Read Me (Cajun Joke), Sunday Selections, and Sunday Selfie

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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

Grandpa loves to read.  Since he retired he has read tons of mystery novels, plenty of bestsellers, and even The Ruthless Elimination of Hurryby John Mark Comer, which has made this once driven to stay excessively busy man to take things easy more often.

Yesterday i noticed his latest read on his bedside table was The Brothers Karamazov.  Will wonders never cease.

Aline done be talkin’ to her Mère an' Père 'bout de new boy at de school.

"He be so good lookin'!" she say.  "But it be's hard to get to talk to him, he allus gots to be readin' dat one, he be ver' smart."

An' Boudreaux say, "If'n he allus be readin', den you can say he allus be booked!"

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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.  Our friend River is hosting, and other participants often include Charlotte/Mother Owl, Andrew, and WiseWebWoman.  

This bee caught my attention.  It was so very loaded with pollen but kept trying to get more.

One of the few photos I took at rEcess, you can see the desserts and to the right, ten pizzas which were quickly devoured.

I was amazed at how long this squirrel's tail seemed to be.

The littles are better with our phones than we are.  I took a photo of our little Annie, and she wanted to see it, then she started fooling with the settings and did this.

Now i need to figure out how she did it!

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This week, Cookie and Emmie want to join the Kitties Blue at The Cat On My Head for their Sunday Selfies Blog Hop with a "when will you be done cleaning so you can take us outside again" selfie.  

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Today is Specially-Abled Pets Day!  To learn more about caring for disabled pets, you can click here or here.      

Thanks to Barb Kowalik and The Cat Blogosphere for the event badge.         

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Today is:

Be Kind to Animals Week -- sponsored by American Humane, through Saturday 

Bona Dia -- Ancient Roman Calendar (a women's festival)

Constitution Day -- Poland

Constitution Memorial Day -- Japan (Part of the Showa Golden Week Festivities)

Dia de la Cruz -- Mexico (Day of the Holy Cross, a festive day for construction workers, with parties and a flower decorated cross placed on every piece of new construction through the country)

Florae -- Ancient Roman Calendar (ceremony at the temple of Flora)

Garden Meditation Day -- let go your concerns and center your attention on your garden 

International Bereaved Mothers' Day  

International Dawn Chorus Day -- encouraging everyone to get up early and join others in listening to the early morning bird chorus

Lumpy Rug Day -- the tongue-in-cheek day to tease bigots about shoving unwanted facts under the rug, sponsored by Robert L. Birch of Puns Corps

Martyr's Day -- Lebanon

Mayday for Mutts -- originally sponsored, but now celebrated by many animal rescues on different dates  

Mother's Day -- Angola; Cape Verde; Hungary; Lithuania; Mozambique; Portugal; Romania; Spain

National Infertility Survival Day® -- US (encouraging infertility survivors to reach out to those still coming to terms with being diagnosed as infertile) 

National Raspberry Popover Day / National Raspberry Tart Day

National Travel and Tourism Week begins -- US    

National Two Different Colored Shoes Day -- celebrate your uniqueness, take a risk, and step outside of your routine today 

Paranormal Day -- i have enough trouble with normal, thank you

Pregnancy Fitness Awareness Day -- can't confirm this is still sponsored by Karen Bridson  

St. James the Lesser's Day (Patron of apothecaries, druggists, the dying, fullers, hatters and hatmakers, miliners, pharmacists; Frascati, Italy; Monterotondo, Italy; Nemi, Italy; Uruguay; Venegono Inferiore, Italy)

St. Phillip the Apostle's Day (Patron of hatmakers and hatters, milliners, pastry chefs; Luxembourg; Monterotondo, Italy; Nemi, Italy; San Felipe Indian Pueblo; Uruguay; Venegono, Inferiore, Italy)

Wordsmith Day

World Laughter Day -- sponsored by Dr. Madan Kataria, founder of the worldwide Laughter Yoga movement

World Press Freedom Day -- International/UN

Birthdays Today:

Joseph Addai, 1983

Christine Hendricks, 1975

Dule Hill, 1974

Christopher Cross, 1951

Mary Hopkin, 1950

Doug Henning, 1947

Greg Gumbel, 1946

Frankie Valli, 1937

Engelbert Humperdinck, 1936

James Brown, 1933

Sugar Ray Robinson, 1921

Pete Seeger, 1919

Bing Crosby, 1903

Golda Meir, 1898

Niccolo Machiavelli, 1469

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"Bent"(Play), 1979

"All Things Considered"(National Public Radio Network first broadcast), 1971

"The Most Happy Fella"(Musical), 1956

"CBS Evening News"(TV), 1948

Today in History:

Christopher Columbus first sights Jamaica (Santiago), 1494

Francis Bacon is charged with bribery, 1621

A royal charter is granted for Connecticut, 1662

The last total solar eclipse to be observed from London for the next 900 years occurs as predicted by Edmund Halley; called Halley's eclipse as he predicted it to within 4 minutes accuracy and described its path to within 30km, 1715

