Monday, June 5, 2023

Mr. Cal's Summer 'Do (Awww Monday), Inspiring Quote of the Week, and Poetry Monday

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Awww Monday is hosted by Sandee at Comedy Plus.


Join us every Monday for Awww...Mondays.  Post a picture that makes you say Awww... and that's it.


Make sure you get the code from Sandee's site, linked above, and leave a link to your post so we can visit you.  What better way to start the week than with a smile!


Mr. Cal went for a grooming and he'd fussed so much about being brushed lately, he had some knots that wouldn't come out any other way, so he got a summer buzz cut.



They left his tail poof!







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Sparks is the brainchild of Annie of McGuffy's Reader, who wanted us to post something positive and uplifting at the start of the week.  While she no longer blogs, i like to post an Inspiring Quote of the Week in her honor.    

 






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Poetry Monday was started by Diane at On The Alberta/Montana Border Charlotte/Mother Owl participates, and now Karen at Baking in a Tornado is jumping in at least once a month, too.  Anyone else is welcome to join in the fun, just let Diane know!


This week the theme is Hot Air Balloons.                    

     


The Balloon Festival was coming to town

once more for the summer,

and while i enjoy seeing them,

the big crowds are a bummer.


We live across from a huge school yard

and if we keep our eyes peeled,

especially in the mornings we see

balloons landing or taking off from the field!


It's not the same as the big festival,

but i think that's okay,

we get to see a few of the balloons

and very close up this way!



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Today is:


15th Khordad National Uprising -- Iran (1963)


Apple II Day -- the Apple II first went on sale today in 1977

     note that some historians say it went on sale June 10, others say the first models were shipped out that day

 

Arbor Day -- New Zealand


Birthday of SPB Yang di-Pertuan Agong -- Malaysia (in this elective monarchy, the current king's birthday is celebrated on the first Monday in June, regardless of his actual birth date, although it is moved if it will intersect with Ramadan)


Emanicipation Day -- Tonga (obs.)


Festival of Popular Delusions Day -- begun as this was the last day before D-Day that the Germans could delude themselves that they could win; thus a day to question your own assumptions and try to align your beliefs with facts and reality


Grundlovsdag -- Denmark and the Faroe Island (Constitution Day)


Indian Arrival Day -- Suriname (marking the arrival of indentured laborers from the Indian subcontinent)


Judgement Day -- Fairy Calendar (Nosegays)


June Bank Holiday -- Ireland


King's Birthday -- Cayman Islands; New Zealand; Niue


Liberation Day -- Seychelles


Natalicio de Oblang Nguema Mbasogo -- Equatorial Guinea (President's Day)


National Attitude Day -- if this is really a day to celebrate, try to have a positive one


National Gingerbread Day


National Moonshine Day -- with its own sponsor     


Nones of June -- Ancient Roman Calendar; related observance

     Festival of Semo Sancus -- god of loyalty, honesty and oaths (one of the oldest Roman cults, probably Etruscan or Oscan originally)


St. Boniface's Day (Patron of brewers, file cutters, tailors; Fulda, Germany; Germany; Saint-Boniface, Manitoba, Canada)


Western Australia Day -- Western Australia (formerly called Foundation Day)


Whit Monday -- Orthodox Churches


World Environment Day -- UN (this year's theme, "Connecting People to Nature") 



Birthdays Today:


Chad Allen, 1974

Mark Wahlberg, 1971

Brian McKnight, 1969

Kenny G, 1956

Jill Biden, 1951

Suze Orman, 1951

Ken Follett, 1949

Spalding Gray, 1941

Margaret Drabble, 1939

Bill Moyers, 1934

Tony Richardson, 1928

Richard Mcclure Scarry, 1919

William "Hopalong Cassidy" Boyd, 1895

Panco Villa, 1878

Adam Smith, 1723 (O.S. Date)

Thomas Chippendale, 1718

Pu Songling, 1640



Today in History:


Traditional date for the sinking of Atlantis, 8498BC

Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem  in the Siege of Jerusalem, 70

Kraków, Poland  receives city  rights, 1257

The first Great Lakes steamer, the Frontenac, is launched, 1817

Houston, Texas is incorporated by the Republic of Texas, 1837

Denmark  becomes a constitutional monarchy, 1849

Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery serial, Uncle Tom's Cabin or, Life Among the Lowly starts a ten-month run in the National Era abolitionist newspaper, 1851

Denmark  amends its constitution to allow women's suffrage, 1915

Elvis Presley introduces his new single, "Hound Dog", on The Milton Berle Show, scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip movements, 1956

The first government of the State of Singapore is sworn in, 1959

The Apple II, the first practical personal computer, goes on sale, 1977

Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi orders an attack on the Golden Temple, the holiest site of the Sikh religion, 1984

A severe heat wave across Pakistan  and India  reaches its peak, as temperatures exceed 50°C (122°F) in the region, 2003

The planet Venus makes its last transit of the 21st century beginning at 22:09 UTC June 5, and ending 4:49 UTC June 6, 2012

The Swiss vote to reject the referendum to give each citizen a guaranteed income of $2,500 Swiss francs per month, 2015

Puerto Rico declares its Zika virus outbreak to be over, 2017

Montenegro joins NATO, becoming its 29th member, 2017

The science journal Environmental Science and Technology publishes a study which estimates that the average person ingests 50,000 pieces of microplastic each year, and breathes in a similar amount, 2019

At least 50  worshippers are killed by gunman armed with explosives at St Francis Catholic Church, Owo, south-western Nigeria, 2022

Sunday, June 4, 2023

In the Nick of Time (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.


