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It’s been wet a lot around here lately, and we are thankful because our swamps could use the rain. It’s supposed to be clearing up for a few days starting today, Thankful Day, and be cooler, too. We’ll be thankful to see the sun again and not have to use our air conditioners.
Last Saturday, #2 Son and i had a wet drive to NOLA and were thankful to get there and back safely.
The biggest thankful of the day was Grandma’s phone. Her vision is now so poor she puts in her passcode incorrectly and gets locked out of it, and gets very frustrated. We worked on it and Uncle J finally figured out how to take the passcode off her phone! We’re thankful and relieved, and not at all worried about someone else getting her phone and abusing it as she is homebound.
Monday was a bittersweet day and this next Monday will be again. Last week, it was the last time i will ever have to get Carl ready for work. I’m so thankful he’s moving on to greater blessings, but he will be missed.
The weather had finally cleared a bit and we had a beautiful Tuesday, my little Annie and i were thankful to have two wonderful walks.
Ms. G was in her usual whirlwind, telling me she was home when i called to say i was on my way. By the time i got there she was not home, but she had an errand needed running and told me to just hang out at the house, she’d only be ten minutes.
Well, i know Ms. G better than that, she would be at least an hour or more as she always is, and i am thankful i convinced her to let me drive the few minutes over to her location, grab Ms. Fiona’s new cell phone case, and then run it out myself.
Ms. Fiona will be thankful to have the case as her last phone broke when she dropped it. I was thankful as i was back from the errand and doing some of the chores by the time Ms. G walked back in over an hour later.
Another good thing, Ms. G let me go to Cramco (the big box store) alone, only making me call her once while i was there to tell her which bread was the softest and freshest, the honey wheat or the butter top. I felt odd “feeling up” the bread but i’m thankful she chose and i got to get everything back to the house quickly.
Things got wet and wild again that evening and we are thankful the power was only out for a minute.
Thursday was Little Girl’s birthday! I am so thankful for my youngest and her husband.
I’m thankful we got through a two job Thursday, also.
Once again i had my little on Friday and i was thankful i’d picked up some toy blocks for her to play with. She’s loving them and tried to share them with the cat. We’re all thankful how gentle she is with Link Linker the Stinker.
Another bittersweet, the last rEcess of the season. We’re thankful for Pizza Party Friday! Thirty-six of us, volunteers, special needs kids, siblings and interns from the pediatric hospital kept things fun and exciting and we are thankful for what we call barely controlled chaos — fun in the gym, arts and crafts, and lots and lots of running and games.
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:
Anniversary of the 3rd Druk Gyalpo -- Bhutan
Baby Day -- birth anniversary of Dr. Spock
Brothers and Sisters Day/Sibling Appreciation Day -- an internet generated holiday, not to be confused with National Siblings Day on April 10 each year
Community Day -- M, Spain
Day of Osiris going forth from his mountain -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)
Flag Day -- Poland
Herb Day -- an international celebration of herbs and all the flavor they add to our lives; try a new herb to season a dish today
Holiday of the Region of Madrid -- Madrid, Spain
International Scurvy Awareness Day -- because yes, some people do still get this disease of Vitamin C deficiency
King James Bible Day -- marking the publication in 1611 of the King James Version of the Bible
National Education Day -- Indonesia
National Homebrew Day -- US (Home Brewers Association)
National Play Your Ukulele Day -- just because it's fun!
National Scrapbooking Day -- begun by Creative Memories, now celebrated by scrapbookers everywhere, a good article about it here
National Truffles Day
Roberts Rules of Order Day -- birth anniversary of Henry M. Robert, author of the standard parliamentary guide Robert's Rules of Order
Rowdy Friends Day -- go look up the ones you haven't seen in a while
St. Athanasius the Great's Day
St. Zoe's Day
Teacher's Day -- Bhutan; Iran
Twelfth Day of Ridvan -- Baha'i
World Naked Gardening Day -- scare the neighbors! get rid of those pesky squirrels! experience nature (and sunburn, and mosquito bites) with your whole body!
