Puppy Day - March 23, 2020

DIANE'S CORNER ... Celebrate Puppy Day

They’re fluffy and playful, they yip and bark and are just all-around adorable, and all they want is to be loved. What could we be talking about? That’s right, puppies! Puppy Day celebrates that most adorable of our four-footed friends, the baby canine, and it’s quite possibly the cutest day ever. It doesn’t matter the breed or gender, all puppies are the perfect solution to a terrible day.

They’ll cuddle and crawl and… well, occasionally pee all over everything… but they’re puppies! When Puppy Day comes around, you better be ready for a barking good time, there’s no way to avoid it when the day is about the ultimate ball of heart-melting fluff!

History of Puppy Day

You know what’s magical and fantastic? Oh right, we’ve already been fanboying about it haven’t we? That’s right, don’t care! Puppies! Puppies bring the gift of love without boundaries to us, and they’re absolutely determined to be the best friend you’ve ever had.

When you come home from school, that’s all they care about, is that you’re home. Long day at work? Just a big happy ball of fluff coming to see you right at the door, more reliable than the bestest romantic partner. What’s amazing about the love for puppies is that it spreads across the world, through every culture and every social strata. Puppies just bring us all together!

Puppy Day was established to bring awareness to the world about puppy mills and how to go about adopting. Puppy mills are often some of the most horrible establishments, with the females bred until they either can’t conceive, or die giving birth. They’re literally run like a factory, money in, puppies out. Between these heinous establishments and both wild and family dogs remaining unsprayed and unneutered, the population of dogs is getting out of control.

Joke of the Day

PLAYING YOUR AGE

A lady is having a bad day at the roulette tables in Vegas. She's down to her last $50. Exasperated, she exclaims to the whole table, "What rotten luck I've had today! What in the world should I do now?"

A man standing next to her suggests, "I don't know, why don't you play your age?"

He walks away, but moments later, his attention is grabbed by a great commotion at the roulette table. Maybe she won! He rushes back to the table and pushes his way through the crowd. The lady is lying limp on the floor, with the table operator kneeling over her. The man is stunned. He asks, "What happened? Is she all right?"

The operator replies, "I don't know. She put all her money on 36, and when 47 came up she just fainted!"

thanks, Bonnie

Word of the Day

horse marine

MEANING:

noun:
1. Something imaginary.
2. Someone out of their element; a misfit.
3. A marine part of a cavalry or a cavalryman doing marine duty.

ETYMOLOGY:

From horse, from Old English hors + marine, from Latin mare (sea). Earliest documented use: 1823.

NOTES:

It sounds ridiculous that a soldier mounted on a horse would be of much use on water and that’s the idea behind the term horse marine. As unbelievable as it sounds, there have been horse marines in practice; there have been some famous horses in the US Marine Corps. Meet Staff Sergeant Reckless.

USAGE:

“Elizabeth: He’s never even kissed me.
Arnold: I’d try telling that to the horse marines if I were you.”
W.S. Maugham; Circle; Heinemann; 1921.

Idiom of the Day

TWIST SOMEONE’S ARM

To convince someone to do what you want them to
I didn’t want to go out tonight, but Ruth twisted my arm!

This Day in History

1743 - Handel's "Messiah" was performed in London for the first time at the Covent Garden theatre. It was presented under the name "New Sacred Oratorio" until 1749.

1775 - American revolutionary Patrick Henry declared, "give me liberty, or give me death!"

1806 - Explorers Lewis and Clark, reached the Pacific coast, and began their return journey to the east.

1839 - The first recorded printed use of "OK" [oll korrect] occurred in Boston's Morning Post.

1840 - The first successful photo of the Moon was taken.

1858 - Eleazer A. Gardner patented the cable streetcar.

1901 - Dame Nellie Melba, revealed the secret of her now famous toast.

1909 - British Lt. Shackleton found the magnetic South Pole.

1912 - The Dixie Cup was invented.

1950 - "Beat the Clock" premiered on CBS-TV.

1965 - America's first two-person space flight took off from Cape Kennedy with astronauts Virgil I. Grissom and John W. Young aboard. The craft was the Gemini 3.

1973 - The last airing of "Concentration" took place. The show had been on NBC for 15 years.

1998 - The movie "Titanic" won 11 Oscars at the Academy Awards.

2001 - Russia's orbiting Mir space station plunged into the South Pacific after its 15-years of use.

thanks, Frances

DAILY SQU-EEK

If You Were Born Today, March 23:

Highly intelligent and perceptive, your mind doesn’t seem to stop processing and analyzing. Others especially respect your opinions and ideas, which are progressive and unique. You are an effective communicator, although at times a little bossy! You are perhaps better at beginning projects than finishing them, and learning to finish one activity before starting a new one can be quite a challenge. You have little patience for dishonesty and vagueness. Famous people born today: 

1430 Margaret of Anjou, wife of King Henry VI of England, born in Pont-à-Mousson, Lorraine, France (d. 1482)

1693 James Bradley, English astronomer, 3rd Astronomer Royal, discovered Earth's nutation motion, born in Shelborne, England (d. 1762) exact date disputed

1905 Joan Crawford [Lucille Le Sueur], American actress (Mildred Pierce), born in San Antonio, Texas (d. 1977)

1910 Akira Kurosawa, Japanese director and screenwriter who was posthumously named "Asian of the Century" in the "Arts, Literature, and Culture" category (Rashomon, Drunken Angel, Seven Samurai, Ran), born in Tokyo Japan (d. 1998)

1912 Wernher von Braun, German rocket scientist (I Aim at the Stars), born in Wirsitz, Germany (now Wyrzysk, Poland) (d. 1977)

1978 Perez Hilton [Mario Armando Lavandeira Jr], American television personality and blogger, born in Miami, Florida

READERS INFO

1.

