Brainiac (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.

Jack dog loves to come see Grandma and Grandpa, who are both mire generous with the treats than Uncle J.

Yesterday, after Grandpa gave him a “cookie,” and Grandma gave him two half “cookies,” he tried to sneak under Grandma’s bed to snitch crumbs because Grandma takes all her meals in bed now.

He knows where the good grub is.

Boudreaux, Thibodeaux an' Gaston be talkin' 'bout dey dogs an' each t'ink he gots him de smartest dog.  Dey be braggin', but fin'ly Boudreaux done say, "Mais, my Phideaux [Fido] be de smartes' dog, I's done train him to retrieve an' he 'gets' t'ings!"

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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.  

I was "more or less" successful at capturing a butterfly this week.  Mostly less.

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This week, Jack wants to join the Kitties Blue at The Cat On My Head for their Sunday Selfies Blog Hop.  Yes, even after all the treats Grandpa and Grandma gave him, he got a small treat from me for posing.

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Today is:

Black Ribbon Day -- Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania

Bosphorus Cross-Continental Swim -- Istanbul, Turkey (over 1,000 swimmers take the opportunity to swim from one continent to the other, crossing the Bosphorus Strait from Asia to Europe)

European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism -- European Union

Flag Day -- Ukraine

Go Topless Day -- US (on the Sunday closest to Women's Equality Day, Aug. 26, stand up for women's right to go topless in public)  

Great Feast of the Netjeru (all gods and goddesses) -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)

Health Unit Coordinator Day -- US (National Association of Health Unit Coordinators, Inc.)

International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition

National Spongecake Day

Nemeseia -- Ancient Greek Calendar (local festival to the goddess Nemesis, date approximate)

Ride the Wind Day -- internet generated, a day to get out and ride with the wind in your hair, in whatever transport you choose, or fly a kite

Sento Kuyo -- Nenbutsu-Ji Temple, Adashino, Kyoto, Japan (memorial service for graves that no longer have families to tend them; through tomorrow)

St. Eoghan's Day (Patron of Derry, Ireland)

St. Rose of Lima's Day (Patron of embroiderers, florists, gardeners, needle workers, people ridiculed for piety; The Americas/The New World, especially Central and South America, Latin America, Peru, and the West Indies; Lima, Peru; Philippines, Santa Rosa, CA, US; Villareal Samar, Philippines; against vanity)

Valentino Memorial Service -- Hollywood Cathedral Museum, Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Los Angeles, CA, US (annually since 1927, a memorial service celebrating Rudolph Valentino on the anniversary of his death)

Vertumnalia -- Ancient Roman Calendar (in honor of Vertumnus and Pomona)

Vulcanalia -- Ancient Roman Calendar (festival to the god of fire)

Birthdays Today:

Kobe Bryant, 1978

Jay Mohr, 1970

River Phoenix, 1970

Queen Noor of Jordan, 1951

Rick Springfield, 1949

Shelley Long, 1949

Antonia Novello, 1944

Patricia McBride, 1942

Richard Sanders, 1940

Tony Bill, 1940

Barbara Eden, 1934

Sonny Jurgensen, 1934

Mark Russel, 1932

Vera Miles, 1930

Gene Kelly, 1912

Edgar Lee Masters, 1868

Navy Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, 1785

Louis XVI, 1754

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"She Loves You"(Beatles single release date), 1963

"The Bat"(Mystery play), 1930

"Gasoline Alley"(as a daily comic strip), 1919

Today in History:

On the feast of Vulcan, Roman god of fire, Mt. Vesuvius begins to rumble, 79

Visigoths storm Rome, 410

Edward I executes William Wallace, Scottish patriot, for high treason, 1305

French explorer Jacques Cartier lands near Quebec City in his third voyage to Canada, 1541

Rabbi Joseph Caro completes his commentary of Tur Code, 1542

The St. Bartholomew's Day massacre of Huguenots in Paris begins, 1572

The first one-way streets open in London, 1617

Steamship service begins on the Great Lakes, 1818

Great Britain abolishes slavery in the colonies, 700,000 slaves are freed, 1833

Automobile tire chain is patented, 1904

The World Council of Churches is formed, 1948

Lunar Orbiter I takes the first picture of Earth from the Moon's orbit, 1966

Bryan Allan, in a Gossamer Condor, completes the first man-powered flight of one mile, 1977

