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Last weekend, the weather guessers had Grandpa all worked up. He kept reminding me to check the weather and pick the best time to drive home. The best time was any time, as all we had was a drippy drizzle all day, no storms. I'm thankful it worked out that way.
Mr. J was away for the weekend. Ms. A, Becca and i were thankful everything went just right anyway, i even managed to make her breakfast.
Also, i was thankful to receive good news about Becca's education. As she is in a special class, she will graduate this May then be allowed to go back for 2 more years as a "helper" in the classroom. In fact, she will even be paid!
Last Sunday and Monday Ms. GA and Mr. BA were out of town just overnight, but that meant i had to do cat care before getting to Carl's house at 6am. I'm thankful i was up to it and wasn't late.
Ms. D had a wedding invitation with something she's not had before, a QR code to scan to RSVP. I was thankful for the built in reader in her camera on her phone, i was able to show her how to use it.
Also, i was thankful elbow grease got the hairspray gunk off the bathroom floors at her house.
Ms. JAI wanted a visit, and i was thankful to spend a while and get a bit of cleaning done while i was there.
Tuesday was a red letter day. I'm thankful the lesson i taught at the ladies' circle meeting went well (they didn't tell me i've been exposed to too many Lysol fumes). Also i not only got Brother-in-Law's taxes done, a huge thankful thing, i was finally able to transfer the last debt we are trying to pay to a no interest card. We're aiming to have it almost totally paid off by the time the promotional offer ends.
Ms. G had us up, down and all around as well as under, as in under her RV. I'm thankful she got the work under there done now, before the weather turns hot.
Thursday morning was a comedy of errors trying to get to Ms. SE's house and we will leave it at i am thankful we finally got Sweetie his coffee.
As for her house, it was a mess and we were thankful to be done with it in only 5 hours.
Kevin and Lenny came through again and by the hardest, GusGus Die Fledermaus passed inspection when i stopped on my way to the cat shelter Friday afternoon.
I was thankful for that and they allowed the inspection, i didn't know they usually shut that down at 3pm and i got there at ten after.
We had the wonderful problem of too many volunteers at the shelter Friday night. It was grand.
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:
Deep Blue Day -- the IBM computer defeats chess champion Gary Kasparov, the first such victory for a computer, in 1996
Feast of Saint Paul's Shipwreck -- Malta
Gold Record Day -- Glenn Miller is awarded the first ever Gold Record, for "Chattanoga Choo Choo", 1942
Losar/Loshar/Sonam Lhosar/Tamang New Year (Lunar New Year) -- Bhutan; Nepal; Tibet (this is Tibetan Year 2151, and it's dominant element is wood, and dominant animal is the dragon; note some years this is the same as the "Chinese New Year" and at other times, it's on a different date
Lunar New Year/Chinese New Year/Lhosar/Seol-Nal/Tet -- celebrations throughout Asia of the year of the Dragon, some before and some after this "official" Western date, some for up to a month; Confucian, Daoist, and Buddhist celebrations
National Cream Cheese Brownie Day
National Memorial Day of the Exiles and Foibe -- Italy, especially in Trieste
Plimsoll Day -- honoring Samuel Plimsoll, the "Sailor’s Friend," who persuaded Parliament to have a maximum load limit on ships.
