Visits, Repairs, and Birthdays, a Ten Thinks of Thankful Post

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There are plenty of things for the Thankful Day list this week and one of my favorites was something I saw Grandpa doing last week.

He sat me down at his computer to show me something and i noticed his mousepad is set to left-handed so he doesn't have to keep reaching for the far side of the pad.  I usually set a computer mouse to left-handed because i got used to doing it that way for the children (i have four lefties).  Now my computer, which sits to my left, has the mousepad set that way so when i'm crossing over to hit it, i'm not having to reach for that far side either.  A simple change but it makes things so much easier and i'm thankful.

Becca came to rEcess last Friday, her parents went out Saturday night and i went to sit with her, and then i got to take her to church as usual on Sunday.  Trifecta weekend!

Ms. JAI is no longer having sitters with her 24/7, which has her thrilled and me worried as she is still a huge fall risk.  I'm thankful she has been answering my good night texts checking up on her.  She knows if she doesn't answer after two nights, i'm gonna bust the door down if i have to in order to check on her.

Ms. V and i had a great time on Tuesday going to the Ladies' Circle meeting.  It was a small turnout, only six of us, but we resisted the urge to just sit around the table and snack and directed ourselves to the book discussion, which was lively and we were thankful as we enjoyed it very much.

(At least one person will ask, so i'll answer now.  We are discussing J.I. Packer's Praying the Lord's Prayer, and we were on the chapters about Deliver Us and From Evil.  A lively discussion of the nature of evil and the Evil One was entered into by all.)

#1 Son needed some work on his car.  I'm thankful Sweetie got him to work the morning he dropped it off and we both finished work Thursday just in time to pick him up and take him to get the car and go to work an evening shift.

I'm also thankful my Thursday client's husband texted me that evening to thank us for the work we do.  Mom and dad both have demanding jobs and with two kids at two different schools and in sports and other after school fun, well, it's hard and it makes me both thankful we can help them by cleaning the house twice a month and thankful all my kids are past that stage.

Ms. G only wanted two bags of bird seed, one case of soda, one case of sparkling water and one flat of litter, and i'm thankful, it was a lot less lifting than usual.

Red-headed Alec came to visit, quite out of the blue (he doesn't live in town any more) and i was so thankful to see him.

The cat shelter is quiet, and we are resting up for kitten season and thankful for the respite.  We're also thankful the two cats brought in on an emergency basis Friday evening were feline leukemia and FIV negative.  (The elderly man who lived in a trailer and tamed them and got them to be friendly just died this week, an no one else in the trailer court can take them.  They're sweet and will be put up for adoption soon.)

Best of all, yesterday was #2 Son's birthday!  I'm thankful for him, for His Bride, and thankful he got to spend the day out in the swamp catching snakes, or as he likes to put it, making new friends!

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Today is:

Armored Warships Day -- the first battle between armored warships, the Monitor and the Merrimac, was this day in 1862

Baron Bliss Day -- Belize

Celebrate Your Name Week -- Saturday:  Geneology Day, begin or continue the journey to learn about your family

Daylight Saving Time begins tomorrow -- Bermuda; Canada (most regions); Cuba; Greenland (Thule Air Base only) Haiti; Mexico (some areas); Saint Pierre and Miquelon; The Bahamas; Turks and Caicos Islands; US (most areas)

Day to Mourn Slavery -- commemorates the day slavery was outlawed worldwide in 1927, and to mourn that it still exists

Eid Al Moalim -- Lebanon (Teacher's Day)

Get Over It Day™ -- halfway between Valentines and April Fools, a day to just get over something or someone that is bugging you 

International Fanny Pack Day -- started by someone who really likes the things (although i do admit they come in handy for keeping your money with you at all times when you have a garage sale)

National Crabmeat Day

National Meatball Day

Panic Day -- a day in which to run around in a panic and tell everyone you can't take it any more, to get it all out of your system, i guess; sponsored by Wellcat Holidays

Saitousai -- Kashima-shi, Ibaraki-ken, Japan (festival to pray for good harvest that dates back to the Nara period of 710-794, and still includes traditional dress)

St. Catherine of Bologna's Day (Patron of art, artists, Bologna Academy of Art, liberal arts, painters; against temptation)