Soviet dancer Alexander Godunov defects to the US, 1979

Hans Tiedge, top counter-spy of West Germany, defects to East Germany, 1985

Hungary opens the Iron Curtain and allows thousands of East Germans through to West Germany, 1989

West Germany and East Germany announce that they will unite on Oct. 3, 1990

The remains of Anastasia and Alexei, rumored to have survived the 1917 assassination of the Russian Czar and his family, are found, 2007

Heavy winds knock down the Anne Frank tree in Amsterdam, breaking off approximately one meter above the ground, 2010

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is overthrown, 2011

Lance Armstrong, the seven-time Tour de France winner, announces he will not contest the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency charges of doping, a result of which will include being stripped of all of his tour de France victories, 2012

Libya's ruins of Cyrene, a World Heritage Site near Shahhat, is damaged by real estate developers, 2013

Destruction by ISIS of the first century AD temple of Baalshamin in the ancient ruins of Palmyra is confirmed by Syrian officials, 2015

The world's driest place, the Atacama desert in Chile, blooms after an unexpected rainfall, 2017

Russia launches the first floating nuclear power station, the Akademik Lomonosov, from the port of Murmansk, 2019

Video evidence shows a Seychelles giant tortoise hunting and eating a bird, a new behavioral observation, as tortoises were previously thought to be herbivores, 2021

India becomes the fourth nation to launch a successful mission to the Moon when its Chandrayaan-3 craft successfully lands at the Moon's south pole, 2023

On to Adventure, a Ten Things of Thankful Post

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This week, i was tempted to call my Thankful Day post, "Now what!" but decided "On to Adventure" is more positive, as the Lord has put too many blessings in my life for me to grouse.

Thus my love of this hop.

The trip to Grandma and Grandpa's house went well last Saturday, and somehow i managed to not only do the work and get done on time, but get extra laundry done, which is a big thankful as it helps with everything.

After our usual happy Sunday morning walk with Mr. Cal and going to church with Becca, we had a quick but intense rain shower for which we are thankful.  We aren't really in drought, but we are getting a bit dry.

Ms. D was thankful to see us when Annie and i visited.  Also, i'm thankful when i went back to clean the next day, she was happy with how the shower doors turned out.

There was a little blast from the past Monday morning, i was thankful to have extra work as i went to tidy and refresh Carl's room so he could come home for a visit.  It will be nice to see him next Thursday when i go clean the house, too.

Monday morning also had time for errands, thankfully, as i'd forgotten some things on Friday morning.

I am thankful for our Tuesday morning as this is part of where adventure comes in.  When the men laying new fiber optic cable around here ripped our water line right out of the meter, it was quite a shock.  The thankful things are, first, they broke it, they fixed it, second, it gave me a reminder to be thankful there is running water in my house (and all of it is in sinks, tubs, and toilets where it should be, unlike previous adventures), third, it gave me a story to write for Words for Wednesday.

Tuesday with Annie and time with little Ben while his mama went to the eye doctor was a big thankful, too.

Ms. G's sense of humor was showing Wednesday and i'm thankful, she doesn't often joke or kid around.  We'd been thankful to get Patience the camper back into the driveway and off the street and i did the other chores, we went to Cramco, and after she'd written a check, she cracked a joke and handed me an extra $5, telling me it was a tip for bringing all the purchases in from the car (which i do anyway).

Our Wednesday night Bible study is back in session and all of us were thankful to be there.

Thursday was another adventure as we had a double cleaning and both of us slightly tweaked our backs.  Usually, it's just one or the other of us, and the one doing a bit better steps up the game but this time, we were both thankful to be able to keep going and get everything done.  I was also thankful to lie down for an hour when i got home.

The Friday adventure/thankful involved Lawrence the Honda.  Once the timing chain was replaced, the cold start rattle did not end, as it also needed a VVT solenoid.  Also, a couple of times this week Lawrence gifted me with a warning to check my gas cap, which is a new one, then Friday morning it further gifted me with a check engine light.  The codes are consistent with the same thing which plagued GusGus die Fledermaus (the Ford) for so long, a bad purge valve.

