Won’t Go There (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.

Yesterday on the way to NOLA, the tire light came on so i used my portable pump to air them up, then the system light came on signaling a tire emergency so i pulled to the side of the highway.  All turned out well, but one tire does have a slow leak and it's looking like we need at least new tires in the front.

Tee Boudreaux done drove hisse'f home from de school an' him look like he done been t'rough it.  Boudreaux ax, "Garçon, what done happen to you?"

An' Tee say, "Père, I done had me not one, but two flat tire today!  I jes' get de one fixed an' den de next one decide it goin' go, too!  I needs me a nap!"

An' Boudreaux look at him's boy an' shook hims head say, "Mais, I gots de joke 'bout de flat tire, but I's gonna spare you from it."

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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.  

Spooky season continues.

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This week, Jack and Abby want to join the Kitties Blue at The Cat On My Head for their Sunday Selfies Blog Hop.  Abby was visiting so I was able to get them both, but they didn't want a boring side by side shot.

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Today is:

Alaska Day -- Alaska, US

Anti-Slavery Day -- yes, there are still slaves in this world, find out how to help them here      

Chung Yeung Festival -- China; Hong Kong; Macau (Double Ninth Festival/Ancestors' Day; date differs in other parts of Asia)

Clean Water Act Day -- US (considered by many a day to give thanks for water and open any who are grateful for clean water)

Hard Boiled Guy/B-Girl Day -- on the anniversary of the general release of The Maltese Falcon (initial release was in NYC on Oct. 3)

Independence Day -- Azerbaijan(1991)

Meatloaf Appreciation Day

National Chocolate Cupcake Day (some websites day it is simply Cupcake Day, any flavor)

National Day of Prayer -- Zambia

National Statistics Day -- Japan

No Beard Day -- internet generated, a day to shave, which is illogical in the northern hemisphere, with winter coming

Pandrosus Festival -- Ancient Greek Calendar (all-refreshing goddess, or all-dewy one; date approximate)

Pastoral Care Week begins -- honoring all clergy who provide spiritual help and care, they need recognition and care themselves; this year's theme is "40 Years of Spiritual Support"    

Persons Day -- Canada (Marking the ruling that women are persons in 1929.)

Procession of the Lord of Miracles (Senor de los Milagros) -- Lima, Peru (Christian celebration of the Lord's miracles, with song, dance, prayers, and parades; through tomorrow and again on the 28th)

St. Luke's Day (The Evangelist; Patron of artists, bachelors/unmarried men, bookbinders, brewers, butchers, doctors/physicians/surgeons, glass makers/glassworkers, gold workers/goldsmiths, lacemakers/lace workers, notaries, painters, sculptors, stained glass workers, Worshipful Company of Painters; Capena, Italy; Hermersdorf, Germany)

Sunday School Teacher Appreciation Day

Watch a Squirrel Day -- internet generated, and different from squirrel appreciation day in January

World Menopause Day -- sponsored by the International Menopause Society

Anniversaries Today:

Women in Military Service for America Memorial is dedicated, 1997

University of Heidelberg opens, 1386

Birthdays Today:

Zac Efron, 1988

Freida Pintoo, 1984

Lindsey Vonn, 1984

Vincent Spano, 1962

Wynton Marsalis, 1961

Erin Moran, 1960

Jean-Claude Van Damme, 1960

Martina Navratilova, 1956

Pam Dawber, 1951

Terry McMillan, 1951

Ntozake Shange, 1948

Joe Morton, 1947

Laura Nyro, 1947

Mike Ditka, 1939

Dawn Wells, 1938

Peter Boyle, 1935

George C. Scott, 1927

Chuck Berry, 1926

Melina Mercouri, 1923

Jesse Helms, 1921

Anita O'Day, 1919

Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 1919

James David Brooks, 1906

A.J. Liebling, 1904

Lotte Lenya, 1900

Henri Bergson, 1859

Salomon Auguste Andree, 1854

Giovanni Antonio Canaletto, 1697

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"Once on This Island"(Play), 1990

"Roseanne"(TV), 1988

"The Girl Is Mine"(Single release), 1982

"Raisin"(Musical), 1973

The Jungle Book(Disney animated film), 1967

"The Apple Tree"(Musical), 1966

“The Yellow Kid Takes a Hand at Golf”(the first actual newspaper comic strip telling a continuing story (as opposed to a single cartoon panel, in American Humorist), 1897

"De Unges Forbund/The League of Youth"(Ibsen play), 1869

"Prometheus"(Liszt S.99), 1855

Moby Dick(Publication date), 1851

Today in History:

Pappus of Alexandria, Greek philosopher, observes an eclipse of the sun and writes a commentary on The Great Astronomer (Almagest), 320

Caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah destroys the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, 1009

Battle of Assadun (Ashingdon), Danes defeat Saxons, 1016

Basel, Switzerland is destroyed by the Basel earthquake, the most significant historic seismological event north of the Alps, 1356

Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima -- Takeda Shingen defeats Uesugi Kenshin in the climax of their ongoing conflicts in feudal Japan, 1561

The shoemakers of Boston form the first labor organization in the Colonies/US, 1648

The Mason/Dixon line is agreed upon, 1767

Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is first published as The Whale by Richard Bentley of London, 1851

The US takes formal possession of Alaska from Russia, for $7.2 million, 1867

Edison makes electricity available for household use, 1878

John Owen becomes the first formally timed person to run 100 yd dash in under 10 seconds, 1890

United States takes possession of Puerto Rico, 1898

The British Broadcasting Company (later Corporation) is founded, 1922

The Grand Ole Opry opens in Nashville, Tennessee, 1925

Texas Instruments announces the first Transistor radio, 1954

The Soviet probe Venera 4 reaches Venus and becomes the first spacecraft to measure the atmosphere of another planet, 1967

Azerbaijan becomes independent from the USSR, 1991

After 8 years in exile, Benazir Bhutto returns to her homeland Pakistan, 2007

Saudi Arabia becomes the first country to turn down a seat on the UN Security Council in protest over Syria, 2013

Astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir perform the first all-female space walk outside the International Space Station, 2019

American cellist Yo-Yo Ma is awarded the fifth $1 million Birgit Nilsson Prize, 2022

Scholars publish the evidence found of a lost star catalog by 2nd century BC Greek astronomer Hipparchus, who made the earliest known attempt to record celestial objects' coordinates with naked eye, 2022

Turkish energy firm Karpowership cuts electricity to the capital of Guinea-Bissau over an unpaid bill of $15million, 2023

Cuba’s power grid fails after a major power station shuts down, 2024