Another Try (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 has his hands full taking care of Grandma so much.  He will just start in to doing something and she'll call for him.  He's so patient, he goes in her room each time and helps her with whatever it is, then goes back to what he was doing.  It makes everything take longer but he's being very patient.

Tee done be's talkin' to Grand-père Boudreaux an' he ax, "How long you been marry to Grand-mère?"

An' Grand-père say, "Fifty years, petit-garçon."

An' Tee say, "Dat be so long, you gots to know ever't'ing!  What be you secret fo' stayin' married so long?"

An' Grand-père say, "Mais, petit-garçon, dere be only one t'ing to a good marriage, an' when I fin' out what it be, I's goin' get married agin!"

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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.  

It's been so crazy, here are a few things from around my house as it's all there's been time to photograph. 

My beloved coffee cup.

A much-loved painting from a client many years ago.

A silver and celluloid teething ring which belonged to my Sweetie's father.

Grandpa's (my father's) captains bars from his military service.

The cup i always drank out of when i was a child and i'd go to my dad's mom's house (MawMaw).

My Sweetie's mother hand wove these potholders.

A piece of carnival glass which my great-great-grandfather won as a prize for my grandmother when she was a little girl, circa 1906.

These were my Sweetie's and Brother-in-Law's piggy banks when they were children.  If you put in a coin, it tips its hat.

Link Linker the Stinker was in the trash can, some of the mischief he used to get into which earned him his name.

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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.  They call this their "lazy summer day" selfie.

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Today is:

All or Nothing Day -- no history on this one, but it's supposed to be the day you decide to live as if it's going to be your last!

Aunt and Uncle Day -- originally proposed on this day in 2005 by Florida State Senator Tony Hill; if you have aunts and uncles you love, why not give them a call today 

Auntie's Day® -- as begun by The Savvy Auntie, celebrating those who chose to take on the active role of being an Auntie 

Dia de la Rebeldia -- Cuba (Revolution Anniversary)

Festival of Hathor -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)

Festival of Sleipnir -- Norse Pagan (date approximate, honored Odin's eight-legged horse, Sleipnir)

Green Corn Ceremony -- Native Americans (thanksgiving for the maize harvest; these are celebrated by many tribes in many different ways and are not generally scheduled as they depend on how the corn grows; some have with rites including a Thanksgiving Prayer, Confession Chant, and Feather Dance; the Santa Ana Pueblo holds an annual Corn Festival on this date each year that is open to the public)

Groovy Chicken Day -- don't ask, just enjoy

Heyannir month commences -- Icelandic Calendar (Harvest Month, literally translates "Hay Working")

Independence Day -- Liberia(1847); Maldives(1965)

International Bog Day

Kargil Vijay Diwas -- India (Kargil Victory Day)

Mi'kmaq Pilgrimage to St. Anne Mission -- Mi'kmaq First Nations of Canada and Maine 

National Coffee Milkshake Day

National Tree Day -- Australia

Otaru Tide Festival -- Otaru Wharf, Otaru City, Japan (one of Japan's biggest sea festivals, through the 28th)

Parent's Day -- US 

Procession of the Penitents -- Veurne, Belgium (passion play dating back to the 15th century)

Racial Desegregation Day -- date in 1944 the US Army ordered training camp facilities desegregated, and the date in 1948 President Truman signed the order integrating the US armed forces

Ranggeln -- Mt. Hundstein, Germany (traditional form of wresting, called ranggeln, in honor of St. Jacob's Day [which most celebrate on July 25]; this particular festival harks back to the pre-Christian Lughnasadh celebrations, which went through Aug. 1 and contained athletic events)

St. Anne's Day (traditional name given to the mother of Mary; Patron of broommakers, cabinetmakers, carpenters, childless people, equestrians, expectant mothers, grandmothers, grandparents, homemakers, horse men, horse women, housewives, lace makers, lace workers, lost articles, miners, mothers, old-clothes dealers, poor people, pregnancy, pregnant women, riders, seamstresses, stablemen, turners, women in labour; Canada; France; Micmaqs; over 20 cities around the world; against poverty and sterility)

St. Joachim's Day (traditional name given to the father of Mary; Patron of fathers, grandfathers, grandparents; Adjuntas, Puerto Rico)

