Thankful for More Than Just One Day, a Ten Things of Thankful Post

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It's been a wonderful, and thankful, week.

We've had rain and sun, both welcome, and the weather is cooler.  We're thankful to know it's winter and we don't have to swelter for a few months anyway.

Becca's family goes to a campground the weekend before Thanksgiving, but even though she was no longer really sick or contagious, she did still have the cough and her father stayed home with her because they didn't want to risk her sleeping outdoors in the cold so soon and with that awful cough.

The two of them, however, drove down to the campground last Saturday so she got to sit by the campfire, roast a hot dog and a s'more, take a good long hike in the woods and her dad got to go for one kayak trip with the boys.  I'm very thankful they were able to join the family for a day.

I'm thankful i had my Sunday buddy with me on Sunday again.

Holiday weeks are always busy and this was no exception.  Monday, i am thankful i got Ms. G's critters cared for, Carl's room cleaned, Ms. S's house cleaned, and Kevin and Lenny's done.  It was a 12-hour work day and it didn't kill me so i will be thankful and say it made me stronger.

Since i'm not going to clean anyone's house on Thanksgiving but Grandma's, i did Ms. V on Tuesday, which is usually saved for my day off.  Needs must, right?  I'm thankful not to have to skip it.

Grandpa had a birthday, we are thankful he is 87,

Ms. G came back late Tuesday afternoon, so i did the cat shelter Wednesday morning and helped her for several hours.  I'm thankful we got the RV ready for storage until next time and i got to vacuum with the newly repaired vacuum cleaner.  It works great!

Sweetie picked up the majority of our food on Wednesday and i'm very thankful Grandma now lets us do that instead of us having to cook everything ourselves.

#2 Son and His Bride went deer hunting over the holidays, i'm thankful to be able to stay at their apartment to take care of Jock instead of bringing him back to the house where he would want to chase the cats and they would be miserable.

I'm thankful they realized before they left town they'd left me the wrong key and brought me the right one.  I'm thankful Mall-Mart opens at 6am and has an automatic key-making kiosk.  I'm thankful i figured out how to open the door, which doesn't quite fit in the frame.

#1 Son was supposed to come with us for Thanksgiving dinner, but he got sick Tuesday.  I'm thankful he was better by Thursday, even if he wasn't well enough to go with us.  I'm thankful Sweetie, Brother-in-Law and myself got to NOLA and back safely.

The kitchen got quick-cleaned, all the food was warmed and served by 12:30 and leftovers in the fridge by 1:15, the kitchen restored to order and we came back home.  The whole of it was 6 1/2 hours and everyone got along, which is a thankful miracle.

Ms. GA and Mr. BA had the prayer group over Friday morning since the church is closed.  Sweetie met me there so we could clean after and i'm thankful it was his week to help, i needed it.

Jock and i were both thankful to get to the dog park and for a long walk around the lake on Friday.

I'm thankful they have a washer/dryer and i've been able to use them.

I'm thankful they are coming home today, as i have plans for this evening which i hope will be the start of next week's Thankful Day list.

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Today is:

Anniversary of Moquegua City -- Peru (founded this date in 1541)

Banquet for Monkeys / Monkey Buffet Festival -- Khmer Ruins of Lop Buri, Thailand (about 3,000 monkeys are served lunch while humans get to watch in what some describe as a riot but without the police; through tomorrow) 

Day Sacred to Proserpina -- Ancient Roman Calendar (also Persephone, of the Greeks, the Wheel goddess of the Underworld, often associated with St. Catherine; see below)

Evacuation Day -- 19th Century New York City (withdrawal of British troops in 1783)

Guadalajara International Book Fair -- Guadalajara, Mexico (through Dec. 3)

Hari Guru -- Indonesia (Teacher's Day)

Holodomor Remembrance Day -- international commemoration of the Death By Hunger Genocide in Ukraine

International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women -- UN

     White Ribbon Day -- International (if you know a victim of violence, help break their silence! because domestic violence affects all of society)

International Hat Day  

Mangé Yam -- Haiti (fete de la moisson; a yam harvest festival)

National Day -- Bosnia and Herzegovina (commemorates the 1943 declaration of statehood within Yugoslavia)

National Don't Utter A Word Day -- internet generated, and variously listed as the 25th of November, February, or May; pick one if you want

National Parfait Day

Persephone Day (a/k/a Kore) -- Ancient Greek Calendar (celebration of her as wheel goddess of the underworld; date approximate, but she is often associated with St. Catherine; see below)

