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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 the Round was napping on the chair partially under the table. When i leaned over to snap a photo, he gave me his best, "Mom, I'm trying to sleep!" look. A few moments later, he was out again.
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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 running low on ____________________.
2. I never run out of _________________.
3. I work best when _________.
4. _________ caught me by surprise.
1. I am running low on energy, i think my thyroid dose needs adjusting.
2. I never run out of stuff to do. Sometimes i run out of things i want to do, but there’s always something to do.
3. I work best when i already know the drill and can simply set my own pace.
4. The fact we bought a house with so many structural problems the previous owners were able to hide caught me by surprise.
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Today is:
Adhesive Postage Stamp Day -- the first adhesive postage stamps went on sale on this date in 1840 in Great Britain
Army Day/St. George's Day -- Bulgaria
Beverage Day -- an internet holiday that encourages you to try a beverage you've never had before
Child Care Provider Appreciation Day -- US (on the Friday before Mother's Day, to recognize the important role of child-care providers in society today)
Festival of Min -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (a four-day festival celebrating male fertility; date approximate)
Hug Your Cat Day -- sponsored by Apricat
International No Diet Day -- for reasons not to diet, but focus on health instead, click here
International Space Day -- UN
Joseph Brackett Day -- birth anniversary of Shaker author of the song "Simple Gifts"
Martyrs' Day -- Syria
Military Spouse Appreciation Day -- US (Friday before Mother's Day)
Mounikhia / Munichia -- Ancient Greek Calendar (festival of Artemis, date approximate)
National Crepe Suzette Day
National Nurses Day -- US, start of National Nurses Week
National Tourist Appreciation Day -- during US National Travel and Tourism Week
No Homework Day -- sponsored by Wellcat Holidays (celebrated on Monday if it falls on a weekend)
No Pants Day -- first Friday in May, and not to be confused with the annual No Pants Subway Ride in NYC
Remembrance for Eyvind Kelve -- Asatru/Norse Pagan Calendar (pagan martyr)
St. George's Day -- Eastern Orthodox Churches (the day to visit graves and decorate, leave special food, and provide entertainment for the dearly departed) related observance:
Shepherd's and Herdsman's Day -- Bulgaria
St. Gerard of Lunel's Day (Patron of epileptics and Montesanto, Italy; against epilepsy and headaches)
Yale Lock Day -- the Yale lock was patented this day in 1861
Anniversaries Today:
David Duchovny marries Tia Leone, 1997
Princess Margaret marries Anthony Armstrong-Jones at Westminster Abbey (the first televised royal wedding), 1960
Birthdays Today:
Gabourey Sidibe, 1983
Leslie Hope, 1965
Roma Downey, 1964
George Clooney, 1961
Tom Bergeron, 1955
Tony Blair, 1953
Lynn Whitfield, 1953
Alan Dale, 1947
Ben Masters, 1947
Bob Seger, 1945
Willie Mays, 1931
Orson Welles, 1915
Stewart Granger, 1913
Rudolph Valentino, 1895
Gaston Leroux, 1868
Rabindranath Tagore, 1861
Sigmund Freud, 1856
Robert E. Peary, 1856
Maximilian Robespierre, 1758
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Entertaining Mr. Sloan"(Play), 1964
Today in History:
Spanish and German Imperial troops sack Rome, which many consider the end of the Renaissance, 1527
Mongol emperor Babur defeats the Afghans and Bengals, 1529
Henry VIII orders that English Bibles be placed in every church, 1536
Louis XIV of France moves his court to Versailles, 1682
The first African-American Masonic Lodge (African # 459) forms Prince Hall, Boston, 1787
John Deere produces the first steel plow, 1833
James Gordon Bennett, Sr. publishes the first issue of the New York Herald, 1835
The Glaciarium, the world's first mechanically frozen ice rink, opens, 1844
Dr John Gorrie patents a "refrigeration machine", 1851
Linus Yale patents the Yale lock, 1851
Chief Crazy Horse of the Oglala Sioux surrenders to United States troops in Nebraska, 1877
The Eiffel Tower is officially opened to the public at the Universal Exposition in Paris, 1889
George V becomes King of the United Kingdom upon the death of his father, Edward VII, 1910
George Herman "Babe" Ruth, of the Boston Red Sox, slams his first home run, against the New York Yankees, 1915
The German zeppelin Hindenburg catches fire and is destroyed, 1937
John Steinbeck is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes of Wrath, 1940
Bob Hope performs his first USO show, 1941
Roger Bannister becomes the first person to run the mile in under four minutes, 1954
Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and French President François Mitterrand officiate at the opening of the Channel Tunnel, 1994
Chaiten Volcano erupts in Chile, forcing the evacuation of more than 4,500 people, 2008
The second largest intraday point swing in Dow Jones Industrial Average history occurs, 2010
Wal-Mart becomes the largest company by revenue on the Fortune 500 list, 2013
84 abducted schoolgirls are released in exchange for Boko Haram suspects in Nigeria, 2017
France bans too thin fashion models and makes labeling of digitally enhanced photos mandatory, 2017
One million plant and animal species are now at risk of extinction according to a major new UN report, 2019
An Irish organization repays a 170 year old favor, raising over $2 million (to date) for US Navajo Nation and Hopi Reservation badly affected by COVID-19. In the 1840s, the Choctaw Nation sent $170 to aid Irish during the potato famine, 2021