Finally Thankful Day, a Ten Things of Thankful A to Z Post

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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.

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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