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Lulu and Abby are very forward and bold, while Jack is shy and retreating, so I thought I'd feature him by himself for once.
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Poetry Monday was started by Diane at On The Alberta/Montana Border. Charlotte/Mother Owl participates, and now Karen at Baking in a Tornado is jumping in at least once a month, too. Anyone else is welcome to join in the fun, just let Diane know!
This week the theme is Mischief.
She wanted to make mischief,
after all, it's Mischief Night,
but something funny and silly
not to give anyone a fright.
It started when the alarm went off
and they told "Alexa" to stop,
but she had changed it's call name,
so in confusion out of bed they did hop!
When once they'd got that settled,
it was on to the breakfast table,
but cereal and milk in the bowl was frozen,
to eat it they were unable.
When each opened their lunchboxes
to eat while they were at school,
the bananas were pre-sliced in the skins,
they thought that was really cool.
Once home the mischief continued,
they thought their after school snack
was going to be chocolate chip cookies,
found mashed potatoes and beans so black.
The "cupcakes" on the supper table
were meatloaves with mashed tater frosting,
their toothpastes replaced with icing tubes,
what else would the evening bring?
Tape over the TV remote,
plastic wrap stopped up the shampoo,
it seemed there was a mischievous trick
with everything they tried to do.
The little heads had bobbed about
while this was going on all day,
they wanted to mischief mama back
and finally found a way.
After pulling her jokes from morn to night
she admitted she'd been defeated
when she tried to climb her weary self into bed
and found she'd been short-sheeted!
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Today is:
Africa Day for Food and Nutrition Security
Anniversary of the Declaration of the Slovak Nation -- Slovakia
Checklists Day -- prevent tragedy, create great checklists; in honor of the development of the first well known checklist following a B-17 prototype's crash due to pilot error
Create a Great Funeral Day -- don't make your family choose the plans in the midst of grief, plan your sending away party now, it's more fun when it's done -- in advance!
Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repressions -- most former Soviet Republics
Look in the Back of Your Refrigerator Day / Haunted Refrigerator Night (And hope the old hamburger isn't grazing on the moldy salad.)
Marlborough Provincial Anniversary Day -- Marlborough, New Zealand
Mischief Night, a/k/a Goosey Night, Devil's Night, Cabbage Night -- US
National Breadstick Day
National Candy Corn Day
National Stress Awareness Week -- UK (International Stress Management Association; through Friday)
October Bank Holiday -- Ireland
Practice Winter Snuggling Night -- when it gets really cold, you'll be glad you practiced
St. Dorothy of Montau's Day (Patron of brides, difficult marriages, dying children, parents of large families, widows; Pomerania; Prussia)
St. Marcellus' Day (as a Roman centurion who threw down his armor and refused to take part in pagan worship, he is Patron of conscientious objectors)
The Rhyne Toll -- Chetwode Manor, UK (through Nov 7) -- the Lord of the Manor may tax any cattle he finds on his Liberty (free pasture) on these days
Try on Your Halloween Costume Early Day -- to see how goofy you look, and make sure you have everything you need
Ventiane Boat Racing Festival -- Ventiane, Laos
Birthdays Today:
Nastia Liukin, 1989
Matthew Morrison, 1978
Gavin Rossdale, 1967
Diego Armando Maradona, 1960
Kevin Pollack, 1958
Charles Martin Smith, 1953
Harry Hamlin, 1951
Andrea Mitchell, 1946
Henry Winkler, 1945
Ed Lauter, 1940
Grace Slick, 1939
Claude Lelouch, 1937
Dick Gautier, 1937
Dick Vermeil, 1936
Robert Caro, 1935
Louis Malle, 1932
Ruth Gordon, 1896
Charles Atlas, 1893
Ezra Pound, 1885
William "Bull" Halsey, 1882
Emily Post, 1872
Alfred Sisley, 1839
Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821
Richard Sheridan, 1751
John Adams, 1735
Debuting/Premiering Today:
Symphony No. 11 in G minor(Shostakovich Op. 103), 1957
"Panama Hattie"(Musical), 1940
"War of the Worlds"(Radio), 1938
Today in History:
Antioch surrenders to Rashidun Caliphate and his Muslim forces after the Battle of the Iron Bridge, 637
End of the 8th Crusade, 1270
King Henry VII, Tudor, crowned, 1485
Queen Isabella bans violence against Indians, 1503
The first Methodist church in the US is initiated (Wesley Chapel, NYC), 1768
Dr. Richard Gatling patents the machine gun, 1862
Founding of Helena, Montana (capital city), 1864
John Willis Menard, of Louisiana, becomes the first black elected to the US Congress (by special election, he was challenged by the loser, but was allowed to address Congress from the lectern), 1868
Daniel Cooper patents the time clock, 1894
Martha Hughes Cannon of Utah becomes the first woman US Senator, 1896
The first US Automobile Show opens in Madison Square Garden, NYC, 1900
Czar Nicholas II of Russia grants Russia's first constitution, creating a legislative assembly, 1905
Benito Mussolini is made Prime Minister of Italy, 1922
John Logie Baird creates Britain's first television transmitter, 1925
Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing anxiety in some of the audience in the United States, 1938
Anne Frank and sister Margot Frank are deported from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, 1944
Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs signs a contract for the Brooklyn Dodgers to break the baseball color barrier, 1945
Michael Woodruff performs the first successful kidney transplant in the United Kingdom at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, 1960
The Soviet Union detonates the hydrogen bomb Tsar Bomba over Novaya Zemlya; at 58 megatons of yield, it is still the largest explosive device ever detonated, nuclear or otherwise, 1961
The Bosporus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosporus for the first time, 1973
The Rumble in the Jungle boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman takes place in Kinshasa, Zaire, 1974
Prince Juan Carlos becomes Spain's acting head of state, taking over for the country's ailing dictator, Gen. Francisco Franco, 1975
In Japan, NEC releases the first 16-bit home entertainment system, the TurboGrafx-16, known as PC Engine, 1987
Quebec sovereignists narrowly lose a referendum for a mandate to negotiate independence from Canada (vote is 50.6% to 49.4%), 1995
The last Multics (Multiplexed Information and Computing Service) early time-sharing operating system is shut down at the Canadian Department of National Defense in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, 2000
George Lucas sells Lucasfilm, Ltd., to the Walt Disney Company, 2012
Canada and the EU sign a free trade deal, 2016
India officially strips Kashmir of its autonomous status, its flag and its constitution, and brings it under federal control, 2019
The Grand Ole Opry broadcasts its 5000th Saturday night radio program, from Nashville, Tennessee, 2021
