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This Thankful Day finds me very thankful for my favorite water cup and the beverage which fills it most often.
Last Saturday as we were cleaning Grandma and Grandpa’s house, my Sweetie found a wet spot on the hall floor right next to the air conditioner intake and a coat closet.
We were thankful but puzzled when we opened the A/C intake screen and found no water in there.
Upon opening the closet, i was thankful to see the culprit was the water stored there in gallon jugs, who of which had sprung a leak.
I’m also thankful for towels to sop up the mess and clean out the closet, as well as the fact i can still pick up and carry and move the large pallets of 16-oz. size drinking bottles, as the two on the bottom were soaked and i had to tip them sideways to pour water out, then dry them and put them back.
Saturday night we were thankful for some rain to make up for our slight deficit so far on the year. Although 7 inches in one night is enough to flood some low-lying areas and we’d all prefer it be in smaller quantities at a time, the plants and swamps are happy and we want to keep them so.
I’m also thankful as the rain continued Sunday morning, Becca and i did not melt on the way into church and all the items in my bag which got wet were dried out later.
Then, too, i’m thankful i got home to water on the floor in an unexpected place which caused me to look up and see another spot where the roof is going to need #2 Son’s attention.
Speaking of #2 Son, i am very thankful for him and his 30th birthday was this past Sunday.
I’m thankful he wanted to start working on the brakes on Slow-Moe on his birthday (he really likes working on cars). When the brake caliper broke as he was putting it back on, we’re thankful the auto parts store was still open long enough for him to go get their last one in stock and get it on that night.
Sweetie was thankful to be able to use my car, Gus Gus die Fledermaus on Monday to go to work, and I was thankful Daughter-in-Law works from home and was able to let me use her car.
Late Monday afternoon, i was thankful to watch our little Annie again (as i had Sunday) so #2 Son could work on the other front brake. We were both thankful the rain, on a day when the supposed chance of rain was 0% as it had spent itself out the day before, was just a very brief drizzle and he got the car fixed before i had to go to my meeting.
Speaking of the meeting, i got the very unwelcome news Monday morning our ladies’ circle meeting was canceled as our leader was suddenly called to work late that day and wouldn’t get home in time to host.
I’m thankful another member stepped up and offered her home and we had a wonderful time.
Bonus, our leader came straight from work, looked at me and said, “I forgot to bring my book, you’re teaching tonight!”
I laughed and was very thankful i’d already prepared this lesson as i’m teaching it at the other ladies’ circle early next month. I’m also thankful my "preview lesson” was well received.
Tuesday was another beautiful day with our little Annie.
We’re thankful she’s getting to be such big girl.
Ms. G was thankful i was there to help her Wednesday on the gutters/leaf removal project, which was only partially successful, and we were both thankful to finally get Ms. Fiona’s new clothing rack put together and delivered to her.
That night, i was thankful i got home from Bible study before the rain started up again in right earnest and also thankful it only lasted a couple of hours, not all night.
Thursday was a double day, i was thankful to have enough energy left after Ms. V’s very busy job to be able to go do Kevin and Lenny’s place, which is also a very big, busy job. I’m thankful my Sweetie helps me over there or i couldn’t do it on one day.
Friday evening at the cat shelter was a little different. Not only have the spring kittens not arrived (they're still too small and in foster homes), there have been adoptions of older cats and even the rooms aren't very crowded.
We were thankful for many people in and looking, one adoption for the evening and one picking up a pre-adopt, and finally, i am thankful i stopped to speak to a mother of a child who is very obviously autistic and gave her the contact info for rEcess. She admitted she and her husband almost never get time to go out or just be alone together and i'm thankful she showed up that evening, rEcess might be just what the doctor ordered.
