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Awww Monday is hosted by Sandee at Comedy Plus.
Join us every Monday for Awww...Mondays. Post a picture that makes you say Awww... and that's it.
Make sure you get the code from Sandee's site, linked above, and leave a link to your post so we can visit you. What better way to start the week than with a smile!
Lulu knows if she asks, and waits, eventually she gets.
Ask for scritches and wait, you get scritches, ask for bacon from the baked potato and wait quietly, you get bacon, ask for won ton strips from the soup, you get won ton strips.
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Sparks is the brainchild of Annie of McGuffy's Reader, who wanted us to post something positive and uplifting at the start of the week. While she no longer blogs, i like to post an Inspiring Quote of the Week in her honor.
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Our dear friend Diane is taking a break
accommodations we must make
we miss her poetry and wit
so carry on as Poetry Monday's a hit!
Poetry Monday was started by Diane at On The Alberta/Montana Border. Charlotte/Mother Owl and i are keeping it going while she takes a blog break, we hope temporarily. Anyone else is welcome to join in the fun, just let us know!
My Nana had a treasure chest,
it's what i liked to play with best
when i was very small.
In it she kept what to my eyes
were treasures of the greatest size,
things i liked best of all.
On top there was her make-up case
which on the vanity i would place
and make myself look pretty.
Next there was her jewelry box
with its double clasping locks,
it all went on, though i was bitty.
She kept a very fancy gown,
and a little lower down
matching shoes, which i confess,
were worn with giddiness and glee
as i'd become a princess fairy,
though it was a wedding dress.
Her treasure chest brought hours of fun,
and once my playing time was done,
i'd put it all away.
Until the next visit, for it i'd sigh,
and now i remember with misty eye,
each happy, by-gone day.
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| Two of Nana's pieces of costume jewelry. |
Future themes are:
May 6 chest (Today!)
May 13 event
May 20 pizza
May 27 politics
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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
Coronation Day -- UK (anniversary celebration of the coronation of King Charles III)
Festival of Min -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (a four day festival celebrating male fertility; date approximate)
International No Diet Day -- for reasons not to diet, but focus n health instead, click herehttp://www.healthyweight.net/
Joseph Brackett Day -- birth anniversary of Shaker author of the song "Simple Gifts"
Martyrs' Day -- Syria
Melanoma Monday -- learn how to check yourself for skin cancer, and how to get someone else to check your back, the most common spot for melanoma http://www.melanoma.com/self_examination.html
Mounikhia / Munichia -- Ancient Greek Calendar (festival of Artemis, date approximate)
National Crepe Suzette Day
National Meeting Planners Appreciation Day 2024 -- US (you are only obligated to celebrate this if you love meetings, love to plan meetings, or have a meeting planner in your organization to humor)
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)
Remembrance for Eyvind Kelve -- Asatru/Norse Pagan Calendar (pagan martyr)
School Bus Driver Appreciation Day -- US
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
Yom HaShoah -- Judaism (Holocaust Remembrance Day; begins at sunset)
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, 2020
The Canadian province of Alberta declares a state of emergency over unprecedented wildfires, 2023
