Down Side (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.

Grandpa is still refusing to wear his hearing aid, and Grandma is still fussing at him about it, especially when she calls for him and he doesn't hear her.

Grand-père Boudreaux done be mad dat dey be tellin' him he need de hearin' aid.  He be fussin' de rest o' dem jes' mumble, but de hearin' test don' lie so he done order him de hearin' aid.

Grand-mère done tole him, "It be great, you be goin' hear it when de chillins talkin' at you now!"

An' Grand-père done say, "Mias, oui, but it means I's also goin' have start listen agin' when Fr. Gaston done give de homily at mass on Sunday!"

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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.        

Artwork from a different school our church sponsors, a couple of things that caught my eye, and sky shots, because that's what i had time to take.

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This week, Little Orphan Annie wants to join the Kitties Blue at The Cat On My Head for their Sunday Selfies Blog Hop.  She calls this her "I am very shy and one laser is on" selfie.  Annie is one of the most shy cats Mr. BA and Ms. GA have.  Until very recently, I'd only ever seen her tail disappearing around a corner and now she will cautiously come eat when i am catsitting.   

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Today is:

Biological Clock Day -- the "biological clock gene" that governs the circadian rhythm in mice was isolated on this day in 1994

Bulldogs Are Beautiful Day -- this one has its own Facebook page 

Cubicle Day -- because if you can't beat 'em, join 'em

Feast of Jamal(Beauty) -- Baha'i

Festival of Floralia -- Ancient Roman Calendar (three day festival to Flora, goddess of flowers and vegetation)

Great Poetry Reading Day -- make sure you read some great poetry today

Hidaka Hibuse Matsuri -- Mizusawa, Iwate Prefecture, Japan (through the 29th; floats, child musicians, traditional costumes, and fun)

James Monroe Birthday Celebration -- Charlottesville, VA, US (at his home, Ash Lawn-Highland)

Kiss Your Mate Day -- guys, do not forget this one, in case she reads it somewhere on the internet; kiss her, then read her a great poem

Mother, Father Deaf Day -- to honor deaf parents and recognize the gifts of culture and language they give to their hearing children; sponsored by CODA (Children of Deaf Adults International) www.coda-international.org

Landsgemeinde -- Appenzell, Inner Rhoden Canton, Switzerland (one of the last examples of direct democracy left; the final Sunday of each April all voters in the canton age 18 and older, wearing traditional swords, gather for a church service and then vote directly on all affairs of the canton for the year; no secret ballots, all raise their hands to vote yea or nay; festival follows.  This tradition dates back to the 14th century.)

National Blueberry Pie Day

National Kids and Pets Day

National Day of Mourning -- Canada (In conjunction with Workers' Memorial Day and World Day for Safety and Health at Work, honoring those injured or killed on the job)

National Heroes Day -- Barbados

Palm Sunday/Passion Sunday -- Orthodox Christian

Pay It Forward Day -- International (begun in the US as National Pay It Forward Day, it is now observed in over 80 countries; this year the global initiative wants to inspire over 10 million acts of kindness around the world!)    

Pet Parent's Day -- honoring those who consider pets a part of the family

Rip Cord Day -- the first successful jump with a parachute that used a rip cord was this day in 1919 by Leslie Erwin of the U.S. Army Air Corps

Sa die de sa Sardinia -- Sardinia, Italy (Sardinia Day, celebrating the uprising of 1794)

St. Peter Chanel's Day (Patron of Oceania)

     Saint Pierre-Chanel Day -- Wallis and Fortuna

Sts. Vitalis and Valeria's Day (Patrons of Thibodaux, Louisiana)

Turkmen Racing Horse Festival -- Turkmenistan

Workers Memorial Day / World Day for Safety and Health at Work -- International (remembering all who have lost their lives or been injured on the job)

Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day -- anyone, anywhere in the world who makes a pinhole photograph today may upload it to the worldwide online gallery    

