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Thankful Day has come again and once more there's probably more thankful things than i can count. Still, i list as many as i remember or as i wrote down.
Friday before last we had just picked up our new-to-us car, and on Saturday it got thoroughly baptized by a drive to NOLA through one of our monsoon rains where you can barely see the road. I'm thankful i was in a good car and got down there and back safely.
I'm thankful i remembered to bring all the food for Sunday ahead of time. I'm also thankful i was able to drive the car even though i didn't have time to go to the motor vehicles place, carrying the notarized bill of sale and title will do for up to 30 days.
Grandpa and i got the rest of the food needed for Sunday and enough for Uncle J to make spaghetti this week, and i'm thankful our list isn't that long every time.
Uncle J has agreed to play furniture tetris with me to help make it easier to change Grandma's bed, and i'm thankful as it is a long slog the way things are.
I'm thankful Grandma liked her new cup i got her for her birthday, it's smaller and lighter in weight and she can lift it more easily.
Sunday was Mother's Day, i'm thankful my Sweetie and i were able to get down there, we had a lovely meal of grilled hamburgers and hot dogs, potato salad and roasted corn, and chocolate pie for dessert.
Grandma keeps telling me not to get her orchids as she can no longer tend them and keep them alive, so i disobeyed and got her an acrylic hanging orchid! I'm thankful she likes it.
That evening, i'm thankful my little Annie and i were able to take Ms. D a bunch of flowers and have an evening Mother's Day visit.
There was plenty of food left over from our little gathering, so i'm thankful i had a huge amount to bring and share with the ladies' circle group Monday evening.
I'm thankful we managed to get to the meeting, as the rain was again so bad it was causing flooding on some of the streets. We're all thankful for these get-togethers, and i'm thankful for fellowship and discussion centered on our faith.
Tuesday wasn't rainy, so Annie was thankful to put on her rain boots and take a walk with this GG, splashing through puddles as we went.
I'm thankful i was able to watch her long enough for her parents to not just finish work but also get a nap.
Ms. G had another appointment so i'm thankful i got done with work early enough to get the new car to my favorite "mini-DMV" to get it properly registered.
Which reminds me, i'm thankful our state passed the law to allow notaries to open what amounts to branch offices of the state Department of Motor Vehicles, each able to do anything the DMV can do except transfer a car in from out of state or give you an actual driving test. I call the one i go to the mini-DMV, it's never as crowded as the official one and you never have to make an appointment and come back another day because they have too big a crowd.
While there, i'm also thankful i was able to pass the eye test (thank you, cataract surgery last year!) and get the "needs glasses" restriction removed from my license.
There are some days where you simply say, "I'm thankful the day is over." Thursday was close to being one of those days, Ms. SE's place about beat me and her garbage disposer in the sink is clogging up again. After her place and Ms. GA's, i was just thankful to get home and lie down.
Friday was another good day, even if our little Annie balked at a nap, i'm thankful i finally got her to sleep anyway.
The shelter last night was busy but not crazy busy, with a couple of pick-ups and a couple of new adoptions. We're thankful for volunteers, kitties going to good homes, and the fun we have making it all happen.
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:
Armed Forces Day -- US (honoring those currently serving in the US military)
Biographer's Day -- anniversary of the day Boswell met Johnson in 1763
Hires Root Beer Day -- pharmacist Charles Elmer Hires created it on this day in 1866
Love a Tree Day -- and read about the love of a tree, in Shel Silverstein's The Giving Tree
Middlesex Day -- Middlesex, England (although it is only a postal county now, many celebrate the heritage of what was once the county that included London)
National Learn To Swim Day -- US (with summer just around the corner, remember that drowning is the second-leading cause of unintentional injury-related death for children ages one to 14, so please, learn to swim and teach your kids!)
