Chillin' (Awww Monday) and Inspiring Quote of the Week

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Awww Monday is hosted by Sandee, of Comedy Plus.

Join us every Monday for Awww...Mondays.  Post a picture that makes you say Awww... and that's it.

Make sure you get the code from Sandee's site, linked above, and leave a link to your post so we can visit you.  What better way to start the week than with a smile!

Just chillin' while waitin' to find forever homes.

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Sparks, the brainchild of Annie of McGuffy's Reader, is on hiatus, so here's an Inspiring Quote of the Week in her honor.

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Today is:

Armed Forces Day -- Taiwan

Cromwell's Day -- The Cromwell Association holds a service at his statue on his death date

Day to Mourn All Manifestations of Sexism -- in honor of passage of the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women

Day of Universal Alarm -- Fairy Calendar (no one remembers what to be alarmed about, which is what is so alarming, at least to the Fairies)

Dia de Santiago Iglesias Pantin -- Puerto Rico

Feast of San Marino and the Republic -- San Marino

Flag Day -- Australia

Gaura Parba -- Nepal (women's festival for the goddess Gauri to ask for health and long life for their husbands)

Labor Day/Labour Day -- Bermuda; Canada; Palau; U.S. and Territories

Luxembourg City Kermesse -- Luxembourg City, Luxembourg (the capital city gets a day off to enjoy the country's biggest fun festival)

Macchina di Santa Rosa -- Viterbo, Italy (St. Rose, patron of the city, celebration begins this evening at 9pm sharp)

Merchant Navy Remembrance Day -- Canada

National Stearman Fly-In Days -- Galesburg, IL, US (the largest gathering of Stearman bi-planes in the world, with flying, seminars, and exhibits; through Saturday)

National Welsh Rarebit Day

National Wilderness Day -- US (commemorates passage of The Wilderness Act in 1964)

Organ Donation Week begins -- UK (join the organ donor registry, when you don't need your parts any more, someone else will!)    

Skyscraper Day -- birth anniversary of Louis H. Sullivan in 1856, architect credited with some of the first skyscrapers

St. Giles Fair -- Oxford, England (dates back to 17th century; through tomorrow)

St. Gregory the Great's Day (Inventor of Gregorian Chant; Patron of choir boys, educators, masons, musicians, papacy, Popes, schoolchildren, singers, stone masons, stonecutters, students, teachers; England; Kercem, Malta; Legazpi, Philippines; Montone, Italy; San Gregorio nelle Alpi, Italy; West Indes; against gout and plague)

St. Marinus' Day (Patron and founder of San Marino; also Patron of bachelors, deacons, and falsely accused people)

Tokehega Day -- Tokalau (remembrance of the Treaty of Tokehega)

Umhlanga -- Swaziland (Reed Dance Public Holiday and final day, culmination of the Reed Dance Celebration begun last week and sponsored by the Royal Family)

Birthdays Today:

Shaun White, 1986

Kiran Desai, 1971

Charlie Sheen, 1965

Valerie Perrine, 1943

Pauline Collins, 1940

Eileen Brennan, 1937

Alison Lurie, 1926

Anne Jackson, 1926

Mort Walker, 1923

Kitty Carlisle Hart, 1914

Alan Ladd, 1913

Edward Albert Filene, 1860

Louis Henry Sullivan, 1856

John Humphrey Noyes, 1811

Prudence Crandall, 1803

Anna, Duchess of Bedford, 1783 (in 1840, she began the tradition of afternoon tea)

Nicolo Amati, 1596

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"Search for Tomorrow"(TV), 1951

"Poppy"(Musical), 1923

"Funf Orchestrerstucke/Five Pieces for Orchestra"(Schoenberg Op. 16), 1913

"What Every Woman Knows"(Play), 1908

The New York Sun(Newspaper, first of what was to become the Penny Press newspapers), 1833

"Uncle Sam"(Image first used), 1813

Today in History:

