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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.
Our family is full of notoriously picky eaters. If you look at the pepper shaker while cooking, don't give whatever you cooked to Grandma, it will be too peppery.
If it has a green vegetable, or cheese, or mayonnaise in it, keep it away from Grandpa.
Uncle P is a strict meat and potatoes guy, and i am vegetarian. My kids eat a big variety of stuff, but each has a no-no or two that s/he just won't touch.
It's not easy to cook for our family.
Clothile done be complain to Marie 'bout Tee, an' how picky dat boy be to eat.
Marie done ax, "Do he eat de seafood gumbo an' de crawfish étouffée?"
"Mais, oui," say Clothile.
"Den mebbe he be hims de pescatarian," Marie say.
An' Clothile ax, "De what?"
Marie say, "De pescatarian, de person who eat only fish."
An' Clothile say, "Mais, dat boy be so picky he be mo' like de pest-catarian!"
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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 is now hosted by Elephant's Child.
Some bits of this and that today.
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| Wisteria from my own fence, a lovely invasive. |
Some photos from Mr. BA's garden, including the "volunteers"(weeds):
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| Puddin' is snoopervising my weeding. |
A shelter volunteer is bulding these plexi dividers to put between kitten cages. The hope is this will stop the spread of things like upper respiratory infections, which can get out of hand quickly when kittens from one cage try to play with the kittens in the next cage (or sneeze on each other!).
A couple of sunset photos on a very cloudy day:
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Today is:
Children's Picture Book Day -- while i can't find a sponsor for this day, starting kids on a lifelong love of books is as good an excuse for a holiday as any
Commemoration of Sen no Rikyu -- Urasenke School of the Japanese Tea Ceremony, Japan (remembering the influential master in The Way of Tea)
Daylight Saving Time begins -- Albania; Andorra; Austria; Belgium; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Bulgaria; Croatia; Cyprus; Czech Republic; Denmark; Estonia; Faroe Islands; Finland; France; Germany; Gibraltar, Greece; Greenland (some areas); Holy See (Vatican City); Hungary; Ireland; Isle of Mann; Italy; Jersey; Kosovo; Latvia; Lebanon; Liechtenstein; Lithuania; Luxembourg; Macedonia; Malta; Moldova; Monaco; Montenegro; Morocco; Netherlands; Norway; Poland; Portugal; Romania; San Marino; Serbia; Slovakia; Slovenia; Spain; Sweden; Switzerland; Ukraine; United Kingdom; Western Sahara
European Union: Daylight Saving Time (Summer Time) Begins
Doljatra/Holika Dahan -- regions of India (a festival of colors, similar to Holi)
Feast of Artemis -- Ancient Greek Calendar (as protector of wild animals, vegetation, and places, begins at sundown; date approximate)
Festival of the Sacrifice at the Tombs -- Ancient Roman Calendar (to honor the ancestors)
Full Worm Moon -- also called Leaf Moon, Seedling Moon, Crow Moon, Crust Moon, Sap Moon, Light Snow Moon, White moon, Virgin Moon, Paschal Moon, or Lenten Moon; considered the last full moon of winter
Madin Full Moon Poya Day -- Sri Lanka
Taubaung Full Moon -- Myanmar
"Greatest Show on Earth" Day -- Barnum and Bailey merged their circuses on this day in 1881
Holi -- Hindu (Festival of Color, begins at sundown, through sundown tomorrow, where everyone gets doused with colored water, or powder, or paint, or all of them; it's been described as an iridescent madhouse)
officially recognized holiday in Guyana; India; Nepal; Suriname
Phagu Purnima / Basanta Utsay -- Kathmandu Valley, Nepal
Hot Tub Day -- because we all need one!