Anniversaries Today:

William Randolph Hearst marries Millicent Veronica Willson, 1903

Maryland becomes the 7th US State, 1788

Birthdays Today:

Jenna Ushkowitz, 1986

Jessica Alba, 1981

Penelope Cruz, 1974

Jorge Garcia, 1973

Nicklas Lidstrom, 1970

John Daly, 1966

Elena Kagan, 1960

Ian Rankin, 1960

Nancy Lee Grahn, 1958

Mary McDonnell, 1952

Jay Leno, 1950

Marcia Strassman, 1948

Ann-Margaret, 1941

Harper Lee, 1926

Oskar Schindler, 1908

Erich Salomon, 1886

Lionel Barrymore, 1878

Mifflin Wister Gibbs, 1828

James Monroe, 1758

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"One Man's Family"(Radio), 1932

Today in History:

Newly elected King of Jerusalem Conrad of Montferrat is assassinated in Tyre, 1192

Nichiren Buddhism is founded, 1253

Virginia governor John Harvey is accused of treason and removed from office, 1635

Female English Pirate Mary Read, who operated throughout the Caribbean, died in prison (she was pregnant at the time), 1721

Captain William Bligh and 18 crewmen from the HMS Bounty are set adrift, 1789

Chinese and Irish laborers for the Central Pacific Railroad working on the First Transcontinental Railroad lay 10 miles of track in one day, a feat which has never been matched, 1869

Azerbaijan  is added to the Soviet Union., 1920

The first night game in organized baseball  history takes place in Independence, Kansas, 1930

A vaccine  for yellow fever is announced for use on humans, 1932

Thor Heyerdahl and five crew mates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki, 1947

The Sino-Japanese Peace Treaty (Treaty of Taipei) is signed in Taipei, Taiwan between Japan and the Republic of China to officially end the Second Sino-Japanese War, 1952

Charles de Gaulle resigns as President of France, 1969

The Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure is signed, 1977

Millionaire Dennis Tito becomes the world's first space tourist, 2001

According to the WHO, leading causes of death in the world include chronic illnesses such as heart disease, cancer and diabetes, 2011

In recognition of democratic reforms, the European Union opens an office in Burma, 2012

The government of India announces that electricity has now reached every Indian village, 2018 

American diver Victor Vescovo makes the deepest dive ever to the bottom of the Mariana trench at 10,927m (35,849ft), discovering three new marine species and finding plastic waste, 2019

NASA's Parker Solar Probe becomes the first spacecraft to cross the Alfvén critical boundary, the outer atmosphere of the Sun, 2021

Six new indigenous land reserves covering 620,000 hectares (1.5m acres) where mining is banned and commercial farming is restricted are set up by Brazilian President Lula da Silva, 2023

X-Ray Vision, a Ten Things of Thankful A to Z Post

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It might not be as cool as Superman's kind, but i believe thankfulness gives you a kind of X-ray vision on your life, to see into it more clearly.

I'm thankful for that, in itself.

This wasn't Ms. JAI's usual week, but she called in a panic on Thursday.  She needed meds picked up at the pharmacy and she wasn't feeling well enough to drive.  She'd been calling around and none of her friends were able to help, although Ms. Sue, a mutual friend, was willing to get a neighbor to come help her put her back brace on so she could drive and take care of it.  (Ms. Sue is a gem and i'm thankful for her.)

Thankfully, i'd just gotten off work and Sweetie wasn't out in Slow-Moe.  Since GusGus Die Fledermaus no longer has a working A/C and the driver's window doesn't roll down, i try to go straight to work and home, as thankful as i am for having transportation at all, a car without A/C in our heat can be lethal.  I ran by the house, grabbed the generic bleach tablets i'd found online for her toilet cleaning system, and went in Slow-Moe to get her meds.