National Coquilles St. Jacques Day
Sea-Monkey® Day -- as declared by someone who likes these little brine shrimp as pets; for info on keeping Sea Monkeys, check here
Sneeze Without Embarrassment Day -- because of pollen levels, as declared by Karen Richmond, of Eastport, MI, US
Spaghetti-Os Day -- they were first sold on this day in 1966
St. Brendan the Voyager's Day (Patron of boatmen/mariners/sailors/watermen, travelers, whales; Ardfert, Ireland; Clonfert, Ireland; Kerry, Ireland)
St. Honorius of Amiens' Day (Patron of bakers[especially bakers of communion wafers], cake makers, candlemakers, chandlers, confectioners, florists, flour merchants, oil refiners, pastry chefs; against drought)
St. John of Nepomuk's Day (Patron of bridges, bridge builders, confessors, discretion, good and right confession, running water, silence; Bohemia; Czech Republic; Slovakia; against calumnies, floods, indiscretions, and slander)
Sudan People's Liberation Army Day -- South Sudan
Teachers' Day -- Malaysia
U.S. Nickel Day -- the first U.S. five-cent nickel was minted on this day in 1866
Wear Purple for Peace Day -- the idea being that until we become a peaceful species, the aliens won't visit
Anniversaries Today:
Louis-Auguste, Dauphin of France, marries Marie Antoinette, 1770
Edgar Allen Poe marries his cousin Virginia Clemm, 1836
Birthdays Today:
Megan Fox, 1986
Matt Ryan, 1985
Jim Sturgess, 1981
Tori Spelling, 1973
David Boreanaz, 1971
Gabriela Sabatini, 1970
Tracey Gold, 1969
Janet Jackson, 1966
Mare Winningham, 1959
Joan Benoit Samuelson, 1957
Olga Korbut, 1955
Debra Winger, 1955
Pierce Brosnan, 1953
Bob Edwards, 1947
Bill Smitrovich, 1947
Billy Martin, 1928
Liberace, 1919
Woody Herman, 1913
Louis "Studs" Terkel, 1912
Margaret Rey, 1906
Henry Fonda, 1905
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, 1804
William Seward, 1801
Debuting/Premiering Today:
Top Gun(Film), 1986
"McCartney II"(album release), 1980
"Listen to What the Man Said"(Single release), 1975
"Annie Get Your Gun"(Musical), 1946
"Dalibor"(Opera), 1868
Today in History:
The Florentines drive out the Medici for a second time and Florence is re-established as a republic, 1527
Sir Thomas More resigns as Lord Chancellor of England, 1532
Samuel Johnson meets his future biographer, James Boswell, in London, 1763
Denmark abolishes slave trade, 1792
The first major wagon train heading for the Pacific Northwest sets out on the Oregon Trail, 1843
Charles Elmer Hires invents root beer, 1866
A naval Curtiss aircraft NC-4 commanded by Albert Cushing Read leaves Trepassey, Newfoundland, for Lisbon via the Azores on the first transatlantic flight, 1919
Pope Benedict XV canonizes Joan of Arc, 1920
Chaim Weizmann is elected the first President of Israel, 1948
The first regularly scheduled transatlantic flights begin between John F Kennedy International Airport (then Idlewild Airport) in New York City and Heathrow Airport in London, operated by El Al Israel Airlines, 1951
Theodore Maiman operates the first optical laser, at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California, 1960
China's Cultural Revolution begins, 1966
The Soviet Venera 5 spacecraft lands on Venus, 1969
India annexes Sikkim after the mountain state holds a referendum in which the popular vote is in favour of merging with India, 1975
Junko Tabei becomes the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest, 1975
The Seville Statement on Violence is adopted by an international meeting of scientists, convened by the Spanish National Commission for UNESCO, in Seville, Spain, 1986
A report by United States' Surgeon General C. Everett Koop states that the addictive properties of nicotine are similar to those of heroin and cocaine, 1988
Queen Elizabeth II becomes the first British monarch to address the US Houses of Congress, 1991
Kuwait permits women's suffrage in a 35-23 National Assembly vote, 2005
The oldest water ever found is discovered in a Canadian mine; the water dates back 2.6 billion years, 2013
Saray Khumalo becomes the first black African woman to climb Mt Everest, 2019
Sweden formally announces it will seek to join NATO after 200 years of neutrality, in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, 2022
ChatGPT developer OpenAI CEO Sam Altman testifies before the US Senate in favor of oversight of the new technology, suggesting they “might consider a combination of licensing and testing requirements," 2023
Scientists announce the discovery of a long-lost branch of the Nile, now dried up, that once ran near many of Egypt's pyramids, 2024
Nigerian-born Princess Opeyemi Bright becomes the youngest UK mayor n history at age 29, 2025
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