It’s Been Busy, a Ten Things of Thankful Post

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It's been a long day so i'm glad to get to the Thankful Day good stuff.

Last weekend, i actually remembered to take the cleaning products i bought at the MallMart to NOLA with me.  Some things you just can't get at the little grocery store where Grandpa likes to shop, or, more accurately, where Grandma wants Grandpa to shop.

While we were there, Grandma went a little nuts with everything she wanted done.  The hardest was washing all her blankets, because she spends most of her time in bed.  The bed had to be stripped and remade right away with a patchwork of several other, smaller blankets (she gets cold so easily), then everything washed, then those blankets replaced with her regular ones.  I'm thankful i got it all done between her calls for me to come bring her other things and Grandpa trying to discourage me from cleaning his room (it makes him cranky).

Once we were on our way home, she called me to turn and go back, she couldn't find the remote for her TV.  In all the bed making and remaking, it had been put on her chair next to the bed and she couldn't see it.  By the time we got back to the house, she and Grandpa were trying to find it and we did, thankfully.

Sunday was so hot when i got to Becca's we only walked Mr. Cal a short distance.  I was thankful we were able to do that.

Sweetie has friends in central Louisiana who were part of the church his father pastored when they lived there, and he has been wanting to go visit.  We were thankful our friend loaned him the truck (our cars can't be trusted to make the trip) and he and Brother-In-Law went up there for a few days of visiting and eating and catching up.

I'm thankful for a few days of peace and quiet!  As well as that they had a safe trip there and back.

One of the test results at my recent annual visit with Dr. BowTie had him concerned, so he asked me to come in and get the test run again.  I'm thankful there's improvement, the numbers are going in the right direction.

I went to the pharmacy to get 2 prescriptions, and when i got one home i did what i always do, read the label description of the pills and then checked to make sure the correct pills were in the bottle.  (Sweetie once got a script with the wrong medicine in the bottle, and it was not a good situation, so i always check.)

The contents of one bottle did not, in fact, match the label description, so i was glad i checked and went back over there.  Turns out they'd simply used pills from a different manufacturer, which makes the pills a different shape, but it was the same med and they'd forgotten to change the description on their labeling.  I'm still thankful i checked and caught it.

Mike-Next-Door no longer lives next door, of course, now he's married and has kids, but his parents are still there and the parents watch the kids while they work so his family is there a lot of the time.

This week the A/C went out in Mike's family's house about a 25 minute drive from here.  They came to stay with his parents until the repairs could be made, and they remembered everything for themselves, two small children, and the two cats -- except the litter box.

He cam over and asked if we had a spare so he wouldn't have to drive all the way home to get one.  I didn't believe it would be a good idea to give him one our cats had used, as his cats, smelling strange cats' odor on the litter box, might decide to not use it at all. Instead i handed him an old basin i sometimes use to soak my feet.

It worked just fine, the cats were happy with it, and i'm thankful i was able to help out.  I'm also thankful i know cats well enough to not share litter boxes, my cats have been sniffing at that old basin with suspicion since it came home, even thought it was thoroughly cleaned.

And also speaking of Mike, he is our lawn guy and designated tree remover (while the trees are still young and small and growing where they shouldn't be).  I'm thankful he removed a tree which was going to be a problem if allowed to continue growing.

My work days this week weren't anything out of the ordinary until Friday, and i'm thankful.  I'm especially thankful Ms. G was busy elsewhere and had no projects for me so i was able to really get the regular work done and done properly, the way she likes it.

Friday i showed up at the church at 6am as usual to make coffee for Bible study and i knew something was off the moment i walked in.  The A/C was out.

We were thankful to have prayer and study anyway and thankful the part to fix it is supposed to show up before Sunday.

Ms. GA and Mr. BA and Granddaughter were all home that morning as Sweetie and i were cleaning, as Ms. GA had taken the day off so she and Mr. BA could go out of town for a day.  I'm thankful for the catsitting work (extra pay), thankful we were able to work around them (not always easy when homeowners are home during the cleaning) and thankful Little Buddy the kitten didn't manage to escape in all of the ins and outs and backs and forths.

My cleaning partner for the shelter had told me she'd be out of town this week, so i went early to get started doing both sides of the job.  I'm thankful there were two extra volunteers and between us, we got it all done and i was able to help a couple of people who wanted to hold cats.  We're all thankful there were a couple of adoptions, too.

Back at my catsitting job, Little Buddy or Obi Buddy or whatever his name is (it should be little mischief) did manage to get out, twice.  Both times i managed to catch him on the porch and get him back inside.  I'm thankful everything else went well.

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Today is:

Aphrodisia -- Ancient Greek Calendar (bathing festival of Aphrodite and Peitho [Persuasion]; through tomorrow)

Casual Pi Day / Pi Approximation Day (22nd day of month 7; 22/7 is the approximation of Pi)

Festival of Boredom and Reverie -- Fairy Calendar

Hammock Day -- don't know who came up with this one, but at the height of the dog days, it seems appropriate; on some sites listed as Summer Leisure Day

International Childbirth Education Awareness Day -- can't find confirmation on this, but if you're going to have a kid, it's not a bad idea to get educated about what to expect!

