Each Week Has Plenty, a Ten Things of Thankful Post

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Every week has plenty to list for Thankful Day, and this week was no exception.

Coming home on the freeways around here carries the need to be ready for just about anything, and last Saturday there were "monsoon" storms, huge downpours in both NOLA and near where we live north of there.  Driving, i was thankful to actually run into very little of it, and as a bonus, i was able to dive off the highway at the last second when i realized there had been a major accident and roadway tie up.

This meant going the long way around, with trees down and dodging debris, but thankfully i made it through before the traffic signals all failed, as that usually means hours of delays.

Also, i'm thankful i was able to kick debris out of the road in our neighborhood and get through more quickly.

The last Sunday of July, i set down my prayer book at church and by the time i remembered, someone had picked it up.  I'm thankful it showed up in the lost and found and i got it back the first Sunday of August. 

(We all know what happened.  The person who found it meant to put it in the lost and found "right after the service" and accidentally went home with it, so i'm especially thankful it was brought back, because we all tend to walk out without the one thing we "meant" to take with us, don't we.)

Monday morning, i forgot to bring something with me to Carl's place.  I had a nagging feeling i needed to go home for it, so i did and i am delightedly thankful about it.  Sweetie has some ringing in his ears (tinnitus) and can't hear water dripping, and the sink in the bathroom drips if you aren't careful.

I arrived home just before the sink was about to overflow, which can cause a big problem.  Later that day, i heard the water in the other bathroom running and got it turned off just before it overflowed (yes, we have slow drains, no, we can't do much about it).  Brother-in-Law and Sweetie have now seen first hand why they need to turn off the sinks, another thankful, as there's nothing quite like an actual near demonstration.

Because i took care of Ms. D's house the Friday before, i was able to go see Ms. JAI early on Monday.  We were thankful to get plenty done, including her sending me to the bank to cash a check for her.  I was thankful in spite of the traffic that particular day, i took back roads and made rather short work of it.

The mini-monsoon Saturday had also gifted us with a problem.  The wire which brings internet into our house was still attached, still working, but hanging dangerously low in our back yard.  Time to call our ISP and try to get a technician out.

I was thankful to have nothing scheduled for Tuesday, and after a while, i actually got a call back and got a person on the phone.  She understood the problem and transferred me to the department which handles such things, which promptly hung up on me.

Thankfully, i thought to redial the number which had called me, got a person within one minute, and was able to schedule a technician for Wednesday.

Ms. G was still worried about Covid, still having symptoms and still testing positive, and cancelled again.

While at the shelter that same morning she told me her decision, surprise, surprise, a box which at first looked like a box full of donations left at the door of the shelter actually had a kitten in it!  We were thankful the little guy didn't jump out of the open box and run off.

After the shelter, i was thankful to be able to run all my Friday errands early (groceries and pharmacy) and got home just in time, thankfully, to warn Mike-Next-Door not to run over the low-hanging wire with the lawn mower, or get himself hung up in it.

Later that day, i'm thankful the nice technician came over and got the wire tucked back up into its rightful place.

Everyone at Ms. SE and Mr. DE's place is back at work or school after the summer break.  We were thankful to get in, get the work done, take the dogs out often enough to not have any accidents, and get home rather early for a Thursday.

The evening shift at the shelter again on Friday was eventful.  We were thankful for adoptions, people looking, and training a new matchmaker (person who helps visitors find which cat/kitten they'd like to adopt).  I was also thankful for my limited knowledge of Spanish, as a father with limited English and his son came in to adopt and i was able to work with them, along with another volunteer.  They will adopt, we hope today, when mom can come back with them, too.  After all, we're thankful when everyone in the family gets to meet the new family member and agree, it means fewer cats being returned for not being a good fit.

Please write up your own list and link up with the Ten Things of Thankful, now being hosted by Clark and his cohosts.  There's always a warm welcome waiting.

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Today is:

Banana Split Day

Celebrate Your Lakes Day -- originally a senate resolution in the US state of New Hampshire to celebrate local lakes and ponds, now more widely observed; go enjoy some recreation at a pond, lake, or even river or stream near you!

Chemistry Set Volcano Day -- beat summer boredom, make a chemistry set volcano!

Dejada de Santo Domingo de Guzeman -- Managua, Nicaragua

Feast of San Lorenzo -- San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain

Horse Racing Festival -- Nagchu, Tibet (through the 16th)

Independence Day / National Day -- Ecuador(1822)

Lazy Day -- internet generated, since it's so hot, though, make it a lazy day!

