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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.
Each week, i take a snack with me to Grandma and Grandpa’s house because some weeks we order or make something and some weeks we don’t. If we don’t, the snack becomes my “meal” until i get home. I generally take something spicy and Grandma asked me why, and i told her it’s because she hates spicy food so this way i don’t have to share. I was joking (mostly).
Boudreaux done love him de spicy food, he use him the Tabasco on lots o’ t’ings. But one day he tole Thibodeaux, “I loves me some spicy food but mais! sometime it be like lovin’ someone dat don’ love you back, it allus burn you at de end.”
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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. Our friend River is hosting, and other participants often include Charlotte/Mother Owl, Andrew, and WiseWebWoman.
A fun birthday card for Mr. L.
It's a jungle over here.
A couple of views of Ms. G's future retirement place.
A sunrise.
Spring door wreaths.
Easter Sunday's flower cross.
Blooms with dew on them.
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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.
This is his, “I’m happy on the bed” selfie.
This is his, “someone is scratching my belly while holding the camera for me” selfie!
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Today is:
Big Wind Day -- anniversary of the strongest natural wind ever recorded on the earth's surface, at Mount Washington, NH, US; the wind gusts reached 231 mph
Cleaning for a Reason Week begins -- raising awareness of Cleaning For A Reason, which helps provide free residential cleaning to women fighting cancer
D.E.A.R. Day (a/k/a Drop Everything And Read) -- sponsored by the ALA, on Beverly Cleary's birth anniversary
Domingo del Angel -- Palma de Mallorca, Spain (Angel Sunday, a fiesta dating back to the 15th century)
Eat All Your Snacks Before the Movie Even Starts Day -- with all the ads before the movie, doesn't that happen anyway?
Festival of Cerealia -- Ancient Roman Calendar (seven-day public and private festival for Ceres)
Global Day to End Child Sexual Abuse -- sponsored by The Innocence Revolution
Grilled Cheese Sandwich Day
Halifax Day -- North Carolina, US (anniversary of the resolution adopted authorizing voting for independence in 1776)
International Day for Street Children
Easter/Pascha -- Orthodox Christian
Sinhala & Tamil New Year's Eve -- Sri Lanka
St. Sabas' Day (Patron of Lectors, torture victims)
St. Zeno's Day (Patron of anglers, children learning to speak, children learning to walk, fishermen, newborn babies; city and diocese of Verona, Italy)
Walk on Your Wild Side Day -- sponsored by Wellcat Holidays, a day in which to do something no one would expect from you
Yuri's Night -- International (Commemoration of first human in space, Yuri Gagarin)
Cosmonaut's Day -- Russia
International Day of Human Space Flight -- UN
Birthdays Today:
Saoirse Ronan, 1994
Riley Smith, 1982
Claire Danes, 1979
Sarah Jane Morris, 1977
Nicholas Brendon, 1971
Shannen Doherty, 1971
Nick Hexum, 1970
Art Alexakis, 1962
Vince Gill, 1957
Andy Garcia, 1956
David Cassidy, 1950
Tom Clancy, 1947
Dan Lauria, 1947
David Letterman, 1947
Ed O'Neill, 1946
Herbie Hancock, 1940
Dennis Banks, 1937
Tiny Tim, 1930
Ann Miller, 1923
Beverly Cleary, 1916
Henry Clay, 1777
Lyman Hall, 1724
Mahavira, the 24th Tirthankara of Jainism, BC599
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"21 Jump Street"(TV), 1987
"Your Hit Parade"(Radio), 1935
"Madame Bovary"(Publication date), 1857
"Oberon, or The Elf King's Oath"(Weber opera), 1826
"The Tatler"(Journal, first edition), 1709 Note: this original version of a publication with the name lasted only two years
Today in History:
Constantinople falls to the Fourth Crusade, temporarily ending the Byzantine Empire, 1204
The formal inquest of Galileo by the Inquisition begins, 1633
The first edition of Tatler Magazine is published in London, 1709
The American Civil War begins at Fort Sumter, South Carolina, 1861
George C Blickensderfer patents a portable typewriter, 1892
Pierre Prier makes the first nonstop flight from London to Paris, in 3h 56m, 1911
Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft, at Rugby, England, 1937
The strongest surface wind gust ever measured, 231 mph, at Mount Washington, New Hampshire, 1943
The Salk vaccine is declared safe and effective, 1955
Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space, 1961
Samuel Doe takes over Liberia in a coup d'etat, ending 130 years of peaceful and democratic presidential successions, 1980
The first launch of a space shuttle, the Colombia, 1981
The Euro Disney Resort officially opens (now Disneyland Paris), 1992
Canter & Siegel post the first commercial mass Usenet spam, 1994
Zimbabwe officially abandons the Zimbabwe Dollar as their currency, 2009
Following the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster, Japan raises the crisis level to 7, equal to the disaster in Chernobyl, 2011
The new drug, ABT-450, with a 90-95% success rate for treating Hepatitis C, is announced, 2014
Scientists and internet entrepreneurs, including Yuri Milner, Stephen Hawking, and Mark Zuckerberg, announce a joint interstellar project to send a robot spacecraft to Alpha Centauri, 2016
In an attempt to stabilize world oil prices, OPEC and several major oil companies agree to the largest-ever drop in production, 2020
According to industry officials, 80% of France's vineyards are affected by the worst frost condition in half a century, 2021
Ghana becomes the first country to approve a vaccine against malaria, Mosquirix– RTS,S, made at Oxford University, 2023
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