The Constitution of May 3 (the first modern constitution in Europe) is proclaimed by the Sejm of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1791

Washington, D.C., is incorporated as a city, 1802

The Canterbury and Whitstable Railway is opened. It is the first steam hauled passenger railway to issue season tickets and include a tunnel, 1830

The Hudson's Bay Company gives up all claims to Vancouver Island, 1867

The Great Fire of 1901 in Jacksonville, Florida, destroys 1,700 buildings, 1901

Raja Harishchandra the first full-length Indian feature film is released, marking the beginning of the Indian film industry, 1913

The poem In Flanders Fields is written by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, 1915

Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first woman to head the United States Mint, 1933

Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind is awarded the Pulitzer Prize, 1937

The Kentucky Derby is televised for the first time, 1951

Lieutenant Colonels Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict of the United States land a plane at the North Pole, 1952

The Anne Frank House opens in Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1960

The first "spam" email is sent by a Digital Equipment Corporation marketing representative to every ARPANET address on the west coast of the United States, 1978

The strongest tornado ever recorded, one of  66 tornadoes recorded that day,with winds of up to 313mph, strikes Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 1999

The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet, 2000

New Hampshire's famous Old Man of the Mountain collapses, 2003

New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art announces it will return two statues from northern Cambodia's archeological site Koh Ker, 2013

The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences members vote to expel Bill Cosby and Roman Polanski, 2018

Kilauea volcano on Big Island, Hawaii begins erupting forcing the evacuation of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park and residential areas, 2018

The US Environmental Protection Agency takes a significant step against climate change by announcing new limits on hydrofluorocarbons, 2021

Lady Gaga's free concert at Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, draws crowd estimated at 2.5 million attendees, the largest concert in history for a female artist, 2025

Wet and Wild, a Ten Things of Thankful Post

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It’s been wet a lot around here lately, and we are thankful because our swamps could use the rain.  It’s supposed to be clearing up for a few days starting today, Thankful Day, and be cooler, too.  We’ll be thankful to see the sun again and not have to use our air conditioners.

Last Saturday, #2 Son and i had a wet drive to NOLA and were thankful to get there and back safely.

The biggest thankful of the day was Grandma’s phone.  Her vision is now so poor she puts in her passcode incorrectly and gets locked out of it, and gets very frustrated.  We worked on it and Uncle J finally figured out how to take the passcode off her phone!  We’re thankful and relieved, and not at all worried about someone else getting her phone and abusing it as she is homebound.

Monday was a bittersweet day and this next Monday will be again.  Last week, it was the last time i will ever have to get Carl ready for work.  I’m so thankful he’s moving on to greater blessings, but he will be missed.

The weather had finally cleared a bit and we had a beautiful Tuesday, my little Annie and i were thankful to have two wonderful walks.

Ms. G was in her usual whirlwind, telling me she was home when i called to say i was on my way.  By the time i got there she was not home, but she had an errand needed running and told me to just hang out at the house, she’d only be ten minutes.

Well, i know Ms. G better than that, she would be at least an hour or more as she always is, and i am thankful i convinced her to let me drive the few minutes over to her location, grab Ms. Fiona’s new cell phone case, and then run it out myself.

Ms. Fiona will be thankful to have the case as her last phone broke when she dropped it.  I was thankful as i was back from the errand and doing some of the chores by the time Ms. G walked back in over an hour later.

Another good thing, Ms. G let me go to Cramco (the big box store) alone, only making me call her once while i was there to tell her which bread was the softest and freshest, the honey wheat or the butter top.  I felt odd “feeling up” the bread but i’m thankful she chose and i got to get everything back to the house quickly.

Things got wet and wild again that evening and we are thankful the power was only out for a minute.

Thursday was Little Girl’s birthday!  I am so thankful for my youngest and her husband.

I’m thankful we got through a two job Thursday, also.

Once again i had my little on Friday and i was thankful i’d picked up some toy blocks for her to play with.  She’s loving them and tried to share them with the cat.  We’re all thankful how gentle she is with Link Linker the Stinker.

Another bittersweet, the last rEcess of the season.  We’re thankful for Pizza Party Friday!  Thirty-six of us, volunteers, special needs kids, siblings and interns from the pediatric hospital kept things fun and exciting and we are thankful for what we call barely controlled chaos — fun in the gym, arts and crafts, and lots and lots of running and games.

Please write up your own list and link up to Ten Things of Thankful, where Clark and his co-hosts always have a warm welcome waiting.

