Quietly Thankful, a Ten Things of Thankful Post

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If it's quiet around here, it's too good to last, but we're always thankful for the moments when quiet happens.

#2 Son's mother-in-law flew in from Alaska for a week and i was thankful to meet her, and have a chance to see little Annie.

Becca, Mr. Cal and i had a good Sunday, followed by Becca and i both enjoying the Sunday service, and we were all thankful.  Ms. A is also thankful as a friend at church who is a speech therapist made time to talk to Becca, as her speech is getting somewhat slurred and they'd like to figure out what's going on.

I'm thankful for a quiet Sunday afternoon.

I was able to take care of some business on Monday, as i somehow managed to finish work early, and i was very thankful to get it over and done with.

Tuesday, i was thankful for a day off, and when Sweetie took Slow-Moe to Kevin and Lenny for that pesky tire again, it turned out to be a faulty valve stem which was replaced at no charge.  We're very thankful for that.

Ms. G and i got some gas cans cleaned and readied to be used by a friend of hers who is transporting gas to areas hit by the hurricanes.  We were thankful to be able to get them ready and delivered.  I was also thankful she got the person whose house i cleaned a while back to pay me, his wife had forgotten!

I'm thankful for a bit extra in the Paypal account because of it.

While i was sad on Thursday to find out Ms. V and Carl didn't go on vacation, i am thankful all her distressing health symptoms have disappeared, and so is she.  Worry can make you sick!

Sweetie and i are both thankful resetting the breaker got the A/C in our bedroom working again.  It's getting cooler here, but not cool enough to turn them off for the season (that's usually January).

Speaking of Sweetie, he worked almost every day for the past several weeks, and it's helping the budget a good bit and we're thankful.

Friday worked out well. we were thankful to see Mike-Next-Door mowing the lawn and i enjoyed a good talk with him.  

The cat shelter was busy and i was thankful for a new volunteer.  I trained her to do evening cage caretaking, and Ms. M taught her rooms, and she's good and quick.

Of course, the quiet cannot last forever and the cloud is on the horizon, Slow-Moe is making odd noises and has a light on.  We're thankful Kevin and Lenny said it's safe to drive for the weekend, but next week, we're back to the usual and a busy week is planned.

Hey, i'm thankful to be able to be busy!

Please write up your own list and link up to Ten Things of Thankful, where Clark and his co-hosts always have a warm welcome waiting.

(This is where the link-up should be, but the code was not working.  It's probably me, and when it gets figured out, i'll get it put in and updated.)    

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Today is:

Ayathrem -- Zoroastrianism (feast of bringing the herds and flocks home, a five day feast, dates approximate)

Cephalopod Awareness Days:  Fossil Day -- celebrating the most intelligent invertebrates in the world; today, for all the "incredible suckers that have gone extinct"

Child Rambunctiousness Appreciation Day -- remembering back to when we didn't say every kid with ants in his/her pants needed drugs

Children's Day / Feast of Our Lady of Aparecida -- Brazil

Cookbook Launch Day -- someone started this one just because s/he likes cookbooks is my guess

Day of Fortuna Redux -- Ancient Roman Calendar (goddess of successful journeys and lucky homecomings, favored by travelers and soldiers)

Day of Giving the Black Land to Horus and the Red Land to Set -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)

"Discovery" of America by Columbus, actual date; most government holidays will be on the Monday nearest this date

     Columbus Day -- Turks and Caicos Islands; US and Territories

     Descubrimiento de América -- Mexico

     Día de la Hispanidad or Fiesta Nacional de España -- Spain

     Dia de la Raza -- Latin America and especially Guatemala (Day of the Race, or Day of the Natives)

     Día de la Resistencia Indígena -- Venezuela (Day of Indigenous Resistance)

     Dia de las Americas/Descubrimiento de America -- Uruguay

     Dia de las Culturas -- Costa Rica (Day of the Cultures)

     Dia del Descubrimiento de dos Mundos -- Chile

     Discovery Day -- Bahamas

     Encuentro de Dos Mundos -- Ecuador

     National Heritage Day -- Turks and Caicos Islands

     Pan America Day -- Belize

Fall Astronomy Day -- Bringing Astronomy to the People (local astronomical societies, planetariums, museums and observatories sponsor public viewings, presentation, workshops, etc., to increase public awareness of astronomy and our amazing universe; on the Saturday at or before the first quarter moon between mid-September and mid-October and sponsored by The Astronomical League; find out what your local astronomy society is doing today, and go enjoy     

