Mitigation (Cajun Joke), Sunday Selections and Sunday Selfie

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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.

Once again, Grandma and i were talking about forgetfulness and this led to a discussion about funerals, which reminded me of this gem.

Boudreaux an' Gaston be de bes' o' frien's an' de worse o' enemies, since Gaston done be de car mechanic, so dey's allus arguin' over what be wrong wit' Boudreaux's car an' how much to done fix it.

One day, Boudreaux done hear him Gaston say, "When I die, I want me some o' dem Jewish people dat be de professional what-you-call-em, wailers!  Dat be it, dey wail an' cry an' carry on at de funeral.  I wants me some o' dem at my funeral."

An' Boudreaux say, "Mais, do dat be to  make up fo' de sound o' all dem people goin' be dancin' and singin' an' celebratin'?"

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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.        

Mr. BA's garden was busy, so i stopped to see if i could get anyone to pose.

Ms. Bee says, "Yes, I was upside down, and I liked it that way!"

Well, there was a bee here just a moment ago.

Ah, there he is!

These were just some pretty flowers i snapped at a store.

These yellow butterflies wouldn't land for anything, but somehow in snapping photos i happened to get two of them flying past!

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This week, Lulu wants to join the Kitties Blue at The Cat On My Head for their Sunday Selfies Blog Hop.   

Grandma and Grandpa got some sad news about Lulu this week.  She went for her regular vet visit and they found a mass on her liver, they are certain it is cancer, mostly because of size, shape, and her current liver values.

The vet told Grandma and Grandpa they could do surgical biopsies and start a treatment protocol, and their first question was, "Will she be in any pain?"

The vet admitted she would be in significant pain from biopsies and even more so if they had to do surgeries to remove the mass, and the treatments would make her feel awful.

"How much time would this get her?" was their second question.

The answer was, no guarantees, but maybe 6 months or so.

Their answer was simple.  They are not going to have her in pain, sick and miserable just to give her a few more months.  As long as she is eating, running across the house to bark every time the doorbell rings, begging for treats and belly rubs, and enjoying chasing any lizards, birds and squirrels which dare get in the back yard, well and good.  The moment she tells them it's not fun any more, they will sadly say good-bye, but they will not let her suffer.

These are her, "I'm feeling okay for now," selfies.

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Today is:

Assassination of the Hero of the Nation Day/Prince Rwagasore Day -- Burundi (Commemorates the assassination of Prince Louis Rwagasore in 1961.)

Cirio de Nazare -- Belem, Brazil (two week Feast of Cirio begins in Belem [St. Mary of Bethlehem])

Clean the Crumbs Out of the Broiler Oven Day -- keep it working longer, and prevent a potential fire; catch the toaster and toaster oven while you're at it!

Clergy Appreciation Day

Durga Puja -- Hindu (celebration of the goddess Durga)

Earth Science Week -- US (this year's theme, "Earth Science Everywhere")  

Fontinalia -- Ancient Roman Calendar (garlanding of fountains)

Grandmother's Day -- FL, US

H.M. King Bhumibol Adulyadeg The Great Memorial Day -- Thailand

International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction -- UN     

International Skeptics Day -- while there are skeptic organizations around the globe, there's no documentation of this being celebrated internationally; maybe the creator of the day wanted us to be skeptical about it?

John Peel Day -- UK (in honor of his last broadcast)

Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day 

Modern Mythology Day -- internet generated, go look up a few modern myths on truthorfiction.net or snopes and have a good laugh

Naha Tug-of-War Festival -- Okinawa, Japan (tug-of-war involving a 27 ton rope)

National M&M Day

National Yorkshire Pudding Day

Navy Establishment Day -- US

Runic Half-month Wyn (joy) begins

St. Colman's Day (Patron of horned cattle, horses, and those who are to be hanged; Austria; against death by hanging and plague; a blessing of horses and cattle is still held at Melk on this day)

St. Edward the Confessor's Day (Patron of kings, those in difficult marriages, separated spouses; the English Royal Family)

