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It really is true, each day goes past, slow and steady, and i’m thankful.
Saturday morning, my Sweetie and i prepared to leave for NOLA and saw lights on the dash of #2 Son’s car, and put off our departure until he woke up and we could ask about them. I’m thankful to now know more about his car than i’ve ever known before and thankful it got us there and back with no trouble.
Grandma was thankful we had a car available (i don’t if i ride with #2 Son) so i could go pick up food from her favorite Oriental restaurant. Egg drop soup is her biggest weakness next to baked potatoes.
Last week, Mr. Cal crawled under a piece of furniture rather than go for a walk and had an accident in the house, extremely unlike him. We’re thankful this week he seems back to his old self, about jumping out of his skin to get the leash on and get to the business of walking and doing business.
Becca is thankful i now have markers in my bag so she can occupy her hands during the sermon at church.
Also, our church is updating the directory, and my Sweetie is a most reluctant picture taker, as am i, but i snagged him, dragged him over to the “photo booth,” and we were thankful to get it done (a once every ten years chore).
Ms. S was especially good company Monday as i cleaned her house, we are always thankful for chatting and laughing.
Our little Annie is becoming a more and more reluctant napper at only 18 months. I’m thankful both babysitting days saw her finally fall asleep, and Friday she was out for more than an hour, as her not napping long enough to get resting and becoming a crankpot in the evenings is also becoming a problem.
She and i are also thankful for good walks around the neighborhood.
Ms. G ended up dropping a key out of her pocket in the car and i’m thankful my hand was small enough to get down into the tiny crevice between the seat and the seat belt and snag it out for her.
She and i were both thankful for help with the two largest pieces of furniture we needed to move that day. The first time was when a nice stranger saw us trying to lift a table into the bed of the truck and stopped to do it for us, and the second time one of the workers who was at the house for another purpose stepped in.
We were also thankful unloading is much easier, since it’s at the storage unit and it’s just us.
I’m also thankful i got through Wednesday, as Tuesday was an almost sleepless night (first one of those i’ve had in a while).
Thursday went rather well as Ms. V was up early and Mr. L moved just in time to let me get to the bedroom, i’m thankful when i don’t have to ask Ms. V to have Mr. L to get up so i can clean, as sometimes his pain levels make it hard for him to move.
Then, too, the generator runs its test later in the day during DST, so i was thankful to be home to hear it. If it doesn’t run, it’s a problem, and if we’re not home to know if it ran, well, we can’t k now about the problems, can we.
Thursday was also Bigger Girl’s birthday! I was thankful my Sweetie and i got to talk to her on the phone, we hope to see her soon-ish.
Friday evening at the cat shelter went great. Some volunteers were being trained on a new procedure on the computer, Ms. M and i got our work done, a room was cleaned by other volunteers and there were adoptions. Altogether a good evening and we are thankful.
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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It's Respect Your Cat Day! This is the anniversary of King Richard II's edict in 1384 forbidding the consumption of cats.
Thanks to Barb Kowalik and The Cat Blogosphere for the event badge.
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Today is:
Children's Picture Book Day -- while i can't find a sponsor for this day, starting kids on a lifelong love of books is as good an excuse for a holiday as any
Commemoration of Sen no Rikyu -- Urasenke School of the Japanese Tea Ceremony, Japan (remembering the influential master in The Way of Tea)
Earth Hour -- 8:30pm-9:30pm, your local time; turn off your lights to take a stand against climate change
Feast of Artemis -- Ancient Greek Calendar (as protector of wild animals, vegetation, and places, begins at sundown; date approximate)
Festival of the Sacrifice at the Tombs -- Ancient Roman Calendar (to honor the ancestors)
"Greatest Show on Earth" Day -- Barnum and Bailey merged their circuses on this day in 1881
Hot Tub Day -- because we all need one!
Khordad Sal (Birth of the Prophet Zarathushtra) -- Zoroastrianism (Fasli Calendar)
Komamorijinja Reisai -- Nakaedo, Kashi-sh, Gifu, Japan (festival of the the Kosazukeishi "child-granting stone")
National Black Forest Cake Day
Ragnar Lodbrok's Day -- Asatru/Slavic Pagan Calendar (remembrance of this Viking's sack of Paris)
Serfs Emancipation Day -- Tibet
Something on a Stick Day -- something edible, because almost everything tastes better on a stick
St. Guntramnus' Day (Patron of divorced people, guardians, repentant murderers)
Teachers' Day -- Czech Republic; Slovakia
Weed Appreciation Day -- at last, for those of us with black thumbs, since this is all we can grow. "Weeds are flowers once you get to know them!" A.A. Milne
Birthdays Today:
Lady Gaga, 1986
Julia Stiles, 1981
Annie Wersching, 1977
Kate Gosselin, 1975
Scott Mills, 1974
Juliandra Gillen, 1971
Vince Vaughn, 1970
Reba McEntire, 1955
Dianne Wiest, 1948
Ken Howard, 1944
Conchata Ferrell, 1943
Jerry Sloan, 1942
Freddie Bartholomew, 1924
Dirk Bogarde, 1921
Irving "Swifty" Lazar, 1907
August Anheuser Busch, Jr., 1899
Maxim Gorky, 1868
Frederich Pabst, 1836
St. Teresa of Avila, 1515
Fra Bartolomeo, 1472
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Hair"(Rock musical), 1968
"Philadelphia Story"(Play), 1939
Today in History:
Roman Emperor Pertinax is assassinated by Praetorian Guards, who then sell the throne in an auction to Didius Julianus, 193
Viking raiders sack Paris, who leave in exchange for a huge ransom, 845
The origin of the Fasli Era in India, 1556
Juan Bautista de Anza finds the site for the Presidio of San Francisco, 1776
Nathaniel Briggs of NH patents a washing machine, 1797
Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers discovers 2 Pallas, the second asteroid known to man, 1802
The US Salvation Army is officially organized, 1885
Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane, 1910
Jews are expelled from Tel Aviv & Jaffa by Turkish authorities, 1917
Constantinople and Angora change their names to Istanbul and Ankara, 1930
The McGill français movement protest occurs, the second largest protest in Montreal's history, 1969
Operators of Three Mile Island's Unit 2 nuclear reactor outside of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania fail to recognize that a relief valve in the primary coolant system has stuck open, leading to a partial meltdown, 1979
In South Africa, Zulus and African National Congress supporters battle in central Johannesburg, resulting in 18 deaths, 1994
The 2005 Sumatran earthquake rocks Indonesia, and at magnitude 8.7 is the second strongest earthquake since 1965, 2005
At least 1 million union members, students, and unemployed take to the streets in France in protest at the government's proposed First Employment Contract law, 2006
Australian diplomat Peter Woolcott's draft for the first-ever treaty to regulate the conventional arms trade is discussed by members of the United Nations, 2013
Britain introduces the first new pound coin in 30 years with a secret security feature inside to stop counterfeiting, 2017
The world's largest dinosaur footprint at 1.7 metres found in Kimberley, Western Australia, 2017
The study of a gene mutation that allows a 71-year-old British woman to never feel pain is published in the British Journal of Anaesthesia, 2019
Slovakia's Slovenské elektrárne shuts down operations at its last coal-fired power plant in the country, the Vojany Power Station, 2024
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