Thankfully, too, the line at the pharmacy was very short and quick, i got to her place and used the bleach tablets, storing the rest for later, and got home before the evening traffic picked up.  Around here, the latter is very important.

Speaking of Ms. V's house, i'm thankful even though Carl is not going to work until later, i've managed to figure out a cleaning routine which takes it into account and doesn't leave me just waiting for him to finish in the kitchen.

I'm also thankful i'd already taken the knobs off the stove to clean it and left them off so he couldn't cook eggs on the cooktop i'd just cleaned before his mother could see and enjoy it.  I'm thankful they had plenty of frozen breakfast sandwiches he could toast instead, and he did.

Several years ago, i had a professional style mop bucket given to me, the kind that costs more than i can usually pay for equipment.  It was outdoors to be cleaned, near the garbage cans, and Sweetie thought it was trash and threw it away and i was heartbroken.

This past week, Ms. G found one, filthy but perfectly usable, in the townhouse we were cleaning and she gave it to me.  It's outdoors for cleaning, and you-know-who has been warned to leave it be, and thankfully, he will!

I'm thankful we should only have one more cleaning session at that place, and that i was able to do the shelter, meet her at the townhouse and work there, then go back to her place for a few needed chores and i got through it, though it was very long.

The Big Boss was so pleased with Sweetie's work last Friday he told him to take the two of us out to lunch this week, so on Tuesday we went to the place that serves all-you-care-to-eat sushi.  That's a yummy thankful!

The week has been very busy, i'm behind in reading blogs and behind in everything else, but i'm thankful the bills got paid on time and the cleaning work is getting done despite how rushed i often feel.

I'm thankful for extra work this weekend, as Ms. GA and Mr. BA are out of town and that means catsitting.

I'm especially thankful for extra volunteers at the shelter!

Please write up your own list and link up to Ten Things of Thankful, where Dyanne and her co-hosts always have a warm welcome waiting.   

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Today is:

Abolition Day -- Mayotte

Babe Ruth Day -- anniversary of the day dedicated to him in 1947 by every ball field in the US and Japan

Freedom Day -- South Africa

Independence Day -- Sierra Leone(1961); Togo(1960)(

International Marconi Day -- a 24-hour amateur radio event annually near the birth anniversary of Marconi (Apr. 25, 1874)

King's Birthday / Koningsdag -- Kingdom of the Netherlands (Aruba, Curacao, Netherlands, and Sint Maartin); Bonaire, St. Eustatius, and Saba

Lazarus Saturday -- Orthodox Christian

     Lazarovden -- Bulgaria (along with celebrating the raising of Lazarus, there are fertility rituals, especially involving young maidens, and honoring the goddesses of spring and love)

Matanzas Mule Day -- remembering the only casualty of one of the first naval actions of the Spanish-American War, a mule in the village of Matanzas, Cuba

Morse Code Day -- birth anniversary of Samuel Morse

National Go Birding Day -- US (but feel free to participate wherever you are, birding is fun!)

National Herb Day -- different from the HerbDay in May, and unsponsored

National Prime Rib Day

National Sense of Smell Day -- US (sponsored by the Sense of Smell Institute, encouraging museums and science centers to focus on how the sense of smell plays an important role in daily life and how it interacts with other senses; While celebrating, remember those with anosmia [diminished ability or total inability to smell])

National War Veterans Day -- Finland

Penguin Day -- originated by a different group from World Penguin Day, but you can't have enough days dedicated to these cute guys, can you?   h

Resistance Day/Day of the Uprising Against the Occupying Forces -- Slovenia

Save the Frogs Day -- Save The Frogs Day is the world's largest day of amphibian education and conservation action 

St. Zita of Lucca's Day (Patron of butlers, domestic servants, homemakers, housemaids, lost keys, maids, manservants, people ridiculed for their piety, rape victims, servants, servers, single laywomen, waiters/waitpersons/waitresses; against losing keys)

Tell a Story Day -- US (no history of origin, although celebrated in many libraries)

The Ennead Sail Through the Land -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)

Victory Day -- Afghanistan

World Graphic Design Day

World Healing Day / World Tai Chi and Qigong Day   

World Tapir Day 

World Veterinary Day -- World Veterinary Association       

Write An Old Friend Today Day -- a real letter, in the mail, remember how exciting it is to get those?

