s bring back common courtesy, especially when driving.
2. _______________is the new ______________________. I have no clue what to put here.
3. I appreciate that my local area has a unique culture and cuisine.
4. The crooked politics is my least favorite part about where I live.
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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've had solid gray days for several days in a row, this beautiful sunset was much welcomed.
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Flashback Friday is hosted by FiveSibes. Come hop along memory lane with us!
These are foster bottle feed kittens from around 12 years ago. I miss these days.
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It's International Box Day, and if you do not understand the need for this one, you do not have a cat!
Thanks to Barb Kowalik and The Cat Blogosphere for the event badge.
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Today is:
Asatru Alliance Founding Day -- Asatru/Slavic Pagan
Birthday of José Gervasio Artigas / "Never Again" Day -- Uruguay (Dia del Nunca Mas)
Butterfly Day -- an ecard holiday; if you know someone who loves butterflies, send an ecard, let them know you are thinking of them
Day of the Independent Hungary -- Hungary (a memorial day for those martyred in 1958, and for the end of Soviet occupation)
Duanwu Jie -- China; Hong Kong; Macao[Tung Ng]; Taiwan (Dragon Boat Festival, spectacularly decorated boats loaded with rowers and drums race each other; the actual festival day this year is today, but the official holidays last through Sunday)
Festival for Minerva -- Ancient Roman Calendar (goddess of arts, crafts, skill, war, and intelligence)
Garfield the Cat Day (his birthday/comic strip premier)
Juneteenth -- US, celebrates the news of freedom on the day it came to slaves on Galveston Island, Texas
Labour Day -- Trinidad and Tobago
Midsummer's Eve -- many and varying traditions, with some celebrating the day before the solstice, and some always tying it to June 23, St. John's Eve
Night of the Fairy Goddesses Aine and Finnen -- Ireland (watch out for the antics of the little people on Midsummer's Eve, whichever day you celebrate it!)
Midsummer's Eve Holiday -- Aland; Finland; Sweden
National Flip Flop Day -- sponsored by Tropical Cafe Smoothie to raise funds for its national charity partner, Camp Sunshine
National Martini Day -- some sites specify a dry martini
New Church Day -- Swedenborgian Christian
Rusalka's Week begins -- Asatru/Slavic Pagan Calendar (week-long festival to honor the divinity of rivers)
Spooky Stories Appreciation Night -- because someone thought it would be a good night to tell a few scary tales
St. Boniface of Querfurt's Day (Patron of Prussia)
St. Jude's Day (Patron of desperate situations, forgotten/impossible/lost causes, hospitals, hospital workers; Saint Petersburg, FL, US)
Take Your Dog to Work Day® -- sponsored by Pet Sitters International®, and depending on where you work, what did your dog do to deserve this?
World Sauntering Day -- origin unknown, but perhaps begun at Grand Hotel (Mackinac Island) in Michigan during the 1970s as a response by W.T. Rabe to a growing movement toward the recreation of jogging and the idea was to encourage people to slow down and appreciate the world around them; the rules are to observe the lost art of Victorian sauntering, discouraging jogging, lollygagging, sashaying, fast walking, and trotting, but no word on meandering that i can find!
Anniversaries Today:
Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, marries Sophie Rhys-Jones, 1999
Birthdays Today:
Zoe Saldana, 1978
Poppy Montgomery, 1972
Mia Sara, 1967
Andy Lauer, 1965
Aung San Suu Kyi, 1965
Paula Abdul, 1962
Kathleen Turner, 1954
Ann Wilson, 1951
Phylicia Rashad, 1948
Salman Rushdie, 1947
Elaine "Spanky" McFarlane, 1942
Gena Rowlands, 1930
Louis Jourdan, 1919
Pauline Kael, 1919
Pat Buttram, 1915
Abe Fortas, 1910
Earl W. Bascom, 1906
Lou Gehrig, 1903
Guy Lombardo, 1902
Moe Howard, 1897
Wallis Simpson, 1896
Elbert Green Hubbard, 1856
Charles H. Spurgeon, 1834
Blaise Paschal, 1623
King James I of England and VI of Scotland, 1566
Debuting/Premiering Today:
Batman Returns(Film), 1992
"The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas"(Musical), 1978
"The Rocky Horror Show"(Musical), 1973
"Devil May Hare"(Cartoon short, Tasmanian Devil's premier), 1954
"I've Got a Secret"(TV), 1952
"Moon Mullins"(Comic strip), 1923
Today in History:
King Louis IX of France orders all Jews found in public without an identifying yellow badge to be fined ten livres of silver, 1269
The Earl of Pembroke's army defeats Bruce's Scottish army at the Battle of Methven, 1306
English colonists leave Roanoke Island, N.C., after failing to establish England's first permanent settlement in America, 1586
Emanuel Swedenborg reports the completion of the Second Coming of Christ in his work True Christian Religion, 1770
Battle of Seven Oaks between North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, 1816
The first officially recorded, organized baseball match was played under Alexander Joy Cartwright's rules on Hoboken's Elysian Fields (Hoboken, New Jersey) with the New York Base Ball Club defeating the Knickerbockers 23-1; Cartwright umpired, 1846
Over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, Texas, United States, are finally informed of their freedom; the anniversary is still officially celebrated in Texas and 35 other states as Juneteenth, 1865
Maximilian I of the Mexican Empire is executed by a firing squad in Querétaro, Querétaro, 1867
After all of the Southern States are formally readmitted to the United States, the Confederate States of America ceases to exist, 1870
The Herzegovinian rebellion against the Ottoman Empire begins, 1875
The first Father's Day is celebrated in Spokane, Washington, 1910
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed at Sing Sing, in New York, 1953
Kuwait declares independence from the United Kingdom, 1961
In one of the first militant attacks by Hezbollah, David S. Dodge, president of the American University in Beirut, is kidnapped, 1982
Norway ratifies the Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention of 1989, 1990
Prime ministers of several northern European nations participate in a ceremonial "laying of the first stone" at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Spitsbergen, Norway, 2006
The first full genetic study of house cats, published in "Nature Ecology and Evolution", reveals that they were domesticated about 9,000 years ago, and are all descended from one species, the African wildcat, 2017
General Electric is dropped from the Dow Jones Index, the last original member from 1907, 2018
Joy Harjo is named the first Native American US Poet Laureate, 2019
The United Nations adopts the first-ever legally binding international treaty to govern the high seas, called the Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction Treaty, 2023
Archaeologists and scientists reveal they've found the world's oldest wine inside a 1st century CE Roman funeral urn mixed with a man's ashes in a mausoleum in Carmona, Spain, 2024
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