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:
Constitution Day -- Andorra
Dita e Veres -- Albania (Summer Day)
Festival of Veturius Mamurius -- Ancient Roman Calendar (festival of armor makers)
Genius Day -- for Einstein, of course
International Ask A Question Day -- because that's what geniuses do
International Fanny Pack Day -- started by someone who really likes the things (although i do admit they come in handy for keeping your money with you at all times when you have a garage sale)
Lailat al Kadr (Lailat al Qadr) -- Islam (Night of Destiny; begins at sundown, through sundown tomorrow, although local observances may vary)
Learn about Butterflies Day -- if you go looking for who started this holiday, you will find out lots about butterflies and nothing about him/her, which i guess makes it a success
Moth-er Day -- for all individuals and museums that have moth collections; some websites have this listed as the day before Mother's Day
Mother Tongue Day -- Estonia
National Heroes Day -- Saint Vincent and Grenadines
National Potato Chip Day
National Pi Day - Why today? Because today is 3.14, the value of Pi (and check with your local pizza place, some sell a pizza pie for $3.14 today)
National Write Your Story Day
Runic Half Month Beorc (Birch) begins
Shopping Cart Day -- patent filed today in 1938 by Sylvan Goldman
St. Matilda, Queen of Germany's Day (Patron of dying children, disappointing children, falsely accused people, large families, people ridiculed for their piety, queens, second marriages, widows)
Ten Most Wanted Day -- the FBI started its list this day in 1950
White Day -- China; Japan; South Korea; Taiwan (One month after Valentine's Day, which is the day women give gifts to men; today, the men return the favor.)
Birthdays Today:
Justin Bieber, 1994
Colby O'Donis, 1989
Taylor Hanson, 1983
Grace Park, 1974
Kirby Puckett, 1961
Tamara Tunie, 1959
Rick Dees, 1951
Pam Ayres, 1947
Billy Crystal, 1947
Rita Tushingham, 1942
Michael Caine, 1933
Quincy Jones, 1933
Frank Borman, 1928
S. Truet Cathy, 1921
Hank Ketcham, 1920
Horton Foote, 1916
Les Brown, 1912
Albert Einstein, 1879
Casey Jones, 1864
Lucy Hobbs Taylor, 1833
Johann Strauss, Sr., 1804
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"10 Most Wanted"(FBI list), 1950
"The Mikado; or, The Town of Titipu"(Comic Opera), 1885
"MacBeth"(Opera), 1847
Today in History:
The Queen of Cyprus, Catherine Cornaro, sells her kingdom to Venice, 1489
England grants a patent for Providence Plantations (now Rhode Island), 1644
Scotland dismisses Willem III & Mary Stuart as king & queen, 1689
Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin, 1794
The African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church founded in New York, 1821
Gilbert and Sullivan's Mikado premiers in London, 1885
During the Great Blizzard of 1888, New York receives its second largest snowfall on record, 21", 1888
The United States goes on the gold standard, 1900
Hugo de Vries rediscovers Mendel's laws of genetics, 1900
The first theater for rear movie projection is built, in NYC, 1931
A jury in Dallas, Texas, finds Jack Ruby guilty of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, assumed assassin of John F. Kennedy, 1964
Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released, 1994
Astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on-board a Russian launch vehicle, 1995
The Chinese city of Chongqing (formerly Chunking) is upgraded to a centrally administered municipality, 1997
Over a million Lebanese people take to the streets of Beirut to protest against Syrian military presence, in what comes to be called the Cedar Revolution, 2005
After measuring its spin and parity, scientists at the Large Hadron Collider announce they firmly believe the particle discovered in July 2012 is a Higgs boson, 2013
President Putin orders Russian troops out of Syria, 2016
NASA releases data showing February 2016 warmest month ever recorded globally - 1.35C above the long-term average, 2016
The European Court of Justice rules companies can ban staff from wearing religious symbols, including headscarves, 2017
The world's oldest golf club, Muirfield in Scotland, votes to admit women as members after 273 years, 2017
The NASA twin study finds that astronaut Scott Kelly is no longer identical to his twin brother after one year in space, 7% of his genes altered, 2018
The World Happiness Report names Finland as world's happiest country and Burundi the unhappiest, 2018
Angela Merkel is sworn in for her fourth term as German Chancellor, 2018
Google announces its employee Emma Haruka Iwao has broken the world record for calculating pi, to 31.4 trillion digits, on pi day using Google Cloud, 2019
An Air Tahiti Nui plane safely completes the longest-ever scheduled passenger flight by distance, 15,715km/9,765m from French Polynesia to mainland France, 2020
Czech free diver David Vencl completes a record dive beneath ice to 52.1 meters without a wetsuit in Switzerland’s Lake Sils in temperatures between 1C and 4C (34F to 39F), 2023
A British warship that ran aground and sank in 1742 in what is now Dry Tortugas National Park in Key West, Florida, is positively identified as the HMS Tyger, 2024
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