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Convincing my cougar to get off my lap without him digging his claws into my legs.

Snarling at the pain remaining in my back, hips, legs, and feet. Chasing Cashew's head out of my bag full of paperwork. Trying not to smack my nephew upside the head. Figuring out how to make it to the kitchen with as little agony as possible while not tripping over this tubing.

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Norwegian Couple Find Viking Buried Under Their Home During Renovation November 20, 2022 DailyJNews Norway sometimes reveals a lot of archaeological discovery or even a rare and important decoration. This couple, in the process of renovating their house, finds a Viking burial under their floor. A big shock for this couple as it was a family home as they intended to remove the planks to install the insulation. This house is found to have been built on an important Viking burial site. A rare Roman coin was found on Donner Island near the town of Bodo, Norway. The owners of the house discovered a small glass object which they mistakenly assumed was a truck wheel. They then discovered, an iron ax head and other ancient artifacts, and realized that they had come across something ancient foundation under the wooden planks. They contacted the local authorities, who contacted the Tromso museum. Experts, historians and archaeologists from the Tromso Unit took care of this and took a closer look, they found human bones, an iron arrowhead and other valuable treasures dating from the age viking, which is from 800 to 1100 AD. As long as archaeologists are sure they’ve collected all of the artifacts under the house, the couple gladly left it to experts. After all, not everyone has the chance to say that their house is part of a site of important historical and archaeological discovery. Storyline: https://fnews5.com/?p=77

National Cookie Day is December 4 so get ready to refill your cookie jar. Maybe you prefer your cookies to have a crunchy snap, or maybe you’d rather bite into soft and chewy sugary heaven. Either way, eating cookies brings us happiness, and we should all do it more often. Just don’t tell your doctor. Stories: https://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2022/12/04/national-cookie-day-wally-amos/7751669999907/

On 24 January 2018, it was announced that Elton John would be retiring from touring and would soon embark on a three-year tour. The first concert was announced to take place at the PPL Center in Allentown, Pennsylvania on 8 September 2018 followed by an extensive tour of the United States and Canada before moving on to Europe. John cited spending time with his children as the reason for his retirement. Tickets went on sale on 24 February and within hours tickets for the first 60 shows were sold out. Announcing the final dates, Elton John said, “Hello, all you wonderful fans out there. I’m coming to you today with an announcement I’ve been working towards for, well, all my life: the shows that I announce today will be my final tour dates ever in North America and Europe. I’m going to go out in the biggest possible way, performing at my very best, with the most spectacular production I’ve ever had, playing in places that have meant so much to me throughout my career. Whether it’s next summer in Frankfurt or at the legendary Dodger Stadium for the grand finale in the United States, I can’t wait to see you all on the road one last time. This has been an incredible tour so far, full of the most amazing highs, and I look forward to making more wonderful memories with you at these final shows. To all my friends down under, We’ll be seeing you too. Thank you and I look forward to seeing you in your town.” Storylines continues: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farewell_Yellow_Brick_Road And: https://variety.com/2021/music/news/elton-john-final-farewell-yellow-brick-road-tour-dates-1235003183/

NATIONAL PICKLE DAY HISTORY While this holiday has been celebrated for 70 years on various days, National Day Calendar has not identified the founder of the day. However, in 1949, the first observance began with encouragement from the Pickle Packers Association. Storyline continues: https://nationaldaycalendar.com/national-pickle-day-november-14/

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HERE ARE A FEW FUN FACTS: 1) Oct. 30th is National Candy Corn Day it is believed that this day was chosen due to the fact that sales of the candy are typically the highest on the 30th. 2) Once opened, a bag of candy corn will be safe to eat for up to 6 weeks. Unopened, it's good for up to 9 months. 3) Originally, each tiny candy corn kernel was made by hand.

National Cat Day is celebrated in various countries. In some areas it is an awareness day to raise public awareness of cat adoption. Please remember to adopt a...