(Not So) Totally Useless Facts of The Day:

What do you call the top (or tip) of umbrella? The part that extends above the umbrella canopy itself is called a ferrule.

Pysanka is the Ukranian tradition in which you decorate a Slavic egg with traditional folk designs. The words ‘pysanka’ comes from the word pysaty, which means to write or scribe.

Paul McCartney, Sean Connery, Sidney Poitier, Elton John, Charlie Chaplin, and Anthony Hopkins have all been knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.

2.

1952 -

A World War II veteran’s musty old Bentley that was left sitting in a garage for three decades sold for $600,000 last year, much more than was expected. But the amount paid may have been more of a tribute to the owner than the car.

To be sure, the 1936 Bentley 4 1/2 Litre Vanden Plas Tourer is rare. It’s just 1 of 6 like it made, and the only one left with its original body. No one really cared much about that when retired Royal Air Force navigator and pilot Charles Blackham purchased it from its original owner in 1952, fixed it up and turned it into his daily driver. Blackham had been a member of the squadron that bombed Hitler’s “Eagles Nest” retreat in April 1945, and he later made food drops in Europe after the fall of the Nazi regime. He used the Bentley until 1988 when it became too much trouble to keep it running, and parked it in the garage at his home near Manchester, where it sat rotting away until his death last January at age 96.

Blackham, center, and members of his squadron in WWII.
(H&H Classics)

3.

MACRAME

DIY Macrame Feathers

Pictures of the day

Aida is a grand opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an  Italian libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni. Set in the Old Kingdom  of Egypt, it was commissioned by Cairo's Khedivial Opera  House and had its premiere there in 1871, in a performance  conducted by Giovanni Bottesini. Today, the work holds a  central place in the operatic canon, receiving performances  every year around the world; at New York City's Metropolitan  Opera alone, Aida has been sung more than 1,100 times since 1886. This picture shows Philippe Chaperon's set design for  the finale (act 4, scene 2) of Aida's premiere at the Palais  Garnier in Paris, which took place on 22 March 1880. The  drawing depicts the interior of the Temple of Vulcan, with the  vault of the temple visible at the bottom, and is now in the  collection of the Bibliothèque nationale de France.

JUST A PACKED BEACH IN FLORIDA AMID

'SOCIAL DISTANCING'

Meanwhile in Florida.. a packed Clearwater Beach amid 'social distancing' for Coronavirus 



knit
thanks, Sheri 

Paper Bag Cap

knit
thanks, Helen

Little Flower Hat pattern by Ewelina Murach

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Caron Simply Soft Cuffed Dolman Shrug

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Simple Eyelet Cowl pattern by Gretchen Tracy

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Winter Escape Jacket

Knit Pattern of the Day: 

thanks, Valerie, Canadian Correspondent

Cabled shawl neck sweater

Knitted Ribbed (Welted) Toe Baby Booties

crochet
thanks, Joy

Crochet Toilet Paper cozy that looks like a roll of toilet paper

crochet
thanks,  Bertha

The Sergel Clutch

crochet

Make These Easy Fingerless Gloves With Treble Crochet

crochet

Plaid Triangle Cowl

crochet

Classic Granny Square Baby Blanket Pattern

RECIPE ... vegan

thanks, Shelley, New York Food Correspondent

Cauliflower Adobo Recipe

CROCKPOT RECIPE
thanks, Nora

Slow Cooker Apple Butter Recipe

SWEETS ... Crockpot

thanks, Debby

Crock Pot Rice Pudding

ADULT COLORING

CRAFTS

DIY Reusable Grocery Bags From Pet Food Sacks

CHILDREN'S CORNER ... Easter

thanks, Gwen

5 Tips for Coloring Easter Eggs

PUZZLE

Foliage Weave Jigsaw Puzzle



WORD SEARCH

astounding attack beating beeps block bounce burr

catch change colder court curve early enthrall expect

future games ground increase league lethal lurch

meant night possession prism punch purse

rack shake skull something spaces spear surprise watch

SUDOKU ... hard

solution:

thanks, Heide

QUOTE

thanks, Alice






thanks, Sally

CLEVER 

EYE OPENER 

Above all, remember to stay calm and vigilant – and if you feel like you may have contracted the virus then contact your national health service via phone and seek their advice on self-isolation and treatment.

thanks, Shelley, New York Food Correspondent

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal. -Erich Fromm, psychoanalyst and author (23 Mar 1900-1980)

OPTICAL ILLUSION

This one’s a variation on the Munker Illusion, created by David Novick. The circles in the image are all the same color. The only thing that differs is the color of the lines around them.

The illusion is a vivid demonstration of the fact that we don’t directly perceive the colors of objects in the world. Instead, the perceptual system takes an educated “guess,” based on the objects’ surroundings.

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