Invasion of Loaming Shores Beyond the Certain Sea Anniversary -- Fairy Calendar
Khordad Sal (Birth of the Prophet Zarathushtra) -- Zoroastrianism (Fasli Calendar)
Komamorijinja Reisai -- Nakaedo, Kashi-sh, Gifu, Japan (festival of the the Kosazukeishi "child-granting stone")
Lailat al-Bara'ah (Shab Barat) -- Islam (Night of Forgiveness or sometimes Night of Records, a preparation for Ramadan; began at sunset yesterday, local custom dates may vary)
Lord's Evening Meal -- Jehovah's Witness
Magha Puja Day -- Buddhist (celebrations of the teachings of Buddha to an assembly of holy men)
National Black Forest Cake Day
Palm Sunday/Passion Sunday -- Christian
Semana Santa -- Holy Week in Spain and Spanish speaking areas; special celebrations include:
Mexico -- through the country, but especially in Chiapes, with processions, costumes and even fireworks, music, dance and syncretic ritual
Seville, Spain -- with hundreds of shuffling penitents in their hoods making the torch lit processions through the town from today through Easter
Pesach/Passover -- Judaism (began yesterday evening, through the evening of April 4)
Ragnar Lodbrok's Day -- Asatru/Slavic Pagan Calendar (remembrance of this Viking's sack of Paris)
Respect Your Cat Day -- anniversary of King Richard II's edict in 1384 forbidding the consumption of cats
Serfs Emancipation Day -- Tibet
Something on a Stick Day -- something edible, of course, because almost everything tastes better on a stick
St. Guntramnus' Day (Patron of divorced people, guardians, repentant murderers)
Teachers' Day -- Czech Republic; Slovakia
Weed Appreciation Day -- at last, for those of us with black thumbs, since this is all we can grow! "Weeds are flowers once you get to know them!" A.A. Milne
Birthdays Today:
Lady Gaga, 1986
Julia Stiles, 1981
Annie Wersching, 1977
Kate Gosselin, 1975
Scott Mills, 1974
Juliandra Gillen, 1971
Vince Vaughn, 1970
Reba McEntire, 1955
Dianne Wiest, 1948
Ken Howard, 1944
Conchata Ferrell, 1943
Jerry Sloan, 1942
Freddie Bartholomew, 1924
Dirk Bogarde, 1921
Irving "Swifty" Lazar, 1907
August Anheuser Busch, Jr., 1899
Maxim Gorky, 1868
Frederich Pabst, 1836
St. Teresa of Avila, 1515
Fra Bartolomeo, 1472
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Hair"(Rock musical), 1968
"Philadelphia Story"(Play), 1939
Today in History:
Roman Emperor Pertinax is assassinated by Praetorian Guards, who then sell the throne in an auction to Didius Julianus, 193
Viking raiders sack Paris, who leave in exchange for a huge ransom, 845
The origin of the Fasli Era in India, 1556
Juan Bautista de Anza finds the site for the Presidio of San Francisco, 1776
Nathaniel Briggs of NH patents a washing machine, 1797
Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers discovers 2 Pallas, the second asteroid known to man, 1802
The US Salvation Army is officially organized, 1885
Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane, 1910
Jews are expelled from Tel Aviv & Jaffa by Turkish authorities, 1917
Constantinople and Angora change their names to Istanbul and Ankara, 1930
The McGill français movement protest occurs, the second largest protest in Montreal's history, 1969
Operators of Three Mile Island's Unit 2 nuclear reactor outside of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania fail to recognize that a relief valve in the primary coolant system has stuck open, leading to a partial meltdown, 1979
In South Africa, Zulus and African National Congress supporters battle in central Johannesburg, resulting in 18 deaths, 1994
The 2005 Sumatran earthquake rocks Indonesia, and at magnitude 8.7 is the second strongest earthquake since 1965, 2005
At least 1 million union members, students, and unemployed take to the streets in France in protest at the government's proposed First Employment Contract law, 2006
Australian diplomat Peter Woolcott's draft for the first-ever treaty to regulate the conventional arms trade is discussed by members of the United Nations, 2013
Pope Francis becomes the first Pope to wash the feet of women in the Maundy Thursday service, 2013
Britain introduces the first new pound coin in 30 years with a secret security feature inside to stop counterfeiting, 2017
The world's largest dinosaur footprint at 1.7 metres found in Kimberley, Western Australia, 2017
The study of a gene mutation that allows a 71-year-old British woman to never feel pain is published in the British Journal of Anaesthesia, 2019