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

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Today is:

Anniversary of the 3rd Druk Gyalpo -- Bhutan

Baby Day -- birth anniversary of Dr. Spock

Brothers and Sisters Day/Sibling Appreciation Day -- an internet generated holiday, not to be confused with National Siblings Day on April 10 each year

Community Day -- M, Spain

Day of Osiris going forth from his mountain -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)

Flag Day -- Poland

Herb Day -- an international celebration of herbs and all the flavor they add to our lives; try a new herb to season a dish today    

Holiday of the Region of Madrid -- Madrid, Spain

International Scurvy Awareness Day -- because yes, some people do still get this disease of Vitamin C deficiency

King James Bible Day -- marking the publication in 1611 of the King James Version of the Bible

National Education Day -- Indonesia

 National Homebrew Day -- US (Home Brewers Association) 

National Play Your Ukulele Day -- just because it's fun!

National Scrapbooking Day -- begun by Creative Memories, now celebrated by scrapbookers everywhere, a good article about it here  

National Truffles Day

Roberts Rules of Order Day -- birth anniversary of Henry M. Robert, author of the standard parliamentary guide Robert's Rules of Order

Rowdy Friends Day -- go look up the ones you haven't seen in a while

St. Athanasius the Great's Day

St. Zoe's Day

Teacher's Day -- Bhutan; Iran

Twelfth Day of Ridvan -- Baha'i

World Naked Gardening Day -- scare the neighbors! get rid of those pesky squirrels!  experience nature (and sunburn, and mosquito bites) with your whole body!   

Birthdays Today:

Sarah Hughes, 1985

Jenna Von Oy, 1977

David Beckham, 1975

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, 1972

Elizabeth Berridge, 1962

Christine Baranski, 1952

Larry Gatlin, 1949

Lesley Gore, 1946

David Suchet, 1946

Bianca Jagger, 1945

Engelbert Humperdinck, 1936

Roscoe Lee Browne, 1925

Theodore Bikel, 1924

Satyajit Ray, 1921

Dr. Benjamin Spock, 1903

Baron Von Richthofen, 1892

Hedda Hopper, 1885

Henry M. Robert, 1837

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"Sunday in the Park with George"(Musical), 1984

"Peter and the Wolf"(Prokofiev Op. 67), 1936

"The Jack Benny Program"(Radio), 1932

Good Housekeeping(Magazine), 1885

"La Bottega del Caffe/The Coffee Shop"(Play), 1750

Authorized King James Version of the Bible(Publication date, by printer Robert Barker), 1611

Today in History:

Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, is arrested and imprisoned on charges of adultery, incest, treason and witchcraft, 1536

John Knox returns from exile to Scotland  to become the leader of the beginning Scottish Reformation, 1559

Mary, Queen of Scots, escapes from Loch Leven Castle, 1568

King Charles II of England grants a permanent charter to the Hudson's Bay Company to open up the fur trade in North America, 1670

William Herschel discovers 1st binary star, Xi Ursae Majoris, 1780

Charles Fremantle founds the Swan River Colony in Australia, 1829

Peruvian defenders fight off Spanish fleet at the Battle of Callao, 1866

Good Housekeeping magazine goes on sale for the first time, 1885

Cree and Assiniboine warriors win the Battle of Cut Knife, their largest victory over Canadian forces during the North-West Rebellion, 1885

The Congo Free State is established by King Léopold II of Belgium, 1885

Hannibal W Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film, 1887

General Motors  acquires the Chevrolet Motor Company of Delaware, 1918

Pearl S. Buck is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for The Good Earth, 1938

The world's first ever jet airliner, the De Havilland Comet 1, makes its maiden flight, from London to Johannesburg, 1952

Tennessee Williams is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, 1955

The British ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2 departs on her maiden voyage to New York City, 1969

The 1986 World Exposition in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, opens, 1986

The European Central Bank is founded in Brussels in order to define and execute the European Union's monetary policy, 1998

President Bill Clinton announces that accurate GPS access would no longer be restricted to the United States military, 2000

Cyclone Nargis makes landfall in Myanmar killing over 130,000 people and leaving millions of people homeless, 2008

Conservationists determine poachers killed the last known rhinoceroses in Mozambique; these poachers worked with game rangers responsible for protecting them, 2013

New research published in the journal "Plos One" shows plants "talk" to each other through their roots and the soil in a study on corn, 2018 

For the first time, a drone delivers a kidney for transplant, to a hospital in Baltimore, MD, US, 2019

Second-only sketch known of Leonardo da Vinci (from Queen Elizabeth's collection) is revealed on the 500th anniversary of the artist's death, 2019

A clean-up on Mt Everest ends, having removed three metric tons (6,613 pounds) of rubbish and four bodies in just two weeks, 2019

Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson, the Icelandic actor who played Ser Gregor "The Mountain" Clegane in Game of Thrones, sets a world deadlifting record, lifting 501kg (1,104lb), 2020

After being closed for two years because of the pandemic, New Zealand reopens its borders to international travelers from 60 countries, 2022

The Writers Guild of America votes to begin striking over pay and industry changes, bringing television production to a halt, 2023

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports 216 children in the US have died this flu season, the deadliest year since 2009, 2025