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“Something needs to change around here, and soon!”
“Oh, c’mon, it’s not that bad.”
“Easy for you to say, you aren’t cooped up with this crew."
"Is the cat going out of her way to harass the dog again?"
"Yes, and sometimes even the other cats. Let me tell you, if this doesn't end soon, they're going to be coming after me with the butterfly net!"
Linking up with Denise at Girlie On The Edge Blog, where she hosts Six Sentence Stories, and the cue is Net.
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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.
Because i've gone nowhere, i'm dipping into the archives and posting fences from the past.
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It's Angel Sammy's Poetry Day! This week's image and my poem:
Back in these beautiful days,
We played without a care,
No one ever wondered
If it was safe up there.
You didn't brave the big slide,
Until you were quite sure
That you could handle doing it,
First time was bliss so pure!
Now, of course, we realize
The chances we were taking.
You no longer find such things,
Such risks we are forsaking.
Does this mean our children can't
Have adventures grand?
Are they doomed to live a life
Protected, dull, and bland?
A wise parent will say no,
And teach them risk and reward,
Letting them have adventures,
Not live a life that's bored!
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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.
Today i am thankful Sweetie's car is still running, and i pray it stays so, even if the A/C is iffy and only 2 windows roll down.
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Today is:
Barsi Bhagat Puran Singh -- Sikhism
Bogota Carnival -- Bogota, Colombia (celebrating the city's Hispanic founding; through tomorrow)
Celtic Tree Month Coll (Hazel) commences
Damn the Torpedoes, Full Speed Ahead Day -- uttered this day by Admiral Farragut at the Battle of Mobile Bay in 1864
Hanakasa Matsuri -- Yamagata City, Japan (10,000 costumed dancers perform; through the 7th)
Independence Day / Republic Day -- Burkina Faso (former Upper Volta)(1960)
National Blackmail Day -- according to mostly ecard sites, with suggestions to send a card to the friend who has told you his/her secrets, with the notice that you plan on celebrating this date!
National Underwear Day -- originally sponsored by www.freshpair.com, which encourages people to rethink their underwear style and make sure they have the right fit
National Waffle Day
Nuestra Senora de Africa -- CE, Spain (Day of Our Lady of Africa, also called Fiestas Patronales)
Oyster Day
Pixie of the Year Competition -- Fairy Calendar
Sacrifice to Salus -- Ancient Roman Calendar (goddess of health, associated with Greek Hygeia)
St. Afra of Augsburg's Day (Patron of converts, martyrs, penitent women; Augsburg, Germany)
St. Oswald of Northumbria's Day (Patron of Zug, Switzerland)
Victory and Homeland Thanksgiving Day and the Day of Croatian defenders -- Croatia
Work Like a Dog Day -- different from work-a-holics, people who work like a dog work hard while they are at it, and rest when they aren't
Birthdays Today:
Jonathan Silverman, 1966
Patrick Aloysius Ewing, 1962
Maureen McCormick, 1956
Erika Slezak, 1946
Loni Anderson, 1946
Ja’net DuBois, 1938
John Saxon, 1936
Neil Armstrong, 1930
Sydney Omarr, 1926
Raoul Wallenberg, 1912
John Huston, 1906
Conrad Potter Aiken, 1889
Joseph Merrick, 1862
Guy de Maupassant, 1850
Thomas Lynch, Jr., 1749
John Eliot, 1604
Joseph Justus Scaliger, 1540
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Revolver"(Beatles Album, release date), 1966
"Eleanor Rigby"& "Yellow Submarine"(Beatles singles, A & B side respectively, release date), 1966
"American Bandstand"(TV, national premiere), 1957
"Andy Capp"(Comic strip), 1957
"Little Orphan Annie"(Comic strip), 1924
Today in History
The last outpost of Bar Kockba, Betar, falls to Rome, 135
Penda of Mercia defeats and kills Oswald of Northumbria at the Battle of Maserfield, 642
King Edward and Earl Aetherlred, leading the allied forces of Mercia and Wessex, defeat the last major Viking army to raid England at the Battle of Tettenhall, 910
Anti-Jewish riots in Arnstadt, Germany, 1264
Sir Humphrey Gilbert establishes first English colony in North America, at what is now St John's, Newfoundland, 1583
The Mayflower departs from Southampton, England on its first attempt to reach North America, 1620
New York Weekly Journal writer John Peter Zenger is acquitted of seditious libel against the royal governor of New York, on the basis that what he had published was true, 1735
US Army abolishes flogging, 1861
Standard Oil of New Jersey is established, 1882
The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid on Bedloe's Island in New York Harbor, 1884
Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back in the first long distance automobile trip made in her husbands invention, the first patented automobile; her journey was to publicize the invention, and she garnered attention and sales, 1888
The first electric traffic light is installed, in Cleveland, Ohio, 1914
Debut of the comic strip "Little Orphan Annie", by Harold Gray, 1924
Debut of the comic strip "Andy Capp", by Smythe, 1957
Nelson Mandela is jailed, 1962*
The United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union sign a nuclear test ban treaty, 1963
The city of Knin, a significant Serb stronghold, is captured by Croatian forces during Operation Storm, 1995
The Copiapo mining accident traps 33 Chilean miners about 2,300ft below the ground, 2010
NASA launches the Juno Space Probe to study Jupiter, 2011
The world's first bovine stem cell lab-grown burger is eaten in London, 2013
The UN Security Council votes to impose sanctions on North Korea for its continued missile program, 2017
*Released in 1990