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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!
Tripod SissyCat loves her porch time, rain or shine.
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| Rain, and yes, the sun is.shining in the distance. |
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| Even if it's raining, she's happy to be out here. |
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| Sleeping under the swing when the sun comes back out. |
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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 hope I never have to _________.
2. I must remember to _________.
3. I learned about _________ when _________.
4. _________ has been occupying a lot of my time these days.
1. I hope I never have to go back to cleaning 2-3 houses a day to make ends meet.
2. I must remember to add electrolytes to my water so i don't end up with low sodium again.
3. I learned about how to make the most of all the leftovers when i was cooking for the whole family.
4. Staying cool has been occupying a lot of my time these days.
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Today is:
Braham Pie Day -- Braham, MN, US (a home-made pie festival)
Champagne Day -- internet generated holiday, probably created by someone who wanted an excuse to celebrate
Coast Guard Day -- US (anniversary of founding in 1790)
Constitution Day -- Cook Islands
Festival of the Dead; Sunset Ceremony -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)
Fiestas de la Virgen Blanca -- Vitoria-Gasteiz, Alava, Basque Country, Spain; through the 9th
Fiestas Patronales -- El Salvador (through the 6th)
Founder's Day -- Ghana
International Beer Day -- Uniting The World Through Beer
Mary Prince Day -- Bermuda (Second Day of Cup Match)
Matica Slovenska Day -- Slovakia (main Slovak cultural institution, established 1863)
National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day
Nicole Robin Day -- St. John, USVI (unofficial celebration her safe return, with the crew, to the Virgin Islands after being held by Cubans.)
Single Working Women's Day
St. John Baptist Mary Vianney's Day (Cure of Ars; Patron of confessors, parish priests; Dubuque, Iowa; Kamloops, BC; Kansas City, KS; Saint Paul and Minneapolis, MN)
Umuganura (Harvest Thanksgiving) -- Rwanda
Vigil of St. Oswald -- Anglo-Saxon holy day, commemorates the day before King Oswald's death in 642
Youth and Children's Day -- Kiribati
Zuni Corn Dance -- the Zuni Native Americans give thanks to Mother Earth, the Kokos (Nature Spirits), and the Corn Maidens for the maize harvest during this time of year
Birthdays Today:
Cole and Dylan Sprouse, 1992
Daniel Dae Kim, 1968
Roger Clemens, 1962
Barack H. Obama, 1961
Billy Bob Thornton, 1955
Kristoffer Tabori, 1952
Richard Belzer, 1944
Maurice "Rocket" Richard, 1921
Helen Thomas, 1920
William Howard Schuman, 1910
Glenn Verniss Cunningham, 1909
Louis Armstrong, 1901*
Elizabeth, The Queen Mother, 1900
Louis Vuitton, 1821
Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1792
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"The Saturday Evening Post"(Magazine, first issue), 1821
Today in History
The destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans, 70
A supernova is observed in constellation Cassiopeia, 1181
The first printing of Zohar (Jewish Kabbalah), 1558
A hurricane in the Carribean kills thousands in Guadeloupe, Martinique, and St. Christopher, 1666
Dom Perignon invents champagne (traditional date), 1693
First edition of the Saturday Evening Post, which was published until 1969, 1821
The family of Lizzie Borden is found murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts home, 1892
The Greenwich foot tunnel under the River Thames opens, 1902
The Supreme Court of Japan is established, 1947
The Billboard Hot 100 is founded, 1958
American civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney are found dead in Mississippi after disappearing on June 21, 1964
The African republic Upper Volta changes its name to Burkina Faso, 1984
Operation Storm begins in Croatia, 1995
Prime Minister Paul Martin announces that Michaëlle Jean will be Canada's 27th Governor General, 2005
California's Proposition 8, the ballot initiative prohibiting same-sex marriage passed by the state's voters in 2008, is overturned by Judge Vaughn Walker in the case Perry v. Schwarzenegger, 2010
Britain has their greatest success in one day at an Olympics since 1908, winning six gold medals and a silver on Day Eight of the 2012 Summer Olympics, 2012
South Africa's Oscar Pistorius becomes the first amputee to compete at the Olympic Games in the 400 meters, 2012
Actor Peter Capaldi, of Scotland, lands the role of the Doctor in the twelfth incarnation of the 'Doctor Who' British science fiction show, 2013
A plague of locusts in southern Russia prompts a state of emergency to be declared, 2015
Frank Zapata becomes the first person to cross the English Channel by flyboard, taking only 22 minutes, 2019
The UN declares the Covid-19 pandemic has caused the largest disruption to education ever, affecting 94% of students, 2020
The Mediterranean region is becoming a "wildfire hotspot" according to authorities, amid extreme temperatures, 2021
*In several interviews, Satchmo claimed to have been born on July 4, 1900. Historians always disputed that claim, saying it was too neat and tidy, and his baptismal records, found in a church basement, proved otherwise. Some biographies still give the July 4, 1900, date in error.