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It's Thankful Day and i wish to start by thanking those who read regularly and prayed for my friend EK as her father was taken to hospice. He died peacefully Tuesday.
I'm thankful i got to go visit EK and her mother on Friday when he arrived, praying with them and giving hugs. I'm thankful i went back Saturday when i got back from NOLA and prayed with him.
When i texted Monday to ask if they wanted a prayer visit, i'm thankful my friend EK had the strength to say no, they were no longer letting anyone visit as it was getting to be too busy up there and they just needed peace and quiet.
Saturday i was also very thankful to see Grandma's doctor, who makes house calls. She's a rare bird and i mean this in a good way.
Most Sunday mornings, after our morning routine and the church service, i hand Becca over to her mama and simply head home. This past Sunday, somehow i managed to run into and visit everyone i have been needed to connect with there over a few matters, and went home with plans for which i am thankful.
It was a good Sunday afternoon with Annie, and then her parents came and got her and the three of them went to listen to a band at a venue which allows people of all ages. This meant i had little Ben, and he and i were thankful to go visit with Ms. D. She was thankful to hold him, she hadn't held a little baby in quite a while.
When they arrived back home, Annie was most thankful to have gone, she was tripping over her limited vocabulary trying to describe how much fun she'd had at the concert.
Ms. S and Mr. D left town on Sunday for their annual 10-day trek to visit the family, so i had the house to myself when i cleaned on Monday, i'm thankful i remembered all of her instructions on what fans to leave on, what lights to leave off, and to take the cleaning cloths with me so they wouldn't sour in the house and i'd wash them at Ms. V's on Thursday.
Monday afternoon, i was thankful to actually get to lie down for a while. If i didn't need the money, i could get used to less work and more feets up time, but i'm thankful i do have work, as i need it.
As always, i had Annie on Tuesday, and Ben for part of the time, and we were thankful for a fun day, part of which was spent watching her dada (#2 Son) fix the front door. All of us are thankful that's done, it's been in such sorry shape for way too long.
My volunteer work went well Wednesday morning, thankfully, and Ms. G was on her way back into town with Patience the Camper. We were both thankful she made it safely, we got the camper off the hitch and everything unloaded which needed to be unloaded.
That evening, i was thankful to be able to go get Ms. V and take her with me to the Ladies' Circle leader meeting, since she doesn't drive at night. I'm also thankful EK actually came, as she needed to do something as normal and ordinary as have dinner with friends and meet over plans after spending the last several weeks in hospitals and doctor offices with her parents.
All the leaders are thankful for this meeting each year, as it gets us off on the right foot.
The Thursday cleaning at Ms. V's house went as well as it has ever gone and my Sweetie and i were thankfully able to get to Kevin and Lenny's to clean their building earlier than usual. I did forget one thing at Ms. V's, i forgot to start all the cleaning rags in the wash, i'm very thankful she is understanding and did it herself.
Another fun day with Annie on Friday, she and i are thankful the tickle monster is always lurking when she asks for it.
We had plenty of volunteers Friday evening at the cat shelter, thankfully, and there was an adoption, a four-month-old black kitten named Timber got to go home and meet his new big sister cat, who has missed her own big sister cat for the last few months. She needed a friend and her owner made a wise choice, Timber is going to keep her company without being overwhelming.
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 Check the Chip Day! The American Veterinary Medical Association reminds you to check your pet's microchip and make sure it is still working correctly and that the registration information is up to date.
Today is also International Homeless Animals Day®, begun by the International Society for Animal Rights.
Thanks to Barb Kowalik and The Cat Blogosphere for the event badge.
