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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.
Even though i cleaned Grandma and Grandpa’s house Friday doesn’t mean everything will be spotless when we arrive Thursday to cook and serve the Thanksgiving meal. Grandma agrees cleaning assignments will be handed out to anyone who wants to eat.
Clothile done tole de fam’ly dey’s gonna need he’p wit’ de cleanin’ befo’ de company come at T’anksgivin’. If she be goin’ done do de cookin’, dey gots to do de cleaning.
Boudreaux done be in charge o’ who does what cleanin’, an’ he tell Tee, “Garçon, you be done goin’ do de vacuumin’.”
An’ Tee ax, “Do I have to vacuum de whole house?”
An’ Boudreaux say, “Mais, non, jes’ de floo’s!”
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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.
Again, as i run from place to place, i try to get photos.
These mushrooms in yards are not something i've seen before. The yellow specks on them is ant treatment.
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This week, Jack wants to join the Kitties Blue at The Cat On My Head for their Sunday Selfies Blog Hop.
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Today is:
Brumalia -- Byzantine Empire celebration of Dionysius and New Wine Festival; until the solstice
Celebrate Your Unique Talent Day -- there used to be a website associated with this day, but it closed; that's no reason for you not to celebrate your uniqueness!
Celebration of Christ The King -- Christian (final Sunday of the Ecclesiastical Year) related observance
Celtic Tree Month Ruish (Elder) begins
D.B. Cooper Day -- anniversary of the 1971 hijacking
Discovery Day -- Tasmania (by Abel Tasman in 1642)
Evolution Day -- On the Origin of Species published this day in 1859
Feast of the Martyrs of Vietnam -- Roman Catholic Church
Guru Tegh Bahadur Martyrdom - Sikh
Lachit Divas -- Assam, India
National Farm-City Week -- US (on the week of Thanksgiving, remember that it's the farmers, ranchers and growers who supply your celebratory foods)
National Sardines Day
Persephone Day (a/k/a Kore -- Ancient Greek Calendar (celebration of her as wheel goddess of the underworld; date approximate, but she is often associated with St. Catherine)
Ragtime Day -- birth anniversary of Scott Joplin
St. Colman of Cloyne's Day (Patron of Cloyne, Ireland)
St. Joachim Ho's Day -- a Martyr of China
St. Mary of Cordoba's Day (Patron of martyrs)
Teacher's Day -- Turkey
Totensonntag/Ewigkeitssonntag -- Germany (Sunday of the Dead/Eternity Sunday; a general celebration and memorial of all who have died, decreed to be celebrated in Lutheran Churches by King Frederick William III of Prussia in 1816)
Use Even If Seal is Broken Day -- internet generated; observe at your own risk, always!
Birthdays Today:
Katherine Heigl, 1978
Brad Sherwood, 1964
Stanley Livingston, 1950
Rudy Tomjanovich, 1948
Dwight Schultz, 1947
Oscar Palmer Robertson, 1938
William F. Buckley, Jr., 1925
Howard Duff, 1913
Charles "Lucky" Luciano, 1897
Dale Carnegie, 1888
Erich von Manstein, 1887
Alben William Barkley, 1877
Scott Joplin, 1868
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1864
Bat Masterson, 1853
Frances Hodgson Burnett, 1849
Bram Stoker, 1847
Zachary Taylor, 1784
Laurence Sterne, 1713
Charles Theodore Pachelbel, 1690
Baruch Spinoza, 1632(O.S. date)
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Guys and Dolls"(Musical), 1950
Softball, as a sport, invented this day as a spur of the moment game at the Farragut Boat Club in Chicago, IL, US, 1887
Today in History:
Theodosius I makes his formal entry into Constantinople, 380
Rabbi Nathan ben Yehiel of Rome completes his Talmudic dictionary, 1105
The Thames River freezes, 1434
First observation of transit of Venus occurred (only 2, record event), 1639
Abel Janzoon Tasman becomes the first European to see Van Damien's Land, later renamed Tasmania, 1642
First Lutheran pastor ordained in America, Justus Falckner at Philadelphia, 1703
Mt. Vesuvius erupts, 1759
Charles Darwin publishes "On the Origin of Species", 1859
Luik-Visé-Maastricht railway opens, 1861
Joseph F Glidden patents his improved barbed wire, 1874
The first US absentee voting law enacted by Vermont, 1896
Clyde Coleman of NYC patents automobile electric starter, 1903
Radio Belgium makes its first transmission, 1923
The first woman pilot on a transcontinental air flight, Miss Ruth Nichols (Mineola, NY to Calif), in a Lockheed-Vega, took 7 days, 1930
In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens, 1932
Lee Harvey Oswald is murdered by Jack Ruby, 1963
During a severe thunderstorm over Washington state, a hijacker calling himself Dan Cooper (AKA D. B. Cooper) parachutes from a Northwest Orient Airlines plane with $200,000 in ransom money, and is never seen again, 1971
A national speed limit is imposed on the Autobahn in Germany due to the 1973 oil crisis; it lasts only four months, 1973
The communist party resigns in Czechoslovakia, 1989
By a margin of only 50.28% t 49.72%, Ireland votes to end the 70 year old ban on divorce, 1995
Ireland presents its austerity package to the European Union and IMF, 2010
Palestinian officials announce their plan to exhume the body of Yasser Arafat too determine if he was poisoned, 2012
An international research team publishes their discovery of 1,500 new viruses found in invertebrates, 2016
Former First Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa is sworn in as President of Zimbabwe, replacing ousted dictator Robert Mugabe after a 30-year tenure, 2017
Hong Kong’s pro-democracy candidates overwhelmingly win the district council elections in a strong rebuke to Hong Kong leaders, 2019
Scotland's Parliament passes a law making it the first nation to guarantee period products free to all women who cannot afford them, 2020
The Guinness Book of World Records declares Flossie, a cat in Great Britain, to be the world's oldest feline at age almost 27, 2022
A23a, world's biggest iceberg at 4,000 sq km (1,500 sq miles), begins to move again after being grounded in the Wendell Sea for more than 30 years, 2023
Some of those roses look like camellias.
ReplyDeleteLove the skyscapes and am perplexed about the Knights.