Sextus Pompeius, son of Pompey, is defeated in the Battle of Naulochus by Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, admiral of Octavian, which ends the resistance to the Second Triumvirate, BC36

Saint Marinus founds San Marino, one of the smallest nations in the world and the world's oldest republic still in existence, 301

Consecration of Pope Gregory the Great, 590

King Richard I (the Lionheart) crowned, and 30 Jews are massacred as part of the celebration, 1189

Richard Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of England, 1658

The first large group of Swiss and German colonists reach the shores of North and South Carolina areas, 1709

The Flag of the United States is flown in battle for the first time, 1777

Signing of the Treaty of Paris, end of the US Revolutionary War, 1783

John Dalton, English scientist begins using symbols to represent different atomic elements, 1803

The first daily newspaper, a "penny paper", that actually succeeded, The Sun (New York), begins publication, as well as employing the first paper boys, 1833

Outbreak of the Greek revolution against the autocratic rule of King Otto, 1843

William, Prince of Albania, leaves the country after six months because of opposition to his rule, 1914

Sir Malcolm Campbell reaches a speed of 304.331 miles per hour on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, becoming the first person to drive an automobile over 300 mph, 1935

68th and final transport of Dutch Jews, including Anne Frank and her family/friends, leaves for Auschwitz, 1944

Wally Gator premiers, 1962

Dagen H in Sweden: traffic changes from driving on the left to driving on the right overnight, 1967

The Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars, 1976

Russia and the People's Republic of China agree not to target each other with nuclear weapons, 1994

An 87-automobile pile-up happens on Highway 401 freeway just East of Windsor, Ontario, Canada after an unusually thick fog from Lake St. Clair, 1999

Iran's Parliament approves the first woman minister in 30 years, confirming the appointment of Marzieh Vahid Dastjerdi as Minister of Health, 2009

The mobile division of Nokia is purchased by Microsoft for $7.2billion, 2013

The county clerk in Rowan County, Kentucky, is jailed for refusing to issue marriage licences to gay couples, 2015

Chris the sheep breaks the world record for biggest shorn fleece 40kg (88lb) near Canberra, Australia, 2015

A 1.4 ton WWII bomb, the largest postwar bomb found yet, is defused in Frankfurt, Germany, requiring the evacuation of 60,000 people, 2017 

Password (Cajun Joke) and Sunday Selections

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Just because Sandee of Comedy Plus has stopped hosting a Silly Sunday blog hop, don't expect me to quit telling Cajun jokes.

The other day i found myself in the situation of having to ask for a wifi password, and it reminded me of Boudreaux an' his bar, de Hubba Hubba.

Boudreaux had done decide he goin' be up to date an' keep up wit' de motel an' de laundrymat, so he get wifi fo' de bar.

One day he done get a new guy come t'ru town, an' de man stop at de Hubba Hubba.  He run in an' say, "Quick!  Do you have wifi I can use?"

An' Boudreaux say, "Mais oui, you gotta buy a beer."

So de man say, "Okay, gimme a beer."  An after he pay fo' it, he say, "Now, what's the wifi password?"

An' Boudreaux say, "It be 'yougottabuyabeer,' no spaces, all little letters!"

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Sunday Selections was started as a way for bloggers to use photos that might otherwise just languish in their files.  It is now hosted by River at Drifting Through Life.     

While weeding at Mr. BA's house yesterday, i snapped a couple of photos of flowers:

He is very excited that the butterflies are back, and while i couldn't get any of them to sit still for a photo op, i did get two honeybees:

If you look to the left in that second photo, there's a ladybug.  When i tried to focus on her, she ran off and i thought i had missed her entirely.

