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My first thankful is for Thankful Day each week. Taking notes helps me look for the good things and keeps me mindful of my many blessings.
As noted before, last week's first rEcess of the year was grand, and i'm still thankful for it! (For any who don't know, it's a church-based volunteer group, we provide free babysitting for special needs children and their siblings so parents can have a night out without worry.)
Arriving at Grandma and Grandpa's on Saturday, i found Bryn, Uncle J's eldest, was visiting. I was thankful to see her, and Abby dog (she always brings Abby when she visits).
As is usual the Sunday before Labor Day, our church only had one service. Mr. Cal is always thankful when this happens as he gets an extra long puppy walk since the service starts so much later.
Annie and i had a wonderful time together in the afternoon and then were thankful to get to visit Ms. D. It's even better when #2 Son, Daughter-in-Law and Little Ben walk down, too, and they did.
For Monday morning, i had asked Ms. S if i could come at 9am so as to get back on the road to NOLA early in the afternoon. She and Mr. D agreed, although he is usually loathe to get up so early. I'm thankful he very kindly got up and was about to have breakfast when i arrived. He told me, "I'm going to eat my breakfast, and then smoke my cigar, and by that time you'll be done with my room and I can go back to bed!" No, he did not go to the casino on Monday this past week, it's too crowded on a holiday, he goes on Tuesday instead, so it was extra nice of him to get up.
I did get to NOLA relatively early and because it was a holiday, almost no traffic. I was thankful to be able to help Grandma and get some extra cleaning work done.
In the middle of the night, after Grandma had called me to help her and i was getting back in the guest room bed, one of the slat supports under it collapsed! I was thankful i wasn't hurt, just rather startled, and i laughed. Then i lifted the mattress and decided not to fight to get all the boards put back in place. I was thankful across the bottom of the bed was still relatively well supported, and i slept across the bottom of the bed!
Tuesday morning, i was thankful to get home in plenty of time to take care of Annie for the day.
Toddler Rule: if you are not wearing your avocado, you didn't have enough fun eating your avocado.
Every so often there's a big problem with one of the major highways around here, and it happened on Wednesday. A jackknifed 18-wheeler truck shut down the whole thing, and it always paralyzes all the traffic in all the areas around here, including ours, when every single vehicle has to be rerouted to surface streets. I'm thankful because of the direction i was going, i was actually able to get to the shelter and then to Ms. G's house without much trouble.
At her house, i was thankful we got the broken glass cleaned rather easily when she dropped the glass globe which goes over the light bulb while changing said bulb and thankful the traffic had cleared up considerably by the time she decided to send me to the care home to see Ms. Fiona.
Ms. G had the notion Ms. Fiona was desperately in need of help getting the rest of her clothing organized, but Ms. Fiona had already done a good portion of the work herself, a little at a time over the last 3-4 weeks. Also, while she is always glad to have company, she did not want to miss Bingo.
I'm thankful she and i visited for a little while, she went to Bingo, and then i worked in her room on the remaining clothes she needs to sort, i simply folded all of them into two piles (shirts and pants, the dresses are already hanging) and left them where she could easily go through them and put them where she wants them.
I'm also thankful i got her door wreath changed as she wanted.
That evening, my Sweetie misplaced his phone, and yes, of course the ringer was off, what were you thinking, that he leaves it on? I'm thankful i happened to spot it on a bookshelf.
Speaking of bookshelves, last week i mentioned taking note of people's bookshelves because what you read says a lot about you. Long story short, as a thankful today, i am showing i'm thankful for the books on the second shelf from the right.
Being able to upload this photo reminds me, i am also thankful Blogger is now allowing me to upload new photos again, for a while there, i couldn't. I'll also be thankful when they straighten out the problem with updating our readers.
I'm also thankful Bigger Girl contacted me and we have plans for next week, we're thankful she will be able to visit for the first time in almost two years.
Bible study on Wednesday evening went very well, and i'm thankful i have convinced our hostess to let us grab our own chairs as we walk in and they are needed, she's always setting up way too many and i know it's not easy for her to do it.
My Thursday at Ms. V's went well, we've agreed after Carl's recent visit, i will add a half hour to each Thursday i'm there and get his room tidied again this way. I'm thankful his bed is now cleared off, sheets washed and the bed remade and ready to sleep in again.
Speaking of sleep, i've been a bit short of it since starting to go down to NOLA more and sometimes spending the night, so i'm thankful i was actually able to lie down Thursday afternoon and get a nap.
Friday was another day i was thankful to spend with our Annie, and later i was thankful to see people adopting cats at the shelter while doing my regular shift.
