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Where did we leave off? Oh, yes, I'd done a double Friday and was supposed to babysit Saturday.
Things don't always go as planned, and #2 Son sent a text asking if His Bride's Aunt A could babysit instead, as she hadn't seen the baby in almost a month and was begging to do it.
I was thankful for an opportunity to be cooperative and supportive and agreed i'd see them later in the week. Besides, i don't want to be "that mother-in-law."
After last week's drippy drizzle, Becca, Mr. Cal and i were thankful for nicer weather for walking Sunday morning before church.
During a busy Monday, i was thankful to find time to get both groceries and flea meds for the cats.
The cats are very, very thankful for the flea medicine, too. Of course, the fleas are probably not, but nobody asked them.
Mr. L is feeling better. He's still hurting, but not nearly as much as two weeks ago. Both Monday and Thursday when i was over there cleaning, he was up and moving better and didn't seem to be in as much distress.
Tuesday i got the menu set for Thanksgiving and all the food ordered which needed ordering and i'm thankful to have that part done.
Ms. G ended up out of town on Wednesday which meant no work, but i was thankful to be able to stay extra long at the shelter and run errands. I'm especially thankful i got to pick up something early for next rEcess and take it to the church for storage.
It was another two job Thursday, and i was thankful my Sweetie came and helped with Ms. GA's house.
We were thankful to find out she'd gotten the stray cat, Missy, into the house and will get her spayed soon.
That evening was my reward for passing on taking care of the baby earlier in the week as i got to have her to myself for two hours while her parents caught up on a few things.
Friday was the adventure, we'd had our first really cold night and woke to Slow-Moe's power steering going out on my way to the church to make coffee for the two Bible studies.
After stopping the car and starting it again, it came back up, but i was spooked about driving it to NOLA and was in a bit of a quandary.
I'm thankful Sweetie's friend J loaned me the truck so i could go to NOLA.
Once there, i'm thankful Grandpa and i got everything on Grandma's list to make the items she wants me to cook for Thanksgiving.
I'm also thankful even with the very late start, i actually got to NOLA and got all the work done.
And Grandpa, as he does every year, gave us a whole smoked turkey which is much bigger than any of us can use, so it went to the friend with the truck to thank him for his help.
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.
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Today is:
Can You Find Your Old Rubik's Cube and Still Work It Day -- internet generated, and why would you bother?
Color Photos Day -- anniversary of the Kodak introduction of modern color film in 1935
Eat A Cranberry Day -- just to see why you add sugar, i guess
Family Volunteer Day -- to get families working together to better their communities and the world
Feast of Qawl(Speech) -- Baha'i
Fibonacci Day -- celebrating the mathematical Fibonacci Series, which begins as 1,1,2,3
Giorgoba -- Georgia (St. George's Day; they celebrate their patron saint twice a year, today and May 6, his feast day on the OS calendar)
Hadakambo Festival -- Hofu, Japan (men dressed only in loincloths brave the cold carrying floats to the shrine)
Holodomor Remembrance Day -- international commemoration of the Death By Hunger Genocide in Ukraine
International Image Consultant Day -- Association of Image Consultants International
International Survivors of Suicide Loss Day
National Survivors of Suicide Day -- US (by Congressional designation since 1999, and now an international movement; remembering those who have lost loved ones to suicide, especially as Thanksgiving and the holidays are coming)
Jukebox Day -- many days compete for this title, but the first known nickel-in-the-slot record machine went into service on this day in 1889 in San Francisco, CA, US
Kinro Kansha no Hi -- Japan (Labour Day Thanksgiving, when people express gratitude to each other for their work through the year)
National Adoption Day -- US (encouraging us to find a home for every child; many courts finalize thousands of adoptions of children from foster care on this day each year)
National Cashew Day -- some sites list it on the 22nd, i'm celebrating both as i love cashews
National Espresso Day
Pencil Sharpener Day -- John Love of Massachusetts patented the first one this day in 1897
Repudiation Day -- Maryland, US (anniversary of the Franklin County Court refusal to cooperate with Britain's Stamp Tax Act)
Rudolf Maister Day -- Slovenia
St. Clement's Day (Patron of boatmen/mariners/sailors/watermen, marble workers/stonecutters, sick children; Dundee, Scotland; Velletri, Italy)
St. Columbanus's Day (Patron of motorcyclists; Bobbio, Italy; against floods)
St. Felicity's Day (Patron of martyrs, widows; against the death of children, sterility)
Birthdays Today:
Miley Cyrus, 1992
Lucas Grabeel, 1984
Salli Richardson, 1967
Steve Harvey, 1956
Bruce Hornsby, 1954
Susan Anspach, 1945
Krzysztof Penderecki, 1933
Jerry Bock, 1928
Johnny Mandel, 1925
Emmett Littleton Ashford, 1914
Harpo Marx, 1888
Boris Karloff, 1887
Billy the Kidd (William H. Bonney), 1859
Franklin Pierce, 1804
Edward Rutledge, 1749
