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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 is more and more loathe to get out of her bed long enough for me to remake it each week.
Tee done be whinin' to hims Mère, "What fo' I gots to make de bed?"
An' Clothile say, "Mais, garçon, I's not axin' you to get out de tools an' de wood an' 'make' you de whole new bed, I's jes' axin' you to get dis one's clothes on!"
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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 Carnival Time and some people put up fun decorations. These are just door decor at two places.
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This week, Abby wants to join the Kitties Blue at The Cat On My Head for their Sunday Selfies Blog Hop.
Abby is back with Uncle J (sometimes she's with Bryn). This is her "catch me if you can" selfie series.
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| No, I won't look. |
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| Well, a peek. |
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| Oh, you caught me! |
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It's Super Bowl Sunday! This means it is also:
National Popcorn Day
Souper Bowl of Caring (turn your Super Bowl Party into a way to help people in your community)
(Thanks to Barb Kowalik and The Cat Blogosphere the event badge.)
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Today is:
Boy Scout Day -- celebrates the birthday of Scouting in the US
Scout Sunday -- BSA (Boy Scouts are encouraged to wear their uniforms to church services today and represent scouting to their congregations)
Cowtown's Last Old West Gunfight -- White Elephant Saloon, Fort Worth, TX, US (annual reenactment of the last gunfight in what was then Cowtown, between White Elephant Saloon owner Luke Short and former marshal T.I. “Longhaired Jim” Courtright on this date in 1887)
Hari Kuyo -- Sensouji Temple, Japan (Festival of Broken Needles, in which all of the worn or broken sewing needles from the previous year are put in a sacred resting place.)
Hold Onto Your Head Day -- invented by someone for people like me, because heaven knows i'm losing mine!
Igbi -- Shaitli and Kituri among the Avar ethnic group, Dagestan, Russia (midwinter celebration, through the 5th, which is the first day the sun is expected to return to shine on the towns here)
International Flirting Week -- always the Sun-Sat that encompasses Valentine's Day; if you are married, flirt with your mate, it's fun!
Laugh and Get Rich Day -- a day to recognize the power of laughter
Love May Make the World Go 'round, But Laughter Keeps Us from Getting Dizzy Week -- annually, the week before and including Valentine's Day; dedicated to Victor Borge’s notion that “Laughter is the shortest distance between two people” and Joel Goodman’s notion that “Seven days without laughter makes one weak.”
Man Day -- always the Sunday before Valentine's Day, sponsored by C. Daniel Rhodes
National Molasses Bar Day
Preseren's Day -- Slovenia (Honors their national poet, France Preseren, often called Day of Slovenian Culture)
Prodigal Son Sunday -- Orthodox Christian
Random Acts of Kindness Week -- always Valentine's Week
Rebel Day -- birth anniversary of James Dean
St. Jerome Emilani's Day (Patron of orphans; Taos Indian Pueblo)
Tako-ichi -- Kita-ku, Tokyo, Japan (kite fair dating back to the Edo period)
World Marriage Day -- sponsored by Worldwide Marriage Encounter
Anniversary Today:
Founding of Universiteit Leiden, with the motto Praesidium Libertatis, 1575
Birthdays Today:
Josh Keaton, 1979
David "Phoenix" Farrell, 1977
Seth Green, 1974
Alonzo Mourning, 1970
Gary Coleman, 1968
Claudette Pace, 1968
Vince Neil, 1961
John Grisham, 1955
Mary Steenburgen, 1953
Brooke Adams, 1949
Robert Klein, 1942
Nick Nolte, 1941
Ted Koppel, 1940
John Williams, 1932
James Dean, 1931
Jack Lemmon, 1925
Audrey Meadows, 1924
Freddie Blassie, 1921
Lana Turner, 1921
Elizabeth Bishop, 1911
Lyle Talbot, 1902
William Tecumseh Sherman, 1820
Jules Verne, 1828
Samuel Butler, 1612
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Good Times"(TV), 1974
"RCA Victor Show Starring Dennis Day"(TV), 1952
"Danses Concertantes"(Stravinsky Ballet), 1942
"Two for the Show"(Musical), 1940
"The Plough and the Stars"(Play), 1926
"The Stars and Stripes"(US Armed Forces Newspaper), 1918
"The Birth of a Nation"(Film), 1915
"Boris Godunov"(Mussorgsky Opera), 1874
"Flora; or the Hob in the Well"(Cibber's Opera, first opera performed in the Colonies), 1735
Today in History:
Mary, Queen of Scots, is executed on suspicion of having been involved in the Babington Plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I, 1587
Isaac Newton reads his first optics paper before the Royal Society in London, 1672
French and Indian troops set Schenectady, NY, afire, 1690
A doctor in Salem Village, Massachusetts Bay Colony suggests that two girls in the family of the village minister may be suffering from bewitchment, leading to the Salem witch trials, 1692
The Supreme Privy Council is established in Russia, 1726
The first opera in the US, "Flora," opens in South Carolina, 1735
A minor earthquake shakes London, 1750
The strange phenomenon called the "Devil's Footprints" mysteriously appear in Devon, England, 1855
Martin Robinson Delany becomes the first black major in the US Army, 1865
The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce, 1910
D.W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles, 1915
The Stars and Stripes newspaper is published for the first time, 1918
Swiss men vote against women's suffrage, 1920
Radio arrives at the White House, 1922
Allende meteorite falls near Pueblito de Allende, Chihuahua, Mexico, 1969
The NASDAQ stock market index opens for the first time, 1971
After 84 days in space, the crew of the first American space station Skylab returns to Earth, 1974
The Melbourne dust storm hits Australia's second largest city. The result of the worst drought on record and a day of severe weather conditions, a 320 metres (1,050 ft) deep dust cloud envelops the city, turning day to night, 1983
The massive Internet collaboration "24 Hours in Cyberspace" takes place, 1996
A freak storm in the Hindukush mountains of Afghanistan triggers a series of at least 36 avalanches, 2010
Noriaki Kasai of Japan becomes first athlete in history to participate in 8 Winter Olympics, 2018
King Vajiralongkorn of Thailand issues a royal decree calling Princess Ubolratana's candidacy for Prime Minister for the Thai Raksa Chart political party “improper and highly inappropriate”, 2019
After 3 years with no rainy season, the Horn of Africa is declared to be in drought and on the brink of a humanitarian crisis by the UN, 2022
