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On this Thankful Day, my first thankful is you are still visiting this blog after many of you got a warning my blog had "graphic content."
Please be assured the only way that's going to happen is if someone hijacks it (heaven forbid).
I'm further behind than ever on reading, too, but thankful i'm not giving up and i hope you won't give up on me, either.
Last Saturday i arrived at Grandma and Grandpa's house to find Grandpa had put all his 5 gallon metal gas cans in the trunk of his car and he was planning to go fill them by himself.
Thankfully, when i told him he could not do it by himself and i was going with him to help, he acquiesced. Second thankful, he allowed one of the cousins to help him offload them.
It was a long weekend so Mr. BA and Ms. GA went out of town. I'm thankful for the extra income. Also, their cat Abigail has had difficulty with using the boxes, i was thankful to be able to bring newspaper and put it down and it helped with the clean-up.
I'm also thankful i held up Monday, when i took care of the cats, went to Carl's, Ms. D's, and Ms. JAI's, and went back to take care of the cats. It made for a long day.
Tuesday, i was thankful to get to stay home after cat care and errands, and thankful one of those errands was to get more insulin for Dansig the Round.
At Ms. G's, i've already noted the under-the-sink leak i found and we are both thankful i found it when i did. We're also thankful she had a whole roll of paper towels up under that sink and it had absorbed a lot, or the water might have spread even further.
Then Thursday Ms. JAI had a minor disaster. She found her Tide detergent bottle had leaked and there was a pool of Tide under her washer.
I'm thankful when Sweetie and i were done with Ms. SE's house, he came with me and moved the washer. I'm thankful he found her grabber thing and i was able to get behind the washer without unhooking it and get the area cleaned.
Friday at the shelter was a fabulous day, there were adoptions galore this week and all seems to be going well.
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:
Arrival of the Swiss at the Port-Noir -- Switzerland
Dia da Crianca -- Cape Verde (Youth Day)
Dia de la Marina -- Mexico (Day of the Navy)
Drawing Day/Pencil Day -- used to be sponsored on the first Saturday with the motto "Drop Everything and Draw", but even though no longer promoted by any specific group, you can still enjoy some time drawing today
Early Bird Day -- an internet derived day that reminds us the early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese
Famadihana -- Madagascar (from now until November, various areas celebrate the Malagasay culture's "turning the bones," a fascinating reburial of the dead ceremony)
Feast of St. Justin Martyr (a/k/a Justin the Philosopher; Patron of apologists, lecturers, orators, philosophers, speakers)
Festival of Non-Linearity -- another one you find on the internet, no meaning or rhyme to it, but if you like to think in non-linear ways, enjoy today!
Festival of the Oak Nymph -- Celtic/Pagan (around this time of year, the Celts took a day to honor all hamadryads, the female nature spirits who inhabit oak trees)
Flip a Coin Day -- as noted by The Ultimate Holiday Site, which claims Julius Caesar invented it (doubtful, but the Romans did toss coins)
Gawai Dayak -- Sarawak, Malaysia (harvest festival begins today)
Global Day of Parents -- UN
Go Barefoot Day -- originally sponsored by Soles4Soulsoles4Souls, which recycles shoes to those who have none; while i cannot find if they are sponsoring a day or week this year, it's a good reminder not to let your old shoes end up in a landfill
Great American Campout MonthGreat American Campout Month -- sponsored by the National Wildlife Federation, and remember that Happy Campers Protect Wildlife
Hari Lahir Pancasila -- Indonesia (Pancasila Day)
Heimlich Maneuver Day -- Dr. Heimlich first published his suggestion for aiding choking victims with "subdiaphragmatic pressure" on this day in 1974
Helen Keller Day -- sponsored by the Lions Clubs
Independence Day/National Day -- Samoa
International Children's Day
International Tabletop Day -- encouraging people to play games on a table, not online, face to face; formerly sponsored by Geek and SundryGeek and Sundry
Kalends of June -- Ancient Roman Calendar; related observances:
Day Sacred to Tempestas (goddess of storms)
Festival for Juno Moneta (Juno as goddess of money)
Festival of Carna (goddess of health and vitality, and also of doors and locks, which were to be repaired today)
Madaraka Day -- Kenya (National Day or self-rule/responsibility day)
Mint Julip Day -- Oxford University, England (the drink was introduced there this day in 1845, and they liked it so well, they dedicated a day to it!)
