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Feline Friday was started by Steve, The Burnt Food Dude, and i'm going to believe it's because he likes cats.
He has handed hosting duties off to Sandee, of Comedy Plus, and it's simple to join, just follow the link to Sandee's page for the rules and the code.
Dansig just read the paper and i think he’s asking me to take his blood pressure with my monitor.
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Friendly Fill-Ins are easy to do. There are four statements: the first two statements are provided by Ellen of 15AndMeowing, and the final two are offered by Lorianne The Menagerie Mom of Four-Legged Furballs. They try to make sure the statements will be fun to both answer and share. The linky will be posted at or about 12:00 AM on Friday. Please head over to one of their sites, link up, and share your thoughts!
Here are this week's statements with my responses underlined:
1. I am contemplating ______________________________________.
2. My ______________ are ________________.
3. I can _________ in record time.
4. I miss the days when _________.
1. I am contemplating going back to work, and it looks like this coming Monday as long as all is still well by then. (And by “well” i mean that i am totally symptom free and not a danger to my clients, i will still double mask and wear gloves and not stay in the same room closer than 6 feet with anyone for their protection.)
2. My cats are mostly growing more tolerant of the dog, with the exception of Enigma SissyCat, who only likes people not other animals.
3. I can braid my hair in record time.
4. I miss the days when i was able to stay home and bottle raise orphaned kittens with help from my children.
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Update on our situation here, Sweetie is exhausted, even getting up to drink some electrolyte drink and eat a bite or two exhausts him. He’s going to be a while recovering, i think.
Meanwhile, Uncle P remains in the hospital with covid pneumonia in both lungs, on a ventilator and he now has blood clots. It's not looking very good.
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Today is:
Accession Day -- United Arab Emirates (accession of H.H. Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan)
Best Elf Awards -- Fairy Calendar
Braham Pie Day -- Braham, MN, US (a home-made pie festival)
Constitution Day -- Anguilla
Feast of Everything Green Except Money -- Hooray for veggies! You'll need them before you have that root beer float.
Festival of Nut and Ra; Chief Festival of Thoth -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)
Hiroshima Day
Independence Day / National Day -- Bolivia; Jamaica
International Beer Day -- Uniting The World Through Beer
National Fresh Breath (Halitosis) Day -- shouldn't that read, anti-halitosis?
National Root Beer Float Day -- A&W Root Beer really gets into this day
Peace Festival -- Peace Memorial Park, Hiroshima, Japan
Sts. Justus and Pastor's Day (Patrons of Alcala, Spain; Madrid, Spain)
Teinne Festival -- Ancient Celtic Calendar (Teinne, the Celtic Holy Fire, sometimes called Tan; date apprximate)
Transfiguration of the Lord -- Orthodox Christian
Umuganura (Harvest Thanksgiving) -- Rwanda
Wiggle Your Toes Day -- internet generated, and my suggestion is to celebrate it with a cool drink out by the pool!
Birthdays Today:
Romola Garai, 1982
Melissa George, 1976
Soleil Moon Frye, 1976
M. Night Shyamalan, 1970
Michelle Yeoh, 1962
Catherine Hicks, 1951
Dorian Harewood, 1950
Shirley Ann Jackson, 1946
Peter Bonerz, 1938
Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob, 1934
Andy Warhol, 1928
Robert Mitchum, 1817
Lucille Ball, 1911
Clara Bow, 1905
Hoot Gibson, 1892
Alexander Fleming, 1881
Louella Parsons, 1881
Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, 1861
Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809
Daniel O'Connell, 1775
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Help"(Album debut), 1965
Today in History:
Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada founds the city of Bogota, Colombia, 1538
Holland (The Dutch Republic) sells Brazil to Portugal and the two
countries sign the Treaty of The Hague, 1661
The first private military school in the US, Norwich University, is
founded in Vermont, 1819
The Russian Geographical Society is founded in Saint Petersburg, 1845
William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by the electric chair, 1890
Alice Ramsey takes three friends (none of whom could drive) to become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip, 1909
Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim the English Channel, 1926
Prometheus, a bristlecone pine and the world's oldest tree, is cut down by the US National Forest Service, for reasons even they cannot explain, 1964
The Federal Voting Rights Act is signed, 1965
A low-pressure system that redeveloped off the New South Wales coast dumps a record 328 millimeters (13 inches) of rain in a day on Sydney, 1986
The United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, 1990
NASA makes the still disputed announcement that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms, 1996
The incoming coalition government of the United Kingdom discontinues the use of the controversial ContactPoint database of all children in that country, 2010
After a century of silence, Mount Tongariro in New Zealand erupts, spreading volcanic ash across the country's central North Island and affecting airports, 2012
The Curiosity Rover, controlled by NASA's Mars Science Laboratory, lands safely on the surface of Mars, 2012
The world's largest ever Pinball tournament, "Pinburgh," is held in Pittsburgh, PA, US, with 700 machines, 2015
In an attempt to end 5 years of civil war, South Sudanese President Salva Kilr and rebel leader Riek Machar sign the South Sudan Peace Accord, 2018
According to the World Resources Institute, a quarter of humanity is running out of water, 2019