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It generally feels like i run full speed into Thankful Day, when it's about time to stop and count the good things.
Thankfully, Grandpa had agreed i could spend the night in NOLA last Saturday, as Uncle J wanted to go out with his friends to see a special band and he didn't want to spend the whole time out worrying about Grandma and Grandpa.
I was thankful i remembered everything, including supper, thankful Grandma only got me up once in the night, just after midnight, and thankful i was able to get on the road back home on time.
Once back in town, i stopped and dropped stuff at home then, as arranged, i thankfully got to church in time to meet up with Ms. A and Becca so she and i could have tea and a cookie and Ms. A could join the choir for practice.
Sunday evening, our little Annie and i stopped at Ms. D's house, where we are thankful for our weekly visit. This one was rather warm, as her A/C had gone out, i was thankful to be there to empty her dehumidifier so she had that and the fans to take the edge off.
I was thankful to make a good bit of progress at Carl's place, then back to Ms. D's for the every-other-week cleaning. She and i were both thankful the electrician had replaced the circuit breaker for the A/C and it was running well.
Also, i was thankful she let me do a good cleaning, since her daughter is coming this week and i want her to know i am trying to keep it up well even if Ms. D is always telling me i do too much.
I'm always thankful to spend Tuesdays with Annie. She is reaching the age where her vocabulary is expanding fast, and she doesn't know what she wants but she wants more of it, but it's still a joy to be with her.
#2 Son got a lot done on the cars as well. Slow-Moe the Pontiac now has an A/C fan which works on all 4 speeds, GusGus die Fledermaus, the Ford, has a fresh cabin air filter and plenty of coolant, which was low, and Lawrence the Honda has good wiper blades, a gas cap which doesn't make the check engine light go on every time you fill up, and also a new cabin air filter.
Friend West listened to Lawrence, i'm thankful to say, over Facetime, and has decreed yes, it needs a timing chain. This will happen in the near future.
Ms. G had us running all over as always, but i'm always thankful when we get to visit Ms. Fiona.
Usually our double work Thursdays start with a bang at Ms. SE's house, but this week it was much easier as Ms. SE and the boys are in Italy and only Mr. DE is home. There was no overwhelm of laundry, the kitchen wasn't nearly as hard, altogether it was a much better time this week and my Sweetie and i were both thankful.
We're also thankful because it means, even after doing two places in a row, we still get home earlier.
I was very thankful on Friday to have #2 Son attend a number of small repair jobs around the house. There are still a few more, of course, as every house is a constant project, but at least there's progress.
The cat shelter was hopping last night and not every person coming in to look and possibly adopt was properly briefed because at one point i saw a very nice lady walking around with a kitten in one hand and playing with some of the sick kittens in the off limits area with her other hand! I'm thankful she was very accepting when i pointed out those were the sick kittens and it wasn't a good idea to have a healthy kitten around them, and i told her, gently, why we keep kittens near their own cages only. She agreed and went right back up front, and later pre-adopted the kitten she'd been holding.
Also, i was thankful i was able to talk one couple out of adopting the blind kitten. They have small children, and if you have a pet which is blind, it memorizes the pattern of your house and furnishings to get around. Leaving anything on the floor it can run into is a no-no, as is moving furniture around a lot. With their kids leaving stuff on the floor all the time, this kitten would have a hard time learning the house and trusting it could get around without knocking into who-knows-what. Not every family is cut out to have a special needs animal and i'm thankful they understood right away.
