Mindfulness and Repetition and Squirrel Mayhem, a Random and Happy Tuesday Post

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It's time once again for a random and happy Tuesday, linking up with Stacy's Random Thoughts at Stacy Uncorked and Sandee at Comedy Plus.  

Yesterday, at Dr. D’s, i tripped over a book called Mindfulness while we were looking for all the things she had lost since the last time i was there, such as her coin purse, her debit card, and, again, the check book.  It made us both laugh when i told her that book was like Sweetie and the memory supplement pills he can never remember the name of.  The pills are not working, obviously, and neither is that book!

Our Sunday night Bible study group decided a few years ago that we will not have our Christmas potluck and White Elephant gift exchange in December, as there are too many other things going on and too many people wouldn’t be able to make it.  Instead, we do it on Super Bowl Sunday and make it a party and watch the big game. 

Yesterday, Sweetie noted that this year, it would be on Groundhog Day, and Mr. LS said, “Yes, come on Groundhog Day and you will get to eat the same food over and over!”

Every week i figure i will tell the story of my friend, DiDreaming, and the squirrel, and every week i either forget or have something else come up.

She was feeding a squirrel in the park, and another squirrel came up wanting his portion, and in his excitement ended up accidentally biting her finger.  How a squirrel can mistake a finger for a peanut i do not know, but i guess he was just a very eager squirrel when it comes to food.

Please note that all of them are eager when it comes to food.

She was right across from the police station, and an officer noticed her trying to stem the bleeding while also trying to shoo the squirrel out of her purse where it was trying to get at the whole peanut package, as well as get something from the purse, such as a tissue, to wrap on her finger, and he insisted on helping.

After escorting her to the police station, he called for paramedics.  Yes, it was a slow day for the police, and the paramedics next door, too.  The paramedics came and bandaged the finger while one officer took a report of the incident, another tried to get a description of the perpetrator, and a third was attempting to draw a picture to put on the wanted poster.

When one paramedic asked if they were going to form a search team, an officer said, “How are we going to do that?  All the squirrels look alike to me!”

That created pandemonium as others told him, “You can’t say that!” and “Now the squirrel anti-discrimination committee is going to be after you!”

All in all, it was quite an adventure, and one she does not want to repeat.

Having run out of the previous set of photos Grandma sent, i am starting in on a new set, photos which undoubtedly took great patience on the part of the photographers, and no, i don’t know where she gets this stuff:

Have a fabulous Tuesday, everyone!

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Today is:

Assembly Line Workers' Day -- listed on many sites but no particular reason for it to be this day; then again, why not today?

Azhirnikhua -- Abkhazia (Day of World Creation)

Cakes and Ale Day -- emblems of the good life, a day to remember the good things we have, and be grateful

Celebration of the 2nd Week of Moonhopper -- Fairy Calendar

Daikoku Matsuri -- Kanda Myojin Shine, Tokyo, Japan (purification ceremony; through tomorrow)

Day of Defenders of the Native Land (Army Day) -- Uzbekistan

Feast of Divina Pastora -- Barquisimeto, Venezuela (religious procession attended by about 2 million people)

Feast of the Ass -- Medieval Christianity (commemorates the Flight Into Egypt)

International Kite Festival -- Jaipur and Ahmedabad, India

Makar Sandranti -- India/Hindu Calendar (part of the sidereal solstice festivals)

National Dress Up Your Pet Day -- do you really dislike your pet this much?

National Forest Conservation Day -- Thailand

National Hot Pastrami Sandwich Day

Niino no Yukimatsuri -- Izu shrine, Niino, Nagano Prefecture, Japan (snow festival with offerings made to bring a good harvest in the coming year; through tomorrow)

Organize Your Home Day -- another one that i can't figure out who started it, but i will say s/he was nuts to think this could be done in one day

Orthodox New Year -- RS, Bosnia and Herzegovina; Serbia

Pongal continues -- Tamil New Year, among the Tamil People (multiple day thanksgiving festival at the end of harvest)

    Tamil Thai Pongal Day -- Sri Lanka

    Maghi Parba/Maghe Sankranti -- Western Nepal

Ratification Day -- US (anniversary of the Treaty of Paris that recognized the independence of the US from England)

Revolution and Youth Day -- Tunisia

Sidereal Winter Solstice Celebrations -- throughout South and Southeast Asia

St. Felix of Nola's Day (Patron of domestic animals, eyes; Nola, Italy; against eye diseases, false witness, lies, perjury)

St. Sava's Day (Patron of Serbia and all Serbs)

Take a Missionary to Lunch Day -- to honor Albert Schweitzer's birth anniversary

Anniversaries Today:

Joe DiMaggio marries Marilyn Monroe, 1954

Birthdays Today:

Kristin Cavallari, 1987

Jason Bateman, 1969

Emily Watson, 1967

Shepard Smith, 1964

Steven Soderbergh, 1963

Lawrence Kasdan, 1949

Carl Weathers, 1948

Nina Totenberg, 1944

Holland Taylor, 1943

Faye Dunaway, 1941

Jack Jones, 1938

Andy Rooney, 1919

William Bendix, 1906

John dos Passos, 1896

Hal Roach, 1892

Hugh Lofting, 1886

Albert Schweitzer, 1875

Thornton W. Burgess, 1874

Richard Felton Outcault, 1863

Matthew Fontaine Maury, 1806

Benedict Arnold, 1741

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"The Bionic Woman"(TV), 1976

"Sanford and Son"(TV), 1972

"Sinfonia Antartica"(Vaughan Williams' 7th symphony), 1953

"Today Show"(TV), 1952

"Tosca"(Puccini Opera), 1900

Today in History:

The Knights Templar are formally approved by the Roman Catholic Church, 1129

Pope Leo X issues a papal bull against slavery, 1514

Spain annexes Cuba, 1539

The "Fundamental Orders", the first written constitution that created a government, is adopted in Connecticut, 1639

Massachusetts holds a day of fasting for wrongly accusing "witches", 1699

Congress ratifies the Treaty of Paris, formally ending the American Revolutionary War, 1783

The US Supreme Court rules that racial separation on trains is unconstitutional, 1878

An earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica, kills more than 1000, 1907

Henry Ford introduces the assembly line to the production of the Model-T, 1914

The first prototype of the MiG-17 makes its maiden flight, 1950

The Reserve Bank of Australia, the country's central bank and banknote issuing authority, is established, 1960

Toronto, Ontario Mayor Mel Lastman becomes the first mayor in Canada to call in the Army to help with emergency medical evacuations and snow removal after more than one meter of snow paralyzes the city, 1999

The national flag of Georgia, the so-called "five cross flag", is restored to official use after a hiatus of some 500 years, 2004

Landing of the Huygens probe on Saturn's moon Titan, 2005

The MESSENGER spacecraft performs a Mercury flyby, 2008

American rock climbers Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson become the first to successfully free-climb the Dawn Wall face of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, 2015

The US National Safety Council publishes a report saying that, for the first time ever, an American’s chance of dying of an opioid overdose is greater than the chance of dying in a traffic accident, 2019