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Feline Friday was originally started by Steve, The Burnt Food Dude (who no longer blogs), and i'm going to believe it's because he likes cats.
He handed hosting duties off to Sandee at Comedy Plus, and now she's entrusting it to me.
Feline Friday is simple to join. All you have to do is: Post a picture, drawing, cartoon or video of a cat (they may be silly or cute). Then add your link!
One thing for sure is this is a fun and easy meme to do. So come and join us in Feline Friday.
What better way to start the weekend than with a feline!
This is Oliver Twist. He belongs to Ms. GA and Mr. BA.
He looks like a skinny, almost sickly dumpster cat because he's so thin, but he's been like this his whole life, he's about 14 now. He's been tested for everything under the sun, his thyroid and all are normal, he's just skinny even though he noshes on dry cat food all day long and gets canned twice a day. Lucky dude!
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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 have a spare _________.
2. _________ is the day I _________.
3. I need to invent _________ so that _________.
4. _________ really made me rethink _________.
1. I have a spare dustmop in the car. Most places i clean want me to use a regular broom or vacuum, but there are times when the dustmop gets under things better and gets more fur and such out in the open where i can deal with it, so i keep an extra for houses that don't have one.
2. Tuesday is the day I try to take a day off every week, after years of almost no days off ever.
3. I need to invent a way to clean a toilet so that you no longer have to get down there "eyeball to eyeball" with it to scrub in order to get rings off.
4. The occasional twinge (or worse) my back gives me really made me rethink my choice of how i make a living.
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Today is:
Barn Day -- celebrating barns, old and new, and their history and importance
Bastille Day / National Day -- France, French Territories and some former Colonies (Quatorze Juillet/Fete Nationale)
Birthday of Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden -- an official Flag Day of Sweden
Collector Car Appreciation Day -- brought to you by the SEMA Action Network
Feast of St. Nicodemus of the Holy Mountain
Festival of Millennial Fairy Olympics -- Fairy Calendar (Closing Ceremonies)
Gentse Feesten -- Ghent, Belgium (a ten day music and theatre festival)
Macaroni Day
M&Ms Argument Day -- which are best? plain? peanut? almond? minis? spend the day in a heated discussion with friends and end with an M&M feast
Nachi Himatsuri -- Kumano-Nachi Taisha, Nachi-Katsuura, Japan (one of Japan's 3 largest fire festivals, a grand summer festival and purification ritual, through tomorrow)
National Grand Marnier Day -- on Bastille day, to show the friendship between France and the US
National Nude Day -- New Zealand (although now it's often called International Nude Day, and celebrated everywhere as a day to enjoy your beautiful human form)
Pandemonium Day -- internet generated; don't let the crazy things that happen in your life get you down, celebrate instead!
Republic Day -- Iraq
Runic Half-Month Ur begins (primal strength)
Shark Awareness Day
St. Kateri Tekakwitha's Day ("Lily of the Mohawks", first Native American proposed for canonization; Patron of ecologists, ecology, environment, environmentalism, environmentalists, exiles, people ridiculed for their piety, people who have lost their parents)
Tape Measure Day -- the first modern spring tape measure was patented this day in 1868 by Alvin Fellows of New Haven, NJ, US
Birthdays Today
Missy Gold, 1970
Robin Ventura, 1967
Matthew Fox, 1966
Jackie Earle Haley, 1961
Jane Lynch, 1960
Joel Silver, 1952
Tommy Mottola, 1949
Steve Stone, 1947
Roosevelt "Rosie" Grier, 1932
Polly Bergen, 1930
John Chancellor, 1927
Harry Dean Stanton, 1926
Dale Robertson, 1923
Ingmar Bergman, 1918
Douglas Edwards, 1917
Gerald R. Ford, 1913
Woodie Guthrie, 1912
William Hanna, 1910
Ken Murray, 1903
Dave Fleischer, 1893
Florence Bascom, 1862
Debuting/Premiering Today:
License to Kill(Film), 1989
"Spring Symphony"(Britten Op. 44), 1949
Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care(Publication Date), 1946
Today in History
Foundation of the Mission San Antonio de Padua in modern California by the Franciscan friar Junípero Serra, 1771
Citizens of Paris storm the Bastille and free seven prisoners, 1789
First ascent of the Matterhorn, by Edward Whymper and party, four of whom die on the descent, 1865
The Campanile in St Mark's Square, Venice collapses, also demolishing the loggetta, 1902
The United States $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 bills are officially withdrawn from circulation, 1969
A powerful solar flare, later named the Bastille Day event, causes a geomagnetic storm on Earth, 2000
The United States Government admits to the existence of "Area 51", 2003
In Borneo, a rainbow toad, believed to be extinct since 1924, is sighted, 2011
Neptune, discovered in 1846, completes its first orbit of the sun since that date, 2011
Scientists from the Large Hadron Collider announce the discovery of a new particle called the pentaquark, 2015
A huge iceberg looming over Innaarsuit village in western Greenland prompts evacations in case it calves, 2018
A new scientific study of the Andean condor, the world’s heaviest bird that can fly, among other things reveals that these birds can stay aloft for up to 5 hours without flapping their wings, 2020