Nephew Dre was visiting at Grandma and Grandpa's house yesterday, he's out of school for the summer so came to stay for a bit.


He's got a learner's permit for driving, and he and Grandpa wanted to go somewhere together so of course, he wanted to drive.


Grandpa quipped, "Sure, my will is up to date!"


Boudreaux be watchin' de TV an' done see de commercial 'bout de estate plannin'.


He say, "Dey allus be sayin', 'Get you will done befo' it's too late.  Mais!  Do dere be any diff'ernt option?"



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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.        


Flowers, a couple of Memorial Day displays, the view outside Ms. JAI's new place, and skyscapes.






































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Today is:


Audacity to Hope Day -- to encourage all to have the audacity to keep hope


Children's Awareness Memorial Day -- a day to remember children who have died from violence


Emancipation Day -- Tonga (trad.)


Father's Day -- Lithuania; Switzerland


Festival for Hercules Custos -- Ancient Roman Calendar (Hercules the Custodian)


Flag Day -- Estonia


Flag Day -- Finland (Armed Forces observe the birth anniversary of Carl Gustaf Mannerheim)


Full Strawberry Moon / Rose Moon; related observances

     Ancient Celtic month Equos (horse-time) begins

     Nayon Full Moon -- Mayanmar

     Poson Full Moon Poya Day -- Sri Lanka


Hug Your Cat Day -- yet another date for this noted on many sites; if you celebrate all of them, your cat will be well hugged! 


International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression -- UN


Jarila's Day -- Asatru/Slavic Pagan Calendar (Festival of Jarila, god of the sun and fertility)


Lassie Day -- the first dog to play the role of Lassie, in the movie Lassie, Come Home, was born this day in 1940


Lord Buddha's Parinirvana -- Bhutan


Mother's Day -- France; French Antilles


National Cancer Survivors Day -- US (National Cancer Survivors Day Foundation)   


National Cheese Day -- not to be confused with Cheese Lover's Day earlier in the year


National Cognac Day


National Frozen Yogurt Day -- not to be confused with the Frozen Yogurt Day celebrated on Feb. 6 in Los Angeles, where the temperatures make such a thing possible


National Unity Day -- Hungary


Old Maid's Day -- supposedly established after WWII, when there were so many eligible young ladies who weren't getting any younger


Plynteria -- Ancient Greek Calendar (festival in Athens in honor of Athena; date approximate)


Procession of the Golden Chariot and the Battle of Lumecon -- Mons, Belgium (a horse-drawn coach carrying the relics of St. Waudry circles the town to commemorate the delivery of Mons from plague in 1349, and in the afternoon, the Fraternity of St. George reenact the Battle, with St. George defeating the dragon)


Sjómannadagurinn -- Iceland (traditional Seaman's Day was alternately celebrated June 6 or the first Sunday of June, depending on which authority you ask, but is now a weekend long Festival of the Sea)


St. Petroc's Day (Patron of Cornwall and Wales, as well as many locations in Cornwall, Wales, and England, and Saint-Meen, France)


Trinity Sunday -- Christian


Whit Sunday -- Orthodox Churches



Birthdays Today:


Evan Lysacek, 1985

Russell Brand, 1975

Angelina Jolie, 1975

Noah Wyle, 1971

James Callis, 1971

Scott Wolf, 1968

Cecilia Bartoli, 1966

Sam Harris, 1961

Eldra DeBarge, 1961

Keith David, 1956

Parker Stevenson, 1953

George Noory, 1950

Bettina Gregory, 1946

Michelle Phillips, 1944

Joyce Meyer, 1943

Freddy Fender, 1937

Bruce Dern, 1936

John Drew Barrymore, 1932

Dr. Ruth Westheimer, 1928

Dennis Weaver, 1924

Robert Merrill, 1919

Rosalind Russell, 1907

George III, 1738

Aesop, BCE620 (not certain, but close enough)



Debuting/Premiering Today:


"Born in the USA"(Album release), 1984

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan(Film), 1982

"Cavalcade of Stars"(TV), 1949



Today in History:


Chinese astronomers make the first recording of a solar eclipse, BC781

Sir Walter Raleigh establishes the first English colony on Roanoke Island, old Virginia (now North Carolina), 1584

Forces under the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu take Osaka Castle in Japan, 1615

New England planters arrive to claim land in Nova Scotia, Canada taken from the Acadians, 1760

A transit of Venus is followed five hours later by a total solar eclipse, the shortest such interval in history, 1769

The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their montgolfière (hot air balloon), 1783

Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for the Kingdom of Great Britain, 1792

The Ottoman Empire cedes Cyprus to the United Kingdom but retains nominal title, 1878

Henry Ford test drives his first prototype automobile, the Ford Quadricycle, 1896

Massachusetts becomes the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage, 1912

A patent for the ATM is granted to Donald Wetzel, Tom Barnes and George Chastain, 1973

The Tiananmen Square protests are violently ended in Beijing by the People's Liberation Army, 1989

Solidarity's victory in the first (somewhat) free parliamentary elections in post-war Poland sparks off a succession of peaceful anti-communist revolutions in Eastern Europe, 1989

Falcon 9 Flight 1 was the maiden flight of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket,2010

Negotiations break down between Greece's leftist Syriza government and the European Union regarding issuance of additional bailout funding, 2015

A State of Emergency is declared after 20,000 tonnes of diesel oil spills near the Russian city of Norilsk, Siberia within the Arctic Circle, 2020

Nepalese Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli makes a desperate plea for vaccines amid his country's devastating COVID-19 second wave, 2021