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:
Day of the Living Children of Nut -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)
Feast of Epona -- Ancient Celtic Calendar (Rhiannon in Wales, Macha in Ireland, guardian goddess of horses, stables, horse owners, agriculture, and transportation; date approximate, and disputed, she was the only Celtic goddess worshipped by the Romans, and they celebrated her on December 18)
Ides of June -- Ancient Roman Calendar; related observances:
Festival of Jupiter Invictus (Jupiter the Unconquered)
Lesser Quinquartrus/Quinquatrus Minusculae (festival for those who played flutes at religious ceremonies; through the 15th)
King's Birthday -- Tuvalu
Kitchen Klutzes of America Day
Roller Coaster Day -- the world's first "Gravity Pleasure Switchback Railway", patented by LaMarcus Thompson, opened on this day in 1884 on Coney Island, at a cost of five cents per ride
Sewing Machine Day -- why this day is anyone's guess, but we must admit it's a useful invention
Sovereign's Day/King's Birthday -- Pitcairn Island
St. Anthony of Padua's Day, the "Hammer of Heretics" (Patron of amputees, animals, asses, boatmen, domestic animals, elderly people, expectant mothers, faith, fishermen, harvests, horses, mail, mariners, Native Americans, oppressed people, paupers, poor people, sailors, seeksers of lost objects, starving people, swineherds, Tigua Indians, travel hostesses, travellers, watermen; Amantea, Italy; Anzio, Italy; Brazil; Cianciana, Italy; Dorado, Puerto Rico; Favara, Italy; Ferrazzano, Italy; Giano Vetusto, Italy; Lisbon, Portugal; Nocolosi, Italy; Padua, Italy; Portugal; San Antonio Tiayacapan, Mexico; San Fulgencio, Spain; Sandia Indian Pueblo; against barrenness, shipwreck, starvation, and sterility)
a municipal holiday in Lisbon, Portugal and parts of Spain
Trooping the Colour -- UK (military celebration of the monarch's birthday, the King's official birthday parade, one of London's biggest and most colorful celebrations)
Weed Your Garden Day -- a reminder to get out there and do a little each day, so the little buggers don't get out of hand
World Wide Knit in Public Day -- better living through stitching together!
Anniversaries Today:
Mission San Luis Rey de Francia is founded, 1798
Martin Luther marries Katharina von Bora, 1525
Birthdays Today:
Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, 1986
Raz-B, 1985
Rivers Cuomo, 1970
Jamie Walters, 1969
Ally Sheedy, 1962
Tim Allen, 1953
Richard Thomas, 1951
Ban Ki-Moon, 1944
Malcolm McDowell, 1943
Siegfried Fischbacher, 1939
Christo, 1935
Paul Lynde, 1926
Ralph Edwards, 1913
Red Grange, 1903
Dorothy L. Sayers, 1893
Basil Rathbone, 1892
William Butler Yeats, 1865
Winfield Scott, 1786
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"The Closer"(TV), 2005
Roadie(Film), 1980
"Les vêpres siciliennes"(Verdi opera) 1855
Today in History:
Coronation of Alexander III as King of Scots, 1249
Ibn Battuta, who was to become the foremost world traveler of his day, seeing most of the known world in his time, begins his first hadj, 1325
Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain's North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves, 1774
Mission San Luis Rey de Francia is founded, 1798
Meriwether Lewis and four companions sight the Great Falls of the Missouri River, 1803
A fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia, 1886
King Ludwig II of Bavaria is found dead in Lake Starnberg south of Munich at 11:30 PM, 1886
Yukon Territory is formed, with Dawson chosen as its capital, 1898
The University of the Philippines College of Engineering is established, the largest degree granting unit in the Philippines, 1910
Mir Mine, the first diamond mine in the USSR, is discovered, 1955
The United States Supreme Court rules in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them, 1966
Thurgood Marshall is nominated to become the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, 1967
Fahd becomes King of Saudi Arabia upon the death of his brother, Khalid, 1982
Pioneer 10 becomes the first man-made object to leave the solar system, 1983
President Kim Dae Jung of South Korea meets Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, 2000
The US withdraws from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, 2002
The Al Askari Mosque is bombed for a second time, 2007
A capsule of Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa returns to Earth with particles of asteroid 25143 Itokawa, 2010
The U.S. Supreme Court invalides gene patents held by Myriad Genetics when it rules that isolated human genes are not patentable, 2013
Philae, the first spacecraft to land on a comet in the European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission, re-awakes after 7 months, 2015
Volkswagen is fined €1 billion (£880m) by German prosecutors over diesel emissions scandal, 2018
Archaeologists announce Scottish crannogs (fortified settlements on artificial islands in locks) are far older than first thought, as radiocarbon dating puts some of them as being older than Stonehenge, 2019
The world's largest freshwater fish, a stingray 3.98m x 2.2m is caught in the Mekong river, Cambodia, then tagged and released, 2022
G7 leaders agree to loan Ukraine $50 billion from frozen Russian assets to buy weapons and rebuild, 2024
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