Stocking Feet (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.

Grandma’s bed is a hospital bed while Grandpa still sleeps in a standard queen size bed.  Grandma has a special heating pad she likes to spend an hour or two on (it’s a therapeutic one), so she goes to his room once a day for that.

While helping Grandma move back to her bed, Grandpa saw she had some socks on the chair next to the bed and he asked her, “Are these socks clean or dirty?”

She called back, “I don’t know, smell them!”

You should have seen the look on Grandpa’s face, or maybe you shouldn’t.  I confiscated the socks and relocated them to the dirty clothes bin.

Boudreaux an’ Thibodeaux done be talkin’ ‘bout de son o’ one man in town who mos’ people t’ink don’ be ver’ bright.

Boudreaux say, “I dunno, I t’ink de lad can at leas’ count to twenny.”

An’ Thibodeaux say, “Mais, oui, he can, if’n he take off hims shoes an’ socks!”

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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.  

Some odds and ends, and the early set-up for Vacation Bible School.  

The best pink i could get, but not Razzmatazz, Charlotte's color of the month.

All The Flowers Of All The Tomorrows Are In The Seeds Of Today.

Grandma's favorite orchids now, no watering needed!

This yard had more in it than i could capture!

Grandma loves colorful planters and decor.

It's VBS time.

We're doing pottery this year, the old way, you turn the wheel yourself.

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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:

Abused Women And Children's Awareness Day

Birthday of Prince Joachim -- Denmark

Children's Awareness Memorial Day -- a day to remember children who have died from violence

Children's Sunday -- many US churches

Daniel Boone Day -- Kentucky, US (date in he first sighted, in 1767, what would become Kentucky)

Father's Day -- Lithuania; Switzerland

Feast of All Saints/Sunday of All Saints -- Orthodox Christian

Flag Day -- Peru

Journalist's Day -- Argentina (marking the first publication of a newspaper in Argentina on this day in 1810)

Multicultural American Child Day -- listed as a celebration on the second Sunday in June on many sites, with no way to trace it that i can find

National Cancer Survivors Day -- US (National Cancer Survivors Day Foundation)   

National Chocolate Ice Cream Day

Race Unity Day -- Baha'i sponsored observance promoting racial harmony

Sette Giugno -- Malta (commemoration of the tragedy of June 7, 1919, considered their National Day)

Sjómannadagurinn -- Iceland (traditional Seaman's Day or Fisherman's Day was alternately celebrated June 6 or the first Sunday of June, depending on which authority you ask, but is now a weekend long Festival of the Sea)

St. Meriadoc's Day (Patron of the deaf and against deafness)

Union Dissolution Day -- Norway

VCR Day -- the first Sony Betamax went on sale today in 1975

Vestalia -- Ancient Roman Calendar (multi-day festival for Vesta, goddess of the hearth, this first day termed the Vesta Asperit; through the 15th)

Vivien Kellems Memorial Day -- born this date in 1896, she fought the IRS and income tax for her whole life

Write to Your Father Day -- a week before Father's Day, write him a letter and ask him things like what he finds most enjoyable or exciting or scary or satisfying; encouraging people to stay in touch with Dad on a deeper level than the commercial holidays

Anniversaries Today:

Jimmy Osmond marries Michele Larson, 1991

YMCA is founded by George Williams, 1844

Birthdays Today:

Michael Cera, 1988

Anna Kournikova, 1981

Larisa Oleynik, 1981

Bill Hader, 1978

Allen Iverson, 1975

Bear Grulls, 1974

Karl Urban, 1972

Roberto Alagna, 1963

Prince, 1958

Louise Erdrich, 1954

Liam Neeson, 1952

Orham Pamuk, 1952

Jenny Jones, 1946

Bill Kreutzmann, Jr, 1946

Tom Jones, 1940

John Napier Turner, 1929

Gwendolyn Brooks, 1917

Dean Martin, 1917

Jessica Tandy, 1909

Virginia Apgar, 1909

James Braddock, 1906

Paul Gauguin, 1848

Debuting/Premiering Today:

Ghostbusters(Film), 1984

"Johnny Cash Show"(TV), 1969

"The $64,000 Question"(TV), 1955

"The Seven Deadly Sins"(satirical ballet chanté), 1933

Today in History:

The first Crusaders begin their Siege of Jerusalem, 1099

Port Royal, Jamaica, is devastated by an earthquake, 1692

David Thompson reaches the mouth of the Saskatchewan River in Manitoba, 1800

Asian cholera reaches Quebec, brought by Irish immigrants, and kills about 6,000 people in Lower Canada, 1832

1,800 Fenian raiders are repelled back to the United States after they loot and plunder around Saint-Armand and Frelighsburg, Quebec, 1866

Tolbert Lanston receives patents for monotype typesetting machines, 1887

Norway's parliament dissolves its union with Sweden, 1905

Sony introduces the Betamax videocassette recorder for sale to the public, 1975

Priscilla Presley opens Graceland to the public, 1982

Mt. Pinatubo erupts, sending an ash cloud 7km/14.3mi high, 1992

The United Nations defines the Blue Line as the border between Israel and Lebanon, 2000

According to a new study, breast milk boosts brain development by 30% compared to babies who are fed formula, 2013

The journal "Science" publishes studies that show the Mars Curiosity Rover has found organic matter, including methane, on Mars, 2018

According to the UN, more than 4 million Venezuelans have left their country since 2015 due to the economic crisis, 2019

Bdelloid rotifer multicellular organisms, frozen in Siberia for about 24,000 years, "come back to life" after being thawed by Russian scientists, 2021

The Economist Intelligence Unit names Auckland, New Zealand the world's most livable city, and Damascus, Syria, the least livable city, 2021

A new study reveals Shark Bay sea grass, which grows off Western Australia and has been cloning itself for 4,500 years, may be world's largest plant, covering 77 square miles of sea floor, 2022

Actor and comedian Dick van Dyke, at age 98, becomes the oldest recipient of a Daytime Emmy for a guest appearance on "Days of Our Lives," 2024

After 43 years, the longest ever stint as a game show host, Pat Sajak hosts his final "Wheel of Fortune" episode, 2024