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"What in the world did you put on her feet?"
"Doggie booties."
"Why did you do that, she's lifting her feet like she's trying to step out of them, she looks so funny!"
"When it's hot outside and we take a walk, the sidewalk burns her paw pads"
"Walk her in the grass."
"She won't go in the grass to walk, there are stickers that get in her pads, so, doggie booties."
Linking up with Denise at Girlie On The Edge Blog, where she hosts Six Sentence Stories, and the cue is Pad.
(Yes, Little Girl's dog, Coda, wears doggie booties to walk!)
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Gosia at Looking for Identity has taken over Good Fences, and it's now Good Fences Around The World. Post a picture of a fence or gate, link back to her blog, and go visit other blogs to see what interesting fences there are out in this big world.
These fences were short and rather cute looking, although i would think not much good for keeping anyone or anything in or out.
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It's Angel Sammy's Poetry Day! This week's image and my poem:
Everywhere I go,
I'm the leader of the pack
With all these leashes
(And my dog mess sack
'Cause I am not ever
The make a mess kind,
This is my job, I won't
Leave that stuff behind!)
The owners all trust
That I really, truly can
Keep their dogs happy,
I'm the Dog Walk Man!
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Brian of Brian's Home hosts the Thankful Thursday Blog Hop. It's time to share something for which i am thankful.
This week i am thankful Little Girl's tax papers have come in. Because of circumstances beyond our control, she had to file an extension. She's been nervous, and that makes me fidgety about it, so i'm glad the papers are here and she can take care of it.
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Today is:
Bahti Meskerem -- Eritrea (Revolution Day)
Bonnat Pig Fair -- Bonnat, France
Building and Code Staff Appreciation Day
Chicken Boy's Day -- the mascot of the now defunct restaurant by that name, the 22 foot statue of a boy with a chicken's head was saved from destruction and is now a pop icon in L.A. on Route 66
Constitution Day/National Day -- Slovakia
Day of Knowledge -- Estonia (an official Flag Day); Russia
Disaster Prevention Day/Kanto Earthquake Memorial Day -- Japan
Ecclesiastical Year begins -- Orthodox Christian
Father's Day -- Australia; Fiji; New Zealand; Papua New Guinea
Festival of Juno Regina and Jupiter Liber -- Ancient Roman Calendar
Harvest Wine Celebration -- Livermore, CA, US (open-house visits to over 40 wineries)
Hassaku Oshi-tsuki -- Tsuma, Oki Island, Japan (bull sumo, with bulls pushing each other out of the ring)
Mustaqillik Kuni -- Uzbekistan (Independence Day, 1991)
National Cherry Popover Day
National No Rhyme (Nor Reason) Day -- the day to celebrate the amazing words in the English language that do not rhyme with any other words
Nutt Day -- for Emma M. Nutt, the first female telephone operator
Onam -- Kerala, India (start of a Hindu harvest festival observed by Malayali Hindus celebrating the legendary King Maveli)
Oyster Season begins
Partridge's Day -- patridge hunting season begins in UK
Presidential Message Day -- Mexico
Random Acts of Kindness Day -- New Zealand
Regata Storical (Historical Regatta) -- Venice, Italy (competition among two-oar racing gondolas, preceded by Venetian ceremonial boats)
Running of the Sheep -- Reed Point, MT (matched only by the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona, hundreds of sturdy Montana bred woolies charge down the six blocks of the main street in town, plus there is a parade!)
Sing A Silly Song in Bed Day -- now, this one has no real rhyme or reason
Sneeze-Wobbling Festival -- Fairy Calendar
St. Fiacre's Day -- Ireland and France (the rest of the church celebrates this Patron of gardeners on August 30)
St. Gideon the Judge's Day (Patron of Saint-Gedeon-de-Beauce, Canada)
St. Giles' Day (Patron of the beggars, blacksmiths, breast feeding, cancer patients, disabled/handicapped people, epileptics, forests, hermits, horses, lepers, mentally ill people, noctiphobics, paupers and the poor, rams, spur makers, woods; Edinburgh, Scotland; Toifa, Italy; against breast cancer, epilepsy, fear of the night, insanity, leprosy, mental illness, noctiphobia, sterility)
St. Simeon Stylites' Day -- Eastern Orthodox Christian
Teacher's Day -- Singapore
Wattle Day -- Australia
Anniversary Today:
Benjamin Franklin marries Deborah Read, 1730
Birthdays Today:
Timothy Duane "Tim" Hardaway, 1966
Gloria Estefan, 1957
Dr. Phil McGraw, 1950
Barry Gibb, 1946
Lily Tomlin, 1939
Alan Dershowitz, 1938
Don Stroud, 1937
Seiji Ozawa, 1935
Conway Twitty, 1933
"Boxcar" Willie, 1931
Rocky Marciano, 1923
Yvonne DeCarlo, 1922
Vittorio Gassman, 1922
Walter Philip Reuther, 1907
Edgar Rice Burroughts, 1875
Englebert Humperdinck. 1854 (composer, esp of opera Hansel and Gretel)
Johann Pachelbel, 1653
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Art Linkletter's House Party"(TV), 1952
"Androcles and the Lion"(Play), 1913
Today in History:
Rabbi Moses Ben Nachman establishes a Jewish community in Jerusalem, 1267
Adi Granth, now known as Guru Granth Sahib, the holy scripture of Sikhs, was first installed at Harmandir Sahib, 1601
The first yacht race is held, between England's King Charles I and his brother James, 1661
Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa forms in California, 1772
Juno, one of the largest main belt asteroids, is discovered by German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding, 1804
Narcissa Whitman, one of the first white women to settle west of the
Rocky Mountains, arrives at Walla Walla, Washington, 1836
The first Pullman sleeping car is put into service, 1859
The Solar Superstorm/Carrington Event: a huge solar sunspot and solar flare storm that disrupted telegraphy and allowed the Aurora Borealis to be seen as far south as the Caribbean occurs, 1859
Joseph Lister performs the first antiseptic surgery, 1865
Robert T. Freeman becomes the first African American to graduate from the Harvard Dental School, 1867
The first underground rapid transit system in North America, the Boston Subway, opens, 1897
One of the first science fiction films ever, A Trip To The Moon, opens in France, 1902
Alberta and Saskatchewan become the 8th and 9th Canadian provinces, 1905
Martha, the last passenger pigeon, dies at the Cincinnati Zoo, 1914
The United States, Australia and New Zealand sign a mutual defense pact, called the ANZUS Treaty, 1951
In Reykjavík, Iceland, American Bobby Fischer beats Russian Boris Spassky and becomes the world chess champion, 1972
Canada adopts the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms as part of its Constitution, 1982
A joint French-American expedition locates the wreckage of the RMS Titanic, 1985
Luxembourg becomes the first nation to complete the transition to all digital tv broadcasting, 2006
After four Israeli settlers are shot at the Israeli settlement Beit Hagai, the Palestinian Authority arrested 250 members of Hamas, 2010
To avoid further fighting, Libya's Transitional Council extends the deadline to surrender for tribal leaders in Sirte, 2011
U.S. National Park officials notify 3,100 recent visitors of an outbreak of Hantavirus sourced to tent cabins in Yosemite National Park, 2012
In southwestern China, at least four people are killed by a 5.9-magnitude earthquake, 2013
The Swedish crown jewels are stolen from Strängnäs Cathedral, Stockholm, 2018