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Today is:

Bison-Ten-Yell Day -- celebrating the imaginary Bison-Ten-Yell, inventor of 10 battle yells now used as American football signals

Celtic Tree Month Muin (Vine) begins

Coughing and Spluttering Convention -- Fairy Calendar

Father's Day -- Australia; Fiji; New Zealand; Papua New Guinea

Feast of Osiris -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)

Harvest Wine Celebration -- Livermore, CA, US (open-house visits to over 40 wineries)

Independence Day -- Transdniestria

Janmashtami -- Hindu (birth of Lord Krishna)

National Blueberry Popsicle Day

National Day -- Vietnam

Pierce Your Ears Day -- does a kitten screaming in my ear count?  oh, since the person who decided we should celebrate this today didn't leave a trace, i guess it's okay to interpret any way we want

Regata Storical (Historical Regatta) -- Venice, Italy (competition among two-oar racing gondolas, preceded by Venetian ceremonial boats)

Running of the Sheep -- Reed Point, MT (matched only by the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona, hundreds of sturdy Montana bred woolies charge down the six blocks of the main street in town, plus there is a parade!)

Sacrifice to Hekate and Artemis -- Ancient Greek Calendar (date approximate)

Sedantag -- Germany

St. Agricola of Avignon's Day (Patron of rain -- for or against, whichever you need! -- of good weather and storks; Avignon, France; against misfortune and plague epidemics)

VJ Day -- Surrender Ceremony took place on this date aboard the USS Missouri

Anniversary Today:

Beginning of the Marathon Runs during the Persian War, Sept. 2-9, 490BC

Birthdays Today:

Cynthia Watros, 1968

Salma Hayek, 1966

Lennox Lewis, 1965

Keanu Reeves, 1964

Linda Purl, 1955

Jimmy Connors, 1952

Mark Harmon, 1951

Eric Dickerson, 1950

Christa McAuliffe, 1948

Nathaniel “Tiny” Archibald, 1948

Terry Bradshaw, 1948

Peter Victor Ueberroth, 1937

Marge Champion, 1923

Cleveland Amory, 1917

Lili'uokalani, 1838

James Forten, 1766

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"Rose-Marie"(Operetta), 1924

"East of Suez"(Play), 1922

Ordinance on the Danish Church(Publication Date), 1637

Today in History:

Cicero's first Philippic (oratorical attack) on Marc Antony, BC44

Pharaoh Cleopatra VII of Egypt declares her son co-ruler as Ptolemy XV Caesarion, BC44

Octavian's troops win the Battle of Actium which ends the Final war of the Roman Republic, BC31

The Great Fire of London breaks out and burns for three days; it ends with 8 dead and 13,000 houses destroyed, 1666

Great Britain adopts the Gregorian calendar, nearly two centuries later than most of Western Europe, 1752

US Treasury Dept. is established by Congress, 1789

The solar super storm continues to affect electrical telegraph service, 1859

Theodore Roosevelt adivses the US to "Speak softly, and carry a big stick." 1901

President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam becomes the first foreign head of state to make a state visit to Australia, 1957

The Principality of Sealand is established, ruled by Prince Paddy Roy Bates, 1967

Swissair Flight 111 crashes near Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia; all 229 people on board are killed, 1998

Pope Benedict hosts an eco-festival, "Save Creation Day," in Loreto, Italy, to encourage Catholics to live an eco-friendly lifestyle, 2007

Ending a 50-year ban on veiled female news presenters, Egypt's state television gives its female presenters a choice of wearing, or not wearing, a veil, 2012

Swimmer Diana Nyad makes history, becoming the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage, 2013

The public learns about AT&T's The Hemisphere Project, which gives telephone call data to law enforcement agencies, including the DEA, 2013

Happy, Thankful Things (Ten Things of Thankful)

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As seems usual now, it's been a week.  It included two twelve hour days, so my first thankful is that i've been able to keep up!

There were many things, mostly small things, but to me those count the most.

Ms. G found out i had wet laundry in the car, and insisted i use her dryer instead of me taking it home to hang up.

Ms. B got out of the hospital, and her son paid me a bit extra since i went and found the ironing instead of waiting for her to tell me what she wanted ironed.   It made her happy, which made me happy, too.

