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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.
Last week was both Grandpa's birthday and Uncle J's birthday. Both are "over 21" and that's all i'm going to say.
Grand-père Boudreaux done be celebratin' hims birthday, an' young Tee Boudreaux done ax, "Grand-père, what do it be like to be old?"
An' Grand-père say, "Mais! I don' be old! I be younger today dan I's ever goin' be again!"
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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.
Photos from the past week, most taken from the complex where #2 Son and His Bride live.
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| They told me i could sleep in the "nest" if i wanted. Since it would take at least one other person to haul me out, and the dog would be climbing on me as i tried to get up, i went ahead and opted to sleep on the futon. |
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This week, Jock wants to join the Kitties Blue for their Sunday Selfies Blog Hop, and he hopes it's okay for woofies to join in.
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Today is:
Bon Om Touk -- Cambodia (a/k/a The Water Festival, it is Cambodia's largest party, always held for two days around the time of the full moon in November)
Celebration of Christ The King -- Christian (final Sunday of the Ecclesiastical Year) related observance
Stir Up Sunday -- the day to get your Christmas plum pudding started
Constitution Day of the Republic of Abkhazia -- Abkhazia
Day of the Covenant -- Baha'i
Good Grief Day -- birth anniversary of Charles Schultz
Independence Day -- Mongolia(1924)
National Cake Day
Sojourner Truth Day -- died this day in 1883
St. John Berchmans' Day (Patron of alter servers, Oblate novices, young people)
Totensonntag/Ewigkeitssonntag -- Germany (Sunday of the Dead/Eternity Sunday; a general celebration and memorial of all who have died, decreed to be celebrated in Lutheran Churches by King Frederick William III of Prussia in 1816)
Anniversaries Today:
Founding of Sigma Alpha Mu in the City College of New York, by 8 Jewish young men, 1909
The first official Thanksgiving in the US, by presidential proclamation, 1789
Founding of the University of Notre Dame, 1842
Founding of Kappa Alpha Society, the oldest surviving US college fraternity, 1825
Birthdays Today:
Natasha Bedingfield, 1981
Shannon Dunn, 1972
Garcelle Beauvais-Nilon, 1966
Dale Jarrett, 1956
Tina Turner, 1939
Rich Little, 1938
Robert Goulet, 1933
Charles Schultz, 1922
Eugene Ionesco, 1912
Eric Sevareid, 1912
Lefty Gomez, 1908
Mary Edwards Walker, 1832
Sarah Moore Grimke, 1792
John Harvard, 1607
Emperor Go-Daigo of Japan, 1288
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Anarchy in the UK"(Sex Pistols single release), 1977
"The Price is Right"(TV), 1956
"Twenty Questions"(TV), 1949
Casablanca(Film), 1942
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland(Publication date), 1865
Today in History:
The Second Triumvirate alliance of Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus ("Octavian", later "Caesar Augustus"), Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, and Mark Antony is formed, BC43
Vlad III Dracula (Vlad the Impaler)defeats Basarab Laiota with the help of Stephen the Great and Stephen V Bathory and becomes the ruler of Wallachia for the third time, 1476
The first lion exhibited in the US makes his debut in Boston, 1716
Captain James Cook becomes the first European to visit Maui, 1778
The Catholic Apostolic Prefecture of the United States established, 1784
The first national US Thanksgiving is celebrated, 1789
The first streetcar railway in the US begins operation in NYC, fare 12 cents, 1832
The refrigerated railway car is patented by J.B. Sutherland of Detroit, Michigan, 1867
The first photograph of a meteor is taken, 1885
The National Hockey League is formed, with the Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Wanderers, Ottawa Senators, Quebec Bulldogs, and Toronto Arenas as its first teams, 1917
King Tut's tomb is opened by English archaeologist Howard Carter, 1922
Four young lads from Liverpool have their first recording session under the interesting name "The Beatles", 1962
Tony Blair becomes the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to address the Republic of Ireland's parliament, 1998
Concorde makes its final flight, over Bristol, England, 2003
A male Po'ouli (Black-faced honeycreeper) dies of Avian malaria in the Maui Bird Conservation Center in Olinda, Hawaii before it could breed, making the species in all probability extinct, 2004
NASA launches the Mars Science Laboratory, its largest rover ever, 2011
UK nonprofit Raspberry Pi releases its $5 Zero computer and sells out in a day, 2015
The WHO announces the first multidrug randomized control trial to treat Ebola has started in the Democratic Republic of Congo, 2018