King Father's Birthday -- Swaziland

National Day of the Cowboy -- US (celebrating the heritage, and those who still work as cowboys/cowgirls today) 

National Penuche Fudge Day

Ragbrai / Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa(TM) -- Iowa, US (the oldest, largest and longest bicycle touring event in the world; through the 29th)

Ratcatcher's Day -- celebrated by the British dating of the Pied Piper story; celebrated June 26 in Hamelin, Germany

Revolution Day -- The Gambia

Soma-Nomaoi Festival -- Haramachi City, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan (Wild-Horse Chasing, a four day festival in which a thousand horsemen, clad in ancient armor, compete for possession of three shrine flags, and along the Hibarigahara Plain, men clad in white costumes attempt to catch wild horses)

Spooners Day (Spoonerism -- Named for William Archibald Spooner, English cleric and scholar who once fussed at a student because "You hissed my mystery lesson," told a groom it was "kisstomery to cuss the bride," and once accidentally referred to Queen Victoria as "the queer old Dean.")

St. Mary Magdalene's Day (Patron of apothecaries, contemplative life and contemplatives, converts, druggists, glove makers, hairdressers and hair stylists, penitent sinners, penitent women, people ridiculed for their piety, perfumeries and perfumers, pharmacists, reformed prostitutes, tanners, women; Anguiano, Spain; Atrani, Salerno, Italy; Casamicciola, Italy; Elantxobe, Spain; Foglizzo, Italy; La Magdaleine, Italy; against sexual temptation)

   Stilt Dance Day -- Anguiano, Spain (a special stilt dance performed on the Feast of the city's patron, St. Mary Magdalen)

Birthdays Today:

George Alexander Louis Windsor, His Royal Highness Prince of Cambridge, 2013

Madison Pettis, 1998

Selena Gomez, 1992

Scott Dixon, 1980

Daniel Jones, 1973

Rufus Wainwright, 1973

Irene Bedard, 1967

Rhys Ifans, 1967

Shawn Michaels, 1965

David Spade, 1964

John Leguizamo, 1964

Rob Estes, 1963

Keith Sweat, 1961

Willem Dafoe, 1955

Alan Menken, 1949

Albert Brooks, 1947

Don Henley, 1947

Danny Glover, 1946

Estelle Bennett, 1944

Bobby Sherman, 1943

Kay Bailey Hutchison, 1943

Alex Trebek, 1940

Terrence Stamp, 1939

Louise Fletcher, 1934

Oscar De la Renta, 1932

Orson Bean, 1928

Bob Dole, 1923

Amy Vanderbilt, 1908

Alexander Calder, 1898

Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, 1890

William Archibald Spooner, 1844

Gregor Johann Mendel, 1822 (Note:  some sources say July 20)

Debuting/Premiering Today:

Plan 9 From Outer Space(Film), 1959

Today in History

King Edward I of England and his longbowmen defeat William Wallace and his Scottish schiltrons outside the town of Falkirk, 1298

The Swiss decisively defeat the Imperial army of Emperor Maximilian I in the Battle of Dornach, 1499

A second group of English settlers arrive on Roanoke Island off North Carolina to re-establish the deserted colony, 1587

Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean becoming the first Euro-American to complete a transcontinental crossing of Canada, 1793

In the Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Rear Admiral Nelson is wounded in the arm, and part of it is amputated, 1797

Death of Josef Strauss, Austrian composer, 1870

First ever motorized racing event is held in France between the cities of Paris and Rouen. The race is won by comte Jules-Albert de Dion, 1894

Wiley Post becomes the first person to fly solo around the world traveling 15,596 miles in 7 days, 18 hours and 45 minutes, 1933

Dezik and Tzygan become the first of Russia's Space Dogs, making a sub-orbital flight, which they both survived, 1951

Japan completes its last reparation to the Philippines for war crimes committed during WWII, 1976

Martial law in Poland is officially revoked, 1983

The second Blue Water Bridge opens between Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario, 1997

The Stonehenge World Heritage Site announces the discovery of a possible new henge, the biggest discovery at a major monument in over 50 years, 2010

Norway is the victim of twin terror attacks, on government buildings in Oslo and a youth camp at Utoya, 2011

Scientific studies reveal that dolphins have unique names for one another, much like humans do, 2013

The Brain Kids, a team of robots from Japan's Chiba Institute of Technology, wins this year's RoboCup, a robotic soccer tournament started 18 years ago to encourage new developments in the robotics field, 2015

India's lunar mission, Chandrayaan-2, successfully takes off from Satish Dhawan Space Center, Sriharikota aiming to make India the fourth nation to soft-land on the moon, 2019

The French submarine Minerve, which disappeared in 1968 with a crew of 52, is  rediscovered off coast of Toulon, France, 2019

Droupadi Murmu is the first tribal politician to be elected President of India (head of state, without executive powers), 2022