Getting Those ZZZ’s (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.

Grandma's hospital bed is actually a hospital bed frame with one of those goodie special mattresses.  It's very thick and getting the sheets on it is not so easy, but it makes her more comfortable.  My Sweetie and i saved up for a similar mattress a few years ago and it does make a difference.

Thibodeaux done be tellin' Boudreaux 'bout him an' Marie buyin' dem de new, fancy mattress.  He say, "We done be sleepin' so good!  Boudreaux, you an' Clothile done needs to git one o' dem."

An' Boudreaux say, "Dat be's a lot o' money fo' a bed, mais, I t'ink befo' we spen' dat much, we need to sleep on it!"

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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.  

The outside of the house where we saw the inside last week.

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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.  He hopes you are not tired of seeing him, he loves to pose and then get his special treat.

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Today is World Animal Day!   

Today is also St. Francis of Assisi's Day!  He is the Patron of animal welfare societies, animals, birds, ecologists, ecology, environment and environmentalists, families, lace makers/lace workers, merchants, needle workers, peace, tapestry workers, zoos; Italy, especially Assisi, as well as several other cities around the world; against dying alone, fire.

     A special Blessing of the Animals Day is held at many Catholic Churches today, in honor of the Saint.

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

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Today is:

Banned Books Week begins -- US (sponsored by the ALA; Censorship Is So 1984; celebrate your right to read what you want!)       

Erntedankfest -- Germany (Thanksgiving/Harvest fest, on the first Sunday in October)

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

Fire Prevention Week begins -- Canada; US (and a great idea everywhere, feel free to join in) 

Golf Lovers' Day -- internet generated, enjoy if you love golf

Great Books Week begins -- previously sponsored by Excellence in Literature on the first full week of the month

Ieiunium Cereris -- Ancient Roman Calendar (fast for the goddess Ceres)

Improve Your Office Day -- and water that plant while you are at it!

Independence Day -- Lesotho(1966)

International African Diaspora Day

International Toot Your Flute Day -- an internet generated day for shameless self-promotion

Kanelbullens Dag -- Sweden (cinnamon roll day)

National Metric Week -- US (yes, it's no fun to switch; get over it and learn, it's good for your brain!  always the week that includes 10/10)  

National Ship in a Bottle Day -- another one i can't find a source for, but it's listed everywhere

National Taco Day

National Vodka Day

Nihonmatsu Lantern Festival -- Nihonmatsu, Japan (one of Japan's 3 largest lantern festivals; through the 6th)

Peace and National Reconciliation Day -- Mozambique

Shemini Azteret -- Judaism (Jewish completion of the annual cycle of reading of the Torah; begins at sunset, through nightfall tomorrow)

St. Petronius' Day (Patron of Bologna, Italy)

10-4 Day (C.B.'ers) -- fourth day of the tenth month, ten-four, good buddy, etc.

Tewa Deer Dance -- Tewa Native Americans (celebrating the cosmic duality of the feminine and masculine, and honoring male and female ancestors; through the 7th)

World Communion Sunday -- Christian

World Space Week begins -- International

Anniversaries Today

The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1, 1957

The Soviet Union launches Luna 3, 1959 (first satellite to photograph the moon's distant side)

Birthdays Today:

Rachael Leigh Cook, 1979

Alicia Silverstone, 1976

Abraham Benrubi, 1969

Christoph Waltz, 1956

Anita DeFrantz, 1952

Armand Assante, 1949

Susan Sarandon, 1946

Clifton Davis, 1945

Anne Rice, 1941

Jackie Collins, 1937

Alvin Toffler, 1928

Charlton Heston, 1924

Buster Keaton, 1895

Damon Runyon, 1884

Edward Stratemeyer, 1862

Frederic S. Remington, 1861

Rutherford B. Hayes, 1822

Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, 1807

Debuting/Premiering Today

"The Alvin Show"(TV), 1961

Cello Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major(Shostakovich Op. 107), 1959

"Leave It To Beaver"(TV), 1957

Snoopy, in the Peanuts Comic strip, 1950

Dick Tracy(Comic strip), 1931

Today in History:

One of the largest naval battles in history, the Battle of Lake Poyang, ends when the Chinese rebel forces of Zhu Yuanzhang defeat Chen Youliang, 1363

The first full English translation of the Bible, sometimes called the Matthew Bible, which contained the work of translators William Tyndale and Miles Coverdale, is printed in Switzerland, 1537

Pope Gregory XIII's calendar adjustment that bears his name takes effect, with tomorrow being not Oct. 5, but Oct. 15, 1582

Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts drafts its first code of law, 1636

Peter Stuyvesant establishes America's first volunteer fire department, 1648

Christian Huygens patents the pocket watch, 1675

The state of Belgium is created after separation from the Netherlands, 1830

The New Orleans Tribune becomes the first black daily newspaper, 1864

The Orient Express, linking Turkey to Europe by rail, makes its first run, 1883

Norman Rockwell's Willie Gillis character debuts on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post, 1941