Mothers' and Children's Day -- Mongolia
National Family Recreation Day -- US (seems to have been started by the community of Arvada, CO, US, wanting families to enjoy the great outdoors together)
National Hazelnut Cake Day
National Health and Fitness DayNational Health and Fitness Day -- Canada
National Trails Day -- US (be safe out there, if you want help becoming a hiker there's info from the American Hiking Society)
National Tree Planting Day -- Cambodia
Oscar the Grouch Day -- according to the Sesame Workshop, today is his birthday
Pancasila Sanctity Day -- Indonesia
President's Day -- Palau
Say Something Nice Day -- as declared by the mayor of a town in South Carolina who is tired of all the negative talk all the time
Stand for Children Day -- stand.org founded by a rally this day in 1996, seeking to ensure all children graduate from high school
St. Theobald Roggeri's Day (Patron of church cleaners, cobblers, porters, shoemakers; against fever and sterility)
Summer Library Book club Season begins -- anywhere that school is out, check your local library for a summer book club for children or adults; you never know what world you will discover when you read
Superman Day -- publication of the first Superman comic was this day in 1938
Victory Day -- Tunisia (anniversary of the Adoption of the Constitution of Tunisia in 1959)
Yobuko Otsunahiki -- Higashi Matsuura, Saga prefecture, Japan (two day Big Tug-of-War Festival, with one team representing the land and the other the sea; victory for the land means good crops, for the sea means good catches)
Anniversaries Today:
Charlie Chaplin marries Paulette Goddard, 1934
Ohio University, in Athens, Ohio, is founded as the first US land-grant university, 1808
Tennessee becomes the 16th US state, 1796
Kentucky becomes the 15th US state, 1792
Anne Boleyn is crowned Queen Consort of England, 1533
Birthdays Today:
Justine Henin, 1982
Alanis Morissette, 1974
Heidi Klum, 1973
Mark Curry, 1964
Lisa Hartman Black, 1956
Ron Wood, 1947
Jonathan Pryce, 1947
Frederica von Stade, 1945
Robert Powell, 1944
Rene Auberjonois, 1940
Cleavon Little, 1939
Morgan Freeman, 1937
Colleen McCullough, 1937
Pat Boone, 1934
Edward Woodward, 1930
James Hadley Billington, 1929
Bob Monkhouse, 1928
Andy Griffith, 1926
Marilyn Monroe, 1926
Nelson Riddle, 1921
Brigham Young, 1801
Jacques Marquette (Père Marquette), 1637
Debuting/Premiering Today:
FX(TV channel), 1994
Gremlins(Film), 1984
Cable News Network/CNN(TV network), 1980
"Live and Let Die"(Song release), 1973
"The Prisoner"(TV), 1968
"Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"(Album release), 1967
Today in History:
Hugh Capet is elected King of France, 987
Beijing, then under the control of the Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong of Jin, is captured by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, ending the Battle of Beijing, 1215
Friar John Cor records the first known batch of scotch whisky, 1495
Anne Boleyn is crowned Queen of England, 1533
Mary Dyer is hanged for defying a law banning Quakers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1660
The battle of the Glorious First of June is fought, the first naval engagement between Britain and France during the French Revolutionary Wars, 1794
U.S. President James Madison asks the Congress to declare war on the United Kingdom, 1812
James Lawrence, the mortally-wounded commander of the USS Chesapeake, gives his final order: "Don't give up the ship!" 1813
James Clark Ross discovers the North Magnetic Pole, 1831
American adventurer William Walker conquers Nicaragua, 1855
Treaty of Bosque Redondo is signed allowing the Navajos to return to their lands in Arizona and New Mexico, 1868
Thomas Edison receives a patent for his electric voting machine, 1869
Napoleon Eugene, the last dynastic Bonaparte, is killed in the Anglo-Zulu War, 1879
The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine to count census returns, 1890
Louis D. Brandeis becomes the first Jew appointed to the United States Supreme Court, 1916
The First Conference of the Communist Parties of Latin America is held in Buenos Aires, 1929
Charles de Gaulle comes out of retirement to lead France by decree for six months, 1958
New Zealand's first official television broadcast commences at 7.30pm from Auckland, 1960
Kenya gains internal self-rule (Madaraka Day), 1963
The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims is published in the journal Emergency Medicine, 1974
The first black-led government of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 90 years takes power, 1979
The Warsaw Pact officially dissolves, 1991
Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines erupts for the first time in 600 years, 1991
Air France Flight 447 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil, Killing all 228 passengers and crew, 2009
General Motors files for chapter 11 bankruptcy, 2009
Russia enacts a country-wide smoking ban, effecting most public places, 2013
Switzerland’s Gotthard Base Tunnel is completed - world’s longest at 57km and most expensive tunnel costing €11bn, 2016
Prehistoric carvings of deer, between 4,000 and 5,000 years old, are found at Kilmartin Glen, Argyll, Scotland, 2021
US Coast Guard Admiral Linda Fagan assumes the post of Commandant, becoming the first female commander of US military branch, 2022
I'm thankful the warning is a hoax so I can still visit, I knew you wouldn't put anything like that here. Thankful too for all the kitten adoptions.
ReplyDeleteThat warning I just put up to Blogger's crazyness, maybe their AI mistaking cats fighting for something else. As your comments are also as often as not put into spam prison on my blog, I hold Blogger's discernment in very low esteem for the moment.
ReplyDeleteThis was a grand list of thankfuls, paper towels sure can absorb a lot of water.
Lots of things to be thankful for - and I was unsurprised to find no 'adult' content despite the warning.
ReplyDeleteA lucky find on the water leak one house and the goopy laundry soap another. More mess on the soap than the water I bet. Yes I saw that warning yesterday and simple proceeded ahead to you most "dangerous" site, lol.
ReplyDeleteI had that warning, but I figured it was an error. I knew you would not have anything bad. Great thankfuls. I put puppy pads under the litterboxes to catch those mistakes. XO
ReplyDeleteThat hoax was a bit scary. My first blog was hijacked by porn bandits and I deleted everything. Those were good thankful and hooray for kitty adoptions!
ReplyDeleteYou always have so much to be thankful for!
ReplyDeleteWonderful series of thankfuls and you are so aware of what to be grateful for too ~ hugs,
ReplyDeleteWishing you good health, laughter and love in your days,
A ShutterBug Explores,
aka (A Creative Harbor)
Java Bean: "Ayyy, our Dada says tide pools are very interesting and pretty, but only when they are along the ocean shore, not when they are under the sink!"
ReplyDeleteWow! What a busy week! Hope you get a chance to put your feet up.
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