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Our week has gotten cooler in more ways than one leading up to Thankful Day.
We're thankful the temperatures, while warmer in the day, are still getting down to nice and cool at night. I'm always thankful for the short time of year in which it happens this way.
Also, #2 Son managed, by the hardest, to get our new room A/C installed in our bedroom. It took a trip to the hardware store for another piece of wood to prop in the window, but we're very thankful it's ready for when the days really do start to get warm.
Sweetie and I were thankful to get home early last Saturday we both needed the rest.
Driving through Becca's neighborhood Sunday morning, i was thankful i was able to help a turtle finish crossing the street. They always make me nervous when they do it, so i stop to help.
The RV in our yard is almost move-in ready and we're all very thankful.
I'm thankful for time with this smiling face
even when she's screaming, which does happen.
Tuesday was one of those rare nights when i get little sleep, and i still managed to get through all Ms. G threw at me Wednesday, errands, lots of toting and fetching, and even some cleaning. I'm thankful it all worked out and thankful while we were at one store i found something i've been needing to pick up and got it.
The plan for Thursday was to do Ms. V's place then Kevin and Lenny's.
Ms. V, Mr. L and Carl actually made it work, each of them leaving the area which needed cleaning just as i needed to get to it, so i had plenty of time to get all the work done, thankfully, and still get to the shop.
I'm thankful Kevin and Lenny are still letting us trade our cleaning work for their work on our cars, as Slow-Moe needed an oil change.
The shelter population is on the way up again as the spring kittens come in from foster care to be put up for adoption. We're thankful for plenty of extra hands to make light work, we got done early on Friday and had time to just visit each other and the cats.
We're also thankful for adoptions and lots of people visiting and looking.
I'm thankful Poppy didn't bite me when i caught her after she escaped her room (she tried).
Please write up your own list and link up to Ten Things of Thankful, where Clark and his co-hosts always have a warm welcome waiting.
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Today is:
Barthelemy Boganda Day -- Central African Republic
Big Red Horse Day -- birth anniversary of Man O' War (1917) and Secretariat (1970), both of which had the nickname "Big Red"
Borrowed Days begin -- old English/Scottish/Irish legends about how March borrowed the next 3 days from April; these are still seen as weather prognostication days based on several different legends
Knights of Columbus Founders Day
Martyrs' Day -- Madagascar
National Lemon Chiffon Cake Day
National Mom and Pop Business Owners Day -- as recognized by AICPA
Smoke and Mirrors Day -- some sites call it "Festival of Smoke and Mirrors Day," but appropriately no one knows who started it
St. Armogastes of Africa's Day (Patron of the poor and torture victims; against poverty and torture)
St. Gladys' and St. Gwynllyw's Day (the Welsh "Bonny and Clyde", who led a life of crime before their conversion)
Youth Day -- Taiwan
Anniversaries Today:
Harry Hamlin weds Lisa Rinna, 1997
Yeshiva College (now University) is chartered in New York, 1928
Birthdays Today:
Hideaki Takizawa, 1982
Jennifer Capriati, 1976
Lucy Lawless, 1968
Elle Macpherson, 1964
Christopher Lambert, 1957
Kurt Thomas, 1956
Earl Christian Campbell, 1955
Karen Ann Quinlan, 1954
Bud Cort, 1950
George Blaha, 1945
Eric Idle, 1943
John Major, 1943
John Joseph McLaughlin, 1927
Pearl Bailey, 1918
Sam Walton, 1918
Eugene McCarthy, 1916
Philip Ahn, 1905
Denton True "Cy" Young, 1867
Isaac Mayer Wise, Rabbi and Founder of Reform Judaism, 1819
John Tyler, 1790
Carlo Buonaparte, father of Napoleon Bonaparte, 1746
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Woman of the Year"(Play), 1981
"The King and I"(Play), 1951
"Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows"(circus), 1919
"Mutt and Jeff"(Comic strip), 1908
"Jevgeni Onegin/Eugene Onegin"(Opera; Tchaikovsky Op. 24), 1879
Today in History:
The city of Salvador da Bahia, the first capital of Brazil, is founded, 1549
Treaty of Saint-Germain is signed, returning Quebec to French control after the English had seized it in 1629, 1632
Swedish colonists establish the first settlement in Delaware, 1638
Ludwig von Beethoven, age 24, debuts as a pianist in Vienna, 1795
Construction is authorized of the Great National Pike, better known as the Cumberland Road, becoming the first United States federal highway, 1806
Niagara Falls stops flowing for 30 hours due to an ice jam, 1848
The United Kingdom annexes the Punjab, 1849
Ohio makes it illegal for children under 18 & women to work more than 10 hours a day, 1852
Queen Victoria gives Royal Assent to the British North America Act which establishes the Dominion of Canada on July 1, 1867
Queen Victoria presides over the opening of Albert Hall in London, 1871
The Knights of Columbus are established, 1882
Dr. John Pemberton brews the first batch of Coca-Cola in his back yard, 1886
The North American Radio Broadcasting Agreement goes into effect at 03:00 local time, 1941
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage, 1951
NASA's Mariner 10 becomes the first spaceprobe to fly by Mercury, 1974
The Canada Act 1982 (U.K.) receives the Royal Assent from Queen Elizabeth II, setting the stage for the Queen of Canada to proclaim the Constitution Act, 1982
Catherine Callbeck becomes premier of Prince Edward Island and the first woman to be elected in a general election as premier of a Canadian province, 1993
Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia join NATO as full members, 2004
The Republic of Ireland becomes the first country in the world to ban smoking in all work places, including bars and restaurants, 2004
Thirty-five countries and over 370 cities join Earth Hour for the first time, 2008
A transistor-like transcriptor is built out of DNA and RNA molecules by American bioengineers at Stanford University, 2013
Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi announces that Arab leaders will be combining their military resources to combat violence in the region; Saudi Arabia has already led joint forces in airstrikes on Shia Houthi rebels in Yemen, 2015
UK Prime Minister Theresa May sends a letter to the EU invoking Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, formally triggering Brexit, 2017
The megaship Ever Given is freed after nearly a week stuck in and blocking the Suez Canal, 2021
A new study of Pluto based on 2015 footage from NASA's New Horizons Telescope is published which shows evidence of cryovolcanoes and ice lava, 2022
King Charles III makes his first state visit abroad, to Germany, 2023