The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty is opened for signature, 1991

The Rome General Peace Accords ends a 16 year civil war in Mozambique, 1992

NATO confirms invocation of Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty, 2001

SpaceShipOne wins Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight, by being the first private craft to fly into space, 2004

What is believed to be the oldest high-altitude human settlement is found in Kokoda, Papua New Guinea, 2010

Nissan unveiled the NSC-2015 electric car prototype at the Ceatec 2012 show in Tokyo; the car drove and parked itself, 2012

The Nobel Prize for Chemistry is awarded to Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson for their work on cryo-electron microscopy, 2017

The Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine is awarded to David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian for discovering receptors for temperature and touch, 2021

The Noble Prize for Physics is won by Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger for their groundbreaking experiments using entangled quantum states, 2022

The Nobel Prize for Chemistry is awarded to Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus, and Alexei Ekimov “for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots,” 2023

United States port workers along the country's east and gulf coasts end their strike after 3 days, 2024

The Days Waggle On, A Ten Things of Thankful Post

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The verdict is in from the hospice people, plus Grandpa’s sore back, my sometimes sore back, and Uncle J’s sore back — Grandma can no longer get out of the bed.

She is too frail, it hurts her, and she is too big a fall risk, plus our backs will not hold up.

While i am very sorry it has come to this i am also very thankful the hospice people are so firm on this as it was getting to be almost impossible for us to get her out of the bed, even though she was insistent.

I’ll be down there today and find out if they are making it stick or not!

Meanwhile, last Saturday, Uncle J got an extra can of table cream, the Mexican style media crema, in his Mall-Mart order which he did not ask for, and he gave it to me.  I was thankful to take it as i figured it would get dropped in one of the food bank barrels we have at the church.

Sunday was a beautiful day for a walk, and Mr. Cal met one of his puppy friends and is very thankful.

That evening was a little different.  Annie and i walked down to Ms. D’s as always and had a good time, but only for a short time as #2 Son and Daughter-in-Law brought Little Ben and swapped children for me to tend!  They wanted to bring Annie to a live music event where children are welcome, she loves them dearly and i was thankful i had her for a few hours in the afternoon and the little guy for almost two hours in the evening.

Ms. D is always thankful to see everyone.

She was also thankful the next day for my cleaning the house since she feeds Annie crackers and There Are Crumbs!  I was thankful for a good vacuum cleaner and that i got under the couch cushions.

The drive down to NOLA was good and i was thankful to be in time to see the hospice aid in action as well as the nurse.  Grandma is getting great care from their visits, the aid Monday through Friday and the nurse twice a week.  It was the nurse who nixed all of Grandma’s standing or getting out of the bed from now on.

It was Uncle J and i who rearranged furniture once again to make her care easier, i’m thankful we didn’t have to move much or move it far.

I’m also thankful we emptied one chest and found treasure, including the baby bracelet from the hospital worn by Grandma when she was a newborn!  It’s now in a special place.

Since i was on duty that night, Grandma got me up almost every single hour of the night.  I’m thankful i still woke up feeling fit enough to drive home and i am very thankful for coffee.

I’m also thankful i was able to show Grandpa and Uncle J how to change her, and they were supposed to watch the aid, too.  I’ll find out if they did when i get there today!

Tuesday with Annie was fun, she continues to raid my kitchen for tools so she can “cook” with the play dough.

Ms. G and i tackled moving her items in storage into a smaller (read, cheaper) unit and i was thankful in some things i am bow stronger than she is because of her many physical problems.  I’m also thankful i had time to vacuum, two weeks missed means the Ms. Sassy Floofypants long black hair and the Mr. Gray long gray hair had built up to a level where even i could not tell what color the rug was.

Bible study that night was excellent and i was thankful to be back.

Our double Thursday went very well and we are thankful because Ms.SE’s place was not as easy as it has been the last few times.

Also i’m thankful i stopped at two MallMarts for supplies that morning as the second had some items the larger store where we usually shop has been out of and we were getting desperate.

Friday was a case unto itself, rEcess night!  I’m thankful i got to go to prayer, then back to the big MallMart to buy food and supplies, then the bank and then Trader Joe’s where i was going to get more supplies.

At that moment i became suddenly thankful for the can of media crema mentioned earlier.  Our local TJs had a loss of power in the night to all of their refrigerators and freezers and the alarms didn’t go off to warn them!  This meant they could not sell the roasted corn and Spanish rice from the freezer i needed, or indeed any of their frozen or refrigerated products as they had no clue how long the units were off and the food might be unsafe.   I was thankful i could make a quick turn around and i had mayo and crema and when i went back to MallMart for canned refried beans and frozen corn and! while there they had a Mexican frozen street corn on clearance, four boxes, which i could mix with regular frozen corn and doctor up with the other stuff and make something worth while.