Billions of snow crabs have disappeared from the waters around Alaska. Scientists say overfishing is not the cause The Alaska snow crab harvest has been canceled for the first time ever after billions of the crustaceans have disappeared from the cold, treacherous waters of the Bering Sea in recent years. The Alaska Board of Fisheries and North Pacific Fishery Management Council announced last week that the population of snow crab in the Bering Sea fell below the regulatory threshold to open up the fishery. But the actual numbers behind that decision are shocking: The snow crab population shrank from around 8 billion in 2018 to 1 billion in 2021, according to Benjamin Daly, a researcher with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. "Snow crab is by far the most abundant of all the Bering Sea crab species that is caught commercially," Daly told CNN. "So the shock and awe of many billions missing from the population is worth noting -- and that includes all the females and babies." The Bristol Bay red king crab harvest will also be closed for the second year in a row, the agencies announced. storyline continues https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/16/us/alaska-snow-crab-harvest-canceled-climate/index.html

This beautifully designed 'dumb phone' can only make calls and send texts — and it might be the key to curing our addiction to apps Avery Hartmans Apr 8, 2019, 11:40 AM The Brooklyn-based startup Light has set an impossible goal of getting people to put down their smartphones. Light launched in 2014 and a year later debuted its first product, the Light Phone. It could only make calls and tell the time, and the company described it as a "quite a smart 'dumb' phone." Light intended for it to be something of a companion to your smartphone and a way to get people to leave their phones at home and go enjoy life. Now, Light is back with its second product, the Light Phone 2, an upgraded version of its phone that might just replace your smartphone for good. Storyline continued: https://www.businessinsider.com/light-phone-2-cure-for-app-addiction-2018-2

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Loretta Lynn, who rose from a hardscrabble upbringing to become the most culturally significant female singer-songwriter in country music history, has died. She was 90. Lynn’s family said she died Tuesday at her home in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee. "Our precious mom, Loretta Lynn, passed away peacefully this morning (Oct. 4) in her sleep at home at her beloved ranch," her family said in a statement provided to USA TODAY. Lynn was a mother of four when she launched her career in the early 1960s, and though many of her songs are filled with specifics of her wholly unique life, they had a universal appeal. She wrote about intimate matters – from her difficult, wearying childhood to fights with her husband – yet managed to strike a collective nerve. Without ever mentioning politics or women’s liberation, her 1960s and 1970s hits helped change long-held notions about gender roles. “Rated ‘X’ ” and “Don’t Come Home A Drinkin’ (With Lovin’ on Your Mind)” were personal pleas – not political treatises – that sought an end to double standards. Lynn did all this at a time when women were most often the voices through which men’s words and melodies were heard. She was Nashville’s first prominent woman to write and record her own material and was one of the first female music stars to generate her own hits. When she was set to receive her Kennedy Center Honor in 2003, Lynn told The (Nashville) Tennessean, part of the USA TODAY Network, that she wasn’t sure why people found her culture-shaking songs so remarkable. “Cultural contributions? What’s that?” she asked. “I was just sayin’ it like I was livin’ it. People’d go around that, but I went right through the middle.” She was the first woman named entertainer of the year at the genre’s two major awards shows, first by the Country Music Association in 1972 and then by the Academy of Country Music three years later. In her 1970 smash hit, “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” Lynn told the story of her upbringing, which helped her reach her widest audience yet. Storyline continued: https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2022/10/04/loretta-lynn-dead-country-music-legend-coal-miners-daughter-singer/8175642001/

Published Sept. 28, 2022 Updated Sept. 29, 2022, 12:17 p.m. ET Coolio, the rapper whose gritty and sometimes playful takes on West Coast rap and anthemic hits like “Gangsta’s Paradise” made him a hip-hop star in the 1990s, died on Wednesday in Los Angeles. He was 59. His manager, Jarez Posey, confirmed the death. Mr. Posey, who worked with Coolio for more than 20 years, said he was told that he died at a friend’s house. No cause was given. Coolio, whose legal name was Artis Leon Ivey Jr., achieved mainstream superstardom and critical success with his biggest hit, “Gangsta’s Paradise,” in 1995. A grim, minor-key track that featured the singer L.V. and drew on Stevie Wonder’s 1976 song “Pastime Paradise,” spent three weeks atop Billboard’s Hot 100 and was named the chart’s No. 1 song of the year. It won the Grammy for best rap solo performance in 1996 and was later certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America, outshining the movie it was featured in, the high school drama “Dangerous Minds.” Story continued: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/28/arts/music/coolio-rapper-dead.amp.html#amp_tf=From %1%24s&aoh=16644701667047&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com

UPDATE: They discovered Bob Saget struck the back of his head resulting in a subcutaneous brain bleed. He apparently crawled into bed, where he bled out and passed away. It wasn't a heart attack.

Queen Elizabeth II, 1926-2022. The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon. The King and The Queen Consort will remain at Balmoral this evening and will return to London tomorrow. Britain’s longest-reigning monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, has died in Scotland. Prince Charles is now king. It is a moment that the United Kingdom has been bracing for, with an elaborate plan for “Operation London Bridge” mapping out what happens next. But it comes as a shock all the same. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/09/08/queen-elizabeth-ii/