Birthdays Today:
Sarah Hughes, 1985
Jenna Von Oy, 1977
David Beckham, 1975
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, 1972
Elizabeth Berridge, 1962
Christine Baranski, 1952
Larry Gatlin, 1949
Lesley Gore, 1946
David Suchet, 1946
Bianca Jagger, 1945
Engelbert Humperdinck, 1936
Roscoe Lee Browne, 1925
Theodore Bikel, 1924
Satyajit Ray, 1921
Dr. Benjamin Spock, 1903
Baron Von Richthofen, 1892
Hedda Hopper, 1885
Henry M. Robert, 1837
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Sunday in the Park with George"(Musical), 1984
"Peter and the Wolf"(Prokofiev Op. 67), 1936
"The Jack Benny Program"(Radio), 1932
Good Housekeeping(Magazine), 1885
"La Bottega del Caffe/The Coffee Shop"(Play), 1750
Authorized King James Version of the Bible(Publication date, by printer Robert Barker), 1611
Today in History:
Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, is arrested and imprisoned on charges of adultery, incest, treason and witchcraft, 1536
John Knox returns from exile to Scotland to become the leader of the beginning Scottish Reformation, 1559
Mary, Queen of Scots, escapes from Loch Leven Castle, 1568
King Charles II of England grants a permanent charter to the Hudson's Bay Company to open up the fur trade in North America, 1670
William Herschel discovers 1st binary star, Xi Ursae Majoris, 1780
Charles Fremantle founds the Swan River Colony in Australia, 1829
Peruvian defenders fight off Spanish fleet at the Battle of Callao, 1866
Good Housekeeping magazine goes on sale for the first time, 1885
Cree and Assiniboine warriors win the Battle of Cut Knife, their largest victory over Canadian forces during the North-West Rebellion, 1885
The Congo Free State is established by King Léopold II of Belgium, 1885
Hannibal W Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film, 1887
General Motors acquires the Chevrolet Motor Company of Delaware, 1918
Pearl S. Buck is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for The Good Earth, 1938
The world's first ever jet airliner, the De Havilland Comet 1, makes its maiden flight, from London to Johannesburg, 1952
Tennessee Williams is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, 1955
The British ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2 departs on her maiden voyage to New York City, 1969
The 1986 World Exposition in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, opens, 1986
The European Central Bank is founded in Brussels in order to define and execute the European Union's monetary policy, 1998
President Bill Clinton announces that accurate GPS access would no longer be restricted to the United States military, 2000
Cyclone Nargis makes landfall in Myanmar killing over 130,000 people and leaving millions of people homeless, 2008
Conservationists determine poachers killed the last known rhinoceroses in Mozambique; these poachers worked with game rangers responsible for protecting them, 2013
New research published in the journal "Plos One" shows plants "talk" to each other through their roots and the soil in a study on corn, 2018
For the first time, a drone delivers a kidney for transplant, to a hospital in Baltimore, MD, US, 2019
Second-only sketch known of Leonardo da Vinci (from Queen Elizabeth's collection) is revealed on the 500th anniversary of the artist's death, 2019
A clean-up on Mt Everest ends, having removed three metric tons (6,613 pounds) of rubbish and four bodies in just two weeks, 2019
Hafþór JúlÃus Björnsson, the Icelandic actor who played Ser Gregor "The Mountain" Clegane in Game of Thrones, sets a world deadlifting record, lifting 501kg (1,104lb), 2020
After being closed for two years because of the pandemic, New Zealand reopens its borders to international travelers from 60 countries, 2022
The Writers Guild of America votes to begin striking over pay and industry changes, bringing television production to a halt, 2023
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports 216 children in the US have died this flu season, the deadliest year since 2009, 2025
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