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Sunday, September 17, 2023

She Should Have Known (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.


Grandma doesn't go to a restaurant often any longer, but she does enjoy some restaurant meals.  One place has a salad she never gets tired of and has us order for her time and again.  She always loves it with her favorite bread on the side.


Boudreaux be in hims fav'rite rest'rant an' he hears him a touris' lady ax, "And do you have some really good French bread here?"


An' de waitress, Emilie, done say, "Mais, oui! dis be de French rest'rant, all de bread be French!"



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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.       


Not much this week, i've got to make more time for snapping some photos in the next few days.







The best pink i could find this week, a rose pictured on a calendar.

A client's great-grandparents.













Even between downtown buildings, there's a delightful sky.




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Today is:


Birthday of Crown Prince Tupouto'a 'Ulukalala -- Tonga


Citizenship Day -- US


Eleven Days of Global Unity -- Day 7, Women (sponsored by We, the World


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


Fundacion de Melilla -- ML, Spain


Hari Taika/Haritalika (Teej) -- CG, India; Nepal (Women's Festival, and in Nepal, a special holiday for Female Employees Only, to celebrate marriage)


International Country Music Day


National Apple Dumpling Day


National Back to Church Sunday -- US (encouraging every church goer to invite just one person to come along, as studies show many people say they would go, if they were invited)     


National Gymnastics Day -- US (sponsored by USA Gymnastics     



National Heroes Day -- Angola


National Neighborhood Day -- US (The Good Feeling That Lasts All Year


Niketeria -- Ancient Greek Calendar (date approximate)


Operation Market Garden Remembrance -- Netherlands


Rosh Hashanah -- Judaism (ends today at evening)


Stigmata of St. Francis' Day


St. Hildegard von Bingen's Day (author of treatises on natural healing and the first musical composer whose biography is known)


St. Lambert's Day (Patron of Middelaar, Netherlands)


Time's Up Day -- created by Wellcat Holidays; time's up on holding that grudge, you need to make amends with people today, since you aren't guaranteed a tomorrow


Tolkien Week begins (always the Sun - Sat that includes Hobbit Day, Sept. 22)


VFW Ladies Auxiliary Day -- anniversary of founding in 1914


Wife Appreciation Day -- unofficially celebrated the 3rd Sunday in September



Anniversary Today:


The Constitution of the United States is signed, 1787

American Professional Football League (later the NFL) founded (a/k/a the Swallowing Up of Weekends), 1920




Birthdays Today:


Chuck Liddell, 1969

Kyle Chandler, 1965

Rita Rudner, 1956

Cassandra "Elvira" Peterson, 1951

John Ritter, 1948

David H. Souter, 1974

Ken Kesey, 1935

Maureen Conolly, 1934

Anne Bancroft, 1931

Roddy McDowall, 1928

George Blanda, 1927

Hank Williams Sr., 1923

Chaim Herzog, 1918

Warren E. Burger, 1907

Jerry Colonna, 1904

John Willard Marriot, 1900

Andrew "Rube" Foster, 1879

Baron Friedrich Von Steuben, 1730



Debuting/Premiering Today:


"Home Improvement"(TV), 1991

"Head of the Class"(TV), 1986

"M*A*S*H"(TV), 1972

"McMillan and Wife"(TV), 1971

"Mission: Impossible"(TV), 1966

"Bewitched"(TV), 1964

"The Fugitive"(TV), 1963

"Car 54 Where are You?"(TV), 1961

"Outward Bound"(Play), 1923



Today in History:


The Battle of Thermopylae, fought between 300 Spartans, led by their king, Leonidas, and the Achaemenid Empire begins, BC480

Arabs conquer Alexandria, and destroy its library for the last time, 642

Netherland sailors discover Mauritius, 1598

Massachusetts Bay Colony gets a new charter, 1691

Presidio of San Francisco is founded in New Spain, 1776

US Constitution is adopted by the Philadelphia convention, 1787

Sprinkler system for extinguishing fires is patented by Phillip W. Pratt, 1872

The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes killing Selfridge, who becomes the first airplane fatality, 1908

The first transcontinental airplane flight, from New York to Pasadena, is completed after 82 hours 4 minutes, 1911

The Okeechobee Hurricane strikes southeastern Florida, killing upwards 

of 2,500 people, the third deadliest natural disaster in United States history, behind the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, 1928

The Canadian steamship SS Noronic burns in Toronto Harbour with the loss of over 118 lives, 1949

Television is first broadcast in Australia, 1956

Malaysia joins the United Nations, 1957

Bangladesh, Grenada and Guinea-Bissau join the United Nations, 1974

The first Space Shuttle, Enterprise, is unveiled by NASA, 1976

The Camp David Accords are signed by Israel and Egypt, 1978

Vanessa Williams becomes the first black Miss America, 1983

Estonia, North Korea, South Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, the Marshall Islands and Micronesia join the United Nations, 1991

The first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) is released to the Internet, 1991

Fourpeaked Mountain in Alaska erupts, marking the first eruption for the long-dormant volcano in at least 10,000 years, 2006

A drill finally reaches the 33 Chilean miners trapped after the Aug. 5 Copiapo mining accident, 2010 

In an attempt to curb child marriages, Indonesia raises the legal marriage age of females to 19, the same as males, 2019

Seventy years after they were declared extinct in India, cheetahs are re-introduced to India from Namibia at the Kuno National Park in Madya Pradesh state, 2022

9 comments:

  1. Yet another truly lovely selection. I hope that you get a little more time this week and are not so busy.

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  2. And who wouldn't like to have french bread in a French restaurant?. Your pictures are just beautiful today they make for a great Sunday. I hope yours is a wonderful and peaceful day.

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  3. Fun Cajun joke ~ and lovely series of photos ~ Xo

    Wishing you good health, laughter and love in your days,
    A ShutterBug Explores,
    aka (A Creative Harbor)

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  4. Your photos are beautiful. Perfect for today! Thank you for sharing them.

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  5. Beautiful photographs specially the sculped furniture, and the Sun, early in the morning.

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  6. Oh, I have a favorite salad out too, yum. Terrific photos, I like those doors.

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  7. Amazing pics...I loved the carvings, in particular! :)

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  8. Hahaha! Yep. All the bread in a French restaurant would definitely be French. Now as to whether it's the 'right' French...

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