National Duran Duran Appreciation Day -- anniversary of the 1985 near fatal accident of lead singer Simon Le Bon, when his yacht capsized during a race; the band acknowledges the declaration of this day on their website, and many years offer a free download of a song from one of their albums

National Garage Sale Day -- US (the goal, according to C. Daniel Rhodes, is to turn the nation into a giant shopping mall on the second Saturday of August each year)

National S'mores Day

Opalia -- Ancient Roman Calendar, festival of Ops (date approximate, there were several celebrations of Ops through August and September)

Puck Fair -- Killorglin, Ireland (one of Ireland's 3 oldest fairs, with a wild goat caught and crowned the Puck, and let go on the 3rd day, Aug. 12)

Prisoner's Justice Day -- Canada (prisoners fast and refuse to work in memory of those who have died in prison of murder, suicide, or neglect)

Qi Xi -- China (Double Seventh or Chinese Valentine's Day, the 7th day of the 7th moon, the day all the magpies in the world form a bridge so the cowherd and the weaver can meet across the Milky Way, which separates them.)

Skyscraper Appreciation Day -- birth anniversary of architect William Can Alen, the genius behind the Chrysler Building

Spoil Your Dog Day

St. Lawrence of Rome's Day (Martyr roasted on a gridiron; Patron of archives and archivists, armories and armourers, brewers, butchers, chefs, comedians, confectioners, cooks, cutlers, deacons, glaziers, laundry workers, librarians and libraries, paupers and the poor, restauranteurs, schoolchildren, seminarians, stained glass workers, students, tanners, vine growers and vintners; of over 25 cities around the world; against fire and lumbago)

Wicket World of Croquet -- Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site, Indianapolis, IN, US (Don your game whites and hit the court for a wicketly competitive day of historic elegance and modern indulgence)

World Lion Day -- established in 2013 by Dereck and Beverly Joubert of National Geographic's "Big Cat Initiative"

Anniversaries Today:

The Smithsonian Institution is chartered, 1846

Missouri becomes the 24th US state, 1821

Birthdays Today:

Angie Harmon, 1972

Antonio Banderas, 1960

Rosanna Arquette, 1959

Schim Schimmel, 1954

Ian Anderson, 1947

Betsey Johnson, 1942

Bobby Hatfield, 1940

Rocky Colavito, 1933

Jimmy Dean, 1928

Eddie Fisher, 1928

Rhonda Fleming, 1923

Leo Fender, 1909

George Crockett, 1909

Norma Shearer, 1902

Henri Nestle', 1890

Herbert Hoover, 1874

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"Candid Camera"(TV), 1948

Today in History:

Nineveh is destroyed and Sinsharishkun, King of the Assyrian Empire is killed, BC 612

Temple at Jerusalem is burned, 70

Ferdinand Magellan sets out with 5 ships to circumnavigate the globe, 1519

The foundation stone of the Royal Greenwich Observatory in London is laid, 1675

Word of the US Declaration of Independence reaches London, 1776

Mozart completes "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik", 1787

First ascent of Finsteraarhorn, the highest summit of the Bernese Alps, 1829

Candid Camera makes its television debut after being on radio for a year as Candid Microphone, 1948

The Magellan space probe reaches Venus, 1990

The highest temperature ever recorded in the UK – 38.5*C (101.3*F) in Kent; it is the first time the UK has recorded a temperature over 100 degrees Fahrenheit, 2003

New Zealand's highest mountain, the south ridge of Aoraki/Mount Cook, is renamed Hillary Ridge after Sir Edmund Hillary, first to conquer Mt. Everest, 2011

Google announces it is restructuring as Alphabet, a holding company with Google, YouTube, Android and Chrome as subsidiaries, 2015

Scientists exploring Captain Scott's hut in Antarctica discover a 100-year-old Huntley & Palmers fruitcake that is perfectly preserved and deemed to look and smell almost edible, 2018

A rare windstorm called a “derecho” slices through the US Midwest, flattening crops, leaving hundreds of thousands without electricity and killing two people, 2020

Russia launches its first lunar mission in 47 years, Lunar 25, with an unmanned capsule to the Moon's South Polar region, 2023

Virgin Galactic flies its first space tourists to the edge of space from Spaceport America, New Mexico, 2023