As for rEcess, i am here, the food is being devoured with a rapidity which would astonish me if there weren’t so many teen volunteers, and we’re enjoying another night of fun and mayhem for which we are all 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:

Festival of Bacchus/Dionysus -- Ancient Roman Calendar (tasting the old and new wine and celebrating the harvest)

Independence Day -- Iraq,

Inter-American Water Day -- begun in 1992 by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the Inter-American Association of Sanitary and Environmental Engineering (AIDIS) and the Caribbean Water and Wastewater Association (CWWA)

International Frugal Fun Day -- created by Shel Horowitz, author of The Penny-Pinching Hedonist

Kae Chun Jul -- Korea (National Foundation Day, BC 2333)

Morazan Day -- Honduras (Soldier's Day, trad.)

National Butterfly and Hummingbird Day -- internet generated; celebrate these beauties today, no matter where you are

National Carmel Custard Day

Oschophoria -- Ancient Greek Calendar (in honor of the return of Theseus after killing the Minotaur; deities celebrated were Dionysius and either Athena or Ariadne, depending on the source cited; date approximate)

Qatar Prix L'arc de Triomphe -- Longchamp Race-course, Paris, France (one of the world's greatest horse races, first run in 1920; celebrations and events through tomorrow)

Relief of Leiden Day -- Netherlands

Reunification Day/Unity Day-- Germany

Simchat Torah -- Judaism (day to celebrate the reading of the Law; begins at sunset, through nightfall tomorrow)

Sts. Ewald the Black and Ewald the Fair's Day (Patrons of Westphalia)

Techies' Day -- give your techies some well deserved appreciation

World Card Making Day -- Paper Crafts Magazine started it all in 2006 and suggests you have fun and make a card or two or three on the first Saturday of October each year

Birthdays Today:

Neve Campbell, 1973

Gwen Stefani, 1969

Janel Maloney, 1969

Clive Owen, 1964

Jack P. Wagner, 1959

Dennis Eckersley, 1954

Stevie Ray Vaughan, 1954

Dave Winfield, 1951

Lindsey Buckingham, 1949

Roy Horn, 1944

Chubby Checker, 1941

Erik Bruhn, 1928

Gore Vidal, 1925

James Herriot (James Alfred Wight), 1916

Harvey Kurtzman, 1902

William Crawford Gorgas, 1854

George Bancroft, 1800

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"L.A. Law"(TV), 1986

"Scarecrow and Mrs. King"(TV), 1983

"Quincy"(TV), 1976

"The Dick Van Dyke Show"(TV), 1961

"The Andy Griffith Show"(TV), 1960

"The Pat Boone Show"(TV), 1957

"The Real McCoys"(TV), 1957

"Captain Kangaroo"(TV), 1955

"The Mickey Mouse Club"(TV), 1955

"Father Knows Best"(TV), 1954

"Our Miss Brooks"(TV), 1952

"The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet"(TV), 1952

"The Maltese Falcon(Film, NYC release), 1941

Today in History:

The state of Gojoseon (modern-day Korea) is founded by Dangun Wanggeom during the reign of the Chinese emperor Yao, BC2333

The siege and battle of Alesia is ended by the surrender of Vercingetorix, leader of the Gauls, to Julius Caesar, BC52

Julius Caesar's assassins suffer a decisive defeat at the First Battle of Phillipi, BC42

Jews are expelled from Eger, Bohemia, 1430

The Duke of Montrose issues a warrant for the arrest of Rob Roy MacGregor, 1712

British Captain James Cook anchors in Alaska, 1778

General Napoleon Bonaparte first rises to national prominence being named to defend the French National Convention against armed counter-revolutionary rioters, 1795

George Washington proclaims the first national Thanksgiving Day will be held on Nov. 26, 1789

American author Edgar Allan Poe is found delirious in a gutter in Baltimore, Maryland under mysterious circumstances; it is the last time he is seen in public before his death, 1849

J.S. Thurman patents a motor-driven vacuum cleaner, 1899

The first conference on wireless telegraphy agrees to adopt SOS as the warning signal and sign of distress, 1906

Leon Trotsky, Adolph Joffe, Matvey Skobelev and other Russian exiles in Vienna, Austria, found the Pravda newspaper, 1908

Mrs. W.H. Felton, of Georgia, becomes the first woman seated in the US Senate, 1922

A V-2 /A4-rocket from Test Stand VII at Peenemünde, Germany is the first man-made object to reach space, 1942

The United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon, 1952

Germany is reunified, 1990

Roy Horn of Siegfried & Roy is attacked by one of the show's tigers, 2003

Archaeologists on the Egypt-Gaza border find the first evidence of a 2,000-year-old city, 2010

The Nobel Prize for Physics is awarded to Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves," 2017

The first exomoon, a moon outside of this solar system and about the size of Neptune, is discovered 8,000 light-years away by astronomers at Columbia University, 2018

Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine awarded to Svante Pääbo for research into the genomes of extinct hominids and sequencing the genome of Neanderthals, 2022

World's longest treasure hunt, based on 11 puzzles originally set by Max Valentin, comes to an end in France after 31 years with the discovery of a golden owl statuette, 2024