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We've had rain!
Since the last Thankful Day, when i was thankful for a drizzle, we've had five drippy, drizzly days without storms but with plenty coming down which have done much to help our swamps and yards and gardens, and we're not complaining, not at all.
Saturday afternoon i received the very unwelcome news Becca was sick. They got her to the urgent care clinic and got meds, and by Sunday morning her fever had broken and she's been on the mend since. It's an ill wind blows no good, so i can be thankful i was able to sleep a little later last Sunday morning (although i still miss my Sunday church buddy).
Our evening zoom meeting was canceled because of the wonderfully thankful news our leader's wife had her baby!
Ms. JAI called, her son came in town to visit! He's staying with her! This is tremendously thankful news to me, her relationships with family members can be so strained and she often doesn't see or hear from any of them for months at a time.
Because of the rain, another meeting was canceled and i'm thankful i checked email about a half hour before i was to leave, so i didn't drive out there for nothing.
Sweetie and i girded up our loins and went to the laundromat. We're thankful for an empty laundry hamper (at least for the moment).
Ms. G is off on another camping adventure, so i'm thankful for cat-sitting duties and extra pay. Also i'm glad she got the part for the vacuum cleaner and was able to repair it and we got plenty done in advance of her trip when i was there Wednesday.
Grandpa had called a couple of weeks ago to ask me to come to a special meeting Friday at the local university. (They sent a driver to bring him up here as he can't drive this far any longer.)
To do that, i had to do two houses Thursday, leaving Friday open. I'm thankful Sweetie and i got Ms. SE's house done very quickly and Ms. GA's place went like clockwork for me after.
The event Friday was wonderful and i'm thankful i got to go. I saw many people i haven't seen in ages and Grandpa gave a donation to them in memory of Uncle P (my brother, my children's uncle).
Sometimes Friday evening at the shelter is quiet, and other times we just hop and run and run and hop and it somehow always gets done. I'm thankful this was a hop and run Friday, with adoptions, people looking for cats, plenty of extra volunteers running hither and yon, and we still got all the caretaking done well before close. I even had extra time to help Ms. B set up a temporary cage for a cat which needed to be isolated overnight.
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:
Constitution Day -- South Africa (the 1993 Constitution, granting blacks the right to vote, was approved)
Dan sjecanja na žrtve Domovinskog rata i Dan sjecanja na žrtvu Vukovara i Škabrnje -- Croatia (Remembrance Day for Homeland War Victims and for the Sacrifice of Vukovar and Škabrnja)
Day of Ardvi Sura (Aredvi Sura Anahita), Mother of the Stars -- Ancient Persian Calendar (date approximate)
European Antibiotic Awareness Day -- ECDC (because prudent use of antibiotics can help stop antibiotic resistance)
Family Volunteer Day -- to get families working together to better their communities and the world
Feast of the Virgen de Chiquinquirá -- Maracaibo, Venezuela
Independence Day -- Morocco(1956); Western Saraha(1975)
International Games Day @ Your Library -- libraries in many countries are sponsoring a local Games Day, check with yours!
International Survivors of Suicide Loss Day
Married to a Scorpio Support Day -- remembering those married to Scorpios and suffering because of it, and encouraging them to hide the flow charts and assert themselves today; sponsored by Wellcat Holidays
National Adoption Day -- US (encouraging us to find a home for every child; many courts finalize thousands of adoptions of children from foster care on this day each year)
National Day -- Oman
National French Vichyssoise Day
Ned Ludd Memorial Machine-Smashing Day -- internet generated, but enjoy! i know i will
Proclamation of the Republic -- Latvia (1918)
Push-Button Phone Day -- launched this day in 1963
St. Odo of Cluny's Day (Patron of needed rain)
Surin Elephant Round-Up -- Surin, Thailand (includes elephant football, elephant tugs-of-war, and parades; through Sunday)
Total Disregard for Taste Day -- marking the debut of Howard Stern's radio show on this day in 1985
Vertieres Day -- Haiti (Battle of Vertieres and Army Day)
William Tell Day -- the famed apple-off-his-son's-head-shot was today in 1307
Birthdays Today:
Owen Wilson, 1968
Elizabeth Perkins, 1960
Sinbad, 1956
Katy Sagal, 1956
Kevin Nealn, 1953
Andrea Marcvicci, 1948
Jameson Parker, 1947
Wilma Mankiller, 1945
Susan Sullivan, 1944
Linda Evans, 1942
Brenda Vaccaro, 1939
Margaret Eleanor Atwood, 1939
Mickey Mouse, 1928
Alan Shepard, Jr., 1923
John Herndon "Johnny" Mercer, 1909