St. Dominic Savio's Day (Patron of boys, children's choirs, choir boys, choirs, falsely accused people, juvenile delinquents, and Pueri Cantores)

St. Frances of Rome's Day (Patron of automobile drivers/motorists, cabbies/taxi drivers, lay people, people ridiculed for their piety, Roman housewives, widows)

Strinennia -- Slavic Pagan Calendar (festival to call birds and spring to come back)

Takaosan Hiwatari Matsuri -- Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan  (fire walking festival, usually on this date but can vary)

Anniversaries Today:

Napoléon Bonaparte marries his first wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais, 1796

Gustav Mahler marries Alma Schindler, 1902

Birthdays Today:

Emmanuel Lewis, 1971

Juliette Binoche, 1964

Terence John "Terry" Mulholland, 1963

Linda Fiorentino, 1960

Jeffrey Osborne, 1948

David Hume Kennerly, 1947

Bobby Fischer, 1943

Trish Van Devere, 1943

Raul Julia, 1940

Marty Ingels, 1936

Mickey Gilley, 1936

Joyce Van Patten, 1934

Yuri Gagarin, 1934

Keely Smith, 1932

Ornette Coleman, 1930

Wally Bronner, 1927

Irene Papas, 1926

Mickey Spillane, 1918

Samuel Barber, 1910

Will Greer, 1902

Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, 1890

Amerigo Vespucci, 1454

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"Family"(TV), 1976

"Rising of the Moon"(Play), 1907

"Hamlet"(Opera), 1868

"Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor/The Merry Wives of Windsor"(Opera), 1849 

"Ernani"(Opera), 1844

"Nabucco"(Opera), 1842

"Horace"(Play), 1640

Today in History:

Liu Che, posthumously known as Emperor Wu of Han, assumes the throne over the Han Dynasty of China, BC141

First known mention of Lithuania, in the annals of the monastery of Quedlinburg, 1009

Jews are expelled from Carintha Austria, 1496

Nicolaus Copernicus makes his first recorded astronomical observation, 1497

Marten Luther preaches his first Invocavit sermon, 1522

Kissing in public is banned in Naples, punishable by death, 1562

Publication of the economics book The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, 1776

Prussian government limits work week for children to 51 hours, 1839

The Amistad Ruling:  The US Supreme Court rules that captive Africans who had seized control of the ship carrying them had been taken into slavery illegally, and were to be set free, 1841

The first documented discovery of gold in California occurred at Rancho San Francisco, six years before the California Gold Rush, 1842

Albert Potts of Philadelphia patents the street mailbox, 1858

The Westmoreland County Coal Strike, involving 15,000 coal miners 

represented by the United Mine Workers, begins, 1910

Pancho Villa leads nearly 500 Mexican raiders in an attack against Columbus, New Mexico, 1916

Pink's War: The first Royal Air Force operation conducted independently of the British Army or Royal Navy begins, 1925

President Franklin D. Roosevelt submits the Emergency Banking Act to the Congress, the first of his New Deal policies, 1932

CBS television broadcasts the See It Now episode, "A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy", produced by Fred Friendly, in which Edward R. Murrow criticizes the senator, 1954

The Barbie doll makes its debut at the American International Toy Fair in New York, 1959

Dr. Antonia Novello is sworn in as Surgeon General of the United States, becoming the first female and Hispanic American to serve in that position, 1990

Observers in China, Mongolia and eastern Siberia are treated to a rare double feature as an eclipse permits Comet Hale-Bopp to be seen during the day, 1997

Space Shuttle Discovery makes its final landing after 39 flights, 2011

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) spacecraft transmits images that for the very first time, allow scientists to create a 3D reconstruction of ancient water channels below the surface of Mars, 2013

Asteroid 2013 ET comes within 960,000 km from the Earth’s surface, 2013

Italy announces it is locking down the whole country due to a spike in Covid19 cases, 2020

China and Russia announce plans to collaborate in building a research station on the Moon, 2021

Notebooks and sketches by naturalist Charles Darwin are mysteriously returned to the Cambridge University Library from which they were stolen 22 years earlier, 2023

The Recording Industry Association of America publishes it's annual report for 2022, noting vinyl album sales topped CD sales for the first time since 1983, 2023