Train Your Brain Day -- spread around the internet by no one knows whom, but today is a good day to commit to doing what you can to keep your brain young

Warai Matsuri -- Kawanabe, Wakayama, Japan (a laughing festival, in which wine flows and this place earns its name as one of the happiest places on earth; one legend about the laughter is that one of the spirits of the shrine didn't wake in time for a meeting, and was laughed at, so now everyone laughs)

White Sunday -- Samoa and American Samoa (children wear white to church and run the church services, are served a special meal, and recieve new church clothes for the upcoming year)

Anniversaries Today:

Founding of Georgia Institute of Technology (Ga. Tech), 1885

Cornerstone of the White House laid, 1792

US Navy is authorized by the Continental Congress, 1775

Birthdays Today:

Ashanti, 1980

Sacha Baron Cohen, 1971

Nancy Kerrigan, 1969

Kate Walsh, 1967

Kelly Preston, 1962

Jerry Rice, 1962

Glenn Anton "Doc" Rivers, 1961

Marie Osmond, 1959

Chris Carter, 1957

Sammy Hagar, 1947

Pamela Tiffin, 1942

Paul Simon, 1941

Melinda Dillon, 1939

Nan Mouskouri, 1934

Jesse Leroy Brown, 1926

Lenny Bruce, 1925

Margaret Thatcher, 1925

Nipsey Russell, 1924

Yves Montand, 1921

Cornel Wilde, 1915

L. L. Bean, 1872

Rudolf Virchow, 1821

Mary Hays "Molly Pitcher" McCauley, 1754

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"(Play), 1962

"Kukla, Fran and Ollie"(TV), 1947

Today in History:

Nero becomes emperor, 54

The Vandals and Alans cross the Pyrenees and appear in Hispania, 409

Rabbi Issac Abarbanel begins his exegesis on the Torah, 1483

Jonathan Swift publishes the last of Drapier's letters, 1724

Charles Messier discovers the Whirlpool Galaxy, 1773

First publication of the "Old Farmer's Almanac", 1792

George Washington lays the cornerstone of the "Executive Mansion" (White House), 1792

Founding of B'nai B'rith, 1843

The first arial photo taken in the US, from a balloon over Boston, 1860

Eliezer Ben-Yehuda & friends agree to use Hebrew exclusively in their conversations, which begins the revival of it as an active and growing language, 1881

Greenwich, in London, England, is established as Universal Time meridian of longitude, 1884

Edward Emerson Barnard discovers D/1892 T1, the first comet discovered by photographic means, on the night of October 13–14, 1892

Ankara replaces Istanbul as the capital of Turkey, 1923

Premier of "Kukla, Fran, & Ollie", 1947

Fiji joins the United Nations, 1970

The first electron micrograph of an Ebola viral particle was obtained by Dr. F.A. Murphy, now at U.C. Davis, who was then working at the C.D.C, 1976

Ameritech Mobile Communications (now AT&T) launched the first US cellular network in Chicago, Illinois, 1983

End of the Lebanese Civil War, 1990

The 2010 Copiapó mining accident in Copiapó, Chile comes to an end as all 33 miners arrive at the surface after surviving a record 69 days underground awaiting rescue, 2010

In China, 23 elder members of the Communist Party of China call for ending the country's restrictions on free speech, 2010

Singer-songwriter Bob Dylan is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, 2016

Simone Biles becomes the most decorated gymnast in history when she wins a record 25th medal at the World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany, 2019

Kenya's Brigid Kosgei sets a new world record of 2:14.04 for the women's marathon in Chicago, beating Paula Radcliffe's 16-year-old mark, 2019

Turkey's Rumeysa Gelgi, age 24, is confirmed as World's tallest living woman by Guinness World Records at 215.16cm (7ft 0.7in), 2021

William Shatner becomes the oldest person to reach space, travelling aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket on a 10 minute flight, 2021

NASA launches a spacecraft to explore the metal-rich asteroid Psyche, which is the largest metallic object in the Solar System, 2023