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Poetry Monday was started by Diane at On The Alberta/Montana Border. Jenny at Procrastinating Donkey is on a blog break and we miss her a lot. Charlotte/Mother Owl always participates, and now Karen at Baking in a Tornado is jumping in on some topics, too. Spike's Best Mate often leaves a wonderful poem in the comments on one of our blogs.
This week the theme is From A Pet's Point Of View.
Oh, goody, it's time to go out,
I get to go read the doggy news!
Smell what was out here last night,
Get other critters opinions and views.
Right here I smell a 'possum,
I know that he was here,
And the dog next door almost caught him,
The evidence is clear.
The dog next door was roaming,
He must have slipped through the gate,
That boy just loves to get out
And stay out very late.
The poodle from around the block
And her owner passed this morn,
I can tell she's gonna have puppies,
I wonder when they'll be born?
Boy, there's lots of bugs out,
And those squirrels, they really tease,
I smell that they've been through here,
Jumping in and out of the trees.
My Dachshund friend from around the block,
And Taz, the big ol' hound
Both left a sign for me to find,
We'll play when they come back around.
Well, that's all I have time for,
My person's calling me back,
That's okay, more news for later,
I have fun keeping track!
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Today is:
Candlemas -- on the Julian Calendar, and in the Orthodox Christian Churches
Decimal Day -- UK (anniversary of the 1971 currency conversion to the decimal system)
Family Day -- AB, BC, NB, ON, SK, Canada
Flag Day -- Canada (Maple Leaf adopted this date 1965)
Heritage Day -- NS, Canada (honouring Mona Louise Parsons)
Islander Holiday -- PEI, Canada
John Frum Day -- Tanna Island, Vanuatu
Kamakura Matsuri -- Yokote, Akita Prefecture, Japan (Snow Cave Festival; through tomorrow)
Kuromori Kabuki -- Kuromori, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan (traditional Kabuki, through the 17th)
Liberation Day -- Afghanistan
Louis Riel Day -- MB, Canada
Lundi Gras -- Fat Monday, Carnival, one of the last to days to feast before the Lenten fast begins Wednesday
Bolludagur -- Iceland (Bun Day, the children wake the parents with a "spanking" while calling for cream buns that will be eaten that day)
Old Mask Parade -- Oranjestad, Aruba (with the Burning of the Momo tomorrow, marking the end of Carnival)
Rosenmontag -- German-speaking Countries (Rose Monday, highlight of Karneval)
Lupercalia -- Ancient Roman Calendar (remembrance of the she-wolf who suckled Romulus and Remus)
National Gum Drop Day
Nirvana Day -- Jain; Sikh (regional observances may vary)
Presidents' Day -- US and Territories
Remember the Maine Day -- US (remembrance of the Spanish War)
Singles Awareness Day -- although some celebrate on the 14th as an anti-Valentine's Day
Sretenje -- Serbia (National Day)
Stop and Smell Your Compost Pile Day -- snort away the winter blues and think about spring (but i think this one is just plain weird)
St. Sigfrid's Day (Patron of Sweden)
Susan B. Anthony Day -- US (birth anniversary)
Total Defense Day -- Singapore
Birthdays Today:
Amber Riley, 1986
Renee O'Connor, 1971
Jane Child, 1967
Chris Farley, 1964
Matt Groening, 1954
Melissa Manchester, 1951
Jane Seymour, 1951
Marisa Berenson, 1948
Susan Brownmiller, 1935
Adolfo, 1933
Claire Bloom, 1931
Harvey Korman, 1927
Kevin McCarthy, 1914
Irena Sendler,1910
Miep Gees, 1909
Cesar Romero, 1907
Harold Arlen, 1905
John Barrymore, 1882
Ernest Shackleton, 1874
Alfred North Whitehead, 1861
Elihu Root, 1824
Susan B. Anthony, 1820
Charles Lewis Tiffany, 1812
Cyrus McCormick, 1809
John Augustus Sutter, 1903
Henry Engelhard Steinway, 1797
Abraham Clark, 1726
Galileo Galilei, 1564
Pedro Mememdez de Aviles, 1519
Babur, 1483 (founder of Mughal dynasty in India)
Claudius Drusus Germanicus Caesar Nero, 37
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Come Back, Little Sheba"(Play), 1950
"Cinderella"(Disney cartoon), 1950
"The Little Foxes"(Play), 1939
"An der schönen blauen Donau"(The Blue Danube)(Strauss Waltz), 1867
Today in History:
Philosopher Socrates is sentenced to death, BC399
Khosrau II is crowned as king of Persia, 590
Ho-tse Shen-hui, Zen teacher, disputes the founder of Northern Ch'an line, 732
The city of St. Louis, Missouri, is founded by Pierre Laclade Ligue as a French trading post, 1764
The first US printed ballots are authorized, in Philadelphia, 1799
Sarah Roberts is barred from attending a white school in Boston, 1848
Great Ormond St Hospital for Sick Children, London, admits its first patient, 1852
A fire in Rotterdam, Netherlands, damages the Museum Boymans, 1864
American President Rutherford B. Hayes signs a bill allowing female attorneys to argue cases before the Supreme Court of the United States, 1879
Nine inches (23cm) of snow falls on New Orleans, Louisiana, 1898
The USS Maine sinks in Havana harbor, cause unknown-258 sailors die, 1898
The first Teddy Bear is introduced in America, made by Morris and Rose Michtom, 1903
Gerald Lankester Harding and Roland de Vaux begin excavations at Cave 1 of the Qumran Caves, where they will eventually discover the first seven Dead Sea Scrolls, 1949
The Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China sign a mutual defense treaty, 1950
Canada and the United States agree to construct the Distant Early Warning Line, a system of radar stations in the far northern Arctic regions of Canada and Alaska, 1954
A new red-and-white maple leaf design is adopted as the flag of Canada, replacing the old Canadian Red Ensign banner, 1965
The decimalisation of British coinage is completed on Decimal Day, 1971
The 1976 Constitution of Cuba is adopted by the national referendum, 1976
The drilling rig Ocean Ranger sinks during a storm off the coast of Newfoundland, killing 84 rig workers, 1982
The Soviet Union officially announces that all of its troops have left Afghanistan, 1989
At the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in China, a Long March 3 rocket, carrying an Intelsat 708, crashes into a rural village after liftoff, killing an unannounced number of people, 1996
First draft of the complete Human Genome is published in Nature, 2001
YouTube, the Internet site on which videos may be shared and viewed by others, is launched in the United States, 2005
A near-Earth asteroid, 2012 DA14, comes within 17,200 miles of the Earth's surface, a record-close approach for an object estimated at 50 meters, or 160 ft in in diameter, 2013
The Indian space rocket PSLV-C37 successfully launches 104 satellites in a single flight, 2017
IBU Female Rookie of the Year Hanna Öberg of Sweden wins the individual biathlon gold medal with 4 clean shootings at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in the first victory and podium of her career, 2018
Beijing orders people returning after a Lunar New Year holiday to self-quarantine in an attempt to stop the spread of Covid-19, 2020