Silly Sunday: Unreasonable

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Silly Sunday is the place to come for weekly laughs.  The rules are simple, just have fun.

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Here is how it works: Laugh and Link Up!

The visit to Grandma and Grandpa's yesterday was very enjoyable.  Grandpa fussed because Grandma wanted me to vacuum the floors, but i understand why.  Lulu sheds so much you have to vacuum twice a week at least.

Grandpa gave me the football tickets for the season, and i made the chart so the kids could sign up for which games they want to go to.  There was a little give and take, with some wanting to take guests to certain games.  They joked a bit about fighting for certain games, but that wasn't needed at all.  All four of them share nicely when it comes to this.

Tee Boudreaux not be so lucky sometime.  He come home from school one day, an' Boudreaux can see dat Tee done been in a fight.

"Tee, what happen?" ax Boudreaux.

"Pierre done say somet'in' rude 'bout me, an' I challenged him to a duel."

"An' dat li'l Pierre done beat you up?" Boudreaux ax, amazed.

"Well, I done tol' him dat since I challenge him, he get to choose de weapon," Tee say.

"Dat soun' reason'ble," Boudreaux say.

"Mais, dat be what I t'ink, until de weapon he choose be his big brother!"

Today is:

Banana Lover's Day

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

Birthday of Isis -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)

Burning Man 2017 -- Black Rock Desert, NV, US (through Sept. 4; a radical way to celebrate the arts through desert survival and building a 50-foot statue to be burned)

Day Sacred to Consus -- Ancient Roman Calendar (god of graineries, horses, and mules)

Feast Day of Pan -- Ancient Greek Calendar (date approximate)

Feast of Incandescent Rebellion -- on lots of websites, and supposedly something celebrated in China, but no detail as to what it is really celebrating

Go Topless Day -- US (on the Sunday closest to  Women's Equality Day, Aug. 26, stand up for women's right to go topless in public) 

Just Because Day -- internet generated, enjoy something ordinary you like to do, just because!

National Pots de Creme Day

Notting Hill Carnival -- Notting Hill, London, UK (through tomorrow's August Bank Holiday Monday, the 2nd largest street festival in the world)

Petroleum Day -- on the anniversary of the opening of the first commercial oil well in Titusvilla, PA, US, in 1859, a day set aside to work on figuring out how to do without petroleum

Pony Express Festival -- Hollenberg Pony Express Station, Hanover, KS, US (reenacting life in the 1860's, including a real Pony Express ride)

St. Caesarius' Day (Patron against fire)

St. Monica's Day (Mother of St. Augustine; Patron of abuse victims, alcoholics, difficult marriages, disappointing children, homemakers, married women, mothers, victims of adultery and unfaithfulness, victims of verbal abuse, widows, wives; Bevilacqua, Italy; Mabini, Bohol, Philippines)

"The Duchess" Who Wasn't Day -- birthday of Margaret Wolfe Hungerford, who wrote under the pseudonym "The Duchess" and first said, "Beaty is in the eye of the beholder" in her novel, Molly Bawn

Threethousandth Thnork of the Year -- Fairy Calendar

Volturnalia -- Ancient Roman Calendar (god of water)

Ziua Republicii -- Moldova (Independence Day, 1991)

Birthdays Today

Sarah Chalke, 1976

Chandra Wilson, 1969

Paul "Pee-wee Herman" Reubens, 1952

Barbara Bach, 1947

Tuesday Weld, 1943

Tommy Sands, 1937

Martha Raye, 1916

Mother Teresa, 1910

Lyndon B. Johnson, 1908

C.S. Forester, 1899

Samuel Goldwyn, 1882

Theodore Dreiser, 1871

Charles Gates Dawes, 1865

Hannibal Hamlin, 1809

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"Good Sex! with Dr. Ruth Westheimer"(TV), 1984

Mary Poppins(Disney film), 1964

"Prométhée/Prometheus"(Fauré tragédie lyrique), 1900

Today in History

The Persian invasion of Greece is halted with Greek victories in two separate battles, BC479

Koreans battle and prevent Japanese invasion, 663

The first unmanned hydrogen balloom flight reaching 900 m altitude, 1783

Petroleum is discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania leading to the world's first commercially successful oil well, 1859

The shortest war in world history occurs from 09:00 to 09:45 between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar, 1896

Edgar Rice Burroughs' publishes "Tarzan of the Apes", 1912

First flight of the turbojet-powered Heinkel He 178, the world's first jet aircraft, 1939

The Mariner 2 unmanned space mission is launched to Venus by NASA, 1962

Turkish military diplomat Colonel Atilla Altikat is shot and killed in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 1982

The Rainbow Bridge, connecting Tokyo's Shibaura and the island of Odaiba, is completed, 1993

Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, 2003

Curiosity, the Mars rover, broadcasts its first audio recording of a human voice from the surface of another planet, 2012

It's been a great week!

