Long Week, a Ten Things of Thankful Post

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It's a great day to be Thankful Day.

Grandma really loved Bigger Girl's bread.  She liked it so much, Sweetie and i only got once slice each!  We're thankful she sent it, and thankful it was good so we could truly tell her so.

One day this week, it was late, i was tired, and i found one more bag of garbage (cat litter) to take out for pick-up the next day.  How i didn't want to bother taking it out, and how thankful i am that i did, since i found the lights on in my car!  Yes, i would have awakened to a dead car battery and a scramble to get to work, sometimes i am thankful for what did not happen.

Becca had a great day on Sunday.  We went to the Dollar Tree and bought the glass pebbles you put in the bottom of a fish tank to use as spare pieces for some of the games.  It's way no fun to pull out a game and you can't play because you are missing some pieces, and now we have plenty.

We also had a walk, and that especially made the dog, Mr. Cal, very thankful and happy.

Ms. PA has been talking to me about taking all the books she's done reading and finding a new home for them.  She was thankful that we both remembered, i got them bagged and in the car, and since they are mostly mysteries and Grandpa loves mysteries, i'm taking them to him today.

She also gave me a coffee mug that is similar to one i have had for about 40 years now.  It's a style of mug i really like, and i haven't seen another one in a long time, i am thankful to have it and will think of her and Mr. Jack whenever i see it.

Coda got dropped off Tuesday morning, and we've had a great time.  Twice we've met new dogs and made new friends.

We're thankful she can chase the birds and squirrels all she wants, she cannot catch them.  It keeps her busy!

Wednesday i finished up with work early for which i was thankful, it meant an hour to sit and read and relax.

Sweetie and i are thankful to have survived Thursday, it was a very long work day.

In fact, when i got up Thursday morning, i was thinking about how much i just didn't want to go to work that day.  Then my Bible verse of the day popped up, "Do all things without complaining and grumbling." Philippians 2:14  There's a thankful thing, the discipline of the Lord.  He corrects those He loves.

Friday saw two full garbage bags of weeds pulled at Mr. BA's house, and there are plenty where those came from -- job security!

It has been a long, good week, and i am blessed and thankful for it.

Please write up your own list and link up to Ten Things of Thankful, where Dyanne and her co-hosts always have a warm welcome waiting.   

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Special PSA -- Daylight Saving Time begins in many places 2am tomorrow, so "spring forward" one hour before you go to bed tonight

Today is:

Africa Scout Day -- Africa (celebration of all Boy Scouts and Girl Guides in Africa)

Anniversary of the Election of Pope Francis

Celebrate Your Name Week -- Saturday:  Geneology Day, begin or continue the journey to learn about your family

Daylight Saving Time begins tomorrow -- Bermuda; Canada (most regions); Cuba; Greenland (Thule Air Base only) Haiti; Mexico (some areas); Saint Pierre and Miquelon; The Bahamas; Turks and Caicos Islands; US (most areas)

Ear Muff Day -- invented by Chester Greenwood in 1873, when he was only 15; if you need them today, keep a good thought for Chester

Girl Scout Sabbath -- US (encouraging Girl Scouts to wear their uniforms to synagogue services and represent their troop to their congregations; the final day of Girl Scout Week in the US)

Good Samaritan Involvement Day -- emphasizing the importance of unselfish aid to others

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)

Kasuga Matsuri -- Kasuga Grand Shrine, Nara, Japan (Monkey Festival)

K-9 Veterans Day -- US (on the day in 1942 the US Army K-9 Corps was established)

National Coconut Tort Day

National Jewel Day -- for no other reason than that someone who liked jewels wanted a holiday for them

National Open An Umbrella Indoors Day -- an experiment in whether or not bad luck ensues

St. Ansovinus of Camerino (Patron protector of crops)

Sticking Very Close Together for Fairies of the Fourth and Fifth Flights -- Fairy Calendar

Uranus Day -- the planet was discovered this day in 1781

Birthdays Today:

Emile Hirsch, 1985

Rachael Bella, 1984

Will Clark, 1964

Adam Clayton, 1960

Glenne Headly, 1957

Dana Delany, 1956

Deborah Raffin, 1953

Charo, 1951

William H. Macy, 1950

Neil Sedaka, 1939

Helen "Callaghan" Candaele Saint Aubin, 1929

William Casey, 1913

L. Ron Hubbard. 1911

Sammy Kaye, 1910

Walter Annenberg, 1908

Percival Lowell, 1855

Lorenzo Delmonico, 1813

Joseph Priestly, 1733

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"The Larry King Show"(TV), 1983

"Same Time, Next Year"(Play), 1975

"Brigadoon"(Musical), 1947

"Three Musketeers"(Musical), 1928

"The Pink Lady"(Musical), 1911

"Marie Magdalena"(Opera), 1846

"Médée"(Opera), 1797

Today in History:

Twelfth recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet, 607

Spanish explorer Cortez lands in Mexico, 1519

The Spanish fleet occupies Djerba, at Tripoli, 1560

Cambridge College is renamed Harvard for clergyman John Harvard, 1639

Jews are denied the right to build a synagogue in New Amsterdam, 1656

Massachusetts gains title to Maine for $6,000, 1677

The twenty-seventh recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet, 1759

William Herschel discovers Uranus, 1781

The Uncle Sam cartoon figure makes its debut in the NY Lantern weekly, 1852

The US Senate begins Pres Andrew Johnson's impeachment trial, 1868

Oxford defeats Cambridge in their first golf match, 1878

The Siege of Khartoum, Sudan begins, Madhist Sudanese against the Egyptian, British, and loyalist Sudanese forces, 1884

In France the length of the workday for women and children is limited to 11 hours by law, 1900

Mongolia (formerly Outer Mongolia) declares independence from China, 1921

A law is passed in the US state of Tennessee prohibiting the teaching of evolution, 1925

Clyde Tombaugh announces the discovery of Pluto at Lowell Observatory, 1930

Rotaract begins as a youth program of Rotary International, 1968

Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module, 1969

The Seikan Tunnel, the longest undersea tunnel in the world, opens between Aomori and Hakodate, Japan, 1988

India's Missionaries of Charity chooses Sister Nirmala to succeed Mother Teresa as its leader, 1997

Gold prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange hit $1,000 per ounce for the first time, 2008

A Harvard Medical School study claims that red meat increases the risk of death and has additional negative health implications, 2012

In Greenland, the Siumut party wins the parliamentary election, setting up Aleqa Hammond to become the country's first female Prime Minister, 2013

Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio is elected the new pope, taking the papal name Pope Francis, 2013

Scientists announce they have concluded that a large ocean exists beneath the icy surface of Ganymede, the largest moon of Jupiter; the discovery was made by using the Hubble Space Telescope to observe aurora movements at the moon's poles, 2014

The home of civil rights activists Medgar and Myrlie Evers is established as a national monument in Jackson, Mississippi, by a land bill signed President Trump, 2019

Covic19 is declared a national emergency, 2020