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"I Feel Fine"(Beatles single release), 1964
"Dr. Who"(TV), 1963
"Fiorello!"(Musical), 1959
"Of Mice and Men"(Play), 1937
Life Magazine(First issue), 1936
First play-by-play American style football game radio broadcast, 1919 (Texas A&M beat University of Texas, 7-0)
Today in History:
Thespis of Icaria becomes the first actor to portray a character onstage, BC534
Charlemagne arrives at Rome to investigate the alleged crimes of Pope Leo III, 800
Conquest of Seville by the Christian troops under King Ferdinand III of Castile. 1248
Areopagitica, a pamphlet decrying censorship, and written by John Milton is published, 1644
People of Frederick County Md refuse to pay England's Stamp tax, 1765
Henry Burden patents Horseshoe manufacturing machine, 1835
Patent granted for a process of making color photographs, 1863
The first jukebox goes into operation at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco, 1889
King William III of the Netherlands dies without a male heir and a special law is passed to allow his daughter Princess Wilhelmina to become his heir, 1890
Andrew J Beard invents "jerry coupler," to connect railroad cars, 1897
Pencil sharpener patented by J L Love, 1897
Enrico Caruso makes his US debut at the Metropolitan Opera House, NY in "Rigoletto", 1903
Wright Brothers forms million dollar corporation to manufacture airplanes, 1909
Life Magazine publishes its first issue, 1936
The Cocos Islands are transferred from the control of the United Kingdom to Australia, 1955
The BBC broadcasts the first ever episode of Doctor Who (starring William Hartnell) which is the world's longest running science fiction drama, 1963
Representatives of the People's Republic of China attend the United Nations, including the United Nations Security Council, for the first time, 1971
A series of earthquakes in southern Italy kills approximately 4,800 people, 1980
The first all woman expedition to the south pole (3 Americans, 1 Japanese and 12 Russians), sets off from Antarctica on the 1st leg of a 70 day, 1287 kilometre ski trek, 1990
Convention on Cybercrime is signed in Budapest, Hungary, 2001
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is elected president of Liberia and becomes the first woman to lead an African country, 2005
A message is found on the leg of a mummified pigeon from WWII in Surrey, England, in a code that is unrecognized, 2012
A special 50th anniversary episode of Dr. Who is aired, simulcast to 94 countries and earning a Guinness World Record for the largest simulcast of a TV drama, 2013
The Sumatran rhino is officially declared extinct in Malaysia after the last known specimen, 25-year-old Iman, dies of cancer in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo, 2019
China launches the Chang’e-5 mission to the Moon to collect lunar rock and soil samples, 2020
Egypt reopens its 3000-year-old Avenue of the Sphinxes in Luxor, 2021
One of Albert Einstein's early manuscripts on the working of the theory of relativity sells at auction for USD13million, 2021
NASA launches its DART Mission, to test the technology to prevent a future impact on earth by a hazardous asteroid, by deliberately crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid (in a real-life echo of the movie Armageddon), 2021
The European Space Agency includes a disabled person among those chosen for astronaut training, Britain's John McFall, leg amputee and Paralympian, 2022
Hooray for thankfulness - a gift that keeps giving.
ReplyDeleteThank yo for smiles cozyness and laughter. This one cracked me up: "The cats are very, very thankful for the flea medicine, too. Of course, the fleas are probably not, but nobody asked them."
ReplyDelete"Can You Find Your Old Rubik's Cube and Still Work It Day." Yes to both. It stands here, next to my monitor, the original one form somewhen in the '70ies, and yes, I can still solve it - in two different ways even. The second way I only learned this summer - it keeps your head young ... and your wrists and thumbs achy ;)
Just think how quickly Thanksgiving is going to be upon us. It sounds like you've got food under control. Glad you got to see the baby for a little bit because she's probably a little bit hard to share sometimes.
ReplyDeleteLots of great thankfuls ~ so glad you are doing well with all you have to do ~ Hugs,
ReplyDeleteWishing you good health, laughter and love in your days,
clm ~ A ShutterBug Explores,
aka (A Creative Harbor)
Those were all really nice thankfuls and you do have some nice clients and friends.
ReplyDeleteI used to have a cocker spaniel named "Missy" She was my brother's dog and when he could no longer have her where he lived, she came to me for the last five years of her life. It broke my heart when Missy passed away.
ReplyDeleteWe've been having lots of rain here. I'll be glad for some drier weather...but our summer predictions are for more rain, more wild weather and storms. Dammit!
Take good care. :)
Lots of lovely thankfuls and I'm glad you got a couple of hours with the baby. I never want to be "that mother-in-law" either.
ReplyDeleteWonderful thankful list. I am glad Missy was captured. XO
ReplyDeleteCharlee: "The fleas deserve everything they've got coming to them."
ReplyDeleteLulu: "Our Dada's dog when he was younger was named Missy! Well, technically 'Miss Marple', but nobody called her that unless she was in trouble ..."