Wow, All That! (Ten Things of Thankful)

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Oh, my!  It’s Thankful Day, a boy is it going to be a full one.

The whole week, i’ve been hanging on to my hat.

This past Monday, i am grateful i was able to do Dr. Dee and my every-other-Tuesday lady.

On Tuesday, we were thankful to get through both of our regular every-other-Thursday clients.

And as a bonus, we got to meet Ms. SE’s new puppy, Cookie.  Tried to get pics, but she’s a wiggly little thing and i will try again later.  Chocolate lab puppy=wiggles.

Wednesday, i am thankful we got to the shelter at 5am with the car already packed and did the place in almost record time, so i was at Ms. R’s house at 7:30.  Her husband had gone duck hunting, so it wasn’t a problem that i was so early.

While i was there, Sweetie ran errands and came back for me at 1pm, and i’m grateful we got to his ear doctor appointment right on time.  His ears are good, come back in two months, as usual.

We were both thankful for the relatively easy traffic on the way to NOLA.  We cleaned Grandma’s house, and then Little Girl texted.  The lights in the kitchen had been blinking on occasion, i thought it was when the refrigerator cycled on but that was not it.

That night, the lights went off and would not come back on.  How thankful we were that Little Girl, #2 Son and Daughter-in-Law Becky were there to unplug the fridge and turn off all the lights in that area of the house, just in case.

We high-tailed it back home, arriving after 9pm.  Since i’d been up since 3am and done the shelter and two houses, i was so thankful i stayed awake for the drive.

Upon inspection, there were no flipped breakers in the box, so i flipped a few off and on, and the lights came back up, temporarily.  They went out again a few minutes later.  Tried to reset the breaker again, same thing.  Lights on a few moments, then out.

How thankful i am that i was able to turn off that breaker, unplug Sweetie’s mini fridge and move the contents then take it outside to defrost (it’s been needing it anyway), and asses the situation.

When i think about it now, whoever wired it had a fridge, a mini fridge, the microwave, a room unit A/C, and the lights/outlets from three rooms on one 15amp circuit!  No wonder the thing went out.  My biggest thankful is that everything just shut down and we did not have a fire.

The next morning, we hauled ourselves back to NOLA and i am so thankful we got to cook and eat our Thanksgiving meal.  We had to miss out on the visit to the cousins in order to come back and empty out the unplugged fridge, we wanted to try to save some of the frozen food, which we did.

Enough leftovers came home with us that Brother-in-Law, The Mouth, was able to come by for a nice dinner, too.

Friday morning, i got up early and went to pick up a friend who was joining us for Bible study.  He used to attend regularly, but now has to be at work by 6:45 every morning, so he can only come during holidays.  All of us were thankful he got to come.

Sweetie and i went to Ms. J’s house, and she wanted us to do the windows instead of the regular cleaning.  Big house, lots of windows, we spent six hours doing windows inside and out.  She paid us extra, because that’s two hours longer than it takes us to clean the house itself, and i am so thankful, we can use it.  She also insisted on feeding us a bit of lunch, which i usually just skip, i am grateful i have fabulous clients.

Ms. GA was home and baking pies when we got there, and it was so funny having to work around here.  She wanted no dusting done anywhere near any of the pies, which were cooling in various places, and i am thankful we all kept our sense of humor and had lots of laughs as we moved pies to clean around them.

Much later than usual, we arrived at the shelter to find Ms. Annie there with her 4-year-old and 2-year-old, and only a couple of other volunteers.  (The shelter was closed, so only those of us scheduled to do cleaning and feeding were supposed to be there.)  As much as i love having people coming in to adopt, it was nice to be uninterrupted and be able to laugh and joke with each other and not have to worry about watching potential adopters to make sure they weren’t accidentally moving a cat to another cage or forgetting to use the hand sanitizer.

Watching the 2-year-old run around with a feather toy and play with the kittens was one of the highlights of my week!

On the way home from the shelter, i tried to call our generator guy who is, of course, an electrician.  He actually called me back, i told him what was up, and figured he’d want to put it all off until later in the week, because who wants to work on a holiday weekend?  Really, that's why i hadn't called him earlier anyway.

Surprise, thankful surprise, he agreed to come this morning at 10am.  Since i will be at Mr. BA’s place working, and then going back to NOLA to finish up with anything else Grandma needs to straighten after all of the guests, Sweetie is going to be there to let him in.

We hope to have the electrical problem in hand by the end of today, or very soon, and it is a huge load off of my mind.

And i am so very thankful Mr. Mike will take payments.

That was our Thanksgiving week, just a bit of the usual chaos that seems to surround us, and i am grateful to get back to a regular work week!

Now you may also understand why i am a bit behind in reading blogs, although i’m working on it.

Please join us and our gracious and wonderful hostess Kristi from ThankfulMe, write up your own list and link up to Ten Things of Thankful.  

   

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Today is:

Banquet for Monkeys / Monkey Buffet Festival -- Khmer Ruins of Lop Buri, Thailand (about 3,000 monkeys are served lunch while humans get to watch in what some describe as a riot but without the police; through tomorrow) 

Brumalia -- Byzantine Empire celebration of Dyonisus and New Wine Festival; until the solstice

Celebrate Your Unique Talent Day -- there used to be a website associated with this day, but it closed; that's no reason for you not to celebrate your uniqueness!