Fiesta Nacional de Espana -- Spain (National Day/Hispanity Day)

Freethought Day -- celebration by Freethinkers of the effective ending date of the Salem witch trials

Independence Day -- Equatorial Guinea(1968)

International Moment of Frustration Scream Day -- sponsored by Wellcat Holidays, who want you to go outside at 1200GMT and scream for 30 seconds so we can all get it out of our systems 

National Gumbo Day

National Pulled Pork Day

Native American's Day -- often celebrated on both the observed and the traditional Columbus Day; a day to mourn Native American victims of conquest and oppression, make peace, and celebrate the empowerment of Native Americans

Old Farmers Day -- an unsponsored day, and any day is a good day to honor the men and women who work hard to grow our food

Ruler's Birthday Holiday -- Malaysia

St. Edwin of Northumbria's Day (Patron of converts, hoboes/tramps, homeless people, kings, parents of large families)

St. Wilfred of York's Day (Patron of Middlesbrough, England; Ripon, England)

Universal Music Day -- celebrate music as our universal language

World Arthritis Day -- people with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases can make their voices heard today  

Yom Kippur -- Judaism (began sundown yesterday, ends nightfall today)

Anniversary Today:

Day of Six Billion, 1999 (marking the world population reaching that number)

Birthdays Today:

Marion Jones, 1975

Kirk Cameron, 1970

Adam Rich, 1968

Hugh Jackman, 1968

Carlos Bernard, 1962

Ronald E. McNair, 1950

Susan Anton, 1950

Chris Wallace, 1947

Tony Kubek, 1936

Luciano Pavarotti, 1935

Dick Gregory, 1932

Charles Gordone, 1925

Jean Nidetch, 1923

Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1872

Jonathan Trumbull, 1710

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"Jesus Christ, Superstar"(Rock opera), 1971

"The Bob Hope Show"(TV), 1953

"The Burns and Allen Show"(TV), 1950

"Call Me Madam"(Musical). 1950

Today in History:

The army of Cyrus the Great of Persia takes Babylon, BC539

King John of England loses his crown jewels in The Wash, 1216

Nichiren, Japans Buddhist monk who founded Nichiren Buddhism, inscribes the Dai-Gohonzon, 1279

Christopher Columbus' expedition makes landfall in the Bahamas, 1492

Massachusetts discontinues all witch trials, 1692

America's first asylum for "Persons of Insane and Disordered Minds" opens in Virginia, 1773

Bavarian royalty invites the citizens of Munich to join the celebration of the marriage of Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria to Princess Therese von Sachsen-Hildburghausen; this celebration becomes the founding of the first Oktoberfest, 1810

Charles Macintosh, of Scotland, sells the first raincoat, 1821

Criminal Tribes Act (CTA) is enacted by British rule in India, which named over 160 local communities 'Criminal Tribes', i.e. hereditary criminals, 1871*

President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the "Executive Mansion" to the White House, 1901

An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston, 1928

The Soviet Union launches the Voskhod 1 into Earth orbit as the first spacecraft with a multi-person crew and the first flight without space suits, 1964

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the first of five books in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comedy science fiction series by Douglas Adams is published, 1979

The lowest recorded non-tornadic atmospheric pressure, 87.0 kPa (870 mbar or 25.69 inHg), occurred in the Western Pacific during Typhoon Tip, 1979

Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh visit the People's Republic of China, 1986

NASA loses radio contact with the Magellan spacecraft as the probe descends into the thick atmosphere of Venus, 1994

The proclaimed 6 billionth living human in the world is born, 1999

The second Chinese human spaceflight, Shenzhou 6, is launched, 2005

The first of the thirty-three miners trapped in the Copiano mining disaster, Florencio Avalos, is rescued, 2010

The customary law preventing women from inheriting their family home is overturned in Botswana, 2012

A long-lost bust of Napoleon by Auguste Rodin is confirmed found in Madison borough hall, New Jersey; it is estimated to be worth at least $4m, 2017

California becomes the first US state to pass a law banning the manufacture and sale of new fur products, 2019

Eliud Kipchoge of Kenya becomes first to run a marathon in under 2 hours (1:59:40) in Vienna, Austria, 2019

Lebanon reports its first death from Cholera since 1993, as more Syrian refugees flood the country, 2022

Roman scrolls burnt in the 79AD Mt Vesuvius eruption at Herculaneum are read for the first time after a computer science student develops a program way to do so, 2023

*Not repealed until India's independence in 1949