The grand-dogs visited twice.

We've had rain, just enough.

The kitty-greens grass that i grew for Tripod SissyCat actually did grow, in spite of the fact that i forgot it for a couple of days where it got no sun.

Tripod SissyCat is enjoying the greens.

She also didn't attack Coda, the German shepherd, when that crazy dog ran right up to her and started licking her.  That's not just a thankful, that almost amounts to a miracle. (She is now Tripod SissyCat, instead of just SissyCat, because a German Shepherd attacked her about two years before she came to live with us.)

My phone fixed itself.  It had decided i had headphones plugged in (i've never, ever done that) and i couldn't answer unless i put it on speaker, which i hate.  By the next day, it wasn't doing that any more.

A neighbor has asked me to come do a one time cleaning on her house right before her son gets in town, and i will be able to squeeze it in.

The Big Boss and his wife are out of town again, and this time they gave us two bags of organic fruits and veggies that they didn't eat before they left, as well as home made hummus and roasted Brussels sprouts.  He would live on fried food, cakes, candies, and other sweets.  She is a Pilates instructor and health foodie.  She wins unless he sneaks out to a restaurant, and so this time her winning the shopping wars got us enough really good food to last a few days.

No matter how things are going in life, there is something for which to be thankful, so please join us and our gracious and wonderful hostess Kristi from ThankfulMe, write up your own list and link up to Ten Things of Thankful.   

   

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Today is:

Aloha Festivals Royal Court Investiture and Opening Ceremonies -- Oahu, Hawai'i, US (opening events of the Aloha Festivals, a month long series of free events on every Island celebrating Hawai'ian culture)

Bahti Meskerem -- Eritrea (Revolution Day)

Bonnat Pig Fair -- Bonnat, France

Braemar Royal Highland Gathering -- Braemar, Scotland (one of the largest gatherings and Highland Games, celebrated for the last 900 years)

Buffalo Wing Festival -- Buffalo, NY, US (two days of celebrating one of this town's favorite foods!)

Building and Code Staff Appreciation Day

Chicken Boy's Day -- the mascot of the now defunct restaurant by that name, the 22 foot statue of a boy with a chicken's head was saved from destruction and is now a pop icon in L.A. on Route 66

Constitution Day/National Day -- Slovakia

Day of Knowledge -- Estonia (an official Flag Day); Russia

Disaster Prevention Day/Kanto Earthquake Memorial Day -- Japan

Ecclesiastical Year begins -- Orthodox Christian

Festival of Juno Regina and Jupiter Liber -- Ancient Roman Calendar

Hassaku Oshi-tsuki -- Tsuma, Oki Island, Japan (bull sumo, with bulls pushing each other out of the ring)

International Bacon Day -- good day for a double decker BLT with grilled onions and Swiss cheese

International Day of Awareness of the Dolphins of Taiji/Save Japan's Dolphins Day -- the drive and hunt of dolphins begins today in Japan, and protest events are held around the world      

Japanese Festival -- St. Louis, MO (celebrating the history, culture, and people of Japan at the Missouri Botanical Garden; through Monday)

Mustaqillik Kuni -- Uzbekistan (Independence Day, 1991) 

National Cherry Popover Day

National Hummingbird Day -- not official, but someone loves them enough to have started this

National No Rhyme (Nor Reason) Day -- the day to celebrate the amazing words in the English language that do not rhyme with any other words

National Writing Date Day -- a day to make a date with yourself to go to a coffee shop or library or someplace and get some writing done; sponsored by Natalie Marie-Collins)   

Nutt Day -- for Emma M. Nutt, the first female telephone operator

Oyster Season begins

Partridge's Day -- patridge hunting season begins in UK

Presidential Message Day -- Mexico

Random Acts of Kindness Day -- New Zealand

Scottish Food and Drink Fortnight -- celebrating the food and drink of this beautiful land, through the 16th   