Celtic Tree Month Ruish (Elder) begins

Christmas Traditions Celebration -- St. Charles, MO, US (the fun includes authentically costumed Santas from around the world; through Christmas Eve)

ClauWau: Santa Claus World Championship -- Samnaun, Switzerland (Santa Claus aspirants compete in in such things as the chimney climb with toys, a geography bee, and the sledge race with timed gift giving to be crowned the world champion Santa)

D.B. Cooper Day -- anniversary of the 1971 hijacking

Discovery Day -- Tasmania (by Abel Tasman in 1642)

Evolution Day -- On the Origin of Species published this day in 1859

Feast of the Martyrs of Vietnam -- Roman Catholic Church

Guadalajara International Book Fair -- Guadalajara, Mexico (through Dec. 3)

Guru Tegh Bahadur Martyrdom - Sikh

Holodomor Remembrance Day -- international commemoration of the Death By Hunger Genocide in Ukraine

International Aura Awareness Day -- to increase the awareness of the human energy body, or aura    

Lachit Divas -- Assam, India

Lantern Light Tours begin -- Mystic Seaport, CT, US (walking tour of performances showing Christmas past, on various dates through the month)

Light of the World Christmas Pageant -- Minden, DE, US (pageant and lighting up the downtown square; also tomorrow and next Sunday)

Mungabareena Ngan-Girra Festival -- Albury area, NSW, Australia (formerly called the Bogong Moth Festival, now an indigenous cultural showcase)

National Sardines Day -- wonder how this would go over next to the turkey today?

Persephone Day (a/k/a Kore -- Ancient Greek Calendar (celebration of her as wheel goddess of the underworld; date approximate, but she is often associated with St. Catherine)

Ragtime Day -- birth anniversary of Scott Joplin

Small Business Saturday -- encouraging everyone to patronize local businesses for your holiday shopping

St. Colman of Cloyne's Day (Patron of Cloyne, Ireland)

St. Joachim Ho's Day -- a Martyr of China

St. Mary of Cordoba's Day (Patron of martyrs)

Swine Time Festival --  Climax, Georgia, US (Come on out and join the fun, the first Saturday after Thanksgiving.  Contests & Events include best dressed pig, corn shucking, hog calling, eating chitterlings, pig racing, syrup making, baby crawling and the greased pig chase!)

Teacher's Day -- Turkey

Territorial Christmas Celebrations -- Guthrie, OK, US (old time fun this weekend and through Dec. 16)

Third Bash of the Tree-Toppers -- Fairy Calendar (fairy creatures who don't believe in "one" or "two", so start counting at three)

Use Even If Seal is Broken Day -- internet generated; observe at your own risk, always!

Birthdays Today:

Katherine Heigl, 1978

Brad Sherwood, 1964

Stanley Livingston, 1950

Rudy Tomjanovich, 1948

Dwight Schultz, 1947

Oscar Palmer Robertson, 1938

William F. Buckley, Jr., 1925

Howard Duff, 1913

Charles "Lucky" Luciano, 1897

Dale Carnegie, 1888

Erich von Manstein, 1887

Alben William Barkley, 1877

Scott Joplin, 1868

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1864

Bat Masterson, 1853

Frances Hodgson Burnett, 1849

Bram Stoker, 1847

Zachary Taylor, 1784

Laurence Sterne, 1713

Charles Theodore Pachelbel, 1690

Baruch Spinoza, 1632(O.S. date)

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"Guys and Dolls"(Musical), 1950

Softball, as a sport, invented this day as a spur of the moment game at the Farragut Boat Club in Chicago, IL, US, 1887

Today in History:

Theodosius I makes his formal entry into Constantinople, 380

Rabbi Nathan ben Yehiel of Rome completes his Talmudic dictionary, 1105

The Thames River freezes, 1434

First observation of transit of Venus occurred (only 2, record event), 1639

Abel Janzoon Tasman becomes the first European to see Van Damien's Land, later renamed Tasmania, 1642

First Lutheran pastor ordained in America, Justus Falckner at Philadelphia, 1703

Mt. Vesuvius erupts, 1759

Charles Darwin publishes "On the Origin of Species", 1859

Luik-Visé-Maastricht railway opens, 1861

Joseph F Glidden patents his improved barbed wire, 1874

The first US absentee voting law enacted by Vermont, 1896

Clyde Coleman of NYC patents automobile electric starter, 1903

Radio Belgium makes its first transmission, 1923

The first woman pilot on a transcontinental air flight, Miss Ruth Nichols (Mineola, NY to Calif), in a Lockheed-Vega, took 7 days, 1930

In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens, 1932

Lee Harvey Oswald is murdered by Jack Ruby, 1963

During a severe thunderstorm over Washington state, a hijacker calling himself Dan Cooper (AKA D. B. Cooper) parachutes from a Northwest Orient Airlines plane with $200,000 in ransom money, and is never seen again, 1971

A national speed limit is imposed on the Autobahn in Germany due to the 1973 oil crisis; it lasts only four months, 1973

The communist party resigns in Czechoslovakia, 1989

By a margin of only 50.28% t 49.72%, Ireland votes to end the 70 year old ban on divorce, 1995

Ireland presents its austerity package to the European Union and IMF, 2010

Palestinian officials announce their plan to exhume the body of Yasser Arafat too determine if he was poisoned, 2012