And here is the Wannaskan Almanac for Wannaska World Wednesday, October 31, 2018, brought to you by Northern Lights Family Dentistry, enjoy your Halloween; please brush and floss, responsibly.
October 31 is the 304th day of the year, with 61 days remaining until the end of the year, and 152 days remaining until April Fools Day.
Nordhem Lunch: Hot ham sandwich with potatoes and gravy
Earth/Moon Almanac for October 31, 2018
Sunrise: 8:09am; Sunset: 6:06pm
waxing gibbous
Temperature Almanac for October 31, 2018
Average Record Today
High 60 85 39
Low 38 21 27
October 31 Celebrations from National Day Calendar
- Halloween!
- National Doorbell Day
- National Caramel Apple Day
- National Knock-Knock Jokes Day
- National Magic Day
- Girl Scout Founder’s Day
Knock, Knock!!
Who’s there?
Phillip.
Phillip who?
Phillip my bag with Halloween candy!
October 31 Riddle
Why do bees stay in the hive during the winter?*
October 31 Pun
October 31 Notable Historic Events, Literary or Otherwise, from On This Day
- 1517 Martin Luther sends his 95 Theses to Albrecht von Brandenburg, the Archbishop of Mainz, precipitating the Protestant Reformation
- 1541 Michelangelo Buonarroti finishes painting "The Last Judgement" in the Sistine Chapel
- 1756 Giacomo Casanova escapes from prison in Venice by climbing onto the roof
- 1846 Donner party, unable to cross the Donner Pass, construct a winter camp, eat their last Cheetos
- 1892 Arthur Conan Doyle publishes The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- 1992 Roman Catholic church reinstates Galileo Galilei after 359 years
Thor and the Chairman want to go trick or treating together.
Who should be Sherlock, and who should be Watson?
October 31 Author/Artist Birthdays, from On This Day
- 1632 Jan Vermeer
- 1795 John Keats
- 1982 Tomáš Plekanec, Czech ice hockey player
Words I Looked Up This Week Writer's Challenge
Make a single sentence (or poem) from the following words:
arrident, chapbook, hieratic, labret, mummichog, nuncupative, octarine, pelf, portention, puissance, screenager, widdly
October 31 Word Wednesday Feature: Halloween Poems
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and caldron bubble.
Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the caldron boil and bake;
Eye of newt and toe of frog,
Wool of bat and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg and howlet's wing,
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and caldron bubble.
Cool it with a baboon's blood,
Then the charm is firm and good.
Macbeth: IV.i 10-19; 35-38
and by one today's birthday boy, John Keats:
This living hand, now warm and capable
Of earnest grasping, would, if it were cold
And in the icy silence of the tomb,
So haunt thy days and chill thy dreaming nights
That thou would wish thine own heart dry of blood
So in my veins red life might stream again,
And thou be conscience-calm’d–see here it is–
I hold it towards you.
Be less toadish than yesterday, grow a new wart today, and try to stay out of jail - at least until tomorrow.
*Swarm
A poem in honor of the poet Keats.
ReplyDeleteAn attempt at the "Words I Looked Up Challenge"
This poem's not by Sheets or By Kelly.
But had I a muse, her name'd be Nelly.
Bass guitar she'd play widdly,
Her labret in her belly,
No screenager she,
With portentionous glee,
Her octarine self,
Would absorb all my pelf.
The crowd, they would arrident.
Her chapbook I would rent,
And with puissance I'd shove,
Hieratically above,
On my nuncupative blog,
Munching crostini mummichog.
So brillig are your widdly tropes!
ReplyDeleteAnd your mummichog? Outgrabe!