Imogene Coca, 1908
George Gallup, 1901
Eugene Ormandy, 1899
Clarence Shepard Day, 1874
Dorothy Dix (Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer), 1861
Ignacy Jan Paderewski, 1860
James Edward Sullivan, 1860
Sir William Schwenck Gilbert, 1836
Asa Gray, 1810
Louis-Jacques Daguerre, 1787
Sojourner Truth, 1787
Carl Maria von Weber, 1786
Debuting/Premiering Today:
Star Trek: Generations(Film), 1994
Malcolm X(Film), 1992
Calvin and Hobbes(Comic strip), 1985 (in this first strip, Calvin catches Hobbes in a tiger trap baited with a tuna sandwich)
"See It Now"(TV), 1951
"Skin of Our Teeth"(Wilder play), 1943
Steamboat Willie (a/k/a Mickey Mouse), 1928
US Uniform Time Zone Plan, 1883 (on this date, the railroads adopted the current uniform time zone plan; it wasn't legally mandated until 1918)
Today in History:
Old St. Peter's Basilica is consecrated, 326
The Japanese Emperor Kammy relocates the residence of Nara to Kioto, 794
William Tell shoots the apple off his son's head, 1307
The Holland/Zealand dikes break during a storm, resulting in thousands of deaths, 1421
The first English printed book, "Dictes & Sayengis of the Phylosophers", is published, 1477
Christopher Columbus first sights the island now known as Puerto Rico, 1493
Vasco da Gama reaches the Cape of Good Hope, 1497
The worst earthquake in Massachusetts Bay/Boston area, 1755
The first Unitarian Minister in the US is ordained in Boston, 1787
30 women meet at Mrs Silas Lee's home in Wiscasset Maine, to organize the Female Charitable Society, first woman's club in America, 1805
Mark Twain's story The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is published in the New York Saturday Press, 1865
National Woman's Christian Temperance Union organizes in Cleveland, 1874
Standard time zones are formed by railroads in the US and Canada, 1883
The first newspaper Sunday color comic strip is printed, in the NY World, 1894
Britain flies its first sea plane, 1911
Lincoln Deachey performs the first airplane loop-the-loop, over San Diego, 1913
Sigma Alpha Rho, a Jewish high school fraternity, is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1917
Release of the animated short Steamboat Willie, the first fully synchronized sound cartoon, directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, featuring the third appearances of cartoon characters Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse, 1928
Off the south coast of Newfoundland in the Atlantic Ocean, a Richter magnitude 7.2 submarine earthquake, centered on Grand Banks, breaks 12 submarine transatlantic telegraph cables and triggers a tsunami that destroys many south coast communities in the Burin Peninsula, 1929
New York City's Mad Bomber places his first bomb at a Manhattan office building used by Consolidated Edison, 1940
In the United States, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is ratified, 1993
HIP 13044 b, a planet that was formed in another galaxy, is discovered in the Helmi Stream, 2010
Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria becomes the 118th Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, 2012
NASA launches the MAVEN probe to Mars, 2013
A book written by Charlotte Bronte as a child for her toys is bought by the Bronte Society for €600,000 at auction in Paris, 2019
The longest partial lunar eclipse since 1440 occurs, lasting 3 hours, 28 minutes and 23 seconds, 2021
The Leap Second, originally inserted beginning in 1972 to keep the atomic and astronomical time scales reconciled, will be dropped as of 2035 according to the International Bureau of Weights, and Measures, 2022
Lots to be thankful for - which is wonderful.
ReplyDeleteI here they are going to work the leap second into daylight saving. In the spring we will leap forward 1 hour and 1 second. 😆
ReplyDeleteAnother busy week for you, and maybe with a couple of the cancellations that were happening it gave you time to do other things. Here I am very thankful that we got one inch of rain yesterday. For the month of November that is just not enough. Back to Sunshine today but the temperature dropped 20°.
ReplyDeletewow! don't know how you do it all ~ Next you need a washing machine and dryer ~ Glad Becca is on the mend??? ~ xo
ReplyDeleteWishing you good health, laughter and love in your days,
A ShutterBug Explores,
aka (A Creative Harbor)
That's a very nice thankful list and I'm so glad to hear that Becca is on the mend.
ReplyDeleteWonderful list of thankfuls. Sorry Becca was sick. XO
ReplyDeleteI am glad you got plenty of rain and that Becca is getting better.
ReplyDeleteDespite a few setbacks you had so much to be thabkful for
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DeleteHurray for a good rain, and so glad you were able to find out ahead of time about the canceled meeting. Finding out after already driving is a big hassle!
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