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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.
We had a small birthday party for our little Annie yesterday as she is one today!
Her parents took her in the pool, and after #2 Son used one of the less often used showers in the house to get the chlorine out of his hair.
Many year ago, Boudreaux an' Clothile done know dey be havin' comp'ny comin' on de train to spen' de night, but dey gots to be in work when de comp'ny goin' get dere, an' Boudreaux jes' tole dem to come in an' make deyself's at home.
Clothile also done say dey might be wantin' to freshen up from de trip, it don' be easy travel back den on de train, an' dey can go in an' takes dem a shower in de one bathroom.
When Boudreaux an' Clothile done get home, dey fin' de frien's be dere an dey done already clean up.
De frien' Eugenie done say, "T'ank you so much fo' lettin' us jes come in an' get clean up an rest a bit! Only I don' likes takin' me a shower much, I likes me a bath so I done use de nice, big tub in de laundry, I hope dat be's okay."
An' Boudreaux say, "Oh, dat be jes fine, you kin use dat if'n you want, me an' Clothile allus takes us a shower, dat tub be where we bathe de dogs an' dey be happy to share!"
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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.
It's not all the news that's fit to print, it's all the photos i could find which haven't been used up yet.
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This week, Mrs. Duck, the one who keeps building a nest and hatching babies near the cat shelter, wanted to join The Kitties Blue at The Cat on My Head for their Sunday Selfie blog hop.
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Today is:
Air Force Day -- Pakistan
Beer Lovers' Day -- ESPN began to broadcast on this day in 1979
Constitution Day -- Fiji
Father's Day -- Australia; Fiji; New Zealand; Papua New Guinea
Feel the Love Day
Full Harvest Moon a/k/a Full Corn Moon/Indigo Moon/Wise-Crone Moon (with so much food ripe for gathering, harvesting can go on well into the night by the light of the hugely full Harvest Moon)
Binara Full Moon Poya Day -- Sri Lanka (began yesterday evening)
Chusok -- South Korea (Harvest Moon Festival; began yesterday, through the 20th; a harvest festival and day to give homage to the ancestors and celebrate family)
Han'gawi -- North Korea (Harvest Moon Festival; through the 21st; a harvest festival and day to give homage to the ancestors and celebrate family)
Navajo Sing Festival -- Navajo Native Americans festival in thanksgiving for the harvest, begins at the full moon and goes on for one week
Taw Thalin Full Moon -- Myanmar
Zhongqiu Jie / Chong Chao -- China; Macau; Taiwan (Mid-Autumn Festival or Moon Festival, the birthday of the earth god T'u-ti Kung, celebrating the harvests, family, and eating moon cakes, matchmaking, sky lanterns, Fire Dragon Dances, and more)
Grandma Moses Day
Grandparents' Day -- US (but if you have fabulous grands in your family, feel free to observe anywhere)
Independence Day -- Brazil
Lusaka Peace Agreement Day / Victory Day -- Mozambique
National Acorn Squash Day
National Attention Deficit Disorder Awareness Day -- US (by Senate proclamation in 2004)
National Napoleon Day (the dessert, not the general)
National Threatened Species Day -- Australia
Neither Snow Nor Rain Day -- celebrates the opening of the US Post Office in NYC on this day in 1914, which building has the famous inscription on it
Regata Storical (Historical Regatta) -- Venice, Italy (competition among two-oar racing gondolas, preceded by Venetian ceremonial boats)
Salami Day -- sponsored by salamiday.com
St. Cloud's Day (a/k/a Clodoald the Confessor; Patron of nail makers; St. Cloud, Minnesota)
St. Regina's Day (Patron of poor people, shepherdesses, torture victims)
Turn A Cartwheel in Public Day -- the internet has it out for us
Wakes Sunday -- Abbots Bromley, England (Complete with the traditional celebration of the Horn Dance tomorrow)
Anniversary Today:
Sergey Brin and Larry Page incorporate Google, 1998
Birthdays Today:
Evan Rachel Wood, 1987
Devon Sawa, 1978
Angela Gheorghiu, 1965
Michael Feinstein, 1956
Corbin Bernsen, 1954
Chrissie Hynde, 1951
Julie Cavner, 1951
Susan Blakely, 1950
Gloria Gaynor, 1949
Richard Roundtree, 1942
Cuneyt Arkin, 1937
John Phillip Law, 1937
Buddy Holly, 1936
Don Messick, 1927
Peter Lawford, 1923
Jacob Lawrence, 1917
Anthony Quayle, 1913
Elia Kazan, 1909
Michael E. DeBakey, 1908
Grandma Moses, 1860
Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"The Flying Nun"(TV), 1967
"Truth or Consequences"(TV), 1950
Today in History:
Traditionally, the solar eclipse date that marks the birth of Heracles of Thebes (Latin Hercules), BC1251
The Roman army under Titus occupies and plunders Jerusalem, 70
In the world's first submarine attack, the American submersible craft Turtle attempts to attach a time bomb to the hull of British Admiral Richard Howe's flagship HMS Eagle in New York Harbor, 1776
The "Troy Post" of NY first uses "Uncle Sam" to refer to the US, 1813
Last hold-up of Jesse James, 1881
Edith Eleanor McLean becomes the first baby in the US to be put in an incubator for premature infants, 1888
The Boxer Rebellion in China officially ends with the signing of the Boxer Protocol, 1901
Eugene Lefebvre (1878–1909), while test piloting a new French-built Wright biplane, crashes at Juvisy, France when his controls jam. Lefebvre dies, becoming the first 'pilot' in the world to lose his life in a powered heavier-than-air craft, 1909
The first day of the first Miss America Pageant is held in Atlantic City, NJ, 1921
Philo T. Farnsworth demonstrates the first use of television in San Francisco, 1927
The last surviving member of the thylacine species, Benjamin, dies alone in her cage at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania, 1936
Integration begins in Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, MD public schools, 1954
Desmond Tutu becomes the first black man to lead the Anglican Church in South Africa, 1986
A 5.9 magnitude earthquake rocks Athens, rupturing a previously unknown fault, 1999
Hurricane Ivan, a Category 5 hurricane, hits Grenada, killing 39 and damaging 90% of its buildings, 2004
The first presidential election is held in Egypt, 2005
The US Government takes control of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two largest mortgage financing companies, 2008
Canada closes its Iranian embassy and expels the Iranian diplomatic staff from their country, 2012
Tony Abbott becomes Prime Minister of Australia after the Liberal-National Coalition wins the election, 2013
Asteroid 2014RC makes a close approach to Earth, coming within 39,900km/24,800mi, 2014
British archaeologists announce the discovery of a Neolithic "superhenge" under three feet of earth at Durrington Walls, 2015
The 15th Summer Paralympics opens in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2016
The Indian Space Agency loses contact with its Chandrayaan-2 moon lander just 2 km from landing on the Moon's surface, 2019
El Salvador becomes the first country to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender, 2021
The journal "Nature" publishes about the discovery of the earliest evidence of surgery, a 31,000-year-old skeleton with an amputated lower leg, found in a cave in East Kalimantan, Borneo, 2022
Keir Starmer makes the first visit to Ireland by a British political leader in five years, meeting Taoiseach Simon Harris in Dublin, 2024
