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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!
Ms. G, who has cats and is on the board at the cat shelter, was dog-sitting while her brother and his family were on vacation. It was nice to have Li'l Boy Blue follow me around:
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Sparks, the brainchild of Annie of McGuffy's Reader, is on hiatus, so here's a Thought Provoking Quote of the Week in her honor. This week, something Grandma sent:
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Poetry Monday was started by Diane at On The Alberta/Montana Border. She and Jenny at Procrastinating Donkey take turns providing a theme each week. Charlotte/Mother Owl almost always participates, too. This week the theme is Masks.
My doctor said to wear a mask,
And it really made me blue
‘Cause as i walked by you could not
See that i did smile at you.
So i wore a mask as i was told
Now it's traded for a shield,
To keep myself and others safe,
On that i will not yield.
The shield is better than the mask
'Cause it's clear to me and you
Now you can see it when i smile
As i usually seem to do!
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| What i wear now instead of a mask. |
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Today is:
Armed Forces Day -- Equatorial Guinea
August Bank Holiday -- NSW, Australia; Ireland; (UK)
August Monday/Culturama -- Saint Kitts and Nevis
British Columbia Day -- British Columbia, Canada
Carnival Monday -- Anguilla (August Monday); Antigua and Barbuda (J'ouvert); British Virgin Islands (Festival Monday/Parade)
Carnival Monday -- Bonaire, St. Eustatius and Saba (Saba only)
Civic Holiday -- Canada
Dia de la Bandera -- Venezuela (Flag Day)
Emancipation Day -- Bahamas; Dominica; Granada; Montserrat; Turks and Caicos Islands (Obs.)
Fairy Washing Festival -- Fairy Calendar (do the fairies wash themselves, or is everyone supposed to wash his/her fairy? They won’t tell us!)
Farmer's Day -- Zambia
Feast of Caligo, the mother of Chaos -- Ancient Greek Calendar (date approximate, and this is as good a day to celebrate chaos as any other)
Fete National de l'Arbre -- Niger (Independence Day, 1960)
Fiesta de San Salvador -- San Salvador, El Salvador
Frídagur verslunarmanna -- Iceland (Commerce Day)
Full Sturgeon Moon a/k/a Full Red Moon, Green Corn Moon, or Grain Moon
Native Wild Rice Harvest -- Northern Cree, Ojibwa, and Algonkian Native Americans (celebrated during the August full moon; if there are two full moons, it is during the second)
Nikini Full Moon Poya Day -- Sri Lanka (begins at sundown)
Raksha Bandhan -- CG, GJ, MP, RJ, UK, & UP, India; Nepal (the Hindu festival that celebrates the the love and duty between brothers and sisters)
Waso Full Moon -- Myanmar
Golpe de la Libertad -- Equatorial Guinea (Freedom Day)
Grab Some Nuts Day -- almonds and walnuts are especially good for you
International Friendship Day (original date proposed by Joyce Hall, founder of Hallmark Cards, back in 1935 because it is the center of the largest lull between major holidays; the UN celebrates it on July 30 and many countries celebrate on the second Sunday in August)
Kadooment Day -- Barbados (huge carnival celebration of the end of the Crop Over festival, celebrating the end of the sugar cane harvest)
National Children's Day -- Tuvalu
National Watermelon Day
New Brunswick Day -- New Brunswick, Canada
Picnic Day -- NT, Australia
Pidjiguiti Day -- Guinea-Bissau (Colonization Martyr's Day; Anniversary of the Killing of Pidjiguiti)
St. Lydia Purpuraria's Day (Lydia the "seller of purple" who was Paul's first convert in Philippi; Patron of dyers)
St. Nicodemus' Day (member of the Sanhedrin and secret disciple who helped bury Jesus)
Youth and Children's Day -- Kiribati
Birthdays Today:
Evangeline Lilly, 1979
Blaine Wilson, 1974
Isaiah Washington, 1963
John McGinley, 1959
Jay North, 1951
John Landis, 1950
Martha Stewart, 1941
Martin Sheen, 1940
Steve Berkoff, 1937
Tony Bennett, 1926
Leon Uris, 1924
P.D. James, 1920
Margaret "Maggie" Kuhn, 1905
John T. Scopes, 1900
Ernest Taylor "Ernie" Pyle, 1900
Elisha Graves Otis, 1811
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Primetime Live"(TV), 1989
"Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh (A Letter from Camp)"(Single release), 1963
"Chu Chin Chow"(Musical), 1916
"William Tell"(Opera), 1829
Today in History:
Tiberius, Roman Empire general, defeats the Dalmatians at the river Bathinus, 8
Columbus sets Sail for the "Indes",departing from Palos, Spain, 1492
John Rut, at St. John's, Newfoundland, sends the first known letter from North America, 1527
Robert LaSalle builds the Le Griffon, the first known ship built on the Great Lakes, 1678
First ascent of Jungfrau, third highest summit in the Bernese Alps, 1811
Harvard defeats Yale in the first intercollegiate rowing race, 1852*
Second Maori War begins in New Zealand, 1860
The Firestone Tire & Rubber Company is founded, 1900
The nuclear submarine USS Nautilus travels beneath the Arctic ice cap, 1958
President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya of Mauritania is overthrown in a military coup while attending the funeral of King Fahd in Saudi Arabia, 2005
After last months extensive flooding, North Korea finally asks the United Nations for food aid, 2012
*In fact, it was the first American intercollegiate athletic event ever.