It's been quite a week, and there is so much to be thankful for.

The word seems to have gotten around that our two foster kittens were adopted because the next thing i know, we have another.  Dumpling won't suck out of the bottle, she just licks it, and she has already started to eat canned food.  She also has ringworm.  It doesn't matter, we are just all thankful that she is eating and the anti-fungus cream seems to be helping.

It has been a three-ring circus with Friend Chris and Alden.  Alden brought his car over here for Friend Chris to work on, then proceeded to "help".  When you try to help a mechanic, the mechanic needs to charge you more!  Anyway, the head gasket got changed, and after Alden's "help" we are thankful the timing belt is back on and working, and we hope once they finish replacing the water pump, Alden will be able to again transport himself to work.

Two clients went out of town and won't be back until Labor Day weekend, so both have me house sitting, and one has me cat sitting. The cat sitting pays well, and i am also grateful to be able to get into Ms. V's house when no one is there and reorganize her linen closets.  She has linens for beds in sizes they don't even have that are always getting in the way, and i am going to try to get her to donate them when she gets home.

Pepe and Buff, two of the grand-dogs, have been spending more time here, and they always make me smile.  They seem to like Dumpling, too which can be a good thing.  Kittens that get along well with dogs are at a premium.

Bigger Girl is thrilled that the Kickstarter Campaign she is helping to run is going well.  She's been so worried about it that we are just thankful it's going to be done soon.  Also, i will be thankful to see this game she and her friend have worked so hard to develop and market actually be in game stores.

Mr. K is finally working on our generator!  The platform it sits on has been  in rough shape for a while now, and Mr. K got a metal stand built, and once we know we will have several dry days in a row, he will pour a cement pad.  Having a generator is a blessing, having it on this new stand will help assure we don't lose it.

The shelter's battle with ringworm is fierce at the moment, but we think the tide has turned and we've got it contained.

Our first rEcess of the school year is this coming Friday!  It's going to be wonderful to see everyone again.

Brother-in-Law, The Mouth, has given us his many years' worth of pennies, and i am grateful we've been able to borrow a machine that sorts coins to help us count them.

Today is Visit Grandma and Grandpa Day!  It's always a blessing and i'm so thankful every two weeks when i get to go.

In spite of running around taking care of house sitting and cat sitting, and the insanity of trying to fix a car in the driveway, there's so much good and so much for which i am thankful.  Try listing your own blessings, then link up with Ten Things of Thankful.  It will make you remember how blessed you are, i promise.

Today is:

Bartletide -- West Witton, Yorkshire Dales, UK (a/k/a Burning Bartle, a ceremony in which a straw effigy of Owd Bartle, a sheep thief of yore, is paraded, then burned after sunset, as a warning to the light fingered; always on the Saturday nearest St. Bartholemew's Day, which is August 24)

Be Kind to Humankind Week: Speak Kind Words Saturday 

Birthday of Set -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)

Corvette Crossroads Auto Show -- Mackinaw City, MI, US (show that includes a Corvette parade across the Mackinaw Bridge; through tomorrow)

Country Fair and Auction -- McHenry, MD, US (sponsored by the local Mennonite churches, a good old-fashioned time of family fun)

De Ducasse -- Ath, Belgium (Giants of Ath Festival or Wedding of the Giants, a celebration since medieval times in which "Goliath" marries, then goes to do battle with David; through tomorrow)

First Thnork of the Year -- Fairy Calendar

Heroes Day -- Namibia

Ilmatar Day -- Finland (Water Mother, goddess of the heavens)

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

Koenji Awa Odori Festival -- Suginami City, Tokyo, Japan (thousands dance in the streets, through tomorrow)

Make Your Own Luck Day -- for those who refuse to sit around and wait for it

National Cherry Popsicle Day

National Day of Repentance -- Papua New Guinea

National Dog Day -- sponsored by the Animal Miracle Foundation   

Schemitzun(Green Corn Pow Wow) -- Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation (through tomorrow, Pow Wow and presentations of Native heritage to all)

Sheep Market Fair -- Ho, Denmark (annual sheep market and family fair; through tomorrow)

St. Adrian of Nicodemia's Day (Patron of butchers, prison guards, soldiers; against plague)

Usuki Stone Buddhas Fire Festival -- Usuki, Japan (torchlight at twilight lights the regions mysterious Buddha statues; includes a beach party!)

