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It's a Thankful Day after a rEcess night, so it's a bit short and sweet.
The saga of Slow-Moe the car, which had it sometimes working and sometimes not, ended with Luke the mechanic at Kevin and Lenny's finding a loose wire. It's no longer loose, and we are thankful the car seems to be running just fine (and hopeful it continues to do so with no more problems).
In other thankful things, critter tending for Ms. G went well and we managed to get her camper almost totally emptied the day she came home.
Carl and his family were healthy enough to let me come over.
Wednesday morning at the shelter i was running just a bit late and another volunteer came in just in time to take over and finish so i could go.
Ms. JAI was feeling lonely then got 3 calls to play bridge in one week, and i'm thrilled for her. I do pray this is the start of a trend.
The morning ladies' circle i attend provided the meal for rEcess this time.
And we had a small but fun group, even our security officer came and and ate with us.
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| Making up our own air hockey rules that include throwing the puck from a distance to try to get it into the goal and dropping a ball on the table in the middle of play. |
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| Feeding the baby. |
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| She's gonna move it, move it! |
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| Crafts. |
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| Getting out of the chair to crawl and have fun. |
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| Toys |
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| More toys, and play-dough. |
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| Running the hallways, or crawling them as the case may be. |
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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Today is:
Bathtub Day -- can't confirm this one, but it's as good a day as any to be glad you have one!
Feast Day of Ma'at -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)
If At First You Don't Succeed Day -- in honor of Frank Sinatra, whose CBS-TV musical variety show debuted on this day in 1950; it and the other two shows that followed didn't succeed, but he never gave up and had a great career
Inter-American Water Day -- begun in 1992 by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the Inter-American Association of Sanitary and Environmental Engineering (AIDIS) and the Caribbean Water and Wastewater Association (CWWA)
International Frugal Fun Day -- created by Shel Horowitz, author of The Penny-Pinching Hedonist; some of his ideas for how to celebrate are here
Lepanto Day -- Greece
Nagasaki Kunchi -- Nagasaki, Japan (harvest festival, through the 9th)
National Flower Day -- US (anniversary of President Reagan signing the bill, in 1986, that made the rose the US National Flower)
National Frappe Day
Nones of October -- Ancient Roman Calendar; other observances
Festival of Juno Cutitis and Jupiter Fulgor
Victoria, Lady of Victories Day a/k/a Pallas Athena -- also celebrated by the Ancient Greeks
Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary -- Catholic Christian
Ruler's Birthday -- SBH, Malaysia
Simchat Torah -- Judaism (day to celebrate the reading of the Law; begins at sunset, through sunset tomorrow)
St. Justina of Padua's Day (Patron of Padua, Italy; Santa Giustina, Italy)
Try To Start An Argument Over Which Is the Best Muppet Day -- Kermit, hands down (argue below, if you wish; possibly started by the International Association of People without a Life)
World Card Making Day -- Paper Crafts Magazine started it all in 2006 and suggests you have fun and make a card or two or three on the first Saturday of October each year
You Matter To Me Day -- because the phrase "you matter to me" can make a profound difference in someone's life
Anniversaries Today:
Larry King married Julie Alexander, 1989
Dow Jones makes the first report, in the Wall Street Journal, of an average of the prices of 12 industrial stocks, 1896
Birthdays Today:
Toni Braxton, 1967
Simon Cowell, 1959
Michael W. Smith, 1957
Yo-Yo Ma, 1955
Vladimir Putin, 1952
John Cougar Mellencamp, 1951
Joy Behar, 1943
Charles Dutoit, 1936
Thomas Keneally, 1935
Amiri Baraka, 1934
Bishop Desmond Tutu, 1931
Al Martino, 1927
R. D. Laing, 1927
June Allyson, 1917
Vaughn Monroe, 1911
Andy Devine, 1905
Niels Bohr, 1885
Thomas J. Wise, 1859
James Whitcomb Riley, 1849
Caesar Rodney, 1728(O.S. date)
Debuting/Premiering Today:
The Independent(Newspaper, first issue), 1986
"Cats"(Musical), 1982
"Route 66"(TV), 1960
"Your Hit Parade"(TV), 1950
"One Touch of Venus"(Musical), 1943
"Eve of St. Mark"(Play), 1942
Today in History:
The epoch of the modern Hebrew calendar (Proleptic Julian calendar), BC3761
The first public burning of books in Louvain, Netherlands, 1520
Ralph Wedgewood patents carbon paper in London, 1806
The first chartered railway in the US, the Granite Railway, begins operations, 1826
Spain abolishes slavery in Cuba, 1886
Henry Ford institutes the moving assembly line, 1913
Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland college in the infamous 222-0 football game, 1916
160 consecutive days of 100*F+ temperatures begin at Marble Bar, Australia, 1924
Beat poet Allen Ginsberg reads his poem "Howl" for the first time at a poetry reading in San Francisco, 1955
U.S.S.R. probe Luna 3 transmits first ever photographs of the far side of the moon, 1959
Nigeria joins the United Nations, 1960
Oman joins the United Nations, 1971
Cats opens on Broadway and begins a run of nearly 18 years, 1982
The Great Flood of 1993 ends at St. Louis, Missouri, 103 days after it began, 1993
Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, is found tied to a fence after being savagely beaten, 1998
The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan begins, 2001
A Southampton University research fellow discovers a long lost Antonio Vivaldi flute concerto at the National Archives of Scotland in Edinburgh, 2010
Scientists Stefan Hell of Germany and Eric Betzig and William Moerner of the U.S. share the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing 'super-resolved fluorescence microscopy'; the technology can be used to observe molecular activity in living cells, 2014
Jodie Whittaker debuts in her first full episode as the 13th and first female Doctor Who on BBC television, 2018
The Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology is awarded to Peter Ratcliffe, William Kaelin and Gregg Semenza for discovering how cells sense oxygen, 2019
Zanzibar born writer Abdulrazak Gurnah is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, 2021
I am smiling widely at all your thankful things.
ReplyDeleterEcess looks like so much fun! I'm happy for Mrs Jai, it isn't good to be lonely.
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like a very good week for you and all around you. So nice to see the children of rEcess having fun. Each in their own individual way.
ReplyDeleteBathtub day! MY day! I love my tub. And I'm as always happy to read your thankfuls!
ReplyDeleteWonderful thankful list. I wish I could join in and help the kids make some crafts. XO
ReplyDeleteThose are nice thankfuls and very nice photos from rEcess.
ReplyDeleteWe should get into the habit of being thankful every day. Unfortunately, it's not always easy to do...but try one must. :)
ReplyDeleteI'm happy that your mechanics were able to find the loose wire. Wiring problems can be tricky!
ReplyDeleteHow do they* do that?
ReplyDeleteSounds like a well-paced week.
* some automobiles, which we've all had one, that does the "What? No, nothing wrong here!" Lol
What fun and great series of photos and lovely thankfuls ~ Xo
ReplyDeleteWishing you good health, laughter and love in your days,
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