Scout Sabbath -- BSA (Boy Scouts are encouraged to wear their uniforms to synagogue tonight or tomorrow morning and represent scouting to their congregations)
St. Scholastica's Day (Patron of children in convulsions, nuns; LeMans, France; against rain, storms)
Try to Invent a New Jell-O Flavor Day -- it can't hurt to try
Umbrella Day
Anniversaries Today:
Poland is symbolically married to the Baltic Sea by Jozef Haller de Hallenburg, celebrating the restitution of Polish access to the water, 1920
Tom Thumb marries Mercy Lavinia Warren, 1863
Queen Victoria marries her cousin Albert von Saxe-Coburg, 1840
Treaty of Paris ends the Seven Years' War (a/k/a French and Indian War), 1763
Academie Francaise forms in Paris (by Cardinal Richelieu), 1635
Birthdays Today:
Lance Berkman, 1976
Laura Dern, 1967
Glen Beck, 1964
Lenny Dykstra, 1963
Cliff Burton, 1962
George Stephanopoulos, 1961
Greg Norman, 1955
Jim Cramer, 1955
Mark Spitz, 1950
Donovan, 1946
Frances Moore Lappe, 1944
Roberta Flack, 1939
Robert Wagner, 1930
Leontyne Price, 1927
Lon Chaney, Jr., 1906
Bertolt Brecht, 1898
Frances Margaret "Dame Judith" Anderson, 1898
Jimmy Durante, 1893
William "Bill" Tilden, 1893
Boris Pasternak, 1890
Samuel Plimsoll, 1824
Charles Lamb, 1775
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"My Friend Flicka"(TV), 1956
"Death of a Salesman"(Play), 1949
"Puss Gets the Boot"(Cartoon, first Tom and Jerry short), 1940
"Icebound"(Pulitzer-winning Davis' Play), 1923
"All the News That's Fit to Print"(Slogan of the New York Times), 1897
"Les Contes d'Hoffman"(Offenbach Opera), 1881
"The Lily of Killarney"(Opera), 1862
Today in History:
St. Paul is shipwrecked on the island of Malta, 60
Crusaders defeat Prince Redwan of Aleppo at Antioch, 1098
The St. Scholastica's Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days, 1355
Wampanoag Indians under King Philip kill all the men in Lancaster, Massachusetts, 1676
Edmund Halley is appointed the second Astronomer Royal of England, 1720
The Treaty of Paris ends the French and Indian War, surrendering Canada to England, 1763
Simon Bolivar is named dictator by the Congress of Peru, 1824
The first US fire extinguisher patent granted to Alanson Crane of Virginia, 1863
The YWCA is founded in NYC, 1870
Nathaniel Carr Goodwin becomes the first actor to perform in two different cities on the same day, in Boston for a matinee, and then in NYC for and evening performance, 1887
Nearly 11,000,000 acres of land, ceded to the US government by the Sioux Indians, is opened for settlement, 1890
The New York Times begins using the slogan, "All the news that's fit to print," 1897
Japan and Russia declare war after Japan's surprise attack on Russian fleet at Port Arthur disabled 7 Russian warships, 1904
Britain's first modern and largest battleship "HMS Dreadnought" is launched, 1906
Baseball outlaws all pitches that involve tampering with the ball, 1920
New Delhi becomes the capital of India, 1931
The first singing telegram is delivered, by the Postal Telegram Company of NYC, 1933
Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel, 1962
Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee becoming the first African American to lead a major American political party, 1989
The IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov for the first time, 1996
The communication satellites Iridium 33 and Kosmos-2251 collide in orbit, destroying both, 2009
The Venezuelan government orders more than 100 malls to close early to save electricity, due to drought caused by El Niño, 2016
More than 30 bushfires are put out by the heaviest rainfall in 30 years in New South Wales, Australia, helping end one of the worst bushfire seasons ever, 2020
Astronomers confirm they've found the most distant planetoid in the solar system so far, four times further than planetoid Pluto, 2021
A World War II era bomb discovered in Great Yarmouth, England, detonates as a crew works to disarm it, causing no injuries, 2023
A week where everything ended well and great news about Becca!
ReplyDeletesounds to me that a lot of people need to be thankful for you!
ReplyDeleteWonderful news for Beccs. And good news that the car is doing so well.
ReplyDeleteYou always seem to have so much to be thankful for, it must be so satisfying.
ReplyDeleteSuch wonderful thankfuls and hooray for so many volunteers at the shelter!
ReplyDeleteWonderful thankful list. That is good news about Becca.
ReplyDeletewow! What a grand list of thankfuls ~ So happy about Becca ~ hugs,
ReplyDeleteWishing you good health, laughter and love in your days,
A ShutterBug Explores,
aka (A Creative Harbor)
I think you are blessed! (Although I will pass on the hairspray gunk, I would probably end up sneezing.) Good to hear GusGus did well. And too many volunteers! What a wonderful problem to have!!!
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I'm glad that you could find humor in the day that didn't go so smoothly, and glad you had lots of good things happen the rest of the week!
ReplyDeleteQR codes on a wedding invitation! Boy, do I feel old! Glad Gus Gus passed his inspection. I know a place locally where they will pass anything if it limps into their parking lot.
ReplyDeleteLulu: "It was Umbrella Day? Is that the day we celebrate the time the Umbrella Academy saved the world that one time? Or maybe that other time? Then there was that third time, but that one didn't go so well ..."
ReplyDeleteexcellent that Inspection Sticker win... kinda like one of modern life's reverse lottery ticket
ReplyDeleteQR codes! arrrgghhh (way to make be look like an even older lifeform!! just when I was getting good enough at modern life to handle bar code readers and sticking the correct of my credit card in the machine...lol)