Sing A Silly Song in Bed Day -- now, this one has no real rhyme or reason

Sneeze-Wobbling Festival -- Fairy Calendar

St. Fiacre's Day -- Ireland and France (the rest of the church celebrates this Patron of gardeners on August 30)

St. Gideon the Judge's Day (Patron of Saint-Gedeon-de-Beauce, Canada)

St. Giles' Day (Patron of the beggars, blacksmiths, breast feeding, cancer patients, disabled/handicapped people, epileptics, forests, hermits, horses, lepers, mentally ill people, noctiphobics, paupers and the poor, rams, spur makers, woods; Edinburgh, Scotland; Toifa, Italy; against breast cancer, epilepsy, fear of the night, insanity, leprosy, mental illness, noctiphobia, sterility)

St. Simeon Stylites' Day -- Eastern Orthodox Christian

Teacher's Day -- Singapore

Wattle Day -- Australia

Anniversary Today:

Benjamin Franklin marries Deborah Read, 1730

Birthdays Today:

Timothy Duane "Tim" Hardaway, 1966

Gloria Estefan, 1957

Dr. Phil McGraw, 1950

Barry Gibb, 1946

Lily Tomlin, 1939

Alan Dershowitz, 1938

Don Stroud, 1937

Seiji Ozawa, 1935

Conway Twitty, 1933

"Boxcar" Willie, 1931

Rocky Marciano, 1923

Yvonne DeCarlo, 1922

Vittorio Gassman, 1922

Walter Philip Reuther, 1907

Edgar Rice Burroughts, 1875

Englebert Humperdinck. 1854 (composer, esp of opera Hansel and Gretel)

Johann Pachelbel, 1653

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"Art Linkletter's House Party"(TV), 1952

"Androcles and the Lion"(Play), 1913

Today in History:

Rabbi Moses Ben Nachman establishes a Jewish community in Jerusalem, 1267

Adi Granth, now known as Guru Granth Sahib, the holy scripture of Sikhs, was first installed at Harmandir Sahib, 1601

The first yacht race is held, between England's King Charles I and his brother James, 1661

Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa forms in California, 1772

Juno, one of the largest main belt asteroids, is discovered by German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding, 1804

Narcissa Whitman, one of the first white women to settle west of the 

Rocky Mountains, arrives at Walla Walla, Washington, 1836

The first Pullman sleeping car is put into service, 1859

The Solar Superstorm/Carrington Event: a huge solar sunspot and solar flare storm that disrupted telegraphy and allowed the Aurora Borealis to be seen as far south as the Caribbean occurs, 1859

Joseph Lister performs the first antiseptic surgery, 1865

Robert T. Freeman becomes the first African American to graduate from the Harvard Dental School, 1867

The first underground rapid transit system in North America, the Boston Subway, opens, 1897

One of the first science fiction films ever, A Trip To The Moon, opens in France, 1902

Alberta and Saskatchewan become the 8th and 9th Canadian provinces, 1905

Martha, the last passenger pigeon, dies at the Cincinnati Zoo, 1914

The United States, Australia and New Zealand sign a mutual defense pact, called the ANZUS Treaty, 1951

In Reykjavík, Iceland, American Bobby Fischer beats Russian Boris Spassky and becomes the world chess champion, 1972

Canada adopts the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms as part of its Constitution, 1982

A joint French-American expedition locates the wreckage of the RMS Titanic, 1985

Luxembourg becomes the first nation to complete the transition to all digital tv broadcasting, 2006

After four Israeli settlers are shot at the Israeli settlement Beit Hagai, the Palestinian Authority arrested 250 members of Hamas, 2010

To avoid further fighting, Libya's Transitional Council extends the deadline to surrender for tribal leaders in Sirte, 2011

U.S. National Park officials notify 3,100 recent visitors of an outbreak of Hantavirus sourced to tent cabins in Yosemite National Park, 2012

In southwestern China, at least four people are killed by a 5.9-magnitude earthquake, 2013