Women's Equality Day -- US (commemorates Women's Suffrage)

Yoshida no Hi Matsuri -- Yoshida, Japan (fest to mark the end of Mt. Fuji climbing season; through tomorrow)

Birthdays Today:

Chris Pine, 1980

Macaulay Culkin, 1980

Christopher Burke, 1965

Branford Marsalis, 1960

Ben Bradlee, 1921

Mother Teresa, 1910

Albert Bruce Sabin, 1906

Christopher Isherwood, 1904

Peggy Guggenheim, 1898

Lee de Forest, 1873

Albert "Bertie" von Saksen-Coburg-Gotha, husband of queen Victoria, 1819

Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, 1743

Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, 1740

Debuting/Premiering Today:

Cincinnati Reds vs. Brooklyn Dodgers Doubleheader(first MLB games televised), 1939

"Lightnin'"(Play), 1918

"Elijah"(Mendelssohn Op. 70 MWV A25), 1846

Today in History:

Michelangelo is commissioned to carve the Pieta, 1498

The Pennsylvania Ministerium, the first Lutheran denomination in North America, is founded in Philidelphia, 1748

John Fitch is granted a US patent for his working steamboat, 1791

Charles Thurber patents a typewriter, 1843

The first news dispatch by telegraph is made, 1858

Major eruption of Krakatoa, 36,000 dead, 1883

19th Amendment to the US Constitution, granting women the vote, takes effect, 1920

The first Major League Baseball game is telecast, 1939

The USSR announces the first successful test of an ICBM, 1957

The Charter of the French Language is adopted by the National Assembly of Quebec, 1977

John Paul I is elected Pope, 1978

The agreement on how to divide the Czech Republic and Slovakia is signed, 1992

Russia unilaterally recognizes the independence of the former Georgian breakaway republics Abkhazia and South Ossetia, 2008

Israel requests that Germany arrest Klaas Carel Faber, a Nazi war criminal who killed 20 Jews at Westerbork concentration camp, 2010

Israel and Hamas accept a cease fire, 2014
Burger King agrees to purchase Canadian donut chain Tim Hortons for $11.4 billion, 2014

Here We Go Again (Feline Friday) and Friendly Fill-Ins

Feline Friday was started by Steve, The Burnt Food Dude, and i'm going to believe it's because he likes cats.

He has handed hosting duties off to Sandee, of Comedy Plus, and it's simple to join, just follow the link to Sandee's page for the rules and the code.

We just handed Lillian and Dahlia off to their new forever homes, and i got a call from Dr. Bea.  Would i and could i?  For her, i most certainly can and will.

This is Dumpling:

She's solid black with two white toes.

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Friendly Fill-Ins are easy to do. There are four statements: the first two statements are provided by Ellen of 15AndMeowing, and the final two are offered by McGuffy Ann Morris of McGuffy's Reader. They try to make sure the statements will be fun to both answer and share. The linky will be posted at or about 12:00 AM on Friday. Please head over to one of their sites, link up, and share your thoughts! 

My fill-ins for the statements are underlined:

Week 68: August 25, 2017

1. ____________________ is a waste of time.

2. My favorite app is ___________________.

3. My first car was                  .

4. The best car I ever owned was                     , because                      ______.

1. Arguing with someone who does not have all the facts but has already made up her/his mind is a waste of time.

2. My favorite app is Google Maps because it shows me when the highway is shut down again so i know not to go that direction but skirt around it.

3. My first car was a Mercury Cougar.

4. The best car i ever owned was is The Jalopy, my current van, because she taught four teens to drive and hauls my work gear.

Today is

Be Kind to Humankind Week:  Forgive Your Foe Friday 

Birthday of Horus -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)

Daffodil Day -- Australia  (the Cancer Council's big fundraiser) 

Day of Songun -- North Korea

Discovery of the Runes/Odin's Ordeal ends -- Ancient Norse Calendar (date approximate)

Fiesta La Ballona -- Culver City, CA, US (a tradition since 1951; through Sunday)

Independence Day -- Uruguay(1825)

Kiss and Make Up Day -- a day begun by Jacqueline V. Milgate to encourage people to make amends and repair relationships if they need to

Mexican Fiesta International -- Milwaukee, WI, US (fun, food, mariachi, and a jalapeno eating contest for the strong of stomach; through Sunday)

Morden Corn and Apple Festival -- Morden, MB, Canada (fun for all, lots of corn and apple cider; through Sunday)

National Banana Split Day -- some sites have it as Aug. 10

National Park Service Day -- US (legislation creating the National Park Service was signed this day in 1916 by President Wilson)

National Second-Hand Wardrobe Day -- pull out the hand-me-downs or thrift store purchases and wear them with pride!

