Nuttin’ To Do ‘Bout It (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.

I asked Grandma what's going on these days at her house and she said there was nothing new or different, really.  Then, "Sometimes it's nice to be retired!"

Granpère Boudreaux done jes retire an' li'l Tee Boudreaux ax him what he goin' be doin' now.

An' he say, "De firs' t'ing I be goin' do be nuttin', I's jes goin' piddle, putter and procrast'nate."

An' Tee ax, "If you be doin' nuttin', how you know when you be done?"

An' Granpère say, "You don' never git done, dat be de beauty o' de system.  If someone ax me do some'pin I don' wanna do, I can say I don' have time, I be doin' some'pin else!"

Den Tee ax, "An what if someone be axin' what do you do?"

An' Granpère say, "Mais, I jes' goin' say, 'What do I do? 'Bout what?'"

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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.       

Our church has a partnership with a very special program for orphans in Uganda.  They are trying to raise money for a school bus and sent us the children's batik work to sell to raise the funds.  The largest one is being auctioned to the highest bidder (and i believe was done by the teacher).

Ms. GA has a couple of hummingbird feeders, but only one is up now,  I've been watching, and hope to catch some activity soon. 

Skyscapes.  Sometimes a storm blows in from one direction, but the other side of the sky is clear.

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Today is:

Armed Forces Day -- Taiwan

Cromwell's Day -- The Cromwell Association holds a service at his statue on his death date

Day to Mourn All Manifestations of Sexism -- in honor of passage of the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women

Father's Day -- Australia; Fiji; New Zealand; Papua New Guinea

Feast of San Marino and the Republic -- San Marino (A/K/A National Day)

Flag Day -- Australia

Grand Magal de Touba -- Touba, Senegal (Muslim pilgrimage to honor the memory of Sheikh Amadou Bamba; began sunset yesterday, through sunset today)

Harvest Wine Celebration -- Livermore, CA, US (open-house visits to over 40 wineries)

Macchina di Santa Rosa -- Viterbo, Italy (St. Rose, patron of the city, celebration begins this evening at 9pm sharp)

Merchant Navy Remembrance Day -- Canada

National Welsh Rarebit Day

National Wilderness Day -- US (commemorates passage of The Wilderness Act in 1964)

Regata Storical (Historical Regatta) -- Venice, Italy (competition among two-oar racing gondolas, preceded by Venetian ceremonial boats)

Running of the Sheep -- Reed Point, MT (matched only by the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona, hundreds of sturdy Montana bred woolies charge down the six blocks of the main street in town, plus there is a parade!)

Skyscraper Day -- birth anniversary of Louis H. Sullivan in 1856, architect credited with some of the first skyscrapers

St. Gregory the Great's Day (Inventor of Gregorian Chant; Patron of choir boys, educators, masons, musicians, papacy, Popes, schoolchildren, singers, stone masons, stonecutters, students, teachers; England; Kercem, Malta; Legazpi, Philippines; Montone, Italy; San Gregorio nelle Alpi, Italy; West Indes; against gout and plague)

St. Marinus' Day (Patron and founder of San Marino; also Patron of bachelors, deacons, and falsely accused people)

Tokehega Day -- Tokalau (remembrance of the Treaty of Tokehega)

Birthdays Today:

Shaun White, 1986

Kiran Desai, 1971

Charlie Sheen, 1965

Valerie Perrine, 1943

Pauline Collins, 1940

Eileen Brennan, 1937

Alison Lurie, 1926

Anne Jackson, 1926

Mort Walker, 1923

Kitty Carlisle Hart, 1914

Alan Ladd, 1913

Edward Albert Filene, 1860

Louis Henry Sullivan, 1856

John Humphrey Noyes, 1811

Prudence Crandall, 1803

Anna, Duchess of Bedford, 1783 (in 1840, she began the tradition of afternoon tea)

Nicolo Amati, 1596

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"Search for Tomorrow"(TV), 1951

"Poppy"(Musical), 1923

"Funf Orchestrerstucke/Five Pieces for Orchestra"(Schoenberg Op. 16), 1913

"What Every Woman Knows"(Play), 1908

The New York Sun(Newspaper, first of what was to become the Penny Press newspapers), 1833

"Uncle Sam"(Image first used), 1813

Today in History:

Sextus Pompeius, son of Pompey, is defeated in the Battle of Naulochus by Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, admiral of Octavian, which ends the resistance to the Second Triumvirate, BC36

Saint Marinus founds San Marino, one of the smallest nations in the world and the world's oldest republic still in existence, 301

Consecration of Pope Gregory the Great, 590

King Richard I (the Lionheart) crowned, and 30 Jews are massacred as part of the celebration, 1189

Richard Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of England, 1658

The first large group of Swiss and German colonists reach the shores of North and South Carolina areas, 1709

The Flag of the United States is flown in battle for the first time, 1777

Signing of the Treaty of Paris, end of the US Revolutionary War, 1783

John Dalton, English scientist begins using symbols to represent different atomic elements, 1803

The first daily newspaper, a "penny paper", that actually succeeded, The Sun (New York), begins publication, as well as employing the first paper boys, 1833

Outbreak of the Greek revolution against the autocratic rule of King Otto, 1843

William, Prince of Albania, leaves the country after six months because of opposition to his rule, 1914

Sir Malcolm Campbell reaches a speed of 304.331 miles per hour on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, becoming the first person to drive an automobile over 300 mph, 1935

68th and final transport of Dutch Jews, including Anne Frank and her family/friends, leaves for Auschwitz, 1944

Wally Gator premiers, 1962

Dagen H in Sweden: traffic changes from driving on the left to driving on the right overnight, 1967

The Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars, 1976

Russia and the People's Republic of China agree not to target each other with nuclear weapons, 1994

An 87-automobile pile-up happens on Highway 401 freeway just East of Windsor, Ontario, Canada after an unusually thick fog from Lake St. Clair, 1999

Iran's Parliament approves the first woman minister in 30 years, confirming the appointment of Marzieh Vahid Dastjerdi as Minister of Health, 2009

The mobile division of Nokia is purchased by Microsoft for $7.2billion, 2013

Chris the sheep breaks the world record for biggest shorn fleece (40kg / 88lb) near Canberra, Australia, 2015

A 1.4 ton WWII bomb is defused in Frankfurt, Germany with 60,000 people evacuated beforehand as a precaution, 2017

Curators at St. John's College, Annapolis, announce the discovery of a previously unknown text by John Locke, "Reasons for tolerating Papists equally with others," an argument for religious tolerance, 2019