Saint Catherine of Alexandria's Day -- of the Catherine Wheel, sometimes associated with the Wheel of Karma and the Hindu Kali; one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers (Patron of apologists, archivists, attorneys, barristers, craftsmen who work with wheels of any sort, dying people, educators, girls, jurists, knife grinders and sharpeners, lawyers, librarians, libraries, maidens, mechanics, millers, nurses, old maids, philosophers, potters, preachers, scholars, schoolchildren, scribes, secretaries, spinners, spinsters, stenographers, students, tanners, teachers, theologians, turners, University of Paris, unmarried girls, and wheelwrights; Aalsum, Netherlands; Bertinoro, Italy; Camerata Picena, Italy; Dumaguete, Philippines; Heidesheim am Rhein, Germany; Kuldiga, Latvia; Mähring, Germany; Saint Catharines, Ontario; Zejtun, Malta; Zurrieq, Malta) related observance

     Women's Merrymaking Day -- Women go 'Cath'rining' and have a good time (in some places, especially France, women may propose marriage on this day)

Small Business Saturday -- encouraging everyone to patronize local businesses for your holiday shopping

Shopping Reminder Day -- exactly a month until Christmas

Srefidensi -- Suriname (Republic Day/Independence Day)

Statehood Day -- FBiH, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Vajiravudh Day -- Thailand

Birthdays Today:

Barbara and Jenna Bush, 1981

Jerry Ferrara, 1979

Donovan McNabb, 1976

Eddie Steeples, 1973

Christina Applegate, 1971

Jill Hennessy, 1968

Cris Carter, 1965

Amy Grant, 1960

John F. Kennedy, Jr., 1960

Bucky Dent, 1951

John Larroquette, 1947

Ben Stein, 1944

Joe Jackson Gibbs, 1940

Lenny Moore, 1933

Paul Desmond, 1924

Ricardo Montalban, 1920

Joe DiMaggio, 1914

Solanus Casey, 1870

Carry Nation, 1846

Karl F. Benz, 1844

Andrew Carnegie, 1835

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"Iolanthe: or, The Peer and the Peri"(Comic opera), 1882

Today in History:

A tsunami, caused by the earthquake in the Tyrrhenian Sea, devastates Naples (Italy) and the Maritime Republic of Amalfi, among other places, 1343

The siege of Granada, the last Moorish stronghold in Spain, begins, 1491

A deadly earthquake rocks Shemakha, in the Caucasus, killing 80,000 people, 1667

The Great Storm of 1703, the greatest windstorm ever recorded in the southern part of Great Britain, reaches its peak intensity which it maintains through November 27. Winds gust up to 120 mph, and 9,000 people died, 1703

First English patent granted to an American, for processing corn, 1715

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is founded, 1758

Farmer's Almanac first published, 1792

The Greek frigate Hellas arrives in Nafplion to become the first flagship of the Hellenic Navy, 1826

A cyclone slams India with high winds and a 40 foot storm surge, destroying the port city of Coringa (never to be entirely rebuilt again); the storm wave sweeps inland, taking with it 20,000 ships and thousands of people. An estimated 300,000 deaths result from the disaster, 1839

Alfred Nobel patents dynamite, 1867

John B Meyenberg of St Louis patents evaporated milk, 1884

American College of Surgeons incorporates in Springield, Illinois, 1912

First Thanksgiving Day Parade is held in Philadelphia, 1920

690 earthquake shocks recorded in 1 day in Ito, Japan, 1930

The first Soviet liquid fuel rocket attains altitude of 261' (80m), 1933

Woody Woodpecker debuts with release of Walter Lantz's "Knock Knock", 1940

New Zealand ratifies the Statute of Westminster and thus becomes independent of legislative control by the United Kingdom, 1947

Agatha Christie's murder-mystery play The Mousetrap opens at the Ambassadors Theatre in London later becoming the longest continuously-running play in history, 1952

The Minneapolis Thanksgiving Day Fire destroys an entire city block, 1982

The United Nations establishes the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women to commemorate the murder of three Mirabal Sisters for resistance against the Rafael Trujillo dictatorship in Dominican Republic, 1999

Powerful storm brings 3 years worth of rain in 4 hours to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, sparking terrible floods, 2009

Switzerland's Bern Art Museum agrees to accept artworks looted from their Jewish owners by the Nazis, 2014

The longest known frozen embryo to be successfully born is delivered in Tennessee - Emma Wren Gibson, frozen 24 years ago, 2017

The historic northern California Camp Fire is finally declared 100% contained with 85 dead, 249 missing, covering 153,000 acres and 14,000 homes burned, 2018

India has more girls than boys for the first time in its history and its population boom is ending, according to new government survey, 2021