Valencia Fair Battle of the Flowers -- Valencia, Spain (conclusion and highlight of the Valencia Fair, with a parade and thousands of carnations thrown from floats, making a magical carpet of petals for all to enjoy)

Anniversaries Today

Signing of the American's With Disabilities Act, 1990

New York becomes the 11th US State, 1788

The United States Postal Service is founded, 1775

Birthdays Today

Taylor Momsen, 1993

Kate Beckinsale, 1973

Jeremy Piven, 1964

Sandra Bullock, 1964

Kevin Spacey, 1959

Angela Hewitt, 1958

Dorothy Hamill, 1956

Susan George, 1950

Roger Taylor, 1949

Helen Mirren, 1945

Mick Jagger, 1943

Dobie Gray, 1940

Stanley Kubrick, 1928

Blake Edwards, 1922

Jason Robards, Jr., 1922

Vivian Vance, 1912

Gracie Allen, 1902

Aldous Huxley, 1894

Carl Jung, 1875

George Bernard Shaw, 1856

George Catlin, 1796

Debuting/Premiering Today:

Alice In Wonderland(Animated film), 1951

The Babe Ruth Story(Film), 1948

"The Bob Howard Show"(TV), 1948

"Young Widder Brown"(Radio), 1938

Today in History

The first recorded women's cricket match took place near Guildford, England, 1745

The birth of what would later become the United States Post Office Department is established by the Second Continental Congress, 1775

The Surrey Iron Railway, often considered the world's first public railway, opens in south London, 1803

In California, the poet and American West outlaw calling himself "Black Bart" makes his last clean getaway, 1878

Premiere of Richard Wagner's Parsifal at Bayreuth, 1882

Publication of the Unua Libro, founding the Esperanto movement, 1887

United States Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte issues an order to immediately staff the Office of the Chief Examiner (later renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation), 1908

King Edward VIII, in one of his few official duties before he abdicated the throne, officially unveiled the Canadian National Vimy Memoria, 1936

The Labour Party wins the United Kingdom general election of July 5 by a landslide, removing Winston Churchill from power, 1945

U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act into United States law creating the Central Intelligence Agency, Department of Defense, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the National Security Council, 1947

U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs Executive Order 9981 desegregating the military of the United States, 1948

Fidel Castro leads an unsuccessful attack on the Moncada Barracks, thus beginning the Cuban Revolution, 1953

Syncom 2, the world's first geosynchronous satellite, is launched from Cape Canaveral on a Delta B booster, 1963

The National Assembly of Quebec imposes the use of French as the official language of the provincial government, 1977

A federal grand jury indicts Cornell University student Robert T. Morris, Jr. for releasing the Morris worm, thus becoming the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, 1989

Mumbai, India receives 99.5cm of rain (39.17 inches) within 24 hours, bringing the city to a halt for over 2 days, 2005

Over 92,000 classified documents detailing incidents related to the war in Afghanistan are released by Wikileaks in the largest leak in U.S military history, 2010

President of France, Francois Holland finalizes a deal with Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara to forgive $4.7 billion dollars in debt incurred by the Ivory Coast when it was a French Colonial Power, 2012

Great Britain announces it will ban gasoline and diesel cars by 2040, 2017

The Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics publishes findings about the observation of a black hole by a telescope in Chile that proved Albert Einstein’s prediction of gravitational redshift, 2018

Weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz makes history becoming the first athlete from the Philippines to win gold at the Olympics, 2021

Russia announces it will leave the International Space Station in two years, 2022

Opening ceremony for the XXXIII Olympiad in Paris is along the River Seine, with 85 boats carrying the athletes, 2024

Plenty to Celebrate, More to Be Done, a Ten Things of Thankful Post

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As always, i reach Thankful Day most thankful for what has happened, and because not everything is finished, thankful for what's still to come.

While i was checking Lawrence the Honda's oil last Friday evening, #2 Son and family arrived and he had more oil than i did, so he helped me finish topping it off.  I'm thankful because Lawrence is a great car, but this model does burn oil between oil changes.  I'm also thankful we got to talk about the A/C and make plans.

Saturday morning went well, the A/C kept the car comfortable, thankfully, and i was able to get a few things done before Grandpa and i left for the grocery shopping.

