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Getting to Thankful Day each week makes me smile, especially when so many good things have happened.
Some of them were even funny, like when Uncle J (my brother, my children's uncle) asked me to help him with a project last Saturday at Grandma and Grandpa's house.
He brought me down to the guest bedroom and said, "I washed the sheets after Bryn stayed here last and I thought I'd get you to help me make the bed since it's easier with two people." That's when he noticed the sheets were gone and i told him i didn't realize he'd washed them already and they were now in the dryer after their second washing.
We're thankful for a sense of humor and clean sheets, and then he said, "Oh, this means we don't have to wash them after the next guest, right?" with a laugh.
I'm also thankful the bed wasn't hard for me to make by myself as he was busy elsewhere when the sheets were finally ready, as i'm accustomed to it.
Our church only has one service on Memorial Day weekend (too many people out of town to need three), so it means a later start time. Mr. Cal was very thankful for a longer walk with me and Becca, and also thankful he got to see all his usual puppy friends plus a couple of new ones.
When i had arrived at Becca's house and got her up, i noticed one of her retainers was in her bed but the other was nowhere to be found. We're all thankful Ms. A finally spotted it, and Mr. Cal didn't get it (he loves to chew her retainers and they are expensive to replace).
Ms. D has been having car trouble again, and we are both thankful it worked on Monday to get her to the grocery store and back. Also, I'm thankful when she runs an errand out of the house while i am there cleaning as it lets me get more done while she's not looking (she's always saying, "Oh, you don't have to do that!" when i do more detailed work).
#1 Son came in Tuesday morning with a panicked look on his face and said, "Did we miss Red-Headed Alec's birthday?"
Checking the calendar, i was thankful to be able to say we had not, it wasn't until Friday. I'm also thankful i remembered to contact him Friday.
My little Annie and i are thankful we got our walk in early Tuesday, as it's hot enough now you either walk early or you don't walk.
We're thankful it didn't rain while we were walking. We've had plenty of rain this week, for which we are thankful, but we didn't want it during our walk.
Ms. G is battling a sinus infection, we're thankful she tested negative for everything contagious and is on medicine but i could still come to do the cleaning. The first order of business, however, was a run to the regular grocery store. She kept telling me she'd text me the list, then i laughed inwardly to myself when she made me wait while she wrote the text! The list came through, and she added, "Call me when you are there so I can choose which flavor of the ice cream I want when you tell me what they have in stock."
I'm thankful for moments to laugh through the day, and Ms. G's micromanaging ways give me plenty of chances.
Wednesday morning, we were thankful my Sweetie was able to follow #1 Son to his friend's shop to drop off his car and bring him back to the house, then i was thankful since i use Lawrence now, GusGus was available for him to borrow to get to work.
Ms. SE's house has been getting harder and harder for us to deal with as the years have gone by. I'm thankful when we were there Thursday, she was still home and we could talk about it and come to a new understanding. The boys will now be folding all their own clothes, as they are old enough to become more responsible for this, and will pick up their things in the bathroom to clear it so it can be cleaned. It was this or possibly having to not do her house any longer, and we don't want to do that, they are good friends.
#1 Son's car was ready Thursday and we're thankful he got a friend to drive him out to pick it up, getting there just before the shop closed, as he would be working all day Friday with no time to get it and they are closed over the weekend.
When we were doing our Mall-Mart shopping this week, i was thankful to run into one of the most cheerful workers i've ever met there. An older man stocking the shelves and i had a fun conversation about what a good day it was, in spite of the weather. I mentioned you can have a great day even if it's raining or a lousy one even if the sun is shining and he said, "Yep, you might as well enjoy whatever the weather is since you can't change it!"
He was quite refreshing and i'm going to look for him again next time i go.
Yesterday was one of the strangest days for traffic i've seen in this area. There was none. It was spooky. Times when the freeways should have been stopped up were running fine, i got everywhere i needed to go with no having to wait at the same lights for several cycles, even the notorious afternoon traffic was almost nonexistent. I was so thankful i was almost beside myself.
Then, wonder of wonders, our little Annie took a genuine, full blown nap. Not a one hour lie down and then get up crying, when she started to wake after an hour i leaned back and closed my eyes and she went back to sleep for over an hour more, finally waking slowly and with a smile! I was so thankful, and so was her mama, as she got to take an extra long shower.
The cat shelter is booming. All those kittens which have been in foster care are now in cages and up for adoption and boy, howdy! are they getting adopted. Friday evening was crazy busy with only two staff members there instead of four (one on vacation, one sick), Ms. M and i were thankful to pitch right in and get everything done we needed to do, plus a little extra.
Also, there were two more adoptions while we were there, emptying more cages so more of our fosters can come in. We're thankful when things stay busy and cats are finding homes.
