Sunday, July 7, 2019

I's Gonna Do Dat (Cajun Joke) and Sunrise (Sunday Selections)

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Just because Sandee of Comedy Plus is no longer hosting a Silly Sunday blog hop, do not expect me to quit telling Cajun jokes, especially as it has now become a habit.

We realized, as the bills came this month, that the only way we'd ever be wealthy was to win a lottery.

One day, Boudreaux an' Thibodeaux done be walkin' down de street, an' dey see a sod truck pass by.

Thibodeaux done sigh an' say, "Mais, if I ever win me de lott'ry, I's gonna do me dat."

An' Boudreaux ax, "Do what?"

An' Thibodeaux say, "Send de lawn out to be mowed!"


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Sunday Selections was started as a way for bloggers to use photos that might otherwise just languish in their files.  The rules have been relaxed, and it is now simply a showcase for your photos, new or old, good or bad, although nothing rude, please.  It is now hosted by Elephant's Child.     

Since i have so many sunrise photos from vacation, and the original purpose of Sunday Selections was to show off photos you probably wouldn't show otherwise, i am posting some now.































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Today is:

Aphrodisia -- Ancient Greek Calendar (bathing festival of Aphrodite and Peitho [Persuasion]; date approximate)

Bonza Bottler Day™

Buxton Wells Dressing -- Buxton, Derbyshire, England (preserving the 650+ years of traditional "dressing" wells in foliage to thank the patron saint of that well for blessings, now with parades and carnivals; through the 14th)

Chocolate Day  -- no one knows why today, so why not?  Enjoy chocolate cereal with chocolate milk for breakfast, some chocolate covered raisins and nuts as a midmorning snack, chocolate milk with lunch, chocolate truffles as a midafternoon snack, chocolate liquer before dinner, chocolate cake for dessert, and sip chocolate coffee any time through the day!

Ducktona 500 Family Festival & Car Show-- Sheboygan Falls, WI, US (lots of fun for everyone, culminating in the annual plastic duck race)

Global Forgiveness Day -- encouraging "citizens of this global village" to forgive and be forgiven; sponsored by the CECA 

Father-Daughter Take a Walk Together Day -- encouraging fathers to take some special time out with their girls today

Independence Day / National Day -- Solomon Islands(1978)

Macaroni Day -- it goes with more than just cheese!

National Strawberry Sundae Day

Nones of July -- Ancient Roman Calendar; celebrations on this day included:
    Festival of Feriae Ancillarum -- "Feast of the Serving Women", when female servants dressed up and "attacked" men of free birth with fig boughs; in honor of the serving women who helped free the city of Rome from the Gauls
    Nonae Caprotinae -- "Nones of the Wild Fig", honoring Juno Caprotina with a sacrifice under a wild fig tree
    Parilia -- festival for Pales, god of the herds

Saba Saba Day -- Tanzania (literally "Seven Seven" Day, a/k/a Peasants' Day or Workers' Day, and the biggest day of the Dar es Salaam International Trade Fair)
    Maonyesho ya Saba Saba -- Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (Dar es Salaam Trade Fair, through July 8)

St. Willibald's Day (Patron of Eichstatt, Germany)

Tanabata -- Japan (star festival, 7th day of 7th month; some areas go by lunar calendar, but most larger cities celebrate by the Gregorian Calendar now)

Tell The Truth Day -- a yearly challenge frm Kepa Freeman of Teens Express to go the whole day without telling a lie or saying or doing anything misleading or dishonest

Unity Factory Day -- Yemen (all workers are encouraged to play at work today, to build team and national unity)



Anniversaries Today

James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr., marries Eleanor Rosalynn Smith, 1946


Birthdays Today

Michelle Kwan, 1980
Cree Summer, 1969
Jorga Fox, 1968
Billy Campbell, 1959
Shelley Duvall, 1949
Ringo Starr, 1940
Doc Severinsen, 1927
Pierre Cardin, 1922
Gian Carlo Menotti, 1911
Robert Heinlein, 1907
Satchel Paige, 1906
Marc Chagall, 1887


Debuting/Premiering Today:

"Ryan's Hope"(TV), 1975
"All You Need is Love"(Single release), 1967
Waverly(Novel, publication date), 1814
"Utrecht Te Deum and Jubilate"(Canticles, HWV 278 & 279), 1713


Today in History

A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death, 1456
Raid of the Redeswire, the last major battle between England and Scotland, 1575
United States begins first military draft; exemptions cost $300, 1863
An International Railway trolley with an extreme overload of 157 passengers crashes near Queenston, Ontario, killing 15, 1915
Sliced bread is sold for the first time by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri; it is described as “the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was wrapped", 1928
Alleged and disputed Roswell UFO incident, 1947
Venus occults the star Regulus. This rare event is used to determine the diameter of Venus and the structure of the Venusian atmosphere, 1959
In Canada, the Official Languages Act is adopted making the French language equal to the English language throughout the Federal government, 1969
Sharia is instituted in Iran, 1980
Samantha Smith, a U.S. schoolgirl, flies to the Soviet Union at the invitation of Secretary General Yuri Andropov, 1983
The Western Black Rhinoceros is declared extinct due to poaching, 2006
In efforts to avoid food shortages and political oppression, South Korea begins work on a new facility to house North Korean refugees, 2011
Tesla Motors produces its first mass-market car, the Model 3, 2017

13 comments:

  1. These photos are ABSOLUTELY. COMPLETELY. GORGEOUS.
    Thank you so much.

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  2. Those are absolutely beautiful photos, I'm so glad you shared them. Taken as a group, they give a wonderful impression of the peacefulness and promise of dawn.

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  3. I am completely taken with the idea of sending the lawn out to be mowed! :-D

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  4. Such pretty photos and that is pretty funny about the lawn!

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  5. My wife Mary Lou loves mowing our lawn and it doesn't cost me a cent. Well I shouldn't say that. LOL Beautiful photos Mimi.

    Cruisin Paul

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  6. I have priced sod, it is like sending the lawn out for grooming,

    The pictures are truly breathtaking.

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  7. Wonderful sunrises and a truly funny joke. I enjoy mowing, and won't send my lawn anywhere if I ever win the lottery, I might be tempted to pay someone to pull my weeds, though.

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  8. Cute joke :) And such beautiful photos. Have a wonderful day. XO

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  9. What beautiful captures so peaceful, lovely colours

    LOL @ the joke heheh!

    Have a sunsettastic Sunday :-)

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  10. Bwahahahahahaha on the joke. Bless his heart.

    Have a fabulous day and week, my friend. ♥

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  11. Another good one by the Cajun comedian.

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  12. Pretty sky photos. Have a good week!

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  13. Fantastic sky photos! Amazing colors too! Fun cajun joke!

    Happy Day to you,
    A ShutterBug Explores,
    aka (A Creative Harbor)

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