The day was long, Grandma needed a lot of attention, and unfortunately, she fell and Uncle J had to pick her up.  We're thankful he was able to do it as his back is not so good, and once he got her back on the bed, i was able to get her into her chair and to where she needed to go.

Later, around 2pm, i was thankful the Chinese restaurant Grandma wanted to order from was close and always has everything ready fast, as i was having a hard time getting some things finished.

I was very thankful a tired Grandpa was napping when i left almost an hour late (he wants me to leave by 3pm).  With all the drama, it took that long to get all the cleaning done.

The A/C on Lawrence did not work at all on the way home, i'm thankful the windows roll down and thankful for a cooling shower once i got home.

Sunday morning was overcast and the temps weren't too bad, so Becca and i were thankful to be able to take Mr. Cal on a very long walk.  Mr. Cal was also thankful to see his best puppy pal, Ash.

Puppy pals, sniffing the dialy news together.

That evening, Annie's and my usual Sunday visit with Ms. D got even better when the rest of the family showed up, we were thankful to visit and Ms. D was thankful #2 Son knew how to change the batteries in the A/C thermostat.

For the time being, i have no work on Monday mornings, i'm thankful to have time to run extra errands.  One errand i'd been wanting to get to was to a specific store for a few things, but i don't get over there often so while there, i looked for some books.  Last visit, i'd found two books of a set of four for Annie, and wouldn't you know, thankfully, this time they had the other two!

Ms. D and i got a good bit done Monday once i got over there, she was thankful i remember about the dehumidifier.  It shuts off automatically before it can overflow, but she forgets it is stopped and wonders why the house gets a bit humid.  I'm going to start emptying it every Sunday evening when i'm over there no matter what, just to make sure it stays on at least through the summer.

While i was running errands, #2 Son had gone and bought the components to fix the A/C in Lawrence, and once i parked it at home and walked to Ms. D's place, he started in.

I was thankful he took breaks because of the heat, and it was late in the evening when he called time and said it would need a different component as he couldn't get it off of the old compressor.  Did i want to order it (two weeks) or just return the compressor we'd bought and buy a different and more expensive one which already has that component?

I'm thankful more expensive wasn't that much more expensive and on Tuesday, he and i were both thankful when he ran in the house and told me and Annie to "Get out here!  Get out here!  Yeah!"

Lawrence was blowing cold air, and you don't know how thankful you are until you've been two south Louisiana summers in a car with no A/C and a driver's side window which does not roll down.

I was thankful the time with Annie had been good Tuesday, and once #2 Son was done, he took her for her nap, they both needed it!

She's a busy little lady and needs her naps even if she fights them.

Once done at the cat shelter Wednesday morning (we're thankful things are going well but we are full!), i got to Ms. G's and did the usual and i was very thankful she unexpectedly took us both out to lunch.  It was to my favorite sushi place, too.

When i got home, #2 Son informed me he and friend West wanted to do my timing chain this weekend.  I was thankful to hear it, agreed to their price, and #2 Son promised to go get the parts on Thursday.

That evening, Ms. Sue, who hosts our Wednesday evening Bible study, asked how things were going.  I told her the A/C was fixed in Lawrence and we'd be getting to the timing chain soon and she asked me how much this was costing.  When she heard, she said, "I want to pay for half of it!" and wrote me a check!  I am so thankful for good friends who come alongside and help when they can.

Thursday morning, #2 Son found out two of the parts they needed for Lawrence would have to be ordered and not be in until next Monday, so the timing chain will wait although the parts are paid.  I'm thankful this left him free to work with #1 Son to get the new window motor in GusGus die Fledermaus (the Ford Focus).

We've been having a time with our water bill for several months.  In January, it went up some, but we expected that as we leave the faucets dripping when a freeze is expected.

Then in February, it almost tripled.  We traced it to three things, #2 Son had left a water hose on by accident, a toilet was running on occasion, and my Sweetie wasn't just leaving faucets dripping during freezes, he was leaving at least one running much more than necessary.

March, with no freezes, it went down, but not by much, and the same in April.  I finally shut off the water to that toilet in mid May, and sure enough, the water bill for June we just got this week was back down to normal.

I'm thankful we got to the bottom of that problem, and thankful #2 Son now knows when mama says a toilet is running too much and the whole guts needs to be replaced, he knows i know what i'm talking about.