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Today is:
Armed Forces Day -- Poland
Asuncion Foundation Day -- Paraguay
Assumption of Blessed Virgin Mary -- Catholic Christian Holy Day of Obligation
Related Observances
Coeur d'Alene Indian Pilgrimage -- Coeur d'Alene's Old Mission State Park, Cataldo, ID, US
Dormition of the Theotokos -- Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and Eastern Catholic Christian
Ferragosto -- Italy (During the Roman Empire, a festival to Diana and a fertility and ripening celebration)
Mother's Day -- Antwerp; Costa Rica
National Acadians Day -- Acadians
Virgin of Candelaria, patron of the Canary Islands -- Tenrife, Spain
Irmandade da Nossa Senhora da Boa Morte Fiesta -- Bahia, Brazil (Festival of the Order of Our Lady of the Good Death)
Festival of the Outremeuse -- Liege, Belgium
Public Holiday or Publicly Observed -- Andorra; Austria; Belgium; Benin; Bosnia; Burkina Faso; Burundi; Cameroon; Cape Verde; Central African Republic; Chile; Colombia; Côte d'Ivoire; Croatia; Cyprus; East Timor; France; French Guiana; French Polynesia; Gabon; Gambia; Germany; Greece; Guadelupe; Guatemala; Guinea; Holy See; Hungary; Italy; Lebanon; Liechtenstein; Lithuania; Luxembourg; Macedonia; Madagascar; Malta; Martinique; Mauritius; Mayotte; Monaco; New Caledonia; Paraguay; Poland; Portugal; Reunion; Romania; Rwanda; Saint Barthelemy; Saint Martin; Saint Pierre et Miquelon; San Marino; Senegal; Seychelles; Slovenia; Spain; Switzerland; Togo; Vanuatu; Wallis and Fortuna
Best Friend's Day -- sponsored by Thema Martin
Bon/Obon Festival -- Japan (biggest day of the festival in most parts of Japan)
Chauvin Day -- observed on Napoleon's birthday because his is unknown, the day is named for Nicholas Chauvin, whose blind devotion to Napoleon was immortalized in his name's use for absurdly intense attachments to any cause
Dia de la Ley Fundamental -- Equatorial Guinea (Constitution Day)
Eleusinian Mysteries -- Ancient Greek Calendar (through the 18th, dates approximate)
Festival of Vesta -- Ancient Roman Calendar (goddess of the hearth)
Fete Nationale -- Republic of the Congo (National Day/Independence Day)
Fool's Dance -- Japan (part of the Awa Dance Festival)
Independence Day -- India(1947)
International Geocaching Day http://www.geocaching.com/
Liberation Day -- both Koreas
Gwangbokjeol -- South Korea
Jogukhaebangui nal -- North Korea
Maras Diena -- Ancient Latvian Calendar (celebration of the goddess Mara, cognate of Mary)
National Day -- Lichtenstein (a/k/a Liberation Day [1945])
National Failures Day -- some websites say the 16th, and may i suggest a book called "Fail Better", a small quotations book about how failure is just the beginning.
National HoneyBee Day -- US
National Lemon Meringue Pie Day
National Mourning Day -- Bangladesh
National Relaxation Day -- sponsored by Sean Moeller of Clio, Michigan; if you call in sick to stay home and relax, blame him
Panama La Vieja Day -- Panama (Founding of Panama City)
Shoro Nagashi Nagasaki -- Nagasaki, Japan (floating lanterns are released into the harbor in honor of the ancestors)
Sproshinki -- Slavic Pagan Calendar (end of the hay harvest festival)
St. Tarcisius' Day (Patron of altar servers, first communicants)
Tuva Republic Day -- Tos-Bulak fields south of Kyzuk, Tuva, Russia (celebration of the Tuva Republic, a Naadam festival of Mongolian wrestling, horse racing, and archery; held by the Tuva people, the closest genetic relatives to the North and South American Native Peoples)
Wafaa El-Nil -- Egypt and Coptic Church ("Fidelity of the Nile", celebration of the annual of Flooding of the Nile)
Anniversaries Today:
Woodstock, 1969
Buddy Holly marries Maria Elena Santiago, 1958
Panama Canal opens, 1914
Transcontinental US railway is completed at Promontory Point, UT, US, 1870
Birthdays Today:
Joe Jonas, 1989