National Toy Truck 'N Construction Show -- Indianapolis, IN, US (dealers, auctions, and tons of toys; through Sunday)

Opiconsivia -- Ancient Roman Calendar, Vestal Virgin Festival in honor of Ops

Rumpleskunkskin's Bride Escapes to Heewigoland Anniversary -- Fairy Calendar (Fairy celebration, Goblins get grumpy)

Saddleworth Rushcart -- Saddleworth, West Yorkshire, England (similar to rushbearing, a cart goes through the area with Morris men, the bounds of the area are checked for enemy breaches, rushes are gathered to line the church floor, and there is celebrating, gurning, wrestling, singing, and a final procession tomorrow to St. Chad's Church at Uppermill for the 11am service)

Soldier's Day -- Brazil

St. Genesius of Arles' Day (Patron of notaries, secretaries; against chilblains, scurf)

St. Genesius of Rome's Day (Patron of actors, attorneys, barristers, clowns, comedians, comediennes, comics, converts, dancers, epileptics, lawyers, musicians, printers, stenographers and torture victims)

St. Louis, King of France's Day (King Louis IX; Patron of barbers, bridegrooms, builders, button makers, construction workers, Crusaders, difficult marriages, distillers, embroiderers, French monarchs, grooms, haberdashers, hairdressers, hair stylists, kings, masons, needle workers, parenthood, parents of large families, passementiers, prisoners, sculptors, sick people, soldiers, stone masons, stonecutters, tertiaries, trimming makers; Québec, Québec; Saint Louis, Missouri; Blois, France; Carthage, Tunisia; La Rochelle, France; New Orleans, Louisiana; Oran, Algeria; Saint-Louis, Haut-Rhin, France; Saint Louis, Missouri;`Versailles, France; Congregation of the Sisters of Saint Louis; against the death of children)

Umhlanga -- Swaziland (Reed Dance for the Zulu King; a fascinating week long ritual with beautiful costumes, dancing and singing, culminating with the final dance and a speech in which the King addresses the people, on Aug. 31)

Whiskey Sour Day

Birthdays Today: 

Blake Lively, 1987

Rachel Bilson, 1981

Alexander Skarsgard, 1976

Claudia Schiffer, 1970

Rachael Ray, 1968

Albert Belle, 1966

Cornelius O’Landa Bennett, 1966

Blair Underwood, 1964

Joanne Whalley, 1964

Ally Walker, 1961

Billy Ray Cyrus, 1961

Tim Burton, 1958

Elvis Costello, 1954

Gene Simmons, 1949

John Savage, 1949

Martin Amis, 1949

Anne Archer, 1947

Anthony Heald, 1944

Frederick Forsyth, 1938

Regis Philbin, 1933

Tom Skerritt, 1933

Wayne Shorter, 1933

Sean Connery, 1930

Althea Gibson, 1927

Monty Hall, 1923

Leonard Bernstein, 1918

Walt Kelly, 1913

Ruby Keeler, 1909

Clara Bow, 1905

Hans Adolf Krebs, 1900

Ludwig II, "Mad King" of Bavaria, 1845

Francis Bret Harte, 1836

Allan Pinkerton, 1819

Ivan the Terrible, 1530

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"42nd Street"(Musical), 1980

The Wizard of Oz(Film), 1939

Today in History: 

The Council of Nicaea ends with the adoption of the Nicene Creed, 325

The Children's Crusaders under Nicholas reach Genoa, 1212

The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior, is formed, 1537

Galileo demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers, 1609

Hundreds of French settlers arrive in New Orleans, which had been founded only a few months before, marking its true beginnings as a city, not just an outpost, 1718

James Cook begins his first voyage, 1768

Alice Meynell becomes the first female jockey, in England, 1804

British forces destroy the Library of Congress, which then contained about 3,000 books, 1814

The New York Times perpetrates the Great Moon Hoax, 1835

Captain Matthew Webb becomes the first person to swim the English Channel unassisted, 1875

Kitasato Shibasaburo discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet, 1894

The United States National Park Service is created, 1916

Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly nonstop across the US, 1932

US Army officer and missionary John Birch is killed by the armed supporters of the Communist Party of China, considered by some as the first victim of the Cold War, 1945

Zimbabwe joins the United Nations, 1980

Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Saturn, 1981

Tadeusz Mazowiecki is chosen as the first non-communist Prime Minister in Central and Eastern Europe, 1989

Mayumi Moriyama becomes Japan's first female cabinet secretary, 1989

The Tli Cho land claims agreement is signed between the Dogrib First Nations and the Canadian federal government in Rae-Edzo (now called Behchoko), 2003

Acting as a private citizen, former President Jimmy Carter travels to North Korea to negotiate the release of Aijalon Gomes, a U.S. citizen, 2010

Voyager 1, launched in 1977, becomes the first man-made object to enter interstellar space, 2012