Reasons (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.

My Sweetie and his brother are planning a trip to see their sister next month, and we've been having trouble with the hotel reservation.  My Sweetie has learned to never make a reservation with a debit card, even if it can go through the system the same as a credit card.

Boudreaux an' Clothile done be checkin' it at de hotel fo' dey anniversary, dey wants to gets dem away fo' a few days.

De clerk say, "De room gots two single beds, do dat be okay?"

An' dey look at each other an' Boudreaux say, "We done been sleepin' in de same bed fo' 45 year, but I guess we can make dat do fo' a couple nights."

An' Clothile ax, "Can we push de beds togedder?"

An' de clerk say, "I don' see why you cain't."

An' Clothile say, "Mais, when he done start snorin', I don' wants to have to git out de bed to elbow him to turn over!"

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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.         

Let's see what hops up from the camera, shall we?

Look carefully at the top bloom, there's a bee!

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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.   

He knows it's treat time as soon as the photo is snapped.

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Today is:

Be Kind to Humankind Week: Sacrifice Our Wants For Others Needs Sunday 

Day of Solidarity and Freedom -- Poland (Anniversary of the 1980 August Agreement)

Eat Outside Day -- as long as you won't pass out from the heat

Eleusinia Games -- Ancient Greek Calendar (date approximate; 3 days of games with grain as prizes)

Festal Day -- Order of the Eastern Star

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

Independence Day -- Kyrgyzstan(1991); Malaysia (Hari Kebangsaan/Freedom Day, 1957); Trinidad & Tobago(1962)

International Day of Blogs and Bloggers -- www.blogday.org

International Overdose Awareness Day -- prevention and remembrancehttp://www.overdoseday.com/

Invent A New Sandwich Day -- spread around the internet like good mayo; go ahead, have fun with this

Limba Noastra -- Moldova (Day of Our Language)

Love Litigating Lawyers Day -- yes, G-d tells us to love everybody, even litigation attorneys but He never said doing it would be easy; sponsored by Wellcat Holidays

National Trail Mix Day

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!)

St. Raymond Nonnatus' Day (Patron of babies, childbirth, children, expectant mothers, falsely accused people, infants, midwives, newborn babies, obstetricians, and pregnant women; Baltoa, Dominican Republic; against fever)

Birthdays Today:

Jeff Hardy, 1977

Chris Tucker, 1972

Debbie Gibson, 1970

Glenn Tilbrook, 1957

Edwin Corley Moses, 1955

Richard Gere, 1949

Itzhak Perlman, 1945

Van Morrison, 1945

Jack Thompson, 1940

Marva Collins, 1936

Frank Robinson, 1935

James Coburn, 1928

Buddy Hackett, 1924

G.D. Spradlin, 1920

Alan Jay Lerner, 1918

William Saroyan, 1908

William Shawn, 1907

Arthur Godfrey, 1903

Maria Montessori, 1870

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"Alice"(TV), 1976

"The Great Gildersleeve"(Radio), 1941

"The Threepenny Opera/Die Dreigroschenoper"(Play), 1928

Today in History:

Traditional date upon which Ayonwentah (Haiwatha) and Deganawidah (The Great Peacemaker) assist the Iroquois tribes in establishing the Confederation of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederacy, or League of Five Nations), 1142

Lewis and Clark begin their expedition, 1803

A nuts-and-bolts machine is patented by Micah Rugg, 1842

The first professional football game is played in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, 1895

Edison patents the Kinetograph, 1897

Mrs. Adolph Landenburg, a horse rider, debuts the split skirt, 1902

Debut of Foghorn Leghorn, 1946

Solidarity Labor Union forms in Poland, 1980

Diana, Princess of Wales, her companion Dodi Al-Fayed and driver Henri Paul die in a car crash in Paris, 1997

Stolen on August 22, 2004, Edvard Munch's famous painting The Scream is recovered in a raid by Norwegian police, 2006

In Sudan, the People's Liberation Army announces it will demobilize its child soldiers by the end of the year, 2010

A 19-year-old Indonesian man is rescued after 49 days at sea on his floating fishing trap, 2018

Mary Peltola becomes the first Alaskan Native to be elected to US Congress, 2022 

US life expectancy falls to its lowest level since 1996 (76.1 years vs. 79 years in 2019), with COVID-19 thought to be the main contributing factor, 2022

Seems Like a Long Run, a Ten Things of Thankful Post

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It seems like a long run up to Thankful Day, but we've made it and it's good.

