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It's finally Thankful Day, that's a thankful thing.
Ms. JAI didn't answer me for over a day last week, so i went into worry mode and started calling. We finally talked and i went over there on Monday. Thankfully all is well and her grandson and great grandson are with her this weekend, hooray!
All 3 of the services at our church each weekend are generally full, but at Easter, it's standing room only as family and friends from out of town come along. I was thankful to see several of our college students in town for the break taking time to come to church with the family.
Our ladies' meeting Tuesday was excellent, as was our final Lent group meeting Sunday evening. It's a joy and a big thankful thing to have such encouragement beyond the Sunday morning services.
I received an unexpected text message one evening saying #1 Son was using me as a reference to rent a moving truck. Since i know he's not moving, i tried to call him and confirm but couldn't reach him before they called me and mentioned the name of someone I've never heard of who was doing the renting.
Thinking it was a scam, i kept trying to get in touch with him and said I'd call the moving company back. He finally answered, i called them back and he was able to help a friend complete here move.
I'm thankful it wasn't someone trying to steal his identity and the moving truck, and get him blamed, these days you can't be too careful.
Sweetie has been wanting to replace some of the movie discs he's had which have been borrowed and not returned over the years. He finally went and got the most inexpensive DVD and Blu Ray combo player he could find so he could play all the discs he has and got a couple of replacements.
We're thankful to #2 Son for setting it up for him as he'd bought the wrong adapter cord.
I'm thankful not to be hearing him mourn the loss of those discs any longer!
The other thing he's been wanting is some kind of cabinet for something he needs to store. I'm thankful Ms. G had a spare and i was able to get it on the back seat of my car and get it home for him.
Ms. SE and the whole crew were out of town, so Sweetie and i had the whole house to ourselves to clean it on Thursday. We love that family to the moon and back, and their dogs, too, but it is much easier to clean when they aren't underfoot and i'm not stopping to tend dogs every hour.
The cat shelter is doing great. There are adoptions, including Agave, a very spicy cat we thought would have a permanent home with us. We're all thankful for extra volunteers, vet school students coming in and getting time in examining cats, and plenty of kitty snuggles to go around.
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:
Animated Cartoon Day -- date of release, in 1908, of Humorous Phases of Funny Faces, often considered the first actual animated cartoon
Army Day -- US (by proclamation of FDR in 1942)
California Poppy Day -- California, US (state flower)
Chakri Dynasty Day and King Rama I Memorial Day -- Thailand
Drowsy Driver Awareness Day -- please pull over and take a nap when you need to
Every Day is Tag Day™ -- make sure your pet has an up to date tag or microchip, just in case!
International Day of Sport for Development and Peace -- UN (on the anniversary of the date of the opening of the first modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896)
International Pillow Fight Day -- yes, really (organizers used to have huge fights set in large cities, since Covid ended that, have a fight at your own house and join the fun!)
Jump Over Things Day -- probably started by the same people who brought us Walk Around Things Day on the 4th; as if friends and family aren't looking at you strangely enough after that one
Lailat al Kadr (Lailat al Qadr) -- Islam (Night of Destiny; began at sundown yesterday, through sundown tonight, although local observances may vary and governmental days off vary from country to country)
National Caramel Popcorn Day
National Student Athlete Day -- US
New Beer's Eve -- US (unofficial celebration of the end of Prohibition; beer became legal to sell again on tomorrow's date in 1933)
North Pole Day -- Peary and Co. arrived there this day in 1909
Plan Your Epitaph Day -- figure out how you want to be remembered, and then live that way! (some sites celebrate this on Nov. 1)
President Ntaryamira Day -- Burundi (anniversary of assassination)
St. Sixtus' Day (Patron of Alatri, Italy)
Tangible Karma™ Day -- set aside an hour today to become purposefully aware of the needs of someone around you, and to fulfill that need; because giving feels as good as receiving
Tartan Day -- Scottish diaspora of Canada and the US (anniversary of the Declaration of Arbroath in 1320)
Teflon Day -- Polytetraflouroethylene resin was developed by Roy J. Plunkett while working for E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company in 1938
Think About Spring Cleaning Day -- don't do it, just think about it
Twinkie Day -- the snack cakes that will never go away were invented on this day in 1930
Birthdays Today:
Candace Cameron, 1976
Zach Braff, 1975
Ari Meyers, 1969
Paul Rudd, 1969
Marilu Henner, 1952
John Razenberger, 1947
Barry Levinson, 1942
Philip Austin, 1941
Roy Thinnes, 1938
Merle Haggard, 1937
Billy Dee Williams, 1937
Andre Previn, 1929
James Watson, 1928
Gerry Mulligan, 1927
Lowell Thomas, 1892
Rose Schneiderman, 1882
Butch Cassidy, 1866
René Lalique, 1860
Raphael, 1483
