Sunday, August 29, 2021

Victory (Cajun Joke) and Sunday Selections

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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.


Sometimes Sweetie forgets stuff, and so do i.  Most of it, now that he's over the Covid, is age related.  (For a while, his brain fog was bad, and he will still do something really odd on occasion, that i know means he's still not back to 100%.)


Boudreaux done be braggin' to Thibodeaux.


"Mais!  Yestiddy I done 'member what I went in de nex' room fo'.  O' course, it were de bat'room, but still!"



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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.  It was hosted by River, who still participates, and is now hosted by Elephant's Child.       


A bit of this and that.


A very hard-working spider at Ms. GA's house.

Someone commented about the crepe myrtle trees looking a bit odd.  They shed their outer bark, and it comes off in rolls.  Some people don't like these trees for that reason, they're kind of messy, especially when they are also dropping flowers.  




We saw a rainbow this week.  







Little Girl is on orders so we have Coda with us.  Tripod SissyCat decided to play with her leash.







Let's end with sunrise and sunset photos.












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Today is:


According to Hoyle Day -- death anniversary of Edmond Hoyle


Be Kind to Humankind Week: Sacrifice Our Wants For others Needs Sunday 


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


Chop Suey Day


Day of Loose Talk -- Fairy Calendar


Feast of the Beheading of St. John the Baptist (Patron of baptism, bird dealers, converts, convulsive children, cutters, epileptics, farmers, French Canadians, lambs, monastic life, motorways, printers, tailors; over 70 cities and countries around the world; against convulsions, epilepsy, hail and hailstorms, spasms)

     Head Day -- Iceland (a weather omen day; whatever today's weather, it will stay the same for at least 3 weeks)


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)     


Individual Rights Day -- on the birth anniversary of John Locke, the first philosopher to argue that a human being has basic rights based on his status as a sovereign human being, and that people are not slaves of their government, but their human rights should be protected by government


International Day Against Nuclear Testing -- UN


Judgment Day -- according to "The Terminator"


Lemon Juice Day


More Herbs, Less Salt Day


National Sarcoidosis Awareness Day -- US (by presidential proclamation in 1991)


Runic Half-Month Rad begins (Motion)


Slovak National Uprising Anniversary -- Slovakia


St. Medericus' Day (also called Saint-Merri or St. Merry, acclaimed as the Patron of the Right Bank of the Seine River in Paris)



Birthdays Today:


Lea Michele, 1986

Rebecca De Mornay, 1962

Mark Morris, 1956

Michael Jackson, 1958

`Richard Gere, 1949

Robin Leach, 1941

William Friedkin, 1939

Elliot Gould, 1938

John McCain, 1936

Richard Attenborough, 1923

Charlie "Bird" Parker, 1920

Isabel Sanford, 1917

Ingrid Bergman, 1915

Preston Sturges, 1898

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., 1809

John Locke, 1632



Today in History


Era of Diocletian (Martyrs), the last major time of persecution for the early Christian churches, begins with Gen. Gaius Aurelius V Diocletianus Jovius becoming emperor of Rome, 284

Japan mints its first copper coins, 708

The last Incan King of Peru, Atahualpa, is executed by order of Francisco Pizarro, 1533

The first Indian "reservation" is formed by the New Jersey Legislature, 1758

Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction, 1831

The United Kingdom legislates the abolition of slavery in its empire, 1833

Treaty of Nanking signing ends the First Opium War, 1842

The first motorcycle is patented in Germany by Gottlieb Daimler, 1885

The chef of a visiting Chinese Ambassador invents "chop suey" in NYC, 1896

The Goodyear tire company is founded, 1898

The Quebec Bridge collapses during construction, killing 75 workers, 1907

Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California, 1911

The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, 1949

Speedy Gonzales makes his debut, 1953

The Beatles perform their last concert before paying fans at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, 1966

Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union suspends all activities of the Soviet Communist Party, 1991

Hurricane Katrina devastates much of the U.S. Gulf Coast, 2005

Sumatra's Sinabung volcano erupts for the first time in 400 years, killing one and causing Indonesia to evacuate thousands of people, 2010

London holds the opening ceremonies for the 2012 Summer Paralympics, 2012

Austrian researchers announce they successfully grew 'cerebral organoids' or mini-brains, containing several distinct regions of the brain; the mini-brains will help scientists understand how brains develop, and what causes schizophrenia and autism, 2013

Hurricane Harvey sets a rainfall record of 51.88 inches in Cedar Bayou the most ever from a tropical cyclone in continental US, according to US National Weather Service, 2017

John McCain lies in state in the rotunda of the Arizona State Capitol Building in Phoenix, only the third person ever to do so, 2018

12 comments:

  1. Any day with a rainbow is immediately improved. I liked them all, but the rainbow series is my favourite this week.

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  2. Such beautiful photos. Y'all take care and be safe from that evil Ida storm.

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  3. Cute joke. I forget a lot lately too. Beautiful rainbow. I am glad SissyCat is so playful. XO

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  4. At my age, I forget a lot. When we see a rainbow, we think of my mother.
    Keep safe Mimi.

    Cruisin Paul

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  5. Thank you for explaining the creeping myrtles and their bark. I love your photos this time too - what good photos of the rainbow, mine never turns out this well. And Sunsets and sunrises are never wrong!

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  6. Beautiful rainbow. We have crepe myrtles here too and I quite like the rolled bark effect. Coda is looking well. Boudreaux always makes me laugh.

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  7. Love the spider! I did not know about Crepe Myrtles. We have arbutus trees that shed their bark, their is much messier! I loved your photos, especially the rainbows and Coda! And I just found out that Speedy Gonzales is older than I am (by 4 months). Have a terrific week Mimi!

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  8. Coda is one handsome doggie ~ and great sunset photos ~ Hope all is well ~ Xo

    Living in the moment,

    A ShutterBug Explores,
    aka (A Creative Harbor)

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  9. cute babies. hope all is well

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  10. Hahahaha! Boudreaux just slays me!
    Trees, Rainbows, dogs and sunsets. My four favourite things! :)

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  11. Giggles here thanks to Boudreaux - hahaha! A rainbow will always brighten your day. Coda and SissyCat seem to get along nicely. Lovely photos. Thank you and have a blessed week.

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