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:
Carl Garner Federal Lands Cleanup Day 2026-- US (the Saturday after Labor Day, everyone is encouraged to volunteer in cleaning federal land, recreation areas, or waterways, to help do their part to keep these places beautiful)
Defender's Day -- Maryland, US (marking the bombardment of Ft. McHenry, which event inspired Francis Scott Key to write "The Star-Spangled Banner", current national anthem of the US)
Eleven Days of Global Unity -- Day 2, Interdependence (sponsored by We, the World)
Farmer-Consumer Awareness Day -- Quincy, WA, US (a fun and tasty way to celebrate and learn how food gets from the farm to your table; through Sunday)
Gahambar Paitishahem -- Zoroastrian Calendar (five-day feast of bringing in the harvest)
Great Procession of Tournai -- Tournai, Belgium (religious procession held since 1092, in thanksgiving for deliverance from the plague; through tomorrow)
International Day for South-South Cooperation -- UN
International Drive Your Studebaker Day -- an official event of the Studebaker Drivers Club Inc. (and i wish i could!)
National Chocolate Milkshake Day
National Day of Encouragement -- US (no matter where you live, encourage someone today)
National Police Woman Day -- US
Programmers Day -- Russia, and among programmers around the world (on the 256th day of the year)
some sites call this "Thank a Programmer Day"
Rosh Hashanah -- Judaism (began last night at sundown, through tomorrow at nightfall)
St. Alibe's Day (Patron of wolves; Cashel, Ireland; Emly, Ireland; Munster, Ireland)
St. Guy's Day (Patron of bachelors, epileptics, horned animals, laborers, sacristans, sextons, work horses; for protection of outbuildings, sheds, and stables; Anderlecht, Belgium; against epilepsy, hydrophobia/rabies, infantile convulsions, and rabid dogs)
Video Games Day -- an unofficially declared day for kids to thank their parents for indulging their love of games
Anniversaries Today:
Winston Churchill marries Clementine Hozier, 1908
Elizabeth Barret and Robert Browning elope, 1846
Robert Schumann marries Clara Wieck, 1840
Birthdays Today:
Emily Rossum, 1986
Jennifer Hudson, 1981
Yao Ming, 1980
Benjamin McKenzie, 1978
Amy Yasbeck, 1963
Rachel Ward, 1957
Joe Pantoliano, 1954
Peter Scolari, 1954
Gerry Beckley, 1952
Barry White, 1952
Maria Muldaur, 1943
Linda Gray, 1940
George Jones, 1931
Ian Holm, 1931
Dickie Moore, 1925
Irene Dailey, 1920
Jesse Owens, 1913
Ben Blue, 1901
Alfred A. Knopf, Sr. 1892
Maurice Chevalier, 1888
H.L. Mencken, 1880
Charles Dudley Warner, 1829
Debuting/Premiering Today:
Captain EO(3-D Film), 1986
"Taxi"(TV), 1978
"Maude"(TV), 1972
"The Monkees"(TV), 1966
"Bonanza"(TV), 1959
"Lassie"(TV), 1954
"Quadrille"(Play), 1952
"The Symphony No. 8 in E-flat major/Symphony of a Thousand"(Mahler symphony), 1910
Today in History:
Henry Hudson begins his exploration of the Hudson River while aboard the Halve Maen, 1609
The first submarine is tested in London, 1624
Turkish troops besieging Vienna are overthrown after 2 months by Poland's King Sobieski, 1683
First Black Masons Lodge is formed, 1787
Switzerland becomes a Federal State, 1848
The "Cleopatra Needle" is installed in London, 1878
Charles Leroux, world famous parachutist with 238 successful jumps, perishes in his attempted jump in the Bay of Reval, 1889
The world's first female police officer, Alice Stebbins Wells, is appointed by the LAPD, 1910
Cave paintings are discovered in Lascaux, France, 1940
Jack Kilby demonstrates the first integrated circuit, 1958
Premiere of Bonanza, the first regularly-scheduled TV program presented in color, 1959
Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, 'Messiah' of the Rastafari movement, is deposed following a military coup, 1974
Indonesia is hit with an 8.1 earthquake, 1979
Hurricane Gilbert devastates Jamaica, 1988
Hong Kong Disneyland opens in Penny's Bay, Lantau Island, Hong Kong, 2005
Iran finally agrees to release U.S. hiker Sarah Shourd, arrested there in 2009, on bail and permit her to leave the country, 2010
The "Lamb of God" panels of the Ghent Altarpiece, one of the most often stolen artworks in history, are secretly removed for restoration, 2012
NASA's Voyager 1 space probe becomes the first manmade object to reach interstellar space, 2013
The Duke of Cambridge, Prince William, completes his last shift as a pilot in the RAF, and officially retires to perform Royal and community work, 2013
The discovery of the oldest known human drawing, a 73,000-year-old marking on stone found in Blombos Cave, South Africa, is published, 2018
In tribute to the late artist Christo, his unfulfilled project is completed and Paris's Arc de Triomphe is covered in fabric, 2021
Modern slavery (forced labor and forced marriages) has increased by 10 million to 50 million people in the last five years according to the UN's International Labour Organization, 2022
Lee Jung-jae, star of "Squid Game" becomes the first person from a foreign-language show to win an Emmy for best actor in a drama, 2022
The crew of SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission take the first commercial spacewalk during a five-day journey through Earth's orbit, traveling the farthest in space of any human since NASA’s Apollo program, 2024
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