#2 Son, thankfully, had time to change the solenoid, but at first it leaked.  He had to tweak it and finally got it tight, then ran out of time as the rains came.  I'm thankful Lawrence is running well enough to not worry about the other part until he can get to it.

The cat shelter went exceptionally well last night, and Ms. M, my Friday evening volunteer partner was thankful i'd told her my son works on cars as she is now driving with no A/C.  I'm thankful to be able to hook her up with someone.

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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Click here to enter

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It's National Take Your Cat to the Vet Day, and is now celebrated as an International Day, too.  It was started by a vet in the US who declared today a cat's only day for his practice, so his feline patients wouldn't be upset by any dogs in the place.  There are now many vets who schedule "cats only" days throughout the year, to make going a little less traumatizing for felines.

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

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Today is:

America's Cup Day -- the first America's Cup was won this date in 1851 by the yacht America

Be an Angel Day -- Sponsored by Angel Heights Healing Center, encouraging people to be a blessing and perform an act of service for someone

Eat a Peach Day

Feast of the Queenship of Mary & Immaculate Heart of Mary -- Catholic Christians

Flag Day -- Russia

Hoodie Hoo Day, Southern Hemisphere -- Wellcat Holidays says to go outside at noon and call "Hoodie Hoo" to chase away winter and call spring

National Spumoni Day (I don't think I've had really great spumoni since I went to Italy all those years ago -- nothing like getting things at the source.)

St. Symphorian's Day (Patron of children, students; Autun, France; against eye problems, syphilis)

Anniversary Today:

Henry Leland founds the Cadillac Motor Company, 1902

Birthdays Today:

Kristin Wiig, 1973

Giada De Laurentiis, 1970

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, 1967

Tori Amos, 1963

Cindy Williams, 1947

Steve Kroft, 1945

Duane Charles "Bill" Parcells, 1941

Valerie Harper, 1940

Carl Yastrzemski, 1939

E. Annie Proulx, 1935

Norman Schwarzkopf, 1934

Gerald Paul Carr, 1932

Ray Bradbury, 1920

John Lee Hooker, 1917

Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1908

Helene Bertha Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl, 1902

George Herriman, 1880

Dorothy Parker, 1893

Claude Debussy, 1862

Archibald MacNeal Willard, 1836

Samuel Pierpont Langley, 1834

Virginia Clemm Poe, 1822

St. Anthony of Padua, 1195

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"Later with Bob Costas"(TV), 1988

Today in History:

St. Columba reports seeing a monster in Loch Ness, 565

The Battle of Bosworth Field, in which King Richard III is killed and his forces defeated by Henry VII, 1485

Madras, India (now called Chennai) is founded by the British East India company on land purchased from the local Nayak rulers, 1639

Jacob Barsimon, the first Jewish immigrant to what would become US territory, arrives in New Amsterdam/Manhattan, 1654

The Newport, RI newspaper, Mercury, becomes the first in the US to hire a female editor, Ann Franklin, 1762

Austria launches pilotless balloons against the Italian city of Venice, thus staging the first air raid in history, 1849

Gold discovered in Australia, 1851

12 nations sign the First Geneva Convention and the Red Cross is formed, 1864

William Shepphard patents the first liquid soap, 1885

Founding of the Cadillac Motor Company, 1902

President Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first US chief executive to ride in an automobile, 1902

The first Victor Victrola is manufactured, 1906

The Mona Lisa is stolen, 1911 (recovered 2 years later)

Althea Gibson becomes the first black competitor in international tennis, 1950

Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogota, Colombia, becoming the first pope to visit Latin America, 1968

Rhodesia is expelled by the IOC for its racist policies, 1972

The first ring of Neptune is discovered, 1989

A version of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway, 2004

The Storm botnet, a botnet created by the Storm Worm, sends out a record 57 million e-mails in one day, 2007

Russia and Vanuatu become members of the World Trade Organization, 2012

India's highest court outlaws instant divorce for Muslim men (talaq, talaq, talaq), 2017

Russia launches Fedor, a life-sized humanoid robot, into space to the International Space Station, 2019

According to the French government, Josephine Baker will be the first black woman to be interred in the Panthéon in Paris, 2021

Dr. Anthony Fauci announces he will step down from his roles as chief medical advisor to the US President and as Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, 2022

The largest diamond in more than a century, at 2,492 carats, is found in a mine in Botswana, 2024