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"This fruit salad is so good, what's this I'm tasting?"
"It's passion fruit, I've never had it before, either, and it's so good!"
"Can we get that back home?"
"I don't know, but I hope so; travel is so broadening, it makes me see there's so much more than just what's in our part of the world."
"Speaking of broadening, you have been trying a lot of new things, you might want to watch out and make sure it doesn't broaden your waist along with your mind."
"Watch it yourself, bub, or tropical vacation notwithstanding, the only passion you're going to get today will be that salad!"
Linking up with Denise at Girlie On The Edge Blog, where she hosts Six Sentence Stories, and the cue is Passion.
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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.
It's been a minute since i posted a white picket, my favorite.
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It's Angel Sammy's Poetry Day! This week's image and my poem:
Close your eyes,
Sleepy child,
Gently rock,
Meek and mild,
Dreamboat carries
Cares away,
Holds you 'til
Break of day.
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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.
My thankful today is that protests here have stayed peaceful, and i pray they continue to stay that way if more are planned. My heart aches for those for whom this has not been the case, and i pray peace over those places.
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Today is:
Audacity to Hope Day -- to encourage all to have the audacity to keep hope
Emancipation Day -- Tonga (trad.)
Fardagar -- Traditional Icelandic Calendar (time when farm workers moved from one farm to another, the time to settle debts, and until the 20th-Century, the day to start the fiscal year)
Festival for Hercules Custos -- Ancient Roman Calendar (Hercules the Custodian)
Flag Day -- Estonia
Flag Day -- Finland (Armed Forces observe the birth anniversary of Carl Gustaf Mannerheim)
Hug Your Cat Day -- yet another date for this noted on many sites; if you celebrate all of them, your cat will be well hugged!
International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression -- UN
Jarila's Day -- Asatru/Slavic Pagan Calendar (Festival of Jarila, god of the sun and fertility)
Lassie Day -- the first dog to play the role of Lassie, in the movie Lassie, Come Home, was born this day in 1940
National Cheese Day -- not to be confused with Cheese Lover's Day earlier in the year
National Cognac Day
National Frozen Yogurt Day -- not to be confused with the Frozen Yogurt Day celebrated on Feb. 6 in Los Angeles, where the temperatures make such a thing possible
National Unity Day -- Hungary
Old Maid's Day -- supposedly established after WWII, when there were so many eligible young ladies who wanted to start families now that the boys were coming home
Plynteria -- Ancient Greek Calendar (festival in Athens in honor of Athena; date approximate)
St. Petroc's Day (Patron of Cornwall and Wales, as well as many locations in Cornwall, Wales, and England, and Saint-Meen, France)
Birthdays Today:
Evan Lysacek, 1985
Russell Brand, 1975
Angelina Jolie, 1975
Noah Wyle, 1971
James Callis, 1971
Scott Wolf, 1968
Cecilia Bartoli, 1966
Sam Harris, 1961
Eldra DeBarge, 1961
Keith David, 1956
Parker Stevenson, 1953
George Noory, 1950
Bettina Gregory, 1946
Michelle Phillips, 1944
Joyce Meyer, 1943
Freddy Fender, 1937
Bruce Dern, 1936
John Drew Barrymore, 1932
Dr. Ruth Westheimer, 1928
Dennis Weaver, 1924
Robert Merrill, 1919
Rosalind Russell, 1907
George III, 1738
Aesop, BCE620 (not certain, but close enough)
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Born in the USA"(Album release), 1984
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan(Film), 1982
"Cavalcade of Stars"(TV), 1949
Today in History:
Chinese astronomers make the first recording of a solar eclipse, BC781
Sir Walter Raleigh establishes the first English colony on Roanoke Island, old Virginia (now North Carolina), 1584
Forces under the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu take Osaka Castle in Japan, 1615
New England planters arrive to claim land in Nova Scotia, Canada taken from the Acadians, 1760
A transit of Venus is followed five hours later by a total solar eclipse, the shortest such interval in history, 1769
The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their montgolfière (hot air balloon), 1783
Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for the Kingdom of Great Britain, 1792
The Ottoman Empire cedes Cyprus to the United Kingdom but retains nominal title, 1878
Henry Ford test drives his first prototype automobile, the Ford Quadricycle, 1896
Massachusetts becomes the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage, 1912
A patent for the ATM is granted to Donald Wetzel, Tom Barnes and George Chastain, 1973
The Tiananmen Square protests are violently ended in Beijing by the People's Liberation Army, 1989
Solidarity's victory in the first (somewhat) free parliamentary elections in post-war Poland sparks off a succession of peaceful anti-communist revolutions in Eastern Europe, 1989
Falcon 9 Flight 1 was the maiden flight of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket,2010
Negotiations break down between Greece's leftist Syriza government and the European Union regarding issuance of additional bailout funding, 2015