Arriving at Grandma and Grandpa's house last week, i noted there weren't any of the worker's vehicles around.  It turned out they will not be back until October when the kitchen cabinets are ready.  Meanwhile, we're thankful the floors, painting, baseboards and etc. in the other areas are finished and furniture mostly back in place with a couple of changes.

I was very thankful, when cleaning the new floors, i tried Grandma's preferred cleaner in a hidden spot inside a closet and it looked to me like it left streaks.  We cleaned with a light bit of plain water, and it turned out to be correct.  Uncle J talked to the builder at length and we can't use what Grandma likes best on these floors.  She's okay with us just using water.

Also Uncle J told me, thankfully, the hints i gave him for getting a stain out of his favorite shirt worked.  Hint: if you get grease on a piece of clothing, wash it first with degreasing dish soap, then detergent, and then let it air dry.  If you dry it in the heated dryer, it may set the stain permanently, so air dry and make sure the stain is gone.  If not, use the dish soap again, then the strongest stain remover you can in the laundry.  I've never had it not work.

Sunday afternoon our little Annie was getting a bit fussy, so i took her for a walk and we went to visit Ms. D, my client who lives up the street.  They both enjoyed the visit, and i'm thankful we went and we will go every week if the weather allows a walk.

Monday was spent on work and trying to solve a bank issue having to do with a company which charged us when it shouldn't have.  I'm thankful they acknowledge they were wrong and claim to have given us a refund, but it hasn't shown up in the bank account yet.  I'm thankful we had money in savings to cover the whole fiasco.

It's been a very good week for baby tending and i'm most thankful.

Somebody likes the "tickly bug" game.

Ms. G and i got plenty done Wednesday in between her many phone calls and i was thankful she loaned me a book.

I was also very thankful for the restart of our ladies' Bible study on Wednesday nights.  We're concentrating on the longer talks Jesus gave as recorded in Matthew's Gospel.

Sweetie's window A/C out in his man cave/music room finally gave it up after about 14 years (we're amazed it lasted that long).  We're thankful Ms. G gave us an almost new one a couple of years ago to keep just in case of such an event, and #2 Son was going to work on it Thursday.

Since a very busy Thursday was planned, i got to Ms. V's house early and she got up a bit early as she'd promised she would.  I was thankful to finish in plenty of time to make a doctor appointment, it was very reassuring although more tests "just to be sure" are scheduled.

When i got home, it smelled like the house was on fire, i was most thankful to find it was #2 Son installing the A/C and he'd had to use the grinder on a piece of metal to make it fit, so no actual fire.  I was thankful the generator was doing a test run, too, at the same time and Sweetie is thankful his room is cool again.

Once he finished, #2 Son went back to his place and Daughter-in-Law left for her long awaited appointment with the gastroenterologist.  A little later, i saw #2 Son leaving for work with our little Annie in his arms!

Daughter-in-Law/Mama hadn't gotten back as early as she hoped, i was thankful to snag the little from him and send him to work with one less worry on his mind.

We were playing in the house when Daughter-in-Law got back and she walked in with none other than our Little Girl (youngest daughter)!  I was very thankful to see her, it had been a long while.

Us four ladies (me, Daughter-in-Law, Little Girl and Annie) were thankful to visit while Daughter-in-Law finished her work day on her computer as it was just deleting files, something she could do while we all chatted.  I was also thankful to show Little Girl the dress i have for her wedding in October, she approved.

Once Little Girl headed back to where she lives (2+ hours away), i kept our baby with me so her by now tired mama could cook dinner in peace.

Friday unleashed a nice bit of rain and some sky fireworks, we were thankful for the moisture and even more thankful when the stormiest part was past us.  I am also thankful Mike-Next-Door had mowed the lawn on Tuesday.

Annie and i had a good day Friday and she had a really good long nap, we're all thankful as her sleep has been messed up since they got back from vacation.

The cat shelter had people there adopting, making it always a joy to be there and all of us very thankful.

Please write up your own list and link up to Ten Things of Thankful, where Clark and his co-hosts always have a warm welcome waiting.   