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:
Anguilla Day -- Anguilla
Arrival Day -- Trinidad and Tobago
Dia de Canarias -- CN, Spain (Canary Island Day)
Dia de las Madres -- Nicaragua(Mother's Day)
Einherjar -- Asatru (Modern Norse Pagan) Calendar (a memorial for the war dead in Valhalla)
Feast Day of St. Joan of Arc (Patron of captives, martyrs, opposition of Church authorities, people ridiculed for their piety, prisoners, rape victims, soldiers, WACs, WAVES; France)
Heirloom Seed Day -- While i can't find the history of this one, it's a good one to celebrate, we need to raise awareness of and preserve heirloom seeds
Indian Arrival Day -- Trinidad and Tobago (anniversary of the 1845 arrival of the first Indian laborers to Trinidad)
Lod Massacre Remembrance Day -- Puerto Rico
Loomis Day -- because if we are going to honor Marconi, we should also honor the Washington, D.C., dentist Mahlon Loomis, who patented a wireless telegraphy system before Marconi was even born
My Bucket's Got a Hole In It Day -- this one may be listed on another day as well, since no two sites agree; mercy, just go get a new one already! or go get out your Hank Williams records
National Mint Julep Day
St. Walstan of Bawburgh's Day (Patron of agricultural workers, farmers and farm workers, field hands, husbandmen)
Water a Flower Day -- no sponsor or reason given for this day, except that the spring rains are slowing and you don't want your garden to wilt
Anniversaries Today:
Henry VIII marries Jane Seymore, 1536
Birthdays Today:
Blake Bashoff, 1981
Trey Parker, 1972
Wynonna Judd, 1964
Tom Morello, 1964
Ted McGinley, 1958
Colm Meaney, 1953
Stephen Tobolowsky, 1951
Meredith MacRae, 1945
Gale Eugene Sayers, 1943
Michael J. Pollard, 1939
Keir Dullea, 1936
Clint Walker, 1927
Benny Goodman, 1909
Mel Blanc, 1908
Countee Cullen, 1903
Peter Carl Fabergé, 1846
Czar Peter the Great, 1672
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Paperback Writer"(Single release), 1966
"War Requiem"(Britten Op. 66), 1962
"Odisséia de uma raça / Odyssey of a Race"(Villa-Lobos Symphonic poem), 1954
"Prodana nevesta / The Bartered Bride"(Opera), 1866
Today in History:
Titus and his Roman legions breach the Second Wall of Jerusalem; the Jewish defenders retreat to the First Wall, 70
19-year-old Joan of Arc is burned at the stake by an English-dominated tribunal, 1431
In Florida, Hernando de Soto lands at Tampa Bay with 600 soldiers with the goal of finding gold, 1539
Publication of La Gazette, the first French newspaper, 1631
The Pennsylvania Evening Post become the first daily paper in the US, 1783&
John Francis attempts to murder Queen Victoria, 1842
Westminster's Big Ben rang for the first time in London, 1859
Decoration Day (the predecessor of the modern "Memorial Day") is observed in the United States for the first time, 1868
New York City's Gilmores Garden is renamed Madison Square Garden by William Henry Vanderbilt and is opened to the public, 1879
The Treaty of London, 1913, ends the First Balkan War and Albania becomes an independent nation, 1913
In China protests erupt against the Great Powers infringing on Chinese sovereignty, 1925
A dike along the flooding Columbia River breaks, obliterating Vanport, Oregon within minutes, 1948
The Auckland Harbour Bridge, crossing the Waitemata Harbour in Auckland, New Zealand, is officially opened, 1959
launch of Surveyor 1 the first US spacecraft to achieve landing on an extraterrestrial body, 1966
At the Ascot Park in Gardena, California, daredevil Evel Knievel jumps his motorcycle over 16 cars lined up in a row, 1967
Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: the 33-foot high "Goddess of Democracy" statue is unveiled in Tiananmen Square by student demonstrators, 1989
272 days after the September 11 attacks, closing ceremonies are held for the clean up/recovery efforts at the World Trade Center site in New York City. The last remaining steel beam is removed and transported to the Fresh Kills Landfill in Staten Island, 2002
In Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel pledges to end all nuclear power within 12 years, 2011
Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, reveals the latest Dragon space capsule; the craft is reusable and will allow astronauts to control re-entry and landing; the development suggests that full commercialization of the space industry will soon be a reality, 2014
The British Medical Journal publishes two new studies which show eating processed foods leads to an early death and ill health, 2019
The Falcon 9 rocket launches carrying the Dragon capsule from Cape Canaveral to the International Space Station, making SpaceX the first private company to launch astronauts into space, 2020
Four hundred of the leading AI industry experts sign a letter warning “Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war,” 2023
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