Since #1 Son's wreck, he has driven GusGus to work and back and used our cars which do have A/C to go anyplace further than just to work, as the heat is really bad and it's just not tolerable.  I'm thankful between the two of them they were able to get the new motor in and GusGus now has a window on the driver's side which will roll down and give more air when #1 Son is on the way to work.

Friday while i was thankful to be watching Annie, they attempted the compressor but they need a belt, which #2 Son did not know so #1 Son had not bought one.  They have plans for this Tuesday.

Also on Friday, while #2 Son was busy, Daughter-in-Law got called into a sudden meeting and our little Ben landed in GG's lap.

He hunkers down and sleeps hard!

It was the third time this week i'd had a chance to hold and snuggle him, and i'm very thankful.

Lots of help at the cat shelter Friday evening made everything go smoothly and we're very thankful.

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.

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Today is:

Act Like A Caveman Day -- internet generated, just to be fun, especially if your neighbors think you are crazy anyway

Bayreuther Festspiele -- Bayreuth, Germany (Wagner festival, through Aug. 28)

Be Adamant About Something Day -- it's good practice

Commonwealth Constitution Day -- Puerto Rico

Culinarian's Day -- another one here because of the internet, but a good excuse to let your inner chef go wild, and enjoy the results

Ebernoe Horn Fair -- Sussex, England (ancient horn fairs were pagan fertility rites, now just a fun time for all)

Eve of the Hathor Festival -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)

Furrinalia -- Ancient Etruscan Calendar (Furrina, goddess of the sacred grove and spring on Janniculum hill)

      also Ancient Roman Calendar (to honor those who searched for underground water sources)

Guanacaste Day -- Costa Rica

Guayaquil Day -- Guayaquil, Ecuador

Ilyap'a -- Ancient Inca Calendar (festival of the lightning god; date approximate)

National Dance Day -- US (begun by Nigel Lythgoe, now a congressionally recognized day to encourage dance education and physical fitness, so go out and bust a move on a Saturday night, but don't bust you, please)

National Day of the Cowboy -- US (celebrating the heritage, and those who still work as cowboys/cowgirls today) 

National Hot Fudge Sundae Day

Republic Day -- Tunisia

Soma-Nomaoi -- Haramachi City, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan (wild horse chase which recreates a battle from over 1,000 years ago; through Monday)

St. Christopher's Day (Patron of archers, automobile drivers/motorists, bachelors, boatmen, bookbinders, busdrivers, cab drivers,epileptics, fruit dealers, fullers, gardeners, lorry drivers, mariners, market carriers, porters, sailors, taxi drivers, transportation/transporation workers, travellers, truck drivers/truckers, watermen; Baden, Germany; Barga, Italy; Brunswick, Germany; Fubine, Italy; Havana, Cuba; Mecklenburg, Germany; Rab, Croatia, St. Christopher's Island; Saint Kitts; Toses, Girona, Calalonia, Spain ;for a holy death; against bad dreams, epilepsy, floods, hailstorms, lightning, pestilence, storms, sudden death, toothache)

St. James' Day (The Apostle, brother of St. John and son of Zebedee, the first Apostle martyred; Patron of apothecaries/druggists/pharmacists, arthritis sufferers, blacksmiths, equestrians and horsemen, furriers, knights, laborers, pilgrims, soldiers, tanners, veterinarians; Altopascio, Lucca, Italy; Antigua, Guatemala; Bangued, Philippines; Brentino Belluno, Italy; Caltagirone, Italy; Cassine, Italy; Chile; Cicala, Catanzaro, Italy; Comitini, Italy; Compostela, Spain; Galicia, Spain; Gavi, Italy; Guatemala; Hettstedt, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany; Jemez Indian Pueblo; Loiza, Puerto Rico; Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina; Montreal, Canada; Nicaragua; Pistoia, Italy; Rivarolo Canavese, Italy; Sahuayo, Mexico; Seattle, Washington; Spain; Tesuque Indian Pueblo; against arthritis and rheumatism; sometimes called Jacob, the Latinized version of his name, also Iago and Jaques in Romance languages) related observances

     Dia Nacional de Galicia -- Galicia, Spain (National Day of Galicia, a/k/a Apostole Santiago, St. James the Apostle's Day)

