And Everyone Got Fed, a Ten Things of Thankful Post

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I'm gliding in to Thankful Day this week at a bit slower of a pace than last week.  Not that things ever really get dull around here, and many days go like last Saturday did, lots of craziness.

First, it was the day before Father's Day, so time to order a huge amount of BBQ from a local joint for Grandpa's Father's Day gift.  He loves BBQ and does not light up  his own grill any longer, so we get him enough to share, and have a couple of meals and even more to freeze for later.

Grandma didn't want BBQ, she wanted another cheeseburger from her new favorite place.  Uncle J and Bryn were ordering from there two.

I'd just placed all the orders when Dre came, and he also wanted something, so a 3rd order.

The third order never arrived so we ordered it again and while the delivery service told us the re-order would be free, they charged us for it anyway.

By the time i'd done dealing with food, it was 2 1/2 hours from start to finish, fighting with my old, slow computer to place the orders, getting reorders, meeting the delivery people out front, dealing with the delivery service.

I'm just thankful everyone got fed!  Also, i did not lose my grits over it all and got a crazy story out of it.

Another thankful, Grandma had quite an appetite last Saturday and ate the whole cheeseburger, and those things are big, with a large brioche bun and the fixings.

Becca and i did well on Sunday, days are getting hot and our walks are getting a bit shorter, but Mr. Cal still got to play with two of his doggie buddies.

Ms. S and i spent a good bit of time laughing on Monday afternoon, it's a thankful thing when a client and i can spend extra time just enjoying each other's company.

On Tuesday it was a rare thing, a full and complete day off, no work, a nap, the works.  Those are very precious and i was thankful to enjoy every minute.

By Wednesday the cat shelter was open again in a limited fashion.  All the sick kitties were totally isolated, being given fluids 4x a day and plenty of meds and TLC, and not one of them was lost.  Kittens which might have been exposed were isolated for watching, and since all the adult cats are fully vaccinated, the chances of any of them coming down with this are slim to none.  I was thankful to be able to take care of the healthy kittens, the office cats, and 3 of the rooms before moving on to the next job.

Ms. G is looking very tired these days, i was thankful she had a doctor appointment.

#2 Son called with great news about His Bride.  She has gotten a job in her field, it is a remote job, the company is not even in Louisiana.  They are sending her a computer and all the equipment she will need!

They have also bought a doppler online so they can listen to the baby's heartbeat any time they want to.  How's that for thankful for technology, and for it getting cheaper as it advances.

By Friday afternoon there were adoptions and pre-adoptions going on at the shelter, and plenty of volunteers, although some of the cats are still being treated but all are getting better.  We had so much help with caretaking after everyone got fed, i ended up folding laundry!

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Today is:

Anti-Fascist Resistance Day -- Croatia

Bouphoria -- Ancient Greek Calendar (sacrifice of an ox to symbolize social order dissolving and being restored; date approximate)

Dairy Queen Day -- the first Dairy Queen® opened this day in 1940 in Joliet, Illinois

Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Great Patriotic War -- Belarus

Festival of 1 Lithe -- Hobbit Calendar

Midsummer's Day -- Aland; Finland; Sweden (obs.)

National Chocolate Eclair Day

National Onion Rings Day

Pixie Day -- Ottery St. Mary, Devon, England (reenacting of the "Revenge" of the Pixies who bothered the town until midsummer in 1454; now fun, games, music, pageant, and more)     

Soap Microphone Day -- grab your soap in the shower and pretend you are on stage! (promise i won't tell)

Solennität -- Morat, Switzerland (on Morat Commemoration Day, a Youth festival remembering the pivotal role this tiny town played in winning a battle in 1476)

St. Nicetas' Day (Patron of Romania)

St. Thomas More's Day (Patron of adopted children, civil servants, difficult marriages, large families, lawyers, politicians/politicos/statesmen, step-parents, widowers; Arlington, VA; Ateneo de Manila Law School; Pensacola-Tallahassee, FL; University of Malta; University of Santo Tomas Faculty of Arts and Letters)

Stupid Guy Thing Day -- included under protest; "guy things" aren't necessarily stupid, it should just be Guy Thing Day; sponsored by Wellcat Holidays, who want all women to just not count anything against guys today, but chalk it up to being a Stupid Guy Thing

Teacher's Day -- El Salvador

Anniversary Today:

Harry Houdini marries Wilhelmina Beatrice "Bess" Rahner, 1894

Birthdays Today:

Eric Stretch, 1980

Donald Faison, 1974

Carson Daly, 1973

Mary Lynn Rajskub, 1971

Kurt Warner, 1971

Amy Brennenman, 1964

Dan Brown, 1964

Randy Couture, 1963

Tracy Pollan, 1960

Freddie Prinze, 1954

Cyndi Lauper, 1953

Todd Rundgren, 1948

Meryl Streep, 1949

Lindsay Wagner, 1949

Pete Maravich, 1947

Klaus Maria Brandauer, 1944

Ed Bradley, 1941

Michael Lerner, 1941

Kris Kristofferson, 1936

William Ralph "Bill" Blass, 1922

Joseph Papp, 1921

Billy Wilder, 1906

Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1906

John Dillinger, 1903

Captain George Vancouver, 1757

Debuting/Premiering Today:

The Rescuers(Animated film), 1977

Lady and the Tramp(Animated film), 1955

Today in History:

Ptolemy IV of Egypt defeats Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid kingdom, BC217

Bilbo Baggins returns to his home at Bag End, (Shire Reconning), 1342

The Jewish quarter of Prague is burned and looted, 1559

Galileo Galilei is forced by Inquisition to "abjure, curse, & detest" his Copernican heliocentric views, 1633

A poisonous cloud from Laki volcanic eruption in Iceland reaches Le Havre in France, 1783

The British Parliament abolishes feudalism and the seigneurial system in British North America, 1825

Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee procession in London, 1897

The Flag of Sweden is adopted, 1906

The Flag of the Faroe Islands is raised for the first time, 1919

Erwin Rommel is promoted to Field Marshal after the capture of Tobruk, 1942

The Cuyahoga River catches fire, which triggers a crack-down on pollution in the river, 1969

The Canadian House of Commons abolishes capital punishment, 1976

Charon, a satellite of the dwarf planet Pluto, is discovered, 1978

The largest hailstone ever recorded falls in Aurora, Nebraska (7inch diameter, 18.75 inch circumference), 2003

Eastman Kodak Company announces that it will discontinue sales of the Kodachrome Color Film, concluding its 74-year run as a photography icon, 2009

UNESCO officially names Mount Fuji a World Heritage Site, 2013

An article in the Journal of the American Medical Association's Internal Medicine Journal claims that obese Americans now outnumber those who are merely overweight, 2015

Eurozone countries agree to a debt relief deal for Greece, signaling end to the country's economic crisis, 2018

The Russian volcano Raikoke erupts for the first time in 95 years from its 700m-wide-crater; the eruption is seen from International Space Station, 2019

The Japanese supercomputer Fugaken produced by the Riken Institute is declared the world's fastest and most powerful, 2020

Unesco proposes Australia's Great Barrier Reef be put on the list of World Heritage Sites that are "in danger", 2021

Scientists note the first recognized use of a medicinal plant by an animal when a Sumatran orangutan male is seen treating a cheek wound with a poultice made of leaves, 2022