Anniversaries Today:

Ringo Starr marries Barbara Bach, 1981

Cornell University is established as New York's land grant institution, 1865

Birthdays Today:

Patrick Stump, 1984

William-Alexander, King of the Netherlands, 1967

Sheena Easton, 1959

Ace Frehley, 1951

Cuba Gooding, Sr., 1944

Earl Anthony, 1938

Sandy Dennis, 1937

Anouk Aimee, 1932

Casey Kasem, 1932

Coretta Scott King, 1927

Jack Klugman, 1922

Walter Lantz, 1900

Sergei Prokofiev, 1891

Jessie Redmon Fauset, 1882

Ulysses S. Grant, 1822

Samuel Morse, 1791

Mary Wollstonecraft, 1759

Edward Gibbon, 1737

Suleiman the Magnificent, 1495

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"Chips with Everything"(Play), 1962

"Le roi de Lahore/The king of Lahore"(Opera), 1877

"Roméo et Juliette"(Opera), 1867

"L'africaine/The African Woman"(Meyerbeer Opera), 1865

Today in History:

Ferdinand Magellan is killed by natives in the Philippines led by chief Lapu-Lapu, 1521

Re-founding of the city of Bogotá, New Granada (now Colombia), by Nikolaus Federmann and Sebastián de Belalcázar, 1539

Cebu is established as the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines, 1565

The blind and impoverished John Milton sells the copyright of Paradise Lost for £10, 1667

The British Parliament passes the Tea Act, 1773

Beethoven composes Für Elise, 1810

US troops capture the capital of Upper Canada, York  (present day Toronto, Canada), 1813

The Foundation stone for new Palace of Westminster, London, is laid, 1840

The establishment of Jewish congregations in Lower Austria is prohibited, 1857

The steamboat Sultana, carrying 2,400 passengers, explodes and sinks in the Mississippi River, killing 1,700, most of whom are Union survivors of the Andersonville and Cahaba Prisons, 1865

In South Africa, the Group Areas Act is passed formally segregating races, 1950

Togo gains independence from French-administered UN trusteeship, 1960

Sierra Leone is granted its independence from the United Kingdom, 1961

Expo 67  officially opens in Montreal, Canada, 1967

Xerox PARC introduces the computer mouse, 1981

The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, comprising Serbia and Montenegro, is proclaimed, 1992

Betty Boothroyd becomes the first woman to be elected Speaker of the British House of Commons in its 700-year history, 1992

Russia and 12 other former Soviet republics become members of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, 1992

The first democratic general election in South Africa, in which black citizens could vote is held, 1994

The last successful telemetry from the NASA space probe Pioneer 10 is received, 2002

The superjumbo jet aircraft Airbus A380 makes its first flight from Toulouse, France, 2005

Construction begins on the Freedom Tower for the new World Trade Center in New York City, 2006

Estonian authorities remove the Bronze Soldier, a Soviet Red Army war memorial in Tallinn, amid political controversy with Russia, 2007

The wives and children of former Osama bin Laden are deported from Pakistan to Saudi Arabia, 2012

North Korea's Kim Jong-un and Moon Jae-in of South Korea agree to officially end the Korean war and rid the peninsula of nuclear weapons, 2018

Space-X launches its Crew Dragon capsule with four astronauts, including Jessica Watkins, the first African-American woman to serve an extended mission on International Space Station, 2022

The Zoonomia Project, where genomes of 240 mammals were collected and compared, publishes findings which seem to show 10.7% of the human genome is identical to that of almost all mammal species, 2023