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Today is:

Be Kind to Humankind Week: Speak Kind Words Saturday 

Constitution Day -- Kazakhstan

Day of Satisfying the Hearts of the Ennead (Nine Major Gods) -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)

Festival of Charisteria -- Ancient Roman Calendar (a day to give thanks)

Frankenstein Day -- in honor of Mary Shelley 

Huey P. Long Day -- Louisiana, US

International Bacon Day -- good day for a double decker BLT with grilled onions and Swiss cheese (unless, of course, you are a pig)

International Bat Night -- through tomorrow, go enjoy these wonderful creatures; www.eurobats.org or www.batcon.org

International Day of the Disappeared -- Latin American Federation of Associations for Relatives of Detained-Disappeared

International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances -- UN

International Whale Shark Day -- WiseOceans has more information 

National Holistic Pet Day -- celebrating the growing interest in natural/holistic medicine for animals

National Toasted Marshmallow Day

Popular Consultation Day -- East Timor

Rhishi Panchami -- Nepal (continuation of the women's festival, a holiday for Female Employees Only)

Santa Rosa de Lima -- Peru

St. Fiacre's Day (Patron of box makers, cab drivers, costermongers, florists, gardeners, hosiers, pewterers, taxi drivers, tile makers; against barrenness, fistula, haemorrhoids, piles, sterility, syphilis, venereal disease)

Talk Intelligently Day -- holiday thought up by someone tired of non-intelligent conversations (maybe with co-workers?)

Victory Day -- North Cyprus; Turkey

     Turkey's Hellespont Swim -- one of the world's busiest shipping lanes is closed so that over 300 participants can swim the Hellespont from Europe to Asia, a Victory Day commemoration of winning the Turkish War of Independence in 1922 against the Greeks

Anniversary Today:

Roman Polanski marries Emmanuelle Seigner, 1989

Birthdays Today:

Cameron Diaz, 1972

Michael Michele, 1966

Michael Chiklis, 1963

David Paymer, 1954

Timothy Bottoms, 1951

Lewis Black, 1948

Peggy Lipton, 1947

Frank "Tug" McGraw, 1944

Jean-Claude Killy, 1943

Elizabeth Ashley, 1939

Warren Buffett, 1930

Kitty Wells, 1919

Ted Williams, 1918

Fred MacMurray, 1908

Roy Wilkins, 1901

Shirley Booth, 1898

Huey P. Long, 1893

Claire Straith, M.D., 1891

Ernest Rutherford, 1871

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, 1797

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"Anna Lucasta"(Play), 1944

Today in History:

European leaders, in an attempt to end war "for all time", outlaw the crossbow, 1146

One of the largest naval battles in history, during the last decade of the ailing, Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty, begins between the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders, 1363

Capture of the entire Dutch fleet by British forces under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell, 1799

Founding of Melbourne, Australian, 1835

Founding of Houston, Texas, 1836

Hubert Cecil Booth patents the vacuum cleaner, 1901

The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway in south Louisiana, the longest bridge over water (continuous, not aggregate) that is not also a viaduct, opens, 1956

The Hotline between the leaders of the U.S.A. and the Soviet Union goes into operation, 1963

Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the United States Supreme Court, 1967

Guion Bluford becomes the first African American astronaut in space, 1983

NATO launches Operation Deliberate Force against Bosnian Serb forces, 1995

A commercial expedition to raise part of the sunken British luxury liner Titanic ended in failure, 1996

Harley-Davidson celebrates its 100th anniversary in Milwaukee with a parade of 10,000 motorcycles, 2003

India and Pakistan agree to release hundreds of fishermen and other civilians in each other's jails as part of their ongoing attempts to negotiate peace between their nations, 2005

Sumatra's Sinaburg volcano continues to erupt, two people are killed and 21,000 are evacuated from the vicinity, 2010

In Chile, 33 miners trapped half a mile beneath the surface make contact with their families for the first time in three weeks since the incident, 2010

Late author Terry Pratchett’s unfinished works are destroyed as per his request, 2017

For the second time, Ukrainian amateur astronomer Gennady Borisov discovers an interstellar comet, 2019

Algeria becomes the last country to stop selling leaded petrol/gasoline, 2021

The largest water treatment facility in Jackson, Mississippi, US, fails leaving thousands without clean drinking water, closing schools and businesses, 2022

Over 100 schools in the UK are told to close buildings days before the start of the school term because of concrete in danger of collapse, 2023