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Barney & Friends"(TV), 1992
Post-It Notes(first day of sale), 1980
"Entertaining Mr. Sloane"(Play), 1964
"Little Orphan Annie"(Radio series), 1931
"La Double Inconstance / Double Inconsistancy"(Play), 1723
Today in History:
Julius Caesar defeats Caecilius Metellus Scipio and Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the Younger) in the battle of Thapsus, BC46
The Roman army under the command of Stilicho stymies the Visigoths under Alaric in the Battle of Pollentia, 402
Charlemagne confirms his father Pepin the Short's "Donation of Pepin," which had established the Papal States, 774
King Richard I, The Lionheart, of England dies from an infection following the removal of an arrow from his shoulder, 1199
The Scots reaffirm their independence by signing the Declaration of Arbroath, 1320
The Italian poet Petrarch first sees his beloved Laura, 1327
At the Cape of Good Hope, Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp that eventually becomes Cape Town , 1652
An earthquake devastates Dubrovnik, then an independent city-state, 1667
Peter the Great of Russia ends the tax on men with beards in that country, 1722
Rama I succeeds King Taksin of Siam (modern day Thailand), who is overthrown in a coup d'état, 1782
The Committee of Public Safety becomes the executive organ of the republic in France, and the period known as the Reign of Terror begins, 1793
John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company, 1808
Celluloid, the first plastic, is patented, 1869
The city of Vancouver, BC, is incorporated, 1886
The Mormon Temple in Salt Lake City is dedicated, 1893
In Athens, the first modern Olympic Games are opened, 1,500 years after being banned by Emperor Theodosius I; James Connoly of the US becomes the first gold medalist of the modern games, 1896
The Kishinev pogrom forces thousands of Jews to seek refuge in Israel and the West, 1903
Robert Peary and Matthew Henson allegedly reach the North Pole, 1909
Governor Huey P. Long is impeached by the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1929
Mohandas Gandhi raises a lump of mud and salt and declares, "With this, I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire." Thus he starts the Salt Satyagraha, 1930
Launch of Early Bird, the first communications satellite to be placed in geosynchronous orbit, 1965
The American League of Major League Baseball begins using the designated hitter, 1973
Pakistan tests medium-range missiles capable of reaching India, 1998
Rolandas Paksas becomes the first president of Lithuania to be peacefully removed from office by impeachment, 2004
Scientists announce the discovery of three new animal species that spend their entire lives without oxygen, 2010
In England, lawmakers ban the display of tobacco products, hoping the move will lead to a reduction in the number of youths who smoke, 2012
The first baby with DNA from 3 parents through mitochondrial transfer is born in Mexico, 2016
NASA's InSight lander detects its first ever "Marsquake," a seismic event on Mars, 2019
Nadia, a tiger at the Bronx Zoo in New York City, tests positive for Covid19, the first known case of human-to-cat transmission, 2020
Scientists claim to have found the fossil of a dinosaur killed on the actual day the giant asteroid which wiped them out struck, 66 million years ago, 2022
Yay, this sounds like a great week with no major mishaps or diasters. I always love to hear of your week.
ReplyDeleteI am echoing Charlotte (MotherOwl) and v glad that no-one was trying to steal your son's identity.
ReplyDeleteNice that the hubby can watch his dvds now. And you found him a cabinet! Sounds like his thankful day, lol.
ReplyDeleteI'm most thankful that it has stopped raining and snowing this morn and I am actually looking at the sun rising!
Those are all wonderful thankfuls and it's great that your shelter is on the Vet student rotation schedule!
ReplyDeleteGlad it wasn't a scam, but also glad you had your radar up! You really can't be too careful nowadays.
ReplyDeleteThat is a wonderful list of thankfuls.
ReplyDeleteAdd me to the list of people glad that your son wasn't a scam victim.
ReplyDelete"borrowed and never returned" is why I no longer lend out dvds or books, though I have given away several books that I know I won't read again.
What a great Thankful post, they sure are all something to be grateful to🙏Double Pawkisses for a Happy Sunday to all of you🐾😽💞
ReplyDeleteWe, too, would have suspected a scam. Glad to see it wasn't.
ReplyDeleteAwesome thank ful list ~ great that you will have Vet students there at the shelter ~ hugs,
ReplyDeleteWishing you good health, laughter and love in your days,
A ShutterBug Explores,
aka (A Creative Harbor)
Yes, while family is good, cleaning with them underfoot can be a challenge, at best. Ooh, and California poppies, those are one of my favorite flowers to grow, they add a little zing to the garden!
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nice, semi-eventful TToT list, the kind we like*
ReplyDeleteHave a good week ahead!
*not too busy or overly-uneventful easy does it is the ideal pace for the race
You do have to be extra careful with unknown texts and calls because you just don't know these days if it's legit or not. I'm glad everything worked out. :)
ReplyDeleteJava Bean: "Ayyy, so other dogs get underfoot too, not just me? And here I thought I had some kind of special talent ..."
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