Kerri Walsh, 1978
Ben Affleck, 1972
Debra Messing, 1968
Melinda Gates, 1964
Zeljko Ivanek, 1957
Princess Anne, Princess Royal of the United Kingdom, 1950
Jimmy Webb, 1946
Kathryn Whitmire, 1946
Linda Ellerbee, 1944
Stephen G. Breyer, 1938
Vernon Jordan, Jr, 1935
Phyllis Stewart Schlafly, 1924
Mike Connors, 1925
Oscar Emmanuel Peterson, 1925
Rose Marie, 1925
Huntz Hall, 1919
Oscar Romero, 1917
Julia Child, 1912
Elizabeth Bolden, American Supercentenarian, 1890 (d. 2006)
Edna Ferber, 1885
Ethel Barrymore, 1879
Charles Albert "The Old Roman" Comiskey, 1859
E. Nesbit, 1858
Sir Walter Scott, 1771
Napoleon Bonaparte, 1769
Debuting/Premiering Today:
Mainz Psalter(Publication date; first book with the publication date printed on the colophon), 1457
Today in History:
Battle of Roncevaux Pass, the Basques defeat Charles the Great (Charlemagne) and Roland is killed, 778
Macbeth defeats his cousin and rival King Duncan I, who is killed in the battle, and becomes king of Scotland, 1040
Battle of Lumphanan, in which King Macbeth is killed by the forces of Mael Coluim MacDonnchada, 1057
The cave city of Vardzia is consecrated by Queen Tamar of Georgia, 1185
The foundation stone of Cologne Cathedral, built to house the relics of
the Three Wise Men, is laid, 1248*
The "Mainz Psalter" is completed, the earliest dated book, 1457
Founding of Panama City, 1519
Jesuit priest St. Francis Xaverius land in Kagoshima, Japan, 1549
Joseph Haydn departs England, never to return, 1795
Country of Liberia is founded by freed American former slaves, 1824
Tivoli Gardens, one of the oldest still intact amusement parks in the world, opens in Copenhagen, Denmark, 1842
The Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace in Honolulu, Hawai'i, is dedicated; it is the oldest continuously used Roman Catholic Cathedral in the US, 1843
San Sebastian Church in Manila, the first all-steel church in Asia, is officially inaugurated and blessed, 1891
A male servant of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright sets fire to the living quarters of the architect's Wisconsin home, 1914
The Panama Canal opens to traffic with the transit of the cargo ship Ancon, 1914
Will Rogers and Wiley Post are killed in a plane crash, 1935
The birth of stadium rock: The Beatles play Shae Stadium, 1965
President Richard Nixon completes the break from the gold standard, 1971
The "Wow! signal": The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by Ohio State University as part of the SETI project, receives a radio signal from deep space, 1977
An 8.0-magnitude earthquake off the Pacific coast devastates Ica and various regions of Peru killing 514 and injuring 1,090, 2007
The olinguito becomes the first mammal to be discovered in the past 35 years, 2013
The journal "Nature Communications" publishes a study of the genetics of the apple which shows it originated in Kazakhstan, 2017
Lonely Planet's Ultimate Eatlist names bar-hopping for pintxos (Basque tapas) in San Sebastián, Spain as the world's best food experience, 2018
Disney Studios becomes the first studio to have five films earn over $1billion each in one year with the releases of "Toy Story 4", "Avengers: Endgame", "Captain Marvel", "Aladdin", and "The Lion King", 2019
Scotland becomes the first nation to make period products for women free to any woman who cannot afford them through local counsels and education providers, 2022
In Held v Montana, a judge rules that the US state of Montana must consider climate change when deciding to approve or renew fossil fuel projects, 2024
The first-ever World Humanoid Robot Games begins in Beijing, China, with over 500 androids from 16 countries competing in various events such as football, martial arts, and dance, 2025
*Yes, we just noted the other day the date of completion in 1880!
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