     The Pilgrimage of Santiago de Compostela -- Galicia, Spain (one of the world's largest pilgrimages still, to the church that has the supposed relics of St. James, culminates on the Saint's feast day)

     Loiza Aldea Fiesta -- Puerto Rico

Video Games Day -- yet another one, this on the founding of the "U.S. National Video Game Team" 

Birthdays Today

James Lafferty, 1985

Brad Renfro, 1982

Louise Brown, 1978

Matt LeBlanc, 1967

Illeana Douglas, 1965

Iman, 1965

Walter Payton, 1954

Nathaniel "Nate" Thurmond, 1941

Barbara Harris, 1935

Midge Decter, 1927

Estelle Getty, 1923

Jack Gilford, 1907

Walter Brennan, 1894

Maxfield Parrish, 1870

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"A Chorus Line"(Musical), 1975

"You Can't Hurry Love"(Single release), 1966

Today in History

Diocletian appoints Maximian as Caesar, co-ruler, 285

Constantine I is proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops, 306

The Edict of Pistres of Charles the Bald orders defensive measures against the Vikings, 864

Sebastián de Belalcázar, on his search for El Dorado, founds the city of Santiago de Cali, Colombia, 1536

Don Diego de Losada founds the city of Santiago de Leon de Caracas, modern-day Caracas, the capital city of Venezuela, 1567

Henry IV of France publicly converts from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism, 1593

James VI of Scotland is crowned James I of England, bringing the Kingdoms of England and Scotland into personal union; political union would occur later, 1603

Ignacio de Maya founds the Real Santiago de las Sabinas, now known as Sabinas Hidalgo, Nuevo León, México, 1693

British governor Charles Lawrence and the Nova Scotia Council order the deportation of the Acadians; thousands of Acadians are sent to the British Colonies in America, France and England, and some later move to Louisiana, while others resettle in New Brunswick, 1755

Horatio Nelson loses more than 300 men and his right arm during the failed conquest attempt of Tenerife (Spain), 1797

Costa Rica annexes Guanacaste from Nicaragua, 1824

The first commercial use of an electric telegraph is successfully demonstrated by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone between Euston and Camden Town in London, 1837

The Japanese daimyo begin returning their land holdings to the emperor as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms, 1869

Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers that a key ingredient in Konbu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG), and patents a process for manufacturing it, 1908

Sir Thomas Whyte introduces the first income tax in Canada as a "temporary" measure, 1917

The first transatlantic two-way radio broadcast takes place, 1920

Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) is established, 1925

At Club 500 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis stage their first show as a comedy team, 1946

Italian ocean liner SS Andrea Doria collides with the MS Stockholm in heavy fog and sinks the next day, killing 51, 1956

The Republic of Tunisia is proclaimed, 1957

Louise Brown, the world's first "test tube baby" is born, 1978

Israel and Jordan sign the Washington Declaration, which formally ends the state of war that had existed between the nations since 1948, 1994

K.R. Narayanan is sworn-in as India's 10th president and the first Dalit— formerly called "untouchable"— to hold this office, 1997

Air France Flight 4590, a Concorde supersonic passenger jet, F-BTSC, crashes just after takeoff from Paris killing all 109 aboard and 4 on the ground, 2000

Pratibha Patil is sworn in as India's first woman president, 2007

Wikileaks publishes classified documents about the War in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history, 2010

Scientists in Britain identify the mechanism causing human allergy to cats; they believe a general cure for the condition could be available in the next five years, 2013

News of a liquid lake found on Mars under its South Pole by the European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter is reported in the journal "Science", 2018

Asteroid 2019OK, which is large enough to be dubbed a “city killer,” passes about 45,000 miles from Earth, which is closer than the Moon, 2019

Japanese judokas Uta Abe (women's 52kg) and brother Hifumi (men's 66kg) make history as first siblings to win Olympic gold medals in different events on same day at the Tokyo Games, 2021

Scientists say the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation current could reach its tipping point middle of this century and collapse, 2023

Mexican Sinaloa cartel head Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada is tricked into being captured in the US in a sting masterminded by the son of El Chapo, his former partner, 2024

Oakland Athletics infielder Nick Kurtz becomes first rookie in MLB history to hit four home runs in a game, 2025